001Good evening and welcome. My name is Taylor Kingman. As member of the board of trustees of the St. Angelo Independent School District, I would like to welcome all of you who are present at tonight's pre-aggenda board meeting. We appreciate your interest in the activities of our students and the business of SISD. All items that will be discussed at our meeting this evening have been posted as required by state law. Also, you may be aware our board meets a minimum of two times per month and most of the items on our agenda this evening will be discussed tonight and voted upon at our regular board meeting. As members of the SSD board of trustees, we are here to set goals, listen to reports from our superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personnel appointments, and to make policy
002for the district. Please keep in mind that our mean is a mean of the board of trustees held in public and not a mean of the public. However, we do have a public comment item on our agenda that allows anyone present who wishes to speak to our board team on an item that is not on our action agenda or an action item on the agenda an opportunity to do so. Please provide your name and contact information and the specific topic you wish to address on a public comment form located at the back of the room prior to the start of tonight's meeting should you want to offer public comment. Please listen carefully and comply with the following rules so that we can move through this part of the meeting efficiently. Each speaker will be given
003a total of three minutes. The district will provide an official timekeeper. 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. Comments on any subject, whether positive or negative, must be courteous and respectful. Comments are limited to the specific topic you indicated on the form you filled out. And any speaker with a 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. Please uh remember that if you have a pending grievance, you cannot discuss this during public comment. Also, please understand if you offer public comment that the board cannot reply to you except to thank you for your comments since the
004matter has not been posted for discussion. I ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking. I also ask I remind my fellow board members to please turn off or silence your cell phones. Again, thank you for being here and your support of SSD. All right, with that, um, we will call this meeting to order. We do have a quorum. Dr. Mrs. Meisel Flint will not be here this evening, but so six of us will be here. And with that, if you'll uh stand and please join me with the pledges to the United States of Texas to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one indivisible with liberty and justice for alliance to the Texas one state one and indivisible. All right. Next, we're going
005to move forward um with our agenda for tonight. And first on our agenda is recognition of San Angel ISD community support. And Dr. Moran's going to help us with that. Yes. Uh, I'd like to invite Steve Elenius and Elizabeth Chambers to the front and I'll join you in a moment, but just a couple of words if you'll just stand in the middle there. Uh, I'd like to say thank you to Steve who is our uh, executive director of the uh, Chamber of Commerce for St. Angelo. And the the leadership that the chamber really took on as we launched into this bond campaign was pretty impressive. Uh the truth of the matter is um there were so many groups that got involved, but really tonight I'd like to at least acknowledge and recognize the chamber because
006they came out endorsed the school bond and then they threw their efforts into this with the belief that schools are at the heart of the community and when schools do well, the community does well. And I want to acknowledge that and thank Steve Elanius who is new. I I used to be the newest guy in the room and now I hand that off to you, Steve. So, thank you for that. But you've you've led with class and polish and uh the belief that we can be better than we are and I really appreciate that. And then uh for Elizabeth, you know, and words aren't enough. Honestly, the truth of the matter is uh Elizabeth rallied a group of citizens in our community and and took on uh a workload that was incredible. I I don't
007know that people really understand the amount of work and time that went into what you all did as a political action committee to support the school bond. And I want to say thank you publicly uh to Mrs. Chambers and all of the other pack members that got involved. There were so many people that contributed their time, their money, uh their their their labor. There were people volunteering to do all kinds of things. Putting up signs, uh, making phone calls. We had a retired group of teachers that made lots of phone calls to people to get out the vote. So, words aren't enough really for the two of you. I have a note to say thank you. And I'll turn it over turn it over to Dr. Kingman. Yeah. So, to both of you, thank you.
008Um, obviously as as a board when we were sitting there saying the facts about the bond and getting y'all to come back behind us after we had said the facts of the bond and explain to the community what that meant for each and every community member and to put the effort forward to actually get people to go out and vote. Um, Elizabeth, I know we've been a part of these bonds before. Um, and we knew there were enough yes votes in our community. There were enough people that cared about the direction of public schools was just getting them out to vote. And gosh darn it, you did a great job. So, thank you. Now here we are. I want to tell you. Hey, Steve. You got shake hands. Oh, you got to start over there.
009You got start over there. All State all state athletes. That's right. You guys for all you're doing, you know, you're my Thank you for everything. Really, really great job for all your effort. You're welcome. All right. We had no public comments this evening. Um, and I know we have people in the audience waiting for us to do things and announce things, but we have to go into close session first. Um, we're going to do that under Texas Education Code 551.129 um, which is consultation uh, between governmental body and its attorney and 551.071. We're also going to go under 551.076 and 551.074. So, um, you got all those jar personnel. Yeah, I got I didn't I didn't Thank you. I didn't have the 57 074, but I Yeah, I added that one. So, okay. Um, and
010we'll be right back. All righty. All right. We have returned from executive session. We took no actions or votes. Um, we're going to do we're going to move our agenda around. I'm going to take a little bit of privilege to do that for a moment. And we are going to go to item seven which is uh consider approval of Lamar principal so that we can there's some folks sitting in the outside. So let's do that before we are sitting inside before we have to sit here the whole time and wait for us. Uh is doc Skelton doing that? Who's he is not? I'll be glad. Okay. I'll speak on behalf of the human resource department, but uh it really is an honor to recommend anybody to a campus principal position because the campus principal in
011many ways is the key to a successful campus. We know the teachers are the most important thing uh and the most important people on a campus, but without a great principal, without great leadership, campuses do not thrive. And many of you know that Shannon Clayac is stepping down at Lamar. And we've been on the search for uh the best person we can find. And thankfully sometimes that best person is right under your nose. And so Ashley Bishop, if you'll stand please, Miss Bishop has been the assistant principal at Lamar. She's a quality candidate and we know she's going to do great things at Lamar Elementary. The staff is excited to have you as their new leader. And so my recommendation to the board tonight is to hire Ashley Bishop as the principal at Lamar Elementary
012School. All right. Any questions for Dr. Moran? Do I have a motion to approve Mrs. Bishop as Lamar principal for the 2526 school year? So moved. Motion for Mr. Dendle. Do I have a second? Second. I second. Oh, I'm giving it to Mr. Royal cuz this is her last chance to do that. Sorry, Mr. Gaga. Uh, so a motion from Mr. Dendle and a second from Mrs. Aoyo. Any further board comments or questions? I just like to make a comment. I've seen Miss Bishop of the school bunch. She's always got a smile on her face. She's been a very valuable uh team member over there and we're very excited to have you step into the principal position. So looking forward to what you do. All right. All in favor say I. I. All against say
013the same. Motion passes 6. Now I can say congratulations because we didn't want to say it before the vote. So we're good. Thank you. Congratulations, Mr. Fisher. All right. Next, we're going to move to item eight, which is consider approval of a director of school safety and student services. And Dr. Mor, I give that to you again. Sure. And I'd like to start off by first acknowledging and thanking Scott Walters for a job well done. Uh Scott Walters is a veteran to this district. He's done a great job for many years, is well respected, and uh he's done a a fine job for us in this position that's really new uh for our district and really relatively new to the state, but there's there's a lot to it. And Mr. Walters has worked diligently and
014uh has been a a good representative for the district and so I'd like to thank you for the work you've done and uh as he retires and um I think he's wanting to drive a bus, Mr. Livingston. I'm not sure but u but my recommendation tonight is to offer the position to Claudia Basera who has been a faithful leader at Carver and Pays. Miss Bacera is one of a kind and uh is tough as nails and has there's a lot of respect for her and her leadership and what she's done there at our alternative campuses. So, it's my pleasure to recommend to the board Claudia Bisera to be our director of safety and security. Any further board comments or questions? I'll make a comment on Claudia. I had the privilege when I worked in SISD
015to work with Claudia and you're not going to find anyone with a bigger heart for kids and that lady works hard. So I think um she will be hard to replace but um congratulations on that and for Scott. I've known Scott a long time and I was at Lake View Thursday night and the people at he was a principal at Lake View when they heard he was retiring their comment to me was bring him back home. So, um congratulations Scott and you will be missed. Your your um words can't tell you how much you'll be missed. Do I have a motion? I make a motion for um Claudia to be the director of school safety. School safety. Yes. And student services. And student services for 2526. All right. Do I have a second? I second.
