Weslaco ISD Public Hearing & Regular Board Meeting (June 23, 2025)

001Good evening. I'm Mr. Ornto, president of the West Board of Trustees. This public hearing is being conducted in a compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act. Notice that this public hearing has been posted for at least 72 hours. The time now is 5:37. And I will call this public hearing to order. I will now begin the roll call. Please say present when when I call your name. Mrs. Jackie Susta present. M coach Amando Quer present. Uh coach Sernna present and Mr. Mark Los Santos and myself. Uh Dr. Haime and Mr. Castillo will be a few minutes late. Number three, public hearing of proposed 2526 budget and Westco 2526 budget workshop number three. Dr. Rivera, yes, Mr. Good afternoon evening and I'm glad that so many people showed up for our budget workshop number three, but

002I don't think they're here for me. But we're going to try to make it a great 15 minutes of of how the district will plan to spend its money next year. And and that's why the last time I said to the parents, they were here, of course, for the awards, but they get a little bit of insight on how we spend the money and how we utilize money for students. So, it's it's a good topic. Go ahead. So, we have 10 topics that we're going to be talking about and each one is about a slide long. And so how did we end our current year now? Um so we'll go through that. We'll talk about what's happening or what did happen in Austin this past uh legislative session. Uh House Bill Two is one of

003the biggest topics that's uh been related to school finance. So we'll talk about that. Um an update about our preliminary tax values here at Westco ISD, our revenues and expenses. And again, uh, our pending business that we still need to do, but it's planned to take place in August. And so again, this is just a quick, uh, review of how after all these budget workshops and what's been happening in Austin, what is now finally the outcome. So, how did we end this fiscal year? And so for us it is a July 1 of last year through June 30th of this year. So we're almost finished. We still have a few more days. Um when we have our external auditors, we will be presenting if if everything goes well at the November board meeting uh to

004finalize what has occurred. And so, uh, that's going to be a great day. As we talk about our initial budget and what is ended as our final budget amendment, uh, that's on the agenda. Um, you will see operational wise, we are, um, in a sense we spent what we had hoped for. Now during the year as the superintendent has presented there was these opportunities to update our facilities whether it's with our fine arts our athletics but more importantly in our classrooms. So um for instance those HVAC units at the different campuses. So all that is rolling in into the budget. So again, we are using fund balance to do those major kind of like one-time use or one-time payments uh out of the budget. And so um you'll see that we we did do a

005lot this year. And again, we're just improving to the district for the long run, not small payments that are just a one-year deal that um kind of goes away in one year. So these are big capital improvements which is always a great use of capital uh fund balance monies. So back on June 4th that was a big day in the state of Texas especially for education because that is when the governor finally signed House Bill 2. So again, you would have seen a lot of news clippings and news articles and uh channel 5, channel 4, and all the great stations talking about all the pay increases that were budgeted through the state. And in a sense, it trickles down to us as a school district. Um again, we always need more. We will always be

006able to you use these funds in a positive way. Um, again, it's touching a lot of the different areas. Our regular school year or our regular school budget, special ed, early um childhood, campus safety are some of the big areas that saw huge increases uh to the budget. So, how did that look from a $ 8.5 billion bill that became law? How does that trickle down to us at here at WSO ISD? Again, we have a listing of all the different major funds and again, these are still preliminary. Um, we still need to pre um this is just a budget really as to what increases of revenue um that we are anticipating for next year. Now, if we have more attendance in these areas, well, it will become more funds for us to use. Um,

007but if we plan out everything like our normal 14,500 ADA or another way of thinking of it, our 16,000 kids who are enrolled in Waco ISD by this law, House Bill 2, we are anticipating about 12.3 million more. So, don't forget that dollar mouthpiece. I'm going to pick on that in a little bit. You said how much I did I hear right? 122.3 bill million dollars more to the budget. Okay. But I am going to ask you to remember that number because it's going to play a role later on. So one thing that we I do need to always make sure that the board is aware is what is the property values here in Waco ISD. And so when I say Wico ISD, I'm saying all the properties within the boundaries of the school district.

008Usually school districts are bigger than city. So when I say city of Weso is smaller, Wesico ISD is larger. So that's that's the reason why you will notice that these are not the same numbers uh when we talk about values. But from last year to this year and I we're now it's still preliminary. it doesn't become kind of like final until July 31st. $4 billion dollar of taxes uh a tax value is now here at at Wesico ISD and you could kind of see it with all the new businesses, homes, apartments that are happening all around town. Uh we there we're anticipating about half a billion increase which is about 15%. So again these numbers uh will be changing because there is people who apply for those um what uh like a a protest and

009so we do anticipate these to go down a little bit. How much we're hoping to find out on July 31st. We will have a meeting in August to finalize those numbers so that we can then set the tax rates. So, where are we getting our monies? In my mind, there's three breakdowns. You have your local funds, which is primarily your property taxes, your state revenues. It's the money that the state or TEA gives us for educating those 16,000 students who enroll. But we get our funding mostly based on ADA or average daily attendance. So 14,500 is what we're anticipating, which is a very similar to this current year. Our federal revenues, the majority of that is our food service program. So food service is a federal program for our story. And so when you add

010them all up, we are anticipating for next year. Oh, um, it's going to be about 200. I had it ready, but I already forgot. Um, give me one quick second. So, for this upcoming school year, when I add up those three numbers, um, it is going to be $223 million. And so, whenever I talk about our grand total, it is always going to be about three major funds. our local funds, our food service fund, and also our debt service fund. So, the debt service fund is the one that we used to pay our bonds. So, when you add them all up, $223 million. So, what were the major increases or changes in our budget? So, House Bill Two, you're going to be hearing that a lot for the next couple of weeks. there is all

011these new programs that we're now having to implement. Um, and so some of that is also tied to pay raises for our teachers and we'll talk about that in the next slide. So those are requirements. Those we have to do as a school district. But our other allocations, in other words, what we give to the campuses, what we give to the departments is flat. And so what I what I mean there is that if last year we gave a $100, it's going to be the same dollar amount for next year. Um because in a sense all major increases is tied to pay raises. We had that meeting uh last month to talk about our health insurance. And so we are seeing that again just to keep up with inflation and how how the costs go

012for medical uh medical and pharmacy. We are anticipating a small little increase and so we're setting aside an extra million for for next year. Utility cost again because we approved a um a new energy contract again the rates are different and so just to be on the safe side we are anticipating an extra cost to the district of about half a million. We still hope for better energy usage would de and that would decrease that dollar amount. But just to be conservative and have those funds that are needed, we are seeing that those are the three major increases in spending, [Music] but this is probably the slide everyone's going to be looking at. And so we're talking about pay raises. So the biggest group in the district is our teachers. But for our story, we're

013also including the counselors, um the librarian, and the nurses. And I think, let me make sure, um those that are part of the teaching group, we would follow um how the state is kind of recommending on how we're going to implement House Bill 2. So, five years plus of teaching experience, $5,000 in a pay raise. So that is about a 7% increase for for those in individuals teachers that have 3 to four years and technically also those with zero to two00. Now the letter A and letter B it is required by by the state. Letter C and the next few items are a local decision that we are going to be paying out uh these type of payraises. So you may see at some districts it's more more likely you're going to see them that

014it's less than what WSU is going to be paying. So for all other professionals 4% at midpoint, all of our paraprofessionals or clerks and and things of that uh 4% and all of our hourly staff or we kind of call those like our auxiliary also at 4% of midpoint. So those are very similar to last year pain at a very high level. And so um you see that little box on the side. So, if I were to add up all those pay raises one through four, it's about $7 million. Now, one thing that was not paid through TEA, in other words, it's coming out of our local extra funds is benefits. So, when you do a pay raise like this, that equates to 7 million. Benefits are just on top of that. And right now

015we're kind of using a basic formula. 15% that's a good number there. There goes another million dollars. So number five is an item that we're kind of breaking up into two parts. Um we're talking about the incentive stipen. So last year we had um the one in December, the one in May. The one in December we do have uh sufficient funds to make that kind of payment. And so it's already planned for December 25. the $1,000 uh stipen for for the incentive stipen, the May 26 stipen. So, right now that is not part of the budget, but it kind of goes that that our budget is a living document, meaning that we every month we could adjust it if we need to. And if we do see that the campuses are doing their best and

016bringing in the ADA that we need, then the funds that are needed to do that stipen for the second piece, which is two $2.5 million. Then we have that as a I'm just going to call it a pending budget amendment that hopefully around January we should be seeing those numbers come in and um and that we we reach those ADA goals. So with that again just one piece of the stipen with the pay raises we are going to be spending about 10.5 but remember I I was telling you remember the number from earlier 12.3 12.3 is all the new revenues 10.5 is what we're paying out in just salaries increases whether it's an increase or through the stipen so the majority of that money that we are getting from the eight through House Bill Two.

017Really, we're going to utilize that for payraises. I know it's tiny, but one thought is to show where do we spend the money. So, uh, starting tomorrow, but you do have a print out. It's kind of like a budget, uh, workbook. And so if you were wondering um where we spend our monies, it's kind of like on the fourth page and it's going to look like this where you have two lines of purple. One reason why we just show this real quick is to say that 49% of our money is going into function 11. That's a great percentage. long long time ago, part of our first indicators, it was to get us to that 50 percentile or 50% of our budget for that. Uh so we're we're we're actually getting very close to that even

018though it's now longer a requirement. But again, we have about 15 17 different functions of where we uh place our money. But the good thing about Westico ISD that we spend approximately half of our monies for education purposes. So in other words, it's going back to the kids, going back to the teachers, it's going back into instruction. So, one of the things that we kind of talked about in August, we will be meeting again to go over the tax workshop, which is the the taxes for our M and for our INS. And just remember, uh the homestead exemption should be uh increasing from 100,000 to 140. So, there will be some changes for this upcoming tax year. So again, budget workshop number one, number two, the public hearing slash uh budget workshop number three, we

019just finished. The next item is going to be on the 11th of August where we finalize our our tax rates. And so there we go. The our our uh public hearing for our budget for next year. And in case if you're looking up for that uh article that I mentioned, I do show the where you can find on the website. It's some good reading to talk about all the different changes of House Bill 2. Yeah. Right up to the right up to the board with the public. Okay. Thank you. uh you can stay there because just in case any of the board members have questions but in a few minutes we'll ask the public if they want to they have any comments. So I'll start with Mrs. Susta any comments on the presentation on the

020Thank you so much. It was very informative. I I was jotting some notes down as you were presenting and I don't know if we can go back to one of the very first slides where it was the breakdown and then you had the 12 point that one right there. Okay. So this is what we're um going to put in according to what we have right to each department. You mentioned how there's a flat rate for each department. Let's say um career in technology aotment. I'm looking at it. I'm just picking it. 532,000. So whatever we gave, let's say um the department for welding at CTE, we have a flat rate what we gave them, but we're going to give them that the whole department on top of what we gave them last year. We're going

021to give them this much more. That is right. Okay. So let me just kind of go into a little more story. So if it's a department for instance maintenance if we gave them $100 next year it's $100 we're not going to be making major changes. Now when we talk about the allotments for instance Kate or CTE um if everything stayed the same meaning the same number of kids who are taking the same type of classes we are anticipating that they're going to earn $532,000 more and so um so there is a one more step that we we do share that cost uh so they spend 55% the district keeps 5 to do its side of the business. Um, but they will see that as an increase to their based on the numbers that enroll. And

022the reason why I bring specifically this one up is because I've had parents ask me, "My son or my daughter wanted to be in this program, but there weren't any teachers that that so they didn't enroll or you know, they they weren't able they weren't accepted into the program. So, I want to make sure that we're giving every child the opportunity who wants to be part of these programs. But if we don't have enough teachers, well then how are we going to get those numbers in? So that's why I want to make sure, do we have the money there so we can give these students the opportunity so we can have the teachers? When will that, you know, how how will we know or how soon will we know that? So we always go with

023estimates. So that's always going to be how our budget is set up. And so if we budgeted so many students taking a CTE course, I can go into way more details and I know Miss Gomez could even go further. Um it's really goes back to the class master schedule. Okay? Meaning these are all the classes that we're offering for that program. The idea is that we need to get those filled up and then if they we do see a need for additional very specific teachers, then that's going to be the plan to say is that something that we're going to take a start in the next semester or is it that this program's growing so much that we need to really ramp it up for the following school year? And maybe this is a question

024for for curriculum, but we should have the numbers now during summer, right, for the kids who are enrolled for this next school year or is that yet to happen uh for the next school year? Mr. Mr. Do we already have a number? Numbers. Yes. Okay. We have the numbers already. We have an idea of what we need for next year for the new year. Okay, that's good to know. All right, that was my question. Thank you. Good question, Dr. H. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you, Coach. Thank you for the update. Mr. Ben Castile. Yes, sir. Uh Mr. Oto, on this same uh uh slide, what on the other programs? What's what is that? The majority of it is our bilingual program, but it also includes our GT and some other smaller ones. What

025I can do, I could get the full breakout. It's about four or five other programs, but they're kind of small. And and and the reason I ask is because, you know, we've been kind of dealing with uh with with uh high uh enrollment at some of our campuses. And you know, one one one thought that that I know a couple of trustees have had uh is what if we add an extra administrator to that campus? I mean, what does that look like moneywise? What I don't know I don't know how the board feels, but what I guess what does that look like on your end to have that extra support at the campus level to make sure that those campuses with those with with high enrollment uh that they're supported? So my first thought is

026always that we would go back to the compensation plan because we have our kind of like our campus ratios. So I'm going to kind of give you an example for every and this is an example. It's not for uh an accurate one. If it was for every 500 kids you get one counselor. So once you hit 501 or more technically that's when we start thinking okay can this campus support a second counselor. Um I know that's also deals a lot with a um with the assistant principles. Um for every 250 you get another one or something to that effect. So that's kind of that's kind of where I was going on the assistant principal side not necessarily the counselor. Yeah. No no just to Yeah. Yeah. No. Um and so we always go back to

027what are those ratios for uh elementary because they have their own special needs um middle school and high school. So each group would have their own kind of like their um their makeup as to how or how many administrators, clerks and things of that nature would be. So we would normally go back to the compensation plan to see how that would be. Um because once you go over and go above and beyond um again depending on if it's an administrator or uh a pair of professional um we would then just have to kind of figure out uh what the cost is for that. Yeah. I mean kind of speaking for myself I statement right uh for those high kind of uh enrollment campuses uh I'd like to see what it would look like as far

028as adding another assistant principal. I guess we could and I'm not talking about WestD specifically, but I go to board meetings all the time, right? And so the one of the biggest gripes are uh that we have counselors doing more administrative work than counseling. And I know we have that statute that prohibits it, but yeah, I make that face because you know what I mean. Uh and so if it's possible maybe to look at adding extra an AP or support at those campuses, I think that would be beneficial to our students. And I I think Dr. and discussing with him on that uh has mentioned that once we get the pre-registration figures and see if a campus say it's 200 more students then he'll look at that. Normally he does that at the beginning of

029every year depending on uh especially the big schools like you're talking uh depending on on the ratio and then he'll say you know what this campus needs another counselor or this campus needs another assistant principal or needs another attendance clerk or something in the front office. Correct. Correct. You'd also there there's a formula. The more kids you have, the more staff you have. Mhm. Assistant principles, counselors, secretaries. So, we'll put that on the update. Yes. And maybe that formula can be changed a little more to add more people to it. Yeah. The formula if you don't mind, do you keep keep us informed on that one? Let's let's do an update HR personnel on the formulas we have right now. Good question. How many how many counselors are region one formulas? I think they're ours.

