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Consent agenda
- Motion: Approve the consent agenda (items not individually pulled).
- Moved by: Miss Taguma. Seconded by: Mister Torres.
- Outcome: Passed. One trustee asked the record to reflect they would abstain from consent agenda items before the vote (the transcript records an abstention notice prior to the vote by an unnamed board member).

Election to Regional Education board
- Motion: Cast the district ballot for the 2025 Board of Directors of Regional Education (Region 1 ballot).
- Moved/Second: Procedural; board members completed the vote during the meeting.
- Outcome: Approved (board completed the ballot in open session; no dissent recorded).

Consolidation: PFC David Ivaro Fine Arts Academy into Carlos F. Trujan Junior High
- Motion: Approve consolidation of PFC David Ivaro Fine Arts Academy’s sixth-grade students into Carlos F. Trujan Junior High for 2025–26.
- Moved by: Mister Torres. Seconded by: Doctor Ochoa.
- Outcome: Approved. Two dissenting votes were recorded (Mister Lozano and Miss Pena). The superintendent said teachers will move with students and that the district expects recurring savings attributable to the consolidation of approximately $500,000 per year (staff presented larger aggregate estimates earlier in the discussion but clarified $500,000 as the recurring-savings figure during the meeting).

Athletics cost-saving measures
- Motion: Approve proposed cost-saving measures for the athletic program, including reducing the number of assistant coaches to better align with current participation counts.
- Moved by: Mister Torres. Seconded by: Mister Lozano.
- Outcome: Approved. District staff estimated savings of about $500,000 associated with multiple athletics and staffing measures discussed during the meeting.

District insurance consultant agreement
- Motion: Terminate the current district insurance consultant agreement to allow staff to present options to employees and start with a clean slate.
- Moved by: Doctor Ochoa. Seconded by: Mister Torres.
- Outcome: Approved.

Executive session and follow-up
- The board convened in closed session under the Texas Open Meetings Act for personnel and attorney consultation matters. On reconvening, the transcript records motions to approve items discussed in executive session; one motion passed in open session (mover Mister Massama, second Mister Torres), with no recorded public dissent.

Notes: Motion language and tallies are drawn from the public transcript. Where the transcript recorded a named dissent or abstention (consolidation dissenters; one consent-agenda abstention notice), that is reported here. For several agenda items the record lists the mover and seconder but does not provide a roll-call tally; those are reported as recorded in the meeting minutes.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","March 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM - Regular Board Meeting","oneSentenceSummary","Summary of motions taken during the March 12 Edcouch-Elsa ISD board meeting, including consent agenda approval, consolidation of a campus, athletics cost-saving measures, and termination of an insurance consultant agreement.","taxTitle","EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD, School Districts, Texas","taxId",59106,"location","Texas","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":46,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6637256,"Edcouch-Elsa ISD board approves consolidation of PFC David Ivaro Fine Arts Academy into Carlos F. Trujan Junior High",930,3727000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2587017-9e869c797e938259ae0f2d18add2486f&start=3727&end=4657","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2587017-9e869c797e938259ae0f2d18add2486f/thumbnail_3727000.jpg","/articles/6637256/Texas/Edcouch-Elsa-ISD-board-approves-consolidation-of-PFC-David-Ivaro-Fine-Arts-Academy-into-Carlos-F-Trujan-Junior-High","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6637256-0cde3b9b95902a40eb6b6d51b9973c9b/orig.mp4?Expires=1770524417&Signature=itkAae1OlYfAAJs7Ij63KRWqRgKjViRo-IjXTqponZ3IhKzpupCU51kKzHrnxuH7qoI0Tq5ZStzF6C6CFolxdvWbkKZS6tL69jmKDzXcNmZ2g45t-3qvmNBkL~Q~s77j4R9mVE57stvBjzlXL0QQYgIJOCDe4o515FGM~Oc6AhfDtgUFvEXWq13oLg9vpyBfsIc-iwvMvqX-lUYNhvHXSjz78bwMdQVFWjE6xa8KH6fTF~KjP5E3PucZ702oj6mNusRjRzhBE9W5ksr-M86nEGGMwUMyiAM-QYtn1YbIU27ptEsUxgvS7CEP4un7m7y7pshgvkZc38CceafSjfmktw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD, Texas — The Edcouch-Elsa ISD Board of Trustees approved a plan on March 12 to consolidate sixth-grade students from PFC David Ivaro Fine Arts Academy into Carlos F. Trujan Junior High for the 2025–26 school year.

Superintendent Dr. Benavides told the board the district has 266 sixth graders who would join the junior-high campus; combining sixth, seventh and eighth graders would create an enrollment of roughly 800 students at Trujan, a campus he described as built for about 1,000 students. \"No teacher would lose their job,\" Dr. Benavides said; \"the teachers would move with the students, and the students would be separated in a separate hallway.\" He added the primary driver of the consolidation is cost savings.

Board discussion reviewed community outreach and operational issues. Trustees said district staff held meetings with parents at affected campuses and that concerns raised included cafeteria mixing, safety, and drop-off and pick-up logistics. District staff said preliminary implementation planning has begun with child nutrition, transportation and security staff and that specific recommendations for safety and logistics would return to the board.

Trustees also raised questions about what would happen to the David Ivaro campus if it is not used for instruction. One trustee discussed the practice of \"mothballing\" a facility — preserving utilities and equipment at a minimum level while deciding whether to repurpose or rent a building. District staff said no final decisions about facility use or disposition would be made until the board's approval was secured and further analysis completed.

