001Hi, good afternoon, it's 5.30 everybody and we're going to begin the public hearing portion of tonight's meeting. I'll start with Rokal, Dr. Ariel Cruz-Vela, present, Crystal Hernandez, present, Israel Villareal, present, Rudy Corona, present, Frutoso Gomez, present, Orlando Lopez, present, Alex Reyna, Alfredo Perez, present, Tony Torres, present. The next item on the agenda is public comment on the 2025 district annual report and since there are no public comments for the annual report we'll move on to the presentation on the 2025 district annual report. Ms. Abreu? Good evening, board president, Dr. Cruz, board members, Superintendent Perez, I am here today to present the district's annual report, just want to make sure this works, it does. So before I get started I do want to make sure that you all have a copy of the slide deck, it's
002the one that's found and then you should also have a copy of the district And so the district annual report is a culmination of different reports and presentations that you all have had throughout the whole year. It's kind of like the closure for the fiscal year of 2025. So nothing that I'm going to present today is new, you've heard it throughout the year. It is comprised of eight sections, the first section is a Texas academic performance report otherwise known as a TAPER, section two is a PEEMS financial standard report, section three is a district accreditation status, section four is a campus performance objectives, section five is a report on violent and criminal incidents on campus, section six is a student performance in post-secondary institutions, section seven is a progress toward our board adopted HB3 goals
003and section eight is the TAPER glossary. I just want to also make sure that everybody in the audience knows that you can already access our district annual report by going to our SBCISD website, if you click on about us there'll be a drop down menu and then you click on the 2025 district annual report and then they can access the report. Once they do that they're going to go to this landing page and this is a Google site and it's available to anybody who lands on it. The top will have the eight sections and those are the eight sections of the annual report. Throughout the presentation you will also see those QR codes like the one that you see on the bottom right hand corner of the screen and that will take you to that
004portion of the annual report so that they can see it. So we're going to start with section one, section one again is a Texas academic performance report otherwise known as a TAPER. So the TAPER is compiled by TEA each year and they do it for the district, they do it for the campuses, they utilize the PEEMS submission and they also utilize the student assessment data. So they put it together and they present it in a whole lot of different ways and then it's in a nice little PDF like what you have in front of you. So I'm going to go through the district one but the campus ones follow that same protocol and so if you're looking at that stapled copy of the TAPER you will see the front cover, on the front cover you
005will have of course the reporting year, you'll have a district or campus name and number, you'll also have the accountability score and then you'll have the special education determination status that is only provided on the district report not the campus and you'll see that for special education we meet requirements. The other thing that would be here would be ASVAB and so the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Test if we didn't do it. So if we didn't do it or we did a different variation of it that would also be on the cover of the TAPER and then of course any distinctions. So I'm going to take you through the different sections. So if you open up that TAPER report and again that's that stapled one you'll see that that first page is left blank so
006we really start with page three on that TAPER report and so it starts by presenting the star performance data and that star performance data is presented by tested grade and subject and performance level. You'll see that they're reporting for 2025 and 2024 so you can have a comparison. So from pages three all the way to seven we start with third grade reading and on the bottom of page seven we end with the SAT ACT scores. If you move to page eight on page eight what you're going to find are all grades and all subjects together and then further down on page eight into page nine you're going to find all grades by subject. And so on the bottom of page nine into page eleven now you're looking at the star performance by enrolled grade and
007this is at the meets level. And so if you go to page twelve on page twelve you're going to now find the school progress. So this is our annual growth and this is reported again for twenty five and twenty four. It's reported by grade and subject. So this is our domain two eight pretty much what what this shows here. So up at the top of page twelve you'll see the annual growth and then further down on page twelve into page thirteen you start looking at the accelerated learning. That's the forty five forty five. That's the interventions that are being done. If you move to page fourteen page fourteen to sixteen repeats all of this information again but now the focus is our bilingual education and English as a second language. So on the top of