030Did we develop your wasp the formula that we have? Mr. Netto, if I may, just to add to Mr. Garcia, this is my eye statement. Being an elementary teacher, the the support that the teachers need, the the smaller a classroom size, the the better I can work with my students. So let's also look at the the teacher to student ratio in the classroom because yes you can give me another assistant principal you can give me a counselor but the main the trenches it's in the classroom and sometimes the teachers have too many kids in the class and that makes it really really difficult even if I have an extra assistant principal on my campus or a counselor if you really want to see the change it has to be in the classroom so we we

031need to make sure that we're looking at the teacher to student ratio also can I jump in on this one too I want to piggy back off Mr. with the teachers. She's absolutely right. We do need to look at the that ratio because the reality is is the development in Waco, it's it's really heavy on the south and it's in multif family residential uh units. So you're you're meaning instead of having a traditional family on one lot, you're going to have four full families. So instead of just having two to three students come to WSD, each lot's going to have at least a average of 8 to 12 and you're going to overwhelm that side. So now that we're talking about future projects and also surplus, like those additional teachers that may be needed also

032need classrooms. Yeah. And so expansion in wings is something that I think we also need to look at as well too because we've been hearing that a lot from the community and especially those schools that are overwhelmed like Marggo and Memorial and whatnot. It's unfortunate. I would love to say, well, you're just going to tell those parents to drive all the way across town. That's not a reality. So like if we could I know we've talked about it before but we can continue to look at that because you have a lot of development on the south side. Thank you Mr. Los Santos. So we could look at both. Yes. Yes. And and again that one Dr. also we discussed it actually at the planning meeting on on that particular uh the numbers per teacher you

033know to have them lower you know if we if we have the budget to be able to have it especially in the lower grades because that's when they need the most help. Good point. Okay. I'm good. You good? Uh, Kera, just echo what what Mrs. Tiger said, echo what Ben said, and echo what Mark said. Okay, I'm good. Uh, Mr. Los Santos. Yes. I just have a just a few questions. One, the first one is going to be a statement though, and I'm going to just to do a plug right here. I know you talked about the teachers and you talked about the raises that are coming up, especially the state required ones. If Yeah. Uh if you go back to that page, you may see some districts different, but the reality is when we

034last time we did the TASBY study, we have we have with in the in the educational field, you have your your uh how would you say your your young well, let me just say your low, your mid, and your high. So your mid range teachers are those 10 plus and 20 less less than 20. That's kind of that range. And so that's what we have in West a lot of veteran uh teachers that that are that are very good at what they do. But they're also according to the Tasby, I just want to make that plug. Even though some districts may be paying a little bit more, our teachers are the one of the highest paid or the highest I think last time we checked, the highest paid teachers in the river are the highest

035right now. So, I just wanted to plug that real quick. Uh the second one was the HB2 funding slide. Now, I just want to confirm because this funding I know that in the other slide when we talked about pay increases and we talked about the salary increases and then the potential increase on the district. We looked at we're looking about 12 million right now. You uh 10 million, I'm sorry. This one has 12.3. just using rough numbers, but is all that money allotted for funding or is that for specific initiatives? Both. Both. So, so, so my question would be, and it's not I gotcha, but I just that's one of the areas I like to focus on. How much is actually available for staffing? Because I don't want the public to think, well, we got

03612, so we're going to we're going to increase 10. We got 12 and we're going to have a $2 million surplus. But some of this money is specific for initiatives, right? Like resources and things. So, like the first one, the 3.9 million, right? Again, it's for the teacher pay raise, but it's not for all of them. It's only for that first two batches. The what they're calling the ABC allotment for basic cost that is going to be to help the district again pay for basic cost. It would have been for like our insuranceances, right? We tend to see that that's probably going to go to pay raises also. So, as a local decision, those two are now part of it. The regular allotment, that's local funds. Again, that's going to pay raises. The support staff

037retention uh allotment is for those others, the librarians and the uh nurses who is part of the teacher uh pay group. That half a million is for salary raises. So, the majority of these we are going to allocate locally uh to to pay raises. So it's kind of like an esser like what you did years back. We're going to swap out state and local. So we can we can save that money use er funds then to build up the the general fund. So the majority of these are like that. Yeah. You're going to flip the one I do want to pick on special education evaluations. So you would have heard by us doing an evaluation we are going to receive, I believe $1,000. We are anticipating to do about 438 evaluations next year. So that

038is to help offset that particular cost, right? And so um the early childhood aotment again, those are for those prek3, prek4 teachers that they would have only funded us half the money. Now it's a full-time deal. So it's money that we were paying out of our um federal programs department. Well, now we're going to be able to in a sense save that money for other projects. they may use it for payraises. So, it's kind of like it's just happening for us that the majority of the monies that we are getting is going back to payraises. Okay. If we didn't do a pay raise, which I know I'm not recommending, then that money could have been used for something else. Well, thank you. So, the the whole idea is you have a a pizza pie 223

039million. We are just the cutters. Who gets the slices? So when I hear, oh, let's hire more staff, then that pizza slice is getting bigger, but I need to cut from something else. And normally for us, 75% and now it's actually like about closer to 78% of our dollars go to pay raise or go to salaries already. So um yeah, we call it a lot of our money is allocated to those fixed costs. So those are the things I kind of we need to watch out in the future. My sorry uh for House Bill 2, you know how we have you said piece of the pie. If let's say I want to take from this piece of the pie and I'm seeing a need at this other piece of the pie that's kind of like

040supplanting money, right? that is not misappropriating funds or how does that work to make sure that we're in compliance with not misappropriating funds. So whatever the allocation is for. So I'm going to pick on early early education aotment. We the first question is can this cost is it allowable for that allocation or that aotment? So if I'm going to put a prek3 teacher now being funded out of the early education aotment, yes, that is a a cost that is allowable. You wouldn't put a high school teacher in the early childhood because again it's not a prek. That would be misappropriating. If I'm a special ed teacher and I'm getting paid with uh early education a lotment that is misappropriating funds, right? Yeah. So we would have to go back to the rules. So you have

041in federal programs you have that a lot the and I'm going to call it at risk kids. those at risk kids can be in multiple buckets of people funding sources wise. So if um if that at risk child is a bilingual or an um I guess call ED student well then they could help them in that but then they could also get funding from state comp because they are at risk or economic disadvantage. So again, it goes back to we have some we have great directors who keep us all in check. You guys are in charge of that and you're on top of it. Okay. My second part of the question, those are great points. Second part of the question is how long how long are we going to get the allotment? Because once you

042get once you put put that increase in there now, who's going to pay it? Is it like it's going to continue on? because our staff is going to stay here. Salary increases are going to stay, but after the a lotment goes away, will the district be able to sustain with its enrollment in ADA? So, that's my question. Is this permanent or is this is this just like a one year one one or two year type of event? House Bill two is a 2-year deal. Now, we are anticipating that once these two years, so again, the very first one, $4 million is being paid for our middle group and our uh long-term teachers. Next year, it's going to be about that same amount. What they're going to do is that through the PES department, they're going

043to ask, "How many teachers do you have?" And if we say 1,000 teachers, 700 of them or more closer to 800 are considered in that group, right? They will update that funding through that for two years for this year and next year and the 26 27 school year. They are going to give us in a sense that flat amount. Okay. No guarantee on future a lotments. That's that's kind of just what I'm kind of trying to get to. Yeah. that just that's so when we do our workshops we're careful on hiring etc and whatnot and we set limitations on ourselves so that we don't overextend for two years right so they're giving us money the 5,000 for each year let's let's say it like that we'll get 5,000 next year the money will be to

044sustain that amount it would be sustained sustained so it does not talk about oh I want to get 5,000 and an extra 5,000 year they're not giving us that sustaining only what we implemented and then after that they're going to continue to sustain it after that more likely because you can't it's very hard to give to reduce salaries right um that's what I just want to get to but it is a weird thing that the state is now doing because in the past you would have just seen it through the basic aotment and then we then fund it locally now you're seeing there's this aotment there's that aotment so that's kind of like the working of the Senate where they like to do it like that where I tell you what's ISD, I'm going to

045tell you you have $4 million for teacher raises and I'm me being the Senate or now the Texas sis leure saying that's where I want you to spend it. Correct. In other words, you're putting strings attached to it. Great sir. Good questions. Mr. One more thing. Go ahead. The TASBY study was mentioned. How often do we go for that? Do we do we have tasks be analyzed or numbers? It's it's ongoing. Yeah. So it it is a yearly maintenance review. Okay. So there is like a full-blown like where we go deep dive, right? And then there's what we have been doing for the past two years is more of a maintenance. Let's maintain it. Let's make sure that our paid groups that we have them in the right areas, the different jobs that flow through.

046So luckily TASBY's been with uh doing that for the past um I think I want to say three years but these past two are like the maintenance version of it and and we asking for recommendations or Yes. Good question. Will you go to the back to the teacher raises? Okay. So clarify counsel uh including with the teachers the counselors librarians and nurses will be getting also that 5,2500. Yes. Let me make sure. Is is is that what counselors are part of their own group, right? Yeah. Okay. So, they're they're not with that group cuz they're going to get the 4%. Correct. The 4%. Yes. Oh, not part of the teacher group. That's what I understood on this slide. Well, see, that's why that's why I'm asking because it says Yeah, it's a parenthesis includes counselors.

047So, counselors are are they have a their own pay group. So, they would follow the 4%. So, I need to I need to change that. That's incorrect then. Okay. Yeah, it shouldn't have been there. The They should have been there cuz they're part of the 4%. Okay. Question number two. Uh the zero to two years of experience, is that coming from a local budget or is it coming from the legislative budget that we received? So, because we don't have a lot of zero to two years of teachers that are experienced. We have I you know what maybe in the next update you can let us know how many less less than 200. We know the figure already. 176 approximately. So that particular money is that coming from the state or is it coming from our

048local 2500? So not not from the state. The state is only A and B. Correct. So C we made that determination. Yeah. 25 other districts are going a,000 or even less. That's what I was going to say. So teachers that are listening or uh understand that other districts are only giving a th00and or 1500 at the most. you know, uh, some of the big districts is for teachers zero to two years of experience and we're giving 2500 and the incentive stipen and that's my next question. Okay, so clarification of the stipen the first semester is $1,000 correct but is that include all staff members? Yes. Everyone in the district. Across the board. Better professionals, the security guards. Yes. Okay. Yes. So they that way they can understand that cuz a lot a thousand. Yeah. Because

049that's a lot of times they ask those questions. The second part is a reminder to everybody that just because we put a th00and for the spring doesn't mean they're going to receive a thousand unless our ADA uh we meet the ADA for high schools 95, elementary 96 and middle schools 96 whatever. Yes. Right. So that way principles teachers contingent on the enrollment the ADA. Okay. Because a lot of times you'll say, "Well, you all mentioned it was $1,000." But it all depends on our ADA. Correct. And a lot of times people don't understand average daily attendance is the students that come to school by second period and is counted present for that day or if they went to the doctors and come back, they are counted present, you know, when they come back. So those

050are very parents need to understand that because that helps in the long run on on monies that we need. Correct. Yes. And let's see. Those were my three questions. Just real quick, you just reminded me, I had several teachers call me and ask me, and I know I I asked Mr. Dr. Rivera, the teachers, some of the teachers wanted to know, is there going to be a percentage withheld out of this $5,000? Kind of like T like Tia. Uh are they going to withhold, you know, a certain percentage or do I get the full 5,000? And the answer is 5,000. They get it all. No percentage is being withheld. Well, you still take out taxes for your federal taxes, but I mean like the service and all this other stuff that the school. So, TIA

051is like that. This is not TIA. This is what they're doing like a normal pay raise. Okay. Good question. Just for a bunch of workshops and I know people want to get to the awards, but we also have is the homestead. In other words, what I'm trying to do is prepare for the future. Right. Right. So, I don't want to overwhelm and and take off. It may not be something everyone wants to hear, but then we get into a situation later where then we can't sustain it, right? And then you got to make hard decisions like all these other districts are right now. So also when it comes down to our taxes, I'm glad it's back on this slide. If we can look at when we have the compression on the tax rates, we have

052the lowest tax rate in the valley compared to any school, any school district, even there's only one small one that beats us, but I'm talking about 4A, 5A, 6A. But my thing is here is that one looking at the tax rates looking at increasing INS only for future boards when there's needs if that's a possibility even and two is there going to be a homestead reduction because I know it went up to 100 and they were saying there was going to be another 40,000 in the future 40 140. Yeah. So it may not hurt now but in 2 three years it may hurt when it kicks in and then we see that we have a major loss of revenue but yet we're running at a at a high overhead. The the state's holding us harmless.

053Okay. Oh okay. Exactly. So if we lost and I'm just going to throw out a number two to $3 million the state will come in and give us that 2 to3 million. So we are going to be held at hold harmless. Okay. Now thanks again you hope people pay because now it's a smaller tax bill. Um so you're hoping on that side. Yeah. And so but the tax relief is going to be hold harmless for us. Okay. Thank you sir. Good presentation. All right. Good questions there. And of course the people that are present, maybe you understand the budget now a little bit more, you know. Okay, let's go to number four. Public comments on proposed 2526 budget. If anybody in the audience want to make any comments as a parent, as a staff member,

054whatever, uh, you can, not that we ever have anybody, you know, say something, but one of these Thank you for bringing up about racial racers because something [Music] that graduated already. Thank you for bringing that up. That is important. It starts from there to get the teachers, you know, being able to be supported to be able to do their jobs. Very true. All right. So, any public comments on the budget? Once going once, going twice. Nobody. All right. I guess you did a good job. Very good. Thank you. It's a It's a good budget. It's a good budget. And thank you, Dr. Vera, for you and your staff working on the budget. A German. All right. So, are we ready for the We're ready to go. Yes. All right. That's what the parents will be

055waiting for. Ready, Carlos? Yes, I'm president of Westco board of trustees. The regular board meeting is being conducted in compliance with the Texas Opens Meeting Act. Notice that this meeting has been posted with 72 hours. The time now is 6:22 and I call this meeting to order. I will now begin the roll call. Please say here or present when I call your name. Mrs. Zusta, present. Dr. Haime Rodriguez, present. Coach Mando Quer, present. Mr. Mr. Ben Castillo here here. Mr. Eddie Serna present and Mr. Mark Deos Santos present and myself Mr. Nto present we have a quorum uh here today a full quorum actually number three invocation Dr. Rivera, let's bow our heads and let us pray. Gentlemen, if you would be so kind to remove your hats in reverence to the Lord. Let us

056pray. Heavenly Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, we come before your throne of glory to honor, praise, and glorify you who is like unto you. You are awesome in all of your ways. There is no shadow of turning in you. You are eternal light and never change. Thank you for the gift of life, health, family, friends, strength, peace, and physical ability to work to provide for our families. Thank you for your faithfulness and protection over the lives of our students, staff, and families. We thank you for the blessing of gathering once again as a corporate body and the privilege to serve this most beautiful community of Wes Lico. We ask you to continue to bless and grant greater wisdom to our superintendent, Dr. Richard Ria, and our board. You have called us to serve others through

057the gifts we have received from you. May your will be done in our board meetings. Help us always to maintain integrity in what you have left in our care. Our decisions have lasting impact in our boys and girls. As a 2425 school year has come to a close, grant us greater wisdom to make 2526 WISD's greatest year. We pray your hand of blessing and protection be upon all our students and staff during the summer so that all may return safely in August. We ask you all this in your precious, glorious and mighty name of Jesus. And everyone says, "Amen." Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Tinho. Pledge of Allegiance, Dr. Ah, yes, M. Mr. Good evening. We'd ask everyone to please stand, remove their caps and hats, place their right hand over their heart, and face

058the United States flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We'd ask everyone to please remain standing. Turn towards the Texas flag with your right hand over your heart. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you, Mr. Buttermer. Awards and recognitions. Dr. Good afternoon, Mr. Board President, Dr. Dveta, and members of the board. We have a lot of student groups, a lot of parents here this evening, and we want to start off by recognizing our CTE, state national qualifiers. So, let's give them a round of applause as they enter the room. We want to congratulate our career and technical education

