001Sorry. Good 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 at 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 meeting. As members of the SSD board of trustees, we are here to set goals, listen to reports from our superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personnel appointments, and
002to make policy for 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 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 located at the back of the room. Please listen carefully and comply with the following rules so we can move part through this part of the meeting efficiently. Each speaker will be given a total of three minutes. The district will provide an official
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004been posted for discussion. I ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking. 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. Um we do have a quorum this evening. Our entire board team is present. And with that, if everyone stand and join me in the pledges um of allegiance to the United States and Texas. United States of America. and they get to do that. Okay. Um, next we're going to move forward. Um, there was no one who signed up for public comment, so I'm going to go ahead and move forward with conducting our finance and audit committee workshop. And Mr. Dindle will lead us through this. Thank you, Dr. Kim.
005We've got several reports tonight. First on our agenda is a bond financial advisor update and Jeff Robert is going to help us with that. Welcome, Jeff. Good to see you again. Good evening, Board of Trustees. Dr. Moran, Jeff Robert with Hilltop Securities. Um, before I get into my presentation, I think this is the first time I've seen you all since prior to the election. Jeff, I'm not sure your microphone's on or if it's or maybe you're just taller than the Okay, let me raise it up. I'm sorry. Since it's been a while since I've been here, I want to say first and foremost, congratulations on on the election. Um, as a native St. Angelo and I was very excited with those results and very excited to to see uh you know the improvements that are
006made to the district to some of the schools that I actually attended. So that was very very exciting. Um if you'll Okay. Um I'm going to go in this and I'm going to try not to to read all through this but as you're aware the legislature just wrapped up their session. Uh and Senate Bill 4 was one of the bills that passed and I think it was filed on on February the 6th. uh it's already received governor's signature and I and clearly you had done a lot of work in uh leading up to the election well before this bill was even contemplated. Um but in a nutshell what this bill will do it's going to increase the homestead exemption from 100,000 to 140,000. Um this exemption will likely result in a decrease in the district's
007taxable value of somewhere between 650 and $700 million. Um, now the way that the hold harmless for this uh this bill will work is that any bond issue that closes prior to September 1st or settles prior to seep 1st of 2025 will receive a full hold harmless. Now, what that means is is that you'll be receiving state funding to offset that increase in the homestead exemption. Now, back in 23, they said that they would hold harmless all school district authorizations, meaning your entire election amount. Unfortunately, this goound, the language says they'll only hold harmless the bond issuances or actual bonds sold prior to 91 or excuse me, yes, 91 of 25. So, the percentage that you would roughly receive in terms of a hold harmless amount on this bond issue is about 10%. So, if
008you think about a $397 million bond issue, if we're able to do all of it, interest being roughly the same, we're talking about close to $80 million of hold harmless funding. So, our goal is going to be to issue as much of the authorization as possible in order to maximize that hold harmless amount because anything you don't receive in hold harmless amount instead comes from the local taxpayers. So, we had to kind of shift gears with our our strategy. Initially, we talked about doing two issuances. Uh, but if we do that because of this new legislation that we knew nothing about when we were talking about it way back when, um, we have to kind of pivot. We're still going to adhere to the tax rate constraints that were promised to the electorate, to the
009voters. Um, but we're looking to sell as much as we can to maximize the amount of money coming from the state rather than that being made up by the the local taxpayers. If we go to the second slide here, just kind of talk about where where interest rates are. Um, this is what's called the bond buyer 20-year index. This gives the 20-year rate or A-rated uh bond issues, 20 different bond issues. It's not meant to be an applesto apples comparison. It's just kind of give you an idea of where the overall market is. The the graph in the background shows where this has gone all the way from 1981 there on the far left to where we are now. You can kind of see that big dip in rates during COVID. We have come back
010up. Admittedly, kind of the the tariff talk as well as uncertainty with the, for lack of a better description, the big beautiful bill. A lot of that uncertainty has caused rates to come up some. And you can see in that blue graph there in the top right corner what this index has done over the last year. So, for our purposes, we're we're projecting about a 4.9% interest rate right now. Um but right now it is it is very volatile. There's going to be a lot of school district bond issues in the market because there were a lot of May authorizations and they're all aware of that hold harmless as well and want to maximize it. So we're hoping for under 5% is the goal. So if we're able to do the entire amount which based
011upon our projections right now we can um we would actually start off at 36 cents which is the amount or the rate that was communicated to the voters that 27.26 26 INS tax rate increase and then with very conservative taxbased assumptions we've got that declining slightly over time that light excuse me that line will come down more if your actual tax base growth exceeds what our assumptions are. So I wouldn't get fixated and say, "Oh, we're going to be there forever." Because this is probably what the line looked way back in uh in 200, what was the last one? 2009, was that it? Yeah, I think that's right. So, we kind of had the same thing. And as you know, if you look historically, that INS tax rate came down quite a bit from the
012initial uh high of of I believe 33 was roughly where we were at. Um, one of the things that is helping us right now is that the the initial uh values that we've received from Tom Gr Tom County Appraisal District are a little higher than what we were projecting. You know, back when we were running numbers, we were around 7.1 7.2. The most recent update that we've gotten from from the CAD or from the county appraisal district is about 7.5 billion. So, that extra uh value is allowing us to hopefully be able to issue that that entire authorization. But you can see after that we're only assuming one percent for uh what is that roughly nine years and then only half a percent after that. So that line that you saw on that graph on
013the previous page is based upon these growth assumptions. If you grow just 2% or 3% you'll continue to see that line kind of come down even further. So we try to be very conservative and the hope is that certainly the district's actual taxbased growth will outpace this. So, what the board is being asked to consider uh at the next meeting is what's called a parameter bond order. Um, in a nutshell, it's allowable under 1371 of the government code. Uh, the board delegates final pricing authority typically to the superintendent. And Dr. Brandon, I'm not going to read your entire uh title there. You've got one of the longer ones there I've seen, but but to to Dr. Moran or Dr. Brandon, uh, the board establishes and approves the sale parameters that are included in the document.
