001e 31 on Tuesday March 4 2025 I call the special meeting of the Kingsville Independent School District to order we will have roll call Joe mes Martin Chapa David Garcia Jacob fetes here Delma Salinas here Brian Kul here and Joseph ree let us Rec let the records show that there's a quum of board members present and that this meeting has been posted in accordance with government code chapter 551 state of open meetings act we move to a moment of silence followed by the of Allegiance and the Texas pledge to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy andice for all honor the Texas flag IED Al to the Texas one State under God one and indivisible we move to item number four
002adoption of the agenda Mr President of Trustees there's been a quick rearrangement of the agenda we could please move the DGP local arance in Open session or the board retires in the Clos session be hearing that in this so is there a motion to accept the adoption of the agenda with the uh change motion made by Martin Chapan second by Delma Salas all those in favor say I I any oppos motion carries 70 so um of course we have individuals that want to address the board put as that start with that yes so we we have uh four individuals that wish to address the board Margarita K I'm here because my daughter my grandaughter he go to hary elementary school and the dress code was for her not to be worried black close I need
003for you to check your dress code and I think what she's trying to is um if you guys could take a look at the dress code or bring it up to an agenda because um in it states that Administration has the final word and I think the administration is allowing um kids to get bullied by what they wear I think is what she's to say and take a look at what's right or wrong um I believe this is an agance we don't want any agance but um I believe she was wearing black dress which seemed appropriate so it was not um and they just are very confused and are tired of hearing one thing and another and see on the that it's just one thing but hearing another thank you m we now have Orlando
004Moya good afternoon am I am gu we are our my I was here my wife was B here my kids were B here my kids all go to school here the reason the the reason um I felt it important just to come up and speak on how I feel about the the Harvey playground situation so I I grew up here again I remember going to CL tool um in the 90s and uh having that playground that was kind of by the creek um it was playing a big part in my childhood um I have a lot of memories in that playground um a lot of friendships were made in that playround and uh to be quite honest I I these are still friendships that I have this now I wasn't totally aware of the whole
005situation and I may not be fully ver on the situation but what I can say is I have two two BO um one going to turn one this year and another going to turn two so I feel I feel directly kind of um impacted by this situation because I think here in a few years uh my boys will be attending Herold and we live in the PRI subis that's where they will beend um I don't care what has happened in the past I'm a I'm not a problem ger guy I'm a solution guy um again we're deeply embedded into the community sports kids school the whole deal uh however I can help to make this happen for the kid I will have my word I will be a solid advocate for for that playground I
006think again going back to I think it is important that it does happen because it creates you know a future friendships the whole deal I haven't seen a kid with a broken arm in years kids with broken arm could out so um yeah however I can help I just you know I know there's going to be large topics on funding you know if we had funding in the past we don't have again I'm not a I'm not a problem driven guy I'm a solution driv guy so however however me and you know my community members can help we're all for it so we're willing to you know make something happen if we can and we'd love to see that thank you that's all thank you Mr Mo uh we now have Elizabeth Ramos good afternoon
007superintendent and Board of Trustees I'm not as nice I'm sorry um I'm here to request that you put on the next agenda topic of discussion to purchase or obtain a brand new Playard for H heral elementary campus quote nothing you do for children is wasted end quote is a quote our a heral Elementary PTO Facebook page unfortunately the quote isn't true for the Harold kids as the money the community raises for them have to have a new play guard is going to save money from the district's general fund instead of it or disappears to p a for over 10 years parents students and community members have been raising funds for a new playground area throughout those years principes have convinced the PTO to use those earmark funds for the play guard on campus incentives for
008teachers launches part Awards programs Etc instead the majority of these uses should be in the campus budget from the general fund when I was a trustee I begged kall to allow all trustees to Jo facility walk through it was truly a failed attempt if you did a walk through you can see the condition of the play area to save yourself a trip a trip I posted those photos and descriptions of the Playard on my group page cookie Kings it is time to Bo the superintendent cared about the kids carold and purchase a Playard for out of the general funds or a grant ASAP the average cost for a school Playard is $11,000 per student per 2024 taret report Harold has 309 students attend 291 are economically disadvantaged and 83 students with disabilities 16 with physical