059students who competed at the state and national levels of business professionals of America conference. These students placed in the top 10 in different events. BPA sponsors are Isabelle Valdez and Daniel Zuniga. Let's give them a round of applause. We also have several members of the Family Career and Community Leaders FCCLA organization and they will represent West Loco High School at a national conference coming up in a few weeks in Orlando, Florida. State champions Kora Ford and Charlotte Sander along with Antonia Gonzalez and Darlene Garza will be honored as the 2025 Community Service High School winners for National Programs in Action Project. FCCLA sponsors are Mary Martin, Maria Martinez, and Dana Viel. How about a big hand? We also want to recognize their parents. Parents, if you're here, can you please stand and be recognized? All

060right, we'll take a photo. And once again, congratulations to our students. [Applause] All right. Up next, we have an individual that we would like to recognize with a big trophy right there. Tonight, we want to congratulate our district's top elementary reader. She read about 4 million words as part of the accelerated reader program representing North Bridge Elementary. How about a big hand for Dakota Casades? [Applause] We would also like to recognize her parents. Parents, can you please stand and be recognized? All right, quick photo. All right. [Applause] All right. Once again, congratulations, Dakota. Okay, we have some little ones here. How about a big hand for them as they enter the room and we get them set up here. We have some art students who are with us here this evening. Tonight, we have want

061to congratulate our talented elementary school artists who recently competed in the Texas Education Arts Meet hosted by the Texas Art Education Association. These students won exemplary ratings for their original artwork. Students used all mediums for their creations and also analyze their entries. Also, several students receive top team distinctions. We'd also like to recognize their students. Art teacher from Silva Elementary, Natalie White from Ibata Elementary, Cynthia Duran from Rico Elementary, Belinda Reyes. And from Sam Houston Elementary, Esmeralda Tiharina. Once again, congratulations to all our students on a fine job. [Applause] And real quick, parents, if you're here, can you please stand and be recognized? parents. All right. Thank you very much, students. Good job. One more round of applause as they leave the room. All right, tonight we want to congratulate a very talented artist. This

062is the second year in a row we have recognized her. This Wes Lakoa High School student received a back-to-back gold seal ratings at the UIL visual arts scholastic event recently. How about a big hand for Valeria Galindo? We'd also like to recognize her parents or relatives if they're here. Can they please stand and be recognized? [Applause] Congratulations, Miss Galindo. All right. Now, we have members of our bands, our high school bands. How about a big round of applause as they enter the room? We have a long list of students. You can see their names on the screen right here. We do have some of our students who are here with us as well. But tonight, we want to congratulate several members of our high school band who recently returned from the UIL state solo and

063ensemble competition. Several of these state qualifiers also won gold and silver medals. We would like to recognize our students from this is West Lico East from West Lico High School. How about a round of applause? And we'd like to recognize their band director, Mr. Rodrigo Leal. Mr. Leal. And if their parents are here, can they please stand and be recognized? Parents. All right, we'll take a photo. I do want to can I real quick? I do want to recognize one person from West Lico High School. A special noteed distinction for Juani Tiharina. Out of approximately 100,000 students participating in the UIL contest, only 2 to 3% of the solo performances are recognized as outstanding performers. So congratulations to one for that distinction. All right. Congratulations. Now we're good. Squeeze. Okay. All right. And now we

064have members of the Wildcat Regiment. We want to congratulate several members of the Wildcat Regiment who recently returned from the UIL state solo and ensemble competition. Several of these state qualifiers also won gold and silver medals. So we want to say congratulations to the West Luis High School Wildcat Regiment. And we also want to congratulate their band director, Mr. Armando Cuar. And parents, if you're here, can you please stand and be recognized? Parents. All right, we'll take a quick photo. Thank you very much and congratulations. [Applause] Got a few more recognitions. A lot of success here as we closed out the year. How about a big hand for some choir students now entering the room. with us tonight celebrating several choir and orchestra members representing West Lico East High School and West Lico High School.

065These choir and orchestra students advanced and competed at the UIL Texas State Solo and Ensemble Contest, some bringing home gold and silver medals. How about a big hand for these students? The West Lau High School choir director is Dominic Savedra. Big hand for Dominic here. Thank you, Jenny. For West Lico High School choir director, Denise Martinez and the orchestra director is Dr. Young Singh Choi. We'd also like to recognize their parents. Parents, can you please stand and be recognized? [Applause] All right. Once again, congratulations to our students. Okay, students. All right. All right. Up next, we want to congratulate our high school mariachi groups. How about a round of applause for them as they're here? We want to congratulate our high school mariachi groups for their tremendous success this year. The Westloise High School mariachi

066tuani and west high school mariachi pen pantera both qualified for the state Texas Association mariachi educators contest. Dam, how about a round of applause? Mariachi Tuani finished fourth at state, making the program a top 10 5A marching program in the state of Texas. Round of applause. We would like to recognize mariachi director Pierre Sustita with adviser Mario Fer. We'd also like to recognize Mariach Panta who also received fourth place at state ranking them in the top five 6A marching program in the state of Texas. Mariacha director, go ahead. Mariacha director is Jose Samura with adviser Mario Feder. A round of applause, please. Let's also recognize their parents. Parents, if you're here, can you please stand and be recognized? parents. All right, now for a photo. All right, once again, congratulations All right. Now, we'll recognize

067how about a round of applause for our next students from West Loist High School. We have some exciting news to share with you and recognize these students as well. Valley College football is about to kick off this August and three West Loquiz High School graduates will be cheering on the Vakerto as part of the UT RGV drill team. We want to congratulate these West Localiz High School students who will soon be making history on the football field. Congratulations. We also want to congratulate their sponsor, Adalia Castillo. Congratulations, ma'am. And parents, if you're here, can you please stand and be recognized? Parents, anybody? They drove themselves. [Applause] Congratulations. Well, we have one more recognition if you all have some time. Yes. Tonight, we want to make a special announcement. The Weslo ISD fine arts program has

068been honored with a 2025 best communities for music educators designation from the NAM Foundation. This is the eighth consecutive year for the award and I know there's someone here to we're going to recognize and he's coming in here in a few minutes still taking care of business outside but I'll go ahead and start. We have always we have always been known that West YSD is second to none. Students have been developing their music abilities since elementary, elementary through middle school and high school under the guidance of devoted fine arts teachers and fine arts programs as evident tonight with the many of our fine arts students excelling at the state level. This includes choir, orchestra, band, jazz band, mariach and konhunto. Tonight we honor fine arts director Christopher Fernandez and his talented group of educators for

069this special recognition. Congratulations And that concludes our awards and recognitions. Thank you, Carlos. And congratulations, Mr. Fernandez. Thank you, sir. All right, we go to item number six, public comments. Carlos, there's none today. All right, we will continue. Number seven, superintendent's report. Dr. Rivera. Uh yes on on I have 20 slides on page one. This is the ISD core values. Uh everything everything depends comes together for student outcomes. We have the budget, HR, summer school, professional development, and then the outcomes. everything everything with a lonear it comes back to the core values that that we use at Westico ISD on page two I'm going to show you the enrollment compared to last year for the first week of school the end of the first semester and then the second week in May as you can

070see the first week comparing last year and this year we were at a minus 219 when we started at the first semester a minus60 61 the second week in May a minus 98. So there are factors that are that are that affect enrollment. And then I saw I got A, B, C, D and E. The first one is virtual schools. This is gaining momentum. And what this is, again, I I've described this before, is that students that live in one district attend school in another district, and that dis that district gets the ADA. So, that's gaining momentum. Uh we're looking at resoning. We're looking to see the vouchers. The school choice begins August of 2026. We're looking at new subdivisions, the growth, and as you can see on E, for the last three years, there's

071been a decline in enrollment. Again, for different for different factors. In 23 around the same time, there were 16,503. Last year, 16,310. And this year, we we finished the year at 16,212. So as we reduce enrollment, we have to be constantly looking at our staff. So as you as you reduce enrollment, we have to reduce staff. One thing we cannot do is being overstaffed because then at the end of the year, we have to reduce staff. So I am concerned about the enrollment. So again, as you can see, and hopefully for next year, the enrollment will go up. So I I will keep you posted on the enrollment for 20 for 2526 on page three. This is the yearly the yearly ADA and for the for the high schools the goal that we have is

07294%. That's the goal that we have for the year. As you can see only South Palm Gardens attained that goal, 97.3. West of Ohio was next again the goal 94 west of goh high 91.7 west to go east 91.3 so the total loss to the district that we would have gained this amount was almost a million dollars so again the goal is for this coming year to increase to increase the ADA because by doing this it increases the revenue on page four I did the same thing for The middle schools the only the only school that attained the goal of 95 was Central at 95.2 Garza was next at 94.1 Armando Quer 93.7 Mary Hog 93.5 and again the goal was 95%. So, by not reaching the goal of 9 95%, we would have we

073would have received an additional $255,000 which we're not going to get. On page five, these these are the elementarymentaries. The goal here is 96. So, you can see that three schools reached this goal. Clickler held 97.9. Again, the goal being 96. Marggo 96.3 Memorial 96.2 attained the 96 goal. The other schools in order Justice Gonzalez 95.8 Sam Houston 95.7 Tony Rico 95.3 Rudy Silva 95.0 I 94.7 North Bridge 94.5 and then airport 94.2. So, by not getting the 96, uh, we're not going to receive the additional $400,000. So, the goal for this coming year is to work harder with this because monies are going to be very scarce for 26 27. The only new monies coming in is going to be for the for the ADA. On page six in 20 23 24, the budget

074was it that was my first year here. The budget was set at 14,000. Uh we were higher the ADA 14522. So we received additional monies that year. For 2425 the goal was 14,500. We didn't get that. The estimated it might be a little bit higher was 14450. So, by being 50 students short, we're going to be we're going to have to uh they're going to deduct TA will deduct about $400,000. So, that's that's a big loss to the district. And for 26, we're going to budget again conservative at 145. Now the reasons we didn't meet the 145 was again campuses did not meet the standard and again we're losing enrollment for the last for the last two years. So these are factors but again the goal for this coming year is to hit the 145.

075This is why it's very important and I work with the principles every week to make sure they reach their standard. So now we're looking at the monies that we would have received that we're not going to receive. on page seven. I'm very proud of this this slide here that we talked earlier during the workshop that West local ISD ranks among the highest and we're comparing some districts from the highest to the lowest at zero years, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years. So, West Loco West Loco ISD is higher in the 5 years, 10, 15, and 20. uh at the zero years we're a little bit lower and you can see that FAR is was the highest is this for 2425 for the new year we're going to increase the the first year by

076$1,000 which now will be 58 and then with a with a stipen it be 59,000 but we know that all of these districts are going to increase their amount so I will share with the board later on how we compare at the different at the different years with uh with the region one schools. These are the big schools. Some of the schools that are that are lower enrollment are a lot less than Harlingen ISD, for example. So again, our goal, we want to pay our teachers well, pay them well so they can go ahead and and do a good job. Do a good job in the classroom. On page eight, this is this is the slide that I show you often. This is this is a fund balance. This is not part of the budget.

077This is monies that we have in savings that we had in different years with the increase ADA and uh we did not spend all the money every every budget. Uh so you can see that the three-month reserve is we cannot spend the three months which which would be 43 $43 million. But this money is earning interest and you can see some of the projects these are completed or in progress. Some districts use fund balance to balance their budget and and we don't do this. Our fund balance that we have is strictly for additional projects that are one year one-year expenses. The the ones that are listed there are 16 and we have spent during the the time that I've been here almost 17 million. And you can see, and I'll I'll just kind of read

078these. One, districtwide library furniture. Number two, classroom furniture. Number three, additional cost to the HVAC. We're doing the gym bleachers at Central MB Garza. Barbie field bleachers. The band practice areas. We didn't get we didn't get them off for this school year, but they're they're set to go sometime in the fall, so they should be ready for next year. We've done some water fountains with canopies. We we bought additional vehicles, uh campus campus lawns and tractors, activity buses, the the canopy, the Panther Wildcat turf replacement. It should be ready for the new football season. We we purchased HVAC units, the lighting upgrades at the stadium, the middle school running track equipment. We we had we have four tracks, but these are just the equipment. Three were from the bond election. and then the demolition for

079the pool at the high school. And then we purchased some yellow buses. So again, these are these are already budgeted. They're either completed or in progress. On page nine, these are the ones that we have already completed. They're not they were not part of the budget, but they've already completed the billboard digital conversion. And you can see that's used for all the kids. We have so many tremendous kids in our school district that we want to recognize them. And we're one of the few districts that has the billboard digital. Uh we've done the on two the lighting at the stadium, the chairlift, the aquatic center, the scoreboard, fuel stations, baseball, softball fields, two at each one. Activity buses, yellow buses, vans, safety and security trucks, elementary campus sensory rooms, uh again more vehicles, and again

080the portable units. So, these are already these are these are not part of the budget, but these have been completed. On page seven, these are the ones that are pending. They're not yet they're not yet complete. We've got about $4 million left. And working with the board, we'll we'll kind of we'll kind of rank these as to what what were needed the most. Now again we have furniture secondary sensory rooms. We have rod iron around the panther drive fire alarm electric gates at the in our schools the aquatic center lighting upgrade central office roofing pavllian repairs. Then we have on number nine the Mary Hog north entrance drive to improve that one the flat work at the stadium and then some existing work at the pet ago a act farm. Again these are these are

081not part of the budget. These are monies that we have left over about 4 million. So this is these are pending on page 11. I want to report to the board that we had a visit in April from TA. There was minor minor minor uh items that were identified that have been corrected. I want to commend Danny Raina, the principles, then my staff for doing a real good work here. And the key here is to keep all our schools safe for staff and for students. On page 12, I want to report safety and security. Very proud of our schools. We reduced the fights from last year to this year by 40%. That's a big accomplishment. And we want to continue on C. We want to continue the investment in security cameras, uh, access control doors,

082fencing, armed security guards, vestibules, security film on doors and windows. Again, the goal here is to have safe schools and again is a tremendous reducing fines by 40%. That is that is awesome. We're going to go ahead and continue and have less list fights on campus. On page 13 on tonight's agenda is the budget with the compensation plan. We had a good presentation. It's a balanced budget and uh with with additional House Bill two monies is going to be balanced. But as we look at the budget, we also have to look for 2627, but there'll be no new monies. So the only new monies will be with the ADA or any of the savings that we do. So again, we're looking at the budget for 2627, but I'm also looking at the 27 budget. So

083I'm I'm staff and I are way ahead thinking also about the following year. And I want to report on risk management that every employee in the district should should they should uh is is a life insurance of $25,000 should they pass away. So that's part of the benefits that we have at West Local YSD. On the construction, there's items on the agenda under consent. We're going to uh demolish the central gym and we have the rankings for the merry home running track and also for the for the band practice synthetic th turf. So again, these are part of tonight's consent agenda on HR. I'm proud to say that no staff lost their job. No schools were closed. And I'm sure you've read about schools throughout throughout region one. Some some some staff lost their jobs

084and some schools were closed. I'm happy to report that through careful budgeting planning. Again, no schools were closed and no one lost their job. I'm also happy to report that as of tonight, we have less than 1% teaching vacancies that need to be filled during the summer. And again, good good job to HR and to the principles for filling these slots on page 15, 16, and 17. These are the preliminary scores. And you can see that that uh memorial went from a 90 to a 91. They continue with their A. Rahul Gonzalez from 89 to 91. So they made an A. Great job to Rahul Gonzalez. Sam Houston, great job to them, too. They went from an 89 to a 91, so they have an A. So, we had three schools that attained an A.

