San Angelo ISD School Board Meeting - November 17, 2025

001Good evening and welcome. My name is Taylor Kingman. As president of the board of trustees of the St. Angelo Independent School District, I would like to welcome all of you who are present at tonight's regular board meeting. I also welcome those of you who are watching the recording of this meeting online on our public access channel. All items that will be discussed at our meeting this evening have been posted as required by state law. Also, as you may be aware, our board meets a minimum of two times per month, and most, if not all items on the our agenda this evening have been previously discussed at our earlier pre-aggenda board workshop. As members of the SASD board of trustees, we are here to set goals, listen to reports from our superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and

002personnel appointments, and to make policy for the district. Please keep in mind that our meeting is a mean of the board of trustees held in public and not a mean of the public. However, we have a public comment item on every one of our meeting agendas that allows anyone present who wishes to speak to our board team on an item not on our action agenda or an action item on the agenda an opportunity to do so. Please provide your name and contact information and the specific topic you wish to address on the public comment form which is located at the back of the room. Please listen carefully and comply with the following rules so we can move through this part of the meeting efficiently. Each speaker will be given a total of three minutes. The

003district will provide an official timekeeper. You will be notified when your time is up. Please respect the privacy of others and refrain from identifying students, employees, or other community members by name. Disruption of the meeting will not be tolerated at any time. And comments on any subject, whether positive or negative, must be courteous and respectful. Comments are limited to the specific topic you indicated on the form. And any speaker with a specific complaint about a district employee decision or operational issue should present that complaint through the appropriate mechanism which is the district's formal grievance process. If you have a pending formal grievance process by the district, you will not be permitted to speak about this during public comment. Also, please understand if you speak to us on an item not on our action agenda that

004the board cannot reply to you except to thank you for your comments since the matter has not been posted for discussion. In compliance with state law, these proceedings are recorded and will become part of SASD's permanent legal record. In order that the recording will adequately reflect the proceedings, I ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking. I also ask, as I remind my fellow board members and myself to please turn off or silence your cell phones. Again, thank you for being here and for your support of SASD. We do have a quorum this evening. Our entire board team is present. Um and with that, we will move forward um with our invocation. and Mac. Roller, the senior pastor of Glenn Meadows Baptist Church, is here to help us with that. Thank you

005for being here. >> All right. Thank you. Let's pray together. Father, we thank you for your presence. We thank you for your love and your kindness towards us. And Lord, we worship you as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Lord, I thank you uh for this body here. Lord, I pray for your wisdom. You tell us if we lack wisdom to ask of you and you give it abundantly. Lord, thank you for each student, each family that's represented in this district. We pray your safety upon them. We pray your great care upon them. Lord, we pray that you would raise up uh these students, these youth, Lord, to be exactly what you call them to be in your image. And Lord, might we glorify you with every word, with every thought, with

006every conduct. And Lord, that you would be honored. Lord, thank you for this gathering. Thank you for these that have volunteered to serve you, to serve this district. And we pray this in the glorious name of Jesus. Amen. >> Thank you. Thank you. Um, now we have four students from Halman Elementary to help us with the pledge of allegiance to the United States in Texas. We have Hudson Keenan, Victor Hinckley, Ella Risner, and Bless Francis. If they'll come up and help us, we'd appreciate it. Come on. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for alliance to Texas one state and indivisible. >> Good job. >> [applause] >> Thank y'all. All right, we now have some recognitions this evening. And first is Coach Chant,

007and he's going to help us with recognitions of Central High School student athletes. Thank you, Dr. Keeman. Dr. Moran, board of trustees is honored to recognize the central tennis team. Want to come up? Tennis team had another outstanding season this year. They had a district record of 5-0 and a season record of 20 wins and seven losses. They were the district champions, the by-d district champions, the area champions, and the regional quarterfinal champions beating El Paso Coronado 10 to9 after losing to them earlier in the year. They were the regional semi-finalist getting beat by the eventual regional champion Capel who went on to advance to the state tournament. It was another solid year for the team. This team uh continues to fight through competition and hardships that they face. They have accomplished a lot this

008year and this is the farthest they've gone two years in a row um in this format. Like to introduce the team if you would please hold your applause to the very end and we'll just give them one big round of applause. Carson Adams who is a junior first team all district and number four singles and number three boys. Gavin Andros sophomore. Carly Bane junior. Elliot Banks sophomore. Sophia Blankenship, sophomore, first team all district, number six singles and number three doubles. Jaye Brinley, senior, first team all district at number three singles and number two doubles. Kaden Carrasco, junior, second team all district and mixed doubles. Rose Chambers, sophomore. Trey Cha Chavez, sophomore. Jonas Quaar, junior. Jolie Estis, junior, second team all district for mixed doubles. Hannah Martin, senior, first team all district at number two singles

009and number one doubles. Cole Jones, senior, first team all district at number six singles and number three doubles. Cash Kelso, sophomore. Addison Cole, senior, first team all district at number five singles and number three doubles. Alex Mendez, senior, first team all district at number four singles and number two doubles. Rrook Nagel, freshman, first team all district at number one singles and number one doubles. Paul Nelson, junior, first team all district at number five singles and number two doubles. Caroline Fluger, freshman. Adithi Pella, senior, first team all district at number one doubles and second team all district number one singles. Boise Saparia, senior. Truth Sloan, junior. Madison Salsbury, senior. Brady Stewart, senior, first team all district and number two doubles and second team all district number three singles. Alex Stevenson, Jr. Dellay Ser, Jr., first team

010all district and number one doubles and second team all district at number two singles and Owen Trainer. Major superlatives was district 6A 6A most valuable player Rrook Nagel, all district freshman of the year Ruk Nagel. All district 6A newcomer of the year Sophia Blankenship, District 26A coach of the year Brent Ables, as well as the region one Texas Tennis Coaches Association coach of the year. And last and certainly not least are Texas High School academic all-state tennis players which shows not only were they outstanding on the court but in the classroom as well. Named to the elite squad were Brady Stewart and Adithy Prodala. Second team was Hannah Martin Alexandria Jaye Addison and Kaden Carrasco. Congratulations to y'all for an outstanding season and we look forward to seeing what you do next year. [snorts] >>

011[applause] >> Can I take your >> Of course you can. >> Sorry. Let's give them one more round of applause. [applause] Good job. All right, we are going to continue with our recognitions and soon child's going to help us with recognitions of SA. ASD employee veterans and Goodfellow Air Force Base Partnership. >> Yes, sir. Good evening, Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran, and members of the board. Tonight, we are honored to celebrate and thank our nation's veterans, including St. Angela ISD alumni, family members, and the past and present service men and women of Goodfellow Air Force Base. We extend our deepest gratitude to our differencemaker employee veterans for their service and for the value that they bring to our district, our campuses, and most importantly our students. Their contributions to both our country and our schools are

012immeasurable. Our employee veterans enrich our SIS team with leadership, resilience, and lived experience that positively impact the students every day. Tonight, we want to take a moment to highlight a few of these remarkable individuals. And when I call your name, if you would please join Dr. Moran up here at the front. Major Jason Esquil is our Lake View High School JOTC instructor and proudly leads our chiefs and maidens in aerospace instruction after a 20-year career with the United States Air Force. Retired Sergeant Firstclass Desiree Johnson is our Lake View long-term ISS onampus DAP teacher and served in the US Army for 24 years. Retired technical sergeant Jason Silverling also proudly leads our chiefs and maidens in JOTC after 20 year career with the US Air Force. [clears throat] Retired Sergeant Henry Gonzalez is the head

013coach of the golf pro golf program at Lake View. He he also teaches Spanish one and two and he served in the US Army for 10 years. Miss Elda Dela Cruz is an ISS instructor at Lake View and has served as corporal in the US Army. We are so very proud and thankful of the many veterans who serve on our SISD team. While not all of them are here with us tonight, we do honor every one of them for their service to our country and our students. And [clears throat] if you all just stand up here for a second to [applause] >> [applause] >> If y'all could just hang out up here, we're going to take a group picture with Goodfellow as well. >> We're Okay, finally, we want to recognize our invaluable partnership with

014Goodfellow Air Force Base and honor the St. and Angela ISD military families who sacrifice so much for our country and this community. We are grateful for Goodfellow's steadfast support of our students and schools. This evening we are joined by Colonel Matthew Norton, commander of the 17th Training Wing, Mr. Daryl Miller, school leaison program manager, and Mr. J.R. Orlando, 17th training wing public affairs, who are accepting our appreciation on behalf of all of our partners at Goodfellow Air Force Base. Thank you all so very much and may God continue to bless America. [applause] [clears throat] All right, Sar, you get to continue and we're going to do a recognition of Texas Trust Credit Union and Texas Trust Gives. >> Yes, sir. Now, we are proud to recognize Texas Trust Credit Union and the Texas Trust Gives