009disabilities the average cost for a new Playard would be $39,000 not including the addition of adaption play for with death disabilities current inflation and installation which could be done by the community members for free paying for this out of the general fund should not affect the teachers or the students in other ways to compensate cause loss I hear Harold is also getting a one million lbrary soon so you guys can also do a Playard more statistics for you Harold has been one of the four leading campuses for average daily attendance helping the district bring more money in from the state write this down 19 part two chapter 103 sub chapter AA of the Texas Education Code states that all schools in Texas are to provide recess and physical education for 135 minutes per week title
01019 part two chapter 116 sub chapter a which y'all should read word for word States the kids should a demonstrate Tech correct techniques while hopping Galloping running sliding skipping and leaping these demonstrate correct jumping and Landing techniques from different heights end quote and a bunch of other perent information that must be taught at gr level per tis and per what local sha committee presents to the board to vote on playgrounds should help kids with imaginative play inspiration help kids develop social skills physical strength and cognitive abilities we also help kids learn to regulate their emotions all right I need some of that myself it helps kids develop problem solving reasoning and memory skills and help kids develop operational thinking amongst other dozens of benefits end the story we want a new playground in the future
011we want to see it on the next agenda I'm doing this for the kids and the kids only if kisd can spend $1.1 million on a new track that is barely bringing in any Revenue it can buy a new playyard to stay in compliance with TAA and Insurance liability and help the overall health and well-being of our students the one that we have is old sad not fun neglected dilapidated and unsafe zero fund should be used from the PTO fundraisers on the Playard Harold can be use it on something better such as field trips pizza parties dances I've heard rumor that the superintendent wants to flow down Herold to save money hopefully she can clear up those rumors since we're getting a $1 million library in KD's new promotional advertisement on the district website for
012a video at States click on the link to see what your K public school has to offer when you walk inside our doors maybe you and the superintendent need to walk outside the a heral Playard and see what kisd has to offer your constituents kids it's not pretty we'd appreciate your help it would be nice if you reached out to the community to get grants and see where we can come up with a very nice Playard for our kids thank you thank you m Ramos you now have Delma Hernandez good afternoon everybody or good evening I just wanted to say that I'm here to support sorry I just wanted to let you know that I've been the District 37 years I'm here to um support M Hamilton and others that would have been here tonight
013we just got a very late notice that it was happening tonight we have a lot of people in the district that are here for the attendance and we support everything she's doing for us and we thank her for bringing this grievance up because we do have concerns about what's going on when we miss days especially on this new platform that we're on the 4 day five day thing so I just want to let you know that um she's not here just by herself it's just a lot of us couldn't be here tonight and I have to be somewhere I have to leave a little bit but I did want to make my point that I'm here for her support and for all the other teachers that couldn't be here tonight and um all the other
014people in the district that couldn't be here so thank you thank you Mr so now we move on to I guess hear the level three grievance from yes Mr President would you like me to facilitate this process for you sir yes please testing all right do we have a a live recording of This proceedings going yes yes excellent okay Hardy you ready to begin okay it is 5:46 pm on March 4th 2025 this is mtic speaking I'm presiding I'm facilitating this on behalf of our president I'm serving as board counsel we are here for a dgb local grievance process at level three it was appropriately filed level one appropriately And Timely appeal to level two timely appeal to level three which is where we are today all records from level one and two are included
015in the records before you board members submitted by both the administration and the agreement I will first begin by en handling the board this board members is your time to certify that you can be unbiased in this uh proceeding if you feel that you cannot be unbiased for any reason you're welcome to recuse yourself so I'll start to my left sir if you'll say I'm sorry my right right you'll say your name and that you can be fair and impartial or that you'd like to recuse yourself can be fair rall I can be fair and impartial Joseph ree I can be fair and impartial CH I can be fair and impartial I will be fair and Jacob I can be fair and impartial I can be fair and impartial okay we've imp handled a board
016of seven members so all board members will be participating in this process how this process will work is it will be 15 minutes per party so it'll begin with agreement you will have 15 uninterrupted minutes to present their position on this matter Then followed by the administration if there's any time remaining then that party may use that time as rebuttal time in this process I'll be the official timekeeper I'll give you five minutes I'll wave my hand like this I'm not waving at you I'm just telling you have five minutes left just to help you keep track of your time are there any housekeeping Matters from either party that we need to go over before we start no Mr cars any housekeeping matters no okay so after the 15minute presentations any rebuttal time the board
