001Monday, August the 18th, 2025. I call this public hearing of the Kingsville Independent School District to order. We will have roll call. Joe Mirez, >> Brian Kufall >> here, >> Martin Chapa >> here, >> David Garcia, David Garcia, >> Jacob Perez >> here, >> Delma Selenas >> here, >> Joseph Gree here. Let the record show that there is a quorum of board members present and that this meeting has been posted in accordance with government code chapter 551, State of Texas Open Meetings Act. The Kingsville ISD Board of Trustees will conduct a public hearing to discuss the following. Item one, proposed 2025 2026 fiscal budget. Dr. Pittz. Thank you, President Ruiz, Dr. Martinez, members of the board. I know we've discussed this in detail, but being that it is a public hearing, I will go through
002the budget in detail once again and answer any questions. >> Is it the first one? >> So, uh, not that one. Uh, yeah, sorry, you were right. Zero right there. And then within that, it's going to be a Yes, that's it. That's perfect. So, at the top, usually you see the tax rate at the top. Uh, as advised by Mo Casey, the tax rate is not on there because we do not know what tax rate will be, uh, approved by the voters on November the 4th. Uh I have adopted for this budget calendar the lower one assuming that uh the the vader does not approve this is what will be the end uh the end budget if the vader does not approve. If it does approve we will have 530 additional dollars 530,000 additional dollars
003of revenue. Looking at the uh local tax revenues 8.2 2 million again that is assuming without the additional funds from the Vader state program we use 2,100 for our enrollment I mean for our ADA currently the first week of school we had about 2,180 for our ADA for the first week week but it does tend to decrease as the year goes on so 2,100 was used as a base for projecting the state program revenue and then the federal ederal program revenue that is that is less because we have we do not have ESSER funds. We do not have um nearly as much money from the SHs revenue as well. So we're only projecting 28.9 approximately in revenue this year. If you go down to expenditures 15.3 million that has salaries in the budget that also
004has all the instructional supplies and instructional technology as well. 12 library $67,000. Library salaries are out of title one uh funding. So really that $67,000 is just supplies for the libraries that we have. Function 13, professional development. There are four employees that are also paid out of that whose primary job is to train other employees in the district. The rest of this is professional development from uh outside including the service center and including any other outside training that we have. Function 21 instructional leadership that includes several salaries from special education and instructional leadership. Uh also all the supplies that are purchased for uh for those departments. Function 23, school leadership, that is principles, assistant principles and all the front office staff and their salaries and then everything that they purchase. Function 31 is salaries for
005counselors, salaries for diagnosticians and all testing materials or supplies purchased as well. Function 32, social work services. That would be everything that we have with communities and schools. Function 33, health services. Obviously, those are salaries for for nurses. Um, as well as uh supplies for nurses. Student people transportation includes everything from repairing buses and other vehicles to salaries for bus drivers and other transportation staff as well as parks. Function 36 extracurricular. There are a few salaries in there. Um athletic director being one of them, but mainly the biggest part of that um budget is uh student travel, which could include uh food. It could also include uh buses. It could also include registration. But also that budget includes all the athletic stipens as well too in function 36. Their regular salaries are out of function
00611 because they are classroom teachers as well. Fun function 41 general administration. That includes salaries for administration, but it also includes other miscellaneous things that don't fit anywhere else, such as the appraisal district fees over 300,000. Uh, so that that kind of is a catch-all for anything that does not fit anywhere else. Function 51, maintenance, that also includes utilities as well. That is salaries for maintenance and then all services and supplies for uh repairs to our facilities. Function 52 security salaries and any supplies. Function 53 data processing that is uh district software for data processing that is salaries for all our technology staff and any of our PE staff and that again um salaries are the biggest part of that but then also that is all of the software that we purchase for the district
007for instance like Adobe or uh Eduoria or I'm sorry Eduhorius and function 11 but any other district software that is not strictly instru instructional goes in that function. Function 61, community services. That is uh the payments to TRS and IRS that uh we have for our parent involvement. Their their salaries can come out of title one, but any additional expenditures for that cannot come out of title one. 93 39,000. We partner with uh the Texas Regional School for the Deaf in Corpus Christi. at is tuition for that. The transfers out those are for construction which uh we uh showed on the large expenditures that we brought to the board this year. Uh with total expenditures being 33 million, deficit of 4.2 million uh current fund balance of 10.7 at the end of a August of
00824. Could you scroll up please a little bit on that? Projected fund balance at the end of this August is 5.5 million. Projected fund balance at the end of next August is 1.2 million. I I do want to stress that again we were conservative. We budgeted for emergencies in this budget as we usually do. Uh including like if there's a storm for insurance deductibles, we have those built into it. We also uh have if the Vader uh is not approved, this is what the the fund balance would be. Uh but again, I want to stress that we uh underprojected on revenues like we usually do such as ADA and we try to over project on expenditures, plan for emergencies. So this would be worst case scenario. Uh we end up with 1.26 million at the
009end of the year. Could you scroll up please to food service? >> I have a question really quick. >> Yes sir. >> All right. So you're projecting a shortfall as you said. Uh how much are we expecting to receive from the state and will any of that? So the additional revenue from the state is added in here. However, um so the additional revenue from the state was about 2.8 8 million but a lot of that was already in mandatory increases to teachers. Uh close to half of that already in mandatory increases to teachers. There there is also some other increased funding such as for property values. They are planning to give us 80% back of the difference we are from the state average because we are closer to the coast. So they're going to have
010additional funding for that. But that is already added into the estimated funding. The only things that that wasn't added in there is if the invader approves >> and that was the first time in your memory that they have given us any funding in how many years? >> It was since 201819 um was the last school year that they gave us additional funding. And is it just for this one year or is it is it for benium or >> it is expected that the additional uh amount is going to continue at least for the bianium but it is expected for sure for the teachers that's going to continue and we have really not seen the funding formula go down. So I would not expect it to decrease in the following years. Um it might stay the
011same for a while but I wouldn't expect it to decrease. Any other questions on the general fund before we move on to the others >> on on 12? >> Yes sir. >> You said that we paid trainers out of that. >> Uh function 13. >> 13. Yes. Who who do we what trainers do we pay out of that? >> So the the biggest one is the service center. Uh we have training over there that uh there's there's two ways we pay for training at the service center. One is if we were just to send somebody to the service center. Um, but the second one is if we belong to a co-op. And the reason for belonging to a co-op is that if we were going to have several trainings that we would have to pay
012for, you get a reduced price. So, we're trying to uh basically say it's like a bundle by being part of a co-op, the the services that we use the most. But also, if we there's um trainers that we bring in from all of our instructional software. So like like I know that a couple of them like for instance Carnegie we partner with Carnegie we have their materials they come in for training that would be paid out of function 11 13. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Yes ma'am. >> So function 13 does that include u title one for co-ops service center co-ops? I know you can use title one for that. >> We we haven't traditionally used co-ops in the past. We have used function 13 for for co-ops. But do you use title