015Foundation for their generosity, partnership, and shared commitment to building brighter futures for students across St. Angelo. >> [clears throat] >> Texas Trust Credit Union, a comm community focused financial institution and its philanthropic [laughter] arm, the Texas Trust Gives Foundation, exists to strengthen communities through purposeful giving, financial education and programs that empower long-term success. Their work aligns closely with Snagel ISD's mission to engage all students in a meaningful and aspiring education that prepare that prepares them for the future academically, socially, and financially. During the past year, Stanela ISD was awarded two grants totaling more than $15,000 from the Texas Trust Gives Foundation in order to support our St. Angela Reeds literacy initiative and our Reeds back to school pop-up community resource event. [clears throat] Through these generous grants, Texas Trust helped fund more than 2,000 books

016for every fourth grade student in St. Angelo ISD. Bilingual books for preK through fifth grade students. High impact community literacy and engagement events. Hundreds of free backpacks for children in need. Texas Trust Credit Union and the Texas Trust Gives Foundation exemplify what it means to be a true partner. One that supports students not only for today but for their future college, career and community pathways. Their belief in the power of literacy, preparedness, and opportunity aligns with what our belief that every child has an incredible incredible potential and our community is strongest when we support them together. At this time, we would like to invite our representatives from Texas Trust to the front to be recognized and receive a token of our appreciation. Tonight, we have with us Mr. Brett Nicolug, VP of West Texas, and

017Miss Heather Collier, branch maner, branch manager of the New Texas Trust on 2288. [applause] Mr. Mr. Nichol and Miss Collier, we sincerely thank you for everything that you do for our community and our students. >> One more. [clears throat and cough] >> [applause] >> All right. Soon we are now going to do a recognition of the Junior League of St. Angelo. >> Yes, sir. For our final recognition this evening, we are honored to recognize the Junior League of St. Angelo and their wonderful pack project. For the second year, the Junior League has provided packs which stand for personally available care kits to all St. Angelo ISD middle schools, high schools, and alternative campuses. These packs are free hygiene kits available to all of the students across the Concho Valley, not only in St. Angela, San

018Angelo ISD, and it helps to ensure that students have consistent access to basic hygiene necessities at no cost. Through the pack project, our counselors and nurses can request these discrete kits each month and pass them to the students who are in need. The Junior League delivers them quickly and reli reliably. I'm having so much trouble talking today. Their dedication to keeping prepared packs on hand and customizing them when needed reflects a deep level of care for the students of St. Angel. The PAC project plays an important role in supporting students mental, social, and emotional well-being by removing barriers that may impact their comfort, confidence, and readiness to learn. Since the start of the 2425 school year, the Junior League has supplied more than 2,000 packs to St. Angel students alone. They remain a valued and

019compassionate partner to our district and their work through the PAC project continues to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our students. At this time, we would like to invite the representatives of the Junior League to come up here and join Dr. Moran in the front tonight. Joining us we have Miss Christina Maguire, Miss Tiffany Sers, Miss Stephanie Mlan couldn't be here. And we have two surprise guests, Kesha Gray, and Jennifer Cook. Thank you so much for your remarkable partnership and for investing in the health and dignity of our students. >> [applause] >> You sure appreciate it. All right, we're going to move forward with our agenda. Next on our agenda is public comment and we have Miss Ginger Moore who signed up regarding electing candidates for the Tom Green County Appraisal Board. >>

020Good evening and thank you for all volunteering. You're wonderful. Um they I am here to ask you to vote no for Lewis Gomez and Bob Reeves for the appraisal board. You have 604 points between you and if you vote no maybe that will send a message to our appraisal board. Our appraisal board currently does not have any oversight from the controller. Nobody oversees the the board and it's like the the fox in the hen house. And so if you vote these two people in who have been on the board for several years, one of the reasons your appraisals go up every year is because of these two as well as Tyler. And Tyler tells who who to send through. So he's kind of handpicked who he wants you to approve. And when you approve them,

021then they are on the board for four more years and we can't get them off. and they will raise your appraisals even more because they can do it once every year when the controller only requires once every three years. They also can do it at 10% which they don't have to do 10%. They they don't tell you when they're going to meet. They do not record their meetings. You cannot see them online and there is no oversight. So if you elect these people again to the board, you are do doing a disservice to your to your individuals and your all your citizens because it's hurting the the most is hurting are the elderly. They they decided this year and they have not done that in the past. They have decided this year to raise the

022Rio Koncho uh homestead so that they could not get that appraisal that taken off their appraisals anymore because the land is is not owned by them. Just the house is owned by them. So these people went from 13 $130 a year to 2000 something. And these people cannot afford it either. So you do not know what's going on in the appraisal district. I do not know. I had to do a foyer request to get their uh anything out of them. Even even their minute meetings, their minutes from their meetings, they will not give you unless you do a foyer request. It is it is unworthy of us to keep putting these people back on the board. They were supposed to elect three people. That was a year ago and they did not elect them. They

023instead put the sign for that that we're supposed to elect them on the door of our Tom Green County judges office. They did not put them out for anybody to know about and and luckily they got three people that they happen to know that put in that put in requests to be on the board. So this board is is not what we want for San Angelo and Tom Green County. And I'm asking you to say no. And if you say all say no or at least half of you say no then they will at least be awake then please say no. >> Thank you Miss Moore. >> All right we are going to move forward with conducting our finance and audit committee workshop. And just I won't keep doing this reminder forever but just a

024reminder that this has been moved to our regular meeting. Um this used to be a pre-agenda item but docu Mr. Dindle is going to help us with that. Thank you, Dr. Cayman. Uh that actual report, finance and audit report begins in uh uh for October begins on page 8. If you'll pay if you'll uh look to page 12, a report shows the unassigned fund balance in the district of 52 million $247,252 at this point. also a committed fund balance of $4,892,29 of which 4 million of that is cap is uh is earmarked for capital projects within the district itself right now if there are any questions about those balances if not we can move to page 15 which is our general fund revenues and expenditures for October revenues right now stand at 22.5% uh with

025the state running slightly ahead of their contributions at this point and the expenditures are at 16.8%. Uh we're in the second month of our budget cycle which we should be around 16% of expenses and so we're right in line with that as we move forward throughout the year. There are no questions on the revenues and expenditures for October. Can move to uh the check registers for October which is page 16 through 41. Several checks uh we got that uh also in the report about a week ago. I I don't I haven't talked to Dr. Brandon, but there were no questions at that point between any of those checks that were issued. [snorts] Again, that checkbook is also online if you'd like if the public would like to view it, too. In addition to that, page

02642 through 50 or is the check register for account period, accounting period 13, which is the finish up of last year's budget. Any questions about any of the check register? Okay. If not, we can move to page 51 through 55, which are our investment reports for October. Total invested funds at the moment are $474,518,771. Interest earnings for October were 1,73,728 and the interest earned in the general fund was $234,937 of which most of that invested funds right now are uh the uh bond sales that we did uh back in August uh which gave us a windfall with the state uh in the payback period of that stuff. So we went ahead and purchased all that stuff uh back in August and so we're gaining some serious interest in that right now. uh as we move

027forward. Also, the interest rates in those pools varied from 4.14% to 4.28%. Any questions on the investment reports at the moment? If not, we can move to page 56, which is our tax collection report for September, not for October, but for September. Uh 23 2023 collections right now are at 100.39%. And 2024 collections are at 99.82%, 82% which are about in line with years past. Not sure. Anybody has questions about the tax report. If not, uh, finally, page 57 through 59 is our PO report for October for POS over $20,000 in the district. [clears throat] The only significant I noticed was that we were buying a a significant amount of pancakes on a stick, I think. So, uh, over $20,000 worth. So that's how much uh the the food budget is for SASD as we

028move forward. So anyway, interesting interesting report uh showing a lot of stuff a lot of the stuff we've issued POS for already. Any questions about any of those POS, right? If not, that concludes our finance report for the evening. Thank you, Mr. Dindle. All right. Next up, we have some information items. Uh, first is a construction update and Carl Danheim is going to help us with that. >> Thank you, Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran, members of the board. Uh, bit of good news today. We finally received our building permit from the city for Crockett project. So, we are we are good to go there. Uh, Park Hill did a pretty good job last week with their projects. So, unless y'all have some questions on some of them, uh, I thought we might tell you a little

