CCISD board of trustees approve partnership with Boys & Girls Club for transportation, staffing, fees
By BRITTANY FHOLER
Cove Leader-Press
The Copperas Cove Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a partnership agreement with the Boys and Girls Club of Central Texas during their regular meeting on Aug. 16.
CCISD will provide students with transportation from the elementary campuses to the Boys & Girls Club Copperas Cove facility after school, and then to their homes from the facility after programming; provide financial support to BGCTX for staffing rate of $13 per hour for program staff; and to help lessen the financial burden on parents for their children to participate the program, CCISD will pay a $30 Monthly Activity Fee per student to BGCTX.
“This is an outgrowth of one of our T-CLAS [Texas COVID Learning Acceleration Supports] grants,” said CCISD Superintendent Joe Burns. “We received a number of T-CLAS grants from TEA. All of them are focused on catching kids up for learning loss, and so we have a lot of our staff already involved in that process, so we reached out to community partners. One of those partners we have worked with over the long term is Boys and Girls Club of Central Texas, and they have agreed to partner with us to provide school tutoring services for a portion of our students.”
The board also approved the adoption of an election order for the Copperas Cove ISD Board of Trustees for November 8, 2022.
Three trustee positions will be on the ballot, including Place 3 (currently occupied by Mike Wilburn), Place 4 (currently occupied by Joan Manning), and Place 5 (currently occupied by Jeff Gorres).
The board adopted a resolution and a real estate donation agreement for the donation of a 1.98-acre tract of land simulated in the W.T. Whitley Survey, Abstract 1133, Coryell County, Texas. This tract of land is part of a 110.540-acre tract of land. With this donation of land, the district will be able to widen its roadway frontage to the full width of the district’s 30-acre property on Grimes Crossing Road, according to Superintendent Joe Burns.