The Littlefield Independent School District’s Board of Trustees met in regular session on Wednesday, December 13th at 12 p.m. in the Board Room of the Jerry Blakely Administration Building.
The meeting was called to order at 11:59 a.m. and the Invocation was given by Will Williams.
There was no one present to speak during public forum and the minutes of the previous meeting were approved by general consent.
Item four on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to approve the 2022-2023 LISD School Audit.
Jarred Bryant of Bollinger, Seagers and Moss gave a report on the 2022-2023 LISD Audit.
“The District received a clean or what’s reffered to professionaly as an unmodified audit opinion on financial statements, meaing there were no material misstatements noted,” Bryant said. “As part of our audit too, because you spent more than $750,000 in federal expenditures, you are required to have a single audit. As a result of that, there are two major programs that are selected; you ESSER funds in addition to the financial statement audit and there were no findings or any issues were noted relating to those.”
Superintendent Mike Read, “reitterated what Bryant said, saying, “These two ladies right here [ Bev Boldes and Destiny Chavarria], they’re as good as they get. This is my 40th year and I’ve never come across a lady like Bev, she has done a phenominal job. And Destiny has been a great addition to LISD, we are greatful to have her on staff as well.”
The motion was made by Williams and seconded by Hervey Valdez Jr. to approve the 2022-2023 LISD school audit. The motion carried.
The next order of business was to Deliberate and take possible action to accept the resignation of District 3 Trustee Lance Broadhurst whose term expires in 2024.
Supt. Read presented Broadhurst with a plaque that read, “On behalf of the Littlefield Independent School District, we extend our deepest appreciation and years of loyal service to the Littlefield ISD School Board.”
Broadhurst served on the LISD School Board from 1994-2023.
The motion was made by Gary Birkelbach and seconded by Williams to approve the resignation of District 3 Trustee Lance Broadhurst whose term expires in 2024. The motion carried.
Item six on the agenda was to deliberate regarding the process for filling the Trustee vacancy in District 3 until the next trustee election.
No Action was necessary for this item.
Under Texas Government code 551.074 the Board went into Executive Session at 12:23 p.m. to discuss possible candidates to be appointed to fill the District 3 vacancy until the next trustee election ( May 2024). The board recovened into Regular Session at 12:42 p.m.
No action was necessary. Item eight on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to approve Policy Update 122 as presented.
Assistant Superintendent Mitch McNeese, discussed several of the policy updates with the Board.
The motion was made by Birkelback and seconded by Valdez to approve Policy Update 122. The motion carried.
The next order of business was to deliberate and take possible action to approve the proposed revisions to the District of Innovation Plan as presented.
“We questioned one of our policies and heard back from our TASB representative, regarding the 90% attendance policy. Some of our principals had questions, so I asked our rep if our policy was correct and she said it was indeed correct,” Supt. Read said. “As we have legislative sessions they revise a few of our policies throughout and they email them to Mary Ellen and then we get the changes online with our policy update.”
The motion was made by Valdez and seconded by Williams to approve the revisions to the District of Innovation Plan. The motion carried.
Asst. Supt. McNeese discussed the Facilities Maintenance Priorities Plan, saying, “They are really starting to move along with the new high school. They were up early Monday morning pouring slabs C and D; C is where the CTE stuff will be and D is behind the new auxillary gym, where the weight room and locker rooms will be. On Monday they plan on pouring the second deck and getting that ready to roll and then on Dec. 19th they plan to start erecting the pre- fabricated metal building, which is the CTE section on the south end.”
He added, “In the east parking lot, they tore it up and put in a sewer line, but they put a six inch line and it was supposed to be an eight inch line. So, they are going to tear it back up and replace that line with the correct 8 inch line during the Christmas break. Teinert said they will work around the Wildcat Classic and take care of that. They are starting to frame out the north side of the building and plan to have the north most wall in place asap. The lift station for the new gym is in place and operating, by Feb. 5 they plan to start getting the roof in and by the end of February they plan to be 100% dried in.”
No action was necessary. The next item on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to approve the Financial and Investment Review & Report, presented by Destiny Chavarria.
The motion was made by Birkelbach and seconded by Sal Acevedo to approve the Financial and Investment Review & Report as presented. The motion carried.
Item 12 on the agenda was Personnel Matters Including the Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Reassignment, Duties, Discipline, Dismissal and/or Compensation of Individual District Employees.
A) Certified: Superintendent Evaluation No action was necessary B) At-Will Personnel: Alexis Macha was approved as a SPED Aide in Junior High. A resignation was presented on Shelby Garrertt.
No Action Necessary Item 13 on the agenda was Board Training Information.
Mr. Read stated that he did not have any new training information at this time for the Board.
With there being no further business to discuss, President Demel declared the meeting adjourned at 12:57 p.m.