017will have an opportunity to ask clarifying questions a clarifying question is one such as did you say that happened on Tuesday or happened on Wednesday that's a clarifying question this is not an opportunity for to solicit more testimony be party that's what they have their 15 minutes for I will help field clarifying questions and parties I will give you both an opportunity to respond questions asked by board members you'll both have that opportunity um after that the board will deliberate and I believe it's a plan of the board to carry the votes until after the second grievance tonight is heard so after the board comes back out of the executive session is when the board will take action on this there's no further questions from either parties we'll get started with VI Mr coners yes
018this is good evening this is Tony Connor and I have the honor in representing Marissa Hamilton who who is your Science Biology physics teacher at the high school and she's had that she's had that responsibility done well for about 11 years she has close to 30 years experience I want to start at the outset that this is not about us versus you it's about using your grievance process to address some serious concerns that Miss Hamilton and other teachers have about the current platform and how days are cruded used and recorded we're we're not here to seek un unearned pay less work or criticize or punish anybody said we're asking you as the board as a governing body the district to hear our concerns about leave to make sure your policy is fair and the administration's
019implementation is proper we had hoped to have this grievance heard uh beginning of the school year we filed this appeal original was originally filed in April 2024 and we filed this appeal in beginning of September and now here um we were told we were going to do it last month but we found out that last month we couldn't do it because they were changing the policy that's an issue the DEA local and I'll talk about that um more but it had been you know a dollars a dollar even though a dollar is worth a lot more down here than it would in New York City with a dollar is a dollar and a day used to be a day you got a day and you use a day and they took away a day but
020now we have a different system because the district Innovation under your leadership um we now have Monday through Friday Monday through Thursday and every other Friday there's a partial day and if you miss a day on the Monday through Thursday charge not one day but 1.04 or if you miss a Friday it's in session you get docked 56 now teachers are exempt under the Fair Labor Standard Act and they're employed under chapter 21 contracts that only stay the number of months that you have to work to earn the annual salary and then you're paid equally over 12 months regardless how many months you actually work in the year and your pay is DET your contract refers to the board approved Compensation Plan it sets out your salary salary range the work days and supplemental pay
021that's associated with supplemental duties like coaching or if you have a doctorate you get a little more money teachers are given by state law five days they're not given hours minutes they're given five days and that's under DEC legal and under section 2203a of T Education Code and then the local policy had been to give five days and the policy up until last month Valentine's Day was a lead day was the number of hours per day of an employee's usual assignment whether full time or part-time but that was changed last month to Now read that LE day is a equivalent to the employees assigned work calendar so we're going from what they usually do versus what the calendar says we'll talk about the problems with that but it's interesting they change your policy without any
022telling us we find out after fact but um but under the previous versions of this policy the practice was to pay a day for a day and if you missed a day you would be docked today if you missed no exception is half days if you missed a half day different time you can only be docked a half day and um teachers were never paid by the hour or on increments of minutes they were paid on annual salaries set by the compensation plans in contrast non-exempt employees like par professionals custodians drivers they're paid by the hour or increments of minutes as recorded by the time clocks if you work less than scheduled you're paid less if you work more than scheduled you paid more and if you work more than 40 hours per week you
023get overtime so by this grievance we're seeking to return to the way things were done previously that a day was a day or a better alternative the current system of charging more than a day for a day is objectional for a number of reasons including the following at one teachers are again are paid under the comp plan setting Miss Sal work days stiens and leave is given by days not by minutes or hours yet leave is being taken by minutes and hours set by schedule to charge more than a day when you're missing when you're absent a day a work day workday is a work day second if teachers are going to be docked by increments of minutes and hours then and they should be paid more by increments and increments of minutes and hours