085Collector Held, they went from an 85 to 87, so they improved by two points, B and B. Marggo, very proud of Margot. They went from a 74 to an 85, so they went from a C to a B. Uh, at North Bridge, 82 to 82, they maintained their B. uh ma Maju Vara that went from a 76 to an 80. So from a C to a B. So we had three A's and we had we had four four B's. Tony Rico went from an 82 to a 79 B to a C. airport a C 79 to 72 AC and Rudy Silva even though even though they scored a D. They scored a D because in three of the domains they they were they scored low but they're they're actually a 70 but they're they can't

086score higher than a than a 69. That's why they're a D. But there was there was big improvement at R Silva from a from a 60 to a 70 on the middle schools. Central stayed an A. They went from a 91 to a 91. Uh Armando Quer they went from a 70. Good job to them. 73 to an 84. From a D to a B. Yatrice Garcia went down one point. 84 to 83. A B. Mary Hog went down two points from a C and again they were a D simply because in three of the four domains they did not they scored low on those. So even though it's a 77 they cannot they cannot score higher than a D because of the two domains. So again, these are these are the the middle schools.

087The high schools, Southbound Gardens, 94 to 95, an A. Westico High School went from an 88 to a 92, an A. West went down three points from a B to a C. And as a district, we're at a B. So these are the scores. very proud of these scores overall because most districts do not have the scores that we have uh compar compare again comparing to other schools. So great job to all our principles and all we want to do is to become better for the new year on the insurance. On the insurance as you can see the policy ends on August the 31st right now we spent less 1.5. You look at the claims the RX the total the funding for this year was 21 million. The the the year date we spent 13.1

088the stop loss.1. So right now we have a balance of $6 million through May, but on the bottom you will see that the expenses June through August will be about $6 million. So we're going we're going to break even. But on next year's budget, we added another million dollars uh as far as as far as to the insurance. On page 19, this is the workers comp. We had we had less claims. we paid less. The funding was 481. So far, the claims we spent 355 and then this is projected through June. Now, on these on these long-term claims, these were claims from two years, three years, four, four years, we continue paying because the employees that got hurt, we're still paying out some money. But we do have a fund balance of 152. and we

089do a lot a lot of uh safety training to make sure we don't want our employees to get hurt. So again, we're we're doing good on the insurance. The last slide I have is these are major accomplishments. It was a very good year. Are we are we perfect? No. Can we improve? Yes. But but overall there were so many good things that happened during the year. And again, our goal is second to no one. Second second to no one. And you can see the lone star continue with that the digit the digital billboard I mentioned to recognize all our students and we have so many students that that are that that are just outstanding. Our scores star you'll see are among the highest in region one. We've got a healthy fund balance that addresses academics,

090athletics and maintenance. We're among the highest salaries in region one. Again, as I mentioned, no one lost their jobs. that we didn't close schools. We're going to continue with the incentive stipment. Last year, we gave 2,000. This year, the plan is to give 2,000, but the 1,000 in May will be contention on on ADA. Uh we addressed the budget ESER deficit of 16 million. The citizens passed the bond election of 160 million. We've done we're still doing addressing this under facilities, the fine arts, athletics, and we still have, as Mr. Santo mentioned earlier, we still having the lowest tax rates in region one and we have a successful successful opening of our of our college development center with 40 graduates. Again, it was a very good year. There are major accomplishments these and a lot

091more. Again, we're not perfect. We can improve that we're working on all our deficiencies. Again, this is my report. We're very proud of school and our parents, our teachers, our students. So, it was a tremendous a tremendous year. My report, any questions from the board? Thank you, Dr. I'll begin over here on the my right side. Uh, Mr. Los Santos, any questions for Dr. on his presentation? No. No, I think we covered everything. We we got this earlier and I read through it and then we discussed some of it in preliminary. Correct. I think it's just um no at this time. No, I don't actually have any questions. It was a good good presentation. Thank you. All right. Sure. I should have started on the left. No, looking at me like really coach. Yes. Uh

092just congratulate all the campuses. Great job. I mean, you know, overall it's a great job. Like Dr. Dr. Rivera said, um on the major accomplishments, I know I've spoken to Dr. Divera about this and to some of the board members. uh recognizing on the digital board recognizing the academic allstate athletes. Oh, you can do that. And possibly fine arts if there's something that is done for fine arts. I know athletics because I was in athletics. Can we address this? No, no, later on. Later on, just to address it. I know we do the district. Uh we did do the academic all state last uh last month. They're actually I believe they're on there right now on the billboard. on the billboard on the edge of the billboard. Westco High or West Coco East or together

093schools the entire school district and we and we'll continue to do that. Okay. And then just going to bring it up. Uh just a list coach Rodriguez about the academic all state for both schools per sport. Just give give us a little rundown about how we did this year per sport. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that was it. Is that it, Mr. Castillo? Uh, yes, Mr. Minister. Just a couple. Dr. Dia, first, I just want to thank you for for being transparent on uh on our scores and and publishing them and so the community could see and so the board could see. We had seen the preliminary domain one uh scores, but we hadn't seen this yet. So, thank you so much for that information. Uh, and congratulations to all the principles who who had

094a significant increase uh from last year to this year. That's that's a great job. And thank you. you make you you guys just make West Lico ISD again second to none. So, thank you guys so much for that. Now, my question on that, Dr. Detta and Miss Solano, is what are we going to do for the campuses uh that didn't go up that they they had a decrease? Do we have a plan in place? Are we are we looking at that? The answer is yes. Mr. Lo, go ahead. Yes, sir. Um with Mr. Garlic and Mrs. Morales now as the academic officers for both the elementary and the secondary. We have a plan in place to come and mentor and act. She ret she left at the right time too. That's that's that's awesome. Amazing

095scores. Amazing. Good for you local high. So um you know we will be in there just to make sure that more of the data monitoring the good instructional practices are in place and we can support if potentially new teachers and then again our adoption of the new curriculums high quality instructional materials I believe will also help additionally. Yeah, it's just uh I mean like congratulations to Silva, right? Whatever you guys been doing there. I know I know they're here on the D, but they they increased a lot. Uh and so we want we want to make sure that you know Rico and airport have that same type of support. Uh so they could be where what they need to be, you know, for all campuses to be A or B's. I mean eventually all A's,

096right? But uh so we could get them the resources that they need. And then um I mean in the high schools again, you know, the other day I was South Palm Gardens, they always have great data to where uh an administrator asked me, "What is that? Is that a magnet school?" I was like, "No, I don't think so." I think so. Uh so good job for that. You always ever every every year I've been here, it's been a a a 90 night. Everything has been great data. So, thank you for for your work on that as well. And no fights. Well, it takes leadership. So, thank you for your leadership and please thank your teachers on on behalf of the board. And then uh yeah, I mean that's just it. I just want to make

097sure that we're getting the support to the to the elementaryaries and the middle schools and the high school that needs the support so they so all of our you know all of our campuses can be a that's all I got. Mr. N. Good points. Good question. Okay. Everyone says, you know, um, it's all right there. Great job, great year, but the bar has been set. You know, the expectations are there, but I don't think there's any question about what you're going to continue to do and and we're very appreciative of that. That's all we can ask of you. Just give it what you have and uh when you have a little time, take time to rest a little bit, sharpen the saw, and get ready for next year. But uh again, Dr. your staff, principles,

098teachers, everyone that's involved. Thank you very much for the work that you've done. Thank you, Coach. Thank you. Uh Dr. H. Same, you know, great job. Um I know there's already a plan in place, you know, for for these um campuses that need, you know, the resources and the help. And I know u speaking for the entire board, you know, we have, you know, the support for whatever is needed to to keep that momentum going and to keep and to help those other campuses. And you know, you can see it with uh Quad and and Margo and and even Silva, you know, the the big changes that can happen in one year. So, it's doable, you know, and and uh appreciate all the hard work. I know it's a lot of hard work there and

099and and great job. Great job. Thank you, Dr. Hime. Mrs. Susta. Yes. I wrote down three points and I'm going to start with the number one which was what they all already said. Uh just great job. I I'm in the classroom and I know that how it is how difficult it is to see growth more than anything. You know, you start off here and you want to see that growth. So I'm going to give a shout out to the schools that I calculated. I did my numbers that had the most growth. And for the elementarymentaries, Margot grew 11% which was more than all the other schools. So yay, Margot. Good job, Margot. 11%. And then in the middle school, Coar is the one plus 11%. So, great job to Kuad. Also, they a lot of

100growth. Good job, Miss Palasu in your staff. And then, uh I I heard it was a first time that was high school got an A ever. I don't know if that's true or not. Is it the first time that or it's been a long time since Wiki High got an A, was rated A, but they also grew 4%. So, shout out to Wikico High. Good job. that growth is hard. It's really difficult. So, it's just amazing to see in all the schools. All the schools did awesome and we're just very excited and supporting you guys and your staff because I understand how difficult it is. So, great job to you guys. Um the number two, I was looking over at the attendance and that we were talking about how we, you know, lost out on

101that money. My question is, and I it's happened to me, it's happened to other parents. Sometimes our schools our schools our our um students get to class a little late and teachers I know for me by 8 8:30 then we do the attendance get it out of the way and then later on the kids walk in you know they walk in um tardy sometimes but it's already been input in the system they're already marked as absent are we going back and and people have told me well my kid was still marked absent even though they were tardy they were marked absent for the whole day but they were there at 10:00 it was just that it was never fixed so my question is are are keeping track of, you know, those mistakes that maybe we

102did have kids but they were counted absent or how are we then that's the attendance clerk's job but are we um you know keeping track of how are we fixing those mistakes who can I ask I don't know we should ask the principles any comments from the principal I think you'll go back and check as they want to the front office that's where they come in through uh they document it and then the d the attendance part goes in and makes some changes. Okay. Okay. So, hopefully, you know, that we can just make sure maybe, you know, maybe some kids might be party, but they might be absent. So, I just wanted to check on that just to make sure we're good there. And then, uh, also, I know that some of the when I

103was teaching here, we had the perfect attendance incentives and all these little incentives that we have for the kids. Are we still doing that? Are we still principles are nodding? Yes. Okay, good job. Because I know we all need incentives, right? We need motivation to be there. So, it's good to know that the incentives are there for the kids, whatever we're doing. Okay. Awesome. Thank you, principles. And then the last thing that I noticed, Dr. Ria, my last question, uh, it was slide, it was about the fund balance. On number three, it says additional cost for HVAC. Our original budget was 6.3 million. Yes. And then we have an additional cost of 5.1 million. So, now we're at 11.4 4 million which is almost double of the original um budget. What happened? Well, it was

104very low the first time. I I can answer that. He was actually asking me before you asked the question. Dino Coronado was the superintendent at the time and I was on the construction committee with Andrew Gonzalez. And so I don't like the process the state has. The state says that you have to hire an architect engineer. First the district has to come up with a budget and then the architect engineer gets hired. So, you're kind of estimate, like, in other words, I told people, you're going to buy a house, don't tell the builder what you're approved for. Don't go in there and say, "Hey, I'm approved for 300,000 because your house is going to come out to guess what? Possibly 299." So, back then with quote, when I was here, we talked about in one

105open session, it's actually even been filmed. We talked about saying we're not going to go with the estimated engineers estimate because he gets paid on a percentage level. The architect and engineers get paid on a percentage. So, of course, the higher the cost, the more money they have. I'm not questioning their ethics and moral. So back then we said we're going to go with our own estimate. Okay? Go go with your own estimate. Put your own money in there and then see that way the companies are going to see that we have funds cuz we were barely rolling into the surplus. We were talking about a bond at the time only. It was just we're just talking about it. So Dr. Cod put the I think he went a little bit too low but he

106went and he put on there 6.3 million. Now the initial estimates first came back and they came in I think at what at 16 million or something like that. Okay. On the initial estimates and then Dr. kicked them back for best and final offer and then he kind of was pushing right and at the end of the day we ended up spending a total of a little bit over 11 million under 12 which at the time was excellent. So that was kind of my mentality of why are we putting in a budget? We're estimating and medical you're sitting there kind of nodding your head we have to do that right we have to put in a budget before we even hire an architect engineer. But when you put 20 million that architect and engineer I'm

107not saying they're going to do it but then you're kind of already setting the price of what you're willing to spend. So I said if they already know we have money and we have a bond because they know we can increase the amount anytime. Dr. Ietto supported that as well too. That's actually what he does. Don't put what don't put the max. We'll put that okay we're going to put 15 and if it comes in at 17 fine we'll add two but why are we going to put 20 and then it comes back at 19 million or 19.5. And that was kind of like the confusion there as far as why is Dr. Codau put such a low amount. Well, it was just to kind of do an experiment and see if we can bypass

108that requirement from the state, but that also hurts the taxpayers because you'll see it. And a lot of people did reach out and say really the credit right now is to Dr. Levetta, but a lot of people said, "How are you knocking out your bond and still saving on so many projects?" Because a lot of districts had small bonds and they surpassed them and they didn't do anything on the list. And so right now, the way we're operating and with Dr. system, we're actually going to get more than that was promised. So, so yeah, it's really working out super well and I congratulate you and your team on that and that's how that then that's kind of to answer that question. That's why it was so budgeted so low at the beginning. Yes. Yeah. Thank

109you. Mhm. Thank you, Mr. Los Santos. Yes, sir. I think everybody asked the questions. I don't have any to ask. No, I just have one thing on ADA. You saw how much we lost. So, it's important that and I believe Dr. will talk to you about it principles later on. what what's the plan to help out uh so our ADA can improve so we can receive that money you were talking about $2 million that we lost or more so that way the schools can receive that money so it's something for principles to plan ahead and plan with your staff and so forth uh and like Miss Susa said a lot of parents don't understand that if you take a certain time they come present or if they come back at the at the during the

110uh day if they have a doctor's excuse you can change that uh attendance to present. So those are little things that parents need to understand too, but uh as principles, you have to teach those to your teachers and your staff and so forth. And on data, I believe uh Mrs. Solano and and and uh and and the rest of the central office staff will follow up on several schools did very well like Mrs. dimension, but what is it that we can do and and I go back when I was principal that I would analyze data by objective and see okay why did we do so poorly in this objective okay and I remember one year that I send my math staff to Rio Grand City because Rio Grand City did very good in math so

111I sent some of my math teachers over there to find out what is it that they're doing that their scores increased so here within us Let's find out the three schools that scored A's. There's still some areas that they were not weak on, but they scored low compared to the other schools that did very low. Okay. What is it that they're doing so they can help each other out? You know, that's very important. Every school can, you know, a lot of times you say, "No, it's my school. Uh, I cannot help anybody else." But, you know, when at the end of the day, they're going to say WestD. Then they're not going to say each school, but like here we said each school. But together we can work better together and and and find out

112what objectives we're weak on and and then work like Mr. Los Santos mentioned you know what is the area that we need to work on so they can improve. Uh we can and I know we have capable principles and of course Dr. and staff uh can do that job and next year we have more A's and the C's move to B's and the B's move to A's, you know, that's just it's hard work. Uh but that's why you're a principal, you know, to lead and to encourage and to motivate every single day, not only your staff, but your students and your student groups and so forth. Okay, Mr. You say that and then we're going to get into LSG next. A lot of our question I know some of my questions and maybe the other

113boards have a exactly to do with that and we see through our goal progress measures that the NWA has been predictive of the scores that we're seeing right now. So that'll be interesting when we get to that agenda item next. Mr. Go ahead. One more thing. I know Jackie brought up the registration and the projected projections. When do you think we'll be able to see those numbers? like do we do we have so registration numbers I can tell you right now we are sitting as a district at 14,483 as of Thursday afternoon we are still looking at 1,52 students that left us basically just want to say May 31st that have yet to pre-register we have a dedicated team that works on this Monday through Thursday between new to the district and then working to

114get those our goal is 18,500. That is our goal. And do we have a breakdown by campus? We do. We do. We have a breakdown by campus. Again, the older the student, the more difficult it is to get them to register. The younger the student, the parents are more involved. But again, we are working. We're calling home visits. All of those things are taking place and intent to get those numbers. Great job to George Lopez. I know he's out there working hard and trying to recruit. That's correct. Can I can I make a suggestion, Mr. President? Yes. on the on that pre-registration, you know how we go out to restaurants and stuff. What if we post up at the end of year award assemblies and I can tell you when we do starting in March