013monies as well or is it just local? >> No, we've just used loco for the co-ops. >> Okay. Moving on to the next column. Next column is food service. In food service, we are expecting uh a little bit of a shortfall next year, but uh if you could scroll to the top, please. So what this is considering is our our dinner revenue uh from last year. We expect our dinner revenue to increase this year mainly because of the five-day calendar. So we expect that a we're we are required for food service to base on our pro our revenues on what we received the previous year but we expect to receive more than that because we will be having um additional revenue from meals on Fridays. We're going to have more days of school and we
014will have more dinner revenue as well too. So scroll down please. If you notice projected uh fund balance deficit of 398,000, we think that we will probably be able to balance that budget this year. Again, we were required to put what we received last year um for our revenues, but we expect to be able to balance it. And you can as you can see, we have a healthy fund balance 920,000 last year. Scroll down a little bit more, please. Uh 841 uh currently. Uh, and again, I think we'll be able to stay pretty close to 800,000 for next year as well, too, with the additional revenues for Friday meals. Any questions on food service? Okay, please scroll to the top again. So, we're going to take a look at debt. Again, the the as per
015Moase's advice, I did not put the the um actual tax rate at the top. main reason because it depends on what's going to happen at the um November the 4th um election. So, as you can see, we're we're projecting um most of our revenues to be from local. Uh the state does give us a little bit and we do get a little bit from federal subsidies projected 7.7 million. Scroll down, please. Even though you see that we're we're planning on 7.8 8 million. Right now, our actual bond payment is a little bit under 4 million, but we are do planning to do it as we have before. It will pay off an additional $1.4 million in interest uh if the um Vader uh does not pass or $1.3 million of interest if the Vader does
016pass. Still some m substantial amount either way. Scroll down to the bottom, please. So as you can see even at the very bottom uh still healthy fund balance for um for our debt service 1.1 million just like food service that money can't be transferred to the general fund that is um that is specifically for our debt. Any other questions? Or this is a public hearing as well too. >> Okay, we're going to move on to tax rate. >> Is that a different >> It's a different >> So, there were two notices passed in the paper. one if the um tax ratification election passes and one if it does not pass. Um and these are the two different scenarios. That's what we were advised to do based on the situation that we're in. So we also
017uh will have two different defense scenarios tonight as well too um that uh that will need to be approved. Uh and again the tax rate resolution talks about what the tax rate would be if the uh tax ratification election passes and if it and if it doesn't pass. Um so uh I'll take any questions that you have on tax rate. Are there any comments from the public? If not, this hearing is adjourned at 5:18 p.m. 2025. I call this regular meeting of the Kingsville Independent School District to order. We will have roll call. Joe Mirez >> here. >> Ryan Kufall >> here. >> Chapa here. >> David Garcia here. >> Jacob Perez here. Delma Salenas >> here. >> Reese here. Let the record show that there is a quorum of board members present and that
018this meeting has been posted in accordance with government code chapter 551, State of Texas Open Meetings Act. We move to a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance and the Texas pledge. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state and indivisible. >> I would like to make one slight adjustment to the agenda. Um I would like to move up uh item 7B. Um right after public participation we may uh proceed with that. Is there any uh ascension on behalf of the board? Okay. Hearing none. Um item number four public participation. Do we have anyone that wishes to address the board? >> Yes
019sir. Elizabeth and Miss Ramos. >> Good afternoon, board of trustees and Dr. Martinez. I'm just here for welcoming Dr. Martinez to the district KISD. Um, I know that she's got a hill to climb here and the hill is probably named Mount Everest instead of just a regular hill. And I know it takes more than a day to climb Mount Everest. And um, our community is going to support you and your endeavor. Um, I hope you take care of us. I hope you're the light in the day and you know, all the smoke and mirrors have been thrown out. Um, I know our community really is wanting some transparency and honesty um, when it comes to communication to the newspaper, to us in meetings, and to us out in social media or wherever we're at. So,
020we really like to see some more of that. Um, but anyways, I I I did watch a video on you. I've done some homework. Not a whole lot because I know that my opinion doesn't matter. So, um, I know that you're born in Puerto Rico. Yes. So, um, I lived in Florida for a while, so I love good Puerto Rican food and salsa. I totally miss and enjoy those things. And I hope you bring a different perspective or something completely different here to Kingsville. You know, we have our empanadas, but I know you have your empanadas, right? So, I would love to see more of the empanadas, something different being brought here to Kingsville ISD to, you know, get us moving forward. So, welcome to the district. appreciate you putting your name in and taking
021on this humongous task. So, I hope the community open um joins you with open arms and we're ready to see what positive things can come out of this district with new leadership in place. So, just welcome. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Miss Ramos. The board will now enter into close session in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code 551.071, 071 and 551.074 to deliberate and consider the following uh item 7B discussion and possible action to adopt and approve the superintendent contract of Dr. L. M. Martinez. Um the board will enter into no action will be taken into a return open session. We are entering close session at 5:35 matters which the board may discuss in open session and upon which action may be taken. We returning to open session
022at 5:57 p.m. We will take action right now on uh item 8B, consider approval of offer to employ new superintendent Dr. L Martinez. Is there a motion? >> Okay. So what we'll we'll go with Delas. Is there a second? >> Second by Joe Mirez. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. [Applause] So we will now adjourn for a fivem minute break to celebrate Dr. The time is 5:58 p.m. session at 6:11 p.m. We will go on to item number 5A, superintendent update update. Dr. Martina, >> can you hear me? Yes. Good evening, board president, members of the board, community, my family who's here. Thank you for being here. um my wonderful team, principles uh and the parents and students uh listening to us um via virtual mode. My name
023is L Martinez and I have just become the superintendent of Kingsville ISD. [Applause] It's certainly an honor uh to serve this community and um as I mentioned to the board um before I was hired, it takes a team and I can only be as good as effective as the team I have around me. So we were we are going to work hard. We are going to work smart and we are going to focus on always doing what's in the best interest of students. I have been in the district since July the 29th. Uh so roughly 15 days today and it feels like 15 months. Um I have been very very busy. I think we have accomplished a lot. uh visited schools, participated in school events, athletic events, uh you name it. I've been around. And
024I have talked to different staff in all departments whether they are teachers, principals, parents, custodials, bus drivers, um everywhere that I could go to listen, learn and connect, which is a promise that I made to the board. And um I have gathered a lot of information on the district and the things that we need to do to change the story of Kingsville ISD. >> And I am confident that with the board support, the team, the principles, the teachers, the community, the students, we are going to pull through this current reality. So I want to read to you a statement that I recently made. While we are disappointed in the 24 25 rating of an F score of 59 out of 100, we are not discouraged. This rating highlights the challenges we face and the urgent