008page fourteen again you start seeing star performance but again these are just our bilingual students reported for all grades all subjects a little bit down on page fourteen you start seeing that report by all grades by subject and that goes through the bottom of page fifteen. So fifteen going into sixteen you start seeing for bilingual our annual growth and our accelerated learning on pages seventeen through nineteen. Now we're looking at star participation. So who took the test who didn't take the test. This is reported for twenty twenty five and then a few pages later it will be reported for twenty twenty four. So what we start with on page seventeen is all the tests. So the participants for all the tests then we see the ones that didn't test for everything together and then we
009start seeing a separation by subject. So that's on page seventeen through page nineteen and again on page eighteen into nineteen you see this data for twenty twenty four. If you jump to page twenty to twenty two now what we're seeing is our attendance graduation and dropout rate. This is lagging data. It's being reported for twenty twenty three twenty four and twenty twenty two twenty three. So on the top of page twenty we start with our attendance rate our chronic absenteeism annual dropout going a little further down on page twenty into page twenty two. Now you're seeing a breakdown by graduation rate. If I'm going too fast or if you have questions please stop me. On page twenty three now we're looking at the graduation profile. This is also lagging data. It's being reported for twenty
010twenty three twenty four graduates. This is not a cohort group. They are only looking at the students who actually graduated. We're not tracking them to see if they were from with us since ninth grade. Moving on to page twenty four and twenty five what you're seeing here is our college career and military readiness. This too is lagging data being reported for twenty three twenty four and twenty two twenty three. So up at the top we do see our CCMR graduates and then it's divided. So on page twenty four you start seeing our college ready graduates. Further down on page twenty four into twenty five you see our career military ready graduates. On page twenty six and twenty seven that is our CCMR related indicators. So here we're looking at our TSIA results. We're looking at
011students who receive credit for prep classes for AP classes for ACT classes. On page twenty eight we're looking at our other post-secondary indicators and this is looking at our advanced dual credit course completion. If you jump to page twenty nine all the way to thirty one now we're looking at the student information. So the student information is broken up into membership and enrollment. So when we look at membership these are students who were enrolled at least two hours during the instructional day and then enrollment includes everybody and so on page twenty nine. Sorry I'm sorry and this isn't the lagging data this is the actual data from last year. On the student information yes ma'am. So on page twenty nine what you see here reported as far as students are concerned they start with by
012grade level. Further down on page twenty nine they are shown by ethnicity. If you move to page thirty to thirty one now it's being shown by instructional program. On the top of page thirty one we see our retention rates and then on the bottom we look at the class size. If you go to pages thirty two to thirty four now we're seeing a breakdown by staff. And so staff on page thirty two at the top starts by a type of staff then it goes down to by ethnicity teachers with the highest degree held teachers by years of experience into page thirty three. We're looking at average salary years of experience on the bottom of thirty three. We see the teacher incentive allotment and on page thirty four we see teachers by program and I know
013I went through this like super fast but I just wanted to make sure that you understood the different sections of it and the district report is the same as a campus report. Section two is our PEEMS financial standard report. This also is lagging information because we're looking at the actual report and again that QR code leads us to our district report which will show you that district report and then it will show you all the campus reports. The district report will show you the revenues, expenditures, disbursements, tax rates, fund balance where the campus reports will show us expenditures by object, by function and by program. Section three is our district accreditation status. So each year TEA will assign an accreditation status of one of four. So you're either going to be accredited, accredited warned, accredited
014probation or not accredited revoked. They utilize information from our academic accountability report, our financial accountability report, data integrity, any areas of deficiencies that are reported through our results driven accountability or our DA report. So for twenty twenty four twenty five our district is, was and will always be accredited. Section four campus performance objectives. So each year campuses will produce and implement the campus improvement plan. This does contain performance objectives that are board approved and they are created through data analysis and needs assessments created by the campus. They are periodically monitored to make sure that they are making progress toward those performance objectives. So part of our annual report includes the completed twenty twenty four twenty five campus improvement reports that do show those performance objectives and the progress that we have made toward those. Section