029bit about KFW architects. We're going to meet with them later this week and we should probably at the December board meeting probably have some drawings to look at on our concession parking lot at Lake View and then the Fannon phase two. So, not a whole lot yet to talk about, but we're we're making ground with it. >> Any questions? There's obviously good news about the Crockett permit. >> Yes, there is. >> Um, any other questions for Mr. Danheim? >> When are they going to start, Mr. Danheim? Now that they've got the permit to start. >> Well, well, actually, it didn't hold us up not having it. >> We had a foundationonly permit that allowed us to. >> So, if if this would have rocked on another couple of weeks, it would have probably started, you

030know, would have been a problem. But now, as it is, we're we're we're good to go. So, no loss time. And in January, you're going to give us an update on that timing. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank y'all. >> Next, we're going to get um Dr. Farah Gomez is going to come give us an update on academic programs. Dr. Keeman, Dr. Moran, and members of the board. Um, I know I sent this to you previously in Friday Fax because it's a lot of information. So, I just want the public to know um that you had some time to look this over. Before I get started this evening, I'd like to recognize two of our key staff members that are also here with us. So, we have Mrs. Broo Collenbach, our director of elementary

031curriculum and instruction, and Dr. Nikki Parker, our director of secondary curriculum and instruction and academic data. So, it's definitely a team effort. I'm just here uh kind of sharing on behalf of the team and of course as always we'll answer questions that you might have. I'm noticing it's getting more and more difficult for me to read any of these screens. So I also have my computer here. I think I've got it but in case I forget to click you might okay >> elbow me. So uh we start off the very beginning here as you all are aware of the superintendent board goals that you adopted and I really want to highlight those academic goals that you'll see our progress throughout this evening's presentation. So to reiterate our clear focus on academic growth. You're going to

032hear that as we go across this evening's presentation. And please note that we're not just talking about growth. the star tested grade levels. That might be where the state begins to assess us, but the minute a child enters our facilities, we're looking at their growth and we're committed to growth for every child regardless of where they enter for equity um and just full potential for every student. So, this first slide here for for your review is specific to um our early literacy You all are aware of this, but as a reminder for those listening, um, as the district has expanded our teacher incentive aotment with this school year for kinder and first grade, our assessment is class dibbles reading. Um, so as we really hone in there, I'll uh talk about the others as we

033go along, but that's why on this slide you're seeing uh grade K for kinder and grade one. as we go along. Um, we've talked for quite some time as we've given you data about our concern as a district, but I would like to make that concern even greater, more than a district, but as a community. With our earliest learners entering school well below grade level. So this first slide when we see BOI 50% of our kindergarten students coming in at what the assessment determines is well below grade level as compared to 39% for our state and 44% for the nation. That's why I say it's more than just a concern of our district and really um encourage us to brainstorm and think about how we can utilize these wonderful community partners we have from pediatricians

034and other organizations because this isn't um we're not only below the national average but look at that state average there. what uh just brings us lots of questions. And then you can see as we go along um where we fall at below grade level in comparison, you see that that gap begins to diminish a little bit um we're somewhat in line with Texas and the national and then even when we go to at um but then when we get on the higher end again so we're at two ends of the spectrum where we're at a disparity for our earliest young our earliest learners. And then for first grade, uh you can see once we've had them in our setting, we begin to decrease that well below. And we'll track that as we go along for

035cohorts, but again, we're still significantly well below Texas and the national average. So, um just really something for us to think about as a team. And then you can see that the data one of the reasons why uh ELMclass is a beneficial tool for us. It's that national norm just like map um that yes we're committed to seeing what others are doing in the state but how are we fairing across the nation [snorts] and you can see that same trend in first grade that we start to get closer to the state and the national average at below um at but then when we're still at that above we're still trending under and I just want to remind everyone here I'm not giving you a reading test but we know what data says if students students

036are still reading below level by third grade. The hardship it is for educators to close gaps and you really start to see that impact in your other content areas where um the reading is so dependent on their display of knowledge in those other areas. So I know I think it was Dr. Mills. I'm not trying to put you on the spot here Dr. Mills, but I know that you had a question about cohorts. So when we look at the data, it's important that yes, we we talk about how students in a grade level do the current year. Um but we all know that when we're talking kinder data for the 24 25 school year, um it's a different group of kids from the 25 26 school year. So yes, we look at how each group

037is doing annually, but it's very important that we look as we go along um in the cohorts. So, a little more data for you, but I want to point out at that uh very top of that chart, you're going to see so well actually let's do this reverse order. You can see where this cohort their current second graders in 23 24 they were kindergarten students. I want to remind all of you this was the year districtwide we began implementing amplify and we started the slow roll out K1 and two. Okay, so this group they were kindergarteners [snorts] um in 23 24 and so you seem class that year and you can still see we're looking very uh critically at that did not meet well below um or even approaches approaches grade levels means we're not

038on we're not where we need to be yet. Okay. So that's why the combination of the 70% below benchmark. Then as they went up the cohort uh in grade 1, you seem class again for 2425. Um [snorts] that gap was decreased, but it's still a significant gap with 57% below the benchmark. But then notice the data set for these students, current second graders. We're not using MCL class here. It says map reading. Also with our TIA expansion, teacher incentive a lotment, not trying to talk in acronyms for second grade up through high school English, our assessment pieces map. So that's why you see the alignment there. And again, you can see how that cohort does as they go up. So we're closing the gap for sure, but it's a heavy lift for teachers again in

039that early literacy area. Then you can see uh in first grade kind of where this group um closing that well below and below by 10% in that cohort. And now I want to take a little more time on this kindergarten slide. I want to go back to um the importance as a community we really think about where our students are before they officially enter kindergarten. So at the very bottom you can see that national uh average of well below at 44%. And then the below at 19%. And then you see the kinder data I already shared with you. So, we already know we're entering kindergarten approximately 10 to 12% below the national average. But that next group right above um that says um grade K 256 ML class, that's all kindergarteners that we tested. Okay,

040just across the board, every kindergartener we tested this school year. of those students, 186 attended an SEISD prek program the year before. So when you start to see when kids are in a structured setting, we're now closing that gap and we're becoming more in line with that national percentage. But as I know Dr. Brandon has presented on declining enrollment, Mr. Colinbach as he's presented, we have less students in those early childhood programs. We've seen that decrease in preK over the last several years. So is 186 this year. Just for reference, I know you received the enrollment reports, but just for reference, right now we have 212 students in our SEISD preK program. So just keep that in mind. And then really want to point out as the district the last several years in a time

041of increased shortages and hardships and human capital have had to make some really tough decisions about where we can provide the best services for our students um with a bilingual program specifically can see um how the prek bilingual students are progressing once they go on to kindergarten bilingual. And so while we still have 60% below benchmark if they just attended prek, 24% are below benchmark if they were bilingual and attended the bilingual prek program. So a lot of questions again I don't want to spend the whole presentation just on early childhood. We know we still have significant gains to make in the area of early literacy, but we are seeing the improvement there, but just again that importance of closing those gaps before they get to third grade for them to be on track for

042success. For the next portion, we're going to review our grades um with MAP. So, as a reminder, we give uh second grade through high school RLA. That's the assessment we use with MAP um as I mentioned previously. And then for math, um all the way through algebra 1. So, we've used MAP for a number of years. Um it's not unique to St. Angelo ISD that since co student achievement has um been at a new level of uh need for uh students and parents as we have a lot of learning gaps that we're working to close. So due to the national norms that come with MAP, this past July, they implemented a new set of national MAP growth norms, replacing the norms we had been following for a number of years since summer of 2020. So

043again, the first time in five years and it's all connected to the postcoid shift in student performance and a change of demographics across the country. It's just important that everyone understands. It's the first time in five years there has been any change. So, uh, RIT is hard for a lot of people to understand. A RIT score really. What does that mean for us? What does it mean for the district? It means that the RIT scores that you're going to see as we go along, those remain unchanged. But your norm reference groups have been aligned with current performance level. And that's to really provide a more accurate benchmark as we go along. So the need for them to make that adjustment. Again, we'll look at cohorts here a little differently because we have a lot of

044data that we're looking at. So um you can see from fall of 24 as compared to fall of 25 and go across for the grade level gains, but also I thank Dr. Parker for adding those cohort gains. So you had it both ways uh where you can see across there. Um now just initially as we have internal um discussions and we talk about new curriculum and implementation last year as you all are very well aware we piloted um what is now referred to as blue bonnet which was formerly Carnegie Algebra 1 knowing that we had students that uh needed more structured supports in the area of mathematics. Um, but we also knew we had the need in sixth, seventh, and eighth where there had not been a change in the curriculum. You will still see,