014And if those parameters can be met, then Dr. Moran andor Dr. Brandon can approve uh the issuance of the bonds on behalf of the district. And the reason we do that is just to give us some flexibility. Um used to not be allowed to do that and the you know the the first and third Mondays of the month were real busy for school districts because most of you meet on those dates. So we got a little flexibility by being allowed to do these parameter orders. So pretty much all the districts that I work with utilize this method to sell their bonds. And so the parameters that are included in the order uh that you'll consider next week again the delegated pricing officer superintendent or CFO um maximum allowable principal amount it's a not to exceed
015amount so if we get to pricing date and we determine that we can't issue all of it we'll do as much as we can but this would allow us if we can get to that and feel comfortable the entire 397. I've put 575 in there just in the event um that rates spike a little bit and I I feel like even if they do spike, we're still going to want to make sure we issue an amount prior to 91 because again, we want to get that hold harmless. So, we really don't have time to uh uh to probably come back to the board, reapprove another parameter. So, I've got purposefully a higher interest rate in there. um final maturity date would be a 30-year issuance and the delegation expiration while it says 365 days I
016would imagine we'll we'll probably have the the transaction completed within a a month or month and a half. And then the last page um admittedly Dr. Moran, Dr. Brand and I haven't talked about a specific date, but wanted to kind of give you maybe a hypothetical schedule of events of the different things that we're going to be doing leading up to the actual pricing of the bonds. This would be an assumed uh July 8th bond sale. And you can see all the different things that we uh need to do and all the different parties that are involved there on the left uh in order to take the necessary steps to bring the the issuance to market, close it in this case by August 7th. But again, hate to use this term, but kind of a
017drop dead date of 9 of 8:31. We've got to get this thing sold and closed before September 1st. So, I know I flew through that. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Sorry. Go ahead. You're running this part. I I have a question. Um, so one, Jeeoff, you did our refinance on our previous bond six years ago and we did a parameter order at that point in time which I think saved us.3 cents because of when you were able to um execute it with not being a board meeting. The race dropped and you were y'all were Dr. It was Jeff I guess was it Jeff right at that time? But we were able to do it and we saved a significant percentage. So just for the whole board like that that that
018parameter order has worked to our favor previously. Um and so I think even though it seems weird to give you know we set these maximums and minimums but it allows us to make sure that if the rates drop on June 30th for whatever reason um we can lock that in even though we don't have a meeting that week. Um then my so that's just for the board. question. When we set a 30-year, how long till we can we refinance if rates dropped again in the future? That's a good question. So, I I would assume we're going to have either a nine or 10-year call. Um, so if we were to refinance at tax exempt interest rates, we'd be about nine or 10 years from being able to do that. Now, on the 2015, excuse me,
0192019 was or 2020 was when we refunded. So taxable actually taxable interest rates were so low because of COVID that we were able to save $7.8 million doing that refinancing then. So if if taxable rates were to get at an extremely low level, we could refinance it at any time. If we want to do it at tax exempt rates under current federal law, we have to do it within 90 days of the call date. And so the reason I say nine or 10 year call provision is if we make it any shorter than that, that starts to impact your initial interest rate on the issuance. and we don't want to we don't want to do that. Um it used to be prior to the the uh the tax changes in 2017, I believe it was
0202017 or 18, you used to be able to do one what we call taxexempt refunding at any time. There's a big push to try and reinstate that, but under current law, we we can't do that. We can only do it within 90 days of the call day. Sorry, one last thing. I apologize. And then the um just to make sure I heard it correctly, whatever we can depending on what rates do, we will work to maximize keeping the rate for the public what we told them it would be, we are going to maximize the state funding of that um of our bond. So if it's if we can only finance 360 million of it, we will go all 360 of it and get the entirety of the whole harmless that we can do and keep
021the INS rate where we promised we would. That's right. We're not going to exceed the level that was communicated to the voters and we want to do as much as we can to do ex exactly what you said. No, good. Sorry. Good. That answered my question. So yeah, good. Any other questions for Mr. Robert? All right, as we proceed. Thank you very much, Jeff. See you again. Again, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. Okay. All right. Next, we got a bond project update. Uh, and, uh, Dr. Bran is going to help us with that or start off. Good evening, Dr. Kingman. Dr. Bran uh board of trustees. Quick quick introduction before uh Mr. Lopez gets started. Uh we have with us this evening our new director of construction uh Carl Danheim. Um he's uh
022currently uh with Plain View ISD in this role. Uh and so I'm going to let him tell you just a little bit uh about u his connection to St. Angelo uh before we get into Park Hill's presentation. super excited to be here, be part of the St. Angelo ISD team. I'm I'm looking forward to getting here and we getting started. So, uh other than that, the connection to here is I grew up in Merson, Texas, graduated high school at Darren County. So, it's and I've been back a few times since, so it's it's a coming home for me. So, like I say, looking forward to to getting here. It's great to have you, Mr. Danheim, and it's good to hear that you've lived in the suburbs of St. Angelo for a season of your life.
023I did. I did. All right. Well, thank y'all. Yes, sir. Welcome. All right. Great to be back. Dr. Moran, Dr. Kingman, and board of trustees. So, we actually have worked before uh in Plane View. We're wrapping up bond projects. So, it's like uh getting the old team back together when he's coming over. So, it's a a great transition and we couldn't have asked for a better person to partner with on these projects. So, great job. I know a lot of people were probably going after him. So, his connection to St. Angelo was very helpful, I'm sure. Um, so get this going. So, I'm going to do a quick recap of some of the items we talked about uh last time. We talked about some of the packages for construction, some of the delivery methods for
024executing those packages, and then just some of the teams that will be uh um working on collaborating to make those packages happen. I don't think anything has changed since the last time we presented it. uh this project's timeline really just an overview of when each project would be complete starting with uh some of the uh critical capital renewal and um safety projects all the way through the large renovation of Central High School. Then really just everything in between. You break that down and start looking at each package and how those would be uh designed, bid, constructed, and then uh moved into. And you start uh getting a uh a schedule graph that looks uh a little bit more complicated to break it all down on a little bit more micro scale. Um, and to make
025that happen, we talked about last time the various construction methods starting with uh we didn't spend a lot of time on job order contracting and just direct selection of vendors, but for some of the smaller projects and just HVAC replacements, you'all already kind of do this and this is something that the the district can can manage a lot of times uh without needing an architect or an engineer. So, I think we call that job order contracting in a lot on a lot of these slides. Um, the next level up on a larger, a little bit more complicated project, we talked about a project that might have a roof replacement and a HVAC replacement and maybe a parking lot replacement where you're starting to get multiple items done at the same uh project. Those type of