016So, a motion from Mrs. Duncan and a second from Mrs. Aoyo. Um any further board comments or questions? I'll just say one thing, Miss Walters. Thank you. Obviously, um we say any day that nothing happens is is a win. Um and so, you know, we've heard in about intruder reports, we've heard district analysis for annually, and the reality is um the list of things that we typically have to adjust are usually small. and you're doing a great job of not only finding the things that need to be done, but also um keeping the entire district bought in on being um u vigilant vigilant every day. So um thank you and Miss Bera love you. So glad glad that you're getting this opportunity. So um all right. So we have a motion from Mrs. Duncan and
017a second from Mrs. a royal. All in favor say I. All against say the same. Motion passes 6. Thank you all for being here. All right. Now going to go back. Sorry, I was here somewhere. All right. Now, we're going to go back to conduct our finance and audit committee workshop. and I'm going to pass that over to Mr. Dindle. Thank you, Dr. Kingman. Uh, several reports tonight. Uh, first of all is the management oversight report on purchasing and Mr. Henry is going to help us with that. Welcome, Jason. Thank you. Jason Henry, I'm the director of purchasing. I want to thank you for having me here. jump right into management over. I think your mic is still off. Check it. You want me to start over? I'm just kidding. Uh the purchasing department's mission
018is to provide all the procurement processes and services for teachers and departments to have the necessary tools and resources to produce future ready graduates. Our commitment is to student achievement and is our highest priority and the core principle for all decisions that impact the district. This is my staff that makes up the entire purchasing department. Uh I have a in the last year I've had 100% turnover in my uh office and I was lucky enough to grab two what I would consider unrestricted free agents. Uh, I got Melanie Harland as my purchasing secretary. She came to us from transportation. She has a background in cost accounting and construction which has really been very detailed and she's been a great addition to the purchasing department. Uh, next I have Frank James who's the purchasing coordinator and
019warehouse manager. Uh, Frank is a three-time state champion. I'd like to always mention that. He's a great guy. He's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet and he is an extremely hard worker. He really does seek out to serve the district as well. Uh purchasing clerk, uh Britney Simmons. Britney came to me from Lake View. She was the uh receptionist at the front. Uh she's also a great person, very bubbly. She's a great person to have the first contact at the purchasing department. Uh mail delivery is done by Chris Venibal. Uh Chris moved to St. Angelo from Amarillo. He was happy to blow into town literally and uh has I've really enjoyed working with him here. Uh Efrey Martinez, he's our veteran in the purchasing department. Uh he was there when I got hired
020and uh has been a great addition, a great person to work with. We also have part-time movers. Uh last year we hired six part-time high school kids to help us move. And as we all get older, we greatly appreciate their energy that they have. Some of the responsibilities of the purchasing department include not only the purchasing process, but we also uh organize the capital construction projects, uh textbooks and inventory control. We assist in all the receiving of the textbooks and distributing them out to the different campuses. And then we also have our mail delivery and moving crew. Our moving crew began their summer push last week and they moved a hundred people from Sam Houston over to uh the Oaks campus in a week and one day. Who are our customers? We pretty much serve
021anybody who comes into contact with the district. Of course, our first objective uh is serving the students and making sure the students have everything that they need in the classroom. uh educators. We we assist all kinds of educators in different facets of the purchasing procedure. It can be a sticky process and I always try to remind them that I'm just a phone call away or an email away. Uh I have a extreme open door pro uh policy. If you're in the building, come by. If you have a question, I'll I'll make time for you. Uh we also serve all the departments. Uh and then we also serve parents and citizens. We have lots of our department is a department with firm structure and uh we follow many policies. Uh the main policy that we follow
022is the Texas education code chapter 44. Uh we also have Texas local government codes that we follow. Uh and we also have a procedures manual and we follow local board policy. Our current purchasing thresholds are as follows. Uh right now, if you're purchasing anything between zero and 3,499, you're required to get one quote from an approved vendor. Uh that doesn't mean that uh we don't encourage anybody to go out and seek the best value for the district. Uh Farah will probably chuckle. There's a refrigerator story in there that I always le I always tell people if you're going to buy a refrigerator that's $2,000, you're going to at least call Home Depot and Lowe's. So, if you're spending district expending district money, you should think the same way that I'm going to at least try.