045uh, seventh grade is an area that we're having great conversations for. I am not making any excuses, but I invite anyone that's never spent any time at middle school to go and just have lunch with seventh graders. There is a lot going on that year. um socially um they might be crying first period and third period they're crying. You don't know why. Um so I'm just saying we need to thank all of our seventh grade teachers. Um but just know that's not unique just to us. But it is a real uh time in their education where we have pause to how can we meet their many needs academically um and socially as well. Then this next chart is just another way of looking at the observed growth. you all are familiar um with these charts,

046we typically will provide this on the middle of the year and you can see now for people who are looking uh on the screen there. Sorry, this is where I can't read that too well on the side. Definitely not on the TV. Uh it's how well students are showing their projected growth. So, I've been spending a lot of time with preK. I might upset some of our math teachers when I refer to this as a diamond because that would not be I'll look at Dr. Parker over here. We've been talking about pants and fractions though. So sometimes we're trying all the things to connect with students there. Joking a little bit kind of not. Um but the the observed growth is what this is showing in comparison to the projected growth. So that is the

047beautiful thing about MAP that we're provided that's not um accessible on all assessments is it shows teachers if students continue at their expected growth where they should be performing. So we can look across the board and kind of see at a glance. So you're going to see I'm really not trying to pick on seventh grade. I'm just going to use it as an example because it's a reality. we continue to trend in that area for seventh grade where we're not meeting uh projected growth. And so you're talking about what additional supports, what additional training can we provide in these areas because um we're not we're not making it uh specifically in seventh grade math. I know Miss Duncan might have an opinion on that from some personal experience herself. Um but then you also will

048see other areas where um students are making more of their growth um when there are certain years where does we're talking state accountability um there are certain areas that continue to be a difficulty. Um so as a reminder because we're talking map now versus star when we talk in terms of star the first grade where we can see that projected growth is fourth grade but the again what map gives us is an advanced look at that before the state assessment and really allows teachers an opportunity to tailor their instruction to meet the observed growth of their students. Then this next one we'll go and show you on algebra 1. Um and so for algebra 1 last year we talked about the growth that we were seeing. Uh so we went along for MAP and um

049comparison to STAR. So again from from both observations in the two years where we've had the new resource you continue to see um great observations in the area of growth for algebra um and the ability for our students to really um conceptualize some some very uh higher level math concepts. Now we'll switch over here to uh RLA specifically and again uh we're starting specific with fourth grade so we can track those cohorts and see because we have something to compare in the area of growth because prior to this year we started at third grade. Um so to be able to connect that growth we don't have that data for you. Again I thank Dr. Parker for having both the grade level gains and the cohort gains. Um, I'll stop and pause a second on seventh

050grade. Uh, but you do see more growth in the area of RLA than we did in math. Um, I want to remind everyone though a big difference between MAP and STAR in the English one and English 2. Uh, specifically, we don't have the writing component. So, you're just talking reading. Now for MAP period, it's all on reading which our STAR assessments are include writing as well. It's just important that we understand and we continue to have the conversations with our parents and with our staff that we're looking specifically in the area of reading as we go along here. Then we'll go and we'll see the observed growth uh in this area. You can stop and pause and look at those two middle school areas for seventh and eighth. Again, um I'll add eighth grade in

051here. I'm not trying to just single out middle school. It's just what the data says. So, you also have to keep that in mind from a recruiting standpoint and a retention standpoint. Um so, you have some real heavy academic lifts and some real heavy just adolescent lifts during those two years. And uh I guess in closing to kind of recap on that, you all are very well aware and for the public listening as you saw through the kindergarten cohort with a new curriculum rolling out to kindergarten who's now second grade and then three through five coming on board. The state has not released and will not until 2029 a high quality instructional resource for RLA. Um, so we re-calibrated on our two adopted resources that took place in 2019. So you you'll hear HMH for

052secondary um 6 through 8 RLA and you'll hear springboard for high school. Um, I am an RLA person myself, so I say this with great levels of respect, but to get RLA people to agree on a resource is a very heavy lift. But our data showed we must have alignment across the district until um we close those gaps for our secondary students as those elementary students come up the pipeline. Um next month as part of um our shared information with you all when uh Dr. Cell presented the tips and the taps last month we shared we would take a deeper dive on our campuses that are working through school improvement. So, we'll provide a a deeper dive specific to those campuses in next month's board meeting. And then, as the calendar is always moving forward,

053when we come back from winter break, we'll be in middle of the year and we'll be testing again. And then in February, March, we will have a middle of the year comparison to see how students are trending from BOI to MOI with this year's cohorts. >> Thank you, Dr. Gomez. Questions for Dr. Gomez. >> Board. [snorts] >> Dr. Gomez. The 212 preK students. How many campuses are those students? >> So those campuses are currently at Golad, Belair, Glennmore, and um missing one. Golad, Glenmore, Belair. Bradford is the pre-K bilingual. Still missing one. >> Reagan. Yes. I don't know why I was missing ring and I can tell you both of those teachers names right off my head. So the uh Miss Gardinas with that those are the students that are enrolled in our full day

054program. Um last week y'all heard some information about our partnership with Head Start. So, that is the the new addition this year. And we have approximately 90 uh four-year-olds that the district um is able to provide instruction in the afternoon as part of that partnership with Head Start. But for six hours of the day, they're in Head Start classrooms and we just get them for that short period. So, you could have the 212 and know that we do have an additional 90 four year olds that were able to influence to a small degree. >> Okay. Um are we seeing an a declinement in enrollment for prek or is that >> uh we are um and that's one of the the data points that Dr. Brandon is sharing in enrollment and um Mr. Colinbach as we

055talk transfers and so there's been a significant decrease when you look at 10 years of data on students being in a full day prek program. >> Thank you ma'am. Other questions for Dr. Gomez? >> Um, speaking of seventh grade, and Miss Parker can shake her head or disagree with me, but um, the Blue Bonnet curriculum has really, I think, accelerated what our kids need to know in math. It's tough. And do you think seventh and eighth grade they have pushed down the algebra in there a lot more than it has been in the past? Yes, I think the uh academic demands um are much higher. Um I don't want to speak for Dr. Parker or Miss Colinbach, but um what I've personally observed is we kind of have two buckets. We have a bucket of

056teachers as they work with new curriculum who are saying it's too hard. I have to bring it down to my kids. Do we have a bucket of teachers who are saying it is hard but I need to scaffold up >> so my students can perform at this level. And we saw that naturally with a slow roll out K through two. Um if you've never had a conversation with kindergarten teachers about how they feel about uh teaching early literacy, they will definitely share with you and they have strong opinions about um how you teach letters and when you teach letters. And so they were it was a struggle um when we did the slow roll out. Um and so what we haven't sixth, seventh, and eighth grade math teachers haven't had that full year of going

057through um the new curriculum. And the reality is regardless of what the curriculum resource is, because as I've said many times, there is no perfect curriculum, it truly is about the teacher and their craft. um the state coming in and saying we must hold tight to high quality instructional uh resources was based on the research study of students not being exposed to grade level or higher materials on a daily basis. And so it is a mind shift of we can't bring it down, we have to teach up um to small shifts and just um minimum expectations of academic performance in classrooms because kids will rise to the level set by their teachers and their campus. um it's our responsibility give them supports to be successful but we have to aim high and pull the string

058for all students and and I think that's exactly what we are doing we are um we have raised the rigor and I think our kids are there it's a little uncomfortable but um I applaud the the teachers that are studying this and they're working hard to to do all this um [snorts] you know, seventh grade is kind of like the middle child. So, you're right. Um, they may be happy and cry in one period. >> Um, but they'll get there. And then I just want to um talk about kindergarten for just a second because I was a seventh grade teacher for 20some years. But in that time I did retire quick shortly for a year when I had my second and I did some work in kindergarten and um I will say there's nothing like

059kindergarten. It is a whole new so those kindergarten teachers get my applaud and I want to challenge our community. I think as a community of and I want to support these young [snorts] parents that um are sending their kids that we need to do as a community a better job of helping mentoring these young parents and um and I think and I know it's on our website but I think we as a community have to do a need to do a better job because I've asked some of these young moms s, you know, is your kid ready for kindergarten? They don't know what what do they need to know. And I know we're working on that. So, um, just be listening and, you know, work with your little babies and get them there because when