015five is a report on violent and criminal incidents. So we are required to add as part of our annual report a report that will show if we had any type of violent or criminal incidences in any one of our campuses. And so the report would have to include the number, the rate and the type. So our annual report does include a report that shows there's nineteen behaviors that are actually considered the violent and criminal ones. And so I'm happy to report that for twenty twenty four twenty five school year we had zero incidents in all of our campuses. Section six is a student performance in post-secondary institutions. So we are required to report the student performance on post-secondary institutions during their first year in public schools. And so this is compiled by the Texas Higher
016Education Coordinating Board. And for us we're utilizing our data for the twenty twenty three twenty four graduates. We're looking at the twenty twenty five fiscal year. So as far as GPA we're looking at fall of twenty twenty four spring of twenty twenty five and summer of twenty twenty five. And so this was a findings. So in twenty twenty three twenty four it's showing that we had six hundred and twelve graduates. Of those graduates one hundred and sixty nine attended a four year public university, one hundred and two attended a two year public university, zero were independent colleges and universities, seventeen were not trackable. Not trackable means that these students do not have a standard ID and because they don't have a standard ID it can't connect to what the Texas Higher Education Institutes provide. And
017then it shows that we had three twenty four not found. So when we're talking about not found those students do have a standard ID but they don't connect with Texas Higher Education Institute. It could be because the students attended a private school in Texas and this is only reporting on public schools. It could be that they attended a university outside of Texas. And this is only looking at Texas. It could be that they had a gap year that they joined the military or they went into the workforce. Section seven is a progress of the district at each campus toward meeting board adopted HB three goals. So as part of our annual report we are required to include a summary of the progress that we have made toward our HB three goals that include early childhood
018literacy, mathematics and CCMR. So this report was provided to the school board on November 12th and so it is part of our annual report. And section eight is a taper glossary. So each year TEA will put out a glossary in English and Spanish to help stakeholders kind of navigate through the the taper. As you can see it's got a lot of numbers and stuff. And so this is kind of helping people be able to make sense of the document. So that's part of our annual report as well. Our district taper is on our website and so are all the campus taper reports. But they are definitely available to anybody who wants a print copy by visiting our district office or any campuses. We do have our contact information on the screen. And that concludes my
019annual report. Any questions? Thank you. So no. Thank you. Thank you. If anybody ever has time these are very valuable resources to go into and they're all available in quick links on our web page. At this time are there any community comments that on the 2025 district annual report? Okay. It is 547 and the public hearing has been adjourned. It is 547 and we will begin our regularly scheduled board meeting. We will start again with the roll call. Dr. Ariel Cruz-Vela. Crystal Hernandez. Present. Israel Villareal. Present. Rudy Corona. Present. Ruto Sogomes. Present. Orlando Lopez. Alex Reyna. Alfredo Perez. Present. Tony Torres. Next, we will have the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States and the Texas flags and the invocation. Mr. Villareal. Good afternoon, everybody. We're joined by two amazing students from Dr. Raul Garza,
020STEAM Academy, under the leadership of Principal Victor Monreal. For our Pledge of Allegiance today we have Alessandra Leal. Ali Leal is an 11-year-old fifth grader at Dr. Raul Garza, STEAM Academy, and is the daughter of Bobby and Courtney Leal. At school, Ali is part of the GT program, National Elementary Honor Society, Honor Choir track team, is a two-time cheer captain for the rocket cheer team, news anchor for her school's Garza News Network news production, plays violin in the school's orchestra, and has represented her school in the science fair and spelling bee. She also is a very proud chapter member of Salmon Eel FFA, and represents her school very well by earning numerous ribbons, banners, and buckles for raising champion hogs and steers. Outside of school, Ali keeps very busy being a part of a competitive
