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 pre-aggenda board meeting. We appreciate your interest in the activities of our students and the business of SASD. 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 of the items on our agenda this evening will be discussed tonight and voted upon at our regular board me. As members of the SASD board of trustees, we here to set goals, listen to reports from our superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personnel appointments, and to make policy
002for the district. Please keep in mind that our mean is a mean of the board of trustees held in public and not a mean of the public. However, we do have a public comment item on our agenda that allows anyone who present who wishes to speak to our board team on an item that is 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. 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 district will provide an official timekeeper. You will be notified when your time is up.
003Please 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 you filled out. And any speaker with a 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 grievance being processed by the district, please recall that you will not be permitted to speak about the grievance during public comment. Also, please understand if you offer public comment that the board cannot reply to you except to thank you for your comment since the matter has
004not been posted for discussion. I ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking and I also ask as I remind my fellow board members 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. U Miss Cardinas uh got called away for work, so she will not be able to be here this evening. Um and with that we will stand and we I will lead us in the pledges. All right, we do have two people signed up for public comment tonight. First is Mr. Virgil Petti and it's under leadership goals and transparency. Wait one second. Let me get the mic turned on for you. We'll restart the timer for you. >> There you go. >>
005Thank you. Um, one of the things that you said that you do here is set goals. Um, here in a minute we're going to hear about the targeted improvement plan. And over the last four years, I've heard these and it's the same thing over and over. We're doing great here. We're doing great there. Look, we this one little data point, we did good there, but as you can see from the TEA scores, not so good. Um, can we actually tell us what the goal is? I know at the last meeting you said 73 wasn't your goal that you thought we could do better. Well, what is the goal? Because no one ever gets held accountable. They come up here, they tell us the same improvement plan, more schools turn to Fs, they get raises, they
006get promoted. nothing ever happens. Why don't you give us the clear goal? We have this many schools failing and if we don't see this many get to this level by this time, then we have to do something different. And sometimes that means a management change. And if you're not able to do a management change, then maybe it's a board change. If you're too entitled, too in tangled with these people that I know you like them, you say, "Hey, we got great people." But sometimes great people don't have great results. And so just because your results are bad doesn't mean that you're a bad person. It just means you're on the wrong seat of the bus. And if you're not willing to make changes because you like that person too much, then then maybe this isn't
007the board for you. Maybe there's another board somewhere else you can go to. Look at Fannon. Temporary principal. F. Golad's an F school. You put a temporary principle in there. Reagan's an F school. They were in an F school, but then you put a brand new principal in there. So now she's on her second year. That's an F school. You say that we're going to move assets and do this and all this. So are you going to take a principal out of one of the A schools that has a proven track record and then shift them to the F school so that they can take that leadership and put it there? Well, that might endanger your A school that y'all are here to protect. So instead of telling us you're going to do something, tell
008us what the goal is and then tell us what you're going to do. And then this time next year when I come in here, if things got better, then we can correlate to what did it. And if things didn't get better, then it's time for a change. So be transparent. Tell us what the goal is and what you're going to do different. And then that way when we come back next year, we can see if it worked. And if it didn't work, let's not do the same thing over and over expecting different results because that would be insanity. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Petti. Next, we have Miss Sarah Alexander. Her topic is Lake View. I'm here again today to advocate for Lake View. I'm going to be completely honest. Closing campus kind of opened
009Pandora's box. Many of us, myself included, had no idea about the depths of the inequalities between high schools. We knew about the ones that have always existed, the racism, the discrimination against low-income families. But the true extent of all of this would have likely never come to light had you not closed campus, then doubled down on that by calling it a non-issue. I will admit that if you hadn't have closed campus or even opened it back up at any point, I would have never looked into any of it and would have likely just accepted the central is a bigger school excuse without even questioning it. Um, instead, as weeks go by, parents discover more and more things. Um, the lack of opportunities at Lake View are clear when looking at the district's own accountability report.