On the financials, the superintendent’s presentation included a larger estimate of potential savings in initial materials; however, later in the meeting staff clarified the district’s expected recurring savings directly attributable to the consolidation are approximately $500,000 per year. Trustees discussed the tradeoffs between short-term savings and ongoing building maintenance costs.

The motion to approve consolidation was made by Mister Torres and seconded by Doctor Ochoa. Two trustees cast dissenting votes — Mister Lozano and Miss Pena — and the motion carried.

Trustees said the district is pursuing a hiring freeze and has delayed filling some positions to accommodate staff movement from the sixth-grade campus, and asserted a goal of avoiding layoffs. The board also discussed potential future uses for the facility, including renting space to generate revenue, but no commitments were made.

Provenance: board discussion and the vote on the consolidation appear in the meeting transcript beginning with the item introduction and continuing through the recorded vote and immediate questions about savings and implementation.","Board voted to consolidate the PFC David Ivaro Fine Arts Academy’s sixth grade into Carlos F. Trujan Junior High for 2025–26; trustees were told no teacher layoffs are planned and that estimated recurring savings are limited.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6637260,"Edcouch-Elsa ISD reports enrollment dip, truancy court results and midyear HB3 reading checks",2616,1143000,3759000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2587017-9e869c797e938259ae0f2d18add2486f&start=1143&end=3759","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2587017-9e869c797e938259ae0f2d18add2486f/thumbnail_1143000.jpg","/articles/6637260/Texas/Edcouch-Elsa-ISD-reports-enrollment-dip-truancy-court-results-and-midyear-HB3-reading-checks","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6637260-5d613087ba809345eacb949241448641/orig.mp4?Expires=1770524417&Signature=mgF5hRWiX6gyfkvBCNGIj6-sAersMV2yLw7tOG59OmmGLPIhui~l5yfF-WXaM2R~ddDJhsG~jD0pBAmr-EnnBJw8jB0Qv8NoHmuJ2FTowbMzSGr~oBJLd~gJ3ltPnA~~VBot-e5pzO4uBHhYJGO82Na-PRcdPAthd14eVpNVneCVVlZYpN-7sgyZzGSF4OCNI9ataVjchWQ8sZYqXtchHtHtW1t4CtQssVlhNai3x71dL5m57g-Bq3sT70FldUyp6BGiJO~Gj92TZ4Qob9mO0o0jowZqO5HRbsfi5YqrGqeof85pT3LoRd4OUs7bnbPYZJvvN2XkjisWl4ALrtoiVA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD, Texas — Superintendent Dr. Benavides told the Edcouch-Elsa ISD Board of Trustees on March 12 that the district is down about 30 students compared with the same time last year and that average daily attendance is roughly 4 percentage points lower than last year.

Those figures formed the backdrop to a longer superintendent's report that included the results of two truancy-court sessions, midyear progress monitoring under House Bill 3 requirements and a presentation of the district’s federal results-driven accountability report.

The truancy-court presentation, given by district attendance staff (presenter identified in the record as Miss Rachel), said that across the first two courts the judge decided on 79 cases. Of those, 16 failed to appear, 22 resulted in fines, and 79 received mandated interventions. The district said it will hold a third hearing at 1:30 p.m. March 3 and another session in April at 9:30 a.m. The presenters said collected fines are processed by Hidalgo County; the county retains and then forwards any amounts to the district on a monthly or quarterly basis depending on the county accounting process.

District staff also presented the Texas Education Agency federal “results-driven accountability” (RDA) reports and a midyear reading progress update required by HB 3. The RDA presentation described three domains for multiple student groups (emergent bilinguals, special education and other special populations) and the district’s current performance levels by subject and grade group. For example, district presenters reported first-grade MAP performance rising from about 24% meeting expected growth at the beginning of the year to about 36% at midyear; the board-adopted end-of-year goal for first grade was 50%.

On HB 3 middle-of-year reading monitoring, staff described the district’s campus-by-campus targets and the interventions in place to reach them: increased phonics and fluency practice, structured academic conversations and small-group instruction, expanded after-school and Saturday tutorials, and targeted use of reading interventionists and support staff. Presenters noted some campuses had already met adopted goals for certain grade bands while others remained behind and would continue receiving targeted supports.

The meeting also included brief recognition and student presentations: Sofia Ramos, a senior representative on the superintendent’s advisory council, led the pledge of allegiance; two adult-education graduates from the district’s College Career Center — Esperanza Jaramillo and Jacob Valdez — spoke about returning to school and career plans. District staff said the College Career Center currently lists 14 students enrolled; two students attended the meeting and others have completed coursework.

The board asked questions about the format and coloring in the presentation slides, and district leaders acknowledged opportunities to improve the visual display so green/red indicators match the intended meaning. Several trustees emphasized student safety, the need to continue interventions and the importance of returning students to good attendance and graduation paths.

No formal board action on the HB3 monitoring slides was recorded in the transcript; the presentation was a staff report and discussion.

Provenance: transcript excerpts beginning with the superintendent's report and midyear monitoring presentation and ending with the HB3 and student-presentation discussion are recorded in the meeting transcript.","Superintendent Benavides and district staff reported a year-over-year enrollment decline, outcomes from truancy court sessions and midyear HB3/STAR progress data; district described targeted interventions and upcoming court dates.","actionData","errors"]

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Votes at a glance: Edcouch-Elsa ISD board actions March 12, 2025

Edcouch-Elsa ISD board approves consolidation of PFC David Ivaro Fine Arts Academy into Carlos F. Trujan Junior High

Edcouch-Elsa ISD reports enrollment dip, truancy court results and midyear HB3 reading checks