025work ahead. Our students deserve better and we are committed to delivering better for them. As a new superintendent of Kingsville ISD, I along this uh great school board, we take full responsibility for driving the changes needed to improve teaching, learning, and student success across all campuses. We are developing and will be implementing along with our great principles a robust targeted improvement plan focused on strengthening instruction, increasing student engagement and providing intensive support where it is needed most. While accountability ratings provide a snapshot of performance, they do not define our students potential or the dedication of our staff. Great things are already happening in Kingsville ISD in our schools and together we are committed to bold urgent action. Our unwavering promise to students and families is to work relentlessly so that the next year's results tell
026a different story. One of growth, achievement, and pride in our schools. That is our commitment to the community and the students of Kingsville ISD. And I am confident that we are on the right pathway. We have a lot of work to do, but we have people who have heart and passion and um it's going to be a bumpy ride, but we're going to pull through because our students deserve better and we are committed to doing it. Thank you. Okay. So, I'm now moving on to item 5, the 2024 preliminary school finance integrity rating system of Oh, no. I'm sorry. We're going over the accountability overview item 58 number two. Miss Tanya Williams. >> Good evening board president, Superintendent Martinez, and members of the board. I will be going over the accountability data for the 2024
0272025 school year. The beginning of the presentation is going to be a brief overview of what is included in our accountability. I will be going into more detail and be providing more explanation during the September 2nd uh board workshop. So to give you an understanding of what the state looks at when looking at our accountability is they rate us on three different domains. Domain one is our student achievement and they look at the approaches meets and mast's level. how many students are meeting at each level. In our domain two, we are looking at our school progress and that is broken up into two different sections. The first section is our academic achievement. Are our students making at least a year's growth? And part B is our relative performance. How is our student achievement in relation
028to other districts and other campuses that have the same uh economically disadvantaged percentage as we do? Between those two domains, the state will pick the better of the two and that counts for 70% of our overall score. Domain three is our closing the gaps. The state looks at our meets and our masters level only for ELA, for math, and for the bus. Closing the gaps is worth 30% of our overall grade. The A throughF scaled scores are on your traditional scaled score. A being a 90 to 100, B 80 to 89, so on and so forth. Districts and campuses not only receive an overall rating but they receive a rating for each domain as well. Now based on ratings what the state will do is they will then issue federal labels. The non-desated label is
029for a campus um who they did not target as needing improvement. Those campuses are still required to create a school improvement plan. We also have our targeted support and improvement designation. We have your additional targeted support and improvement. That label is given every three years and it looks at our student groups and if one or more stu our one of I'm sorry if one or more of our student groups is performing under their cut points, they will then give the campus a label. This year we have Harvey Elementary that has been given the label of additional targeted support. What that requires is they will be required to create a school improvement plan. The next label is your comprehensive support and improvement. This designation is also given every three years. They look at your school right
030performance and what the state will do is they will rank the school districts that receive title one funds and the bottom five% is given this label. This year we have HMK, Gillette and Fetis Elementary who have received this label. These campuses are going to be required to create a targeted improvement plan and they will also be meeting with a district representative and a TEA representative throughout the school year to track that improvement plan. The last label is comprehensive and improvement progress. It is the same as the label prior. However, the difference is this campus which we have Herold Elementary. This means that this campus was a comprehensive and support and improvement campus the year prior. They have made some progress towards their goals and they are still being tracked and monitored. They are still going
031to be required to create a targeted improvement plan and meet with a district representative and a TEA representative. Looking at our historical data, these are our scores for the past three years in the district. In 2023, we were at a 59. 2024 at 63 and 2025, we were given the rating of a 59. HMK for 2023 and 2024 were a 69. 2025, they were a 66. For GMS for 2023 they were at a 50. 2024 they were a 57 and 2025 they are at a 50. Fort Pettis Elementary for 2023 they were at a 62 2024 a 65 and 2025 a 54. For Harold Elementary, 2023, we were at a 59. 2024, a 57, and 2025, a 64. And for Harvey Elementary, for 2023 and 2024, they were at a 59. And 2025, they were
032at a 58. And looking at our district report card, it shows the change over time. And so in 2022, that was the year that TEA had made some changes to the accountability and how it was going to be uh scored and applied. They then released what was called whatif grades. What if we were to apply these rules to the current school year, where would we be? At that time, KISSD would have been a D out of 68. So, now we're going to go into each campus and district and look at the details. Starting off with HMK, they received an overall score of a 66. Their student achievement was also at a D, a 66. The school progress was at a 71. So, because the 71 was better than student achievement, the state took that 71
033and that is worth 70% of their overall. and their closing the gaps was at a 53 that was 30%. With Gillette Middle School, overall score of a 50, student achievement was at a 50. School progress was at a 53. And closing the gaps was at a 44. Peril Elementary. Overall, we were at a D, a 64. Student achievement was at a 58. School progress was at a 62. And closing the gaps was at a 67. For Harvey Elementary, we're looking at an overall of a 58. Student achievement of 53. school progress of 56 and closing the gaps of 62. Fort Pettis Elementary, we're looking at an overall of a 44. Their student achievement was at a 57, school progress 59, and closing the gaps 41. The district as a whole, we're looking at an overall
034of a 59, student achievement of 59, stu school progress of 63, and closing the gaps of 57. Now this year, KISSD is falling under what is called the 3F rule with TEA, which means the highest score that we will be assigned is a 59. And that is because three of these components are an F, we will not um be able to be rated anything higher than that 59. Any questions from the board? Yes, sir. >> All right. Kind of going back to the beginning, and I understand we're going to drill down on this later at a workshop, but I want to make sure I understand this. >> When we're looking at student achievement, we're talking test, >> correct? >> How the kids did on that test >> for? Yes. For elementary and middle school, 100%
035of that domain comes from STAR. >> And then and then we've got the college career and all that other stuff. >> Correct. When we're talking about school project progress, the first part of that is kid to yeartoear. One one they track a kid from last year to this year. >> Correct. Did they make one year's growth >> and then the component of that school to other districts in or other schools in similarly economically? >> Yes, sir. >> All right. Do we ever know who those schools are? >> Yes, there is a list that we can pull. But so we've got the kid from from year to year and I'm supposing that at the district level that information is available to someone here. So you can look at a child and know okay and then the
036the third one deals with meets and masters. >> Yes sir. >> So if kids never meet meets and masters then obviously we've got >> then we haven't necessarily closed that gap. >> Yeah. All right. That's that's what I needed to know. Thank you. Yes sir. >> A question. >> How does this impact the district as uh it relates to district of innovation? Are we in any sort of jeopardy of losing that? >> The state will look at that. Um that is a possibility if it's a continuous um progress. They they can't take away the DOI from us. So it's not automatic or because it's been we've been in this situation the last >> correct. Um and I I'm assuming because of legislation that has been put a pause to that it it's um delayed that