010In that report, Central is offered multiple clubs and organizations that are unavailable to Lake View students. Additionally, the list of classes and sports not offered at Lake View is egregiously long. Um, even when something is allegedly offered, we still don't have it. Recently, St. Angelo Police Chief Travis Griffith said, "I'd encourage St. Angelo folks to have hard conversations with their kids and make sure that we're in reinforcing that we need to have value for life and have a connection to our hometown, to treat it as best we can, and speak up when we see something. I would like to encourage all of you to do the same because we are having those hard conversations with our kids and they are speaking up, but y'all aren't listening. How are they supposed to have that connection to
011their hometown, the one that deters serious, even criminal acts when it's clear that some people in charge of their school don't care? The school to prison pipeline is a very real thing that begins in failing public schools and with administrators who fail to give kids opportunities to thrive. You must lead by example and value the lives of the children on the north side, too. If we want a better community, then you all must treat each child the same, and when they speak up, take their concerns seriously. Please do not leave our kids locked down for another 3 years while Central remains open. This blatant inequality is a constant reminder to the community of where your priorities lie. Open Lake View back up and level the playing field. Again, we're not asking for more, just the
012same. Don't let your personal and professional reputations be forever tainted by a lack of empathy. Quit treating this as a non-issue. Lastly, everyone knows about the data breach with Powers Schools, aka Home Access Center. Same company. Ken Paxton literally sued Power School on September 3rd for breaches across the state. Just be honest with the public about it so that we know what's been done with our children's personal information. Um, we just want transparency. It's been pretty transparent across the nation with the Power Schools hack. We just want the same from y'all. Thanks. Thank you, Miss Alexander. Um, next we're going to move into some reports. First is a summary of findings of the TEA intruder detection audit conducted by ESC staff. >> Uh, Dr. Keeman, uh, we did not have a report uh, for this
013past 30 days um, from the TEAA intruder audits. >> Thank you. Next is a construction update. Thank you, Dr. Kingman. Board, good evening. Uh, still pretty much design. We are, uh, several campuses in the design phase. So, that's all going good. Uh we have some more this week with Glenn and I guess we had Lake View Central last week where where we have students actually involved with this. They're coming and and helping. So that's that's pretty exciting for them. Uh the main construction though, I don't know if any of y'all have been by Crockett, but it's it's well underway. We're moving dirt, have a pad pretty well built, and a retaining wall poured out there. So it's coming right along. Uh, I believe we looked at Lake View Baseball and softball last week. Uh, getting
014ready to that's KFW's project. So, they are starting the design on a new parking lot and concession there. So, we got that. It's It's busy. And then we've got SKG today. We marked holes for uh boring at Central. Getting ready for a geotech report there. So, uh, lots of stuff going on. There's not a whole lot you can see. So, that's that's really about it. Did I miss anything? Dr. Brandon pretty well cover. And then, of course, I guess next meeting Park Hill will have a lot more a lot more to uh share. So, any questions? >> And I might just share quickly with the board that this process they call the sharet process. uh we start with a lot of different ideas and allow all of the stakeholders to take a look at those
015and whittle those down to a few and then they really start getting serious about designing. But it's all about spatial relationship right now, not the finer design. But that's why they brought in the students involved in those programs, the teachers that are sponsors in teaching those programs so that they could help us know what what are we missing? You know, what do we need to think about? How can we make this ours? and uh not just some uh uh boilerplate design that an architect might bring, but we want it to be sensible, not over the top, but very practical and and uh functional for us. And so that's what's been going on the last month and month and a half. It's been exciting and um I think the students that have been involved in it
016have really um appreciated the process because the architects allowed them to stick red and green stickers on the different designs, things they liked and didn't like and talked with them and um it was really a really a good process. So, we'll just continue that. And um on the 21st, Park Hill will be here to give you a more indepth and um probably some really neat designs to look at. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you all. >> We do have one action item this evening and it's kind of based on a timing outside of the district. So, I'll let Dr. Brandon uh help us with considering the nominations of candidates to serve on the board of directors of the Tom Green Appraisal District for the 2629 term. Dr. Keeman, Dr. Moran, board of trustees.
017Um back in December 31, 2024 uh taxing units appointed five directors to serve terms uh beginning uh January 1, 2025 as part of Senate Bill Two. Uh this year we do have up two of those positions. Uh both Bob Reeves and Lewis Gomez have showed an interest in returning to the board. Uh the chief appraiser uh has had um good interactions with both of them being on the board of directors and so we would put their names forward as nominees uh for the board uh for the Tom Green County Appraisal District. >> And Dr. Ren, just to make sure I understand, after this um nomination, then the staggering will be correct and everyone will be on four-year terms from here on out. >> So, this was to get >> the people who we had appointed
018previously, we had to appoint to or we nominated previously. We had to um do one-year terms in order to get the staggering correct. Is that right? >> Right. To meet up with the legislative mandate. Okay. questions and the tax appraisal district needs that by the 15th and for us our next meeting is not till the week after that. So that's why we're doing that tonight. Um any questions for Dr. Brandon? Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion for the nominees for election to the Tom Green County Appraisal District Board of Directors for the 4-year term of January 1st, 2026 through December 31st of 2029. The names one, Bob Reeves and number two, Luis Luis Gomez. >> Do I have a second? I'll second. So, motion for Mr. Gyos and a second for Mr.