021cheer team, for she has also earned numerous championship titles, including the highly coveted cheer sport and NCAA titles, all through hard work and dedication. In the future, Ali plans to attend Texas A&M University to study animal medicine. Finally, she would like to thank our district leaders for creating so many opportunities for students such as herself. For our invocation, we have Lucia Catalina Monreal Aguilar. Lucia is a fifth grade student at Dr. Raul Garza, Jr. STEAM Academy. She is the daughter of Victor and Maria Monreal, and the older sister to Francisco. Her hobbies include playing Minecraft and building Lego sets. Lucia has been playing piano since she was four years old, and has competed at the George Ramirez Young Artist Festival and performed at different events and venues through the piano studio. Lucia is actively involved
022on campus. She is a member of her chess team, Garza News Network Robotics Orchestra, and is the National Elementary Honor Society President. In her spare time, when not building Legos, she enjoys playing tennis, spending time with family pets, which include seven dogs, a cat, and a horse. Lucia's passion for animals has been evident since she was able to crawl and has increased with age. She is a responsible and compassionate caregiver, providing daily care as well as preventative health measures such as vaccinations, medication, and support for her pets during healing. Lucia hopes to attend Texas A&M as she works towards her goal of becoming a veterinarian. Ali, will you please lead us with the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
023stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible. Will everyone please bow their heads? Dear Lord, we thank you for the many blessings you have given us. You have given us the gift of life and our health and well-being. At this time, dear Lord, we ask that you bless our board members and Mr. Pettis abundantly and give them wisdom, guidance, courage, and strength. Be with them in their deliberations and help them make wise decisions for the good of all those who have placed their trust and confidence in their leadership. We ask that you help them share their individual and collective gifts with our schools and community and to give of themselves in ways that make
024a difference in our families, in our students, in our schools, in our city. For all of this, we give thanks. Father, in your name we pray, amen. Ali and Lucia, will you please come up to be recognized? At this time, we would like to recognize Principal Victor Monreal and the parents of Ali and Lucia. The next portion of our board meeting will be the special recognitions. Mr. Gonzalez? Welcome and good evening, everyone. Buenas tardes y bienvenidos a todos que están aquí con nosotros y también a la gente que están oyendo la junta online también. So at this time, we get to the portion of the meeting where we get to recognize the distinctions and the accomplishments of our students. We have three student groups that we'll recognize this month. We begin with San Dino High
025School's Chess Team. At the 2026 Regional Chess Tournament, they placed second place in the High School Championship Team Division, which is the highest division in chess competition. The San Dino High School Chess placed second place at the 2026 Regional Chess Tournament that was held at Harlingen High School South on January 31st and February 1st. Our chess team has officially qualified for the 2026 National High School K-12 Tournament to be held in Chicago, Illinois in May. The following are the students that qualified that will be part of our qualifying team. And we begin with Christian R. Gomez, 11th grade at San Dino High School. Angel M. Bada, he is also 11th grade at San Dino High School. Kevin R. Cruz, 12th grade, San Dino High School. Aaron D. Rosro, 12th grade, San Dino High School. Jacob
026A. Montoya, 10th grade, SPHS. And Anthony Gamba, 12th grade, SPHS. The students are led by teacher and sponsor. The chess coach is Eric Villarino. And the side coordinator for after school program that helps coordinate the logistics is Cynthia Alvarez. The principal for San Dino High School is Ms. Manuela Lopez. She is not available. We have open house going on today. And also that's Cynthia Alvarez is also assisting with open house tonight at San Dino High School. So we can have the proud parents of these outstanding students please stand to be recognized for your support of our students. Again, they were then placing that second at regionals. Our district criteria allows them to advance to the national championships in Chicago, Illinois in May. So we wish them the best of luck representing San Benito and South
027Texas. Congratulations students. We look forward to your send off to Chicago in May. Parents, thank you also for your support. The next recognized group was also from San Dino High School. And they are the girls varsity wrestling team. The 16-6A district champions and the 16-6A district dual champions. The Lady Hounds wrestling team had a historical season by capturing the championships in three major tournaments which included the King of Cradles, Mustang Invitational and the All-American Car Classics tournaments. They also went undefeated in duels and are back to back 16-6A dual champions. The biggest accomplishment was winning the 16-6A district championship held in Edinburgh, Texas. Nine girls qualified for the regional tournament in Austin, Texas. And Evelyn Balderas qualified for the state tournament in Cypress, Texas. We will introduce the students who qualified who were state qualifiers.