037a little bit. >> Okay. And Dr. Martinez for you or or Mrs. Williams but where are we are we in any danger of being taken over at any or being a signing conservator or what where are we in that area? Trusty Chaba, if I may. Um, this is more right for executive session conversations. Yes, sir. >> Any further questions? >> Thank you all so much. >> Thank you. I think when we go to we'll go directly to this TV. Okay. Sorry, we move now on to item 5B, 2425, preliminary school board finance integrity rating system of Texas. Our first rating, Dr. Pittz. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. And we will be doing uh a full meeting on this in December um when we have it in detail. This this is just a preliminary rating. Um
038but right now we have a a rating of 94. Uh the I there's a mistype there, right? It should be the uh 2324 data. This is where we were with fund balance as of August 31st, 2024. $10.7 million uh fund balance. So again, this runs a year behind. So at that time, we had uh plenty in our fund balance. Uh currently, we're projecting 5.5 for ending August of 2025. Uh again, we will be talking about this um coming up in December. Any qu our our rating will be in uh 94. That's preliminary. those uh do become the official ratings unless we protest and and present data of why we should not be a 94. But I concur that that should be our rating for that year. Any other questions? >> Thank you, Dr. Fitz. Now
039moving on to item 5C, HMK, drainage repair uh change orders. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. So, there are two change orders. When the board originally approved this contract, there was a $50,000 um aotment for change orders uh that the board approved. If if they did not use them, then the money goes back to the district. Both of these change orders together um are only $15,515. So, this is not an approval item. There's still $34,48451 in our contingencies for other changes that need to um be made. I'm um Mr. President, with your approval, I'd like to invite Amos Bington up to give an update currently on that project. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, board. I got you. >> So, last time I was here was back in May, I believe, and
040we had gone out and did a rebid and hired a contractor, and we've been under construction, and Dr. Sonal asked me to give you kind of a quick update on where we are in the process. Um, big picture, it was a long process and we are down at the very bottom. We've done all the ones with green checks. We're down at the very bottom doing doing construction at this point. [Music] >> This is not the right presentation. I'm sorry. Can I Can I give you my computer and just hook it up to the >> Is that easy or >> Well, I guess we can. >> Where can you put it on? >> I can I'll take this. >> Yes, sir. It is not safe. Start train. Say This one. >> That's it. Thank you. >>
041Okay. Oh, wait. That's the one. Uh, >> and then you got a little It's right there. Yeah. >> Okay. I apologize. So, um, our team goals from the very beginning was to keep the water from going underneath the high school. Um, and there was uh there was a charisma report that was that came out and we were tasked with taking that report and turning it into a design set of drawings and then going out to be getting contractor doing the construction to keep the water out from underneath the high school. The process was a long process. We're down in construction at this point. Um the total this is the total project costs and this was I'm I'm just bringing this up as a reminder because this is what I was showing you in May. So
042in May there was some soft costs and there was project management uh surveying civil engineering u masonary investigation that was a total of the soft costs and then we we we had just gone out to bid and we had recommended a contractor to be hired and that that cost was there was a base bid there. uh we decided not to do the insulation underneath the the high school. Um and then there were two alternates. There was a liner that we decided to take and also uh there was under slab drainage uh that was also an alternate as well. And so that came out to a total of part cost. And over to the right you'll see that there was uh 24,000 that was an insulation demo allowance. And so we will potentially use all of
043that. If not, the remainder goes back to uh the district. Uh there was a $16,000 pipe hanger allowance. Again, very similarly, if we don't use it, the remainder goes back. And then, as Dr. Fitz said, there was a $50,000 contingency allowance uh to take care of any things that that weren't uh that we come across that are unknown. Um that was back in May. This is current, so in August, and I highlighted the things that have changed since then. There's been uh uh AGCM has requested for a a small increase in our services because we had to go out to bid twice and I think y'all will talk about that later on in the meeting today. Um and then there was also $15,000 that was for material testing that is an allowance as well. So
044if not all all of it is used that go that the money remains with the uh district. Um going down to what uh Dr. Bits is going to talk about uh that is a change order. He just talked about the change order one and change order two um in the construction or the hard cost the construction cost. So those are change orders to the contractor. They will come out of the 50,000. So it's it's not uh there is an allowance there to take care of that. But the the two change orders were one was uh there's a flume on the side that is really I'm talking about is a surface surface drainage that goes from the basically the kitchen area over to that drive that's on the left of the high school. Um we're changing
045that from a surface drainage to uh something that is an underground pipe. Uh it is better that it's an underground pipe. It's just there's so many utilities over there. we weren't think we weren't we did not think we'd be able to do it but we did find a way of doing it and it is a better design for for the this project. Um and so it was about 10,000 but we got 7,000 back for the flim so it's around $3,000 change delta. Um there there were uh four drink boxes that we needed to increase in size and that came out to be $12,000 as well. Um, so that's where we are from a financial standpoint. I think, uh, we're doing in really, really good shape. Um, this is a good time for questions. If you
046have any questions about the budget, >> I have a question. >> Sure. >> I don't know if it's for you or Dr. Pittz or Dr. Laval or our attorney, but when we're delayed like this, because the date to completion is already passed, is there any incentive for us to get any sort of discount or refund of monies when it's c when it's run over like this? So, the actually the the contractor had some goals of finishing major components before school started, but their contract isn't over until the 21st, which is Thursday. They will go over. Um, so I'm not going to say they won't. So, your question is valid, but I just wanted to let you know that currently we're not over at this point. Um, there are liquidated damages. They're not very high. Uh
047I don't know that they're they're um it is not uncommon for for a contractor to say okay what are the liquid damages and they take that cost and they multiply it times 15 days and then they just put it in their base bid and uh since this was a project that is very much uh you know we were very concerned for for money that day damages isn't very high um and I think that you actually benefit from it um but yes Dan your question. There is some liquidity damages >> when when you say you were concerned about money or we were concerned about money. Uh the bid came in for a turnaround job. The drains that you're charging us were four extra because it was a bigger drain is what you're saying. >> Um I
048no I can't talk about that. So at the time there w at during the bid process the contractor asked if they could use an alternate pipe and that pipe um was accepted by the design team and the school district to use it. It is a cheaper pipe. It does just as good as well but is less less expensive. And so there was, if you remember way back, we on the first bid it was x number of dollars. On the second bid, the same contractor got it, but it was about $800,000 savings. And so really out of that $800,000 savings, there's something that needed to be upsized with the pipe and it wasn't. I'm just I'm just uh I'm I'm upset because of the the crap that we have out there in the front of that
