001Good evening and welcome. My name is Taylor Kingman. As president of the board of trustees of the St. Angelo Independent School District, I would like to welcome all of you who are present at tonight's regular board meeting. I also welcome those of you who are watching the recording of this meeting online or on our public access channel. We appreciate your interest in the activities of our students and the business of SISD. All items that will be discussed at our meeting this evening have been posted as required by state law. Also, as you may be aware, our board meets a minimum of two times per month, and most, if not all of the items on our agenda this evening, have been previously discussed at our earlier pre-aggenda board workshop. As members of the SASD Board of
002Trustees, we are here to set goals, listen to reports from our superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personnel appointments, and to 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 have a public comment item on every one of our meeting agendas that allows anyone present who wishes to speak to our board team on an item not on our action agenda or an action item on the agenda an opportunity to do so. Please provide your name and contact information and the specific topic you wish to address on a public comment form located in the back of the room. Should you want to speak on an issue not on our action agenda, please listen carefully
003and comply with the following rules so we can move through this part of the meeting efficiently. Each speaker will be given a total of 3 minutes. The district will provide an official timekeeper. You'll be notified when your time is up. Please respect the privacy of others and refrain from identifying students, employees, or other community members by name. Disruption of the meeting will not be tolerated at any time. and comments on any subject, whether positive or negative, must be courteous and respectful. Any speaker with a specific complaint about a district employee, decision, or operational issue, should present that complaint through the appropriate mechanism, which is the district's formal grievance process. If you have a pending grievance, please remember you're not permitted to speak about the grievance during public comment. Also, please understand if you speak to
004us on an item not on our action agenda that the board cannot reply to you except to thank you for your comments since the matter has not been posted for discussion. In compliance with state law, these proceedings are recorded and will become part of SASD's permanent legal record. In order that the recording will adequately reflect the proceedings, I ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking. I also ask, as I remind my fellow board members, to please turn off or silence your cell phones. Again, thank you for being here and for your support of SASD. All right, with that, um the meeting is called to order and we do have a quorum. We have all seven board members here currently. Um and we will move on with our invocation and Mr. Braden
005Harris, who is the associate student pastor at Paul Baptist Church, is going to help us with that. First off, I just want to say thank you guys, the board, and Dr. Moran and everybody. Thank you for allowing me to be able to come here and pray for you guys and uh be a part of this meeting. I really appreciate it, and I haven't been in St. Angelo a very long time. I've actually been in Stangelo for a year, um just a few weeks ago, actually. But man, I just appreciate what you guys do for our community and what you do for our students. Um we get to work with students all the time, and it's a privilege. And so, I appreciate you guys. So, if you would bow your heads with me, and we'll pray.
006Man, Father God, thank you for today. God, I just thank you for who you are and thank you for what you did for us on the cross. But God, I just pray for this meeting. God, I just pray um specifically for our board members as well. God, I just pray that as they continue to make decisions and talk about things and all those things, God, you would just um allow that to be aligned with your will. And so, God, I just pray for them and I pray for discernment and wisdom and all the things, God, I also just pray um for our teachers and our students and our graduates of this year. Uh God, thank you for another awesome year. And so God, just I pray for um some rest and relaxation for our teachers.
007Uh and God, I also pray for the students who are going to be moving up a grade. Um but I also pray for the students who are graduating and going and doing um amazing things, whether they're going to college or the workforce or whatever. God, I know that your hand will be on them. So God, I pray that you would pour out favor on them. Um but God, I just pray specifically for this time and for our community. God, I just pray that um we would just continue to move and to align ourselves with what you want us to do. And so God, we just thank you for everybody here. God, we just thank you for everybody in this meeting. God, we pray you keep everybody safe. Um, so God, just thank you for all
008the things you've done for us. Pray all this in your name. Amen. Thank you. Um, so next we have some students from Fannon Elementary. Um, they're going to help us with the pledges to both the United States and to Texas. We have Bentley Gutierrez, Taylor Carter, Jerick Johnson, and Kayla Win. And they're all going to come up here and help us do this. If everyone please stand. To the flag of the United States of America to the stands one nation for Remember you guys stay for pictures. [Applause] Uh parents, thank you all for bringing them. Appreciate them doing that. All summer long, we have to lead lead our own pledges, so it's fun to have the students here. All right. Next, we're going to move to item four, which is to consider the certific certificate
009of election. And uh Dr. Brand or Jesse, you'll have those for me to sign. All right. So, now that we have signed those, we're going to um have the elected candidates for single member districts 1, 2, 3, and four come forward to the front to um execute the statements of office and conduct the oath of office. And as we're doing that, I just want to publicly thank Mr. Royo who has served for the last four years as a member of the board of trustees and publicly state that um what a great board member she has been and also how lucky San Angelo has been to have someone so selfless and so caring um and with such a big old heart up here making sure that lots of kids who will never know her name uh
010were taken care of. So, I just think it's real important that we thank her on her way out. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] So, Judge Rio, come forward and help us. Good afternoon. We're going to take the oath of office first. Um, my name is Judge Gonzalo Rios, SISD alumni, Angelo State alumni. Proud to be here. Proud to be asked to be here. I'm going to give the oath to all of y'all at the same time if you don't mind. Can you state your name going from this to that way? Okay. Kingman. Okay. If you would repeat after me. I do solemnly swear domly swear or affirm or affirm that I will faithfully that I will faithfully execute the duties execute the duties of the office of school board trustee for the office of school board trustee
011for the St. Angelo Independent School District for the St. Angelo Independent School District of the state of Texas of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability will to the best of my ability preserve preserve protect protect and defend the Constitution defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States and the laws of the United States and of this state and of this state. So help me God. So help me God. Thank you. Let me do the uh statement of officer next. Again, please repeat after me. I I give me your names. Do solemnly swear domly swear or affirm or affirm that I have not directly that I have not directly or indirectly paid or indirectly paid offered offered promised to pay promised to pay contributed contributed or promised to
012contribute or promised to contribute any money any money or thing of value or thing of value or promised any public office or promised any public office or employment ment for the giving for the giving or withholding or withholding of a vote at the election of the election at which I was elected in which I was elected or as a reward to secure my appointment or as a reward to secure my appointment or confirmation confirmation whichever the case may be whichever the case may be. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations ladies and gentlemen. Thank you'all. [Applause] We got to do a little paperwork. I'm sorry. Give us just a moment. Carla. Yeah, sign those two so Judge Rios can sign them as well. All right. Again, thank you, Judge Rios. And we will
013now move forward and welcome Mrs. Cardinas. Thank you very much. So um so now we're going to move forward with our agenda and the next is to consider the selection of officers. So with every every year we select officers and we will need to elect a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer. Um, do I have a motion regarding officer selection? I'll make a motion to keep the officers as is. I think with the recent bond election and all the changes, it's important to rely on the wisdom and experience of our more seasoned board members. So, I like to keep I would like to make a motion to keep them the same. All right. Do I have a second? I second. So that would be just to be clear that' be myself, Taylor
014Kingman as president, Amy Meisel Flint as vice president, George Gagos as secretary, and Mr. Bill Dindle as treasurer. I have a motion from Miss Dr. Mills and a second from Mrs. Duncan. Is there any other board comments or questions regarding officers? Um, all in favor say I. I. All against say the same. And what with um, Miss Cardinas and I talked before the meeting, we usually have a pre-aggenda meeting where everyone gets to hear all these things and she's got elected 30 seconds ago. Y'all just saw it. So, she's going to stand for most of the votes tonight and um, then we'll move forward with that in the future. So, um, that'll pass 6. Jessica. All right. So, next we got recognitions, which is why all of you all are really here. Um, so we're
015going to start with a recognition of the outstanding performer at the UI State Wind Ensemble and Miss Schwarz is going to help us with that. Good evening, Dr. Moran, board of trustees, and welcome to Miss Cardinas. I'm going to wait a second for Mason to get up here. Okay, ready? Yeah, you can go stand right in the middle. I know you're all alone up there. On May 3rd at the UIL State Wind Ensemble Festival, Mason Colbach was awarded the distinguished title of UIL outstanding performer on snare drum. This honor is reserved for a select few student musicians across Texas who demonstrate exceptional musical artistry and technical excellence during their ensemble performance. A panel of expert panel of experts, excuse me, evaluate each group and may choose to recognize individual performers or sections whose contributions rise
016above the rest. Recipients of this award are presented with a draped state gold medal symbolizing their musical talent. St. Angel proudly recognizes my Mason Colinbach for his outstanding dedication, talent, and artistry as a musician. Congrats, Mason. [Applause] All right. Next, we're going to move forward uh with recognitions of our Central High School and Lake View High School athletes. And Coach Chance's gonna help us with that. Thank you, Dr. Kingman. Dr. Moran, board of trustees. Is honor to recognize um a number of our athletes from throughout the district from Central and Lake View. Right here we have the Central Unified Track Team. This is the first year that this has occurred at Central. Uh unified track is a UIL sanctioned sport in which functional academic students along with general ed students compete in five events at
017meets. The five events are the 4x100, the long jump, the shotput, the 100, and the 400. Central won the area meet that was hosted here at St. Angelo Stadium and then finished third at regionals in Abene at McMurray, which advanced them to the state meet. Programs like these continue to help bridge the gap of inclusion between our FA students and our general ed students. and I'd like to recognize them. Uh, as you can see, first off, we have Calvin Cartwright in the 4x1 and 400, Anthony Cruz in the 100, Xavian Cruz in the 400, Jathan Diaz in the long jump, Addison Gilbert in the 4x1 and 400, Madison Gonzalez in the 4x1. Chris Mahuran in the 4x1 and shot put. Caleb Martinez in the shot put. Zayn Niraa in the long jump. Ashton Palanz in
