Minority-owned firms will still be encouraged to bid
By ZEN T. C. ZHENG
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
In picking more than a dozen architectural firms for the 2007 bond projects Monday night, Fort Bend school officials agreed with a school district attorney that minority-owned firms shouldn't be given preferential treatment over any other group.
Carolyn Hanahan, the district's attorney, told the school board that it would be unconstitutional for the district to show favoritism to minority-owned businesses.
Hanahan said she researched the U.S. Constitution and numerous court cases in which judges ruled against the practice of governmental entities awarding jobs to contractors based on their minority status.
"To implement a minority preference program is inappropriate and unconstitutional," she said. . . (follow the link for the entire story at: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/fortbend/news/5454658.html)
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Problems At Marshall High School?
FBISDWatch has been contacted by several good sources regarding Marshall High School and it has been brought to our attention that many complaints (grievances) have been filed currently against the principal at that FBISD campus via instructional staff. Mr. Reynolds, new to the school, exited Aldine ISD recently and was hired and assigned to Marshall H.S.
We will update this news as it comes in (evolving story)...
We will update this news as it comes in (evolving story)...
Monday, January 14, 2008
FBN: FBISD Requesting More Funding For Financial Software Conversion
From FBN:
FBISD Wants More Money For Troublesome Financial Software Conversion
by Bob Dunn, Jan 14, 2008
The Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustees will consider spending another $150,000 for consultants to help with its star-crossed conversion to a PeopleSoft software system.
In material prepared for Monday night’s FBISD Board meeting, district administrators recommend designating $150,000 in the district’s unreserved fund balance to pay for “consulting assistance for refining additional PeopleSoft modules.” . . .
. . . FBISD Superintendent Timothy Jenney said in an October letter to district teachers that “monumental problems” with the PeopleSoft conversion were in part to blame for a series of paycheck and payroll errors that plagued the district last fall
He estimated in October that the full conversion to PeopleSoft will take another two years to complete.
The district likely had spent more than $5 million on that conversion by fall of 2007. FBISD trustees agreed in March 2006 to pay about $2.4 million for Oracle Corp.‘s PeopleSoft enterprise system software, and just over $2 million to eVerge Group of Dallas, to provide consulting on installation and implementation of the system. The district no longer is working with the Dallas consulting group.
“Since the date Everge exited the district, we have used consultants on an emergency basis only,” FBISD Chief Operating Officer Mike Seale said in material prepared for the board. “Unfortunately, that method of procurement is unnecessarily costly and inefficient.”
FBISD administrators have identified three placement firms to assist in finding consultants who can help complete the district’s PeopleSoft financial software conversion, Seale states in the board report. The administration is asking for $150,000 for those consultants.
For the full story follow this link:
http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/3695/fbisd-wants-more-consultants-for-troublesome-software-conversion
FBISD Wants More Money For Troublesome Financial Software Conversion
by Bob Dunn, Jan 14, 2008
The Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustees will consider spending another $150,000 for consultants to help with its star-crossed conversion to a PeopleSoft software system.
In material prepared for Monday night’s FBISD Board meeting, district administrators recommend designating $150,000 in the district’s unreserved fund balance to pay for “consulting assistance for refining additional PeopleSoft modules.” . . .
. . . FBISD Superintendent Timothy Jenney said in an October letter to district teachers that “monumental problems” with the PeopleSoft conversion were in part to blame for a series of paycheck and payroll errors that plagued the district last fall
He estimated in October that the full conversion to PeopleSoft will take another two years to complete.
The district likely had spent more than $5 million on that conversion by fall of 2007. FBISD trustees agreed in March 2006 to pay about $2.4 million for Oracle Corp.‘s PeopleSoft enterprise system software, and just over $2 million to eVerge Group of Dallas, to provide consulting on installation and implementation of the system. The district no longer is working with the Dallas consulting group.
“Since the date Everge exited the district, we have used consultants on an emergency basis only,” FBISD Chief Operating Officer Mike Seale said in material prepared for the board. “Unfortunately, that method of procurement is unnecessarily costly and inefficient.”
FBISD administrators have identified three placement firms to assist in finding consultants who can help complete the district’s PeopleSoft financial software conversion, Seale states in the board report. The administration is asking for $150,000 for those consultants.
For the full story follow this link:
http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/3695/fbisd-wants-more-consultants-for-troublesome-software-conversion
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Saturday, January 5, 2008
Zoning Workshop & Regular FBISD BOT Meeting Tonight--
The regular FBISD BOT meeting is scheduled for Jan. 14th with an earlier zoning workshop. All meetings are held in the FBISD Administration Building, 16431 Lexington Blvd, Sugar Land, at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. See:
Jan. 14 - Board Zoning Workshop - 4:00 PM
Jan. 14 - Regular School Board Meeting - 7:00 PM
Jan. 14 - Board Zoning Workshop - 4:00 PM
Jan. 14 - Regular School Board Meeting - 7:00 PM
Thursday, January 3, 2008
FB Star Covers FBISD Scheduling Controversy (Will Block Schedules Survive the Axe?)
"The superintendent said he is neither “favorable or unfavorable to either block or traditional scheduling. That’s not the issue. It’s common resources, equity and so on. If the recommendation were to go to block with all high schools, that requires significant lead time and training, so we needed to have that information as soon as possible so we could set up a training program and provide for the changes it would take to teach in that schedule.” FB Star
FBW comment:
Why would administration officials be using the equity issue to possibly remove block scheduling from an east FBISD high school? Isn't this the area they should be concerned with bringing these resources to? We will update this as information is made available.
For the full story, see:http://www.fortbendstar.com/121907/s_FBISD%20hears%20scheduling%20concerns.htm
FBW comment:
Why would administration officials be using the equity issue to possibly remove block scheduling from an east FBISD high school? Isn't this the area they should be concerned with bringing these resources to? We will update this as information is made available.
For the full story, see:http://www.fortbendstar.com/121907/s_FBISD%20hears%20scheduling%20concerns.htm
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
MCC Supports Morrison, Carreon for Commissioner Pct. 1
See this site for more: http://missouricitychatter.blogspot.com/2007/12/richard-morrison-announced-for-pct-1.html
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