060you're kindergarten teacher, you have a child coming that's ready. You have a child that's screaming at the door. You have a child differentiating instruction is like you've never seen before. And it to keep kindergarten teachers in the role that we have them today, they're going to need our support and our love and encouragement. Yes, ma'am. I'd add to that prek as well. So, um you while I wish we had those 90 students uh all day in our prek programs, I'm thankful for the time we do get from school readiness to every day going and loading their children. I say this multiple times. Nope, we're working on buckling. They've got to be able to buckle themselves by the time they get in kindergarten to you have two children. We need the school age child in the

061seat closest to the curb because when you're in the big pickup line, you can't get out uh to load your child. Just small school readiness. And I know that we've said this before and um I will say this and a little bit of kidding to Dr. Keeman. He kind of gave me a look like what to understanding um your child should be potty trained by the time they're entering entering kindergarten. We have potty plans and that is not something that kindergarten teachers have had to always work on. >> Dr. Gomez, you said that we have 90 kids in the Head Start program. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. How long do we get to work with them? What's is it an hour? Is it 2 hours? >> We um are responsible for the students from 1:45

062until 3:15. So we we get an hour of instruction before we start dismissing and loading. >> And what do they do [snorts] that other >> they're under Head Start? Uh >> well I mean curriculum wise like like what is the I mean have we worked with Head Start on trying to get it all aligned to where >> we have and we continue those conversations. Currently, um, Head Start uses Frog Street curriculum, which we use, um, a different curriculum. Um, but during those other hours of the day, they're under the Head Start guidelines and staff's care. >> Thank you, >> Dr. Gomez. I just want to one I want to thank you for getting all this to us on our Friday facts because it is a lot of numbers and a lot of sheets and so

063you and your team the fact that y'all got us all that in advance. Thank y'all. Um and then also I mean like you said we're we're trying to support our teachers who are number one on the in the battlefield doing this. We're doing the Sangelo Reeds initiative where our for our public, you know, we're trying to do the head start the TIA align curriculum. We're trying to get as many people in front of certified teachers as possible, but 70% of kids are showing up below grade level in kindergarten in St. Angelo. >> Yes, sir. >> And that means that and we will continue to do everything we can from kindergarten to 12 to get them to level. But the reality is 70% of kids are ending up in our schools not at the national average

064of where um they should be. And that means our pediatricians, our pastors, our coaches, our parents, our community partners in Head Start, our YMCA, like everyone in our community needs to realize that as a community, we are failing these kids. And we're going to do everything we can to get them where they need to be, but we need to understand that we're starting behind the eightball. And so if people are looking for initiatives of how to make impacts in this community and they are um so inclined to go um raise money, donate money, get with preks, you when parents are looking at prek programs that they're putting their kids in, they need to look at how those kids are doing and what is actually being done at those prek programs and the fact that it

065does matter um where they're sending their kids because it's expensive. I mean, there are a lot of kids going to programs that are expensive and they're still not prepared. And so, um, we need as a community, we have to embrace where we are so that we can be better. And so, I think it's important that we continue to make sure our community is aware that what's happening for for our earliest kids, uh, [snorts] as a community, we're not doing enough yet. And so as you know, we need to do as much as we can in our preK, in RK, in R1 and R2, but we also need to um start, I think, being a little more vocal about the fact that we as a community have to do better. So that's my soap box. Okay.

066Anyone else have any questions? Omar, Dr. dome as the the Head Start curriculum. A lot of that [clears throat] deals with uh social skills, hygiene, a lot of that in the academic career in the pre-K program at SISD is far beyond what it is in the Head Start program. So, that's that's kind of the difference between the uh Head Start gains and the uh and the the preK that uh SD offers. It's a academic rigor that is embedded in the SASD program where the uh again the head start is more of social skills and hygiene and stuff like that. >> All of the um teachers in SISD prek programs are certified teachers and uh we work to meet the TA highquality prek standards which also have increased. >> Dr. Dr. Gomez, I was going to

067ask if um kind of as a community initiative, if it would be possible to maybe have um a kindergarten expectations on our website, maybe the beginning of the year test, map test, so parents can see like this is what my child's expected to know in kindergarten. I think a lot of people have really have no idea. Um and especially with a lot of grandparents raising their kids, I think grandparents raising their kids, it's a whole different world right now. And so, um, I don't know if that's something that we could do, but that might be a huge help for the community as well. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Or maybe maybe I mean on the website, but if my mom was raising children, she doesn't even own a computer, so maybe also something that they can

068just pick up. But also, just one last comment from me. this all this data I spent yesterday reading and looking at it and it takes a lot of time and effort. So thank you Brooke and Nikki and you and all your team for putting this all together because without good data we don't know where we are and where we need to grow and this is um we haven't always had a great data in our district. So, y'all are spending a lot of time looking and I always say in life you have to have a goal and what what's our goal and we know our goal and I know that your team and the teachers are working extremely hard to get where we need to be. So, thank you. >> Well, Miss Duncan, thank you for

069recognizing the work of the teachers because um the amount of time it takes to internalize the curriculum um you can't just walk in and wing it. So they are working very hard and also a special thank you to our principles who are ensuring and holding staff accountable and changing the culture on their campuses to raising the expectation when you walk in the door. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Gomez. Um our next information item is Dr. Merl Brandon and he's going to do a San Angel Independent School District facilities planning update. Dr. Kayman, Dr. Maran, board of trustees. Um, some new some additional data points from our conversation last Monday evening. Uh, it's a great segue. The comment on quality data is what we need to make in all of our decisions. And so as

070we continue to think about declining enrollment and how that impacts budget uh year-toear um we know we talked about the the loss of 304 students and likely to be closer to 500 by end of year. Uh right now that impact uh outside of the budget would be a little over $2 million deficit from that. we talked about 80% uh in our case the proposed budget in August 81% of the budget is salaries um and so that's the greatest impact and our conversation from there led to being very mindful about our staffing counts as we lose enrollment we have to track that by the same decline in staffing and so you can see the drop uh that we've had there uh from 1846 to 1793 three over the last two years. Uh not letting staff go.

071That's by attrition. Uh not by anyone losing their job. We gave an example of operational savings from the data that we used uh from the closures at Altaloma and Austin. And most of this is all tied to salary. Um, as you can imagine, uh, each one of those campuses, uh, were five teacher positions, uh, that were able to be, uh, used once those classes were combined. And then, um, you can see the different, you know, a principal and AP, a counselor, a nurse, you know, when you have campuses of 200, but you create a campus of 400, then those same administrative positions are able to oversee all 400 students. uh food service uh plant maintenance and then school resource officer. So approximately 900,000 a year uh in a school closure factors in campus closure is

072not just about operational cost for the campus the facility condition. Uh just because one campus may be 80 years old and the other one's 70 doesn't necessarily mean that the one that's 70 is in better condition. So the assessment of each one of those campuses and then what's the capacity? What would it take to put 400 500 students on that campus? What's the overall operational cost? What is the heating, the cooling, uh all of our different utilities? Uh expandability, what type of footprint uh does the campus have on the property that it's located on? Are special programs able to be located on that campus? And then I wanted to move into a little bit more educational and spatial adequacy. Educational adequacy is the capacity to support the educational programming. What type of instructional technology is

073that cap campus already have available to our teachers? What would have to be provided to upgrade that to what we would call a today's standard? What is the library situation? How large is a library? What type of media is it? Capabilities does it have STEM programming and then [snorts] special ed programming. Does it are there additional classrooms that are available that could uh provide that on the same campus? And then spatial adequacy, um instructional classroom square footage, uh given many of our campuses were designed architecturally to be round. Well, when you go into those classrooms and they're in a pie shape, very difficult for teachers to set up their classrooms and have instruction 22, 23, 24 students um uh in those situations. So, >> [snorts] >> uh spatial adequacy also looks at not only overcrowded

074classrooms because of undersized square footage, uh but also undersized cafeterias. If you don't have a cafeteria capacity, it's very difficult to for two campuses to come together in one. And then missing or inadequate science labs or other instructional spaces. Capacity is certainly you know what is the capacity? We've raised capacity uh with the construction that's happened pre pre-bond uh at Fannon at McGill uh to increase capacity uh and that will happen at other campuses during the bond process. So we have capacity numbers for every campus to review. We have programming. Uh the district did an indepth analysis of the expense uh that it would take to put a capital investment into every campus. How old is the carpet, the flooring, the HVAC units, the electrical panels, everything that you can think of that much like

