June 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM - Regular

1. Call Meeting to Order for June 22, 2009.

1.A. Roll Call

2. Time for Public Comment: In the event that a quorum of the Board is not present to open the meeting, the Monday session shall thereby be cancelled after a reasonable time in the opinion of the Board members present or, if there is no Board member present, the Superintendent or designee, and agenda items II through III shall be moved to Tuesday, June 23 2009, immediately following Section IV on the Agenda.

3. Motion to go into Closed Session.

3.A. [Section 551.071, Government Code - Consultation with Attorney:] For a private consultation with the Board’s attorney with respect to pending or contemplated litigation or settlement offers, and/or on matters where the attorney’s duty to the Board, under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas, clearly conflicts with the open government provisions of Chapter 551 of the Government Code, to wit:

3.A.1. Legal issues regarding FMLA Leave Eligibility Pilot Program related to Agenda item IX (D).

3.A.2. Policy EF (Local) proposed amendments.

3.A.3. Braswell v. EISD settlement offer, in Cause No. SA-07-CA-600-FB.

3.A.4. Authority to proceed on attorney's recommendations re: Data Optics Cable, Inc., claim against MiCorp, LLC and EISD and related matters.

3.A.5. Consultation with attorney regarding attorney-client items listed in Agenda Item IX (C).

3.A.6. Legal issues dealing with other agenda items brought into Closed Session.

3.B. [Section 551.074, Texas Government Code - Personnel Matters:] To deliberate the, appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee, to wit:

3.B.1. New Hires:

3.B.1.a. Manuel Martinez, as a professional employee at Pay Grade 8, subject to assignment and reassignment by the Superintendent. [Note: Mr. Martinez has been interviewed for an assignment as Head Football Coach/Campus Coordinator at Memorial High School.]

3.B.1.b. Genevieve Cruz, as an Administrator at Pay Grade AP4, subject to assignment and reassignment by the Superintendent. [Note: Ms. Cruz has been interviewed for an assignment as Assistant Principal at Roosevelt Elementary.]

3.B.2. New Pay Grade Range:

3.B.2.a. Graciela Martinez, as an Administrator at Pay Grade range AP4 through AP7, subject to assignment and reassignment by the Superintendent. [Note: Ms. Martinez has been interviewed for an assignment as Principal of Cenizo Park Elementary.]

3.B.3. Proposed terminations of contract personnel, to wit:

3.B.3.a. Mary Berscheid

3.B.4. Superintendent's employment contract.

4. Call Meeting to Order for June 23, 2009 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Cenizo Park Elementary, 3011 Ruiz, San Antonio, Texas.

4.A. Roll Call

4.B. Invocation & Pledge of Allegiance

5. Discussion/Action on matters taken up in Closed Session and/or matters listed in Section III, whether or not items listed therein were taken into Closed Session; and matters listed under Sections IX and X, if any, taken into Closed Session under Section III. The Board may also go into Closed Session at this time on any matter on any agenda item listed in either or both sessions as may be authorized by law.

6. Public Hearing: To provide information to the Board on the proposed name change for Cenizo Park Elementary School.

7. Bond Construction Projects Update - Project Management

7.A. Bond Projects Financial Update and Change Order Log

8. Administrative/Product Reports

8.A. Budget/Finance

8.A.1. Tax Report

9. Consent Agenda Items:

9.A. Minutes: Regular...April 27-28, 2009; Special...May 11, 2009; Regular...May 25-26, 2009.

9.B. Approval of the Budget Amendments as of May 11, 2009 thru June 11, 2009.

9.C. Approval of statement from the Law Firm of Escamilla & Poneck, Inc. in the amount of $46,589.67 for Professional Services Rendered using local funds.

9.D. Proposed approval of the continuation of the FMLA Leave Eligibility Pilot Program set out in Policy DEC (Local).

9.E. Policy EF (Local) amendments - for 2nd reading and possible adoption.

10. Individual Items for Consideration and Approval:

10.A. Approval to accept ownership of an equipment trailer from the Memorial High School Band Boosters.

10.B. Approval to enter into agreement with the City of San Antonio (COSA), Department of Community Initiatives (DCI) to provide Rainbow Days Youth and Kids Connection Groups, and Anger Management Groups, at any Edgewood ISD campus requesting the services, and CasaStart program at Gus Garcia and Coronado-Escobar Elementary for the 2009-2010 school year.

10.C. Approval to submit the 2009-2010 Notice of Grant Award (NOGA) for the NCLB Consolidated Federal ARRA/Stimulus Grant Application (SAS# NCLBST10) for Title I Part A.

10.D. Approval to enter into an agreement with the Palo Alto College-Gateway to College to provide instruction of courses on the Palo Alto College campus for high school and college credit for instruction through the Gateway to College Program and to accept the Gateway to College Calendar for 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years.

10.E. Approval to use the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Education and Human Development Department of Health and Kinesiology "Juntos Y Saludables" (Get Healthy Together) comprehensive program to promote healthy habits for pre-kindergarten children in the HeadStart program.

10.F. Approval of promotions, transfers, new hires, resignations, retirements and re-assignments for professional contract personnel where Board Action is required. [Note: Board action on this item, if any, is limited to those personnel items that require Board action; otherwise, the item is for information only, whether or not the Board approves a motion to approve this item; and, in any event, the Board does not approve transfers, resignations previously approved by the Superintendent, retirements and reassignments.]