049school. Excuse my language, but um I think this company that that came in, are they even out there? Because I don't I see D West out there or some truck called a company called D West. Is this company that we gave this uh contract to have are they out there doing this work as well? >> Yes, D West is the company that >> that is that is the company. >> It is that is the company and and they have um they have been working longer hours to try to make up some time and as a as a result they've been taking off in the middle of the day. So they come in very early and work to a time then they they pause in the heat of the day and then they come back and
050work till around 8:00 in the evening. >> How much time are we looking at sir before this is going to be completed? >> I suspect that um we're trying to get over some hurdles before we you know really focus on that end date. But I sus their original goal was to have uh the concrete work done and the pipe in the ground before school started. And we're trying to get to that point where that's over with. What will be left is going to be landscaping and irrigation. And I suspect it's going to be somewhere around the first to second week of September. >> I think we want to make sure that the landscaping irrigation is taken care of. >> Absolutely. for sure, please. >> Absolutely. >> Any more? Uh, this is the schedule actually and
051I was going to kind of talk about the schedule. I think we kind of did talk about it already. Again, they are the contractor has until the 21st, which is Thursday, um, to complete the project. I don't think that they're going to finish the pro they won't finish the project by then. they uh they did have some goals and that was to finish uh the significant uh amount of the work um uh before school started that didn't happen at this point with school in session. um it is somewhat difficult to uh it it's more difficult to actually move really fast. And so at the at the time that they did gear up, it was it was very difficult for them to work uh and and and take care of the things that they needed to
052with school in session. Um let's see. Additionally, and and it's uh yeah, absolutely not an excuse, but after they did gear up, they did get some significant rain that one week that they were hoping to get caught up and that just didn't happen. Any more questions on the schedule? Just going to give a quick update of some pictures. So this is uh front of the school. This is what we call uh area C up at the top left. That's uh over by the library area. And you can see in in fact in the morning at 2:00 a.m. Uh the there they have finally found a concrete company that will dispatch during non-b businessiness hours. And it was very difficult because there's two local ones and Elmo was one of them. And they just would not
053do during non- business hours. And uh this is uh and so they found a a third company um and they were supposed to come on um well actually this morning at 2 2 a.m. and do this concrete pour and they didn't show up. And so they did a lot of discussing with they actually were going to buy approximately 100 yards of concrete and only use far less about a third of that um just to get the concrete company to show up during non-b businessiness hours and Almo finally said yes that will come out. So in the morning a lot of this stuff will be poured. Um you can see that there's that mo strip on the top left corner. Um that all gets filled in with that that reinforcing all gets covered up by um
054concrete. Same thing in the top right and bottom left. The uh the drain inlets uh are actually in the driveway and that's in the bottom right. And again that's scheduled for concrete pour tomorrow. >> So you said Alamo will come. >> They did. They did. They did. >> Yes. They found And this is this is like just a few hours ago kind of thing. Um they they they finally uh I know uh I I talked to um the owner of the company at D West this afternoon and um he you know we were we've been putting pressure on him. Um I I I'll go back and say just a little bit more as well. Uh, I'd say that about two a little less than two and a half weeks before school started, we realized on
055their milestone schedule, they're probably not going to make their goals. And so we we gave them a letter of non-conformance and then we asked them to start giving us um a five week um five day look ahead and um we asked them to get even more particular. So every day they have to tell us how many linear feet they're doing specifically what their goals are, how many how much manpower they have and these activities uh have helped them uh move a little faster. And so um it is it is not we are where we are not not for lack of effort. Um it is um they uh um the one week there when we do catch up there was some rain. Uh and that was about the time that uh about a week and a
056half before school started is when we started communicating a bit more with the district about the situation and a week before school started we we met u with with Dr. Steinball and Miss Moore and we had had a discussion and we've been mon having daily conversations and emails about the situation with them at the from now until from from then until now. >> Mr. Amos, are you is somebody overlooking that project? Because sometimes being in a hurry becomes sloppy work. Okay. And that's not what we want. Okay. We want to make sure we're fixing the problem. So, is somebody on site? >> Yes. >> Overlooking this project? >> Yes. And yes. And I I want I really want because that was that was my maiden concern is when you start going fast, you start skipping
057things. And so, and when we we stopped the contractor and said, "Okay, here's our priorities. So, be sure you you aren't spread out all over the place. Focus on these things." And we actually probably slowed them down a little bit because for that very reason. And I had the same comment from the design team, Scott Evers. He said the same thing. We're very concerned. And so we we they've had very lofty goals, maybe even a little bit unrealistic at times, and we've had we've scaled them down to make sure that that very thing is not happening. In addition to that, we've had uh we have somebody um his name is Chris Schul and he uh comes out about twice a week. He's been out here every day um in recent weeks for that very reason
058just to make sure that there's no issues with quality. We've uh increased communication between us and the contractor in these kind of situations for that very reason. Um these are uh just some more progress photos of where we are. These were all taken this morning at around six o'clock and uh so you have the latest. Uh there's a lot of you can see a lot of rebar things that are going to get poured. We were hoping to get it done this morning and it'll happen in the morning at starting at 2 2 a.m. uh as long as everything goes well. Um the top left photo is some of the dirt that is being excavated. Uh the district expressed interest in it and we are moving it and storing it for you guys. >> I think
059that's the last of the photos. Any more questions? Just last when we started talking about this is this concrete is it being tested? >> It is. Yes, we have a testing truck or every other load or >> so typically it's the first truck for sure and then it's uh 50 yards every 50 yards after that. I I talked to Chris about that this afternoon and he he thinks we're doing every 20 yards which is fine. Um, >> sure. >> President, if I may ask principal more to come and talk about the impact this project is having on the campus. >> Good evening. Um, so we have been working very closely with everyone. Um, we do look at the safety. Um we did have to open both gates up um to be able to get the
060um drop off and pickup smoother. So we do have both sides both gates open right now. Um when it comes to um our special ed kids, we did have to transition the move over to the front of the school so that way they can get in and out instead of using the the side door that they normally do. So we did also um make that change. Uh we blocked off part of the um front parking lot so that way we don't have a lot of driving through um and so we um had our drop off points more toward the middle of the campus so that way um students aren't trying to cross the street and and all of that. So we looked at all the safety aspects of that. Um we have been in communication
061like I said um some things have fallen off like this morning for example the concrete didn't come when it was supposed to in the middle of the night so we had some um plywood and so we reached out and they met with me first thing this morning had the plywood cut so that way um our special ed kids could get in and out of that door because of safety concerns with them trying to uh step over because it was a a get you know decent um hole in the sidewalk um across the front of the school. But overall, you know, when we do reach out to them, they do come, they they fix it, they try to find the solutions. Um, they are moving as quickly as possible, but obviously we want it done right.