028And we begin with Evelyn Balderas, 12th grade in the 115-pound district, also district champion and placed third at regionals and represented San Benito High School at the state tournament. Next we have Caitlin Rodriguez, 12th grade, 170-pound division, district champion and placed sixth at regionals. Severa Ramirez, 12th grade, 105-pound division, district champion and placed sixth at regionals. Angelia Ortega, 12th grade, 140-pound division, district champion and regional qualifier. The next group of students were the regional qualifiers and they include Brianna Castillo, Brianna Castillo, 12th grade, team captain and regional qualifier. Madison Castillo, 9th grade, Veterans Memorial Academy, regional qualifier. Dianara Garcia, 12th grade, regional qualifier. Natalie Cisneros, 10th grade, regional qualifier. Michelle Macias, 11th grade, regional qualifier. Ruby Lucio, team captain and regional qualifier. Next are the students that also represented the team and they include Shayla
029Sosa, 12th grade. Nayeli Esquivel, 12th grade. Mia Morales, 10th grade. Leanne Garcia, 12th grade. Alessandra De La Rosa, 10th grade. Violeta Gallegos, 9th grade, Veterans Memorial Academy. Allison Zavala, 10th grade. And Leila Bulnes, 9th grader at Veterans Memorial Academy. The head coach, they're under the direction of Christian Longoria. Christian Longoria. And the assistant coach is Alia Gonzalez. The principal is Mrs. Manuela Lopez from San Miguel High School and Gracie Martinez from Veterans Memorial Academy. And they're both attending their open houses. And at this time we want to recognize the very proud parents that provided the support they needed in order for our students to achieve the outstanding accomplishments for this season. If you could please stand to be recognized our parents. Again, I just want to remind they were the district champions and they were
030also the district champions in dual championships. So outstanding results for our ladies team. Congratulations to all our ladies and to our coaches as well. We will have our photos posted tomorrow of all the students recognized today on our Facebook page. The next group to be recognized is from San Benito High School and they are the Boys Varsity Wrestling Team. They are regional and state qualifiers. The Boys Varsity Wrestling Team had an amazing season by being placed in the top four as a team in major tournaments including the La Jolla Palmview Invitational, the Bear Down Invitational, the All-American Cat Classic Tournament. They also qualified eight students, the boys, they had advanced to the regional tournament in Austin, Texas and two boys advanced to the state tournament in Cypress, Texas. The state qualifiers will begin with Brandon
031Salinas, 12th grade district champion and third at regionals. Damian Hernandez, 11th grade district champion and fifth at regionals. Our regional qualifiers include Ruel Garcia, 12th grade, Gabriel Lopez, 12th grade, Humberto Garcia, 12th grade, Julian Sauceda, 12th grade, John Montemayor, 10th grade, Juan Ortega, 10th grade, Uriah De Leon, 10th grade. The next are also team members of the Boys Wrestling Team and they include Axel Mendez, 10th grade, Micah De Leon, 12th grade, Valentin Rosales, 11th grade and Luke Gonzalez, 11th grade. The teachers and head coach include Juan Caballero, our head coach for the Boys Wrestling Team and our assistant coach is Alejandro Esquerdo. Principal is Ms. Mamie Lopez and at this time if we could have the proud parents and families of these outstanding students please stand to be recognized for the support you offer our
032students. Congratulations gentlemen, coaches and parents. Thank you for your support. Madam President, Board of Trustees and Superintendent Perez, that concludes our recognition ceremonies for this meeting. At this time the Communications Department would like to congratulate and also wish the best of luck to our Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show students who will be busy all next week representing San Benito. We also want to wish Happy Valentine's Day. I'm still in the love mood. Happy St. Patrick's Day and of course everybody is looking forward to a very restful spring break so we wish you a very restful spring break to the entire staff and our students and our community as well. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is public comment. Before we begin I will remind our audience members of the board's procedures for handling
033public comments. The public comment portion of our meeting is available to the members of the public according to the following. At a regular board meeting the board shall permit public comment regardless of whether the topic is an item on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting. At all other board meetings public comment shall be limited to items on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting. Anyone who would like to speak during public comment must sign in prior to the start of the meeting and list the topics they want to discuss. An individual's public comments to the board shall not exceed five minutes per meeting. Please keep your comments or criticisms civil and courteous. Please avoid using profanity and refrain from making personal attacks on others during your opportunity to speak. We ask that
034you do not discuss students who are not your own children. In addition, the participating individuals should adhere to the following. State their full name and what organization or group if any is being represented. Indicate the topic about which they wish to speak. Shall refrain from commenting directly on any individual employee or public official by name, but may refer to a specific employment area, job title, or the board as a whole. And shall refrain from attacks on individuals. Lastly, after at least one warning from the presiding officer, any individual who continues to disrupt the meeting by his or her order of action, the presiding officer may request assistance from law enforcement officials to get the individual removed from the meeting. If a speaker is seeking board resolution for a specific complaint, that concern should be addressed