10.G. Approval of Individual Expenditures Equal to or Exceeding $25,000 to wit:

10.G.1. Purchase of Open Court, comprehensive reading and language arts curriculum for kindergarten and first grade students from SRA/McGraw-Hill for Curriculum & Instruction for the amount of $150,340.74 to be funded by Title I funds.

10.G.2. Purchase of an annual subscription for reading and mathematics assessment from Wireless Generation for Curriculum & Instruction for the amount of $76,735, with partial funding from State Compensatory funds and the pending award of funds under Public Law 111-5, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

10.G.3. Purchase 60 computers to upgrade CTE courses from M&A Technology for CATE Department for the amount of $40,357.24, to be funded by 161 State Vocational funds.

10.H. Approval of Individual Expenditures equal to or exceeding $25,000, subject to receipt of the awards of funds under Public Law 111-5, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (AARA) to wit:

10.H.1. Purchase of mathematics manipulatives and materials for secondary mathematics from ETA/Cuisenaire, for the amount of $42,780.89.

10.H.2. Purchase of mathematics manipulatives and materials for elementary mathematics from ETA/Cuisenaire, for the amount of $55,000.

10.H.3. Purchase of Math Triumph, a kindergarten through fifth grade intervention program, from MacMillan/McGraw-Hill, for the amount of $34,432.38.

10.H.4. Purchase of mathematics manipulatives and materials for secondary mathematics from Educator's Outlet, for the amount of $32,364.80.

10.H.5. Purchase of social studies curriculum resources for all students and classrooms from Nystrom, Herff Jones, for the amount of $135,705.

10.H.6. Purchase of 250 graphic calculators for the high school classrooms and graphing calculator software for teacher computers from D&H Distributing Company, for the amount of $33,226.25.

10.H.7. Purchase of science materials and equipment, to ensure equitable and engaging classrooms, for 6th-12th grade classrooms from PASCO, for the amount of $86,000.

10.H.8. Purchase of science materials, to ensure equitable and engaging classrooms from Flinn Scientific, for the amount of $86,000.

10.H.9. Purchase of Voyager Pasaporte and Passport, Voyager Journeys, a comprehensive reading program for second grade through ninth grade students, and V-Math, which is a comprehensive math program for third grade through eighth grade students, from Voyager Learning, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $318,129.15.

10.H.10. Purchase of sets of graphing calculators for the middle school mathematics classrooms along with the graphing calculator projection equipment for the teacher computers, from D&H Distributing, for the amount of $29,985.45.

10.H.11. Purchase of SpringBoard materials for high school ELA 8th and 10th grade teachers, for the amount of $36,451.04.

10.I. Approval of position stipends for 2009-2010 school year.

10.J. Approval of Board resolution electing to use the request for competitive sealed proposal (RFCSP) as the preferred method of competitively procuring the construction of the Science Labs at Kennedy and Memorial High Schools.

10.K. Approval of Board resolution electing to use the interlocal agreement as the preferred method of competitively procuring the construction, remodeling or refurbishing of facilities under one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars.

10.L. Proposed approval of Notice of Grant Award under Public Law 111-5, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), a Stimulus Grant submitted by the Special Education Department to TEA.

10.M. Approval of a Resolution authorizing the District's Staff, Financial Advisor- (First Southwest Company,) and Bond Counsel - (Law Offices of William T. Avila, P.C.,) to take all actions required to issue a Series of Unlimited Tax School Building Bonds as the final installment of proposition No. 2 Bonds approved by the voters in the June 12, 2004 Bond Election and a Series of Unlimited Tax Refunding Bonds to achieve a debt service saving for the District.

10.N. Approval of Resolution expressing official intent to reimburse the District with Tax-Exempt obligation proceeds for costs incurred prior to the issuance of such obligations.

10.O. Approval of the Quarterly Investment Report for the period of March 1, 2009 thru May 31, 2009.

10.P. Approval of Texas Association of Public Schools (TAPS) Property and Casualty Insurance renewal for the 2009-2010 school year in the amount of $403,680.

10.Q. Approval of Bid RFP #09-17 for the Medical Health Care and Basic Life Insurance for the year 2010.

10.R. Approval of award of Bid RFP #09-18 for the Third Party Administrator (TPA) Voluntary Products for the year 2010.

10.S. Approval for the lease of building agreement with Edgewood Family Network for a portion of Emma Frey Elementary School.

10.T. Approval of the Board Delegate and Alternate to the TASB 2009 Delegate Assembly, October 2-4, 2009.

10.U. Approval to purchase school uniforms for elementary and middle school students from Uniforms Plus, in the amount of $63,000 for elementary student uniforms and $37,000 for secondary student uniforms, for a total of $100,000 to be funded with local funds.

10.V. Approval of the 2009-2010 School Board Meeting dates.

11. Information:

11.A. Human Resources Report

11.B. Consultant Monthly Report

11.C. Overtime Report

11.D. Financial Statements

11.E. Active Investment Report

11.F. Vandalism Report

12. Other Business

13. Announcement(s)

14. Adjournment