115because we open it up in March, we do encourage the campuses to have areas that where they can have the parents pre-register right there. No, but we have George Lopez there doing his hype work. He we have restaurants, but we do do it at the campuses also from the beginning. But again, we continue to try to refine our processes to work towards getting that done each and every year for our parents and our families. Go ahead. Can we get a preliminary breakdown, but we can soon we can updates. Can I pick you back up of that report? Also, how many of the with the ADA and you can see the significant impact in the secondaries. How many of those students are intra district and out of district and like those those truency issues that you're

116having? You know, because I know we're an open district. We we have open enrollment but can we get a report to saying okay you know what of the people the population that's that's affecting our ADA it's interd district or out of district just to just identify we can look at our 20s and we can okay good question Carlos Carlos does a good job too we can yes all right any any other questions all right let's continue uh number eight long longar governance Dr. VA. Yes, Mr. London. 88.1 presentation. Yes. Thank you, sir. Um, hi, good evening, U, Mr. Retto, members of the board, Dr. Divera and community. So, uh, this month concludes basically the presentation for this school year. So, we're going to be going over goals one and two, which are our kinder through

117second map data, end of the year map data. And then, uh, for the CPM, Mr. Do already went over budget workshop number three. So we start with goal one, right? And we're going to look at GPMs 1.1 through 1.3 which focus on NWA MAP reading RLA scores, end of the year scores. So the slide that you have here in front of you, this is the the board goal uh that was adopted and this is to improve our third grade performance at the meets plus when we started uh back 2023, right? Setting the goals. Uh we set oursel a 5-year goal from 52% to 60%. The to the target for 2025 in third grade star was a 54. You see that red line? Those are the targets that we had set yearly uh to reach uh

118by 2028 the target of a 60. This year's target was a 54. Third grade r as a district scored at a 51% meets uh at the meets bus level. Right. I do want to um you know just call your attention to the left hand side of the slide because this is something that we monitor as well. domain three which is 30% of the rating for campuses right uh the target up until the school year of 2027 the state is uh requiring campuses to be at 46% meets plus um our district is already surpassed that interim target at a 51 then of course starting in 2028 that target uh will be that campuses meet the 55 uh% at the meets plus of the population and then in uh 20 33 sounds weird to say 2033 to

1192038 it'll be a 73. The state performance this uh school year was at a 49% at the meets plus for rla third grade WISD uh performance was a 51% meets plus. So while we did not meet our WISD board target for 2024, I do want to congratulate the staff, the teachers, the administrators for the hard work because if you see it from the benchmark one to benchmark 2, we started benchmark one date at a 31% meets, increased it second semester to a 45 and finished it off at a 51. Right? Had significant gains with this cohort. short off the target but um that is why we're reporting we are not on track uh for RLA third grade. So kinder through second support our third grade goal. So those are the next slides that you will

120see. So in the next slide you see the kinder first and second grade performance. Kinder uh and end ended the school year with a 46% meets plus um uh grade level. that population. The district target was a 58, right? Um, first grade ended the school year at a 34% meets plus in our population in first grade. The D the target was 46 and second grade's target was a 46 and overall as a district we were shy for meeting that target by three points. We scored a 43%. Right? Again, the overall goal for third grade is for them to be at a 54. So, and so you could see the difference of how each grade level is preparing the students for that certain population of students performing at that post-secary readiness for each of the grades.

121So, um kinder first or second did not meet the district's target. So, we are not on track for that third grade overall board goal uh one. The next slide you will see uh the kinder first and second grade data by campuses. Uh you will see that there is as per our star data right that uh Dr. Deta just shared in his superintendence report you see some of the same similar campuses that have reached those high uh performing areas. And again I do want to remind everyone that when we talk about NWA map we focus on achievement not on growth at the post-secondary readiness. So you have um your KCL held uh memorial uh at times your Gonzalez, your Sam Houston that throughout the year, beginning middle um and some of the end of the year

122reports met their targets. But you do have other campuses that made tremendous gains throughout uh from middle of the year to end of the year like I want to highlight Ibata. Ibata met their second grade target made a huge turnaround from middle of the year to end of the year as well and other campuses. Margo made tremendous gains as well. So um you know we're we're very proud of the campus work but we know that there's work to get to be done. Uh moving on to the next slide and a lot of what's working at the campuses that are meeting the targets is probably what you'll see what is not working at those grade levels or campuses that are not meeting the targets. Right? So, um, one of the things that we know for sure

123that works, you know, uh, for grade levels or or campuses that are meeting those targets, we look at those foundational skills, uh, instruction, right? Making sure that those foundational skills that are needed for your literacy are implemented in your daily instruction are embedded, right? We look at, uh, blended learning. Uh, this year, Mr. Amdoll and Mr. Lee Kelly along with Miss Emily uh, Rodriguez and Mr. Garlic were very intentional in making sure that kinder across the district, not only at certain campuses, but kinder classrooms uh put these student experiences um in place and a lot of it has to do with goal setting, tracking, data tracking and monitoring of the data, right? And again, SAVAS is our adoption for RLA. Uh we feel that those campuses who were very intentional in tracking and monitoring the

124data, right? whether it's by unit or kind of like your common formative assessments that were aligned to the adoption were very successful as well. One thing that needs more attention or several of the items that we've listed is again your comprehension right in the early grades comprehension is critical not just learning to read but understanding um you know what we're reading and and and exposing them to those skills early on. monitoring of the fidelity of materials and then again your weekly standards uh for monitoring student data, your trackers, your fluency, huge component of that in the early grades, right? That we want to make sure that we do this right um and teacher training. So one of the things that we have um now that we've kind of piloted I ready along with math and

125that one of the things that we looked at again is having a good understanding of growth and achievement are two separate things but both are being measured with fidelity or must be measured with fidelity. Right? So we understand and and know in the data that we've received that we need more intensive uh professional development and knowing how to read these reports and one versus the other right what are the benefits of both and then the opportunity for collaboration amongst the campuses that is huge and I know that uh one of the trustees asked that question it is it's very beneficial that you know other teachers share with other teachers their experiences and what works and what doesn't work right for them. So that is for Arlay. Moving on to goal two, the data for math.

126So we start with the overall goal. Goal two focuses on third grade math that that meets performance level. Again, reaching that 60% right. And when the board adopted this goal, we we talked about the 90 6030. Right? So we wanted to be at that 60 because we knew that that formula equal to an eight. Right? Um here uh the target for 2025 was a 50. West Lico ISD uh third grade math the cohort performed 45% of the third graders at that meets performance plus you know which we're very excited to share right because if you look at it the state was at 44 so we surpassed the state even in the third grade math area as a whole as a district right we are not meeting the board target which is a 50 and and

127again in three years we have to meet the 60 right um however we are working together with all of our leadership team, our instructional coaches. I do want to say uh board that the beginning of June about a hundred campus administrators and instructional coaches met at the PLC and we dug deep into this data of LSG and into the goals and the GPMS and the inputs and outputs and all the resources, right, that we needed to evaluate the data that we're receiving, right? So, um, again, um, beginning benchmark one and benchmark 2, you see that we were both at a 37 for math and then increased it by the end of the year to a 45. So, I I want to commend the teachers and recognize those gains because those are very important gains to

128say that we're almost at a 50% across the district meets performance level. Next slide. Uh, it's kinder through second grade uh data. Kinder uh 49% for the student population. 49% of our student population is already at that uh meets performance level. The target was a 58. First grade is 42%. The target was a 50. Second grade was a 38% the target was a 46. Right? And that green dotted line as you see it's the board goal target for the third grade. Right? So you see how each grade level supports and contributes in preparing those students for that third grade target. So here we are saying we are not on track. And then the next slide you will see uh campus performance at that meets performance for each of the grades right um campuses who are

129meeting the target campuses who are close to the target um and the district overall target for each of the campuses as well. So one of the things as uh we looked at and we had conversations with the campuses and coordinators instructional coaches. So one of the things that they're seeing here is for those um that the data is showing to be very uh prosperous right what is working there's a lot of teacher collaboration and planning in their campus PC's a lot of internalization processes a lot of the time to invest in their curriculum before they go into the classroom so we know that that works right a lot of targeted small groupoup instruction in centers so in order to do this you have to have a master schedule that supports a good amount of minutes

130for your RLA or math block. So, right. So, are we being truthful to our master schedules and are we investing the time there uh versus your tutorials or after school or Saturdays, right? Uh maximizing your tier one instruction and of course an alignment of curriculum documents and assessment. Is what you're using aligned or was it approved as a high quality instructional material? because we know that there's a lot of resources and vendors out there that we're going to want to purchase just to have one extra resource. But is it aligned to our goals? Is it aligned to the TEICSS and to high quality instruction materials? What needs more attention? Again, I think here uh for the math we talked about and we adopted blue bonnet. So, we are going through a very rigorous uh process

131for implementation with region one. Region one is our um third party provider or consultant for the blue bonnet implementation. Um I think principles can share elementary and middle school principles that um they are going through very rigorous training. I I don't think we had ever adopted a curriculum you know you purchase it and you just receive the textbooks and there you go. This time around it has been more like uh before we give you anything we gota you've got to receive some training so that you understand the purpose how it was built what comes with it and how you're going to support in every role and capacity right so before teachers get it so I believe they've had four three-hour courses just up until this week we'll receive two additional days in July before even

132teachers come in and then teachers will receive two-day uh PD at the beginning of the year plus six weeks additional support, right? So, we will be monitoring that. But again, um I do want to highlight that last bullet, understanding the difference between achievement versus growth. Um because there's a lot of systems or processes in the district that some monitor growth accountability ratings monitor both, right? So, uh we want to ensure that we're moni monitoring both with fidelity. Um, so that is the end of my presentation, but I know that we had some questions coming in by trustees, Mr. Neto, so I don't know if you want me to go over those. Yes, could go over those. Some of them submitted them. Yes. And then some of them will last proudly today. Uh, because I know

133some of them uh work a lot. So, yes. Uh, it's timeconuming. So, uh, you can respond to the ones that were Yes. sent to you. So, um, Mr. Elias, I believe you're working the slide and we'll go to the third grade reading slide. goal one, right? So, you know, because it shows that we are not on track and for third grade reading, what other um what do we need to provide for our staff, right? Especially for teachers so that student can improve their scores. So, we believe uh very strongly and um principles receive training on PLC's implementation and the fidelity to weekly PLC's to be able to give teachers that uninterrupted time for planning, digests, and even just data talks. So we feel that this will strongly campuses who perform very highly have that you

134know with fidelity and who saw tremendous gains. We saw Marggo with an 11 point gain, right? Their PLC's are just powerful, right? So, we know that being faithful to that, we know that region one is um mimicking and modeling this for math, but we're going to use it across all content areas because we know that that's just the best practice for all, right? So, we're going to continue to do that. Along with that, I know that there was a question that says we've been at a 50 for two years and now we're at a 51. Right? It was a onepoint gain and we have nine points in three years to get to nine points. So, um you have an item in your agenda to look at the revised GPMS, right? Because that was that was

135some of the work that campus administration with district and instructional coaches looked at. We understand that the goal and the target does not change but we changed the distribution between the years to give us a more uh fair opportunity to reach the goal right with the resources that we're going to roll forward and and and supports. Right. That's the question I asked you, right? About Yes. Okay. So, if we're going to lower the the percent that we're looking at for GPM, the GPMs we're we want to decrease them, right? No. So, we are not decreasing targets. Might we're just if it's 60 my end target and I had 51 and 54. Maybe next year instead it's 52 and 56. I'm just I'm just changing revising the GPM before I meet the target of 60. The

136overall target does not change. Right. I know the overall target doesn't change, but the GPMs and getting there are changing. Right. Right. And we're we are not increasing them, we're decreasing them. Uh depending yes, depending on the subject. Yes. Okay. And that that was my question because we have a we have to grow nine points, but I know the goal is the same. It's still 60, but we're going to decrease our target every couple of months. Is that going to help us so collectively as a group? Right. when the 10 elementaryaries, I think it was probably a group of 70 as elementaryaries bring APs, principles, and everyone together, they felt that the distribution the first time around wasn't um wasn't going to be achievable, right? So, they felt that with the resources and the supports

137that were uh planning to roll forward for next year, it would be a it would be a better opportunity to help them achieve those yearly targets or the annual targets. Mhm. I'm just thinking about it as like let's say I want to run a mile in 10 minutes and this time I ran it in seven and but my goal is 10 but I'm going to give myself 6 minutes next time but I'm still going to get to 10. You know, it just kind of like I don't know. I don't know if can I jump in? I kind of agree. Well, let me jump in on this real quick. Can I I mean I kind of jump in a little bit late, but I got to understand the questions. Mhm. So, it's kind of like I

138understand exactly your your example about running and setting yourself and setting yourself standards and trying to meet those and exceed them, but populations also are different. Every single incoming kindergartenner and correct me if I'm wrong, every single every single cohort that's coming in is not on the same level also has different needs and and and you know, issues. And so, every single crop you have is kind of like sports. You can't expect to win the state champ, you know, a district championship every single year. Sometimes you're you have kids that are coming in you got to work with and develop and build. So it's an unsustainable cohort like if you can't predict the court you're going to get. Junior high junior high principles can only assume by the data that they're getting how they're coming

139in from elementary and fifth grade into sixth but they won't really know until they bring in and then start their own beginning of the year assessments and then start addressing the needs. So, like to I guess to answer the question for both trustees is that I don't think and correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't predict like you can't keep the same standard for third grade math every single year because the incoming second graders are different. Some some are like super advanced and are rocking it and killing it and then some of them aren't and that's why you see fluctuations in in in campus performance and great and but it's like me when I'm a teacher. I have my six weeks goal. Every kid every year has to read at a D, E, F.

