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Pasadena ISD board approves personnel, travel, grants, contracts and bond projects in consent and action items
Summary
At its Jan. 24 meeting the Pasadena ISD board approved routine consent items, personnel appointments, multiple grant awards, several higher-education agreements, travel for students, bond-related contracts and construction change orders, and an antenna lease with Diamond Towers as part of a package of motions that carried by voice votes.
Trustees at the Pasadena ISD Jan. 24 meeting approved a broad set of consent and action items including personnel hires, grant awards, interagency agreements, student travel, and construction and facilities-related contracts tied to bond projects.
Key approvals included:
- Personnel appointments: multiple counselors, a diagnostician, assistant principals and other certified and support personnel were approved by voice vote during the consent agenda.
- Grants: a $50,000 No Kid Hungry School Nutrition grant and Texas Department of Criminal Justice cybersecurity mitigation funding (amount cited in discussion $379,800) were approved; trustees discussed modifying cyber-grant applications to request additional funds for equipment such as rifle-resistant body armor for additional staff.
- Higher-education and dual-credit agreements: Cooperative clinical-teaching agreement with Angelo State University, a University of Houston–Clear Lake work-study agreement (2024–29), and an amended memorandum of understanding for dual-credit programs through July 31, 2026 were approved.
- Student travel: multiple trips including seventh- and eighth-grade trips to Washington, D.C.; Keystone Science School in Colorado; an eighth-grade Washington D.C./New York City trip; and JROTC travel to the Oklahoma State drill championship were approved.
- Facilities and bond items: approvals included an electrical easement to CenterPoint for the new Jessup Elementary, a construction contract for LED light retrofits, hydronic piping replacement design services, water-fountain retrofit change orders and other bond-related expenditures.
- Antenna lease: board approved an antenna site lease with Diamond Towers V LLC for an existing monopole at 2323 Theta Street for the indicated amount of $10; a Diamond Communications representative explained the leasing model for existing monopoles as a revenue opportunity.
All motions noted on the agenda carried by voice vote (motion, second, "all in favor, any opposed"). Where specific exhibits or attachments were referenced (for example Exhibit A for the Memorial Hermann clinics), trustees asked clarifying questions when the documents were not in the packet. The board set the next regular meeting for Feb. 25, 2025 and adjourned at 2:39 p.m.
