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Board approves personnel moves, hears procurement and facilities updates including $50K food procurement and chiller replacement plans
Summary
Trustees authorized termination of a probationary contract and approved Venus Vela as director of curriculum; staff recommended awarding a $50,000 food-services ITB and asked to use maintenance tax notes to replace an aging chiller at Gilbert Elementary.
The board approved several formal personnel and procurement items. In open session the board moved and carried a motion to terminate the probationary contract of Mr. Fayad at the end of the 20256 school year and authorized the superintendent to provide required written notice. The motion to terminate was moved by Mr. Lazar and seconded; the board recorded that the motion carried.
In a separate personnel action the board accepted Superintendent Sotos recommendation to appoint Ms. Venus Vela as director of curriculum; the motion was seconded and carried. Trustees welcomed Ms. Vela to the district.
On procurement, the board heard that library materials proposed for district libraries had been posted for the required 30-day public review (Oct. 12Nov. 12) with no comments received during the comment period. Staff sought board consideration to approve purchasing library materials to support Harlandale ISD libraries.
Beverly Hubbard, employee benefits coordinator, presented ITB 260004 for purchase of turkey ham products and services for the fall employee attendance incentive program. After inviting 24 vendors through the district portal, the district received one responsive bidder; staff recommended awarding the purchase to Brown Beef for approximately $50,000 to be funded from the districts self-funded workers' compensation program.
On facilities, Dr. Hinojosa explained that many campus chillers are aging and asked the board to approve using maintenance tax notes to replace Gilbert Elementarys 21+-year-old chiller at a future board meeting; staff explained the maintenance tax notes fund refurbishing and replacement but not new construction and that earlier bond proceeds had been used to repay some maintenance note obligations.
The board voted to convene in closed session under the Texas Government Code and later carried motions on the personnel items while library and procurement items were reported and scheduled for action as needed.