019Dindle. Any further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. All against say the same. Motion passes 6. Um all right. At this point in time we're going to go into close session and it's going to be three different codes. It's going to be 551.072 under real property 551.074 under personnel matters and 551.076 which is security devices. Um and we will be back in just a moment. All right, we are back from executive session. We uh took no votes. No action was taken. Um so we will move forward with our agenda for this evening. Next on our agenda is to review our proposed agenda for our october 21st meeting. Um we'll have our invocation, pledge, and recognitions and public comments. um information items. Park Hill will be here. So um we said when they
020are doing things in the district this week, thought it was better to have their full presentation at the regular board meeting for public and for us next week. Um Dr. Self will do the targeted improvement plans and turnaround plans which is also part of the public record. And although this meeting is now recorded, we'll do that at our regular board meeting next week or two weeks. Um, and then we'll have a updates on student transfers and student demographics, which will also be presentations that we want the entire public to see. We want public to see all of them, but that we think making having them do that next week or in two weeks again, sorry, I apologize. Um, makes the most sense. So then we'll have consent items and um consent item one will be
021our minutes. Uh consent item two is consider approval of authorized list of investment training providers. And who is here to present that this evening? Dr. Merl. Uh, Texas Government Code sections 2256. 77 and 0.08 require investment officers to receive related training to their investment responsibilities under the public funds investment act. Uh so you find uh the list of those that have returned their documentation uh that they've met those expectations and have provided this service in the past uh for St. Angelo ISD. Uh and so you see their organization um uh listed as the providers of that investment training. And so we would submit that uh list uh for uh training for any of our um administrators uh or the finance team in the district. That's quite quite extensive list but all qualified to provide that
022training. >> Dr. Brandon, anybody new on the list? >> I do not believe so. Yeah, look like they were all have been tenured members with the district. It looks like that we had uh one one new one, Texas investment training Any questions for Dr. Brandon regarding the authorized list of investment brokers and dealers? Everyone okay keeping that consent? Okay. So, next we're going to talk about the policy for the the approval of the CDA local investment policy for SASD and that's on page 39. Um again this is with government code and Dr. Brandon. >> Yes sir. The the with the public funds investment act again this time 2256.025 board of trustees must review revise and adopt list of qualified brokers and dealers on an annual basis. Uh we have the list of firms uh that
023we uh do business with and then who the broker or dealer is on each one of those. Miss Chavez certainly has the uh day-to-day type activities um communications with these. Um and then you see behind that uh a list of each one of those that is saying yes, they would like to remain on the broker dealers list for St. Angelo ISD. >> And then the and then the local investment policy though, Dr. Brandon, is the is the >> 390 >> is page 39 to 40. >> Yes. CDA local. Yes. >> Um and so each year that uh that has to re reviewed annually. Um and then uh you see as part of that um our primary goal um on page 41 ensure safety of the principal, maintain liquidity and maximize financial returns. Those are three
024things. And then each month you know when the board looks at that you see the diversification of the portfolio for the district. uh certainly under our debt service funds and now our capital project funds uh ensuring that enough liquidity exists so that we can make payments at the appropriate time uh during bond construction or whether that is to make our payments to our INS payments uh to the bond. Um and then on page 44 uh just a note on the annual review uh that we do so no changes suggested uh for CDA local. Any questions regarding that? Fantastic. That we'll keep that on consent. Uh the next is our approval or annual portfolio report ending the 31st of 2025. So, I'm gonna have Mr. Dendle go ahead and present on that tonight. So, that is
025it doesn't have to be a part of our financial report next week or two weeks from now since we already have it for us. >> Okay. Normally, these would appear in the uh the financial records for the for the month. But, uh if you want to look at the uh the year-end investment portfolio report, it's on pages 45 to 49. Page 47 specifically has a chart showing 2024 year-end earnings of 4.206 million procs and the year in 2025 uh year-end earnings of 4.551 million procs. uh investments again at the end of the year in 2024 approximately 67 million and again the investment at the end of the year of 2025 of course has our bond funds in there at 466,611 million $466,611,000. So again, uh we can only show one month's interest uh extra collection