024when they work over the work calendar schedule what's good for the goose is good for the gander third teachers work schedules classes are teachers work work schedules of classes and mandatory iners on campus Monday through Thursday and every other Friday those are only Guides of minimum time requirements but in reality teachers work much more than this schedule as they did when they had a 5-day work schedule teaching didn't become easier by moving to four days with every other Friday the federal and state and Community standards and expectations didn't change not yet day they may tomorrow um teachers still had to do the work outside the classroom after school before school and over the weekends meetings school events preparation grading training parent if actual work is not being paid then let's go back to the day
025for day system of lead that's what we do again U with the dollar dollar is a dollar regardless of you know its value at particular time the other concern is that that's related our teachers still working more than 40 hours now but even harder now because they have a condensed schedule of four days and every other Friday it's even challenging because they have to get the same or more done in less time to prepare train and otherwise work outside of schedules other districts that have gone to the 4-day schedule do not require teachers to work 10 hours per day or or under less pay recent cases on Theo as far as relief we are asking to go back to the former system of congruence between acude and use of lead by using days except for
026half days or any other appropriate relief now I have about two two minutes or so you want to say I just want to say that that we work a lot yes we are working less days but we are still putting in just as much time my husband and I both teach at the high school and we probably spend at least an hour and a half every day beyond our school contracted hours talking about different things um and this is every day and so it's just heartbreaking that when I go through to take a day off I'm charged more than a day when a day should be a day regardless of me working eight hours and 20 minutes or from before when I worked seven hours and 45 minutes I was still charged a day so
027I would like to go back to a day is a day regardless of how long it is because you could come up with the school calendar where I have to work nine hours a day and there's I we're stuck we we work what the contract says we are not hourly employees we are contracted employees yeah so dis benefits the district it doesn't benefit the teachers at all the teachers end up losing more they miss a day and they don't miss days on purpose those are exceptions they miss because they're ill or somethings come up um and they shouldn't be penalized by having to give up more leave that they have they have precious 10 days that they need some sometimes so we ask to go back to the way it was using a day a
028day or alternatively open up and let's go ahead and pay Everybody by the hour based on actual effort we're going do that way you're going to do if it's going to go against the teacher on actual effort then let's get paid for actual effort thank reserve the rest of my time Mr Conor yes you have five minutes about 15 seconds on top of that thank you Morgan Administration are you ready I'm ready I'll start time when you start M of the board juses thank you for allowing me to present the administration's presentation today I want to highlight a few things that he touched on um during his presentation first off this policy we're referencing today was adopted in let get the exact date July 23rd 2024 this wasn't a discussion in February this policy been
029in effect for this school year now I want to address a few things so prior to 2023 2024 it was eight hour days and that me you lost eight hours of leave time if you were to miss whenever you on like a teacher employee then we moved to in 2023 2024 the calendar shifted which allowed more Wellness days and also the time that teachers worked went from8 hours to 8 hours and 20 minutes Monday through Thursday and then on Friday 4 hours and 30 minutes so regardless of the change though all teachers have accured 80 hours which is 8 days of leave whenever they missed a day that point until 23 sorry 10 days of leave whenever they miss I apologize bad M here um whenever they miss the day they get that divided by
030eight hours so the eight hours and 20 minute days were divided by eight if they missed a 4 hour and 30 minute day it was divided by eight that was a day of leave although the dec legal allows them 5 days the district is considerate of its teachers they allow them 10 days so they are getting those days off and bonus days so they're still being to pay for 187 day calendar for their salary but they're not working the full 187 days so then we move forward to 2024 to 2025 the calendar was submitted to the deic committee they proposed that we transition to do the five one week and then four another week schedule that is 8 hours and 20 minutes every single day it's still a day is a day 8 hours and
03120 minutes is a day if you're absent you're reduced from they divide that by eight because that is how the program works for leave year but just like if they were missing the 4 hours and 30 minutes in the past year they still got the extra credit for the 0.56 so they could takeing more days off in that way so when we talk about the calendar for this past year 2024 2025 the teachers are now working 179 days but they're being paid for 187 for their for their salary they're not working 187 days they're working 179 days and then every other week it's a 4day week and other week is a five day week regardless of the whole point that he's making is a dollar is a dollar a day is a day if we
