South Texas Association

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Summer Conference 2012

 

* The 2012 Summer Conference will be mid June at South Padre Island- Planning in Progress...

 

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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." -Moliere

 

The mission of this association shall be to; provide a forum to promote communication  among all school officials and vendors involved in maintenance operations of their district's facilities located throughout the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUR NEXT MEETING IS...        

         

 

Our Second Annual Summer Operations & Maintenance Conference and Trade Show is set for Jun 14-15 at South Padre Island!  Visit the Conference Web Page from time to time for more details!

 

RSVP for yourself by sending in your registration(s)! Important to get it in by Jun 7th.  You can help us by forwarding/sharing the registration form and information with anyone that would benefit. 

 

Directions, SOUTH PADRE

 


 Conference agenda, click here.
 

Vendors, door prizes are always welcome!

 

 

 

COOL LINKS

 

 

    Great site for all kinds of School Facilities info including resources, webcasts, blogs, etc!

 

  SchoolDude Energy & Utility Mgt Resources; papers, webcasts, etc.

 

  Energy Smart Corporation now offers to let "school districts post their energy and water bills online at no cost..." as well as provide other energy related services.

 

  Looking for a listing of Region One Charter Schools or  ISD Schools?  Or just want to get to the Region One ESC site?

 

  5/15/10, Looking for School Safety & Security information?  Have you tried the Texas Schools Safety Center?  A central location for safety and security information pertaining to all independent school districts and junior college districts in the state of Texas.

 

  All kinds of maintenance articles here...Click on the icon

- Another site packed with maintenance info...Click on the icon

  National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF), great resource list of links, books, and journal articles citing national and regional maintenance and operations costs,...

  Texas Assoc of School Business Officials, "The trusted resource for school business & operations."  Click here for affiliate listing, (list includes contact info for each affiliate).


 

 

SIGN UP & MEETINGS INFO

 

Membership Registration (online), Mail In Form (fax to 866-749-1862)

Request to Sponsor a Meeting

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

      

From Dan Cantu, President, "Our Second Annual Summer Operations & Maintenance Conference and Trade Show is set for Jun 14-15 at South Padre Island!  Click here for program details and registration form now.  School districts and other educational entities only $49 per person.  Register today!! Visit our web page that will contain additional related details.  

 

Added info today (5/08) on additional presenters;  or lower left hand side of the conference web page...


Have you seen Maintenance Operation benchmark data in the 37th Annual Schools & Universities site?  Click here!


INTERESTING DOCUMENTS & VIDEOS

 

I'm going to be putting various links here to webinars related to Indoor Air Quality, Chemicals, etc

  • EPA ~Effective Policies to Eliminate Chemical Releases and Exposures in Schools, Webinar Series, Click here

  • EPA~ Mold and Moisture Webinar, Click here!

  • EPA~ Free resources, in Spanish, Click here!

  • EPA~ October, Celebrate Children’s Health Month!  Click here!

  • EPA~ Are you ready for back to school? Click here!

  • Lot of great Facility Masters (K-12) Webinars, Click here!

 

See AEP's Restoring Power Video (give a few seconds to download)...Click here to go to their "Outages/Problems" page (added 5/28/10)

 

Work Loading/Cleaning Times, (posted 1/24/10), found on Cleanlink.com, video from ISSA .  ISSA also launches updtd version of its popular Cleaning Times guide, provides actual times for specific cleaning tasks. 

 

School Chemical Mgt (posted 1/24/10) video from EPA click here

 


RECENT ARTICLES/DOCUMENTS

 

Insects in the City, Austin Update, ...Other related links see IPM & Energy page.

 

School Pest News newsletter, March 2012 just out !  Great information and links to helpful resources...Click here

 

Click here for link to site with 2009 School Performance reviews of various Texas schools (areas of Facilities & Management).  Site has links to other related information such as Best Practices....Provided by Fidela Hinojosa of Region One ESC, March 2010.

 

By Scott Naab of Trane, "High Performance Energy Management"- High performance schools, with properly designed and maintained heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and control systems, can improve the learning environment ...

 

 

 

IMPORTANT LINKS

 

 

8Link to TASBO (Texas Assoc of School Business Officials)

 

8Link to ASBO (Assoc of School Business Officials International)

8STASMO Bylaws (amended Feb 2008)

8Need a copy of the Dues letter, W-9 or Receipt Form.  Click on the preceding highlighted links..

8MSDS Search: imv.complyplus.com/grainger/

8Texas Admin Code for School Facilities Design

8Looking for school finance info, get the TEA Financial Accountability Resource ...

 


OTHER  Texas M&O Associations

 

8"Brothers" in the Gulf Coast region, "Gulf Coast Maintenance & Operations"...have a great site with links to some great resources, President, Christine Derryberry

 

8"Brothers" in the Coastal Bend region, (Corpus-Christi) "Coastal Bend M & O", President, Larry Curlis of Gregory-Portland ISD.

 

8"Brothers" in the Hill Country region, "Hill Country M & O",

President, Donald Mays of Kerrville ISD

 

8"Brothers" in the North Texas region, "North Texas M & O Association", President, Jeff White

 

8"Brothers" in the Capitol Area region, "Capitol Area M & O", President, Jerry Blizzard of Lake Travis ISD

 

8"Brothers" in the San Antonio area,  "Alamo Area School M & O & Construction Assoc", President, Jim Selby of East Central ISD

 

 

DID YOU KNOW?

 

SCHOLARSHIPS

 

4/03/10, Texas Assoc of School Business Officials (TASBO) has a scholarship program.  Click here for more info.  Deadline to apply is May 28th...

7/29/11, SchoolSoup.com - School Soup SchoolSoup.com - World's Largest Scholarship Database

 

9/02/09, Magic Valley Electric Co-0p offers a scholarship program for graduating seniors...more

 

1/22/10, Home Depot has a scholarship program for anyone going into a trades program...more, program flyer

 

6/05/10, For other scholarship opportunities click here to visit a page I created for this...

 


 

Looking for demographic info on different campuses, visit TEA....

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TASBO has  several classes that you may be interested in. Click here to visit their sites, "Training" page...

 

Meeting Agendas, Sign In records, Minutes as well as Survey Results and Vendor Presentations are posted in Archives.

 

 

 

 


 

August 2008 approves our affiliation with them!  (see pg 16 of August 2008 TASBO Report)


The first meeting of the Association was November 29, 2005 

at the Harlingen ISD Service Center.