035through the district's grievance process. District Policy DGBA has been established for addressing employee complaints. Policy F&G is the avenue for filing parent complaints, and Policy GF addresses community member complaints. Grievance forms can be obtained at any campus administration office or at the district's central administration offices. We have one speaker, Ms. Rosalinda Garcia. Good afternoon. I have the most respect for most of you board members. I really appreciate your role. I really didn't want to be coming up here like I did with previous boards, but this thing about this event about closing of the Rangerville Elementary. I spend a lot of hours and I like doing it, researching, because I don't have your role that you have the budget. You know, and my research shows that we have a thirty four million dollar budget and a
036hundred million comes from the state. And I know a few months ago you had some schools up here. You celebrated the star testing. There were two schools that scored an A, the Collegiate and Encantada. I don't know if it's legal, but did anybody recommend for those teachers to get a stipend, a raise? That's excellent, excellent that they, especially Encantada. And we know that overall we don't want to say the negative things that we scored a C. And I'm finding out that we're at a high risk. I don't know if it's true or not. Drop out risk and that we're going down an enrollment bar, administration's growing. And I found that to happen several years ago. I think Joe D. Gonzalez was superintendent and that was happening. And I know you all have a very, very
037complex, you know, with working and then doing your board role. But you have to, you know, about this. Dr. Puig, several years ago, he put out the red flags there about school closing. And a board member said it themselves, herself, that boards through the years have been getting notices about the dwindling funds or the expense of funds. And through the years I've been doing, I see a lot of, a lot of it like our newest expenses were on the softball, baseball field, over a million dollars. Now we're getting this scoreboard and lighting and I see a lot of change orders. They tell you one price and there's a lot of change orders. The prices go up. You know, you have to, you have to pay more than what you say. We have a lot of
038expenses. We're not going to save any money with a bond with our facilities. We're going to cut down, but we're not saving anything because we did a soil analysis over there at Garza and we paid for it. Now we have to duplicate. We're going to duplicate everything. We're going to pay for it all over again. So we're not going to save. We're not going to save. So, yes, I wanted to bring those, do what's best for the district. You know, we're spending a lot of in these, through the years, athletics. Are we increasing our science departments or in those major, major subjects, math or at the high school? Are we increasing their budgets? We need to look at that. And I know you all, like I said, you know, and Rangerville should be given a
039window, not too close tomorrow. If it's going to happen, I was, well, if it has to happen, it has to happen. But after you heard those parents, I couldn't be there, but I listened to the whole video. Those students, the parents, the teachers, that's good that they spoke up, especially teachers where you're an employee, you feel intimidated, but no, they were there. And I was glad to see them, teachers and some paraprofessionals. So, like I said, I don't want to like I respect you all and I make the best decisions for the district. There's other departments that need a lot of repairs. I know we need a lot. Continue the repairs with the rules, the elementary schools. You all have a lot to look at. And yes, I was totally as a committee member on
040this big scoreboard project, but somebody likes it out there. So what can we do? Thank you. Thank you, Miss Garcia. The next item on the agenda is the board report on behalf of the entire board. This has been a very interesting three months that we've had here in the district. I know everybody is eager and excited for spring break next week, a whole week off. We hope that everybody enjoys themselves, gets some rest and relaxation, enjoys time with their family, goes out to see our kids that will be participating in the Mercedes Rio Ground Livestock Show. We've got a great bunch of kids out there and we know that they've all been working very hard on their projects. We know we've got several sports, athletics activities going on throughout the week as well. We want
041to thank those coaches and those parents and athletes that will be out there practicing and everything during their spring break. And I just want to wish the entire district a happy, safe spring break. Anybody else? I had a comment, but it's in reference to Rangerville. I just wanted to apologize first of all to the community in Rangerville, to the staff, to the employees. I was unable to make that meeting due to work. What I do want to say though is that for the people that did reach out, thank you. We did take all those calls, every board member here and also the staff, right? I want to thank Mr. Perez and his entire crew because they all came together with the board members as we all spoke at different times to Mr. Perez. And we
042took those concerns to heart. And like Ms. Garcia said, you know, it's not something that we want to do. It was a discussion that took place and that's all it was, was a discussion. There wasn't any official set mark that it was going to close or nothing like that. But once again, Mr. Perez and your staff, thank you. And I'm glad that we are not closing the school. And I believe Mr. Perez has already sent out letters to all the parents. Once again, thank you. I'm sorry. Enjoy your spring break. Apologize for that. Yes, I would like to again wish good luck to our FFA team, especially our parents, staff, and all the students that they're going to be there competing. All you are the best. Also, don't forget, we're going to have not the
043whole staff is off during spring break. We're going to have our main school also working during spring break. And just I wish you the best. Be careful out there. Spring break. I know there's a lot to enjoy out there, but please be careful. I was thinking of the cotton candy and the popcorn and I will be out there. Thank you for your service. Continue service and enjoy next week. God bless you. Just to reiterate real quick, you know, a couple of the board members set up here. But once again, I just want to thank each and every one of you all for your hard work up to this point. You know, we've gone through a lot so far to a point. It's time to take some time off and reflect and enjoy your vacation time.