062Um, so we've made some transitions throughout certain doors we're not able to, you know, use right now. Um, exits, we have been in contact with the fire marshall to make sure that we are in compliance with, um, all of the exits that are closed down at certain times. They've worked on the weekends after hours. Um, so that way we wouldn't have to shut down a lot of the things. So, we have been able to um continue things as needed with just um some changes to make sure that everything still plays. >> I have a quick question. >> Yes. >> The staff. >> Yes. >> What's the feel from the staff and students? >> Um >> so students, they're okay. They're used to walking from the back um coming to the front when we shut down
063the first parking lot um in the front when they really had to bring in the the bigger machines. Um some of the staff, you know, weren't used to walking all the way from the back up. So that was um the grunt that we heard mostly. Um but once we uh had the conversation, we opened it back up. We opened half of it and three4s of it. We were able to to um be able to make it work. So we still have handicap parking. We made sure we had all of those areas. We had things blocked off. So I think that was the biggest part. Everybody had to get used to walk back up uh because of back parking lot so far. But other than that, it's I mean they're ready for it to be done,
064but we understand it has to be done. So >> thank you. You're welcome. >> Are they looking at the weather the weather forecast? Uh there's rain if they're on the money, you know, it might be Sunday like it is, but in the next what two or three days there might be some rain. Are they looking They looking >> Yes, we've been looking at that as well. In fact, earlier today it suggested there's going to be rain tomorrow, but uh last time we looked, which was about an hour ago, is down to around 20 between 20 and 24%. Which I think is fine. Um and we've been talking to the contractor to make sure that they're prepared if that kind of thing happens. Just help them make sure that they're thinking through everything. >> Thank you.
065>> All right. Thank you very much. >> Now we now move on to items six uh new business. Item 6A. By common consent, the board agrees to consider as one action the following item. Uh item one, approval of waiver of tuition for transfer students for 2526 school year. Item two, approval of budget amendment uh 2425. Um item one. And then item number three, approval of special meeting minutes uh of July 24, 2025. This can all be found on page 9 through 13. Do I hear a motion or are we going to hear from Dr. Pitz? >> Not unless there are any questions on this. >> Motion made by Brian Kfall, second made by Jake Pedes. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries 70. Moving on. Item 6B, discussion, possible action
066regarding the extension of the project management services for HM King drains repairs. Dr. Pittz. >> Thank you, President Ruiz. So, this continues what we talked before. We had to go out for bids a second time and because the first time we went out for bids was way over budget. So, we employed AGCM to rescope a little bit and and we went out for bids again. So that's the main reason for the runover. The runover will be 12,12150. Uh this one there wasn't a contingency on this. So this would require board approval. >> Sorry. >> Is there any questions from the board? Hearing none. Is there a motion to accept uh the extension of project management services for HMP drains repairs? Motion made by Jake Bettis. Second. >> Second by Brian Cooper. All those in favor
067say I. I. Any oppose. Motion carry 70. We now move on to item 6 C. Discussion of possible action regarding the certification of 2025 anticipated collection rate and excess debt collections. It can be found on pages 27 to 29. Dr. Bits. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. These numbers are both used in the calculation of the tax rate which will be coming to the board a little bit later in the meeting. The anticipated collection rate the reason why that is uh at uh 100%. Is mainly because uh we have delinquent payments from previous years which always pushes our payments above 100%. Even though we may only collected 97 or 98% during the current year with the collections from the previous years, it always brings us over 100%. And then the excess debt collections uh anything excess
068that we are collecting, we are doing a defecence uh to pay down additional debt. So because of that, we are not collecting any additional debt that we are not uh any additional tax revenue for our debt that we are not using. I'll take any questions. >> No questions from the board. So, do I hear a motion to accept uh certification of the 2025 anticipated collection rate and excess debt collections? >> Motion made by Brian Kufall. >> Second Martin Chapa. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Moving on. Item 6D, discussion of possible action regarding the 2526 proposed uh employee compensation pay plan can be found on pages 30 to 37. Dr. Pittz, >> thank you very much. Um the the board has already approved the the teachers and also the
069um clerical, paraprofessional and auxiliary. Uh we were asking for some clarification on uh this issue regarding professional employees. Um uh currently the the language was everyone on the par profofession on on the professional administrative paygrade um not uh over market value getting a 3% increase. the the the couple of questions that we have for the board is number one, does this include um all employees that are on the administrative professional pay scale? Uh number two, and then also uh not all employees on that scale have a market value because some of our positions are kind of a combination of different positions. Uh so uh we could use midpoint to gauge that if if that's what the board wants to gauge. Um so those are the questions that we are we are asking in the board
070clarification of uh what direction the board wants to go and how to apply that 3% raise who that raise goes to. >> So um we will be taking this into close session Dr. Pitz and then we'll bring it back for official vote. >> Yes sir. >> Okay. Thank you. Moving on to item 6E, discussion, possible action regarding the resolution authorizing the defense of certain portions of the district's currently outstanding obligations and other matters related uh there too. And Dr. Pittz, >> thank you Mr. Reese. The board is very familiar with defecences. So u extra uh revenue is collected and used to pay off the debt early. In this case, there are two possible defeascent scenarios that both need to be signed. That depends on whether the Vader is passed on the November the 4th. Um,
071and then there's a certificate of resolution also that needs to be signed. I'll answer any questions that you have on the defense. >> Any questions from the board? >> The defecence uh attorneys are asking that we we approve both motions. Mr. Maddox, should I read those motions on the screen? >> Yes, Mr. President. Please go ahead and give us a reading on those for the record. >> Okay. So, is there a motion to accept motion one? I move to approve the resolution as presented authorizing the defecence of certain portions of the district's currently outstanding obligations to be effective upon the canvasing of a favorable vote to the district's Vader uh proposition to be submitted to the district's voters at an election to be held on November 4, 2025 Is there a motion? >> Motion made