026projects a lot of times lend themselves to a competitive sealed proposal. So in this scenario, the owner, the school district would uh bring on an architect and engineer. They would design the project and then once complete, they put the project out for bid uh to various contractors. Then the contractor comes on board and starts to execute the the project. And so you can see the the the structure of that. And at through that process, it's just the architects and the engineers that are putting together the opinions of cost and making sure everything is completely scoped out. The big difference with construction manager at risk is you see the construction manager is actually brought on board uh during the design phase. So they're involved in the meetings early on when we're talking about what type of
027piping to use or what type of mechanical units and they offer their input on how this might affect the the schedule or the cost and they charge a fee for that. So you have to pay them to come on board on early but the value you see after is um a reduction in change orders typically. So they have an idea of the scope and they have additional allowances. So I think previously there was a com or a question last time about finding asbestous and so um in either one of these methods if there is asbestous found around a pipe that was unknown previously that would still be an additional cost. Now, in the construction manager U role, a lot of times they'll have a few more allowances and especially if they know there's been some
028asbestous on the project, they might have an asbestous um kind of scheduled value and then an asbestous um contingency. And so that might not affect the price, but if they can say your drawings in our previous um meetings show that there was asbestous in only the gym and now we're finding asbestous also in the auditorium, that would still warrant a a change to the construction amount. And so I don't I don't think that that was fully clear last time. I think we kind of said that they would just have to eat that. But it if it if it's something that was never discussed and not in the drawings and they don't have an allowance. So so that's part of the um the nice thing about having a semar is a lot of times we'll have
029those convers conversations and they'll say well there's multiple places here. we think you should have an allowance for this and they have a completely open schedule of values. And so if they need to use that allowance, then that's there for them. And if they don't, that allowance goes back to you. So it's having those conversations through to the design process to where you have more of that covered. So it it uh it the more complicated the project, the more phases, the better it is to have them on board early to have those conversations about an asbestous allowance or making sure that we have all the asbestous covered. Um, but I wanted to to make that clear that if it's something that's not shown on the drawings and never discussed before and there's not a specific
030contingency for it, then there would still be an ad to the project uh that the Semar would not cover at that point. Does that make sense? Uh, I know last time that doesn't quite match the the answer from last time. And like my question's always been, can I ask you a question right now? But it's like, okay, what's the difference between um competitive seal proposal? Yeah. You know, like you said, CM puts that in there, right? If they find it, then it's covered. Have to throw it. But then competitive seal proposal, they just come right back in and say, "Hey, we don't know this business in there." Yeah. And a lot of times what we see is that with competitive seal proposals, a lot of times they'll try to find those during the bidding process
031and not bring them up so that they can add it on later. So that's why we see a lot more change orders when it comes to competitive seal proposals because they're not involved u and they don't have u really the the relationship to start bringing some of those items because they don't have an incentive when the final bid comes out to say hey we think there might be asbestous here incentive is to get it as low as possible but with the incentive is to have something there to cover some of those items that they kind of know about. And then the CM has a guaranteed maximum price, right? Correct. They just Yeah. How does that work? Like if they go over that, what happens? So they they can't go over it without authorization from the
032the school. And so you're getting a bid price, say $10 million. And if they come in and say, "Well, it's going to be a h 100,000 over that because of a line that we uh found." I mean, you can tell them we're not replacing the line. I mean, they don't they can't don't really have authority to replace that line uh until you give it to them. And so, if anything comes up like that, that gets brought to us and we review it. And obviously all these uh projects will have a certain amount of contingency that allows for minor uh things that come up. A lot of times you know a a $10,000 uh leak on a on a water line or something like that could be covered within the existing project contingency. But it's the
033larger items um like having to replace a line that we didn't know we had to replace. those are that can be a major major change that has to be discussed and the fact is that would have been a part of the price uh it would have just made the bid price higher originally. So, I mean, it's part of our job to try to make sure we have all that documented as much as possible, but there's just certain things that when you get under the ground, nobody can really uh account for and the only way to account for it is to dig it and find it and then try to fix it. Hopefully, it fix it fits within the contingency there. If not, you pay more, but you would have paid more in the first place
034because you're adding, you know, fries to your order of just burger and a drink. And if you would have added the fries originally, it would have cost more. You're adding them a little later. RJ can ask a quick question. So if the scope changes no matter con competitial proposal or CM if the actual scope changes scope changes then and they can prove the scope has changed correct it requires a change order and an approval. Yes. If we're moving dirt to do the foundation and it just takes 7 days longer to do the dirt work than they had budgeted for. Yes. That would not be on our that would not cost us. Correct. That's where this is those sort of savings where you would find the difference. Correct. Yes. Yes. Exactly. And if uh they say,
035"Well, we didn't realize the soil report said this and you're requiring, you know, that we do above and beyond what we thought." Well, that's in the soil report and that's in the design. They're at risk to complete that for sure. But yes, great point. Added scope. Either one would be justified. Additional questions, George? I don't think anymore. No. And then like what's the JC? What? Job job order contracting just that's just another name for uh a direct hire or if it's a it's a if it's a lower amount and you can just have somebody come out and do it or if it's somebody on on buy board. So, it's just saying really you wouldn't have to have an engineer or an architect necessarily do that. And the reason I'm asking is I mean it's a
036$397 million thing and I don't want to be throwing money because some guy missed something. Right. Right. That's what that's what worries me is that someone's going to there's going to be a lot of misses. Well, I miss this and it's going to cost an additional two $200,000 or I miss this. It's gonna I just want to make sure we don't get into that habit of of just one every week change order. every week. Change work, change order, change order because that's taxpayer dollars and that's what they want us to watch out for. So yeah, I fully agree. I said a I guess a quick question like I kind of So like these estimates that that y'all had for like Glenn and Lake View and Central, those were based off of y'all's firm's estimations, right?