026in that year in 2025, but it'll definitely show the years uh the years uh coming forward where uh the interest income will be significantly higher than it has been. That's the year in investment portfolio. There not any questions there. >> Any questions? Is everyone okay keeping the year end as part of the consent agenda for next? >> Okay, keep that on consent. So next is the approval of the quarterly investment report and that's on page 50. >> Page 50 correct. Uh again a synops there quarterly year ending uh earnings of 1,94,58982 again where the uh endear the uh investments earned at the end of the month were again $466,611,000. >> Dr. We we inadvertently did not have that copy in >> because it was normally this is normally in part of the financial. So >>
027I apologize. >> No, it's all good. We're trying to find we're find finding the dance with our new uh >> Yeah. >> restrictions on when we have to post everything. >> I got the summary. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. The only thing other I would like to report is interest rates varied from 3 05% on an older investment that we have up to 44%. And the interest rates earned right now. Perfect. Any questions? Any reason anyone wants to pull that from consent? >> Okay, keep that on consent. Next, we're going to um talk about bid 25-015, which is maintenance, transportation, and miscellaneous supplies. And Mr. Henry's going to help us with that. Thank you for having me here tonight. This bid is established establishes a list of vendors mainly used by our maintenance
028and transportation departments throughout the year for supplies. Child nutrition campuses and other departments use this bid as well. This year we had 95 vendors respond to the bid. Additional vendors can be added throughout the contract period upon board approval. These vendors are used to secure supplies, equipment, and services. Any supplies or services that cost 10,000 or more are required to be accompanied by an attempt to secure three quotes. This contract period will be from November 1, 2025 to October 31st of 2030. The administration recommends approval of all uh vendors listed on the attached bid tab. Do you all have any questions over this? >> This is bigger than last year, isn't it? >> Uh we This one is is an odd one because we allow people to be added on to it throughout the year.
029uh it was about 30 less than the last time I presented it, but as we go through those, out of those 30, some of them we've never used. Some of them are on co-ops and chose that mechanism to do business with us. So, we got a good pool though. >> Any questions or comments for Mr. Henry on bid 25? Okay, we're okay keeping that on consent? Okay. Next, um, at your desk, you have the data cabling and audiovisisual, um, tabulation sheet, and Mr. Henry is going to help us with that one as well. Each year, we have the need for a variety of new cable drops in various locations around the district. These may include computer network drops, telephone drops, cable video drops, fiber, and others. We have also seen an increase in the number
030of AV installations. mostly TVs throughout the district. With the assistance of the technology department, specifications were created for the addition of data cabling and AV installation. Requests were sent to 24 companies who provide this type of work. Bids were open and three respond responses were received. The scoring criteria was applied and Power System Security of St. Angelo received the highest score. At this time, the administration recommends awarding primary status to Power System Security and secondary status to Elite Solutions and Telpro. Do you all have any questions over this one? >> What a secondary status. What will I just take up the stuff that that power what do they call >> power systems? Yes. What this does is it gives us the ability if power systems is overwhelmed instead of having to wait we can go
031to one of the secondary uh vendors and use them. So it's a multiple award bid but power systems would get the first right of refusal. All right. Any other questions for Mr. Henry? Keep that on consent. Uh, next is new vehicles and used vehicles. >> The district is currently in the need of two in need of two expeditions. This will primarily be used for staff and student travel. During the 2022 23 school year, bids for new and used vehicles were prepared and received by the purchasing department. These bids were extended by mutual agreement between the vendor and the district. Both bids were awarded to Jim Bass Ford and allow for the purchase of new and used vehicles as needed at a negotiated price. The administration recommends the purchase of four new vehicles and the purchase
032of two used vans when available. The used vans shall not exceed a total cost of 60,000. The total cost of all vehicles purchased at this time is $277,66. All right. Any questions regarding that? And those all come out of um budgeted for this year from the different departments. >> Correct. This is all capital outlay. >> Perfect. All right. Any other questions regarding >> keep that on consent. >> All right. >> Thank you, Mr. Henry. All right. Now, we're going to start looking at our action items. U the bills, accounts, and financial statements. Uh that will come to all of us with our agenda for the 21st meeting. Um and so we will keep that on regular and we'll have our u report on that as well from Mr. Dindle. um the extracurricular status of the
0334 organization for Mcola County. Dr. Gomez, you want to anything you want to tell us about that tonight? >> Yes, sir. So, annually we approve this list and you all already approved the list at the beginning of the school year. Since that time, there's been a specific situation involving a student. Uh if you notice it says um in the action sheet I believe since it's not on the agenda it's an extenduating circumstance from where the cattle live and the where the cattle live is where the faculty member has to be. So that's why we need to come back and present to you this additional adjunct request. >> Yeah. So the we will keep that as regular. Um but yeah, it's just adding a someone so that a kid can do the 4H experience that they're
