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In Style Beauty Salon wants to thank everyone who helped in the success of our 25th year celebration. We are glad that the whole community was able to help celebrate 25 years of excellence with our local business and see the renovations done. Petra Garza wants to thank God first, her loving husband Honorio Garza Jr., her son Honorio Garza III and the rest of her family and friends. If it was not for everyone none of this would have been possible In 1988 Petra Garza, owner, decided to go into the Cosmetology course at Rio Grande City High School where Ruth Salinas was the
On August 20, 2018, I filed for re-election to the RGCCISD School Board of Trustees, Place 6. I first successfully ran for this position in 2014. At the time, I knew that I was taking on an important role and that we were facing real and complex issues. I knew it would not be easy but I also knew that I wanted to focus my talents and energy on bringing about solutions for RGCCISD. In 2014, the school district was facing a financial crisis left to us by the outgoing board who had spent more money in recurring debt than in the history of the district. At the same time, the State had begun to have its own fiscal crisis which resulted in huge cuts to education for every district. But, instead of complaining, we got to WORK. First, we addressed the most pressing issues we inherited, which was the TEA monitor placed on the district in 2014 due to YEARS of lack of implementation of state mandated requirements and incorrect use of federal funds. It took us over a year, but we did correct the issues and once TEA left our district they were very pleased with the progress we made. We then
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instructor. Petra was inspired by her mother, Maria Cruz Lopez, to pursue a career in beauty. “My mother always told me that I was like my grandmother, who was also named Petra, because she was great with her hands and I had inherited that from her.” Said Petra Garza. During Petra’s time in the Vocational program she made it to state in speed skills representing Rio Grande City it Houston in 1990. Petra became certified in the year 1990 as a cosmetologist and immediately started working soon after at places such as Hair Palace, Ultimate Hair Salon and Elvia’s
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set about ensuring that our district was financially sound, to protect the ENTIRE district. This year, we are proud to announce that we received an A+ in FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY from TEA. I can assure you we would not then throw all of that away; please do not listen to the reckless claims of certain individuals motivated by politics when they try to scare the public by throwing around the word deficit. Is there a deficit, yes. Does that mean that the district is broke, no! In fact, we proudly announced the fact that for the 2018-2019 school year, our district will have the
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Beauty Shop. On September 18th 1993 Petra first opened the doors to In Style Beauty Salon. Since then In Style has not only grown as a business but has also grown to be a part of this community. In Style has been a part of many Quinceañeras, Weddings, Pageants, and make overs for women throughout the community. Petra and In Style Beauty salon have impacted this community in a positive way by showing people their true beauty and always leaving the beauty salon In Style. IN STYLE, page 4
October is Domestic Viole Mrs. Rosario Ozuna, new librarian at Grulla Middle School encouraged Awareness Mon
all her ACE book club students to participate in the Grulla High School homecoming parade that was held on October 11th. Students became familiarized with the musical “Grease” and its popular songs. They enjoyed this event as a community involvement indicator and represented their school and ACE program with pride. “Readers are Leaders”.
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highest fund balance on record at RGCCISD, an unprecedented amount of over $35 MILLION DOLLARS IN OUR FUND BALANCE. Then why all the fuss? Why did the board create a deficit? A deficit simply means that we spent more that we allotted in our budget. Did we have the money to avoid a deficit? Yes, we did. Why then allow a deficit? I believe it is in the BEST INTEREST of the DSITRICT to not touch our hard earned fund balance in order to leave funds available should a real crisis arise. We instead opted to spend money to address issues in the district and pay for them over time, slowly, instead of all at once thus depleting the funds we worked so hard to accumulate. So what are we spending money on that created this short term deficit? As a board member, I know that our district has MANY NEEDS. I wish we could address them all at once. But, I also know that we need to prioritize. As such, I voted FOR EMPLOYEE RAISES for this year, and am committed to another next year. We knew that our employees work hard and wanted to see a raise in
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in the of situation. domestic violence their pay scale. The stipends weprevention aid on the I voted to hire awarded every year since I have E3 solutions, a TASB sponsored a comprehensive been on board were one of the company, to takeAuditorium Fort Ringgold problem. reasons we were able to safely approach to the HVAC Rio Grande Texas fix, andCity, maintain manage the district’s funds but We will look and Wednesday, 20 singleOctober unit. 17, You we knew that we needed to help properly, every 6:30exhaustive, pm. employees with a raise. We also can imagine this is realized that the employees would and expensive, but truly worth it. need a raise to off set the surging The money we spend now, will rise in health insurance. Again, this eventually help provide better was a problem the district inherited environments for our students and way before my time when the then staff, and in the long run save the VICTOR CANALES, JR., school board chained our district to district money! STARR COUNTY ATTORNEY I also voted for new turf for our TRS health care. There is no option ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEYS VICTIMS stadium and practice fields. Why? to leave this, believe me we haveJENNIFER L. VASQUEZ AS PEREZ the turf, while DELIA B. PE knew that costing tried! Only the Texas legislationLORIIPETERSON VENTUR can allow the districts in TRS to us money now, will result in long term savings. The turf will have leave. paid for itself in ten years with We also spent money on making certain improvements that we the savings we will see in water felt were good for our school and and maintenance. It allows ALL community. We have a monster of students to use it YEAR ROUND. an HVAC problem in this district. The grass fields, while nice, were Many of our A/C units are old, off limits for our band to practice out of date, and hard to fix and on during marching season or for maintain. Alas, even some of our our schools to use for field days newer units are not quality and hard most times. This practical solution to keep running properly. Every also conserves one of our most year we would fix one problem, and important resources, water! Again, ten more would pop up at the same we should always look to the future time. We realized we needed to fix and the turf offered benefits that are units, and make sure they stayed so much better for us. I also voted SOLIS, page 4 fixed instead of just putting a band
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