018the 4x1. Nehemiah Padza in the 4x1. Amato Perez in the 100. Fabian Perez in the 4x1. Kyler Price in the shot put. Bobby Robertson in the long jump. Carson Scarboro in the 4x1 and long jump. And Jordan Wood in the shot put. Let's give these uh athletes a round of applause for an outstanding year. Okay. [Applause] [Music] Let's give them another big round of applause. Next up, we have the Lake View Boys Track. Tonight from Lake View Boys Track, we have Kentrell Johnson. Kintrell was a district champion in the 200 meter dash. He also advanced to the regionals in the 4x200 meter relay. Kent trail placed second in the 200 meter dash at regionals to qualify for the state track meet at the University of Texas. At the state track meet, Kent Trail finished fourth
019running a 21.31 with the third place getting 21.30. So it was a little bit close. It was Congratulations to Kent Trail. is a junior so he'll be back next year. So we expect great things um up here with Contrill as well as Derek Alenar, head coach, uh Jonathan Gonzalez, Richard Rowitz, and um who else am I missing? Oh, Brian Frell. Sorry, Brian. Um but again, congratulations to Contrrell on an an excellent uh season, and we look forward to great things next year. [Applause] Congratulations. Next up, we have the Central Boys Bobcat Gymnastic Team. The boys gymnastics team had another sensational year this year, placing second in district, second in regionals, and then finishing sixth at the state meet um which is the 31st trip um to the state meet for coach Eritt. And uh outstanding
020year again. We want to go through um each of um the participants and just highlight a couple of things here and there of what they did throughout the year. First off is senior Eli Sodto. Um, you can step up, Eli. There you go. Uh, Eli finished um eighth at state in the floor, fifth in the vault, eighth in the high bar, and seventh all around. He was a first team all district, first team all region, and first team all state. Next, we have Junior Brady Stewart uh at regional. Uh Brady was fifth in the floor, fifth in the rings, sixth in the high bar, and was the first team all district, and first team all region. Junior Kaden Stewart at regional finished sixth in the Palom horse and was a first team all district and
021second team all region. Sophomore Carson Edwards at regional finished fourth in the parallel bars, fourth in the high bar and fourth all around and was first team all district and first team all region. Junior Nick Atkinson at regional finished fifth in the rings and sixth allaround and was a second team all region. Also on the team included sophomore Aiden Freeman, junior Carson Freeman, senior Matt Gomez, sophomore Wyatt Picket, and then of course head coach Kern Erit. Congratulations these gentlemen [Applause] again. Only two seniors, so bringing a lot of people back next year, so good things. Good job. Congratulations. And last and certainly not least are the Central Lady Cat Gymnastics Team. [Applause] For the 24th consecutive year, they won the district championship. They won the regional championship and a 24th state appearance, winning the state
022championship for the 15th time and the seventh time in a row. Let's give him a give him a round of applause just for that right there. a little bit different this year going after in after the first day. These ladies were in fourth place. Um, I think since I've been here, they've always been in first place after the first day and the second day, but on the this year they were in fourth place and came out strong and after just two events were already back up in the lead and continue to hold that to the very end with an unbelievable round on on the um I just went blank on the balance beam which which is I think coach tell is the hardest to score on and the and the other team that was in
023second had the floor routine which is the easiest to score on but these ladies outscored for them and just did an unbelievable job. It was so impressive as usual. Want to introduce the team. First off, senior Sarah Baker who was a state uh beam champion, fourth in the vault, third in the bars, and third on the floor, and second all around. She was first team all district, first team all region, and first team all state. Then we have senior Kaden Kaitlin Cad was fourth in the state vault and first team all district, first team all region, and first team all state. senior was Daniellea Dela Cruz who finished 10th in the vault at state and eighth all around. She was a first team all district, first team all region, and second team all state. And
024again, I'm not hitting district and region for everybody because we'd be here all day long because they they swept all those. Uh, junior Ava Bard was fourth in the vault at district and was second team all district. Junior Allison Garnett at region was second in the bar, sixth in the beam, second in the floor, and third all around. was a first team all district and first team all region. Junior Cely Young was fifth at state on the beam. First team all district, first team all region, and first team all state. Also was junior Addison McDuffy. Junior Gracie Foster, sophomore Michael Mock, freshman Serena Lopez, who was fourth on the beam at state, first team all region and first team all state. And freshman Sophia Pashal finished fifth on the vault at district and third on
025the beam and was the first team all district. And then freshman Mila Morrison to round out the roster. And of course, the man that myth, the legend, head coach Tony Walker, once again bringing home a 15 state championship. Congratulations, ladies. Come this way. This way. All right. Next in our recognitions is Dr. Gomez and she's going to bring us up there for recognition of 2025 schools transforming learning and that's Bonman Hollowman Elementary. Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran and members of the board. My first recognition this evening is for the 2025 schools transforming learning awarded to Bonham Elementary and Hollowman Elementary. So, Miss Luther and Miss Fischer, if you'd please come up front. And this is the time you get to stand in the center. As these ladies come up, some background information. St. Angelo ISD proudly
026celebrates both Bonum and Hollowman Elementary for being named among the 2025 schools transforming learning by the Intolearning Principles Institute. These campuses are part of a select group of 14 innovative schools across Texas. Recognized for making exceptional strides in creating transformative learning environments for all students. These schools have demonstrated a strong commitment to reimagining education, fostering innovation, and empowering every learner to thrive in a rapidly changing world. If we have any Bonum or Hollowman staff in the audience, would you please stand? It truly takes a village. So, at this time, if you would please join me in recognizing Miss Luther, Mrs. Fiser, their staff from Bonum and Hollowman Elementary for this exceptional recognition. Okay, thank you guys for being good sports and standing. I do appreciate that. You are welcome to join for the picture or
027not. That's up to you guys. If you'd like to come up for a big group picture, Miss Schwarz, after we do a big group picture, we'll do a picture with the principles and Dr. Moran. Thank you staff for joining. And one more picture. This is the bottom clan picture. as they're finishing the picture and shaking hands. Our CK National Showcase campuses, if you can please line up on the side, our principles and your leadership team. If you're one of our 10 campuses principles and leadership teams, let's see how good somebody put you on ABC order. Mhm. Like elementary days, Mr. Jimenez. ABC order. That's that's an unofficial quiz. Dr. And our and our next recognition is also by you Dr. Gomez is for the capturing kids hearts national showcase campuses. Yes, we'll give them a
028grade after when I start calling them up here. So Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran, and members of the board, this recognition warms our heart as CKH is a foundational belief in St. Angelo ISD. This evening, we are proud to announce that 10 St. Angelo ISD campuses have been recognized as a capturing kids hearts national showcase campus this school year. This prestigious honor is awarded to schools that demonstrate exceptional commitment to building a safe, connected, and high achieving learning environment through the implementation of capturing kids hearts processes and practices. This recognition celebrates our staff's dedication to fostering strong relationships, promoting positive culture, and equipping students with the social emotional tools they need to succeed academically and personally. Dr. Moran, if you could come up to the front, I'll call each campus first and their leadership team. We'll
029do campus pictures, Mr. Schwarz, first. So, first up for the test, Miss Luther and her team from Bonham Elementary. Miss Luther is accompanied by Miss Goodwin, her assistant principal. Thank you. Next up, we have Dr. Marissa Guerrero, principal from Bradford Elementary, joined with her assistant principal, Miss Laura Childs, and counselor Malia [Applause] Taylor. From Crockett Elementary, we have Principal Mindy Goodnight and Assistant Principal Hannah Martinez. [Applause] From Fannon Elementary, we have Principal Mrs. April Johnson and assistant principal Catalina Peterson. [Applause] From Golad Elementary, we have Miss Becca Flores, principal, and Miss Tessa Landon, assistant principal. [Applause] Now, this is where I could challenge the ABC order, but they did some levels here. It's okay. I'm going to let them stay in this order, and we'll recognize Reagan. Now, as a former first grade teacher, you
030might have had points taken off, but not this evening. So from Reagan Elementary, we have principal Miss Katie Rudolph, accompanied by her counselor Olivia Sarabia, and some very important teachers that lead this work in the trenches, Laura Navarete and Lissa [Applause] Martendelle from Sanento Elementary. We have principal Mrs. Michelle Beers and assistant principal Mrs. David Devin [Applause] Hagen from Santaorita Elementary. We have Principal Mrs. K. Scott and counselor Kaylee Fontnot. [Applause] From Lincoln Middle School, we have assistant principal Mr. Haimey Jimenez, Kilm Elkins, and Albert Gaton. Mr. Gandar sends his regrets as he had another assembly this evening. Congratulations, Lincoln Middle School. And last, but certainly not least, from Hollowman Elementary, Mrs. Stacy Fischer, [Applause] principal. Please join me one final time for a round of applause for these campuses. All right. Next, we have
031a recognition of Safe Employee Recognition Campaign or CIRC and Property Casualty Alliance of Texas Awards. And Dr. Brandon's going to help us with that. Dr. Keeman, Dr. Moran, board of trustees. Good evening to all of our guests, staff, administrators, uh, on behalf of Workers, Compensation Solutions, and St. Angelo ISD. I want to thank you for the opportunity to honor six of our employees who have made outstanding contributions to our organization's culture of safety. This year, the safe employee recognition campaign or CIRC again gave us the opportunity to recognize and reward employees who demonstrated safety on the job. Of the many employees who were recognized during the campaign, a select few have been chosen by our search committee for a higher honor as the 2425 honor role employees. This evening, um, our child nutrition winner, uh,
032could not be with us, but, uh, Esmeralda Armbula is being recognized this evening for child nutrition. Uh, and we'll let you guys accept the award on their on her behalf. [Applause] This evening for technology, we're recognizing Andrew Pitts. We even put Andrew to work tonight on his award night. Tony, Daniel, Mr. Kennedy this evening receiving the maintenance award for safety. Daniel James [Applause] supervisor. Okay. And this evening uh for custodial Zack Rubakala. [Applause] This evening for transportation, Mauricio Franco and Terry Lenford. [Applause] Yeah. Okay. [Applause] Sorry. Our last recognition. Uh each day school bus drivers are entrusted with safety transporting our children to and from school. No matter the weather conditions or the traffic, their performance on the road must always be A+. This year, following a selection process by the district, one exceptional driver
033was chosen to be the district's PCAT bus driver of the year. On behalf of PCAT, it's my honor to present Larry Hawkins with the 2425 PCAT bus driver of the year commendation. [Applause] All right, that will conclude our recognitions. recognition F has been moved till next month which we um so if you're following along. So with that we'll go to public comment and three people and first up is Miss Diana Banks. Hello y'all. Hey, my name is Diana Banks and I am a retired teacher. I taught 34 years in kindergarten through third grade. I grew up in St. Angelo. I went to Golad. I went to Lincoln. I went to Lake View. And then my children went to Bonum and Buouie and Lee and Glenn in Central. So I have many roots of education in
034St. Angelo. Look all the way through. I even am in the Concho Valley Retired Teacher Association, which is a great group for teachers that are retired. But today, I come to thank the St. Angelo School Board members, all of y'all. I come to thank Dr. Moran. I come to thank all the other St. Angelo personnel for all that they are trying to do for our children and our schools. Thank you for many hours you put into helping all the children in St. Angelo. Thank you for making sure that we have a balanced budget and listening to all the things that you listen to. Thank you for listening to the facility advisory committee and approving a bond that can now help all of the children in the area of St. Angelo ISD. May the decisions you