037So, like when you get these large contract like these large companies coming in, how do we know that they're not just going I mean, not that we don't trust you, but like how do we know we're getting like an actual real market price? Yeah. And we're not just going, no one's just kind of basically regurgitating numbers that you all already created. Well, I wish we could say every time we hit the budget exactly. I mean, uh, or below it, but that doesn't always happen. That's the that's the goal. Um, recently in a new elementary in Midland ISD, it came in about $8 million under budget. Uh, so I mean, that's that's how you can see the the market plays a factor. Um, we also have the opportunity to uh provide alternates like we've done on
038uh Fannon and McGill. So when those came under budget uh at the previous previous McGill edition, we were able to add additional classrooms based on it coming under budget. So that's the goal. I mean, we're we're planning to design probably five to 10% under the budget and and see how the market reacts because just depending on tariffs happening or a slowdown in the market because of tariffs, we could see uh you know the projects coming in one way or another. So, we try to provide alternates like two classroom or four classroom additions that you can say, well, it came under well under. Y'all can add those classrooms or um or it came in right in on budget. The classrooms are going to have to wait. So, I know there was there's been discussions already about
039um McGill and adding a playground. They talked about should it be one playground or two playgrounds added? Well, we talked about, well, maybe one playground is the base bid, the second playground is an alternate, and if prices come in, well, you can get the full phase three kind of playground layout. And if they come in uh a little higher but within budget, then then you get the original playground. So, that's kind of how we account for for those items. And we also do cost estimates um when we do just kind of our our block layout of schematic design. So, we'll do uh a test of the scope in the budget uh to make sure we're on track. And if we don't think we're on track at that point, we'll say, "Well, we might need to
040look at reducing this space or changing a material." And then if we feel like we're we're on track based on the market and our other projects, then we go to the next step of kind of doing the 3D and we start looking at the exterior design. And then we check the price at that point. And if at that point you say, "Well, I don't know if we can do as much brick. We might have to do a little more stucco to get it within what the market's telling us." So, we have about four checks on our side. Uh the nice thing about when you bring the CMR, not only are we doing the checks on what we're seeing as bids go and and kind of what uh the market says, we also get the the
041contractor can ask his mechanical sub or his brick subcontractor to look at the drawings and give them an idea of what they're seeing. So it's a constant check and it's a it's what we're most uh concentrated on during the life cycle of design. So, gota thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Bid process also has a lot to do with the availability of the wi the willing labor force in the area too. If they've got jobs that they don't have going, they want to keep their people a lot of times they'll they'll sharpen their pencil a little get it to get the work so they can keep their their folks busy too. So, it's another factor. Yeah. You know, I mean, we were lucky back then in ' 08 where where um you know, we got that pass
042and then you know, you had the housing crisis and all that. I mean, the bottom fell out of the housing industry. So, we had a lot of work that came in under budget. We were very, very lucky. Very fortunate. I mean, I hate to say that that the collapse of the housing economy was a plus for us, but it was was it was a godsend for SASD back then. Sure was. And and St. Angelo in general the workforce there. So anyway, additional questions for Mr. Lopez and just for clarification when because I know you talked about JC was just kind of like a hiring. So just to make sure like I have an example of that in my head that'd be like hiring Helis Helis. Yeah. Helis to do the turf fields, which we do
043all the time without a bond project. Yes. And letting them do what they do well, which is doing a turf field and not paying an architecture fee or a um construction manager fee for them to come in and redo our fields when they do that all the time. Like for like where you really you already have a design because you have something in place. So, it's like if you're going to replace a camera, you're not necessarily going to hire a architect or engineer to just replace that camera because you pretty much know what you need and you don't have to pay somebody else to do it. Okay. Architects can't come up with a different football field. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we could I don't know that you need it on some of those. Um and
044so now we've provided a um a matrix of delivery methods and potential um managers of each one of those packages. I think you have the the one sheeter, but I have a a breakdown of each one of those project packages. Um starting with package one, safety and security. Um that one has about a $8 million budget. We're showing that as a job order contract or competitive sealed proposal and we're showing that that would be u either managed by the district or uh managed locally by uh KFW uh architects. They have submitted their qualifications currently. you all have uh our qualifications as well and uh a lot of those projects that are listed in there would fall right into uh what they're good at doing and and have done for y'all in previous bonds as well.
045Uh package two, we're showing a $35 million budget. Uh the delivery methods really we're showing multiple delivery methods because you have everything from you know a $50,000 returfing all the way to a $2.5 million replacement of roofs and HVAC and uh parking lot. So that kind of gives you a a broader range of delivery methods because it has everything from simple replace like for like all the way to a little bit more complicated and engineered projects. And so we're we're showing u job order contract competitive seal proposal and design build um on that delivery method. And the design build um that would be some of the the contractors. They're subcontractors, so they don't do CMAR type work, but they can come on board early and help with some of the pricing and some of the
046design of the projects um before you bid it out. That's some of your HVAC uh contractors can do that. And so that gives you flexibility to bring some of those on um for those projects. Any questions? I know we didn't run through I know the I think the full list of delivery methods had design build on there um but that's the first time we might have talked about that one package three uh Crockett Elementary we're showing $9.9 million budget competitive steel proposal it's still a pretty uh straightforward project on an existing site um and we're showing showing that as a Park Hill design with the SK engineers doing the civil engineering and they've also they've already done the the survey and the geotech work on that and next would be uh Miguel Elementary uh 15.83
047A3 showing that as CSP. It's still uh a pretty straightforward project now that we've got the main building there. Um and we're showing that we would do the second phase of that with the SK engineers on that as well, which they've already been part of phase one and it would be just getting that back up and running. Next, we're showing uh Fannon Elementary edition with a budget of 17 million. Showing that would be one of the last uh CSP projects of the the the the school editions and um showing KFW architects with SK Engineers on that. So, it's a pretty exciting one for them to be able to put a new face on and do um the kitchen, cafeteria. Um it's on kind of a a single site there. Really matches pretty well for the
048the the scope and qualifications that uh KFW um submitted and they would be working with SKG like they do on a majority of their projects as well here locally. The next uh we're showing some of the demolition projects and y'all are already handling some of these demolition projects yourselves. And so this is showing job order contracting uh through the district. And really a lot of these are not I mean they don't have to stay if something comes up and you decide you need help from an architect or engineer you can definitely still come. We'll help with what you need help with. We're just trying to u find what's kind of already worked for the district and and outline that on here. And we could come back every month and say, well, this project or that
049project, you know, the the different delivery methods, but we wanted to try to take a shot at it right at the beginning and see what you think. Um, Glenn New School with the 122 million budget. Uh this one really lends itself to construction manager at risk. I know we previously talked about well maybe it could be a competitive sealed proposal but the fact that it's got that existing school there and you building new with the students on site that would give you a lot of opportunity to work with the semar and make sure that they have the badging and everything figured out and the phasing plan and uh really need to make sure we have one person kind of managing all of that. you you get that with the the Semar and just at the