023Uh the next threshold is 3500 to 49,999. This one requires an attempt to get three quotes from approved vendors and anything over 50,000 requires a formal bid that includes advertisement in the local newspaper and board approval. What are approved vendors? That's a big question uh that I have all the time. Local how you become approved vendor is you have to participate in a formal bid process. There's two ways to do that. You could participate in the local bids. Uh local bids are bids that are put out through the purchasing department and we gather up any uh interested parties that would like to participate in those and then we uh present them to the school board. There's also purchasing cooperatives. These are state ran organizations uh where they put out their own bids and then we
024can piggyback off of those and use those ones that we are members of. Uh probably the biggest and most well-known one is by board which is operated by TASBY. Audits and reporting. We have lots of audits and reporting. Uh we of course report to the board of trustees. We present all uh POS over 20,000 every month. And then the check register is also present in all the board packets. We also report to tea and every year we interact with our external auditors. We've been in my time frame here at the district. I've been the director of purchasing for eight years now and we've been audited by both uh Web and Web and ID Bailey and we've never had a finding whatsoever that has to do with a purchase. Uh we also have to report to
025of course all the taxpayers in the city. Training is a huge part of of the purchasing department. I look at every day as being a a training opportunity. Anytime I answer a phone call from a campus or a department, it's definitely a a training moment. We do a lot of departmental cross trainining. Uh one of the two of the big events that I go to are the athletics and fine arts. uh prechool kickoff. Uh we usually discuss travel and different purchases. The athletic department and fine arts, they do the most traveling and probably the most purchasing out of any c campus organization. So it helps us both out to understand those processes. Uh we also have uh campus departmental staff training. Uh this would take place at the people purpose and passion. This is probably
026one of the better things that we've done over the last few years is adding that in and I really feel it's a great benefit to everybody in the district. We also participate in Tasbo courses andmies future endeavors. This first line here or the first two lines I think I this has been up here every year I've done this. Listen listen and train train. uh the process changes, things happen, and I think part of it is listening to the departments and the end users, finding out exactly what they need and and what they're trying to do and then making sure that they understand how to get to that uh end goal. We also train the vendors. Uh vendors who want to do business with the district, they call regularly. I have to explain to them how
027how to get into the process and how everything works doing business with the district and trying to make it a little bit easier for them to understand as well. Uh we we also do well I already mentioned the department specific training and then we're looking at doing some travel training as well. I think travel is a big thing. We do a lot of traveling and uh they can always use a little refresher in those aspects. Do you all have any questions? questions for M. Henry. I know that uh when I first got on the board, I would ask uh or since Jason's been here, I'm going like, well, so this is your busy season, but I found out that there's not a non- busy season for the purchasing department. There's always something going on in
028there. Uh and uh there's constant uh uh things going on with the district. And uh I really appreciate the transparency and the uh procedure that that the purchasing department acts with because it keeps us uh uh in front of the public doing the right thing with those with the with a with our constituents money. So I appreciate your efforts on that, Jason. Thank you. Additional questions. So we did want to uh expand on that. It seemed like a good time uh when we were talking about purchasing requirements just to um give a a quick example of some things uh that have come up recently as costs have increased and then just a conversation about uh our purchasing guidelines. Um like Mr. Henry said, we have a um purchasing guidelines for the district um that are
029in line with our local policy. Uh you see there NCH purchasing and acquisition. The board delegates to the superintendent the authority to make budgeted purchases. Um and then we know that we those things at 50,000 or more uh come to the board. Uh and then the district has in place anything less than that uh in our guidelines. Uh so within that purchasing uh procedures manual uh you'll see the 50,000 threshold. So right now like Mr. Henry was talking about from 0 to 34.99 is uh one uh approved vendor. Um and then anything from 3500 all the way to 50,000 which is quite a large range is quotes from three vendors. So what we run into um uh and what we are entertaining uh as a district uh is a zero to 9,999 as our quote
030from one approved vendor and then the 10,000 to 4999 right under 50,000 for the quotes for three vendors. And just as an example of why uh we uh would entertain that, here are some examples. So, as we've gone through the district with access control, if we have an access control go out on an exterior door, uh it cost approximately $6,000 uh to have that to to get a new access control and have that installed uh in this system. sometimes with or without wiring depending on what's wrong. Um, and going out for three quotes, as you can imagine, uh, because it's over a $3,500 threshold. Um, sometime, you know, the other vendors are busy contractors and so sometimes it can take days, weeks, uh, to get that back and we need our exterior doors secured immediately.
031Um, HVAC chiller pump. Um, Mr. Kennedy uh had an HVAC chiller pump that the pump was in stock on the shelf. Uh but it was 9,000 and it took us 10 days to get quotes from three different vendors uh to be able to get that. Luckily, it was still there uh at the by the time we got our third quote and we were able to pick it up, but that's not always the case. They had one and so if they' have sold it, then we'd had to order. Uh and then cameras. Uh if we have a request to place a camera in a special education classroom, we have 45 days to make that happen. Uh we use a vigilon across the district for our security cameras so that when we do training, use installation uh
032our staff are familiar with the product. Um, we have one local dealer uh that deals in a vigilon. And so when uh Scott has to go out for bid for quotes uh for vigilon cameras, they're like, "Why don't you just buy it from the dealer in St. Angelo?" I was like, "Well, it's over 3500. We need to get three quotes." And it has taken up to 30 days to get two other vendors to send a quote. Uh they're, you know, they're busy, right? and it's uh they consider a small purchase and it's not always easy to get. So that's what we're discussing internally. We wanted the board to be aware that's certainly an internal policy. Uh but if you have questions about that, we would like to be able to answer those for you and
033wanted to bring forward three examples um that are important that we deal with. Uh Mr. Kennedy could probably give you a whole list, right, of things that happen in plumbing, electrical, and HVAC that uh it's it's difficult to have anything done for $3,500. So, um anyway, um we'll let that uh answer questions or emails that you might have as you think about that u before we uh make a change in that process. Quick question for you, Dr. Ran, just before we let you go, since you're up there on this, um, even though just for the public's sake, even though when we in we've increased our purchasing aotment to $50,000 because we had some I think it was a sewer delay that caused us to change that rule several years ago. Um, we have kept our
034PO reports at 20,000 just for people watching and learning about what we're do as a board. I just think it's important to understand that we're continuing to monitor any purchase over $20,000. Even though the superintendent and the board and the administration team has the ability to do that purchase for the 20 to 30, we're on our reports it starts stays at 20. Um but this next question I have for you regarding these um examples the vendors that we approve for these project for these purchases that are these smaller purchases less than 10,000 that those are approved on an annual basis. Correct. Correct. So each year we look at what they would give us as a quote and for certain items before the year even starts. Correct. Most of them are approved on catalog bids and
035then we go out and ask them for for quotes. Uh certain items kind of like this access control one at the top, it would be hard to get a price from somebody that you could guarantee would be firm for the whole year. So every time you go back out and you ask for quotes on that. Either way though, for the that year though, we approve a vendor or two vendors or three vendors or seven vendors that we go to get quotes from. So it' be on the even if we were concerned about something, it would be an annual review to where we could cut a vendor out or review whether the vendor's purchasing uh prices have been consistent with previous years, etc. Yes. Okay. I was going to ask you um y'all know when the
036last time the because I think you had the policy up on the slide, didn't you? Like the per the purchase levels. Um when was the last time that we updated those? I know that when I first started with the district, the uh threshold for three quotes was $500 and that was uh that's been 12 years ago and I think about two years after I started we raised it to the 3500 and then when was that you oh uh 10 years ago probably 10 years ago. So really like like Merl was saying like Dr. Brandon was saying, you know, the prices have gone up. We just need to update our policy to match to what's what we're looking for. Correct. In other words, I don't think I don't know if that chiller or whatever would have
037been $9,000, you know, a chiller pump would have been $9,000 12 years ago, would it, Tony? Okay. All right. Thank you. Additional questions for Mini or Mr. Brandon or Dr. Brandon. All right. Thank you very much. Now, Mr. Henry, you can't go away yet because we have another report coming up from you uh concerning capital projects. So, welcome back. Thank you. We'll go ahead and jump right into it. We have the Lake View Chiller replacement. Uh currently, this is uh the PO's been cut and the uh equipment has been ordered. There was a there's an extensive lead time, but once the uh equipment lands here on the ground, they're assuring us that it's a pretty simple process to change it over. Uh we're aiming for at the latest Christmas of next year, hoping that it'll
038be earlier. And Miss Cheney, this picture shows doesn't show the delivery of the chiller we're purchasing. That's the uh loner chiller chiller that we're using to to uh keep climate in the building for the moment. Correct. The this one is uh culinary our central culinary program. Uh this one you'll there's a bit in your packet later on in the night. We'll discuss this. I wanted to show some pictures. This is the current space that we're talking about wanting to remodel. Uh it's it was more geared towards a home type class. They have three bays that are pretty much set up like a home kitchen. This is what the other side of the uh building looks like where they have a full commercial kitchen for the students that we'd like to upgrade it to this style.
