Public Meeting Minutes: January 19, 2021 at 5:30 PM - Regular Meeting

A. Introduction of Meeting and Pledge of Allegiance

B. Public Comments

C. Closed Meeting (TX Govt Code 551.071/551.072/551.074/551.082)

C.1. Personnel Concerns

C.2. Discuss Purchase, Exchange, Lease, or Value of Real Property

C.3. Safety/Security

C.4. Consultation with Board Attorney

C.5. Superintendent's Evaluation and Contract

D. Reconvene for Open Meeting

E. Information Items

E.1. Superintendent's Report

E.1.a. Financial Update

E.1.b. Instructional Update

E.1.c. COVID Update

E.1.d. Policy Update 116

F. Consent Items (All items listed under this subheading will be adopted with one motion unless they are removed from the Consent Agenda by a Trustee or the Superintendent for discussion.)

F.1. Approve Minutes of December 15, 2020 Regular Meeting

F.2. Consider Monthly Expenditures for December 2020

Description: The monthly expenditures is presented for the Board of Trustee review in the Revenue and Expenditures Report and the Check Register in the Financial Update Section.

F.3. Consider Approval of Vendor to Upgrade Existing Marquees at Brewer High School and Brewer Middle School

Description: The District released a Request for Proposal (RFP) to upgrade the existing marquees at Brewer High School and Brewer Middle School. The District personnel recommends using Southpaw as the vendor, at a total cost of $128,622.00.

At the December Board Meeting, the School Board approved a Budget Amendment of $79,000 for this project, the remaining $49,622 will come from the Marketing Activity Account.

G. Separate Items

G.1. Consider Approval of the Second Addendum to Service Agreement with ABM Texas General Services, Inc. for Custodial Contract Services

Description: The Second Addendum to Service Agreement is for services through December 31, 2021. There is no increase for CPI (consumer price index) in this Addendum. The total price for a 12-month period is $1,632,013.90, the same amount as last year. The vendor is part of the Region 7 Education Service Center.

This amount is included in the original budget.

G.2. Consider Approval of House Bill 3: Reading, Math, and College, Career, and Military Readiness Board Goals

Description: Under HB 3, school boards are required to adopt plans in early childhood literacy and math, as well as college, career, and military readiness. All plans are required to include:

at least one assigned district-level administrator or employee of the regional education service center for the district’s region to coordinate implementation and submit annual report to the board on the district’s progress;
an annual review by the board at a public meeting;
an annual report posted on district and campus websites; and
specific, quantifiable, annual goals for five years at each campus.

Early childhood plans are required to include:

annual goals for aggregate student growth on 3rd grade math and reading STAAR;
annual targets for students in each group evaluated under closing the gaps domain;
targeted professional development for classroom teachers in kindergarten through 3rd grade for campuses that the board identifies as not meeting the plan’s goals and that considers the unique needs of students in bilingual education or special language programs.

College, career, and military readiness plans are required to include:

annual goals for aggregate student growth on CCMR readiness indicators evaluated under the student achievement domain; and
annual targets for students in each group evaluated under closing the gaps domain.

G.3. Consider Update to Policy BE (Local)

Description: Policy BE (Local) Board Meetings, addresses the day of the month and time for regular board meetings. The current proposal will move the regular meetings from the third Tuesday of each month to the third Monday of each month. Start time would remain at 5:30 PM.

G.4. Consider Extension of Superintendent's Contract

H. Consider Items Discussed in Closed Meeting Including Personnel

I. Adjourn

January 19, 2021 at 5:30 PM - Regular Meeting

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