The Littlefield Independent School District Board of Trustees met in Regular Session on Thursday, June 17th in the Board Room of the Jerry Blakely Administration Building.
The meeting was called to order at 6:59 p.m. by Board President Reese Rogers and the Invocation was given by Garry Ozbirn.
There was nobody present to speak during public forum and the minutes from the previous meeting were approved as presented.
Superintendent Mitch McNeese, brought in Littlefield Boy’s Basketball Coach Nathan McKinnon to speak to the board about what he’s been doing this summer to help boost the basketball program.
Item four on the agenda was to discuss Littlefield ISD’s Preliminary Values.
Leisa Kloiber was on hand to talk to the board and will be back at the August meeting to discuss this further.
“Mitch and I were talking and everything is running late this year,” Kloiber said. “We’re about two days premature on values and the reason is, we have a company that actually appraises some of our properties such as Continental Dairy. We just got there filing a few minutes before 5 p.m. this afternoon [Thursday]. I want to take a few days and really look over everything and then bring a more detailed report to you all in August.”
She added, “We didn’t make many changes, but we did put in a 5 percent increase in salaries. The bigger increase that we had is something that we couldn’t avoid, and that is our software vendors. Our software is specialized and works with the state comptrollers office so that we can do the reporting with the state comptrollers office, which then goes on to TEA. It is a very specialized software and we have two companies that provide that software for us. Between the two of them it was a $22,000 increase.”
No Action Necessary The next order of business was to deliberate and possible approval of Lamb County Appraisal District Budget.
Supt. McNeese recommended the approval of the Lamb County Appraisal District Budget as presented.
A motion was made by Johnny Castillo and seconded by Will Williams to approve the Lamb County Appraisal District Budget as presented. The motion carried.
The next item on the agenda was deliberation and possible possible approval of Trust Property Disposition.
No action was necessary. Item eight on the agenda was to discuss the Facilities Maintenance Priorities Plan.
Bryan Gregory gave the board an update on projects going on around the district, saying, “We had a meeting this morning [Thursday], like we do every other Thursday. They continue to make good progress there at the school and they fully intend to be 100 percent finished with the remodel part of the project by August 20th. They fully be intend to be 100 percent complete with everything else by October or November of this year. If that all works out the way they think it is going to, we will have the option to move in in January if that’s what we choose to do.”
He added, “The Carpet Gym has turned into a little bit bigger project than we expected it to be. That carpet is not coming up easy, we’ve got about half of it up. The company that we bought the flooring from will be here on the 28th, so we have until the 27th to get the rest of it up. We will get it done, it won’t be an issue, it’s just taking a little longer than anticipated. The Ag Barn conversion to the Auto Mechanics building is coming along, Ray has done a great job with his kids on that project. We’re about 80 percent done with the classroom portion. Really all we lack is getting the ceiling put in, doing some painting and finishing out in the restrooms. Out in the shop area, we’re having to clean the beams and pearling that is up in the ceiling and we’re about 90 percent complete with that. The next step will be to clean the floor and either paint it or put some kind of sealant on that, we haven’t decided yet. Once the floor is done we will start putting in the equipment such as lifts and air compressors and things like that. The press box is coming along. They’re going to build the entire press box on the parking lot and then bring in a crane to lift it up and set it in place and weld it. They’re looking at next Tuesday to set it in place.”
No action was necessary.
The next order of business was deliberation and possible approval of Budget Amendment.
No action was necessary. Pursuant to Texas Government Code Section 551.074 the Board went into Executive Session at 7:22 p.m. They returned to the open meeting at 8:13 p.m.
Destiny Chavarria presented the financial and investment review and report.
A motion was made by Sal Acevedo and seconded by Castillo to approve the Financial and Investment Review and Report as presented. The motion carried.
Item six on the agenda was deliberation and possible action to approve Memorandum of Understanding with TCCC.
This item was tabled until the August LISD School Board meeting.
Item 10a on the agenda was approval of New Salary Schedule.
“I recommend a 4 percent increase to each step on all nonteacher salary schedules, and the approval of the new teacher salary schedule following the state regulations, which Littlefield ISD will apply towards teachers, nurses, Librarians, counselors and the Counselors salary schedule,” Supt. McNeese said.
A motion was made by Acevedo and seconded by Shawna Hastings to approve the new salary schedules. The motion carried.
The next order of business was Personnel Matters Including the Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Reassignment, Duties, Discipline, Dismissal and/or Compensation of Individual District Employees.
Certified Personnel: A motion was made by Ozbirn and seconded by Acevedo to approve the contracts for certified staff members Brittany Rojas (Pre-K Teacher), Sharee Ferguson (Kindergarten Teacher), Lauren Camacho (Elementary Music Teacher), and Anita Thompson (Special Ed. Teacher – JH). The motion carried.
A resignation was presented on Nanci Menasco.
At-Will Personnel: Janie Alvarez (Pre-K4 Aide), Crystal Perez (Elementary Custodian, Kenzie Jordan (Special Ed Aide), Ryan Bass (Maintenance), Cali Newton (Technology), Robbie Spencer ( Maintenance) and Nancy Pickard (Special Ed Aide – JH).
Item 12 on the agenda was deliberation and possible action to approve Termination Agreement with Yellow House Wind.
This agenda item was moved to the August Board Meeting.
The next order of business was to discuss the possibility of CD with new depository contract.
No Action Necessary Coach McNeese provided the Board with Board Training Opportunities.
With there being no further business, Board President Rogers declared the meeting adjourned at 8:19 p.m.