140And it's not going to change by Oh, because it's because this cohort reads a little bit less than the other cohort. So, but I still have the same goals. So, it it why am I going to change those intermediate goals if my end goal is still to get them here? Oh, I agree. And so like the last two years and I don't because the questions I wish we had the questions written up here so that we can all see what the question is but in the last two years the scores and we just heard at LSG like you know a year and a half ago or something but in the last two years our scores went up 1%. Right of what? Like let's say for reading in third grade it went up in the last

141two years 1%. In three years we're supposed to go up nine points. So, we didn't do it in the last two years. We went up 1%. But yet, we're supposed to grow nine points in the next three years. That's really difficult. Do you retest kids? That's a question I guess I have because since not everybody's taking the same test and this test fluctuates depending on the student and how they're answering. Do you touch and say, you know what, Mark came in, he had a bad day, I could tell. Let's put them back on and retest them. Or you just go with that. I'm seeing some some respect. That's your one shot. This is the star. So, these are for the GPMs for the star, right? that overall impact the third grade goal. I think she's

142referencing on the you're talking about your our testing for on the map. Well, I can't I don't know. I can't even see my questions, right? So, your question, Mrs. Sida, was two years ago we were at 50% for third grade students at the MET's performance level in star reading star. Two years later, right, we are at 51% which is a one point increase, right? What is the plan to improve scores by 9% in the next three years? So one of the difficult things and what you're seeing that changes we didn't mess with the board goal that stayed the same right the way it's distributed is the way the board adopted it what we changed were the GPMs those grade levels that are going to support if if you notice on the GPMs one of the

143things that we discussed right so one of the things that we discussed is kinder first and second are at the 70 right third grade stops at the 60% mark but our kinder first and second grade goals were set at the 70% mark. So, they have greater gains, right? Which seem like, okay, if if we're not meeting the 60 just yet, we're very proud of the work because we're a district that's performing at the 50 or above the state at that meets performance level, but we set our GPM's target higher than our third grade star target. So, that is making it very difficult for us to say, well, you've got to surpass that, right? So um which our GPMs have greater gains but we did not move the third grade at all because that's not and

144that's important because I know part of the board evaluation one of the questions is have you not corrected the uh goals within the last year which we are not we're going to keep the goal the same it's just what I'm just saying is should we don't know that's something I follow you now I see what you're saying that's a discrepancy we saw Right. But again, we did not change targets. We just changed distribution. But you question, you mentioned that you had met with the principles, right? Principles, assistant principles, and instructional coaches. Okay. And this isn't used for evaluation or anything like that. It's just our own. No, it's just a review of the annual target. Yes. So that I could see why now she's saying don't change them and don't lower them because we're still

145setting the bar high and kind of pushing. It's like the basketball game that we talked about, you know, first quarter we got to have this many points and okay, you know what? Let's have a little bit less points. We're still going to win the game, but we don't need as many points, right? It just kind of But I understand also. So our our biggest goal, right, is to always do better than the previous year, right? Difficult to know, right? Every cohort is different. But we know and we studied the data of that cohort from the previous year. And what is it that we need to do to meet or get close to that target, right? Again, do want to commend the principles and and their teachers because it's tremendous, right? to say we're at that

14650% or close to 50% of the population in third grade at the meets plus it's it's very good right it's very right no it's great performance right so and and um so moving moving on to math where the same things right our students are below our goal of that 50% again at that meet right even though we surpassed the state our third graders are at 45 so what additional resources will we put in place again I believe that the the strong foundations the lasso grant what you know what we got awarded and hope to be awarded. Um just the support from region one and what we will be learning you know by them modeling and so on and then mimicking that across all content areas I think will strengthen all of our scores. So um

147that is one thing we will be monitoring. And then I know um uh there were other questions. What is the district planning to do right to make sure that all teachers receive grade level appropriate training so they are fully prepared for blue bonnet right for the math curriculum administrators instructional coaches or AP's central office is going through training right now so that by the time teachers come they have a better understanding of their newly adopted curriculum and can better support do learning walks right and be on the same page but also value the time needed for planning and resources for teachers right and then teachers will receive that extra uh PLC time or PD time every six weeks, right? So, one of the biggest things we know growing pains with a new curriculum. Well, now

148I have a new curriculum, but would I use work, right? And and that's going to be a challenge for teachers that their data worked, right? So, we're saying keep your best instructional practices, but adopt high quality instructional materials, right? So, um, with that being said, uh, PLC, strong PLC processes at all campuses, and that's going to be strongly monitored this coming year because we noticed that those campuses who had those strong PLC conversations and time, right? Not only first semester, but continued second semester had the greatest gains. And we want to be able to see that across our campus levels. Uh, tier 2 instruction. How can we make sure and ensure that um teachers right uh support and and are faithful to tier 2 instruction? So tier 2 instructional is to those targeted groups, right?

149And the teacher is the first line of defense for tier 2 instruction, right? So every six weeks or every report card progress report card, they have an opportunity or every time they assess, they have an opportunity to evaluate this data and act on the data right away. So we looked at grading guidelines as well. We looked at all of that during our leadership days and these are processes that are going to have to be highly monitored at the campus level, right? But through these systems, we believe um you know students and teachers will have the support and um we talked about professional development already. So kind of summarizing because some of the questions were the same as okay and again thank you board members for submitting the questions ahead of time. That way Mrs. Solano

150and the staff is well prepared and uh provides the information uh that we need. I have two questions. I didn't hear the answer and I really wanted to know. Can I can I ask him? I have them here. Yes. I I know I turned them in on Friday. I know it was you guys don't work on Friday, but um one of them that I was really interested in the collaboration and you you kind of spoke a little bit about the campuses collaborating, but I was told that the teachers are I guess maybe teachers I've talked to, they haven't been going to other campuses and observing that it's been kind of like central office coming in and observing. It's not the actual teachers going into classrooms and looking, you know, getting ideas. Are they going to

151be allowed to do that or have they not yet or So that's a conversation with region one that we had when we looked at our PDs, right? How can we structured them differently because obviously region one also has a support team, right? So campuses will be grouped together to come and collaborate with others, right? It won't be a campus PD or PLC. It will be an intra district in U with multiple campuses collaborating. So yes, we will be doing that this year. Just like that. Yes. and and campuses and you know principles correct me if I'm wrong. We've had some principles that have sent their teachers over to other campuses and you know and I'll speak right um I know Mrs. Garcia um shared at the beginning of the year I know um uh Rudy

152Selva or other principles have reached out what are your teachers doing right Kckler Held Miss Vander I know her doors have always been open to what are your teachers doing right I know through blended learning Mr. Amdall and Julie Kelly um travel with teachers to so that they can go look at other teachers, right? But that was a cohort of kinder teachers. Next year it's going to expand. And one of your questions was what are we going to do different to uh lessen that gap between kinder and first? Next year we're expanding to first and second. So that will be key differences right of now aligning everything else good practices to first and second. Okay, good to know. All right, Dr. behind me. Anybody uh even though we submitted, we might have another question or

153whatever. I guess just real quick on uh for the summer, you know, what what resources or you know, what what um are we offering parents, you know, so we can keep keep it going during the summer months, you know, some of the reading and and the math. What are we doing with that? Right. So, okay. So I know that um central office of coordinators had made available to campuses resources campus resources and I believe they're on the website under the academic portion of it. Um there's resources that you can look for online obviously too obviously our summer school program that is addressing the needs right of those students who um were identified right for support. uh ACE program also offers other experiences right to enhance right the learning as well but for our teachers Dr.

154Rodriguez as well I want to highlight uh being part of our curriculum writing committees that are taking place has been critical right because their firsthand experiencing the adoption materials looking at aligning all of the other resources that we invest in as well. So yeah, thank you. Good question. Just uh like like I mentioned before weeks ago, we know what we're dealing with. uh you know what the expectations are, you know, you have the support, just stay focused. You mentioned very very clearly what needs to be done and like Mr. Los Santos was trying to explain, you know, every student learns it differently. I was in it for a long time. So, I I I know that you you have to find a way to get to those students and and never give up on on

155what's going on. And I'm a firm believer in that. I know where you want to be, but to get there, you need to understand where you're going to start. You just can't continue because this person is doing this and this person is doing that. And then in terms of wanting to know what somebody else is doing, if we can't get our teachers to go to a campus and then make a program and take that program and present it to them over there. I mean, there are different ways to skin a cat, you know. So u again my whole thing is about the encouragement because I know what we're dealing with and it's not easy and the challenge is there but as long as we don't give up on our our children don't give up on

156ourselves and don't question yourself because it's very easy to do that sometimes when things don't work you start to wonder man what what am I doing wrong it's not that it's just that you have a a very very challenging situation and and um As long as you don't give up on those kids, we we give ourselves a chance and we give them a chance. So, just stay focused. Get rest this summer. You know what you need to do. Come back strong and and let's move forward. Thank you, coach. Go ahead. Mr. Castillo, I agree with coach. That that's a that's a great statement to the teachers and to the principles and stuff, but I have a question for you on the on the resources that we're getting. Yes. So, kind of piggybacking off of what

157Jackie uh mentioned earlier, uh looking at this first slide on the reading and the math I'm not too concerned about because we're switching we're switching curriculum already. Yes. So, we and there was you went 45 40 then 45 again. So, there is gain again. So, uh and so I'm excited to see what those scores look like uh next year once we start implementing that new curriculum and thank you to the principles for all that hard work that you're putting into. I know it's going to make a difference in those scores. Uh but with respect to RLA 202350 2024 51 2025 51 is and we're not switching curriculum. So if I may add Mr. Castillo um we didn't do both simultaneously because region one No, I get it. We've had this conversation before but we are

158reviewing it this year though. Okay. Mhm. So what are we going to do to make sure that we don't miss out on another year of fidelity do the current and through the curriculum writing that has happened this summer they have aligned they have put in place some of the suggestions or recommendations that region one has incorporated. We have um removed some resources that were not uh very supportive our our adoption or highquality instructional materials to better prepare us for this coming year and not create a gap an additional gap because I could imagine if we're like yeah we say resources resources but if we're flooding teachers with all this stuff they might get overwhelmed right right so yeah removing so kind of doing an audit or whatever making sure what actually works uh and then

159there was a a a statement that you made uh when you're talking about uh what works and what doesn't work on this. Mhm. And one one thing that you mentioned is campuses that did it that that stayed with fidelity that followed the data. Let's not give campuses an option. Let's just do it, right? You know, so that will change this coming year. Okay. All right. I'm sorry, Mr. Neto. I didn't submit my questions. I apologize. Uh what? And you're a great board president, but I did did not live up to my expectations. I'm sorry, sir. I know you work a lot so that's why I mentioned that earlier. Coach Sherna, I'm good. Oh, Mr. Los Santos. Um, yes, I know that the other uh earlier I was stunned I guess because I didn't have any

160questions after the superintendent report. So, I kind of was like, okay, I can't believe I don't have one. But great job everyone on what you've been doing all year and also closing out the year as well too. I mean, you have done a lot and it's been exceptional. But going back to like we're talking about correlations between the map and then star and I was just kind of looking at something and I'm curious like I know you're talking about all these things that we've been talking about every single meeting that you're doing the meetings and whatnot and everything but looking at your the geographical location I don't know the zoning by memory um but looking at the geographical locations of the campuses that that need improvement that are working to get there to hit their

161their go their own personal goals you can see a you can see a pattern on where they lie. Okay. And then those and it's in elementary and and I'm looking at it right now. I'm actually looking at this slide and then plus yours, right? And you can see the the performance the relative the the relation between the performance on MAP and their recent 2025 star. Mhm. And you see that also then trickle into secondary as well too. Okay. Yes sir. So my question is is that those campuses have different populations okay than your southside campuses. Okay. Okay. And sometimes they have additional maybe higher levels of bilingual, you know, uh, bilingual students and whatnot or whatever the case may be. Their demographics are different. So, have we looked at their demographics that they're dealing with

162and the the majority of demographics in those campuses that are in these two graphs that show that there's a need, right? That's what we're talking about. And two, how much staff development do you give them? When we're talking about resources, like I can give everybody a book, but everybody knows kind of like somebody said earlier, I think coach guar sharpening the sharpening that knife. How much staff development are we sending them off so that they can get help in these specialized areas rather than resources, software, things like that? I'm talking about I was I know I was a teacher and I know Jackie still a teacher and those that were in the classroom. When you go to staff development, it's like what a learning experience because you're learning from people from all over the valley

163when you go to these things. So, how much are they getting? How much staff devel staff development are they getting? How many times are their teachers actually going out that year and then dealing with these categories and elementary, middle school, and high? So I I'll I'll reference to your first question first on student populations, right? I know in one of our workshops I expressed to Dr. Sinto just that, right? You know, for campuses with different um uh special populations groups, whether it's higher or lower, right? Um how how do we measure them with the same goal? And his response to me was this is achievement not growth right and uh achievement is based on good instructional practices and that's what LSG strives to do right if good instructional practices work for all students right but

164with that being said right the support for professional development right at at each of the campuses because good instructional practices have to be very very strong especially for those populations as our students change and they're exposed exposed to things that we never were exposed to. It's like when I tell my kids, I remember a cassette tape, a CD, you know, we transition through these things. Some people remember the eight track and things like that. My uncles had those. Um, but kids in the classroom, the dynamics of education and the instruction changes as well and evolves, right? And so I think staff development, I'm not saying we're not doing it, but if if how much are we doing and and especially for those campuses um through through elementary, middle school. So I know I know our

165coordinators, Mr. The Los Santos have either face toface or virtual depending on the time of year, right? Second semester get hectic with assessment, but they have it on uh staff development or PD, you know, support on those essays or areas of challenges, right? In the core content areas. Um it was very internal, you're saying, right? It it's, you know, I know principles have that discretion to also send them to region one, right? When did you get funding for that? Right. Yes. Most definitely. And budget for that as well. and the coordinator's budget for that as well. If we can get a report maybe on how much how much they Yeah. Whe they did it internally or externally. That's fine. But I'm just curious. Yeah, because it's consist. It's a pattern. Yeah, definitely. Thanks. Thank you.

166All right, that's all right. You answered my two questions and then of course you provided here on the your slide the teacher training which is very important and the opportunity to collaborate among campuses. Again, that was one of the questions that I had asked and so you responded to that. Uh, any other questions? Mrs. Susa? No, but we're just talking about demographics and I've read a study, uh, it's the Iowa study about effective boards and I'm just going to read a little bit. It says the difference between effective boards and ineffective boards. Effective boards demonstrate uh, specific beliefs and practices that correlate with higher student achievement. No matter what demographics, no matter whether you're black, white, Latino, special ed, uh, you know, poverty, economically disadvantaged, effective boards set goals for everybody. They're the same. And

167ineffective boards, it's because they can't do it. And of course, it's hard, but we cannot lessen or we can't decrease the expectations that we have because it's important to keep those effective. I mean those those uh those goals for our kids no matter what and and it's it's a study. It's been proven with this Iowa study with what the difference between effective and ineffective boards are. So I just want us to keep that in mind as we make the decisions that you know we set expectations for ourselves as well as for the whole district. So it's just something to keep in mind. That's all. Good points. Uh Dr. He final questions. No sir. Mr. Ben Castillo. No sir. Final. Uh, Mr. Cochera. No, sir. And Mr. Mark. No. Great points. All right. All right. So,

168let's continue. Good. Uh, thank you, uh, Mr. Solano. Thank you, sir. So, now we go to superintendent constraints and constraint progress measures 4.1. That's the budget workshop which you did, right? Mr. Doto did. Yes. Okay. So, now we go to board self evaluation, correct? Mhm. All right. So, I have it here. And so, uh, I I, uh, I thank the board for providing those, uh, uh, response during the week. And so, we I'm going to go over them so that way we know exactly where we are and we know exactly where we need to go so that way we can get up to the mastery level uh, by next year. So, the first one, vision and goals. Uh the board has adopted student outcome goals and we had a a score of a 12 and

169I utilize all the scores from all the board members because on the 12 all board members and the superintendent agree that the student outcome goals will challenge the organization. Yes. Rec require adult behavior change? Yes. Are influential by the superintendent? Yes. Are the superintendent's first priority? Yes. And then the last one, the board relied on a ruth cost analysis, comprehensive student needs assessment or a similar researchbased tool to inform the identification and prioritation of all student outcome goals. So that was the 12. Now in order to get a masters, we need to work on those. And here are some of the ones for masters. Uh all board members and superintendent, all eight of us have committed the vision and student outcome goals to memory. No, we haven't yet cuz I haven't even done that yet.