050the price tag, it's it'll be a lot to to manage over the course of design. So, it'll be good to have a contractor on board early. Next is uh the Lake View High School additions and renovations about 46.4 million showing that one as well to be a construction manager at risk uh with Park Hill and SKG on that one as well. Um, and as far as the the CMARS, uh, I know a lot of them will tell you that they could probably do them all, but I think when you advertise, and we can help with the advertisement, you can, um, allow for Seamars to only um, apply for certain projects or apply for them all if they want to. And so, um, if you want to make sure that, you know, Central has, uh, somebody
051watching over it and Glenn has somebody different, that gives you the opportunity. But if a Seymar comes in and says, "Well, we can do them both for a combined reduction in cost and schedule," then that might give you something else to look at. So, you still have the the flexibility. Even though it's a same delivery method, there's potential for one CMR to do one or one CMR to to really do them all. And so I think the the options are are what you'd want to see and then you can kind of go from there as far as the ranking and selection process. Uh Central High School we're showing 128 uh.17 million Semar as well very complicated uh project as far as having existing facilities demolition build new renovation. We're showing uh Park Hill with SKG
052Engineers on that as well. And then package eight, athletic improvements, uh 12.18. And this is one where we're showing both job order contracting and competitive seal proposal. uh since some of these fields will be like for like and it's not going to be need the engineering necessarily, but there are connector pieces like uh handicap accessible sidewalks and bleachers and some uh smaller concession buildings that would need um engineering. So, we're showing KFW with SK engineers um or the district on on those projects. All right. So that's that's an initial kind of schedule of potential delivery methods and potential managers of each project. Any questions on that? Um who who you going to have as an engineer for the architect? Yeah. So so right now we actually do have in-house engineering. Uh and so that would
053be the only one that we would have our in-house engineers working on. So we've got uh we love working with the SKG for sure. Um and we talked to them and they really they're excited about all these projects, but uh we think the wind middle school is kind of a perfect standalone site for teaming with our own in-house engineers. Additional questions for Mr. Lopez. It's going to be a busy time. Yeah, it's very exciting. So, we've got a lot of people ready to jump on board for sure. Yes, sir. Um All right. On the um design build, I know one of the uh when we were talking about that, could you kind of give the board an idea? One one of the reasons we had an interest in that is uh the availability of choosing
054local contractors at for pieces components of that work. Yeah. So could you kind of kind of talk through that with the board so they understand that part of it? Yeah. Uh, like I said, I think a lot of the the sears, oh, the C Mars that you'd want to bring on board to be a little too big and wouldn't really make sense, but some of your local contractors that could really add value early on and help with some of the recommendations for the package, I think E3 is or one of the ones we talked about and some others. Uh this gives you the the flexibility to to bring those on and not be surprised once you get under construction what you're going to get because sometimes if it's not an exact like for like or
055even sometimes if it is an exact like for like you might not know until construction gets started what some of the assumptions are and this lets uh the assumption phase of that uh not be an issue when you can do design bid or design build. Um, and you mentioned CMR like if you had a that you could theoretically put multiple CM projects, however you say CMR projects to uh together, but traditionally as like just as the like consultant part of right now, you would not recommend that we put all three of big projects under one company. Yeah. Uh, right. No, I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend that. Yeah, it would have to be some type of unique qualification where they really think that there's a lot of time or potential cost savings for doing it
056at the same time. But having two different sears, especially when projects are going at the same time, then they can kind of focus on their projects and sometimes kind of compete with each other like y'all saw with uh Fannon and and McGill where, you know, you had them both trying to show what they could do. Good. Additional questions. All right. Get going. Thanks, R.J. Appreciate it. Thank you. Yes, sir. All right. Next up, we have a legislative update and Dr. Moran is going to help us with that. All right, Mr. Ramirez, you can toggle through as I talk you through the slide presentation. I'll make this quick, but uh this 89th legislative session, we had 557 bills uh that were education related through the House and 327 through the Senate. Uh I'm going to highlight
057just a few of them. House Bill Two is the first one. And House Bill Two uh is the school finance uh bill that made it to the governor's desk and was signed into law June 4th. U giving 8.5 billion in new funding to public schools in Texas. 4.2 billion of that is earmarked for teachers. And I'd like to just publicly say how thankful I am that uh we have a great senator and a great representative in Austin working on our behalf. Uh Senator Perry and Representative Darby did a great job of staying in constant contact with my office and uh asking for input and I really appreciate that. I think they listened and some of the things that we shared with them they advocated for and that was very helpful. Interestingly enough, in the um
058in the money that was allocated on the next slide, you're going to see that in districts like us that are more than 5,000 students, the funding that's uh uh required by the state for three to fouryear experienced teachers is $2,500 per teacher. Five years plus will get $5,000 more per year. And that's ongoing. That's not a one-time deal. So, this is very good. But you'll notice that years one and two are missing and zero through two actually. And we have in our district 100 teachers who are years 0 to two and so um significant. I think that's important for us to take note of as we go because it's not included in that uh that money. It's included in money that will be part more discretionary on our end. Uh that will have to apply
059to not just those zero to two-year teachers, but all of our staff, the non-exempt staff uh that we have, which is about half of our 1,800 employees. The next slide shows that smaller districts are actually going to be compensated a little heavier by the state. 3 to four year experience at 4,000, five plus at 8,000. And that's for teachers only. And typically when we say teachers, we include librarians, counselors, instructional coaches. The state was very clear that that uh this money does not include those people. These are for people that are in a classroom giving direct instruction to teachers. Even for uh those interventionists that pull kids out, unless they teach a half schedule or more with kids in a classroom, the state did not recognize them as teachers. So, we'll be charged with finding
060a way, as you can imagine, if I'm an interventionist and my friend who is in a classroom is getting that pay increase, that that's the conversation that's going on now across the state. How do we do that? because we want to be fair and equitable and we want we want to treat our employees right. The next slide just shows a little bit more specific information about SISD, the uh amount that will need to go to teacher payraises. The basic cost aotment, which is new. This is a new thing. Instead of applying it to the basic aotment, the state came back and said, "We're going to raise the basic aotment $55 per kid, but we're going to give schools a basic cost aotment of $106 more for uh variable costs and things that are not fixed,
061but maybe u you know, things that the district might need to spend money on not related to teacher pay increases uh to keep our doors open and our our school running on a daily basis. So you can see some of the figures there. The next slide uh is exactly what I referred to a moment ago. Teacher counts. We have 693 teachers with five plus years experience and um 96 teachers with three to four years experience. House Bill 2 continued uh they applied school safety money which we're very thankful for. that'll help basically doubling the per student allocation and um more than doubling the per campus allocation. So, we should see some relief there on our uh as we budget. And then special education funding, uh we uh when we evaluate a student takes time, takes