032were not to count the whole eight hours and 20 minutes that wouldn't be a day is a day that is their everyday schedule and that's why I want to address importantly also you mentioned that teachers work a lot and we recognize that they put in a lot of work to this is sh great and I don't want to discredit that but also they do get paid for and other approved activities such as writing curriculum writing and other activities as well well overall the whole point is that the 8 hours and 20 days 20 minute days are still equivalent if they earn or use them a day is a day not just eight hours because if not we'd be giving free money to them Dr would I to speak now this procedure has been consistent with
033how we have treated professionals that have worked in the summer in the summer I've been here 12 years now and in the summer we have employees that work in the summer mostly uh administrators and uh but there are some teachers that have longer calendars as well too and in the summer we do four 10hour days so they can be off in the summer now whenever a teacher or a an administrator is off in the summer for a 10-hour day we don't they they don't use eight hours of leave they use 10 hours of leave and that that has been again consistent since since I've been here with this District if we were going to do some type of change here to be consistent then always in the summer whenever somebody is absent for one day
034instead of them using 10 hours of leave which is a 10hour day then they would only use eight hours so this would have wide ranging changes in order to be consistent across the district and uh a big deviation from how we've always done it before in the past now teachers uh they are working uh less days um 179 days but they are they are working because of that um the that's why or the eight hours 20 minutes comes in on a regular day but they have 179 days they're getting many more Wellness days so they're they're not working anymore on this calendar we we have meticulously with every single group made sure that we have counted the number of hours if they were working 187 days and eight hours we have made sure that their
035calendar does not exceed the total number of hours on the new calendar um nobody in the district is working more hours than they were before on their assigned work calendar it's just that they're working a few more 20 more minutes on certain days but they have all these extra Wellness days during during the year um so uh in point to not asking um uh opposing Council said that uh they're not seeking any unearned paying well if if uh we are to only deduct uh let's say eight hours if an employee Works 10 hours in the summer or eight hours when an employee Works eight hours in 20 minutes we're only to deduct that amount then what's going to happen is they are going to be essentially paid for those extra 20 minutes or extra two
036hours in the summer um that they that they did not earn because we we are paying them for the 8 hours and 20 minutes that they are there just like we're paying the employees for 10 hours in the summer um the policy even though the policy was changed the policy was changed to add clarification we believe that the policy as is was sufficient because the policy as is was applicable to how we did leave always in the past it says that the that uh leave just summarize leave is earned um and used in uh in a manner that is consistent with the employees usual work calendar so uh usual work day so um that way if an employee uh worked eight hours they used eight hours of leave and in the summer if they worked
03710 hours they used 10 hours of leave so even though the policy was changed we don't believe that it was changed retroactive L after in fact it was changed just to add clarification we believe that the original policy stands as is if for some reason we had last year if we had counted a day as a day then when an employee was absent on a Friday that is only four hours and 30 minutes we would have had a dock a whole day for four hours and 30 minutes we did not do that we tried to be as Fair as we could for our employees if they missed four hours 30 minutes we only took them only took 4 hours and 30 minutes of leave so again all of this was when we did this it
038was try to be as consistent as what we did in the past for all of the leave in the summer and to not take a full day of leave when an employee Was Not absent a full day and even now when an employee like on a Friday if it is a work day we have if they we have told our employees that it's a work day on a Friday if you only need to take two hours on a Friday well that's fine you can do that you don't need to be there's no kids on that workday so we have open it up now to try to be more flexible with our employees that if if you don't have a responsibility with kids and you only need to take off a couple of hours on that
039day that's fine um we will work with you um and we will not take a full day that's all I have to say right now Morgan does that conclude the administration's presentation yes it do okay you're at nine minutes and seven seconds so rounded Mr Conor Mr Conor would you like to use your Lev time sir yes I would well I would say that there was a major change in that policy on February 14 2025 it was referenced to your usual work day which I believe tracks what you actually do no mention of schedule no mention of it was changed now to schedule now again the schedule is a minimum effort it's what's required to show up but it doesn't capture the actual work the acral rate has stayed the same still been five days