039That's what we're training the kids to do and we need to make sure we have that equipment and uh facility available for them. The next project is Altoma Data Center. This one was a I would refer to this one as a threfer. We had three actual projects going into this one. Uh the first one was the demo of building FG and H. And that's that big empty patch right there where we've uh torn down those three buildings. They were the ones that were on the corner uh the cafeteria and then a little small interior building. They were the oldest buildings on the campus and had the biggest problems. Uh Tony high-fived me after we hauled the last bit away. Uh we also had an electrical problem where somebody ran into our electrical switch gear out
040in front of the campus and uh tore out the electrical. So we're replacing that. That's probably the longest lead item that we have. That switch gear hasn't shipped yet. It doesn't ship until the end of June, but it's not slowing down progress because it doesn't operate the full campus where we're doing the major project, which is our new district server location there at technology. Here's a picture of the interior of this room. Uh this week, everything will start really coming together in that room. Uh we're going to have our subcontractor Tubising down here to hook up the equipment and start moving it into the into the space. On the left side, that's the server room. And then on the right side is the uh a work room attached to it where they have some of
041the equipment. Last one I have is the oak sewer line replacement. Uh just to remind everybody, this is the one where we're going to tunnel underneath the campus. Uh we meet with them this Friday to walk the facility one more time and they're going to start Monday morning. Uh they've asked already asked if they could work long days and weekends and the answer was absolutely. Uh that's the last of those capital projects. Does anybody have any questions over those? Any questions for uh Mr. Henry or comments? I said a quick question. I know with the part of the bond proposal was updating the culinary arts stuff at Central. Um, so are they going to be still at SUSA? Like are we redoing something that's going to be redone in with the bond? They will be
042moving over into the old kitchen once all of the cafeteria is built and the child nutrition department vacates the building. then they will go back over there and do a project there and move all the equipment and everything that's purchased in this project over to there. So, a lot of this stuff will be able to move over. There is a a we're going to get to it in the we sorry we will we will discuss said items and what what can be moved forward to the future build. You're right on. But you're right on Thank you for questions. I just had a comment on the on the Altaloma, Jason. I I got I got a tour of it. I was over there getting my computer worked on this one here, but I got a tour.
043Charlene gave me a tour and it's um it's really come along. I was really really impressed with it. All the pictures you said they already seen all that. But yeah, they've done a wonderful job. I just can't wait to see what it's all going to look like when it's completely finished. Mid Texas is the contractor over there and they've been great to work with. They've done a good job. Yeah. Additional questions? All right. Thank you, Miss Henry. Appreciate it. Next up, I'd like to welcome Mr. Walters for a couple of more times for the summary of findings of the TEA intruded detection audit conducted by the Educational Service Center staff. Thank you. It's always a brief report. Yes, Dr. Moran, Dr. Kingman, and members of the board. Uh once again, thank you for your time
044and your efforts supporting SISD. Uh we have had four intruder detection audits uh the end of April, first week of May. Any findings and corrective actions needed, if any, have been addressed by the campus administration. Thank you, Mr. Walters. Don't go away yet. There's another one, item six. We're going to move that up. It's a tea vulnerability assessment report which will probably be about the same as our uh report previous. Yeah. Yes, we did have a DVA and I believe y'all have discussed it. All right. Thank you. One note about Mr. Walters. He has survived all three Dendle kids uh as as uh in his educational process and they were better off for having Scott as a teacher. So, thank you Scott. Appreciate that. Thank you for your kind words. We learned the security. That's
045where he learned safety and security from my son. No, I'm [Laughter] kidding. All right. Next up, we have a Head Start overview report and Dr. Gomez and Dr. Brandon are going to help us with that. Looks like Dr. Brandon is up first or last or both. I'll be here to assist. Dr. Kingman, Dr. Bran. Uh members of the board, uh we just wanted to share with you uh conversations with the council of governments as we continue to work on our partnership uh for Head Start. Uh the current structure we've talked about the some of our older campuses in the district uh Alto Vista and Day Elementary campuses that the district did use is what COG is currently using. Uh they offer Head Start and early Head Start services birth through age 4. Uh they have
046approximately 410 children and employees. Uh facility considerations. Um Alto Vista certainly has its share of problems being one of our older structures in the district and so that sparked part of the conversation. Um, as we talked about the Saninto campus, not using the main campus as we know that that campus, uh, that structure is closed, uh, building A, but the exterior buildings around Saninto were built in the early 90s, uh, and still have a lot of life and are in better condition than Alto Vista Elementary. Maybe Rio Vista. Rio Vista. I said Alta Vista, didn't I? Sorry. So, Rio Vista. Uh so the availability uh also with those classrooms is a cafeteria, gymnasium and playground. And as part of coming back uh to being on a St. Angelo ISD campus, uh West Texas rehabilitation services
047can provide um what uh the services needed um by the council of governments for children and those will be able to be reimbursed through the SHAR system uh through the district. academic considerations. Um, you can see the inclusion of the council of government staff, uh, the Head Start staff with St. Angel professional development opportunities, uh, an ability to align preK3 through grade 5 curriculum. Uh what we are uh proposing and hopeful for is once we get to this 2627 school year uh by that time we'd be able to provide certified teachers for prek3 students and by 2728 uh the certified teachers in prek4. Uh this we hope improve lit early literacy and math skills for prek and kindergarten as we're able to affect the learning of prek3 prek4 students before they come into the prek
048classrooms and kindergarten. And that would be evidenced through our circle cli and our m-class assessments for math and reading. financial considerations. Uh given the number of students that uh Head Start currently has, uh the initial ability to collect ADA funding through preK4 uh would be in the neighborhood of 750,000 uh for the 2526 school year. And then if we can place enough certified teachers in the preK3 uh classrooms, an additional 750,000 in year two uh as part of that partnership. Next steps, uh we've been in conversation with the Texas Education Agency to make sure we have everything aligned uh for that ADA funding and teacher certification requirements. And then the council of governance is working on updating their grant application uh to make sure all needed components are contained in that document. Questions for Dr.