062personnel. The state recognized that they're going to give $1,000 per evaluation. We did uh as you can see 180 evaluations last year. So if this holds true then that would be the amount that we would receive in the coming year. And then the next uh you can see there was a bump in CTE funding and then teacher prep because there the state is uh upping the ante if you will with regard to certified teachers. And to clarify, we want all of our teachers to be certified, but with a teacher shortage, it's more and more difficult to find certified teachers. So, in some core subjects, let's say we have a math degreed person, uh, but they're not a certified teacher, we might actually hire that individual to teach math, and then we put them on a
063a plan to become certified within a prescribed amount of time, usually a year. I think we can extend it out to two years, but um you can see by 2930 the state's going to require all core teachers be certified or they can't be in that classroom. That's going to be a real challenge for the state. The next is House Bill Six. House Bill Six uh was a student discipline bill uh that uh has some real benefits for us as well. And this is really to engage and involve parents more, to empower teachers, to help us with students that are out of control, even elementary kids with behaviors. Up until now, uh, well, as a matter of just recent years, we could not suspend elementary students. But there is a time when an elementary student is
064so out of control, we need to protect the classroom and the parent may need to take the child home for a day, two, maybe three. But that has not been allowed for kids under the age of 10. And now it will be. Also in school suspension, there's been a limit of three days and some sometimes we need a little bit more than three days to get things ironed out for some children. And as we work with parents, uh, vaping was a mandatory DAP placement. Now it's a May place in a on the first defense. And that's a really uh big relief for public schools because most schools weren't able to abide by that anyway. AES were not big enough. It's an epidemic. Vaping is an epidemic. Um I don't want to put Tony on the
065spot, but I know we had some plumbing uh sewer lines that were clogged and had to be uh unblocked. And I don't know how many hundreds and hundreds of vape pins are being flushed and clogging our sewer lines. U I know that happened at Central last year. So, but anyway, it's a regular occurrence. And then a virtual option for expelled students into DAP where we can actually collect ADA for those kids. So, that's a little bit about House Bill 6. There's a lot more to it, but um very thankful for the movement there. House Bill 27 is uh an additional requirement for graduation. Half credit of financial literacy for graduating incoming nth grade kids. So this is something that every uh school in the state is having to immediately pivot to make sure that we
066give those kids that option. It's an elective course, but now it's mandatory. And so as you can imagine, when everyone has to take a course, you either have to give up a little ground on classes you're offering with personnel in mind or you have to add personnel. So we'll be um coming back to you on that to give an update. Senate Bill Two, U the voucher bill. Everybody's aware of that passed and was signed into law May 3rd and it'll cost a billion dollars in the first bianium expected to go way up in the next 10 $10,000 per child uh and then those kids not having to take the STAR test uh if they're allowed to attend the private school they apply for. Senate Bill 4 um increases you heard this earlier from Mr. Robert,
067the uh homestead exemption increasing to 140,000. Senate Bill 10 uh requiring the display in a conspicuous place in each classroom a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments 16 in wide, 20 in tall, and has to include the text of the Ten Commandments in a size and type face legible to a person with average vision from anywhere in the classroom. you can see that that was a an absolute uh agenda item for someone and uh that's just going to uh be something that again when there's a law passed we'll abide by it. uh you know there's a lot of opinions on that uh and uh it'll be um it'll cost money and time but um I don't think anybody disagrees with the principles of the ten commandments but mandating that the way they
068did it's it's a definitely a political agenda and there's many more. So that's the update on the legislative session. it's over and uh now it's time to to find out what all the details mean and how to sort through all that. But uh be glad to answer any questions if you need. Dr. Moran, we you said we're getting an additional $102 per student on and what's our what's our aotment right now for So 6160 is the basic aotment. They're gonna add $55 to that and then $106 for uh basic costs that districts have to, you know, like utilities and fuel and all those things. They're trying to address inflation without placing it in the base a lotment is what they're doing. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. That's good for two years. Yeah. We'll see. Any other
069questions, Dr. Moran on all those bills just quickly. So, Dr. M, you know, typically we would be working on salaries and everything as we get our budget together for our teachers and staff. We when would be a realistic expectation of when we're going to have filtered through all this so we can let them know where we're going to be for next school year. I'd love to say next week, but it's probably going to be more Julyish or earlier that we can come back. We're we're actually calculating uh financial runs now, but they're not they're not close enough for us to feel real good about saying anything publicly that uh we don't want to get locked in on. I I know that um you know the teacher raises are there, but we again we need to
070come back and make sure that we can pass a balanced budget and that we address our employees uh pay increases as we should and then still meet the uh requirements of other expenses that we have as a district. So, uh we'll be working diligently on that and giving you updates as we go. But July is our target to get to bring something really good to you. Additional questions. All right. Thank you, Dr. Moran. With that, we'll begin our uh finance reports uh for our bills and accounts for May of 2025. That starts in your uh board book on page seven. Page nine shows our current unassigned balance, fund balance at approximately $53 million. Also shows about $5 million proxs in committed funds. Of that 1.8 8 million are revitalization funds and 1 million are the
071remainder of the construction projects that we going that we have going on right now. So most of that is uh related to construction or revitalization on those uh committed funds. Page 12 shows our May revenues and expenditures report. Uh we're in the ninth month of ours our school year. So it should be about 75% of our of our uh budget uh so far right now. uh our uh our revenues are right at 100 million which is 74.9%. So right in line with the collection of that most of that left is remaining from the state which they always come in at the end of the year and make your budget whole uh as far as revenue is concerned. And then our expenditures currently are at 103 million which is 73.6% of the total and of that
072we've moved 7 million of uh funds from fund balance into this year's uh expenses. So, they're slightly higher than our than our revenue because they're coming in from last year uh from our committed fund balance. Any questions on those revenues and expenses? If not, page 13 through 35 is our May check register. I know a lot of checks there. Uh I know we've had a couple of questions which Dr. Brandon has already answered uh from just general inquiries. I'm not sure if anybody else has a specific check that they would like to ask about. So, um, obviously we can get that to Dr. Brandon and he can, uh, make sure he gets us an answer on any of those, uh, those checks that are written there. If there no questions on that, we can move
073to uh, our our uh, monthly investment report and our quarterly investment reports. Those are contained on pages 36 through 44. As far as our monthly investment report is concerned, the total invested funds at the end of May approximately 69 million with the total interest earned for the month was $280,63463. Interest earned in the general fund only was 253,64. Rates are again varying from 4.3 to 4.44% right now in those pools. Uh our quarterly investments actually page 42 and 43. uh total investments of May 31, 2025 at the end of the third quarter uh for fiscal year 2425 were approximately where are 69 million $118,19.18 and the total interest earned for the third quarter of the year uh was $888,357.97 and the report also includes the prior quarter uh February 20 uh 28-25 There are no
074questions on their investment report. Our tax collection report uh begins on page is on page 45. Shows 2024 collection rates at 96.9% and our 2023 collection reports slightly ahead at 97.2%. So very close in the collection rate for uh both uh due and uh delinquent funds on that. Beyond that, page 46 through 50 shows our POS over $20,000. There are several in there. Um, too numerous to mention. I'm not sure if anybody's got any questions about any of those reports at all. Uh, buying milk, buying fuel, getting ready for the next year. Uh, there's the Lake View AC Chiller report that we've worked on, uh, that we've, uh, gotten a PO out there. You'll see that in there, too. uh our Oaks plumbing repair is included in that uh which we talked about last week.