040thing five days local and it's been days it's changed it's changed the way that it had been a day a day now they're taking more than a day so it isn't a day a day because if you miss a day they don't take away a day they don't take one of your 10 days they take more than one of your days and if you miss start to miss six days then you start to lose seven days so day is not a day also it's pretty offensive to suggest that teachers are asking for free money and teachers are working less because they have less work days they didn't choose Wess work dayses B decided to do that the board decided that they could get that the community could provide quality Educational Services and it made sense
041for a number of reasons but the teachers are still expected to work hard and put in the hours and come up with the same level of Services of teaching of accomplishments even though they work less days they are not being paid by the day they're not being you can't show me a contract that says are being paid by the day you can't show me anywhere the policy or anything in writing they're paid by a by the hour they get paid by the year and this board sets the rate the annual rate to be divided equally and it sets the work days and a day is a day they they now they work less than 187 days because the district information got a waiver decided to go from less days they're still having to meet the
042same quality of services when they work 187 days and there's no suggestion this whole thing was set up to make teachers get more money for Less work it's never been that never been that to suggest that is very offensive U for all the teachers and the Educators that are hearing that as far as summer school that's that's a red herring that's apples and oranges summer school is a special program summer school is different different than the regular day summer school has exceptions and there are a number of programs that are have different pay pay platforms and uh than the traditional but some to talk about summer school is a red hearing um we're just we're just asking to go back to the old system where days a day or if you really want to be
043fair if you really wan to make sure to be congruent that what you do on one side adds up what you do on the other side that you want to have congruence you want to have symmetry then if you're going to be taking the money out of teacher pocket to to deduct them for being absent then you should pay them more money for working Beyond you have the ability everybody has time clocks you clock in we can figure that out we can come up with a payment if you if you work more hours um and and particularly the work really hard as they're trying to get the Tia money that's a work even harder to try to get that in the hours and there's no guarantee on that you have to get work hard the
044policy has changed significantly we have about a minute 10 seconds the bottom line is that we are earning our leave by days nowhere has it ever said that a day is eight hours it doesn't it says a day a day is determined deted by what you determined before this eight or 4 and a half day calendar our day was less than eight hours less than eight hours now our day is more than eight hours okay so we get a day we get five days from the state and five days locally but because we are working more than eight hours you've decided not to give us more than those eight hours you've decided to take away those eight more than those eight hours so it seems unfair that we are earning it one way by days
045and you are deducting Us by hours and so we just want to either be paid earn it by days leave by days or earn it by hours and leave by hours we want the system to be the same we don't want them to be different the administration like to use your time yes you like six minutes I first want to point to the board policy the E Local and highlight exactly what a leave day was defined as and now it's currently defined as a leave day for the purposes of earning using or according leave shall mean the number of hours per day equivalent to the employees assigned work calendar prior to that change it was usual assignment whether full-time or part-time their day is 8 hours and 20 minutes a day is a day and
046that is why the leave is deducted for 8 hours and 20 minutes I also want to highlight that the teachers had the option whether or not they wanted this structure implemented they voted and it was over 90% for both 2023 2024 school year and 2024 2025 school year for this calendar and Lead structure the majority of teachers have expressed great gratitude for this new leave policy and I understand we're not suggesting that they would never work hard or ever ever recommend that and put that out there we just want to address that a day is a day and yes I understand the frustration that can be sending from that but there are sign work days 8 hours and 20 minutes that is what they leave they are being credited towards ored from if I could
047are you finished okay so one thing I would like to add so board policy is always equated work days to a number of hours that that has always been our in our policy and has always been in practices um so for instance bus drivers they work five hours a day and their leave is accured by five hours their leave is is used by five hours um now they work 8 hours 20 minutes but that is an average of8 hours if you average it over 1708 187 days so so again they're still they are not working 8 hours 20 minutes times 187 days they're working 8 hours 20 minutes times 179 days so essentially they're they're eight hour employees but they are allowed to accumulate all these Wellness Days by working 20 extra minutes during the
