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Board approves consent agenda, grants, contracts and naming action; lease for 2025 graduations set with NRG Stadium
Summary
Trustees approved the consent agenda including personnel hires, multiple partnership MOUs, TEA grants, construction and bond-related contracts, a $215,000 NRG Stadium graduation lease, travel approvals and the naming of Park View Intermediate's main hallway for Dr. Robert Hassen.
At its Sept. 24 meeting, the Pasadena ISD Board of Trustees approved a broad consent agenda and a slate of routine and bond-related items, including personnel appointments, memoranda of understanding, grants, construction contracts and event contracts.
Key approvals included personnel hires (counselor and coordinator recommendations), a memorandum of understanding with Avante/Advanced Houston Early Head Start, partnerships with Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services (Super Smile Savers program), clinical affiliations with HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast and Texas Woman's University, and a memorandum with UTHealth for the Youth Aware of Mental Health suicide-prevention program.
The board approved several grant awards and continuations: multiple Dollar General Literacy Foundation grant awards (aggregate amount recorded unclearly in the transcript), a Criminal Justice Division body-armor grant (amount unclear in transcript), a Texas Education Agency Effective School Framework focused-support grant for $100,000, and a TEA sustainable residency continuation grant for $250,000 with a memorandum of understanding with the University of Houston. The board also approved Spark School Park program projects with $250,000 in funding for Cru and Sparks elementary schools.
Construction and bond items approved included a construction contract for a 2022 Bond elementary-school replacement project and several allowance expenditure authorizations for transportation and CTE projects. The board approved a $130,000 annual contract for bond program management services to be paid from the 2022 bond budget.
For graduation logistics, trustees authorized scheduling of 2025 high-school graduations and approved a lease with NRG Stadium for the district's 2025 ceremonies at an estimated cost of $215,000. The board approved student travel and competition participation requests, including Sam Raburn JROTC at Fort Knox and the Sam Raburn culinary team’s trip to Orlando.
Ceremonial actions included approving the naming of the main hallway at Park View Intermediate as "Hassen Hallway" in honor of Dr. Robert Hassen. The board set its next regular meeting for Oct. 22, 2024 and adjourned the session.
Where the transcript lists amounts with unclear formatting, the article characterizes those figures as unclear and flags them for verification.