170Okay. know the current status of each student outcome goal? No, I don't think so. I agree that there is broad community ownership. That's an area that we're going to have to work on. And uh like I mentioned before at one of the other board meetings, maybe in August when uh uh principles have meet the teacher, maybe you can uh allow us a few minutes and we'll see I'll talk to the other board members. So who can attend that evening because I think none of you work in the evening, right? Except for Mr. Castillo. Uh that way you can provide us just a few minutes and we can start presenting a little bit you know to the parents uh if the principles allow us to. That way we can reach the mastery level. So on uh

171on one it was a 12. On two the board has adopted goal progress measures aligned to each student outcome goal. And again on that one uh at 12 as I received the scores from uh the board members all board members and the superintendent agreed that the GPMS will organ will challenge the organization. Yes. Require adult behavior change. Yes. Are influential by the superintendent? Yes. Are all predicted of the respective student outcome goals? Yes. Now in order to reach uh mastery again we have to provide information to the community. We're not there yet, but we'll eventually get to that. On vision and goals three, the board has adopted uh constraints, which we have and on the major majority of the board uh rated a nine. Uh the board has adopted one to five uh board self-

172constraints. We have the board where appropriate relied on a ruth cost analysis, comprehensive student needs assessment or similar researchbased tool to inform the identification. Yes. All board members and the superintendent agree that the constraints will challenge the organization. Yes. In order to re uh go to masters also the community ownership is very important. That's something that we're going to have to move forward and hopefully by then uh we can get get to attend. Under the board has adopted superintendent constraint progress measures uh CPMs and this one we rated it an average of a four. The majority of the board members here some of the all board members of the superintendent agree that the superintendent CPMs will challenge the organization. Yes. Will challenge the organization to uphold community values are all predictive of the respective constraint

173and are influential by the superintendent. Yes. Again mastery level we have to involve the community and that's something that we'll work on uh later on uh this coming year on progress and accountability week one. Um the average was a 12. 25% or more of the total quarterly minutes and board authorized public meetings were invested in student in improving student outcomes which we did it was 26%. You know I don't know about this time I think this time will be a little bit higher but the last time was 26%. So we're there mastery level we have to be at 50%. So that's uh difficult but not impossible to attain uh with time under and just to remind everybody special board meetings, workshops, they all count towards those minutes. So every time that we have those, you

174know, workshop, insurance workshop or budget, it does take away. Yes. So it does correct. I only ask questions on the scores during the superintendent report on purpose, but that doesn't count as LSG. Ask them during the LSG time. Right. Dang it. All right. And then uh should ask all my questions there. Progress and accountability too. The board evaluates but does not interfere with progress towards student outcomes. Uh we we rated it as a four uh the majority of us and it was the board receives at least annually annually a report on the average co average cost of staff uh time spent on governance. And one quarter ago, the board performed a self-evaluation which we did and voted to approve the quarterly progress tracker which we have. I have an a there because there is a

175staff use tracker that we have not used. Oh, it's it's that we have the time use tracker that uh tells us how many minutes are spent on each vision and goals and you know the pillars but we have not used the staff use tracker which is a whole different document. Yeah. And I think I believe Dr. Into was going to train us. He hasn't trained us, the officers to actually uh do that. Yes. And we do not get an annual report of the average cost of staff time spent on governance. We have never gotten a report for that. Okay. So, I don't think we should get four points there. Okay. The majority of the board said four, so that's why I used a four. I don't I think you put a one on that one.

176I put a two because because we of this staff use tractor that we're not using. Okay. All right. Good point there. All right. So, we continue to uh 26 minutes. All right. Uh the board evaluates but does not interfere with progress towards student improvement outcomes. The board receives Oh, that's the one that I just covered. Correct. Yeah, that's the one. Okay. So, now we go to the board operates in a way that allows the superintendent to accomplish the vision. Uh that one we're at a four and uh because on meetat's focus board authorized public meetings in the last quarter did not exceed an hour an average of four meetings per month. We did I think I believe in that part. An average of three hours per meeting approximately. It's going to be pretty kind of

177close. An average of five other topics per meeting. And most of you responded, you know, uh that we were meeting those. Okay. The board says review it it is its existing local policies. That's something we have to work on. So that's why we didn't get that 12 and only adopted local policies pertaining to board work. And so the average was a four uh for this particular uh framework. All right. So we continue on with the board pro promotes division. Uh this one again uh we scored a three. We need to follow up on this because we haven't led or co-led at least one training for Longstar governance for the community which we'll have to do in August. I know we mentioned that you and I talked to students at Westco East, but we need to

178do it with the community, right? Uh and so we'll work with that uh in in in August. All right. And in order to get a master's, uh there has to be two-way communication with students, which that's something that I'm going to uh begin this uh coming year. I already spoke to Dr. said about uh having two students from each campus uh to meet here at central office for the first meeting. I'll meet four times during the year with them and uh find out things about the school, what do we what they need so they can improve uh things like that. So principles uh Dr. will meet with you in August and provide you the criteria uh how to select those two students and from what grade level and so forth. Okay. And we the board

179will be here with you if Yes. Whoever can. Whoever can. Okay. You know, as long as not more than three. Okay. So, when I'll I'll get those uh dates and then provide the information. All right. Okay. Uh All right. Let's continue to the board uh works with the superintendent to lead towards the vision. And here again, we're at a three. Uh the board maintains an average attendance of 80% or higher which we have. Agrees that all members have uh followed all policy governing boarding procedures. I believe we have agrees that every member has completed all required trainings. We haven't done that yet. Correct. And rather than the superintendent uh let the completion of the old uh lonear governance uh task. So we're you know uh we're getting there. In order to get mastery, uh, all

180board members and the superintendent have completed the longar governance, which we haven't. Agree that all board members, uh, adopted board constraints, which we have, and agree that no board member has given advice or instructions to staff members during the previous three months. I don't know if we have or not, but uh, we we rated it at a three. So, uh, as I went through them, uh, final score and I was the last time that I I rated it, I rated it high, but as I read through it this time, I said, you know what? No, we're not we're not meeting those uh particular objectives. So, the majority of you had 63, 64, 65. So, our average score is going to be 63. So, you know, uh uh so hopefully with uh this coming year, we'll

181improve uh a little bit on meats or or to masters. So, uh any other questions here, Miss Jackie? No, just about that staff use tracker if we can start doing something with that once once Dr. Ramos uh trains us on how to how to do that. Okay. Coach Qu. Okay, Mr. Ben Castillo. No, sir. Coach, just on the when meeting with a community or students, maybe we could split up and Yes. Yes, you know, some of us may do community, others may do. That's, you know, uh that's the plan and especially because like I said, it's in the evening. So, in August, you know, two can go to one school, two can go to another schools, whatever, you know, and just present. And what I'll do, I have the time to pro uh a little

182presentation and then we just follow uh uh that presentation or I guess maybe Mrs. Tike myself because Mait has done LSG before, right? We can sit together and kind of work a presentation. And how would we keep track of that? Do we set up a time? Do we set up an agenda? Do we set Yes, we'll have the agenda and so forth. So that way and we'll uh put the time there of how long you present it. So that was that way they'll give us the minutes uh for what we need for LSG. Okay. Okay. Uh Mr. Los Santos. No, no questions. Okay. So I'm going to pass this around so you can uh sign it and uh we'll continue to get better uh in this area. Dr. Anything else on on the LSG? Good.

183All right. So, let's continue. 8A1 discussion and possible action for the board of trustees to consider approval of the long lonear governance board management report for June 2025. Make a motion to approve. I'll second. So, we have a motion by Mr. Castillo, second by Mrs. Susta to approve uh the Longar governance monitoring report for June 2025th. Any uh discussion? All right. All in favor, please say I. I. I. I. All against. Motion carries. 882. Approval to amend the LSGO progress measures and the board monitoring calendar effective 2025 22 2026 school year. Dr. recommend approval. Well, they're yours. So, I'll make a motion to approve. I have a motion by Mr. Castile. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Los Santos. All in favor, please say I. I. All against. No. I just want to

184I would have rather kept it the same and kept those expectations. So, I'm going to go against this one. Okay. All right. Let's continue. Uh, number nine, Wesco is the internal training auditing presentation. I know some of the board members had asked uh had questions on on this one. Uh so uh we have three to present. Thank you. Good evening board members Dr. Vera and members of our um community. My name is Rose and I'm the internal auditor for Wico ISD. And this evening we're going to be just briefly going over a presentation that talks about the functionality of an internal audit audit. Um also we're going to go over the role of an internal auditor and then also the role of the board with regards to the same. So the first slide that we

185see here we have um the slide that covers the governance regarding uh an internal auditor. It makes reference to it makes reference to board uh board policy and also the Texas education code. Um both um the board policy and Texas education code um say highlight the fact that the internal auditor does report directly to the to the school board and we'll see how this is important as the presentation progresses. The next slide uh makes mention of the primary purpose of an internal auditor. Uh the internal auditor is responsible for planning, directing, implementing and implementing the district's internal audit function. Uh the internal auditor is also um carries the role to ensure compliance with accountability standards, laws, regulations and policies. Also um the internal auditor provides independent and objective um appraisals of financial data processing and

186other relevant matters within the district. So now that we know what an internal auditor's purpose is, we go on to uh describing what an an internal audit is. And this slide makes Nick mention um that an internal audit is a process that looks at an organization's operations. In this case, the organization being the school district. The second bullet point says it identifies potential areas of risk. And the third bullet point says it makes recommendations for mitigation for mitigating those risks from in independent lens and the key word there being independent. Do we go on to the next slide? This slide asks the question, what is the school board's role in a district internal audit? So, this information is coming directly from uh the Texas Association of School Boards known as TASBY, its acronym. And the

187first bullet point uh mentions that an internal audit um may uncover districts weak spots but their true value but I mean I'm sorry that there's true value and uh it demonstrates to the community that the school board is fulfilling its oversight function by enlisting uh independent and objective assessment of all school system operations and programs and identifying opportunities for improvement. The second point that it highlights is that um the school board um according to TASBY an internal audit uh it it has an effective internal okay an effective internal audit can also pro protect school board members and administrators by addressing issues before they actually become headlines. All school district internal audits begin and end with a board which both initiates internal audits and reviews the results. And then the fourth bullet point says an internal

188audit is a way for school boards to effectively execute their oversight um responsibilities through independ an independent and objective lens. And those are the key words again independent and objective. So what is the difference between an external audit and an internal audit? The first bullet point says an internal audit is uh designed to investigate the processes and systems of a district. While an external financial audit tells you if your financial statements are accurate, an internal audit tells you if your the processes and systems are working as they should be. An internal audit looks beyond the district's finances. It looks to the district's operations. Essentially, it looks into the guts of the school district with a higher level of rigor and scrutiny than an external audit. An internal audit takes a more holistic look at the

189many facets of a district's operations. These areas can include every aspect of a school system including uh instructional programs. Areas that are higher on the list are those that have the higher risk um to an organization in this case to the school district. So the next slide says u what should be included in an internal audit? One common misconception, this again is all coming from TASBY, is that an internal audit should focus primarily on school activity funds. School activity funds make up less than 1% of a district's operating budget. In some internal audit functions, the other 99% is largely ignored. Those being academic evaluations, operational evaluations, administrative evaluations. Determining what to audit can vary from district to district. It gen it's generally driven by risks um but by what risks have been identified in a

190district. This risks include regulatory non-compliance not achieving objectives and being ine uh inefficient among others. Uh the next slide highlights um that internal audits hold the district accountable and promote transparency. Uh it demonstrates commitment to continuous improvement. Transparency is uh reinforced with uh internal audits. It provides district with an outside independent third-party assessment of the district's procedures and operational policies. And we see the word again there independent. Um it is another accountability measure that helps the superintendent, the school board and the community know that the district is doing things the right way. So then what happens after an internal audit a audit has been effectuated? The following slide says that following up on an internal audit and and tracking the progress is incredibly important. um there has to be follow-up work that um gets effectuated

191after an internal audit is done. You don't get the full value of an internal audit unless you do something with it. The next step is to put processes in place to track the progress of implementing any changes recommended in the internal audit report. Tracking the imple implementation increases the accountability of uh an organization. Boards can even call for a follow-up audit and report back to the board audit committee within a agreed upon timeline. From initiating an audit to overseeing the audit process to monitoring an audit's results and imple implementation, it is the board's role to manage the internal audit function. Despite the work it requires, internal audits are not only worthwhile, but it's also essential to the governance process. And then lastly, the last slide talks about the ultimate goal. Um, why we have to

192embrace an internal audit and their internal auditor. The ultimate goal is placing processes and systems in place that make the school business more efficient and effective for children and that's what it's all about. Thank you. Um, any questions? I'll start with Mr. Los Santos on on the audit. Any particular questions at this time? No, I think that you answered everything. I mean, the internal auditor in in summary is just someone who can audit not only financials but district operations as well as long as it involves anything involving with policy and whatnot. That's correct. Okay, coach. No, Mr. Castillo, just a comment. Can you review the board policies of Fort Worth, Dallas, maybe even Houston, uh, and El Paso who all have like established internal auditors and see what kind of processes they have in place

193for the board to oversee the internal auditor? I will. I know the one from Fort Worth, they have a committee that's created by the board and the internal auditor. They have an audit committee meeting and that's where all those presentations are done and they even evaluate the internal auditor. Right. That is correct. There's other folks that do it differently, but if you could bring something that works for us here in Wesley Co. That'd be great as we as we get into this internal auditor prog process. I will do that. Mr. Los Santos, I do have a question. So, like he said, like Trusty Castillo said, I agree with that 100%. Like you of course look at other districts already have this in place, but what processes I guess my question now that he kind of

194struck something is what processes do we have in place to where you just don't go off on audits? Like, you know, you're not getting emailed consistently by like seven different people at the same time saying, "Hey, I want a full audit on this, this, this, this, and this." like what type of limitations are there? Is it a board approved process or is it just anybody can pick up the phone and say I want an audit on this, I want an audit on that. You talked about evaluations uh staff evaluations, hiring processes, things like that. What kind of controls are there so that the audit the internal auditor doesn't become kind of weaponized in a sense? So um in in reference to that in looking at other districts um for example our neighboring districts one being

195Macallen um having communication with the internal auditor there they do have uh an a um an audit uh committee that consists of three board members. the superintendent, the deputy superintendent or whatever would be equivalent to to them at their district and then the auditor and then that committee uh then um sets forth whatever uh plan they want to see um get effectuated throughout the school year depending on the request from a board member whether it's appropriate or not appropriate things like that. Yes. And then uh depending on whatever happens occurrences during the year uh if there's something that needs to be audited something that was an unforeseen occurrence then the direction will go there and um but there is an internal audit plan process. Yes. Thank you. Thank you trust. Thank you. Uh no Dr.

196Thank you. Uh Mr. Yes. as you were reading this because I remember looking at this policy and our policy uh when I was taking a class on on board policy and when we hired you I remember thinking oh okay well we get to pick the auditor but I guess it was kind of like you know g we left it up to the superintendent we all agreed with him whoever you recommend we're good with but as you're reading this and it says the board of trustees shall select or the internal archer shall report directly to the board then I was thinking wait we've never really she hasn't directly reported to us because obviously then I was thinking wait is she a full-time full time employee or does she work here? Sometimes whenever an audit is done,

197but you're a full-time employee, right? You do work for the district. And so I I I was kind of I'm glad you said you showed us this because I wasn't sure how it worked. All I know is what you read because that's what our policy states exactly what what was um put here. So I'm glad Mr. Castillo brought up the Fort Worth policy and Mr. Deos Santos because we do want to have more of an operating procedure of how is this going to work and not just be throwing out do this and do that. It wouldn't make sense. So I I agree that we should kind of, you know, add that to I don't I didn't know what policy it was. I was looking for it right now, but there is one about the internal

198auditor so we can go back and change that local policy to have some kind of operating procedure. But thank you very much for all you're doing. Appreciate it. You're welcome. You brought it up a while back. I did. Yeah. But I wasn't sure. So I'm glad that you know the local policy is what the board can uh work on as a board. So we can set up those procedures. Good points. Now I have one one question. What would be a a an example of a administrative evaluation audit? What what would that entail? Like I know I know they do the principles do evaluations or or superintendent evaluations for that. What would what would be a sample an example of that? So I think it really depends on what the audit committee wants to see. Um

199it could be it it just varies. It could be any number. You know the only way that I think it would be if if say you as an administrator or even as a teacher when you get evaluated and you don't agree with the evaluation you have certain number of days to request another evaluation. So uh I guess it all depends on on on situations I guess right right on a case by case and whatever it is that the board wants to see back to that. Yes. Okay. like if I could chime in on that. That was my question too. When I got I caught on like I start looking at the details the act that like the evaluations. I mean I I just don't think it's the board's role to to go and contest unless

200there's some outcry or it's part of a grievance maybe. Exactly. saying, "Hey, this this administrator is is not properly evaluating everyone." Because that even happens, I mean, even in the military, right? So, you would be able to then say, I would see the board then saying, "Well, you know what? Let's let's evaluate then those individuals evaluations because there's multiple grievances or issues or cases, but not that was my kind of question. What what are the limitations where I just say, well, I want to see the I want you to audit the evaluations of so- and so like for no reason whatsoever." Yeah. It would be more the auditing of the evaluation process, the processes. It would be internal controls, processes, and so forth. Yeah, good point. Good point, Dr. Hime. All right. Any other questions?