035continue to make be the best decisions for the children, the teachers, and our community. Thank you again and may God really bless each of you. Thanks. Thank you, Miss Banks. Next, we have Miss Selena McDuffy. Good evening. My name is Selena McDuffy. My son is an 11-year-old that attends Glennon Middle School. Uh I come before you to discuss a very hard matter. Um, my son has been bullied for the last six months. Um, he was picked on regarding clothing, superficial things, and then it turned to kids telling him to go kill himself. Um, that is something that I don't take lightly, and I hope that nobody here does. Um, I am very disappointed in the way that the school has handled the situation, which is why I'm also here. I have gone through the chain
036of command. Um, it was a three-hour wait over a two-day period. So, the first time I spoke to one principal, they waited 3 hours before contacting me regarding the situation when I found out. The second day was the same thing. Um, there was no reassurance. There was no solution given. There was there was nothing that was tangible that was given to me when I asked, "What are we going to do to prevent this from happening?" Because I can't change anything that happened. Nobody can. But the only thing that we can do is look forward to the future and how we can make it better for the children that we claim are going to take over our world, our country, St. Angelo one day. This is not what we should be doing for 11, 12, 13
037year olds. This shouldn't be acceptable. And I don't have all the solutions, but I know that we need more training in the classroom. We need more teachers to care more because not once did I hear from a teacher that his behavior had changed. My son loves school. He excelled at it. And it wasn't until February that we noticed his grades were slipping and that he no longer wanted to go to school. And in order for him to learn, he has to want to be there. And if he doesn't want to be there because of the people that are hurting him, maybe it is poking fun or kids being kids, but that still should not make it okay to accept that kind of behavior. And I hope that there wasn't a teacher or principal or counselor
038that was there that heard something and just dismissed it. But I find it very hard to believe that he went an entire school year without anyone contacting me regarding it and that he didn't feel safe enough to go to anybody in his school for help. So, thank you guys. Have a good night. Thank you, Miss McDuffy. Uh, next we have Miss Mary Casper. Good evening, board. Uh, congratulations on your passing of the bond. I won't say I'm happy about it. And after what I read this morning, I was even more unhappy because it seems that there is a very great possibility that I am no longer in the Wall School district, but have been switched over to SISD. And I'm not the only one. It seems that every single residence along the south side of
039Country Club Road, which is county by the way, most of part of it anyway, my portion is county, have been switched over also. So, it looks like you have um kind of taken a couple of steps, if this is true, to alleviate the loss of students by dragging in another portion from just outside your district and enlarging yours. This is not very nice. No one contacted me. I had no idea that this was even being considered. So if I've been a pain in the butt before and if I stay in San Angelo ISD, I will be more of a pain in your butt. And believe me, I will haunt you for the rest of your lives, even after I'm dead. And that's not a threat. That's a promise. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Casper. All
040right. Next, um we're actually going to go into close session under uh 551.072, which is real property, and 551.074, which is personnel matters. And we will be back. All right, we are back from close session. We made no votes. We took no action. And so we will move forward with our agenda. And next is information item under by Dr. Gomez and she's going to give us an update on bell schedules for the 2526 school year. [Music] Okay, Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran, and members of the board, this report is on the bell schedules for the 2526 school year. Our um intentionality behind this process is something that involves multiple departments and takes intentionality among several individuals. So our purpose and vision for these bell schedule updates that we will go into further detail about covers the
041following areas. We've worked to align instructional minutes across grade levels to support equity and consistency in learning opportunities. increase learning time to improve academic outcomes and better support student achievement. We're going to talk a little more about that. It's a key here that more time or extended time through the s like the summer for example, that alone doesn't improve student outcomes and achievement. It's what you do with that time. So, we're going to talk about that. That's a key point. Um, it supports district-wide operational efficiency. In the pre-agenda, I I mentioned specifically a lot of coordinated efforts with Mr. Livingston, um, with child nutrition, with HR from staffing. So, that's part of our responsibility to be good stewards. Then, I want to go back to that research. Quite often, I know as educators, we almost
042have our own language when we talk about research. You've heard us mention names like John Hattie. He is a foundational researcher that we often refer back to. And so again, the research does support extended learning time as a lever for closing achievement gaps. We fully acknowledged we have areas of growth needed in the district. This further supports that. Again, it's not just the time itself, it's what we do with that time. We've had multiple conversations with the board about students entering our system in elementary. So prior to this upcoming school year 25 26 our elementary bell schedules had the least amount of time but we have students entering our system well below grade level. So this aligned effort is also to address improving those student outcomes. And then again as I keep going back to
043it's not just the time it's what you do with it. We've had a lot of conversations about highquality instructional resources being one variable, never replacing the teacher, but it's what you do with that time. And so to have the highquality instructional material, you have to have aotted minutes in the schedule for the teachers to thoroughly use the resource along with their craft of teaching. So as we move forward, I'm going to bring up both Mr. Colinbach, the executive director of secondary school leadership, and Dr. Ray Lee Self, the executive director of elementary school leadership, and they're going to talk in greater depth about the individual levels. We'll start with secondary. Thank you, Dr. Gomez. I'm just going to jump in on the secondary bell schedules that you can Well, you can see middle school there
044on the screen. And so, there's not much difference there. However, we are um again trying to maximize the amount of time that students are in class. Incidentally, if you uh if you add just as a just to compare, if you add two minutes to each class period in a day over the course of a year, it translates to just under six days of instruction. So, while it might look like we're making minor adjustments, a couple of minutes over the course of uh of a whole school year is a lot of time. So, we're trying to really focus on that. If we go to the the high schools, so what gets complicated about the high school bell schedules are our students who are involved in our uh CTE programs that are double blocked. So they go
045two periods at a time and they some of them are at different locations and so we have to uh coordinate that effort so that we don't have a we don't lose a lot of time in transportation going back and forth. So that was a big focus for us this year. Um we're just going to I'm just going to show you real quick uh the worksheet that we use. I know this is really more technical and it goes minute by minute, but I think it's important for you all to see and also uh the community to see what all has to go into this to make these schedules work. So, we actually look at it minute by minute like that and um make sure that a a student doesn't lose time if they have to go
046across town for a double blocked class and then they again have to travel back for that. Uh, so we're trying to limit that amount of time that they're traveling. Um, but and then increase the amount of time that they're in class. So, I I just want to a shout out for a minute to our um our principles and our directors that came together and uh we had multiple meetings hashing out how we can do this uh so that we can make it great for all of our students no matter where they go to school or what program they're in. And so, um this is where it landed and it's great. I I got to tell you, over the past several years, we have uh dramatically increased the amount of time that uh they're in class
047and not traveling around. Uh you'll see there in the middle where the lunches are, that's a big uh focus because um even just a few years ago, we were over an hour of time uh for lunch. And it was a lot of what we really consider wasted time cuz it just doesn't take that much. So, we've shrunk that down. we're getting down in the 40 to 43 minute range now. And so, um, that'll be a big thing for us, making it more efficient use of time during that that middle of the day there. So, um, again, that's a lot of extra with all the time, um, periods and all of that, but we did want you to see that a lot of work goes into that on, uh, with all of the principles and the
048directors to make sure that we, uh, are really making the best use of our time. And now I will introduce Dr. Self. Good evening. Fortunately, at elementary, we're not quite driving yet, so we do have that working in our favor. Um, but, uh, the addition to the 10 minutes, um, we are going from, um, the elementary school day ending at 3:05 to 3:15 next year. And just the addition of that 10 minutes a day actually adds up to around 30 additional hours of instructional time over the course of the year. And that is such a blessing. It truly is. Um it's a gift of time for our teachers and our administrators. Um just today we started our first collaborative session where we are reviewing as a committee and a team um the first round of
049our elementary master schedules and um the 10 minutes is actually allowing we we've seen some things and witnessed some things today but really and truly um we're seeing an additional MTSS intervention time on top of the already required 30 minute intervention time. um special programs is a part of that discussion and a part of that team. And what we're seeing also is um the campus leadership teams and special programs having a little bit of flexibility when we're talking about serving our students and making sure that um we are hitting their required minutes in resource as well as serving our dyslexia students. Um there's also uh a really dedicated focus um in our primary grades, kinder first and second, um to have a dedicated time for science and social studies because in our primary grades um
050we tend to uh really focus on reading. It's the foundation for for everything to be built on, but we also realize that we can't wait until third, fourth, and fifth grade um to to come in and teach science and social studies. So, our campus leadership teams are really making a dedicated effort um to put those science and social study studies blocks in and it's an accountability effort on their part too because when they go into the classroom during that science time in kinder that is what they're expecting to see and that's what they're going to coach the teacher around. Um so, we are just uh really thankful for that additional 10 minutes and we're already starting to see um uh quite a few benefits at the elementary level. And just a closeup on the elementary,
051the board has approved a variety of resources. Um the state has not provided additional resources for social studies in a number of years. The district this year has provided additional support for the 2526 school year specifically to elementary that needed a resource. So they are getting two additional resources for social studies weekly and discovery ed. And then our secondary campuses are getting additional support with um Lmen and Exploros especially for 8th grade and US history as those two content areas and grade levels are part of the district's teacher incentive aotment plan. So, we really wanted just to provide the overview and show that all of the decisions are around student outcomes first and foremost and how do we provide the highest levels of support to continue to serve each and every child in our system?