049Brandon? I know that's been a challenge to align all those processes. Uh how long has the council how long ago did they get away from the school district? They went on their own. When was that? 2019. 2019 when they stopped. So, and we're bringing them back in again. Yes. But we're not the delegate. It's just a partnership at this time. So, as what was it? What were we before? We were the delegate. The council of government is still the delegate, right? They would get the grant. They were the delegate of it. Okay. Okay. And this is a partnership. This this seems like a much cleaner way to do it than what we were doing in 2018 2019. And to Dr. Afric say a wrong fact, but 13% of our kindergarteners this year started kindergarten on
050grade level. Correct. Yes, sir. So, as we've shared previously, we want students in any structured setting as early as we possibly can. And so, an improved partnership with COG helps us partner with them with pre professional learning and curriculum. Now, they still oversee their curriculum, but even this July, July 15th, in learning Palooa, 18 of their teachers will be with our SEISD prek teachers and our director of early childhood discussing curriculum and early literacy for the upcoming school year. So, in a lot of ways, it's similar to our right sizing of elementary schools where we're trying to bring as many people together so that they can work together to bring everyone up. Absolutely. It's like a big PLC group just with an outside organization. Um Farah, I was asked this question. Um so if 13%
051of our kids are coming to kindergarten where they need to be, where would parents find where they need to be? Does that make sense? So we last week was the official SISD kinder and prekinder registration uh for the district. We take them at any time. So once enrollment started, but we had a big push during that. We also have um literature for families. So, if you need that, it's on our SISD website, but we could make it available to you or any of our stakeholders, community members on just really early coming to school readiness skills, okay, for families to work on with their children. Say things that seem very easy, but they're not as common. Um, being able to tell their first and last name, being able to say the first and last name of
052their parents. um this skill wasn't um a necessity to communicate as much um past years as it is now being potty trained as you're entering kindergarten. We have students coming that are not independent in those skills. So those are just basic school readiness skills but we have literature in both English and in Spanish for families. Okay. Thank you Farah. Additional questions for Dr. Brandon, Dr. Gomez. Great. Thank you very much. There's an additional report listed on our uh agenda which is a charge report for third party billing and we have discussed that in close session. So we're going to move on beyond that to uh our bills and accounts which actually starts on page nine. Uh and that's that's the bills and accounts for April 2025. We should be eight months into our budget which
053should put us somewhere around the 67th percentile in revenues and expenditures. On page 11, you can find um our unassigned fund balance still hold steady at about $53 million procs moving forward. And you'll see our committed fund balance at 11,699.87 of which 8 million of that is is committed to construction, which we'll see a lot of that those funds move out as we complete projects. Uh later on you'll see an adjusted uh amendment to adjust our budget uh which a lot of those funds will move out to finally complete those uh projects at McGill and Fannon. Page 14 shows our revenues expenditure for April. Uh revenues right now sit at 70.5% which the bulk of that has been the local contribution while the state again uh steps up and makes the final contributions to make
054us through at the end of the year to balance our budget. Our expenses are standing right now at 69.1%. And uh that's a few points above, but we'll see a little recession in travel and some uh some expenses uh during the summer as we stretch toward our final budget with which ends in August. Not sure if there's any questions on the revenues expenditure report. If not, we can move to our April check register which starts on page 15 and ends on page 38. a couple of questions for Dr. Brandon. He's already sent those answers to me in Friday in uh in an email form. So, uh any of anybody have questions about any of the checks uh that we wrote in April? Okay. If not, we can move on to our uh monthly investment reports
055which are on pages 39 to 42. The district's total invested funds at the end of April were $76,441,448.31. The interest earned for the month was $285,758.82. The interest earned in the general fund only was $259,33528. Interest rates held steady in the pool between uh 4.33% and 4.47%. Any questions about the uh monthly investment report? Um if not uh we can move forward to the general fund adjustment budget adjustment which is on described in pages 44 to 47 of our port of our board book. And you can see at that point where there's some miscellaneous adjustments, small in amount, but we are moving $7 million into our general budget from our committed funds uh to account and pay for construction projects as they become uh payable uh in the next month or so. Page 48 shows
056our amended budget with those those amounts adjusted and the seven million moved in the general fund for construction projects. And then on the bottom of page 49, it shows the committed uh funds now are only $4.7 million with that $7 million being moved out of uh committed funds. That's on page 49. All inclusive of the general fund budget adjustment. Any questions on any of that? Okay, page 50 uh shows our tax collection report as on March 31st of 2025. Our collections for 2023 uh are at 51.6 million with a 94.41% uh pay rate and our 2024 collections are 53.4 4 million with a 94.56% collection. Bear in mind we're in the we're a year behind when we collect 2024 taxes. So that's why questions on that tax collection report strong uh steady so far. And
057page if not page 51 through 53 show our April POS over $20,000 uh significant professional development fuel. Uh you'll see our PO for the Lake View Chiller uh uh engineering. I think uh there's some iPad accessories. We're buying uh curriculum and instruction fiber contract. We're also PL uh a couple of POS for our school resource officers as we pay them. Uh there's a charter bus service. All those are pay being paid in advance because we get a significantly lesser rate if we secure those in advance rather than wait till the weekend that we need them. So, uh, you'll see those expenses, uh, under a PO, uh, for this month. Also, there's a, uh, some Crockett classroom and cafeteria design work that we're working on, uh, there. Um, some large water heaters also being purchased, and
058there's some occupational and physical therapy uh, bills that we're paying in that. Any questions about any of those POS? All right. If not, that completes uh our financial uh finance reports for April. And so, thank you, Dr. Kingman. Thank you, Mr. Dindle. All right. So, we've already done item seven and eight. So, we're going to move to item nine, which is to canvas the 2020 May 3rd, 2025. We divide it into two things. We'll do the board of trustee election first. This will be an action item. And Dr. Brandon is to help us with that. Section 670. 03B of the Texas election code states a canvas for an election held on the uniform election date in May must occur not later than the 11th day after the election, which would be May 14th. So we're
059inside that window, but not earlier than the latter of the third day after the election. The date on which the early voting ballot board has verified and counted all provisional ballots. The date on which all timely received ballots cast from addresses outside of the United States are counted. If a ballot to be voted on by mail and the election was provided to a person outside of the United States. So, we've have all of those from the uh Tom Green County elections administrator uh counted and processed today for canvasing. Um if we look at um single single member district one, Bill Dindle running unopposed% 100% of the vote. Uh single member district 2 uh Geneva Rodriguez and Carla Cardinius. Uh Miss Cardinius receiving 58.21% 21% of the vote with 443 votes and Miss Rodriguez receiving 41.79%
