General Board Meeting

Thursday, March 21, 2023, at 12:00 noon MST.

304 Texas Avenue, 17th Floor Conference Room

It is extremely important that we have a quorum at this month’s General Board Meeting, as the Board will be approving several action items to include the CEO evaluation and a contract. We are including action item videos for you to view in advance of the meeting as we would like to take action quickly during the meeting. 

Click here to view the agenda

Click here to view the power point presentation

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5A the General Board Meeting Minutes of January 25, 2024

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5B the Strategy and Impact Committee Meeting Minutes of February 7, 2024

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5C the New Members Committee Meeting Minutes of February 1, 2024

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5D the Rural Committee Meeting Minutes of February 28, 2024

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5E the Finance/Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of February 27, 2024

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5F the update on monitoring activities report for the period ending January 31, 2024

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5G Ratification of the WSB Child Care Advisory Committee to include the Operation Plan and Proposed Appointed Representatives and the Parent Suspension Request (as approved by the Strategy & Impact Committee Meeting on February 7, 2024)

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5I Contracts over $250,000 executed during the period of January 1, 2024, to March 15, 2024: Lease Agreement to Verde Paso Partners, L.P. (MIMCO) for the Lower Valley offices in the amount of $320,423

Click here to view Consent Agenda Item 5H Acceptance of the Report on TWC Performance Measures for the period ending May 2023

For any questions, please contact Karina Castillo at Karina.Castillo@borderplexjobs.com

Click here to view the video of Action Item 6B the Financial Report for the period through May 2023

For any questions, please contact Laura Avalos at Laura.Avalos@borderplexjobs.com

Alpine ISD Featured in Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly published an article that features Alpine ISD. Although the article does not mention WSB, the Alpine Child Development Center's opening was primarily because of our support. 

Click here to view the full article. (page 8)

Article:

Signs of Life in a Childcare Desert

A West Texas town is hamstrung by a severe childcare shortage. Michelle Rinehart, the Alpine ISD superintendent, is going above and beyond to make it easier for young families to live and work there.

Rinehart remembers when she and her husband could not find any availability at a licensed childcare center in Fort Davis, where they were living at the time, for their young daughter. “It was this informal system,” Rinehart says. “You had to know somebody and then you had to hope for an opening.” Ultimately her husband stopped working in construction to be a stay-at-home dad. “We became a one-income family,” she says, at the worst time. Just months after Rinehart became the superintendent of Alpine ISD, in June 2022, the local advocacy group Alpine Community Projects raised lack of childcare as a top concern. “At the time there were around two hundred children under the age of three in Alpine. But there were only twenty-four spots available at two licensed centers, and then one closed,” she says. “We were losing exceptional teachers because they couldn’t find childcare.” While childcare lay outside Alpine ISD’s purview, Rinehart saw that she and the district were in the best position to help. After Rinehart and her team spent a year securing grants and hiring childcare professionals, the Alpine Child Development Center opened in August. —Josh Alvarez

Leila H. Melendez

Chief Executive Officer

Workforce Solutions Borderplex

O: 915.887.2274

C: 915.820.6962

Leila.melendez@borderplexjobs.com