052Does anyone have any questions for Dr. Gomez? What time does elementary going to start? The the official time is 7:35 as it has been. it's the additional 10 minutes at the end. So, there's no change for families at the beginning of the day. There's also intentionality with um little changes to middle school because that's important for families. Um the the change for middle school had to do with the period. So, those periods were longer but not the start or stop time and then high school. Also on um for high school specifically, Miss Duncan, we've had a lot of conversations around providing supports for students, specifically students who've not been successful on end of course exams. So, um Central has the Bobcat block period. Lake View is providing those additional supports every period of the day
053that met their schedule. So, students would be scheduled for those interventions, right? I just have a couple of things. Um, elementary and I and I know that you're thinking about this. I just want to say it because it's on my heart. Elementary with this little bit longer, I'm I'm hoping that we're going to give these little kids um maybe two breaks to get up and run and be a kid and not be sitting and because I think just 7:35 to 3:15 is a long day for a little one. So there is a requirement for the physical education minutes in elementary that you don't have in secondary um beyond the middle school years. That is a requirement. Plus we believe in the power the power of play for to be able to get the energy out.
054Um that's very important. Good. That's what I wanted you to hear because I believe in the power of play too for children. And then um ele um middle school and high school. I like the extra time and I am confident. I know this but like I said it's on my heart that we will be monitoring u what we call teaching bellto bell and that during if we're going to give with that additional time teachers are going to restructure their planning too. So we're asking them to add some more instruction in that time and you may think two or three minutes isn't a lot but it's a lot is a lot. So, and thank I I want to say thank you to the teachers for they're going to spend some a little bit of time readjusting
055and that minute-to-minute teaching is so important and I feel confident that our admin team and that people will be making sure that is happening. That's why it was so important that we brought in the research. Again, as we continue to stress, it's not just the additional time that makes the difference in improving student outcomes. It's what you do with the time. And with HQIM, high quality instructional materials, there is a structure that you have to get through in the lesson cycle. Not a script, but a structure. Dr. Gome is like the And just to let people know that um the way we're they're required not it used to be days so many days of instruction. They changed it just to let people know they did change it to minutes. Correct. years back to 700. I
056mean 75,600. That's correct. 75,6006. But um um how how much over this because that's the minimum and I don't know where we're at if we're at minimum or if we're we we never are at minimum because if you do have a situation we had a very unfortunate situation at the beginning of this school year where two of our campuses were not able to start with the other campuses. And so had we been at the minimum, those two campuses would not be finishing this Friday. They would have to come back after the upcoming holiday. So we it's our belief to go a little above the minimum so that we're ensuring we're not having to have families come back and students come back unless there's a situation well beyond our control. Okay. Well, thank you. Because time
057counts. Time counts. And what you do with the time counts more. Mhm. Other questions for Dr. Gumas. Yes, ma'am. Just press it once. Okay, there we go. Okay, ma'am. So, I'm seeing elementary ending at 3:15, right? We're talking about a 20ish minute pickup time. And my kids are at probably the smallest elementary school right now, right? 20-ish minutes or so for pickup. Junior high um ends at what time? or what is the bill schedule 342? Is that right? Yes, ma'am. That's not changing, right? That's correct. Okay. So, let me go back. You're talking about families like me. I have kids in elementary and then I have to rush to go junior high. I mean, that's a time crunch. It's stressful. It's hard. Then we're thinking about consolidating more schools, making these elementary campuses bigger. So,
058if we're already looking at a 20-ish minute or so pickup time at the smallest elementary school in St. Angelo, what is that going to do in the future once we consolidate, make campuses bigger, we're looking at maybe what, a 30ish or so minute pickup time. So 3:45 or so by the time I pick up or families pick up elementary kids, then we're going to go across campus to because there's no longer a junior high close to district 2. Now we're going across to uh Lonear. I mean we're that's a crunch, a big crunch. So, the 10-minute deal came up because, correct me if I'm wrong, students were entering elementary um unprepared or or why did the 10-minute extra 10-minute deal? The extra time came out because our elementary campuses had the least amount of time
059of all of our campuses. And yes, we do have data um showing that our students entering our system are well below grade level. Once they're in our system, we're able to catch them up, but it requires intensive supports. And that 10 minute will make up the 10 minutes is one component. So to make up No, ma'am. It's in addition to several other factors. And it's how you use the time to meet the time requirements for RLA, reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies. there were not enough minutes prior to the addition of the additional time to fit in all the requirements. So that that additional 10 minutes does give our teachers the time to cover the required instructional minutes for all of those core content areas. Thank you, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. And Dr. Gomez,
060I know but Mr. Livingston's sitting right there. ask we've what does this do to our afternoon bus routes? So when I gave compliments and so did Mr. Colinbach for the work of multiple departments transportation was involved in that. So we made sure bus routes can still run as scheduled and so Dr. Livingston was a part Mr. Livingston called you a doctor. I just promoted you there Mr. Livingston. How do you like that one? Um was a part of that along with our child nutrition uh CTE as you heard Mr. Colin block say in multiple directors from special programs where when you have your highest resource is human capital it's our number one variable in the area of special programs to get interventionist dyslexia teachers reading interventionist all of those staff at the multiple campuses to
061serve students they were part of those coordinated efforts as well. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. So, you brought up uh child nutrition, right? And the 10 minutes um being a big deal. So, are we adding anything like a snack or something? Because I know when I pick up my kids, they are starving. Starving. They had lunch at 10 or 11, right? Probably before 11:00. And we're adding the extra 10 minutes. So, are we adding any type of additional nutrition for the Not from the child nutrition department. our campuses all stagger their lunches and also I know that every classroom I've been in personally not the only one that can speak to this if students do have snacks many of our teachers bring snacks in themselves so we've never declined or denied a child that's hungry but
062no ma'am there's not any additional child nutrition with the um time being at the end of the day um yeah right teachers and parents contribute to that but I really think maybe we should look into something like a piece of fruit or something just to, you know, hold them over. It's very important. When you're not well nourished, you can't think, you act out. You're just you're you're not yourself when you're hungry. That's a true statement. So, I think that's something we should really think about, too, if you're going to approve a longer day for elementary students. So, thank you. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Dr. Gomez. All right, next we got Dr. Brandon coming up and he's going to give us some bond construction updates. With the passage of Proposition A, the district
063has started conversations regarding a bond construction timeline, projects list, and possible construction delivery methods. During the May 19, 2025 board meeting, Park Hill um uh will share this evening with us a proposed bond construction timeline as well as provide background information as what type of multiple construction delivery methods are available to the district. Uh so with us this evening, uh Alan Wolf and R.J. Lopez uh for that conversation. Thank you, Dr. Brandon. It's great to be here, Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran and board of trustees. Um, this has been a journey. This has been a long journey. We were talking about uh hiking up a hill and tackling a bond is hiking a steep hill. And you know, there was a lot of preparation that went into that to be able to make it possible. But
064without really locking arms and having the community support and the support of the uh of the administrators and the teachers and the community, these don't pass and you all know that cuz y'all y'all have been there. But it's an amazing time to be um to be able to be part of this process and we're we're thrilled to be here tonight to talk about the next step which I would achen more to a uh marathon now. Uh you know it's not that steep climb but we're definitely about to embark on another journey. So we're excited to share it with you. We're going to talk about the uh the packages for construction, um the delivery methods for construction, the teams for the packages, and then some of just the next logistical steps such as surveying and geotechnical
065uh investigations. So, y'all have been seeing the list uh through many bond presentations uh over the last few months. And you can see uh listed here was the aging buildings which uh was listed at 267 million, Glenn Middle School at 122, and then safety security at 8 million. um to be able to actually bid these out and turn these into construction projects, uh they they have to be broken up into a a timeline that makes sense for both design and construction and then also something that's attractive to the contractors. Um we've started by just u highlighting some of the overall aspects of the projects. I know many of you have seen this many times, but I'll run through it real quick. Um, one of the larger projects that'll take the longest in the design phase
066as well as in the construction phase would be the replacement of the auditorium at Central High School, the new kitchen and dining for Central, the new gymnasium and locker rooms, and then the renovation of the existing kitchen and cafeteria into a culinary arts lab and a health science science lab at Glenn Middle School. That would be a uh a full replacement of that existing middle school on the existing site and that would include full uh athletic fields um along with parking and security improvements with a capacity of,00 students. Lake View High School, we'd have the mariachi edition. We'd have career and technical additions and renovations. You'd have um at the athletic fields, restroom, concession, bleachers, parking uh at the athletic fields. You'd also have um new lights at the football field. We have additional tennis