075your home that would have a replacement cost. What would it take 5 years from now and 6 to 20 years from now? And then we have those numbers to look at for every campus. And it's not just, oh, well, that's one's going to cost the most. It's not only what costs the most, but what is the capacity, how old is the facility, the age of the facility, all of those factors that we looked at on the pre previous slide all come into play in those decisions. [snorts] One thing that we'll see in December is also an updated or renewed uh demographic study. We'll know again looking at last year's data compared to this year's data, where are the students, where are declining enrollments in what sectors of St. Angelo, where's the new home growth? Uh,

076all of that will play into these conversations as well to help make a very informed decision as we go into the spring semester. >> Questions for Dr. Brandon? >> Dr. Mr. Brandon, so campus closures, I saw instruction five at 61K. Does that mean that there's five teachers without a job or what is that? What does that mean? >> No, none of those positions were tied to anyone losing a job. Those if you take uh let's say you have four um fourth grade classrooms with 16 students each and you have a campus with four classrooms with 16 students each. When you put those together, all of a sudden those eight classrooms became six. Those students will be able to spread out where you have 22 students in a room and become more efficient. So those two

077positions are created or saved and in a more efficient manner. Not that those two teachers are not with us anymore. They've just been able to relocate uh into another campus or into those grade levels if a teacher retired or maybe we had a spouse move and a teacher relocate. So, we've been able to fill openings from within uh without anyone losing a job over a closure. >> Okay. So, all employees have been able to keep their job? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. One more question. Um the savings that were listed with the school closure, [snorts] are those all immediate savings or some of those savings that we'll see over time? >> Uh those are immediate savings. The only one that is not an immediate saving would be plant maintenance. For example, if um uh Altaloma

078uh one of the things that's in plant maintenance is property casualty insurance. So Altaloma became our technology center. So even though that one closed and then we added on to Fannon, so we increased our footprint. So the cost of insurance for property insurance on that building went up just a little bit, but we also had to keep the insurance at the Altaloma building for technology. So, it's not always almost everything on there though is an immediate impact for the district, but there are a few items uh that would be related to that uh that would take time before we see that savings. >> Okay. Thank you. And I, you know, I'm glad that we're having, you know, a big a robust academic and then talking about this because I think I think the important thing

079is we're not looking, it comes across sometimes when we're hearing from our from about finance that we're trying to save money and we're trying to use the money we have as efficiently as possible. We're going to get the same amount of money whether we have 17 elementaryaries or 13 elementaryaries or 12 elementaryaries. We're going to have the same amount of dollars to educate the number of kids we have in our district. And so trying to figure out how to maximize the number of dollars for each kid is what we're trying to do. And so I I for our community when we're looking at hey we're trying to save $900,000. [clears throat] That's not not $900,000 to go nowhere. That's $900,000 to be reinvested in our kids as efficiently as possible so that we have certified

080teachers in front of every student in our district. We have um the same programs at every elementary school in our district. We have um the same support for our teachers at every elementary school in our district. And so I think it's important to understand that those aren't dollars that are just saved. They're dollars that are redispersed in a a way that gives the most support to our kids that we talked about a second ago that 70% of kids are coming in below grade level. So trying to figure out how to maximize those dollars in a way that makes the biggest impact. >> Yes, sir. >> Mr. President, I may add to that conversation the the moving target there is the declining enrollment and the loss of revenue based on that. So to add to your

081conversation, um if that is excess funding, yes. If it's loss of revenue because of declining enrollment, we're trying to get ahead of the game and make sure we can offer you all an opportunity for a balanced budget. >> Any other questions or comments? >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Brand. All right. Next, we're going to move forward with our agenda. We have consent items A through C. We have our donations, our minutes from our October 6th and October 21st board meetings, and uh library books that were discussed at last week's meeting. Um any comments or question or anything that needs to be pulled from the consent agenda? Do I have a motion to approve items A through C? >> A motion to approve consent items A through C. Second >> a motion from Mr. Gyos

082and a second from Mr. Dindle. Any further board questions or comments? All in favor say I. I. All against say the same. Motion passes 70. Um before we get into our action items, um I we do need to go into executive session under uh 551 076 which is security devices. 551 074 which is personnel matters and two and 551072 which is real property. [clears throat] >> All right, we are back from executive session. No action was taken. U we're going to continue to move forward with our agenda. Um first action item is to consider our bills, accounts and financial statements. >> Dr. >> It was part of a consent. Yes. >> Consent. That's right. Thank you for No, I appreciate the I appreciate the double check though. Um, do I have a motion to approve

083the bills, accounts, and financial statements for October of 2025? >> Move for approval. >> I have a motion from Mr. Dindle. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> A second from Dr. Mills. Any further board questions or comments? >> Dr. came in and our effort at transparency. Uh these reports that we discussed earlier tonight, everything can be found online sisd.org. Uh and there's a specific tab that says financial transparency where you can find all these reports moving forward. Any other board comment or question? All right. Um so I have a motion from Mr. Dendle, a second from Dr. Mills. All in favor say I. >> I. All say the same. Motion passes 70. Next, we have approval of of our multi-hazard emergency operations plan. This has been provided to every board member um

084to review. Uh does anyone have any questions or comments regarding the emergency operations plan? All right. Um do I have a motion to approve the multi-hazard emergency operations plan? >> I'll make a motion for the approval of the multi-hazard emergency operations plan as provided. >> So, have a motion from Dr. Mills and a second from >> Mr. Dindle. >> Mrs. Duncan was trying to get there. She wasn't qu enough. >> Um, any further board comments or questions? >> May I make a comment, Mr. President? Just a quick thanks to Miss Claudia Bisera for her hard work on this. It's months in the making. Thank you for what you're doing for us. >> Reiterate that. Thank you, Miss Ber, and thank you for your updates on that. So, appreciate it. Um, all right. All in favor

085say I. >> I. >> All against say the same. >> Motion passes 70. All right. Next, uh Dr. Gomez is going to give us um a recap of the 2526 district and campus improvement plans performance objectives that we talked about last week. >> Yes, sir. Dr. Kingman, Dr. Miranda, members of the board. Last week, Mrs. Taton presented on this year's um district and campus improvement plan performance objectives. Our performance objectives uh for the adopted board goals are aligned with our district strategic priorities uh and our commitments. These objectives are designed to drive measurable growth and student achievement, strengthen our instructional leadership, and ensure accountability across all levels of our organization. These are part of our campus improvement plans, our district improvement plan to support informed decision-m and a culture of continuous improvement. Does anyone have

086any We obviously went over this with Miss Ton last week, but does anyone have any questions for Dr. Gomez? All right. Um, thank you, Dr. Gomez. Do I have a motion to approve the to approve the 2526 district and campus improvement plans and performance objectives? >> I make a motion to consider the 2025 2026 district in campus improvement plan performance objectives. >> So a motion to approve from Mrs. Duncan. Do I have a second from Mrs. Meisel Flint? Um any other board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I. >> Motion passes 70. Next we have on our agenda is actually to consider an interlocal transportation agreement. We actually received a phone call today uh requesting us from TA requesting us to not vote on that tonight and to table that until next month.

087So I'm going to make a motion that we table the interlocal transportation agreement. Um do I have a second? >> Second. motion for myself and a second from Mr. Dindle. Do I have any board questions or comments before we table that? I have a comment and it's just this this thing that this what we're talking about is something that I know back in 20 2017 we we asked about it and um I think um the attorney general Paxton finally issued a [cough] what do you call it an opinion on it what eight years later but you know even though I know we're going to we got to wait because tea but me personally I'm going to vote no because I've been waiting since 2017. So, so I am voting no on that. Um, you know,

088only because only because this has been going on so long and it does affect, like Merl said, our ADA. It affects [snorts] a lot of things and and you know, that's why it just stuck in my crawl for the last eight years that he would never issue an opinion on it and he finally did. But, you know, so I I'll vote no on that. That's that's my personal feeling on it. So for the and so the motion currently is to table for next month. Um I have a motion for myself and a second from Miss D. Any other board comments? All in favor of tableabling say I. >> All against tableabling say I. >> No. >> Yeah. [snorts] So 61. >> And we will we will have that back on the agenda next month. Promise,

089Mr. Gagus. Okay. [laughter] All right. Next, u we're going to consider the financial integrity rating for San Angel Independent School District. It's our public hearing and Haime Guerrero is here to help us um with that this evening. >> He's our comproller. Just so everyone who doesn't know Haime, >> Dr. Kim, Dr. Moran, board members, uh I am Haime Guerero. I'm the district comproller and I'm here to get the clicker. I'm here to present to you the um financial integrity rating system of Texas grade that San Angel received for 2025 school year. As most of you uh may know, the [snorts] the first rating is is what it's commonly known as is a rating system created by by the Texas legislature and um run by TEA to grade schools on their financial uh capabilities um most