072by Brian Kufall, >> second made by Martin Chop. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Motion number two. I move to approve the resolution as presented authorizing the defecence of certain portions of the district's currently outstanding obligations to be effective upon the canvasing of of an unfavorable vote against the district's vat uh proposition to be submitted to the district's voters at an election to be held on November 4th 2025. Do I hear a motion? So move. Motion made by Brian Kufall. Second made by Martin Chapa. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Thank you, Dr. Piss. >> You're welcome. And now actually on um on a one on a board member request we are uh moving this uh decision until after executive session. Item
0736F. Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> So, now moving on to item 6G. Discussion and possible action regarding the second reading of localized policy update 125 can be found on pages 50 to 61. Dr. Sandal. >> Thank you, board president Ree. Um, Dr. Martinez and Board of Trustees. I'm here to do the second reading of update 125 which includes revisions to legal framework documents based on regular regulatory changes including amendments to the Texas administrative code. The six different areas that we're looking at or seven are election of board officials, board committees, um advisory committees, partial academic credit, school safety transfers and attendance credit. We have reviewed this as the first reading. I'm going to give you a a quick summary of the policy before you guys ask any questions or decide to approve the policy. Um
074the second readings um are based off the um the legal framework as mentioned earlier. Um first one is a B DBA local um revisions are recommended to this local policy on board officer duties and requirements. Um at board officer, the sentence indicating that the board may assign a district employee to provide clerical assistance is recommended for deletion since the superintendent rather than the board manage staff assignments including providing support to the board. And under terms and duties, vice president, the revised language clarifies that when a president vice president automatically becomes president due to a vacancy and then they serve as president to the board reorganizes. um BDB local. This policy has been revised in condition in coordination with U BDF local to clarify the difference between board committees and advisory committees. Um BDF this new
075local policy is recommended for inclusion to coordinate with a change to BDB EI local partial credit. Recommended revisions replace the phrase combine grade four with average of no more accurately reflects the determination of awarding credit when student earns their passing grade in only half of the course. Um FDE um at safe schools data bullying is recommended for inclusion as an offense for which the district must collect and maintain data and FEC local revisions throughout this policy are recommended for clarity. The information in the first sentence of the policy has been incorporated at absences considered for improved readability rather than directing the board to establish attendance committees. The policy now authorized the establishment of those committees by the administrations. Add methods for regaining credit or awarding a final grade. Specifics regarding petitions for credit are recommended
076for deletion in favor of reference to administrative regulations and revision that imposing conditions for awarding credit or final grade are recommend to clarify requirements regarding seat time. So for more information we can see it on ta tasby.org article tak mastery not se. So you guys have any question regarding second reading of update 125? Any questions from the board? Okay. So then do I hear a motion to accept the second reading of localized policy update 125? >> Is there motion made by Delma Salena? >> Second made by Jake Perez. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries 70. >> Thank you Dr. Uh now moving on to item 6H. Discussion and action regarding the resolution declaring authority to pass TRS pitch and care search charges on to employed TRS retirees can
077be found on pages 62 to 64. Dr. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. As of House Bill Two, we now are able to pass on the searchcharge for both uh TRS uh medical and TRS um healthcare um to employees. This used to be the case a few years ago, but um we were not allowed to do that in the last several sessions. Uh the board asked us to bring something to them and this resolution is as of September 1. Um the employees would be responsible for this search charge. I'll take any questions you have. >> Dr. What's this uh percentage of the search charge? Is it 15 still 50? >> No, it's it's closer to about 17.5 now. >> That's including the insurance. >> No, that's not including the insurance. >> Any other questions from the
078board? >> What is insurance? Uh I I uh Sandy, do you know Oh, Sy's not here. I I think it's about 500 a month. >> I have a question about your opinion on this one way or another. Do you think it would hurt us? >> So my understanding is that the number of employees that are impacted by this is not big. is not significant. Um it will save us some money. Um so I guess it will be a decision board as to whether this would be worth um approving it. Any other questions from the board? Okay. Hearing none, do I hear a motion um to accept resolution declaring the authority to pass TRS pension and care search charges on to employ TRS retirees. >> So moved. >> Motion made by Brian Kufall. >> Second made
079by Jacob Medis. All those in favor say I. >> I. Okay. So, we have uh six yes and one no. Motion passes 6 to1. Moving on. Item six. I discussion possible action regarding the 2025 2026 proposed budget. >> Thank you, Mr. Ruiz. We we've discussed this in several workshops and also at the hearing. Uh are there any other questions? I have one question for the attorney. If um there's going to be discussion regarding uh some salaries, do we need to wait to pass this budget or can we just proceed? Dr. Pittz, will this have any will our items that we have postponed for after executive impact the budget in a meaningful way to where we need to withhold an an action on this? >> Not unless it is a substantial increase. The the other thing
080to consider is that we posted the budget in the newspaper for 10 days and online. So if there's a substantial change, we would have to repost and then we wouldn't be able to approve the election as well too. So my recommendation, we can always do budget amendments um later on in the year. So my recommendation is to to move forward with this and and again I don't expect it to I I expect that I have put enough emergency um parameters around this budget that we should be able to uh handle what is going to be talked about in close session. >> No legal issues. Mr. President, >> thank you. So do we have a motion to accept the 2526 proposed budget? Motion made by Joe Mesles. >> Second by Brian Kufall. All those in favor
081say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Now moving on. Item 6J. Discussion. Possible action regarding the 25 proposed tax rate and resolution can be found on pages 67 to 69. Dr. Fitz. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. the the resolution encompasses both scenarios as far as the election. However, when the board passes, the board passes as if we are going to do the increase in the M that is actually what triggers the election. But we have in our resolution here both scenarios depending on what happens. Um I'll take any questions that you might have. >> Are there any questions from the board? Just for clarification, the magic number is 141, correct? >> 1.4104. Either way, >> either way, um it's just a matter of whether that's going to be moved to the M or not.