067courts and lighting, replacing the football field uh and adding lights, synthetic turf for the baseball and softball, and then uh softball back stop and fencing repairs. uh the elementary right sizing projects. We would have uh replacing the kitchen and cafeteria at Crockett Elementary School as well as adding additional classrooms. We have construction of a new kitchen, cafeteria, library, and school administration edition uh and renovate for special education. And I believe that's at uh Fannon. Yes. Yes. Um and then lastly at McGill, one of the right sizing projects would be uh the phase two and three of adding the the remaining classrooms and library and some administration space. And so that would also be uh demolishing some of the older uh classrooms and older buildings from the campus essentially making those campuses uh brand new once
068again. And then uh lastly we have your capital renewal scope which is just really bringing things up to today's standards that we've seen from the facility assessment. So that's replacing u air conditioners, replacing plumbing, electrical uh system and fire upgrades um and the remaining components you can see there across the uh across the district. And so these were the uh critical components that needed to be replaced uh immediately and those will be taking place um over the course of the next couple years. Um so once we started breaking these down u you know everybody's asking well what starts first? What's going to end first? Uh uh what's going to happen over the year? So this is a a good snapshot of what those projects are going to look like. And obviously there'll be some uh
069air conditioners that can be replaced relatively quickly like potentially uh this summer or by the end of the year. So you can see we've listed some of the critical safety and capital renewal impro improvements. Uh we all we also have uh like fencing projects that can happen or replacements of uh exterior doors to immediately improve security just as quickly as we can get those um onsite and installed. So that's an exciting prospect. But a lot of what's going to be happening in 2025 is planning. There's going to be a lot of planning, a lot of meetings. We're going to try to get um uh many stakeholders involved. We're going to have principles. We're going to have Tony's department. We're going to have uh uh all of the key decision makers and users. You know, a
070lot of times we even like to involve students and try to get them involved. So, while you might not see ground being broken uh immediately, there's going to start to be a lot of meetings being coordinated to make sure that these buildings get planned with all of the um users in mind so that teaching and learning can take place in those facilities at the highest level when they're completed. So, you can see uh 2026 will continue safety and capital REM uh renewal improvements. We are we're also planning for by August 2026 the Crockett renovation to be complete. That project's actually going out at the end of this summer. So that'll be one of the first projects that breaks ground for the bond projects. Um and then you'll start to see some of the turf replacements
071and lake view lighting potentially happening as well. um just because those happen quite a bit quicker um and they're standalone projects that don't rely on uh a lot of lead time that some of the other projects like new builds require. By 2027, you could start seeing uh some of the Fannon renovation complete, the McGill renovation complete. Hopefully um the goal is to have multiple much longer um pickup and drop off drives to where those 30 20 to 30 minute um pickup and drop off times can be cut in half because many times having multiple drives that are adequate and keeping you off of main streets help the teachers get those students in the cars and in and out much quicker. So that's that's a big goal at uh Fannon McGill and Crockett. Um by 2028
072uh the Lake View additions renovations, we see those being complete. Uh the new CTE, new Mariachi Hall, and some of the renovations in the locker rooms as well. We could also see uh Glenn New School complete by 2028, August of 2028. And then lastly, since the central high school will be multifased and a portion will have to be built and then a portion demolished and then uh an additional renovation complete, we could see all of that complete by 2029. So we're we're talking about a $397 million bond package complete in four years, which is a really exciting prospect. And there was discussions about delaying some of the projects and uh potentially waiting, but the the longer you wait to start a project and the longer you wait uh to bid a project, the more risk
073for inflation um and volatility in the market. So if we can hit the ground running on as many projects as possible, we reduce the potential for for inflation and volatility. So right now that's that's the discussions that are happening to make this uh this schedule possible. All right. So it can get a lot more detailed and if you're interested in uh kind of picking apart each project and kind of understanding what's happening in each project I can go through one quickly. Um we can take uh just say well let's start with the safety and security. Um we're showing maybe a couple of months uh of design with some of those projects. Uh which by design that might be u you know some of Jason and his um his crew you know tackling you know where
074does a door need to be replaced trying to receive bids for replacing that door and then construction of installing that door replacement. Um you can see we're showing that happening happening over um multiple years, possibly multiple summers. Not everything has to happen over the summer. That's just when those projects uh typically happen. And there's some that are a little bit more critical than others and some that just take more time. Certain security devices might not be able to come in within a couple months. You might have to wait another summer. So that's why you're seeing kind of the the planning which is orange, the bidding yellow, and then the blue construction. Um there in that project for Crockett. Um you could see that the the the planning actually started um back in April to get
075this project um under construction during the summer. It would bid over the over the summer. Uh we're showing uh July and August. I think we're actually a little bit ahead on that and then starting construction. Uh we're showing September, but I think we could possibly be under construction for Crockett uh by August. And then the blue would be the construction phase. The light blue would be the the moving and the uh ribbon cutting for the new kitchen, cafeteria, and classrooms at Crockett. the larger the project gets, the longer the design time and the longer the construction time. So you can see um once you start getting to the Glenn New School, we start looking at a construction phase that goes from June or a design phase that goes from June 2025 to around uh November,
076December of 2025 and bidding out around the first of the year. Oh yeah. Well, it would be design until around January of 2026 and then bidding around February, March of 2026 and then about a 24month construction schedule shown on Glenn. And part of Glenn is, you know, leaving the existing middle school, building the new middle school, then demolishing the existing middle school and building the athletic uh fields and track. So part of that is you could actually move in a little bit earlier than that, but we're showing the the full schedule there. And then if you go all the way down to central, you can see some of those phases and just the amount of time it'll take to to move in by actually January of 2029. So, at the first of 2029, you could
077potentially be done uh and complete with your your full bond package, which is um is an incredible feat. So, we're we're excited to to be a part of it. And uh if you have any questions, I don't know, we've got a few more slides, but if there are any questions, because I know this is a pretty detailed schedule. Um R.J., Would you are you going to be able to use any of the local effort to help with maybe the SL small planning projects, stuff like that? Big stuff like that. Yes. Yes. We have Okay, good. Yeah, we've got updated uh the y'all y'all have requested updated qualifications from local architects and engineers and they're excited and they're they're qualified and they're they're looking at the projects right now. So, well, we're excited for you guys
078to manage the chaos. For sure, because it's going to it's going to be busy for a season. Yeah, for sure. And this is there there's so many projects here that there's going to be a little bit for, you know, your your smaller contractors, your smaller architecture firms, and your your smaller engineers, mid-size engineers. So, yeah, there there's a lot for everybody. Perfect. Thanks. Thanks, R.J. Appreciate that. Yeah, Mr. President board, we we made an intentional effort to do exactly what you're talking about because I think everybody recognizes we can do this project, but if we leave out our locals, uh we're not doing ourselves a favor. So, uh we're going to do uh all that we can to involve those qualified subcontractors and people that can get involved and and really support the effort. Any
079other scheduled questions before I hand it over to my partner Alan Wolf to talk about construction delivery methods. Thank you R.J. members of the board. Dr. Kingman, Dr. Moran, great to be with you guys. I'm going to go over just three slides that uh you may be wondering why we're talking about construction delivery methods with all the planning going on. I think once we get through the second slide, you'll see uh why I'm bringing that up. One of the things about construction deliver one of the uh things that the board has to take action on uh when involving bond construction projects is the construction delivery method. So that's the means by which you're going to engage contractor to get these things constructed. So, uh, I'm going to go over the two most common construction delivery
080methods that we see in in school construction projects. The first one you're very familiar with, uh, because this is the same procedure used at Fannon and McGill, which is the uh, competitive seal proposal method. So, back when I started my career, there was only one way to procure projects. It had to be what they call design, bid, build, or what some people call the low bid method. Um, and I think it was 1999, the legislature saw that there was a benefit in uh in evaluating not just what the low bid is, but uh qualifications and and a mixture of price and quality. Uh so that can be schedule, that can be references, it can be a lot of things that you can consider. It's just like uh the teachers in the classroom have rubric for
081how they grade and evaluate um um and evaluate students and and help identify uh important pieces in the classroom. It's the same way in construction. So we can the board can actually adopt a set of criteria to evaluate and that's what you guys have done for Fannon and McGill previously. Uh in this case the there's a little org chart on the right hand side but this basically just shows the relationship. So, uh the uh you guys would have a a contract with a architect design professional and you would have a contract with a general contractor. And so, in this case, the drawings uh in our case or in another architect's case, the drawings get completed and then uh throughout the process, the architect provides an opinion of cost. The project goes out on the streets.
