Public Meeting Public Notice: March 29, 2010 at 6:30 PM - Regular

1. Call Meeting to Order for March 29, 2010.

1.A. Roll Call

1.B. Law on reorganization of Board officers; and Proposed reorganization of Board and related matters

2. Motion to go into Closed Session.

2.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:

2.A.1. Consultation with attorney regarding attorney-client items listed in agenda item VII (F).

2.A.2. Agreement with Greater San Antonio After-School All-Stars to carry out remaining requirements of After-School Challenge program.

2.A.3. Policy DEC (Local) amendments - for 2nd Reading and Adoption on March 30, 2010.

2.A.4. Policy DECA (Local) - for 2nd Reading and Adoption on March 30, 3010.

2.A.5. Status of E-Rate applications, claim against vendor and proposed action regarding MiCorp contract under District E-Rate applications.

2.A.6. Legality of issuing stipends or other measures as a form of salary compensation.

2.A.7. Legal issues dealing with other agenda items brought into Closed Session.

2.B. [Section 551.072 Texas Government Code - Real Property:] To deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property if deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the Board in negotiation with a third party, to wit:

2.B.1. 4669 U.S. Hwy 90 W. property

2.B.2. A 5' x 5' water utility and service easement to Bexar Metropolitan Water District out of Lot 11, New City Block 7531, JFK Subdivision, in the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas recorded in Volume 4900, Page 62, of the Deed and Plat Records of Bexar County, Texas.

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

2.C.1. Superintendent Evaluation Instrument and related Evaluation Matters

3. Call Meeting to Order for March 30, 2010, beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Edgewood Academy, Recital Hall, 607 S.W. 34th Street, San Antonio, Texas.

3.A. Roll Call

3.B. Invocation & Pledge of Allegiance

3.C. Academic Spotlight for Hosting Campus: Brentwood Middle School

4. Time for Public Comment:

5. Discussion/Action on matters taken up in Closed Session and/or matters listed in Section II, whether or not items listed therein were taken into Closed Session; and matters listed under Sections VII and VIII, if any, taken into Closed Session under Section II. 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. Administrative/Product Reports

6.A. Business & Operations Report(s)

6.A.1. Tax Report

6.B. Maintenance & Operations Report(s)

6.B.1. Facilities Updates

7. Consent Agenda Items

7.A. Minutes: Regular...February 22-23, 2010.

7.B. Approval of the Budget Amendments for the period of February 11, 2010 through March 11, 2010.

7.C. Approval to proclaim Administrative Professionals Week April 18-24, 2010 with Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in Edgewood Independent School District.

7.D. Approval to proclaim April 2010 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Edgewood Independent School District.

7.E. Approval to proclaim April 2010 as National Youth Art Month in Edgewood Independent School District.

7.F. Approval of statement from the Law Firm of Escamilla & Poneck, Inc. in the amount of $28,912.96 for Professional Services Rendered using local funds.

7.G. Approval to TASB Localized Policy Manual Update 86 Presented for 2nd Reading and adoption.

7.H. Approval of Surplus/Scrap/Broken/Obsolete furniture, equipment, and vehicles as per CI (Local) School Properties Disposal via on-line auction disposal April 9, 2010 and until property is disposed.

7.I. Approval of Quarterly Investment Report (December 2009 through February 28, 2010).

7.J. Approval to accept Texas Education Agency funds entitled T-STEM Academies, Cycle 5 in the amount of $452,942.00 to benefit Memorial High School.

7.K. Approval to accept Texas Education Agency funds entitled Texas Fitness Now Grant for school year 2009-2010 to benefit middle schools in the amount $29,044.00.

7.L. Approval of attendance boundary changes for Perales, Las Palmas, Stafford and H.B. Gonzalez Elementary.

8. Individual Items for Consideration and Approval:

8.A. Approval of purchase order for a packet shaper server from MircoShare, Inc. a Region XX approved vendor, in the amount of $24,953 using local funds.

8.B. Approval of purchase order for the upgrade of Bandwidth from AT&T, in the amount of $4,941.60 per month for the remaining fiscal year, totaling $24,708.

8.C. 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.]

8.D. Approval to accept contract extension with Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP, Attorneys at Law from May 1, 2010 through April 30, 2015.

8.E. Approval of the proposed 2010-2011 annual school calendar recommendation and a Texas Education Agency (TEA) waiver for reduced instructional days as submitted by the District-wide Educational Improvement Council (DEIC).

8.F. Approval of Textbook Committee Final recommendations to be adopted from the publishing companies of Hougthon Mifflin Harcourt, Holt, Glencoe, Hampton Brown and Bedford, Freeman and Worth.

8.G. Approval to increase the supplemental pay schedule for identified professional summer school positions.

8.H. Approval to enter into an agreement with Project STAY, Inc. to provide post-secondary education information and assistance to high school students at J.F. Kennedy and Memorial High Schools.

8.I. Approval of a 5' x 5' Water Utility & Service easement to Bexar Metropolitan Water District for new water meter in support of the Kennedy Science Lab.

8.J. Approval to detach from the real property and, in accordance with policy CI (Local), dispose of the old wooden building, consisting of approximately 15,500 square feet, currently located at southeast corner of the grounds of the old Coronado Elementary School, campus now Physical Plant Services, and currently situated within the boundaries of New City Block 8658, Block 43, Lot 1-40, NBHD Code 11590, in the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, according to records in the deed and plat records of Bexar County, Texas.

March 29, 2010 at 6:30 PM - Regular

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