082But, uh we're initially passing it as as the increase in M. That's what triggers the election, but if not, it will still be 1.4104. Um it's just that uh the makeup will be a little bit more on the INS side. Thank you. You're welcome. >> Any more questions? So, do I hear a motion to accept the 2025 proposed tax rate and resolution? So, moved. >> Motion made by Brian Kufall. >> Second by Joe Mirez. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Now moving on item 6K. discussion and possible action regarding the resolution calling a tax ratification election on November 4th, 2025 can be found on pages 70 to 72. Dr. Pittz, >> thank you, Miss Shice. So, with that last passing, that is what triggers the the calling for an
083election because that is an increase in M. I want to be clear now um at this board meeting and also we will with all our messaging that this will not involve any additional tax um charges to our um to our constituents. The tax rate will remain the same either way. It's just a matter of how it will be made up on the INS side or the M side, but it'll be exactly the same amount of tax um for this election whether it passes or whether it does not. I'll take any questions. >> Any questions from the board? Hearing none, is there a motion to accept the resolution calling a tax ratification election on November 4th? Motion made by Martin Chappa. >> Second by David Garcia. >> All those in favor say I. I. >> Any
084oppose? Motion carries 70. Now moving on item 6L. Discussion possible action regarding the Kosen College dual enrollment for 2526 can be found on pages 73 to 96. Dr. Sandova. >> Thank you Mr. Ree. Um board trustees M and Dr. Martinez. I'm here to present the dual enrollment between Coastal Bank College and Kingsville ISD. Um this needs to be renewed for the 2526 school year. Um the administration recommends that the board of trustees approve the dual enrollment between coastal men college and Kingsville ISD for the 2526 school year. Theou has been reviewed by our attorneys and um is uh answer any questions you might have at this time. >> I got just one question. So >> yes sir. Um I know the biggest concern when you're looking at uh dual enrollment or at least for uh
085from my perspective is you know pathways and how those lead to um you know transferable uh or acceptable um degree programs where your where your where where kids are being sent. I know that some school districts, which I hope it's not ours, um like the students like to add their grades uh by taking excess courses that maybe don't lead to a particular degree, associates degree or uh those classes may not be transferable to any degree. So I guess my biggest question or concern is when we sign these MUS are are we making sure that students are maybe focusing on core curriculum where those classes can transfer to any institution or students allowed to take classes like a free-for-all and whatever they want to enroll in they take. I mean, are we f making sure that
086they're taking classes uh that are part of core for the most part unless they're given associates? Um, that's a good question, Mr. Ree. Yeah, definitely. We do have our early college high school um advisor that helps out, Miss Ludy Gonzalez, that helps out with you verifying what courses the kids are wanting to take. It's not a free-for-all kids taking a course just for the sake of being able to pad their their um their ranking and their GPA. We're definitely making sure it aligns with their program of study where they want to study. We try to stick mainly to the the core classes. That's a one of the things that we try to stay to the Englishes, the math, the sciences, those core courses that they're going to need when they when they go to university
087so they do transfer over. So we we we try to make sure that they're aligned with that. >> Thank you. You're welcome. Is there any other questions? Hearing none from the board. Um, is there a motion to accept the uh Kosovo College dual enrollment for 2526? >> So moved. >> Motion made by Delma Salenas. >> Second by Jake Perez. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any oppose? Motion carries 70. >> Thank you, Dr. Sandov. The board will enter back into close session according to Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code 551.071 and 551.074 to deliberate and consider the following um consider and deliberate regarding the resignations uh resignation of contracted employees. Item 7 A uh and then item 7 C, consultation with legal counsel regarding legal and personnel matters. No action will be
088taken until we return to open session and we return u we are entering close session at 7:19 Yeah. We now return to open session uh and take necessary action on matters in which the board may discuss in open session and upon which action may be taken. We are returning to open session at 8:59 p.m. So the first item um discussion and possible action regarding the employee compensation u discussion of possible action regarding the 2025 2026 proposed employee compensation pay. Um, Mr. Maddox, is is there specifics on that or just based on the recommendation? >> Recommendation. >> Okay, this recommendation. So, the recommendation of the administration is a 3% raise across the board for all KISSD employees. So, moved. >> Motion made by Jake Pettis. Is >> there a second? Second. Second made by Brian Kal.
089All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? >> Motion carries 70. >> Discussion and possible action regarding conversation during periods of closure and nonwork day resolution. Um is there a motion >> for the second one? What was the >> This just continues the policy that's in in effect. Is that correct? >> Yes. So the the current policy in effect is in order when we close the district due to some type of an emergency um we need a resolution in order to pay employees because we cannot give gift fund public funds. So this would be again that then the um board will agree to pay employees when we close the district. >> Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Made by Ryan Kuall. >> Second by Joe Melles. All those in favor say I.
090I. Any oppose. Motion carries. 70. U. We now move on to item 8A. uh discussion and possible action regarding the resignation of contracted employee. Do we have a motion to accept the resignation of contract employee? >> Motion made by Joe Mirele, second by Delma Salenas. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. And then um discussion and possible action regarding legal matters. >> No action. No action needed. Are you sure? >> Oh. Uh, what about >> don't we have a resolution or or a releaseation recommendation and release that needs to be filed in that? >> Yes, Mr. President, board of trustees. I will take an action on the uh contract has presented executive I in reviewing these. I believe the board has taken action on these, but in rehears. >>
091Okay. I move that we approve the specific actions bent the release of certain litigants in the um presentation that was presented to us in executive session. Motion made by Ryan Kufall. Second >> Second by Damian Garcia. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 70. There being no further action, I do hereby adjourn this meeting at 9:03 p.m. I know