082It's bid competitively bid by general contractors and subcontractors at the same time. And then uh there's an evaluation committee just like what the same process you guys have done that scores and evaluates the general contractors but you can also evaluate quality of subcontractors price time all of those things. So that's one way but you get the final you know the final price at the time you bid the project. Um, so there's another one called uh construction manager at risk. Uh, and this this project is very popular uh with bond projects as well. It's a little bit different. If you notice the way the org chart looks on the right hand side, you still have subcontractors that report directly to a construction manager. So you still have one essentially general contractor that holds all the subcontracts,
083but you can see that now they're on the same line as the architect and engineering firm. That's because they can be brought on board early. And the reason and benefit for doing that uh particularly with complicated phased projects is that you can get input from who's going to be ultimately if you want to think about it the general contractor construction manager about construction materials about the phasing of the project um even which parts of the project to start uh and things like that. even construction delivery methods. I had one one time that said, uh, if you're going to do tiltup, you need to do this first and you need to do this. This is why you do it. It really helped the project. It saved money. And so, a little bit of the difference. You
084you actually would start by bringing for some of those projects, you want to bring them early on once uh the architect, an engineer has a conceptual design, let's say a schematic design as we would call it. That's a good time to get that out and let construction managers look at it. So the difference is that when they they still provide competitive pricing for their their effort to manage the project uh and for their labor for their own labor upfront. They will then help during the design process and then then they would take that out to bid. So you would actually get the final price not when they first give you when you engage a construction manager but after they have bid uh the project. One of the other benefits to it is they can give
085you what's called a guaranteed maximum price. So, this is helpful particularly when you have phased uh phased projects where you're trying to evaluate a hard bid uh let's say uh uh hard let's say for the mariachi edition at at Lake View, but you're you still need to bid the CTE uh wing at Lake View. you can have some idea of what the total cost of the project is going to be before you award that uh that other the first package. So it's really useful in that way. Uh so it gives you some flexibility to start work and know you have that contractor on that site for example. It may be important that one contractor work on site. So that's one of the benefits to construction manager at risk. One more slide just to compare them
086a little bit. Um, we see the construction manager at risk, particularly when we get into really large projects. It's not to say that you can't do uh a large project with a competitive seal proposal, but a lot of times we see this just uh the nature of of large projects is uh complexity on site, whether it's a a build and tear down and uh manage uh some of the traffic on site. Um, Seymar is good for those multi- we we have some districts that utilize them construction manager the same firm for more more than one site. Uh, but I'd say you can take out multi-sight and just put multi-phase in there because they build a certain phase of the project. You've got three more phases coming. They kind of know where the utilities are. They
087know the site. They know all the existing conditions. The the whole idea behind construction delivery methods is you want to get the one that provides the best value and that's what's in uh the Texas Administrative Code that you guys are governed by. What provides you the best value? And so we're going to explore that. I wanted to introduce you to these methods, but when we come for the next the next meeting, we'll talk a little more in detail about which project makes the most sense for each site. Um we competitive proposal is great for for very clear scopes projects on a on a site that are that are straightforward in terms of their phasing and complexity. So we've used them successfully in both both cases. As you know the the big thing is you're the
088way uh both of these methods have a full-time uh general contractor supervising the project on site at all times. And so that's great because that means they'll have somebody who knows what they're looking at at all times managing the subcontractors. Any questions on on those things? I know I went through it uh kind of quickly, but those are the those are the two methods used most often for now there's, you know, some of the other projects you may uh there's different other delivery methods that can be used for smaller contract uh smaller projects, but these these would take uh I think would be the ones to consider for the majority of your bond projects, Alan. So like uh central would be a multi-phase project because everything we're going to because and we're having to deal
089with the old an old building. Okay. Now I don't know if we're going to like say like the cafeteria. We're not going to tear it down. We're going to right reuse it now. So would like CM be good for something like that because you're going to do it here then there and then they'll know where everything's at. Yes. Yes. Mr. Gigos. That's that's absolutely I think that's a uh if you were pulling out one of the ideal cases for construction management risk that would be the case cuz you're probably looking at at uh you've got a a tear down a partial tear down a construction a partial uh tear down plus you have at central you know you have the utility tunnels u I know the citizens committee saw kind of the condition of what
090uh piping looks like after a long time and and so those things have to be managed as well and particular particularly when you have complicated utilities. I think that makes sense because one of the things we still have to have school uh and so I think having uh and as you go through the different phases it certainly I think would be our recommendation to have the same uh construction team that on that site okay throughout the state for like Glenn Middle School CSP would be good you could do it one project that's they're doing it just complete completely new I I think that that Glenn's a good example of you could go uh I think you could go either underway. Um, and I think as we go through the process, you know, there's there's a
091some new construction or newer construction down there on the the southeast side that that building that we can utilize. Plus, we have the a lot of earthwork and retaining features that's going to be required for the uh uh for the construction of the middle school. So, we might want to dive into that and think I think that's the when you're considering the between the two that would be the project I think that that comes to mind in your in your bond program that could go either way. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Yes, sir. Other questions? I've got I think a couple maybe a couple more. So, I promise I had a question for you if no one else did for a second. Uh sorry the uh in districts with large bonds like this our district
092just passed uh you know previously when our district passed a bond I wasn't here it was 20 something years ago we hired a construction person to be in charge of the project from a district perspective and I know we intend to do that probably again the does that change our delineation for a seal proposal versus a construction manager they all work together. Either way, they they all That's a great question. I think that's a a very prudent move and and you're exactly right. Districts with this size bond typically have someone and and we've worked with a lot of districts that have that person on staff. We've also worked with them the other way. So we uh but having someone um that can there's a lot of logistics that have to be steered through just in
093I just talked about the utilities but but having to to phase and and work with principles uh and uh the the maintenance and facility staff just to coordinate all of that. It is a full-time it's a full-time job from the district standpoint. And so, um, because I know the last bond that we did, um, we did a lot of CM, a lot of, and now I know why, because everything was just, they were old buildings and you had someone in there that had already been in there, you can go back and finish doing what they were doing. Um, and one of the main reasons I think we went that way and because like I said, these are old buildings, lots of asbests and stuff like that. And I'm just, you know, what worries me about
094CSP. This this is the only reason I have worry about CSP is because and we experienced this before is you had a lot of low bids that came in and then in the middle of the project you had change orders and those the majority of the change order which we had to pay for because they were just asking for more you know some money to cover the cost it was always asbestous. Now with CM if say like um the the people that are doing this stuff and they come in with you know they say we can do it for this cost and they run into an asbestous issue would from what I gather then they cover the cost. Anything they went over they had to cover it. They were responsible for it not the school
095district. Right. Once that guaranteed maximum price is set and and then they're responsible for that number. uh and there is a chance that that number can go down, you know, after uh there's sometimes opportunities when uh when you're bidding a project. I'll use a crane for example. More than one subcontractor may need a crane. They find out both both have the crane. We don't need to pay for it twice. So that number can come down, but that's the maximum number it can be. So it's not going to go up from there unless you decide, well, I need to add 10,000 square ft unless you guys change the scope. So that's one of the benefits of the guaranteed maximum price is that's the that's the the max that it can go. So but in terms of
096your your question about the other thing I didn't mention about construction manager risk there's even the option so you can get started early. So, um, for example, in a new construction, if you wanted to do an earthwork and utilities package, uh, for a new school, elementary, middle school, you could start that before you have the bids on the other piece. So, sometimes it allows you to to while the architect and engineer is finishing the final design, there are some elements of that design that may be ready and done to bid. And that allows you to start construction, not have to wait, you know, two or three or four months longer to get the rest of the CM, right? So that can give you some advantage in time. The other thing is if you have a
097if you have a a you know, typically you're going to have maybe 40 or 50 different bid packages. If a couple of them come in too high and they just don't make sense, they're not the right time. or asphalt for example. Sometimes that market price of asphalt can can change what the paving cost. It doesn't stop you from starting construction in that case. You could still award uh the different packages and you can go back and rebid the ask the paving for example. So it also gives you that kind of flexibility too and with large projects that are spread out um like R.J. was describing with uh central for example that gives you some flexibility on when you bid certain packages as well. Yeah, thank you. Um I didn't want to I think I maybe
098a couple slides and we'll go pretty quick here. Um R.J. talked about the team. I just wanted I wanted to cover this real quick as he as he talked about we've had a lot of planning and preparation but there's a lot of detailed design work to be done. So when we talk about the team, that's not just our folks or our our or another architect's team. It's also your team. So that as R.J. mentioned, your facility staff, your principles, your community, your your u uh students. Uh and each phase of design from discover all the way to the deliver phase builds on more and more detail. We're a big believer believer if you've ever heard of the mcclemy curve the more time you put into planning the less you're going to have of those changes
099and and and you you can control cost a lot better. So uh we believe in believe in that. So we've got a great start. We've got a lot more to do together. Um and we're going to be focused on flexibility, durability uh and creating inviting spaces uh for your students. And uh really the end result is going to be a reflection of what your team wants that what the response uh to your needs and your educational delivery needs. So if there's any other ones that we need to talk about I think these are kind of the next steps. Um there's there's some things to uh we'll talk about at the next meeting. This is really a primer for that. And then uh you know there's some other things that can get started on those sites