048year they're they're not working any more time as a matter than than what they would if they were 187 employees they are working more on individual days but again they they have only 179 days uh I trust me I know the teachers work hard I was a teacher for 20 years and um they they do so much um for the kids I mean we're all here for the kids but at the same time uh we want that we want it to be attributed fairly we have always again whenever we have had um whenever we have had employees in the summer whether it be professionals or other teachers we have always if if we allow them to work extra hours in a day like four 10 hour days we have all they they have always understood
049this has never been a question in the past they have always understood that if they take off 10 hours that they they have used 10 hours of leave they have never talked about that if they have taken off 10 hours since the day is a day they only want to be charged eight hours in the system the system uh basically goes by days but every day has an equivalent just like it does in the board policy every day is equivalent to eight hours so 8 hours 20 minutes has an equivalent just like when they had four hours and 30 minutes um we we did not deduct the full day we only deducted the correct time again because our board policy says that a day is equivalent to hours overall the Administration has applied the lead
050policies fairly trans fairly and transparently across all categories of employees the policies are designed to ensure that lead usage corresponds to the numbers of hours worked which is Equitable and consistent in the longstanding practices the policies have been well received as I mentioned by the majority of employees who recognize the benefits of the additional Wellness days and reduced work days in conclusion the administration respectfully request that the board uphold the decision to deny Miss Hamilton's requested remedies the lead policies in question are fully consistent with the board's Authority Under Kingsville board policy baa legal and DEC legal as well they have been applied fairly and transparently the Administration has made every effort to address Miss Hamilton's concerns while ensuring that the policies benefit the district as a whole thank you for your time consideration thank
051you m Morgan does that conclude the administration's present Ral time yes thank you thank you I will now open the floor to the board for clarifying questions counselors I'll you to please P sync in your answers it's not a time for more testimony or more facts I don't want to have to cut anyone off so four does anyone have a clarifying question for for both parties I just want to get the dates corrected the policy we're saying was adopted July 23rd 24 that's correct on my other side over here we're saying that it was changed on 225 policy thec has been around for a long time okayy but there was a change in over the summer in July of 2024 and then it was changed again on February 14 2025 that's all that's all that
052thank you sir I'd like to ask a question on the level one was submitted on on what on April 15 2024 thank you any other clarifying questions from the board hearing none I will now dismiss the parties thank you both for your participation uh the board has a few more grievances to go through and then the board will take no action until it returns to open session the board will now enter into closed session in accordance with Texas open meetings act Texas government code 5510 71 and 551 074 to deliberate and consider the following consultation with attorney and uh to conduct a grievance hearing for uh the following discussion um of level three agreements for FG local for agreement TR no action will be taken until we return to a position we are entering into
053close session at 6:21 e e e [Music] we now return to Open Session and take necessary action on matters which the board may now discuss in Open Session and upon which uh action may be taken we are R turning to open session at 7:57 p.m. item a discussion of possible I mean deliberation of possible action on personal matter agences of the following item one discussion and possible action regarding dgpa local level three grievance of MH there a motion Mr President after hearing the presentation and reviewing the evidence presented to us the board agrees that in theory we would like right to return to a day is a day in terms of leave days and in that regard we would like to direct Administration to schedule a workshop in the immediate future to present to the
054board appropriate readjustments of how absences leaves and PID may be handled so as to arrive as a fair and consistent manner that is not to the detriment of teachers Z second second second made by David Garcia all those in favor say I I any oppose motion carries 70 uh item two discussion and possible action regarding FNG local level three grievance of TR Mr President after hearing the presentations and reviewing the information presented to us the board well I move that we Grant the relief s regarding the record ceiling to the extent Allowed by law as discussed in executive session and further we would like to encourage Administration to present to us in Clos session at our next meeting specific security and training methods addressing this incident is there a second second second by David Garcia
055all those in favor say I I any oppos motion carries 70 there being no further action uh do I hear a motion to adjourn okay motion made by Mr M second by Dem Garcia those in favor say I meeting is adjourned at 800 p.m.