060of the total vote of 318 votes cast school board trustee single member district 3 Dr. Kingman, unopposed, 1,329 votes. And then school board trustee single member district 4. Samantha Schwarz receiving 98 votes at 45.06% and Amy Miselle Flint receiving 1,17 votes at 54.94% uh to be selected as um for senior member district 4. and Miss Cardinius, single member district two. All right. So, do I have a motion to approve the results of the May 3rd, 2025 school board election for the single member districts 1, 2, 3, and four of Angel Independent School District as outlined by Dr. Moran. Dr. came move to approve the canvas of the results of the May 3rd, 2025 school board election for single single member districts one, two, three, and four of the San Angelo Independent School District. I have
061a motion from Mr. Dindle. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a second from Dr. Mills. Any further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I. All say the same. Motion passes 6-0. Um, next we have canvas of the May 3rd bond election and Dr. Moran gets to do that one as well. Oh, sorry. Dr. Brandon. Dr. Brandon. I was They look alike. They look alike. Yeah. Just kidding. You have a lot more hair. F following the same Texas election code for canvasing votes uh consideration of St. Angelo Independent School District Proposition A 5,64 votes for 54.31% of the total and 4,715 votes against 45.69% 69% passage of Proposition A. Dr. Brandon, can you read those percentages again just to be sure we're I thought I heard 51%, but I'm pretty
062certain it was a landslide at 54%. 54. Yeah. Okay. So, we do have an updated So, we did have one come in from Tom Green County, election administrator. That updated total for Proposition A. So four was 5,435.03%. All right. Do I have Are you still reading? See this that was that you were reading the city prop. What number did you say? 5428. Okay. All right. Let me make sure we're correct. I think I apologize. I did the one for the the city. Okay. St. Angelo ISD proposition A for 5,611 at 54.30% and 4,722 against 45.70%. Perfect. Um, all right. Do I have any board questions or comments about the landslide victory for Proposition A of the San Angel Independent School District? Hey, do I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Motion from Dr.
063Mills. Do I have a second? Second. And a second from Mrs. Aoyo. All in favor say I. I. All say the same. Motion passes 6. Um, perfect. Moving forward, we Okay, we're getting a lot of these results as we go today and we're trying to canvas them. So, we want to make sure that we have the right numbers and percentages in the The good news I think uh you and Bill Dindle are probably a lock there at 100%. I think yeah I think no lots of under votes there only 50 under votes in the proposition A for and 46 for the cities but they don't have as strong okay so there is an update as well that uh was emailed in late um the single member district one for school board trustee Bill Dindle is
064correct at 941 votes. Single member district 2, uh, Geneva Rodriguez 41.81%. Carla Cardinius 444 at 58.19%. With the election of Miss Cardinius, school board trustee, single member district 3, Dr. Kingman 1,334 unopposed and school board trustee single member district 4 Aman Miselle Flint 1,19 at 54.98% and Samantha Schwarz 98 at 45.02% with Miss Meisel Flint being elected to single member district 4. Sorry, we got those late uh when we were starting the board meeting. They were you see that they were just like one or two off. So, but that is from Can I make a recommendation on this since we've already taken action and we're having to go back? Uh Mr. Dendle made the motion and I would recommend we go back and Mr. Dendle amend that motion to reflect what has been presented with
065Dr. Mills seconding and then the board can vote on that to amend it as presented with the new numbers. So and I think the langu my question was does the language of the motion even have do we even have just as presented just the numbers. Okay. So we'll do it again. Yeah. So, Dr. Kingman, um I move to approve via the the amended numbers the canvas the results of the May 3rd, 2025 school board election of single member districts 1, 2, 3, and four for the San Independent School District. And do I have a second? I will second again. So, a motion from Mr. Dindle and a second from Dr. Mills for the amendment as presented of the uh results from the uh election on May 3rd. All in favor say I. I. All again
066say the same. We'll pass the amendment 6. And we had already said the correct numbers when we did the other one. So we're good. So now we're going to move on to um item 11 which is consider delegating authority to the superintendent to go to to negotiate a settlement to terminate third party Medicaid billing services. Um we've already discussed this in executive session. Um, so do I have a motion to approve um delegating the authority of the superintendent to negotiate a settlement to terminate the third party Medicaid and billing services. Just to make sure everyone's on the same page that does not allow for the superintendent to actually execute. It is only for the superintendent to negotiate the settlement. I'll bring that settlement back to the board next Monday for you to consider and then
067you can either choose to act or not. Um, do I have a motion regarding that? I'll make the motion uh delegating authority to the superintendent to negotiate a settlement to terminate third party Medicaid billing services. And do I have a second? I'll second. So, I have a motion for Mr. Gos and a second from Mrs. Duncan. Do I have any other board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I. Motion passes 6. All right. Now, we're going to move through our proposed agenda for next week. We're going to start with the invocation and the pledges. Um Jessica, then what we're going to do is we're going to move item D, E, F, and G are going to become C, D, E, F. Then recognitions are going to become G. Everyone got that? So item
068consider certificate of election that will be item C. Statement of elective appointed officers that'll be item D. Oath of office will be item E. Officers will be F. And recognitions will be G. Okay. But now we're gonna move forward it through it. So um recognitions that will all be um for next week then see consider I'm just going to use the actual term the consider the certificate of election will need to stay regular consider statement of elected appointment officer will stay regular oath of office will stay regular and the selection of officers will stay regular good with all up. Okay. Next, we're going to have um information items. One is going to be on the bell schedule for the 2526. Dr. Gomez, is there anything we need on the bell schedule tonight? There's nothing you
069need this evening but to preview the overview for that report item. I'll introduce the item and then pass it to Mr. Colinbach being over secondary and then Dr. Self being over elementary. So they e each will report on the areas that they work alongside. Okay. And there will be no surprises for our campuses by the point time this comes to us next week. Oh no. There's been multiple months of conversations. Also, I think it's important because Lee is here this evening, multiple departments, child nutrition, transportation, we all coordinate to make sure that we can get students there, students fed, students home. So, I know this is a complex issue. So, thank you all for getting that ready to present to us for next week. And I knew that we had been talking about it. I
070just wanted to make sure that everyone else knew that we've been talking about it. Um, and then Dr. Brandon, you're going to give us a bond construction update. I know there's a um draft of that at our desk, right? This is what Yes. And uh, Park Hill will also be here. Allan Wolf and R.J. Lopez will be here to talk to the board really as a now that the bond is passes passed now what and the timelines project packages all of those things so that we can have an open discussion about that as we begin the real work now. So if everyone would look at this packet so y'all have questions for um Dr. Brandon and Park Hill etc next week. Um, but I think it's important we do that in our regular board meeting
071next week so that our community members hear all of that. Absolutely. So, all right. So, action items. Uh, we have um we have our minutes and then we're going to consider bills, accounts, and financial statements for April. That will be a regular. Um we'll consider the proposed amendment for the district official budget and this is what was discussed in our finance report tonight but that will be regular. Um the acceptance of the audit engagement letter for I Bailey CBA's any thoughts about that not just being a consent item? Okay, ready. This is just an annual. Yeah, this is just an annual consent. So, we'll make that consent. Um, consider transportation rider check-in software purchase to include all needed hardware for a turnkey project. Um, I would recommend that be regular just because it's it's a