100where new construction is going to be which is uh I think you're familiar with the soils investigation survey type work. So any other questions we can answer for you? I just had a quick question. So what's the biggest you talked about a lot of the pros of the CM but what's the biggest downside to the CM? Uh I think the I'm trying to think of a of a downside to CM the you know I think the for for some of the the smaller straightforward projects you might have. So, uh, take for example like the McGill edition. I think that's a good candidate for a competitive seal proposal. And sometimes it it has the, uh, I think the a construction manager at risk is going to have a pro a full-time project manager and a full-time
101uh, project superintendent. Some projects don't necessarily need as as large of a staff for that. I don't know, R.J., if there's any other things you can think of with with that. They're they're normally larger companies that do CMR, so they're normally their overheads higher and they're used to working on larger projects um and and staffing them well. And so a lot of times we do see some of the CMR projects come in a little bit higher, but where we see the results are during the construction. Normally construction's faster and there's a lot less changes. So bringing them on early, they know about the asbestous. Bringing them on early, they say, "Well, maybe we should do steel throughout the whole building instead of doing partial concrete because we think we can save two months." So even
102though that concrete might save you $50,000, the two months we save could be $200,000 in savings. So we we save on the back end during construction. when things get the most critical, that's where the CMAR uh really really shines. But yes, the the smaller and less complicated the project, normally the more expensive uh the CMAR is, and the the smaller and less complicated a project, the the more competitive a CSP is. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Thank you all for being here. And as for our public, I just want everyone to know that our plan is to do bond updates throughout this whole process at our regular board meetings so that we keep the community involved in understanding what is um being done and how the money is being spent. So um appreciate our admin
103team for making sure that we are transparent on all of that. All right. Next is item 11, which is consent items A through F. Um, so that's donations are minutes from our April 14th, 2025 board train, our April 14th, 2025 pre-agenda workshop, and our April 21 regular board meeting. It's the acceptance of our audit engagement letter from I Bailey. Uh, consider approval of bids for the child nutrition department for the 2425 school year vinhood cleanings. uh bid 20-014 which was an add-on for our curriculum and instructions materials and then F which was consider superintendent's recommendations for 2526 and other professional contracts. Um, any board questions or comments regarding consent items A through F and the just to make sure everyone aware the um, superintendent's recommendations is the separate page that was at your desk. Do
104I have a motion to approve consent items A through F? Make a motion to approve consent items A through F. Any question? Sorry, do I have a second for consent items A through F? I'll second. So, a motion from Mr. Gyos and a second from Dr. Mills. Um, any further board questions or comments? All in favor say I. All say the same. So, we'll call it 6 and Mrs. Cardin is going to abstain. Um, next we're going to move to some action items. Uh first is consider our bills and accounts and financial statements for the April 2025. Do I have a motion to approve the consent the bills accounts and financial statements? Dr. Camp move for approval. Do I have a second? Second. So I have a motion for Mr. Dindle and a second from
105Mr. Gos. Any further board comments or questions? Dr. Dr. Cayman, just to note to the public that we uh reviewed all these reports in our pre-agenda meeting last Monday. Uh and all of these reports can be found online uh at our website sd uh.org uh under a tab called financial transparency. So any other board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I say the same. Motion passes 6. Um the next is a proposed budget amendment for the district official budget general fund as of May 19th, 2025. Um this was a uh move for to the general fund of $7 million um from our uh committed fund balance to cover construction projects um that have been now completed or in the process of being completed. Um any Dr. Brandon, you here for you're getting up
106there to talk about that one or for the next one? Mostly the next one just to you're exactly right. 7 million from capital projects from our committed fund balance and then a couple of minor changes decreases in functions 11 and 34 uh 57,600 and to increase 36 and 23 uh by the same amount. So zero uh zero effect on the general fund. Any questions or comments? So, there's a little bit more in the committed fund balance that will come out eventually, but I mean about I think one million left is so uh any other board questions or comments regarding that. All right. Um all in favor say I. I. All say the same. Motion passes 6 motion. We have a motion. Oh, did I not have a motion? Sorry. Um, that's why y'all shouldn't have
107let me see president. I I'll move for the approval of the general fund budget amendment for May 19th, 2025 with changes to function codes which results in no monetary differences and an increase in expenditures in the amount of $7 million of which was coming from committed fund balances for construction. Thank you. Motion from Mr. Dendle. Do I have a second? I'll second. A second from Mr. Misel Flint. Any uh further board comments or questions? It's Merl getting up there screwed me up. Now all in favor say I. I. All against say the same. Motion passes 6. All right. Next is consider resolution regarding district boundary adjustments. And that is what Dr. Brandon is here to talk to us about. During a routine property audit by the Tom Green County Appraisal District, inconsistencies in school district
108property boundaries were discovered between St. Angel and Wallist. Uh further investigation revealed the inconsistencies were in relation to current Texas Education Agency district boundary lines between the two districts. Walsh Gagos uh was contacted to inquire about the possibil possible solutions to the boundary line inconsistencies. Uh Mrs. Joseph with Walsh Gagos researched the matter and has provided both school districts uh and the appraisal district with a pro proposed option uh related to Texas Education Code section 13.231 uh referred to as a minor boundary adjustments by agreement. So no one school district can change a boundary line. It only happens through agreement by both districts by the board of trustees by both school districts with the additional oversight of the Texas Education Agency and the uh appraisal district. So you find uh with the uh resolution uh
109is to adopt a new common district boundary line and further delegate authority to the superintendent to negotiate a minor boundary adjustment with wall ISD and bring that back to the board. So no decision would be made this evening. Simply a resolution so that the superintendent may work together with Walsh Gyos to produce uh that minor boundary adjustment uh and bring that back to the board of trustees in June. Any questions or comments? I'll make a comment because there seems to be some angst on this issue and uh I think the the goal of both I can't speak for wall but I can speak for the goal of this administration that will bring something to this board that would help the citizens of St. Angelo ISD who have been residing and attending school in St. Angelo
110ISD who have been paying taxes to St. Angelo ISD. Our recommendation hopefully will be to keep it the same. And by that I mean u it would be uh if wall is in agreement we would send that to Austin and TEA would make their adjustments so that no one in our district or if Wall would agree no one in their district would change their taxation district or their school boundary district uh attendance zones. So that's the hope and for those that um u may be excited about this they can relax I think common sense and cooler heads will prevail. Yeah. So any further comments or questions for Dr. Brandon? So um do I have a motion? Okay. I'll make the motion to approve a resolution to adopt a new common district boundary line and further
111delegate authority to the superintendent to negotiate a minor boundary adjustment agreement with Wallist D and bring back to the board for consideration. Do I have a second? I'll second. So I have a motion from Mr. Gyos and a second from Mr. Dindle. And only comment I will make is just a for the public. Nothing is actually happening with this resolution is only allowing the two districts to work together to present a minor minor boundary adjustment to each board. Okay. Um any further board comments or questions? All right. All in favor say I. I. I. All against say the same. Motion passes 6. All right. Next, we have Mr. Lee Livingston, and he's going to help us consider transportation rider check-in software purchased to include all needed hardware and installation for a turnkey project. Good evening,
112board members. Dr. Moran, thank you for having me back again tonight. going to talk to you a little bit about uh uh you know our writership check-in program. Uh our current vendor uh made us aware um about two months ago uh that they're no longer going to integrate with our current routing software. So we're either forced to move over to their solution or find another option. So, we're um going to suggest that we uh change our vendor for our hardware. Um we're going to stay with our current uh software for routing. Uh we're actually in the process of upgrading that. Um, we got some exciting things coming along uh for everybody that's involved with uh student transportation. Um, currently we do not have live GPS on our vehicles. Uh, with our current provider, uh, it's
113passive. As long as the tablet is on the bus and the bus driver has the tablet turned on, we can locate that vehicle. once the tablet's turned off or there's no um uh tablet on the bus um it it's just out there. So, we will have live GPS and that means uh even with the engine turned off, we'll be able to locate that vehicle with this current solution. Uh we have customizable reports uh that'll help us out with our end of the year reporting with TEA. We'll also be able to one of the exciting parts of that is uh you know an idle report. Um and we can work with our drivers to keep our idle time at a bare minimum. Um I know uh Flugerville ISD put this same uh s uh program in
114place about two years ago. I know they're slightly bigger than we are. They have about 100 buses more than we do. Probably cover three times the amount of mileage that we do, but they were able to save over $200,000 the first year in fuel cost alone. So, I expect that we will probably cover come pretty close to covering the cost of this program just uh being able to monitor our fuel utilization. Um we're also going to have electronic uh vehicle inspection reports along with our upgrade to our routing program. Our uh maintenance program is also getting upgraded. So this will also integrate with that as well and uh we'll have some exciting new things going on in the in the maintenance shop uh along with that. Um and again it integrates with our upgrade to
115ser uh service finder and route finder plus and uh we also have navigation on the tablets. Uh we currently have that with our current provider. So that's not a big change. Um we'll be able to have parent communication um with this program as well that actually comes through uh transfinder. Uh that particular program is called Stopfinder and it does a lot. I'm not saying that we're going to do everything that it does, but it does a lot and it will certainly help uh our parents get information a lot better from uh standpoint when we have late buses or buses that aren't running due to either mechanical failure or no driver present to operate the vehicle. Um and also uh an exciting uh option with this particular vendor is uh it will integrate with time clock
116plus and we do uh at some point in time. We're not getting that right now, but at some point in time, I'll probably come back to you with a an option to integrate with that. That gives our drivers the option to clock in, clock out from the bus instead of coming inside to hit the time clocks. I think it'll be a lot uh a lot more accurate on our driver time and it and monitors, too. They'll be able to clock in and clock out from that as well. and we took a look at the the three options uh for going uh moving forward in in this particular situation. Um of course uh smart tag no longer integrates with our software so we would have to uh procure other software to move forward with that option.
