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United ISD board approves donations, bank depository contract, personnel actions in April meeting
Summary
The United Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a series of consent items and personnel appointments, awarded PNC Bank the district depository contract recommendation, and approved personnel evaluations and contract modifications following closed-session discussion.
The United Independent School District Board of Trustees on a routine April meeting approved a package of consent items — including multiple donations, travel, discretionary fund reallocations and a bank depository recommendation — and took personnel actions after closed-session discussion.
The board voted to accept donations totaling $20,006.94 (plus one nonmonetary Justice Department contribution of five 4-drawer/5-drawer file cabinets) and several individual gifts to campus accounts. Trustees also approved board member travel to the 2025 Region 1 School Board Association Conference in South Padre Island, Tex.; approved the reallocation of leftover discretionary board funds to campus needs; and approved the monthly disbursements after staff reported a near-final public-facing report on check-register transparency.
On procurement, the board accepted staff and committee recommendation to award bank depository services to PNC Bank. Staff told trustees the tabulation backup was updated for a “nonmaterial” change after the board workshop, but the district’s recommendation did not change. District staff and the procurement committee cited operational reasons for supporting PNC, including PNC’s existing vault/depository coverage across seven district locations and related services that Chase would have required a separate rebid to provide. The backup also shows Chase extended a fee-waiver proposal from 12 months to 15 months; staff described that as a recalculation that did not change the committee’s recommendation.
After a closed session, the board approved the internal auditor’s 2024–25 annual evaluation and modified that employee’s contract, approved a superintendent-evaluation instrument, and appointed two campus administrators: Linda Mireles as principal of United Middle School and Risenda Mendoza as assistant principal at Lyndon B. Johnson High School. The board announced those votes in open session; meeting minutes record motions and unanimous voice votes of “Aye.”
Superintendent David Cruz and district staff framed the transactional votes as routine employment and procurement actions. Board members asked for and received additional public-transparency work on the district check register; staff said a public-facing report is nearly complete and will be shared with the superintendent before release.
The board recessed to closed session under provisions of the Texas Government Code and reconvened to announce the personnel actions. No material details of closed-session deliberations were released.
Actions recorded in the meeting include the approvals listed above; motions were made and seconded and the board recorded voice votes in open session.
