The Littlefield Independent School District Board of Trustees met in Special Session on Friday, August 30, 2024 at 12 p.m. in the Board Room of the Jerry Blakely Administration Building.
The Invocation was given by Will Williams and the meeting was called to order at 12 p.m. by Board President Gary Birkelbach.
Item two on the agenda was Public Hearing / Public Forum / Comments: a) 2024-2025 Littlefield ISD Budget b) 2024-2025 Littlefield ISD Tax Rate There were no comments during public forum.
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved by general consent.
Item five on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to adopt 2024-2025 Littlefield ISD Budget.
Bev Boldes presented the 20242025 Budget to the Board.
The motion was made by Pat Demel and seconded by Williams to adopt the 2024-2025 Littlefield ISD Budget. The motion carried.
The next order of business was to deliberate and take possible action to set the 2024- 2025 Littlefield ISD Tax Rate.
Boldes went over the 2024-2025 Littlefield ISD Tax Rate, stating that the tax rate that they will be adopting is $1.1787.
The motion was made by Demel and seconded by Sal Acevedo to set the 2024-2025 Littlefield ISD Tax Rate. The motion carried.
The next item on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to approve 2023-2024 Budget Amendments.
Boldes went over the 2023-2024 Budget Amendments with the Board.
The motion was made by Johnny Castillo and seconded by Williams to approve the 2023-2024 Budget Amendments. The motion carried.
Item eight on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to approve the Financial Review and Investment Report.
The motion was made by Williams and seconded by Castillo to approve the Financial Review and Investment Report. The motion carried.
Boldes went over the Financial Review and Investment Report.
The next order of business was to deliberate and take possible action to approve Trust Property Disposition.
No Action Necessary. Item 10 on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to approve Agrilife Adjunct Faculty for 2024-2025 School Year.
Superintendent Mitch McNeese, stated, “This needs annual approval, Brandon Albus requests that we recognize Courtney Lowe and Cathy as Adjunct Faculty members. They will be coming into our high school for programs for our students. This allows them to write notes for kids when they miss school days for stock shows.”
The motion was made by Williams and seconded by Demel to approve Agrilife Adjunct Faculty for 2024-2025 School Year. The motion carried.
The next item on the agenda was to deliberate and take possible action to approve Teacher Appraisers and Appraisal Calendar for 2024-2025 School Year.
Assistant Superintendent, Amber Hays talked about this item, saying, “The State gives us the Teacher Evaluation Support System and we have to work out a calendar for staff and principals as to what the regulations of those are. They’re based on when you start, how many days after you give orientation they can start observations and who is going to be evaluated and how many walk throughs. This calendar outlines all of those regulations and in addition to that all of our Alt-cert teachers will be evaluated every year, which is something we do at a district level until they are certified.”
She added, “All new teachers are evaluated, and all other teachers are evaluated typically every other year. The principals do a great job of staying on top of that.”
The motion was made by Acevedo, seconded by Reese Rogers to approve the Teacher Appraisers and Appraisal Calendar for 2024-2025 School Year. The motion carried.
Item 12 on the agenda was to Discuss Facilities Maintenance Priorities Plan.
Bryan Gregory went over the Facilities and Maintenance Priorities Plan, saying, “Ongoing stuff at the school continues to look good, we had a good meeting on Thursday. Highlights from that meeting are that they have all the transformers set and switch gears in place. They will have everything electrified inside within the next three weeks and then they can start firing up HVAC. The metal building, the CTE portion on the south side is tied in, so officially in the next three or four days we will be dried in.”
He added, “The elevator is going to be delivered next week and we will begin setting that in place, which will be a big ordeal. Another big thing is that next week they will begin cutting in the approaches for the parking lot, as well as the approaches for the circle drive that will be in front of the junior high. In doing that, the south most lane on Waylon Jennings will be shut down for a maximum of three weeks, probably a week and a half or two weeks, but once that gets done all of that interference will be behind us. Those guys really did a great job of getting the kitchen ready for this school year, they’re about 99.8% complete with that. They have some minor things to deal with, but we are serving out of that kitchen. They are still saying we should be completed at the high school by the Christmas Break and can begin moving in around then also.”
Gregory gave an update on the junior high, saying, “As soon as we take our high school kids out of their current building, they will begin the process of working in that building. The plan is to move those junior high kids in after Christmas break of the following year.”
No action was necessary. Item 13 was Personnel Matters Including Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Reassignment, Duties, Discipline, Dismissal and / or Compensation of Individual District Employees: a) Certified Personnel: No Action Necessary. b) At-Will Employees Hired: Evelyn Riley was hired as a Primary Paraprofessional.
A resignation was presented on Brianna Jimenez.
With there being no further business to discuss, Board President Birkelbach declared the meeting adjourned at 12:26 p.m.