South Texas Association of School Maintenance Officials
Become a Member
Join our community today and experience all that South Texas Association of School Maintenance Officials has to offer. As a member, you will have access to our community amenities and events, as well as the opportunity to build your network and create lasting friendships. Currently there is no membership fee. The primary source of our funding comes from our two-day Annual Summer Conference that is put on every summer at South Padre Island!
About Us
We began meeting November of 2005 to determine if there was sufficient interest among Valley school district maintenance officials and related vendors to make it "official" and register STASMO with the state. On May 1, 2006 paperwork was accepted to recognize STASMO as a non-profit corporation registered with the State.
In June of 2008 we applied to the Texas Association of School Business Officials (TASB) for Affiliate status. In August of 2008 we were officially accepted as an affiliate of TASB.
Our Purpose... The concept of STASMO was to develop an organization where people involved in school maintenance across the Valley and beyond could come together to share ideas, information, best practices, develop friendships all in the interests of being able to be more effective and efficient in our respective districts.
Along the way, by being an organized body with various school districts in membership we have also been able to attract training opportunities to our area that in the past would have required us to travel out of the Valley.
Special Programs and Events
Being an entity made up of educators of one form or fashion we established a scholarship program to help school maintenance employees and or family members pursue their endeavors for higher education. In 2024 we awarded 10- $1,000 scholarships to sons and daughters of employees working in school maintenance & custodial departments.
Wanting to have a greater impact in our community, in 2022 our membership voted to support the RGV Food Bank. Each year we donate 10% of our fund balance- in 2024 we donated over $4,000 to the Food Bank.
Our Annual Summer Conference is the source of our funding for these programs- made possible by the support and generous contributions of our business partners!
Contact Us
President- Martin Castaneda, 2024-2026, Mission CISD, mvcast59@mcisd.org
Vice-President/Treasurer, OPEN
Secretary- Luis Silva, 2024-2026, South Texas College, lsilva_1821@southtexascollege.edu
Founder- Dan Cantu, LFCISD/Retired, 956.620.4643, dcantu79@outlook.com