034trying to do through their home where the livestock are actually living. All right. Um the next is House Bill 3372, restrictions on outside employment by administrators as also Dr. Gomez listed, but it also has Dr. Brandon on the sheet, so I'm not sure which one of you is doing that, but >> I'll just speak to it just because my name is right here, but I'm happy to pass the baton however needed. Um, so we've already brought to you one of these at the beginning of the school year. as we have hired and brought a new administrator on board, we need to also bring um that agreement to you because we did not have that employee hired at the time we brought you the last one. It has to be specific to the administrator and this
035is an agreement that Dr. Lamaster has with another educational entity to be in alignment with the restrictions on outside employment. All right. So, this is just a similar to what we've done before. We'll keep it as regular to let Dr. Lam Master um finish an agreement she has with ASU at this point in time. Any questions regarding that? Okay. Next will be bid 25-016, which is the Sam Houston demolition. Um, we kind of talked about this at our we went through the bidding of it at our uh meeting a pre-aggenda September meeting. Yes. Um, so we'll keep that as a regular and we will discuss that um with everyone next week. Uh, we have the whole board team present. uh purchase of yellow school buses. Mr. Livingston, are you >> Look at that. >> Good
036evening everybody. As promised last month, I was be back this uh this month with uh the yellow bus purchase for uh the upcoming year. Um this uh does stay in alignment with our proposed uh fleet turnover um and also keeps us in line with uh uh the Senate Bill 546 that was passed uh this past uh um legislative session that's going to require uh three point uh belts on each seat for every bus by September 1st of 29. So, um, as long as we don't fall short of our of our proposed uh turnover, we'll be uh we won't have to sweat the uh September 129 date. This uh particular uh bid is for eight units. There's two of them that are going to take the place of a couple of units on um the yellow
037uh fleet that sit on our uh travel line. Um they're going to be upgraded with uh um underbody storage and up upgraded uh um air conditioning capabilities for travel purposes. But the nice part about those, they can also be used as route buses as well. Um, and those two that are now sitting there will move over to um the daily fleet. Um, we'll have uh also the addition of four uh 72 passenger route buses, general education, and two uh that are going to be equipped for special needs. Total of eight units. >> So this is on our replacement cycle. Is this coming out of fund balance or out of um capital? >> Yes. Yes sir. And capital. It would be fund balance but >> fund the capital outlay we designated earlier this year. >> Yes
038sir. >> Okay. These are the same buses is what I'm trying to make sure of. Okay. Thank you. >> And pending approval. Mr. Livingston, what's the delivery date for? It'll probably be summer for most of them at the end of the school year. >> Okay, that's some good news. >> All right, any questions? We'll present that. Or do you you all want to move that to consent or >> we'll make that one consent? Mr. Livingston, we won't make you come back for that one next week. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Or two weeks from now. All right. So, Jessica, you got that? Okay. Next, uh we're going to talk about bond construction delivery methods. Um and Dr. Brandon, you want to give us a short synopsis on what we're doing here with um Vannon and
039KFW? >> Yes, sir. I'll give you a quick update. Uh Brooks um and Kai Frankie uh will be here on the 21st to talk through that with the board. Uh that was originally a con uh a sealed bid proposals uh for that campus, but they believe in similar projects uh that they've done in that 17 million neighborhood. And after looking at the scope of the project, they think there will be cost savings to the district to do that. um has a um construction manager at risk and so they would like to talk through that with the board. And since the board approved the project list all at once, uh then we would bring that back to the board to make a change for Fannon uh for KFW architects to do the Seymar. All right. So,
040we'll obviously keep that regular and just so everyone knows what's going on there. And then RFQ25-021. Um we are hoping to have a recommendation by our October 21st meeting for um Glenn Central and Lake View whether those are all construction manager at risk that um bids have been received and we just need to get tabulated as far as what um what the recommendation will be based on all of that. >> So >> yeah. Yes sir. Park Hill will be here that evening and and walk the board through each one of the uh contractors uh that were part of that bid process and then give some different scenarios and cost savings uh to the district whether those are assigned individually or all as one. So we will keep that as regular and work through that as
041a full as a board next on the October 21st. All right. Any other questions or comments from the board? All right. So then we'll have our announcements and that will be everything. So finding nothing else. I we are ajourned. Thank you.