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Board of Trustees Meets Monday, Dec. 13

Spring Branch ISD in Houston has been awarded more than $144,000 by CenterPoint Energy for its efficient use of electricity.

The school district also has won the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers’ Association. That award acknowledges SBISD’s effort to fully disclose financial information to the public.

Both awards will be presented at a meeting of the Spring Branch ISD Board of Trustees on Monday, Dec. 13. The board meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at district headquarters, 955 Campbell Road in Houston.

The award from CenterPoint Energy is a result of SBISD’s participation in the Commercial Load Management Standard Offer program. That program aims to reduce summer peak demand in the CenterPoint Energy electric service territory in a cost-effective manner and to reach the demand savings goals established by the legislature and Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT).

As part of the Load Management program, commercial customers like Spring Branch ISD curtail their electricity load when notified by CenterPoint. Curtailments may occur during the summer peak demand period of each year, weekdays from June 1 through Sept. 30 between the hours of 1 and 7 p.m.

SBISD has participated in the program since 2013 and has been awarded more than $1.5 million by CenterPoint.

The Financial Reporting award from the Government Finance Officers’ Association is a prestigious award for governmental accounting and financial reporting. An impartial panel of judges assessed SBISD’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report against high program standards, including a demonstration of a constructive "spirit of full disclosure" to communicate the district's financial information to the public.

At Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting, the district also will recognize and honor Stratford High School National Hispanic and National Indigenous Scholars. The College Board Recognition for Stratford High School students honors National Hispanic Recognition winners John Perez, Mary Perez, Paige Clark, Christopher Blundell, Lamis Sawaf and Lucia Romo, and National Indigenous Recognition winner Lauren Dietert.

The SBISD board will honor an amazing achievement by Bear Boulevard School for Early Learning and Hollibrook Elementary School. Those schools have been recognized as Model Professional Learning Communities (PLC) At Work.

Solution Tree recognized Bear Boulevard and Hollibrook for their successful Professional Learning Communities at Work® processes. PLCs are schools and districts in which educators recognize the key to improved student learning is ongoing, job-embedded learning for the adults who serve those students.

Bear Boulevard is only the fourth school in Texas and one of only 12 in the United States with an English Learner population of between 51-75% to earn this distinction. Hollibrook is the only school in the country with an English Learner population greater than 76% to earn this distinction.

Monday’s board meeting also will include a discussion of the Career and Technical Education (CTE)-Long Range Facility Planning Committee’s recommendation, the CTE Bond Advisory Committee recommendation and other district wide related items for a potential May 2022 bond referendum.