Board Approves 18 Positions, Including Asst. Principal, 14 Teachers; Budget Priorities

By unanimous vote, trustees approved Jesus Molina as Assistant Principal at Los Fresnos High School, and 17 other positions, including 14 teachers.

Positions approved by the board include:

• Reynaldo Buendia, Truancy Officer
• Raul de la Cruz, Athletic Trainer
• Myrian Kuntz, Educational Diagnostician
• Yaitzma Caraveo, Teacher, Los Fresnos High School
• Audrey Escobedo, Teacher, Los Fresnos High School
• Johvonne Y. Hernandez, Teacher, Los Fresnos High School
• Heber Olguin, Teacher, AMI
• Jeffrey Barker, Teacher, Liberty Memorial Middle School
• Suzanne F. Hall, Teacher, Liberty Memorial Middle School
• Claudia Rubio-Villarreal, Teacher, Liberty Memorial Middle School
• Ivan Estrada, Teacher, Los Cuates Middle School
• Maria Magdalena Bolado, Teacher, Resaca Middle School
• Patricia Hernandez, Teacher, Resaca Middle School
• Victoria Anne Vinson, Teacher, Resaca Middle School
• Maribel Gutierrez, Teacher, Los Fresnos Elementary
• Betty Cardenas, Teacher, Palmer-Laakso Elementary
• George Treviño, Teacher, Rancho Verde Elementary

In other matters related to personnel, trustees approved the following for the 2013-14 school year:

• pay grades and job classifications
• stipends and substitute teacher salary schedule for the 2013-14 school year
• salary supplements for the 2013-14 school year
• EAE/UIL Academic Supplements for the 2013-14 school year Trustees also approved the Perfect Attendance Incentive for classroom teachers only of $200 for calendar semester without absences and $600 additional for no absences for the entire work calendar year. Thus, teachers who are not absent during the entire school year receive a total incentive of $1,000.Betty Cardenas, Reynaldo Buendia, Raul de la Cruz, Jesus Molina, Jeffrey Barker, Yaitzma Caraveo, and Suzanne Hall.

Trustees also approved the 2013-14 budget priorities, which includes two major projects.

Topping the priorities are a roof project at Los Cuates Middle School at a price of $500,000, and a Welding Shop addition at Los Fresnos High School at a price of $205,000.