044Much needed. Yeah, I'm an FFA parent, so I'll be out there working. But anyway, once again, I just want to thank everybody from administration all the way down to our employees for everything they do for our school district. And a hardworking and heartwarming vacation time that you guys need. So once again, thank you guys very much for what you do. Appreciate it. The next item on the agenda will be the superintendent's report. Good evening, everybody. Just wanted to thank everybody for getting all of us at three quarters of the year done. I just hope everybody enjoys their break. Get the much time needed that you need for rest. Our teachers, thank you for everything you do. Our administration. I do want to wish luck to our FFA students as they go into probably the biggest
045week of the year for them. Everybody knows we're a powerhouse when it comes to our FFA showing. So good luck to all them. Good luck to all the parents. Thank you for all the support you all give us. Also the softball, baseball, everybody who still continues to work while the rest of us get a break. Good luck. But other than that, I hope everybody comes back rested and ready for the couple of weeks before testing and back to work. Next, we will have the consent agenda. In order to promote efficient meetings, the board may act upon more than one item by a single vote through the use of consent agenda. Consent items placed on the agenda will be marked with an asterisk. Consent items are items for which no board discussion is anticipated and for
046which the superintendent recommends approval. Prior to the time which approval of consent agenda is had at the request of any board member, any member of the Board of Trustees, any item on the consent agenda shall be removed and given individual consideration. I will continue this like at the last board meeting. Go one by one. Ask any board members if they would like any item pulled. And then we will ask for a motion to approve all of the items. Mr. Cortana. Mr. Lopez. Mr. Virial. No. Mrs. Hernandez. No. Mr. Gomez. No. And Mr. Reino. No. At this time, I'd like a motion to approve all of the agenda items 6.1 through 8.2. I've got a motion by Mr. Lopez and a second by Mr. Gomez. All those in favor, raise your hand. All of the consent
047agenda items will be approved. It is 6.20 and we will be moving into the closed meeting. In accordance with Texas Government Code, Oven Meetings Act, the board may move into closed session for the following reasons. Section 551.071 for the purpose of a private consultation with the board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law. And Section 551.074 for the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, and reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee. It is 6.21 and we'll be moving into closed session. Once again, thank you everybody. Have a great spring break. It is 8.04 p.m. and we are reconvening into open session. Agenda item 10.1, employment, resignations, retirements, and terminations. Mr. Perez? Yes, I ask
048the board to approve the employment, resignation, retirements, and terminations as discussed in executive session. Do we have a motion? I have a motion to approve. Second. I've got a motion by Mr. Gomez and a second by Ms. Hernandez. All those in favor? Motion approved. Agenda item 10.2, consideration and possible action to renew term contracts for administrators for the 26-27 school year. Mr. Perez? Yes, as discussed in executive session, I ask for the renewal of the term contracts for administrators for the 26-27 school year. Is there a motion? So moved. I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Gomez. All those in favor? Motion approved. Agenda item 10.3, consideration and possible action to renew term contracts for teachers, librarians, and nurses for the 26-27 school year. Also, as discussed in executive session,
049I'm asking for approval of the term contracts for teachers, librarians, and nurses for the 26-27 school year. Is there a motion? So moved. I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Villanueva. All those in favor? Motion approved. And agenda item 10.4, consideration and possible action to renew probationary contracts for teachers, librarians, and nurses for the 26-27 school year. Same thing for this one. As discussed in executive session, I ask that the board approve the probationary contracts for teachers, librarians, and nurses for the 26-27 school year. Is there a motion? So moved. I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Gomez. All those in favor? Motion approved. If there are no objections, the meeting is adjourned. It is 8.06 p.m.