Trustees consider contracts

The Ector County Independent School District's board of trustees plans to meet Tuesday to canvass May 10 election results, swear new trustees in and consider approving about $4.7 million in contracts.

Trustees are scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the ECISD boardroom at the ECISD Administration Building, 802 N. Sam Houston Ave.

Trustees will consider approving contracts for the following projects:

Estimated cabling contracts for:

>> Text warehouse for $36,440.49.

>> Food services for $56,890.11.

>> Testing warehouse for $33,750.79.

>> Murry Fly Elementary for $176,951.73 .

>> Alternative Education Center for $76,762.64.

>> Print shop for $52,273.29.

>> Zavala Elementary for $197, 574.46.

>> Tech Education for $95,455.58.

>> Permian High for $1.1 million.

>> Cavazos Elementary for $213, 231.62.

vFamily Education Center for $36, 667.27.

>> LBJ Elementary for $180,812.96.

>> Maintenance department for $87,819.88.

>> Transportation department for $42,496.41.

Estimated food bids for:

>> Gandy's for $1.6 million.

>> Various vendors for $288, 824.56.

Estimated frozen bids for:

>> Various vendors at $391, 725.93

Trustees plan to swear in the three new trustees who won in the May 10 election. Those trustees are: Position 4 Tom Pace, Position 5 Yollie Wilkins and Position 7 Donnie Norwood.

Prior to their regularly scheduled meeting, trustees plan to meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to hear a student transfer appeal for Royce Bunce.

During the regular meeting, trustees plan to consider approving a new Student Code of Conduct for the 2008-'09 school year, cabling and food bids, revisions to an educator's grant for an elementary school and a revised outline of dual or concurrent courses for Odessa College and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.