075Um any questions about any of those uh purchase orders over $20,000? If not, I think that does conclude our that uh concludes our finance report. Dr. Cayman, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dental. Um, we do have one action item tonight and I think Dr. Bran's going to start us off and it's to consider theou with wall ISD for a minor boundary line adjustment. Good evening again. The uh during a routine property audit by Tom Green County Appraisal District, inconsistencies in school district property boundaries were discovered between SISD and Wall ISD. Uh further investigation revealed the inconsistencies were in relation to current Texas Education Agency district boundary lines between the two districts. So for the last several months, we've kind of worked through that situation uh with Wall ISD. And then just a few um bullets
076uh on this uh for the background. Um we've looked at um different areas that this is uh the small inconsistencies, but mostly the the boundary that we share on the eastern portion of St. Angel and the western portion of Wall ISD along Country Club Road, some of those uh properties. Um and then the good thing is both Wallist D and St. Angel agree of how to resolve the problem. So it's mutual uh of how we want to fix that uh amend the boundary line to conform to current practice uh which has been in place for over 30 years. Uh where individuals have been paying their taxes uh we're in agreement we would like that to remain uh the place that they're paying their taxes. So, no change to students attendance, bus routes, taxes paid by
077any citizen or student uh to the to the uh respective district. And then the Tom Green County appraisal district agrees also to change the maps to reflect the current practice uh of both districts. Uh here you can see how uh we're working with Walsh Gyos uh which another positive in the situation is both Wall ISD, St. Angel, and Town Green County Appraisal District um use the firm Walsh Gyos. And so they've been working through this uh with all three entities. And you can see from the Texas Education Code 13.231 231. Uh there w there's a way to do that with a minor boundary adjustment. Uh the board started that uh um activity with the board meeting on May 19th uh by um a resolution authorizing uh the district to pursue um a memorandum of understanding
078between the two districts uh and then both a corrected maps and the agreement uh would go to the Texas Education Agency uh to be filed for the respective changes. So, we've all kind of talked through it, I know, for several times now, but that's kind of the next step in the process uh for TEA to be able to make those corrections to meet what our current uh boundaries are. So, just to reiterate, where people have been paying taxes for the last 30 years is where they will continue to pay taxes. It is just making our maps match where that has been how that has been done. Yes, sir. Okay. Any other questions or comments for Dr. Brandon? So, really this is just uh for we had to make it official because TEA's maps didn't match
079ours or the appraisal district or walls. So, we're not transferring any land, nothing like that. Nothing's getting transferred over. the people that have been living in these areas that they had them designated as wall or had them designated as finangelo, they'll they'll stay the same. Everything's going to stay the same. Yes, sir. Okay. So, okay. Yeah. The inconsistent was not found between the two school districts. It was found with the actual map that the TEA map. Yep. So, it's a cosmetic fix. Any other board comments or questions? Do I have a motion? Dr. Cayman, I move to approve anou with walld regarding an amendment to the school district's map to correct a clerical error on the district's boundaries with wall ISD pursuant to the resolution approved by the board at the May 19th, 2025 meeting.
080Second. So I have a motion for Mr. Dindle and a second for Mr. Gagos. Do I have any further board comments or questions? All right. All in favor say I. I. All against say the same. Motion passes 70. All right. Now we're going to move through our proposed agenda. Thank you, Dr. Brandon. Um for next week, invocation, pledges, recognitions. We'll do the teacher of the year recognitions and uh Sandra Reeds uh the Sandra gives donors donation. Um we're going to get a construction update um from Mr. Henry. Anything we need to do on that this evening, Mr. Henry? Okay. Uh update on academic promise that'll be Dr. Gomez next week and we will get that from her next week. Head Start update will be Dr. Brandon, Dr. Gomez next week. Okay. Um, Dr. Brand, you
081want to do the power school update next week as well, so everyone knows what that is and what to expect at the regular board meeting. Okay. Um, public hearing, Miss, there's no reason you have to do that twice, so we're going to let you have the public hearing next week. And graduation planning, which seems like we were just there, but um, we're always planning. always planning. Anything you need to tell us about that tonight or we going to do all that next week? Uh I can give you a uh maybe an appetizer here. But uh so the coliseum is going to be under construction for two years. I've talked to the stock show and rodeo association and uh we're planning not to be in the coliseum for graduation and other activities beginning in September and
082beyond. So, uh, we'll we're working with the Janelle Center, um, and we're working out a rough plan so that we can, uh, have meaningful, uh, graduation ceremonies, but we will not be in the coliseum for the next two graduation cycles, which has housed Lake View's graduation for the past few years. So, we're going to bring you guys kind of an overview of what we're doing there, but we've got a good rough plan going right now. Okay. All right. So we get all those reports. Um and then we will have consent items. So minutes will be consent items. The bill's financial accounts and financial statements will continue to be a regular item. The quarterly investment report um will be consent. Make that a consent item. Um Dr. Brandon, do you want to talk to us about
083the First Financial Bank just the two-year extension tonight? That way we can um make that consent for next week. You or do you want to do that next week? Yeah, let's do that just in case. Chavez wants to make any comment. It is just an extension. Yeah, first financial we still have still yes. So this is the last of our extensions on that I believe. So um but we'll we'll keep that as regular so we can do that here. You are here you get to do some talking to us three in a row so that we can I'm actually going to share the second one with our assistant director Mr. Benjamin Rojo. he's training to do um some of our procurement right alongside with me. So, this will be a great opportunity for him to
084do that tonight. Um so, yes, thank you Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran, ladies and gentlemen of the board and um our cabinet team. We just wanted to bring to you tonight our direct delivery bid for renewal for next year. It's a brand new bid um that we received one proposal off of this year um even though we put it out to to everybody. Um, so we are recommending that um, Cisco West Texas be approved for the total amount of 1,372,6940. And just to kind of give a little bit of background and refresher about what this direct delivery bid is. This is the deliveries that are made directly to the campuses each week. Um they contain uh primarily like our fresh produce, the um alocart smart snack items that are ordered in high volume but may vary