090most importantly financial management uh fiscal policy and uh financial performance. Um they have a traditional grading scale from 0 to 100 uh based on 21 factors. And uh for those of you who don't like numbers, they translate that into a letter grade as well. Uh AB, B, C, and F. So we recently received our rating. Um and so I'm going to go over a few of the factors. Like I said, there's 21 factors. U not all equally rated. the first five factors, the first five indicators, excuse me, um are considered critical factors where if you fail one of them, you automatically get an F. So those certainly important as they all are, but these as mentioned are critical. Um they start with uh mostly related to our annual financial report as as you know that's

091a culmination of kind of our entire year and our financial controls and uh our solveny on that. Um so uh the first one is if we submitted our report to tea on time so which we do and and we have done for uh for many years so that was a yes. Uh did we receive an unmodified opinion and we've been proud to say that we've received unmodified opinions for uh 20 plus years as well. So we're happy to report that was a yes as well. Um indicator three is about did we pay our bills really? Do we pay our debt? Did we did we uh make sure that all those responsibilities were taken care of and and yes they were. Indicator four relates to have we made timely payment payments to other government entities such

092as TRS or teacher retirement system, Texas Workforce Commission, IRS, so on and so forth. We have so uh we're happy to to pass that ceiling. That was just a yes or no on that as well. And so our final one uh the critical indicators was was our total note net position uh greater than zero and coming off our financial statements and that's net of all the debt. Um and we're happy to say that yes that was definitely in the positive. So uh we passed all our critical our five critical indicators. Um so we we move on to our next set. So indicator six through nine are more about solveny. Uh do we have fund balance to cover expenses? to uh do we have enough days cash on hand to make sure we can operate on

093a routine basis? Um and so six, seven, uh specifically seven to nine deal with cash on hand. Uh we pass all all four of those and um with with quite a bit of clearance on those. So, I mean, we're happy to report that uh you know that what we do every day in our financial office and uh the guidance that you provide to us help keep us on top of all that and keep us financially responsible for that. Indicator indicators 10 through 13 deal with fiscal responsibility uh which I just talked about. Um this year indicator 10 was was not measured so it's not included in in the rating but indicators 11 12 and 13 have to do um with do we have enough um do our expenses cover do our revenues cover our expenses

094our liabilities um at least less than or equal to our assets um correlation between future debt payments and what our assessed property values are. we're not overextending ourselves with that. And so we pass all three of those with uh with positive results as well. Indicators 141 16 just have more to do with reporting. Uh did we report the ADA? Was it was it within range? Um did we submit our PES numbers and were they within the allocated variances as well? So uh we got positive results on all of those. So we got all points uh for those indicators. Our final indicator 17 through 21 have really to do more with compliance um with grants that we received from the federal government, state government. Did we fulfill those requirements? Uh did we make the proper reporting

095[snorts] to agencies? Those are simple yes or no. No numbers involved with that. So those are pretty uh pretty easy to answer. We received a yes on all of them except uh the final one which is 21. We did receive a no, but that's the one we we do want to say no on that one. It's uh did we have a a repayment plan with with the state, which we didn't because uh we know what to spend. Um in any case, so those are the the 21 factors. Uh when you put them all together, um our rating, and again, we're a year behind on the on the financial data. It's for the financial year 24, but it's obviously our 25 rating. Um so we got the max points on every indicator that we're allowed. So

096we got a perfect score of 100. Uh which translates to an A. And I think this is the 23rd year that we've received that. Uh so we're all obviously very proud of that. But it takes, you know, our daily work within our financial office and um within our entire business department to make that happen. And well, not just our business department because the work our campuses do every day certainly contribute to that. So, uh, we're always extremely proud to get that perfect score and, um, you know, relate to not only you, but to the public of of taking care of our responsibilities with, uh, the funds that we're entrusted. One of the last things on um, the first rating is present not only the factors, but there's some additional disclosures uh, that we must present.

097Uh one of them is superintendent contract that's available online uh for anyone to to peruse if they choose. Uh we have to list reimbursements made to superintendent and board members yourselves. The majority of this is for travel. Uh but in the sake of transparency that's one of the additional disclosures uh we have to put in there. And finally we have additional compensation for maybe outside fees to superintendent board members any gifts received by board members. You can see they're all pretty much zero. And uh finally, business transactions between any board members um and school district. And again, this is going this is available on our on our website for anyone to uh to look through and comb. Thank you, Alicia. I'm sorry about that. to look through and review at their leisure. But um again

098for transparency that uh we wanted to present to you and and u let you know how proud we are and and um let you know that we're trying to be good stewards of of the money provided to us by the community. So does anyone have any questions? I know I kind of ran through that but no one wants to hear an accountant talk for for an hour up here. >> Any questions for Mr. Guru? >> No I just I just have a comment. Hi May. Um it's 23rd year that we've had excellent and I know a lot of y'all don't know this but 23 years ago or 24 years ago Bill you remember that we were in financial exigency. So, you know, to to do this every year and [snorts] have a 100% a rating

099every year has I mean, I just congratulate y'all and and thank you for everything because, you know, when you get to that point, you're it was bad and we started doing this, started working with our accountants, everything. They got everything together, the past boards and all that. So, so that's why when I read this, I'm like, "Okay, 23rd year. Great." So, we're doing good and that's why it's this this is one of those things that gets lost in time. So, I just wanted to remind everyone that that the reason we are here and the reason I'm very proud of it is because we remember going through that. So, thank you for everything y'all do. I mean, >> and certainly we can get complacent. You know, it's been 23 years, right? It's what what's a big

100deal? It's been 23 years. But, I mean, that takes that takes a lot of work. You know, getting to the top is one thing. Staying at the top can certainly be considerably harder. Um, but the work that our staff puts in every single day is what really makes the difference and we're extremely proud of this and we work hard every day to make sure uh that next year it it's 100 again. So, >> all right. Thank you. And this is just a public hearing so we don't have to take any action on this. So, um, thank you. >> One more. >> Mr. Gro, thank you. You and your team also the old side of Dr. Brandon and the previous uh directors of finance for this district. Uh we seem to make this thing mundane, but

101it is not because it's not a given that uh this happens and especially the hundreds are super hard to come by. Uh a lot of districts are not even close to this, especially in the the run that we've had for the last 23 years is uh short of amazing for this district and your department uh and your tenure here uh and your staff that you that you oversee as well as Dr. Brandon. Uh I'm not sure that uh the public knows how important this is, but I certainly thank you for your efforts uh in this in this noble endeavor because it's not uh it it's uh it you make it seem mundane, but it's certainly a noble process. And thank you very much. >> Well, thank you. We appreciate that. And I'll pass that on

102to the staff. You know, we just try and do our part so uh you know, we can help contribute to success of students here. >> Thank you. Thank Thank you. All right. Next, uh Dr. Brandon's going to help us with considering election of candidates to serve on the Tom Green County Appraisal District Board. Good evening again. Uh the nominations uh were made a few months ago and then um we had no other nominees other than two incumbents uh that are shown for the four-year terms. Um we certainly appreciate I'm sure it's much like uh the board of trustees for school district. Not everybody's standing in line uh to be there and take part of that process uh to put their name out there. So, uh, I want to very much say that I appreciate, um,

103uh, Mr. Johnson and the job he does with his team. I don't think a lot of people realize that, uh, the chief appraiser has to stay within a 95% interval of the comproller for the state of Texas. As soon as that confidence interval drops out a 95%, the money that's dropped, uh, the state takes that away from the school district. So, uh, very much appreciate the work, uh, that it's done, uh, to try to look at those values, uh, consistently and it hasn't always been that way. And I think we can say over the last three years that it's been, uh, looked out very closely, uh, to make sure that we're in line with uh, what those are from the comproller level uh, so that that isn't uh that those monies aren't taken away from

104the school district. So uh with that said uh we bring forward the two nominees uh to you this evening. The 604 votes for St. Angel. The administrative recommendation is 302 votes cast um for each uh for Lewis Gomez and Bob Reeves. >> Any board questions for Dr. Brandon? >> Yes, I have a question. Um, so these two men that were nominated, who who nominates them? >> The city, all of the taxing entities. So that would be the city, the county, the school district, um, Wall ISD, Great Creek ISD, um, can nominate uh, an >> Angela ISD. >> Yes. >> So we nominated these two. Okay. >> Yes. are. >> Yes, we nominated them. >> Yeah. >> Two months ago, I believe. We nominated them as part of our agenda. >> I guess I was not

