South Texas Association

of

  School Maintenance Officials

 

          

                                 

 

Updated

11/13/2008

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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly" Robert Kennedy

 

The purpose 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.

 

 

NEXT MEETING         

         

 

 

Date:  September 29, 2009

 

(First meeting of the 2009-10 Year)

 

 

Time:  10:30- 12:00 pm

 

Hosted by:  TBD

 

Sponsored by:  TBD

 

Topic- TBD

 

Meeting Agenda

 

Location:  Best Western Palm Aire Hotel, VIP Conference Room

415 S International Blvd, Weslaco, TX 78596
(956) 969-2411, Get directions
 

 

RSVP Online Form

 

 

AGENDA

 

 

   RSVP Registration List, updated

Point of Contact is Dan Cantu at (956) 373-2022.


Cool Links

- Looking for a listing of Charter Schools?  Click here for link to the Region One list of contact info for charters

- 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,...

 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

 

8STASMO Scholarship Program.  Click here for more details!

 

810/30/08 Need another copy of the Dues letter, W-9 or Receipt Form.  Click on the preceding highlighted links.

 

8 Board has approved our affiliation with them!  (see pg 16 of August TASBO Report) (8/2008).

 

 


3rd Annual Maint Workshop & Trade Show

April 28, 2009

 

Many thanks to everyone who attended our 3rd Annual Conference!

Special thanks to our vendors, the hotel staff and our presenters from SECO & the Texas Safe Schools Center.

 

Click here to see pictures from the conference!

 

Presentations that some of you indicated you wanted to be able to download-

 

SECO/TEESI,  Energy, Best Practices

Texas Safe Schools, Safety & Security

 

 

 

 

 

Click here for link to online photo album 

                   (Our 1st workshop was in May 2007)

 

 

MEMBER SIGN UP & MEETINGS INFO

 

 

8Mailing list, take a minute to, "sign up" online by clicking here.  By doing that we'll add you to our mailing list to keep you in the loop with how this organization is developing.  Vendors are also invited to sign up. 

 

8Membership, requires the payment of annual dues and signing up for the mailing list.  On 5/13/09 the Executive Committee changed the membership fee structure as follows:  Schools/Educ entities- $25 plus $10 for each participating member, Vendors- $50 plus $10 for each participating member.  Individual memberships are transferrable.

 

8Meetings are typically held on the last Tuesday of each month at various locations throughout the Valley.  Any vendor interested in sponsoring a meeting fill out a request form and email to dcantu@ideapublicschools.org or fax to 866-749-1862. 

 


 

JOB VACANCY or SEEKING

 

Have a vacancy or looking for a school maintenance position, email details to dcantu79@sbcglobal.net and I will post.  For more info call Dan Cantu at 956-373-2022

 

DID YOU KNOW?

 

 

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

 

8(11/2007) Texas legislature passes bill HB 3693(School Construction News) to reduce energy consumption by 5% each year for next 6 years beginning Sep 2007...click here for link to web page on this site that has several related documents and emails.

 

8TASBO has  several classes that you may be interested in. Click here to visit their sites, "Training" page...

 

8R22 Refrigerant is being phased out and buying replacements units with R22 could become very expensive down the road...Click here for article

 

 

8(4/19/06) We are now listed in the National School Plant Management Association (NSPMA).  Look at the "Related Links" on the left hand side and  organizations listed in the middle part of the site.

 

 

Meeting Agenda's, Sign In, Minutes as well as Survey Results and Vendor Presentations are posted in Archives. 

 

IMPORTANT LINKS

 

8Membership Registration

8Request to Sponsor a Meeting

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

8STASMO Bylaws (amended Feb 2008)

8Texas Admin Code for School Facilities Design

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

 

 

The first meeting of the Association was November 29, 2005 

at the Harlingen ISD Service Center.