072transition and there may need to be some discussion surrounding that. That's just my Mr. Mr. Henry, do we need anything on that this evening or can we do that next week? Mr. or Mr. Livingston, who y'all want to you want to give us any preview on that tonight since you've sat through all of this and so that and maybe so we can have some questions if there are any for next week. Actually, I think I'm here next week, too. But that's okay. Uh I'm here to answer any questions. uh you might have on uh this project. Perhaps it may be a good idea just to give a little backdrop on the purpose for the uh transition because of the new software and um that may help the board. Our uh current provider uh is no
073longer going to work with our current um routing software. So, we're needing to upgrade anyhow as uh you know some of the tablets have quit working and so forth. And uh we also would like to improve the system to better uh serve not only our folks but uh our parents and and students as well. And um we have the eligible um vendors in front of you. I think you all had a a paper in the packet tonight. Is it safe to say, Mr. Lson, that our experience with Smart Tag from the get-go as far as um getting them up and running to actually has not been as favorable as we desired. Um, I understand that it's not integrating our system at this point, but really I know you weren't here for some of the initial
074leg work on this, but the idea of the solution of being able to know where kids were and for parents to be able to know where kids and buses were was a great idea, but the actual implementation of that with our previous software was a little less than desired. Yes. Yes, that's a good way to put it. So you will make a recommendation to be going to a different that will integrate with our current transfinder. Correct. And that and we are assured that that integration will last for a series of number of years. Yes. Do is the contract for a number of years? Uh we have that option. uh we have not uh decided to bring that option to you, but uh we we could go that way if if we so choose. And would
075and we believe this would be able to be implemented by the start of the school year. Fingers are crossed. Okay. And the reason that's a good question is it took forever to get smart tag up and running. So, that's what I'm just worried about if it's going to take that long. And what happened anyway? How does I mean, how long ago was it we got smart tag and now it's not integrating with our system anymore? That's all I want to know. I'll jump in there. The Yeah, what happened with that? So, the the smart tag, so we use Transfinder is kind of an industry standard, I would say, for um routing software um mapping out the bus routes all around the city. Transfinder was using uh we're using smart tag as an ancillary type software
076for student ID and GPS system uh of which bus each student was on. Smart Tag has decided they want to do both. They want to be a routing company and a student ID company together. Okay. And as a uh as a result of that, we received a letter uh from Smart Tag that they would no longer be providing the service to work in conjunction with Transfinder. Okay. So, we've had to go out and price uh the complete package. What would Smart Tag cost if we use them as routing software and student ID system? And then what would a company like Zonar, which is more like what Smart Tag was with some extra benefits, there's extra things that Zonar does, we have not been capable of. Um, and then Samara uh is actually similar to the
077Zonar system. Um, and so we've gone through and received quotes from all of them. Uh, asked other districts, uh, checked those types of things. And I think uh Mr. Livingston could um speak to the extra things that Zonar will make us capable of. And we are bringing this forward. We had it slated for June uh but we want to make sure that we can hit the mark of the first day of school with our badging. So our hope is that by approval in May uh that we'll be able to massproduce the 13,000 student IDs to be ready for the start of school. Okay. Thank you. Um, Mr. Let's make that regular. And Mr. Livingston, if you kind of next week because I know there was some parent uh angst regarding the up how we got
078smart tag up and running. maybe just a little bit of background for the public next week about where where we were, why we're doing this change, and that our goal to have it implemented early. And then I guess for the board, the only thing I would ask is if we if the problem is not internal on SASD's part, but on Zonar, what uh abilities do we have to hold their feet to the fire a little bit to help us get it going? um in the and maybe kind of with our previous experiences just knowing what that we can do from there. So real quick, Merl, what was the name of the routing software? Transfinder. Transfinder. Yes. We just upgraded Transfinder, didn't we not? We're in the process of upgrading to the new software. Yes. And
079we've been happy with Transfinder. Extremely. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Livingston. You get to come back next week. All right. Thank you. All right. We'll see if Miss Heert gets to come back next week. We'll do approval of bids for the Child Nutrition Department 2425 school year. Uh RFP 25-14. Good evening, Dr. Moran, um Dr. Kingman, ladies and gentlemen of the board and cabinet. Um hopefully this will be pretty straightforward. This is the first time we're trying to bid out our vinthood cleaning services instead of just doing the three quotes every single year. It does give us the opportunity to be able to extend it for additional as long as the services are satisfactory to the district's requirements. So, we did receive three RFPs um from bidding vendors on our vent hood cleanings
080in the cafeterias. We also uh worked with Mr. Henry to add in an option for um additional sites, which means that the Head Starts and the culinary programs could also utilize this vendor for their cleaning service needs as well. And the all three vendors did opt into that option. We gave them an opt in or opt out option on that um RFP. And so after reviewing the three um RFP proposals that came back, it is our recommendation to award to Rhino Shine uh vented service in the amount of $8,730. Um just a note that that does include additional sites if needed. The total for the child nutrition department is expected to be $7,430. That's an annual cost and it is budgeted. Are there any questions? I've seen those before. Any questions? Dr. Cayman, I know
081the uh board action shows it recommends we approve the bids as presented, not awarded to uh Rhino Shine. So, I'm not sure how that's labeled in there. just says to approve the bids and not to approve the rhino of shine as the award of the contract. So if we can it's on page clean up our language on page 101 101 to for that to say to approve it for Rhino Shine then I think that's okay to put that as consent Mr. D. It's good. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Now, the one Dr. Mills has been looking for all night long, RFP25-005, the Culinary Arch Lab refresh. The Central Culinary Arts Program is experiencing significant growth nec growth necessitating the expansion of its current facility. To address this need, we initiated a project
082to integrate the existing commercial kitchen at SUSA with the adjacent underutilized home home economics classroom. This conversion will create a larger modern commercial kitchen space to better serve 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 predefined scoring criteria, Midtex of Midland received the highest score overall. The administration recommends that St. Angelo Independent School District Board of Trustees approves the award of the culinary arts refresh contract to Midtex of Midland for the total contract price of 77,000. This amount includes an o owner's contingency of 40,000 to address any unforeseen issues that may arise during the project. So now the questions that Dr. Mills was asking about how much of