117uh Samsara uh is a very uh qualified uh GPS provider and they do work with Transfinder. However, they don't provide the hardware that we'd need. So, we would end up having to go to a third vendor to get the hardware that we need. So, therefore, we are suggesting that we move forward with the Zon R program. Mr. And so that's the price for the software. So then each year the cost would just be the cards. Uh is that there is a maintenance fee every year. Um of course for the service uh it would be uh you know for the GPS service which we haven't been paying for because we don't currently have that. So that would be a big portion of that annual of that annual fee. Um, and then the cards. Yes. And I
118think you asked me to talk a little bit about some of the the problems that you incurred when you uh began this program about 3 years ago. Um, I've heard bits and pieces, so I'm not exactly sure I know 100% of what went on, but I know that there was an initial run of cards that needed to be reprinted. um and uh worked with uh the vendor to make sure that we do don't have that problem. Again, they will be working very closely with um you know, our data folks to make sure that they get the correct data that those cards are printed correctly. And uh no, we're not tracking our kids. Um these are just a a badge on just like our our ID badges that would open doors or whatever. although we're not
119going to be offering that to our students, but it works on the same uh premise. Any questions for Mr. Livingston? So, Mr. Livingston, the zonear provides the GPS. I mean, you know, we we'll be able to do that and it'll and also you can follow the idle time. You'll know where every bus is at, which we couldn't do that with smart tag, could we? Is that what we were saying? We could do it as long as the tablet was on the bus. Okay. This doesn't require the tablet or anything. We uh uh smart tag does not offer an option to track idle time or or anything like that, but uh or at least the version that we currently have, but um Zonar can. Zonar can. Okay, that's what I want to know. Thank you. And
120the kids also use this for lunch and stuff, right? Correct. And this new software, the new badges are going to work fine with all that. Yes. Yes. They've assured me of that. Everything Everything that works in the schools works off a off the barcode. Now, the uh card readers on the buses will be our I I may have missed it. Did you say um did you tell us how much the annual cost is for the Zonar software? I don't have that broke out, but I I do have that. We can get you that information. Thank you. So, I think just a a couple of notes on that. That's a because that's a good question. It's very similar to the smart tag, but the uh this would be the one-year purchase at 224,646 general fund purchase
121and then reoccurring from that we would build into the budget for transportation. So we wouldn't come back with a yearly cost. It would build it into uh the transportation budget. And it did uh l luckily um it also this uh ID system works with the printers that we have from Smart Tag. So we're able to keep all of our printers that's on every campus. Uh all of our print cartridges. So we were able to use We'll get the new student IDs because they're particular to Zonar. Uh but we'll able to save some supply cost uh by using those. Any other board questions or comments? All right. Do I have a [Applause] motion? Dr. H. I move Excuse me. Dr. H. I move recommend that Zonar software hardware in recommend to purchase Zonar software hardware and
122installation for a turnkey project 2246 20 yeah 224646 before it goes away on our screen. Thank you. I have a motion from Mr. Dindle. Do I have a second? Second. And a second from Mrs. Duncan. Any further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I all going to say the same. Motion passes 6. All right. Next we have Thank you, Mr. Livingston. Next we have RFP 25-00005, which is a culinary arts lab refresh. Thank you for having me here tonight. Uh the culinary the central culinary arts program is experiencing significant growth necessitating an expansion of its current facility. To address this need, we initiated a project to integrate the existing commercial kitchen at SUSA with the adjacent underutilized home economics classroom. This conversion will create a larger modern commercial kitchen space to better
123serve our students. A request for proposal was issued to identify qualified companies capable of this refresh. The district received a total of four bids and one no bid. Following a thorough evaluation process based on the pre-defined scoring criteria, Midex of Midland received the highest overall score. The administration recommends that St. Angelo Independent School District Board of Trustees approved the award of the culinary arts lab refresh contract to Midtex of Midland for a total contract cost of 707,000. This includes an owner contingency of 40,000 to address any unforeseen issues that may arise during this project. Do you all have any questions? Who wants to serve board questions or comments? We also have some of the representatives from the culinary arts department and the CTE program if you guys have any questions for them as well. I
124know we had significant discussion at this uh at the pre-agenda meeting and and I know the project cost of 77 77,000. We are three years away from having a new an completely new culinary department at Central. And I know it's uh uh harsh to wait, but the the cost of the development of this program uh leaves us to move only about $200,000 worth of equipment from from uh the lab that we create to the lab that we uh uh we will currently we will that will occupy in about three years. My angst is that that we leave that infrastructure there unused. Uh and I know that some of these funds are coming out of Kate. Uh so uh I mean and that's good, but if we if we cannot recover uh some of those funds
125uh and use that infrastructure Kate uh software, I'm a little concerned that the the we might should wait instead of proceed. Yeah. I think I think one of my biggest concerns is we already have money that's going to be devoted to this in three years and there's other CT programs that won't have money coming to them in three years. So whether you know you have half a million dollars that would have major infrastructure changes at the school that you could put towards other CTE programs that have no future money coming. So, I don't know. I just I'm kind like Mr. Dindle. I'm not sure that um spending half million dollars on infrastructure changes to something that already has a a bright future and we're really excited about all the stuff that's going to come with
126the bond. I just don't know it's if it's if it's money well spent when there's a lot of other programs that could could also use that funds, those funds. Do we have an idea of what those spaces would be used? I know one question we had last week was what would those spaces be used for three years from now, four years from now when they're no longer used for culinary. We did have some internal discussions. I'm going to let these two take care of those discussions. Good evening, Dr. Keeman and Dr. Maria and the board. Uh so as we look at some of those additional programs that aren't included in the bond, um culinary isn't our only program that we're seeing extensive growth in. Um our engineering program um we're also seeing growth in that
127area. We have several pieces of equipment that have been donated um from business and industry. Um, so we haven't had to purchase that equipment, but having the space, the electrical, the ventilation, um, for some of those pieces of equipment. For example, we have a Stratus 3D printer. It's about a size of a refrigerator. Um, and it's a great piece of equipment, but it requires ventilation. Um, and it requires the space uh, for that piece of equipment. Um, so we're very limited right now in even being able to utilize it and students being able to get trained on it and get a certification in that because we just don't have the electrical and the ventilation and the space for that. So I could see equipment and programs like engineering um moving into that space. So I
128understand that we're prep we're currently preparing the space for culinary arts, but we'd also be com preparing that space for additional programs that aren't included in the bond. Um, I don't know. Maybe maybe that's what we need more clarification on how how that would look. I do think from what I understand culinary I don't know this might be too drastic to say can't continue in the path that they're in right now. there's um the teachers are doing a phenomenal job with just a little bit and I too think all of our CTE programs are going to grow because that's where kids are looking at more and more not just the academic path. Um so I see both sides. I'm I mean I understand the money part and all that. So I think if what you're
129saying Roxan, if we can hear more or show more that if we went with this that would still be used for engineering and then maybe it would make paint a better picture maybe. Yeah, I mean I think it would ease it but at the same time for the engineering department I think we need to design a space for the engineering department or the classes not not design the space for the culinary arts for three years and then sort of retrofit it or sort of adapt it to work with engineering down the road because that's not necessarily it may we may make it work but is it is it ideal? Is it optimal? This is hopefully the space they're going to have for, you know, 15, 20, 30 years. We don't want to commit to a
130three-year project and then we're sort of making do for the next, you know, 17 years. You know, that's my thought. So, I don't want to speak for everyone, but I'm hearing that there's a lot of question on this. Why don't we at least table it for tonight and let's think about if the admin wants to come back with a uh clear explanation of how the money can be used more than just one phase. We'll be happy to hear that next month. Uh but I think trying to take a vote on that tonight is all it's going to do is not pass. And so we might as well table it for now and see uh if we can come up with a plan that actually meets all the concerns of the board and then and if
131we can't maybe we take a deep breath and say hey we we do have a real bright future with a lot of things and we don't want anyone to suffer over the next three years but on the same hand we don't like Dr. Mills and I think what Mr. DL saying is we don't want to have a program suffer for the next 25 years because we weren't willing to have a program uh spend the money the right way right now. So um unless unless someone wants to make a motion I'm not preventing any motions. If if someone wants to make a motion to um regarding the approval that's fine. Otherwise, I would make a motion that we table it um for further discussion in the future. And I'll take a second if Dr. Cayman, this
132is not to discount the the burgeoning success of what we're seeing in the culinary program here because it's it's one of a variet programs not only at Central, but at Lake View and those spaces are obviously uh it's become a class in demand. And so if we don't move forward with this with this, we do need to make alternate plans to make sure that we do take care of these kids uh until we can get them in a better space for sure. Uh so and with that, I'll second that motion to table. I guess since it was posted, we we'll take a vote. Everyone okay with tableabling? Say I. I. Again, stay the same. Okay. Thank you all very much. Thank you, Miss Cress. All right, item F uh is no longer needed. Uh that
133was all taken care of. Um we will there are no um contracts that need to be terminated. So um next we have announcements. We have our pays graduation and May 22nd at 6 p.m. We have our central graduation May 24th at 9:00 a.m. Yes. Central. And then Lake View graduation May 24th at 11:45 a.m. And then our finance and pre-aggenda workshop will be June 19th, June 9th, excuse me. And our regular board meeting will be June 16th. And there any other board comments that are me. Thank you.