085um by campus. A lot of those items do have um very quick shelf life so it prevents us from the risk of losing that product within our warehouse. Uh we also have some of our high volume bread items on there. Um smart snack items that are just specifically for high schools, different things like that. um you have a tabulation recap inside of your um packets tonight, but if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them. So, the do not award, that's what the rent is for. So, yeah, someone else will be bringing it. Um yes, some of those I the reasons varied. So, for example, there were some serial items that we decided not to award once we uh we're looking forward at some regulations that are coming down the pipe. Some of that
086has to do with dyes. And so when we were looking at um the labels that came through on some of those items, for example, Applejacks, um Applejacks has has the some of the key dyes in them that are going to be being eliminated. And so we thought it was just a good idea to build our cycle menus now and eliminate those um cereal options. Some of them it was because the pricing was a little too steep to put it on the menu, different things like that. So, um, and then other items once we built our cycles, we just decided that it wasn't going to work into our plan and we weren't going to be able to order enough to actually make it worthwhile for Cisco to bring it into their to their warehouses for us
087because they'll bring it from the manufacturer into their docks and then ship it to us. So, any other questions on RFP 2616, the direct delivery? Miss Sbert, orange chicken is not in danger of getting cut from the menu, is it? No, it is not actually. Um, it's that is one of our commodity items from the um from our funds that we get from the United States Department of Agriculture. And so we have um put that down on our commodity aotment. Extremely popular at and next year I will add that we will also have a general sos of I don't know how it's pronounced. I just realized that. um chicken on the menu as well as another option to compete with that. But all right, I think that can be consent. Agreed. Um so you're not
088doing grease traps? No, I'm going to No, you get me for grease traps. And thank you, Tiffany, for that introduction. Uh so we received a few um uh three proposals for greaser trap cleaning RFP 26-15 for the 2526 school year. Uh after review and tabulation of these proposals, we are recommending that this uh award be granted to St. Angelo Propump in the amount of $38,950. Uh this request is budgeted. Uh these are the cleanings that are conducted about three times uh per school year according to a designated schedule uh which you should have in your uh proposal packet or the the vendor has in their in the proposal packet in the RFP. Um this proposal did also include the option for additional campuses and sites or other departments to utilize the awarded vendor as as
089they deem fit. Um, all proposals that were submitted did also agree to this uh this portion of the proposal and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have pertaining to this RFP. Any questions regarding Thank you. You did a great job. Thank you. All right. Grease traps can also be consent. So now we're going to go to RFP 26-4. Thank you once again, Dr. Keeman, Dr. Moran, ladies and gentlemen of the board. This is our prepared um pizza bid and we would like to um present to you tonight that we received proposals on uh prepared pizza RFP 26-4. Uh this year we did receive one um responsive proposal on this item. This is for smart snack compliant pizza that is delivered hot and fresh to our secondary campuses only uh throughout the school year
090as ordered in the quantities that those uh managers order them in. So, they're sold in our snack bars to our secondary students. And we're recommending award to South Texas Pizza um locally known as Dominoes um in the amount of $130,910. Um, this is a budgeted um this is a budgeted proposal. I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions? Consent. Thank you. Appreciate you being here this evening. Um, all right. Next, we're going to talk with Mr. Kennedy about thermostat upgrades at Central High School. Dr. Ran, Dr. Keeman and the board. Thank you for letting me be here. Uh just wanted to talk to you a little bit. As y'all know, we have a lot of uh uh control issues and as part of the district's ongoing energy management and facilities improvement efforts, the Tucker building
091at Central High School has been identified for an HVAC control upgrade. Uh the proposed project includes the installation of 47 programmable Pelican uh TC4 thermostats and uh pearl economizer controllers with associated conduit and low voltage wiring routed to the server room. This update will improve energy efficiency, enable centralized scheduling and support remote access for HVAC monitoring and control. This is one of our efforts to try to uh streamline our process and get our HVAC uh all of our work inhouse. Uh currently we have some some issues with our old Andover system and this is going to be kind of uh our test building to do that. We currently we've gone out for quotes. Uh but the last quotes are due this Thursday. So we'll have that in Friday fax. Yes, you will have it in
092Friday fax if we want to vote on it Monday. We'll have it in Friday facts. Yes, you will have it in Friday facts. You'll have it probably Thursday and Friday facts. All right. Yes. Um so that'll be a regular item. And just for we're not replacing any thermostats in buildings that will no longer exist, right? Okay. And just making sure. And um the is this going to come out of fund balance or is this coming out of our Revitalization plan. Revitaliz. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Our Current revitalization plan. All right. Um I think we should keep the order authorizing the tax building bonds as a regular item um for next week unless someone else has any questions or comments about that. Dr. Brand, will you be presenting that next week? Well, Jeff
093Roberts in a different district. Yeah. So, he can't attend next Monday night. You'll present that. Have a question. you'll send it. We'll make sure it gets answered before. I just think it's important that the public understand that the reason we're issuing all those bonds is because of the hold harmless and the fact that that will save the local taxpayer $80 million. So, we'll have a presentation to reiterate what Mr. Roberts said tonight. Perfect. Let's do that as a regular then. Um, it can be the same presentation. And then delivery method for bond projects. Let's make that um regular as well. I know R.J. just kind of gave us a spill on that. Um if anyone has questions about that, let's make sure we email or question send to uh Dr. Moran this week so that
094we can make sure those are addressed because um we want to make sure we can start getting those bid or those packages out so that we can stay on schedule. So if there are questions about how we want to do that or where we how we want to do that, let's make sure that um that comes to Dr. Moran this week so that we can have a robust discussion and decide how to do each of those next week. Sound good? Um and then the delegate and the alternate delegate for TASBY convention. Um that is Mrs. Meisel Flint and Mr. Ggo says um per our normal our normal. Um, yeah, you said yes. I saw the email. So, we're going to keep that as a cons. We're gonna keep that as a consent. Um, we do
095need to go into executive session very quickly under personnel matters 551.074. Um, and we'll be right back. All right, we have returned from executive session. We took no action. We made no votes. Um, with that, our only thing left is our announcements, which we'll have a uh regular board meeting next week. Then we have our finance and pre-agenda workshop on July 14th and a regular board meeting on July 21st. Unless I have any other board comments or questions. With that, we're adjourned.