083that would be able to be moved to any new project or a moved to the final project at Central in the future. During the uh exploratory meetings and everything, one of the things that we definitely talked about was making sure that equipment and items that we put in that fac in that space were going to be able to be moved over. the majority of the items that are going into the space such as the the vena hood can be moved, the dishwasher, any commercial kitchen uh equipment that we put in there, they can all be moved. We chose uh modular tables that could be moved. All of the hand sinks and wash stations, the three compartment sinks, we made sure they were standard size so that they could then of course be moved out and
084moved over there. There is a little bit of I well I say there's a significant amount of infrastructure work that has to take place in there as well. Upon talking to the architect, he thinks that a minimum cost level is probably about two a little over $200,000 worth of the of that project would be able to be moved directly over to SUSA with no problem. So this 200,000 of the project that we'll be doing. That's that's the amount of the stuff we'll be moving. Correct. That's on a that's on Yeah. On a low end. Okay. And what will that space be used for at the end of the bond project? Where where is the So it would be used for classrooms. And my thought uh as we've kind of talked through this making sure we
085were being responsible in the move um even if we put a a history class or an English class we would want to remodel that space. I mean what you saw from Mr. Henry's photograph of a U-shaped kitchen. You can picture there's three of those in there. So it's not the most conducive classroom being set up for home economics as it is. So also the amount of remodel that we would spend to move another classroom in there is a consideration and then what our students would miss out on for the next three years not being in a culinary environment that we're about to take them and move them into the industry. So uh with all things considered, we do feel like uh it's still um just for the sake of our staff. We have quality staff
086teaching culinary to be fair to them and to be fair to our students that are taking that to go out into industry. We feel like it's a need for them as well. Yeah. I think I think for me one thing sorry I was just going to ask like the pictures you got up there that's what we're getting rid of. Right. Correct. Okay. And now what's the next picture of what we'll be putting in? So yeah, all that stuff is what we'll be able to be moving. you know, we won't have to purchase all this stuff when we go to correct when you build a new house. The intention is to to move that over and even uh Roxan Fentress, the director of CTE, that was the plan from the get-go is make sure that we
087can move as much of the stuff that we're expending over to the new space. And I think as a fiscal note, uh we this money would come from uh career technical education funds. And so we've been uh we're required uh to s spend a certain percent of those funds yearly and we've been under that mark uh the last two years and it's a three-year average. So there is an amount of money that we could put into uh career and technical education that would help level that three-year average. So that's part of the um um decision as well that that it makes good sense. And I I think it is important for this board and our admin team is and each campus like even though we're going to have some great spaces three years from now,
088we can't sacrifice where the the kids who are in any of our campuses right now, they deserve to get experiences as well. So So what is the class that the freshmen take? What's it called now? Not homemaking. No, it's a they have an intro to culinary and and they would because that first picture looks like the kitchen at Oaks too. So they would be in this kitchen. Yes. Okay. So roughly 500,000 would be I guess lost so to speak or spent that we would not recapture because 200,000 would be moved over. You could put it that way. Like Merl or Dr. Brandon pointed out a large portion of that to turn this into a history class or anything else. We would have to all the demo work. We're almost doing it ahead of time. So,
089we'll be able to recoup that. It's going to have to be done anyway to turn that into a to a classroom space. But then in three years, we'll have to remodel that. The things out. So, you could it's ready to go in three years. Any other board questions or comments regarding that is what culinary that picture right there is where culinary is right now. Central at central central correct. Yeah. Yeah. That's not working. No. Yeah. So, we I I agree. We have to do something for our kids now. That kitchen is outdated for the household. Yeah. You know, they did have partial space, right? Space, but all the other the other pictures are central as well. Correct. Oh, okay. Those are next door to each other. Side by side, right? But when we moved the
090freshmen there, that increased our numbers dramatically because all those freshmen used to do that on Oaks. So that's where a big growth came from at the main campus. It's a growing program. I think every year they have more kids sign up for it. Yes. I think we just increased enrollment as Mr. Henry is saying. So yes, we are serving more students on the main campus now, but the program is continuing to grow with interest from students in the community. Yeah, I think all of our CTE programs are going to continue because that's what kids are looking at. Yeah. And just to confirm, you said this doesn't come out of fund balance or this does. So the so they're both you know in the general fund but we'll use it from what's designated in career and
091uh technical monies from the state. We receive between five and six million uh in that uh funding program for career and technical education. And so we're just under the mark percentage wise over the last two years. So we do have additional monies that will level that uh over the three-year average. Thank you. All right. Any other board questions or comments for Mr. Henry or Dr. Brandon? Consent or regular? I say regular. Regular. I'm fine with I mean I'm fine with either one. I would recommend it be regular simply because of the size of the project and the amount of discussion we've had. Sounds good. You know, transparency and trust are what we're working towards. So, I like it. Thank you. All right, Mr. Henry, you don't get to leave. Um, you have a couple of
092additions to with bid 20-014, which is some vendors for um for our curriculum instruction materials. Correct. This is an adder to an existing uh bid that allows us to add vendors on. Uh as I spoke about training and communications with the other departments, uh these are items that the department the campuses need uh for next year and they're planning ahead getting them on the onto this bid so they can use them next year. So, and then this will be they when we get the approval for the materials next year, they will already be on the list for next year because they correct. Perfect. All right. So, everyone okay with that being consent? Just an add-on. All right. That is a consent. Um recommendations for the 2526 teacher and other professional contracts. We will get that
093next week. Yes. And this is just a hold over. You know, not everybody made the April meeting for one reason or another. There's a small number of contracts still hanging out there. You can see the next two agenda items that are proposed for next week are to clean up uh by recommending to approve the remaining contracts. And then there are a few uh probationary uh contract individuals who for one reason or another and I'll give you an example. Someone may have had an addendum to their contract to become uh certified or pass the the test for their content area or the pedigogy test and they failed to do that. And that then uh allows us to uh recommend termination of that probationary contract to the board because they cannot legally teach in our district next
094year. So that's where we're at with those. So I would So C I mean excuse me item eight I would say would be consent. But I think just so our public understands what we're doing with nine, let's make that a regular. That's fine. um just so that it um because anytime you put on the contract that you're terminating the gender you're terminating someone I think it's just important to understand what the realities of that are. I agree. Um anyone have any questions regarding that. All right. So announcements we'll have that's all for next week. Next week we don't have to read through those. Any other board comments or questions? for tonight. No. All right. With that, we are journ.