105at that meeting. >> I think you were there. It was a regular board meeting. >> Okay. >> We can double check, but I'm I don't It was on the It was a regular board meeting agenda. I have to look at what month it was. >> How How do we um I'm just I'm totally new at this, so I'm trying to ask Absolutely. as many questions as I can. >> How did we If we did nominate these, right, you're saying we nominated him. >> How did we come with these two names? >> They were the only names that applied for the position. >> Oh, okay. So, it's put out there for the public and whoever wants to apply applies. >> Yes. is okay. Yeah, it was put out there um not by us but by the

106appraisal district and then these are the two that put their names out in out of every anyone could have applied. >> Okay, >> these are the only two that applied. So then we nominated >> out of everyone in >> St. Angelo. These are the only two names. This is this I mean we've had them several years back where we had three or four names to choose from on there before. >> Yeah, but there were no names to choose from this year. These are the only two that >> they suck. And I think I and I don't know for a fact, but two years ago they changed to where they had to get off cycle so that they used to be you replace the whole group at once or you know or they didn't and they

107had to have so we some of these are now getting people who getting them tiered and this is the first time this group would be part of the tiered group because four years ago they would have not been. >> So I don't know if that >> kind of like the school board. Yeah, it's kind of like Yeah. So, I don't know if that's what kept people from putting their name in the hat or not, but the reality is no one else put their name in the hat. >> And these two men are currently >> Yes, they're currently on it. So, they're >> Do you know how long they've been on the board? >> Re He's been there longer, but I don't remember the timing. >> Yeah. >> Other questions or comments. [snorts] Um and so

108and just to reiterate, you know, from our the every year we also as a as our district for our community, we engage with a law firm to work for. So the controller, the state controller gives a number for what Tom Green County should appraise a area for and then it's the Tom the appraisal district does get to allocate where that money is appraised. But then um we work with we currently are working with Limeburgger to try and >> dispute the same way you would dispute your home taxes. We dispute every year um what the number is for Tom Green County trying to get that number down because the state that's how the state pays for um cost is growth. And so whether there's in some districts there's significant growth in just new houses and new

109businesses and stuff in St. Angelo that's not necessarily as prevalent and so it becomes more on the burden of >> of so we work every year to try and get that reduced but that's >> I'm glad you mentioned that Dr. came in because Lime Barker has been doing that for the district for a while and and people don't really aren't aware of that that you know we get they get the appraisals, we find out how much it's going to but the state gives it to [snorts] them and then we file a a petition to to dispute it every year before they can get it lower. So yeah, we're we're getting as low as we can. So and Limebar does that on behalf of the school district. So, >> and we only pay Lime Barber if

110they save us money. If they find ways to save the community money. [snorts] >> I have one more question. Okay. So, there was only two men that came before us, right? So, what happens if us, you know, as a group decide, well, we don't want to nominate these two men. So what's they've been nominated we could so we if we decide not to cast our votes. >> Okay. >> Um so they've been nominated already. Okay. >> I would guess that if we didn't cast our votes they would still win because even without our votes there's no one running against them. >> There's no one. So there there's not um it's a since there's no one there have been years where we've had four or five candidates and we had to decide hey we really want

111this person this person or this person and so we would actually strategic we might only if there was someone the board felt strongly should be on there we might take our 604 and instead of allocating them equally to the three people we thought we wanted if there was one person we wanted for sure to get a position ition, we might allocate 300 votes to that one and then 150 and 150 to the other two. Does that make sense? But that makes sense. >> But this year, even if we did not allocate our votes, >> we would these people would be I would assume would be be I mean, I guess that' be appraisal district's decision, but I would assume that they would have enough votes from other taxing entities to be named regardless because we're

112not there's no one to vote against them with our votes. So, do we still need to vote no matter what? >> I mean, I think it's board action and require us that that we do that by state law like whether I guess we each person could choose to abstain from voting if they wanted to um or vote against, but um state law we I think we have to actually do the vote to meet the standard or meet our requirement to the appraisal district. >> Okay. I'd like to abstain from voting today, please. Um, so do I have a motion to approve the candidates of the Tong Green County Appraisal District Board? So I'll make Well, I'll adopt the attached resolution casting the district 604 votes and enter the votes on the ballot for submission to

113Tong Green County Appraisal District for Luis Gomez and Bob Reeves. >> Okay. So I have a motion for Mr. Gigos. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. Have a second from Mr. Dr. Mills. Do I have any further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I. >> All against say the same. And is it we'll call that a 6 with Mrs. Cardinz um abstaining. All right. Next is consider approval of sale of property item G. And Dr. Brand's going to help us with that as well. >> Dr. Keeman on the resolution for approving sale of city property. It's not school district property, but this is city property. A real property located at 2011 West 20th and 209 West 9th in St. Angelo, Texas, was recently auctioned with no offers received. The property

114is then struck off to the city as trustee uh for itself and the other taxing entities. St. Angel is one of the taxing authorities entitled to receive proceeds from the sale of the property. Texas Tax Code 34.05 05 requires the consent of each taxing entity for the sale of the property upon search terms. The city has received bids on the two property uh since the auction. Uh Francisco Javier Gloria a bid of $20,50 for 2011 West 20th and Miguel Duran a bid of $5,600 for 209 West 9th. Administrative recommendation would be to approve the sale of the property as one of the taxing entities and that property be put back on the tax roll uh to be a benefit to our community. >> Any questions or comments? Um so um you know this is something

115that we have done previously has not been done as routinely recently just I think because of co and other things but basically the the key is this is people who have this is a properties that have been left either abandoned or not paid their taxes for several years and um now are being sold by the city to and by approving it we can put them back on the tax roles as well. [snorts] Any questions or comments? Do I have a motion to approve? >> Dr. Hman moved to approve the resolution authorizing the tax resale of 2011 West 20th and 209 West 9th St. Angelo, Texas by the city of St. Angelo as presented. And again, as your explanation is all this does is is put these uh entities back on the tax roles uh for

116some viable use in the future. >> So, a motion for Mr. Dindle. Do I have a second? I'll second. >> A second from Mrs. Meisel Flint. Any further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. >> All again say the same. Motion passes 70. All right. Next, Mr. Henry, [clears throat] you help us with some bid 25-015. >> Thank you for having me here tonight. The original maintenance, transportation, and miscellaneous supplies RFP allows for additional vendors to be added throughout the bid term with board approval. The recap proposal, the recapped proposal has been reviewed by the purchasing department and qual and is qualified to be an to be approved vendors. The administration recommends approval of all vendors on the attached bid tab. Do you all have any questions? Are there any new ones on

117this one? >> Uh, A Toz bus would be a newer one for supplies. They're on another bid for actual purchasing buses, but this would just be for supplies them and nationals. The rest of the and City Lumber. City Lumber is a a newer one. We used to do a lot of business with them in the past and they've switched ownerships and we're happy to have them back. Any further questions or comments? >> Again, these are additions to many vendors that we have. >> Correct. >> Uh this is just this month's addition to the uh the bevy of uh purchasers that we do now have that are authorized. Right. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the additional vendors? I'll approve to move the for the additional vendors as attached. Do

118I have a second? >> I'll second. >> A second from Dr. Mills. So, a motion for myself and a second from Dr. Mills. Any further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. >> I. >> All say the same. Motion passes 70. Next, we're going to go with the official appointment of the board of trustees of the MHMR services of the for the Contro Valley. And um Miss Miselunt will not be voting on this, but um she can stay in the room. Do and uh Dr. Moran, do you have anything? >> No, we just recommend that the board approve those that have been presented tonight for consideration. You can see in your board books the attachment and the action sheet. And so we would ask the board um to approve as presented. So there

119are three reappoints and one new appointment. We looked at this last week. Um but any and we kept it on [snorts] the regular agenda just because consent we couldn't abstain from >> No, you're good. Um so do I have a motion to approve the board of trustees of the MHMR services for the Kachcha Valley? >> I'll make a motion to approve the official appointment of the nominees as recommended by the lean representatives. >> I'll second. There's a motion from Dr. Mills and a second from Mr. Dindle. Any further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I. All again say the same. Motion passes 6. All right. Um we have announcements. We have a pre-agenda workshop December 8th. Huh. >> Yeah. uh sorry pre December 8th and then a regular board meeting on December

12015th and with that we are adjourned. Thank you.