201So, right now we're working whatever Dr. Viva is telling you like, you know, work on this. That's what you're doing right now, right? Like, yes, it is. Now, let's now uh since we're all seven here, unless you have a concern or something, you can ask me and then I can direct Dr. A or I can call her and say whatever the question might be you know dealing with maybe you you had some cons like say student activity prime example if somebody says hey you know at this campus the student activity they're doing it this way this way this way whatever I don't think that's the right process then you couldn't ask me and I could ask her can you do an audit on that because it's student activity right so it all depends on on

202whatever the question might be you have the authority yourself as board president to ask her okay Okay. Yeah. Until we do the committees. Yeah. I think we have a committee made up of of uh three individuals that you know balanced, right? And then that way Yeah. For now. Yeah. For now. I don't expect to ask for anything. Maybe we can have that agenda item in the next time we meet to kind of have a in August. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And follow up with Dr. And may I say one one more thing? Um Yes, ma'am. With respect to the fact that this is the first year, the full year of this full school year is what I'm making reference to. Um I I think it would be probably uh prudent to approach the school year in

203phases just refining uh manuals, refine refining processes, internal controls and start uh sharpening the saw to use the same uh um analogy that you used earlier. Um and before we start dissect dissecting everything and auditing you know whatever is coming our way just refining and uh really polishing everything. Okay. Thank you. Anything else I've driven on that? All right. Let's continue. Thank you Mrs. Uh we go to item uh 10 consent items. I'll give you a minute. I know some of you have already looked through the consent agenda items. uh and then we'll discuss whichever ones you all want to pull from the consent items. So let's start with Mrs. Susa. No, I'm good. Okay. Dr. Hman, no sir. Uh coach, I have none. You have none. Okay. Mr. Castillo, I have one, sir. 10J7A.

20410J7A. Okay, Mr. Cernna. No. No. Okay. Mr. Los Santos. Uh, no. All right. So, do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda except for 10J7A? Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by U. Dr. Hus, second by Coach Qua to approve the consent agenda except for 10J7. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Okay. Let's go to uh 10 J7 uh A. Approval of proposal award of the West Co School District Student Athletic and Exit Excident Insurance RFP 25554. Dr. Or if I could ask my question or Mr. Castillo. So, uh Mr. Thank you for allowing me to pull this out. Uh and I had given you a heads up before that I was going to pull it out just so blindside you or Dr. Divera. Uh so

205yeah, I mean I see the top three uh rankings. The third one is our current incumbent. Uh the second one is a former incumbent and the first ranked is a brand new uh you know somebody who's never worked with West LaquaD and they've been uh they've been doing they've been in the student athletic insurance business per se for the last two years. So that's only my that's my only concern that the it seems like and this is not a bad thing right that we're recommending based on price uh but last year when I had this conversation it's a very good observation I want to make sure staff is aware uh of what they're recommending. Yes sir. And so uh quality over so I believe we have uh coach Stman you're in the committee correct? Uh

206who else was on the committee? Mr. Freddie Brown. Okay. So, uh, Coach Strowman and, uh, Freddy, come up to the podium so that way, uh, anybody has any questions they can ask. And we'll start with, of course, Mr. Castillo since you, uh, pulled that item up. Yeah. So, I guess would we be okay with number two? Actually, all three are good, right? We The only difference was going to be the cost and the the locked in cost for the second year that we had with the insurance. Well, when you're a new company, you're pretty aggressive on price. I mean, I could tell you that as a vendor. Oh, just to clarify, Mr. Castile, the years of service, uh, they said in their RFP, they've been in business for 34 years. Yeah, they have. So, I

207know these folks. It's two folks, right? It's a sponsor and then some other local person. And so, they've been in the prevention of accident insurance for or not insurance, but prevention of accident for 30 plus years, but student athletic insurance, it's it's been pretty recent for two years. Uh so they I can tell you that they have at least from the RFP answers 2003 school districts that they're currently working with to provide this insurance benefit. How many in the valley? Six in the valley. And the second rank 10 in the valley. Four more. Four more. Okay. Which one is the second ranked? Is it the uh SIP? Sip. So that's just my only concern. I would me I statement I would like to go with the second ranked uh just because they have a a

208proven track history with the district if we're not going to go with the incumbent. And so that's that's just my opinion. What's going back to I'm sorry going back to answer your question. Right. All three you know we've been happy. Well the two previous we've been happy with. So we have two right now. Number two. The ones doing the work right now is number two. No three. No number three. Number three. Number two before. Yes sir we have. What's the difference in the cost document from first to two I believe was 16,000. Yeah. Yes sir. And over two years because we have a rate guarantee that's 32,000 correct if we go with uh the highest ranked by committee. Correct. Um on top of that we have uh no rate guarantee with our number two ranked

209and they've told us that it won't go any higher than 3.5 the first renewal and up to 5%. So really the savings if we go with the the top ranked is between 32 over two years to $42,000 in savings because we have that rate guarantee. Right. And everything else um to use your term sir is the Cadillac plan. Uh we want to make sure that our students are going to be taken care of that our parents are going to be taken care of and also the providers that work with those families and work with the students that might get injured are being taken care of. That's what I was going to, you know, go back to. You know, Tony, you Gary, you're the ones that are on the on on the field working with with

210those youngsters and and having to deal with uh with injuries and anytime we have ACL's or anything like that. So, we're going to be taken care of with that. We don't have to worry about u not paying, not taking care of our young because that's that's my primary concern. Districts that have that policy and carry the other policies. We checked all three of them out and they all came back with positive reviews and and that's the questions we asked like are your doctors paid? Are your are your are your benefits paid out? Uh zero balanced budget. How does all that work? And everything came back good. We don't have any issues with any any one of them. Um the plan that we carry here at West ISD is probably one of the best plans that

211we have in regards to benefits. So all three of them are going to be giving out the same benefits. It just all came down to cost. And at the end of the day, we want what's best for our parents. We want what's best for our kids. That's what I want. You know, that's and um it takes a lot of work as the trainers to be able to build that network, the relationship. We're the ones that call the doctors. We're the ones that call the parents. We're the ones that call the physicians to make it work, you know. So either one of those companies, we can make it work, but it's going to come down to the cost. So whether it's the highest cost, the middle cost, or who we have, it's going to come down

212to us to make it work. And I I don't think in regards to which company it is, it it's going to come down to us to make it work. Forget the cost. Who's going to give us the best service? In my opinion, I would stay if it's not going to come with cost, I'd stay with who we have. In in my opinion, I think at the end of the day, at the end of the day, I'd say who we have. Who is we have right now? The third third rank. Okay. They're proven record. They've been with us for 10 years. I've been here six. Um, that's my professional opinion. It's not going to come down to my question. You said 10 versus six, right? 10 and you said the other P. Can you tell me

213just based on the size of the district and can you tell me what 10 the other SIP has in six that the the cover game has just to rank to cover game has Har is similar to what we do, right? And and but do you have like can you like tell me so I can hear them all like do you have them there on the Well, did I know it's hard in LA? Um, we don't have all of them per se, but I can tell you a couple that were brought up. Um, I'll have to look. I think like I know they're up in Judson also. Southwest uh, ISD in San Antonio Refu. That's coverg. So, we have no issues with them. What about SIP? Who does SIP have that 10 here in the valley?

214SIP has Bronzo. Bronzo. Bronzo. Sherland. Sherry. Yes. And I believe Mercedes. Mercedes. Yes. I think I like for me as far as I would rather like student safety being the priority and the key and service that you know that's already tried and true. We've used Sery before and I and I think we're like we're going to be going to two companies we were with who we don't have a track record in. So which which company are you recommending? the one that we're currently with if it has no issue with money with who we have right now. And who was that? Did you say the student insurance and coach Brown and Coach Roman? You're okay with that part of the committee? Hey, cuz you know you you know that you got work to do. But you

215depend on these men right here. Freddy, you you have to deal with everything, too. Okay. Why do we want to fix something that ain't broke? That's my thing. Why do we want to fix something that ain't broke? I'll second it. No, they're they're they're recommending um Oh, they said our insurance incub our our current Texas insurance is that money wasn't enough. He said either one. But we've also done work with number two. We've also done with number two also before. Okay. So currently we have who? The third rank Texas Insurance Plan which they were kind of way out of the number three. They're the most expensive one. Yes. Okay. So I'm trying to get the middle. This is the middle because we've already used it before. is tried and true and we still a cost

216savings and sometimes I'm thinking like HVAC is loving you're right you're right so uh thank you gentlemen I think that's question so I make the motion for sips sir second second so we have a motion by Mr. Castillo second by Mr. Los Santos to go with the sips sips with who we have currently. No, sir. Yes, we've used them before and they're in the middle. So, we're still saving money. Yes, we've had somebody we've used. Well, I don't I I don't want to compromise compromise student safety and Well, they recommended it, too. Okay. So, we have they recommended we have as well. We have a motion on the floor. Uh any other discussion? All right. All in favor, please say I. I. I All oppose. Motion carries. All right, let's continue. Uh 11A discussion items,

217update on trainings, conferences, events, and consider future agenda item request by the board of trustees. Dr. Yes. No meeting in July, but we'll have a special meeting if something comes up. Okay. Sometime during July. Right now, right now there's no schedule meeting. So, Mr. Los Santos, no. Uh, I know you had brought this up the to have a July board meeting, but we have to have one. No, I don't think we need one right now. Okay. He says we don't need one. Yeah. But in case we need it, probably lunch. Okay. All right. If something Yeah. something comes up. Okay. Number 12. Discussion and possible action. Uh discussion is possible action for the board to endorse the nominated individual from another school board within our TASB district to fill a position on the TASBY board

218of directors position B. I think the name Sanchez itself the name that came out was Senior Sanchez. Yeah, Senior Sanchez recommend. Okay. Yeah, I'll second that. So, we have a motion from Coach Quay and a second by Mrs. Susta uh to recommend uh Dr. Dr. Sylvia Sanchez, correct? GarcA. Yes. For Dr. Sylvia Sanchez, GarcA, Tasby, Region One, South Texas ISD. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. All oppose. Motion carries. All right, let's continue. 12B. Discussing possible action for the board of trustees to approve the final amended budgets for the general fund and the debt debt fund service fund for the fiscal year 2425. Is that correct? Yes, Mr. David. Oh, okay. This is what y'all presented on, right? That's a public hear. Yes. That's the final amended budget though. I move to Sorry.

219This is amended the amendment. It's our last chance to make any moves of the current budget. So that that's the to kind of make ensure that we don't have any negatives. Okay. I'll move to approve. We have a motion. I have a second by Mr. Los Santos. Second by Mr. Los Santos. Any discussion? Just just to clarify just what you said, but so every can understand it's just Yeah. You're just going to move monies from a codes and then clear out negatives and then pour it all back into general fund and send back what we don't use if it needs to get sent back. And if we don't, the auditor will Yes. for it. That is correct. It it is one of the things that TEA and our ex external auditors look at. See? Okay.

220Did I hear you motion? Did I? Yes. Okay. So, we're good. Mhm. All right. Uh 12B2 discussion vote. We vote. Well, say that's what I asked. I said no. Motion. Weot. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. There we go. A brain freeze there real quick. Uh 12B2 discussion of possible action for the board of trustees to approve the adoption of the district general fund and debt service fund budget for the fiscal year 2526 to include the 2526 compensation plan. Dr. Mr. President Mr. If I could you include uh Dr. Vetta uh in that increase in the compensation plan for administrators. Yes. And so do you agree there'll be 4% like we did everybody else? Yeah, that's what that's what I would like for the motion to be to include him

221so we don't have to bring him back. Absolutely. Okay. So who made the motion? I did. Dr. Guo, we have a second. Yes. Second, Mr. Mr. Castillo, including the 4% uh for Dr. for Dr. You okay with that? Dr. Yes. Thank you guys. All right. [Applause] All right. Any other discussion? No. All right. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. All right. Motion carries. 12B3. Discussion. Also action for the board of trustees to consider approval to renew and extend the contract for ambulance services with first carry MS of Wesico or to approve a release for requ uh uh release a request for bids and proposals for ambulance services. Dr. I recommend to extend. So move second. So we have a motion by uh Mr. Benasillos, second by Mr. Los Santos. Uh any discussion?

222And it's one year. For one year for one more year, right? Okay. for one year. Any discussion? No. No. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. All right. Moving right along. We're close meetings. Personal matters. 13A1. Discussion regarding superintendent's recommendation of contracts for certified personnel, non-certified person, professional, and non-contractual personnel. 13A2. Discussion regarded regarding reassignments, reassignments, uh, retirements of a certified professional, non-certified professional, and non-contractual personnel. 1383. Discussion regarding superintendent's recommendation for the position of principal for Mary Hook Middle School and discussion regarding superintendent's recommendation for the position of principal for Rudy Silva. 13B uh consultation with attorney pending or contemplated litigation settlement offer or matter which the duty of the attorney of the West Independent School District under the Texas disciplinary rules uh professional conduct of the state board. I

223saw myself. Hey, can I finish? Carlos, can I finish? Thank you. And of course the board, too. I'm sorry. No problem. All right. Unless you know what? Next time I'm gonna have you all read it and I'm gonna walk out. Okay. No, I'm Okay. So, the discussion, consultation, the deliberation regarding waiver of attorney client communication privilege for limited purpose as is requested by Mrs. Jackie Susta. All right. It is 8:46 and we will go into executive session. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. All right. It is 9:27 and we recommend in open meeting possible action if necessary items discussing close meeting 148 discussions possible action regarding superintendent recommendation of contracts for certified professional non-certified professional and non-contractual prof uh personnel. Dr. Ia recommend approval. Motion approved. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Los Santos, second

224by coach to approve U. Can we do A1 and A2, Mr. Board President? All at once. Uh, resation of retirements. Yes, sir. Will you comb item? That's okay. Okay. Mark, Mr. Losto, is that okay? Yes, sir. And coach? Yes, sir. All right. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose? Motion carries. 1483. discussion of possible action regarding superintendent's recommendation for the position of principal for Mary Hope Middle School. Dr. Ietta. Yes, we had five very good applicants. They're all high quality, but I'm recommending Lisa Mccandas to be the principal at Mary Hulk. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Dr. Haime, second by Mr. Okay. Okay. Uh Mr. Los Santos. Uh any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. All right. Motion carries. You want to introduce Mr. Congratulations,

225Mr. Melis. Just like I did uh other board meetings, I'll start with Mr. Los Santos. Do you want to I don't know if you know her, but just to congratulate her. No, I don't know you, but I've heard a lot about you, especially from this man right here. No, but uh but um yeah, you come with a very good reputation and and I want to wish you the best of luck and and um especially a very successful uh 2526 school year for yourself, your staff, the students, and the parents here at Mary Hog. And I wish you all the best and I know you're going to do a great job. Yes, ma'am. Uh Coach, yes, Miss McCo and happy that you're in that position. Congratulations, Mr. Castillo. Same. I've I've never had the opportunity of

226meeting you, but you saw the data earlier and so let's let's get to work. And congratulations, Coach Kya. Congratulations. Thank you, uh, Dr. Same. Congratulations. Um, you know, well wishes and and, uh, like I said, uh, to Mr. Ornellas, you know, careful what you ask for, right? Good luck. Good luck, Mr. Mrs. Yes. Just like Mr. Castillo said, you know that we saw the scores earlier, so you know that you have a good work to do, but I'm sure uh you're going to do great. And I was just thinking right now, we have four middle schools and we have four female principles. So I'm like, yeah, leaders. So congratulations, ma'am. You know, the other ladies have done a great job also. So I I'm sure you will, too. Congratulations. And Mr. McCrell, congratulations. Just like

227everybody said, I had the opportunity to be there, Mary Hope. So uh uh a lot of those parents, a lot of those students were you know were there. So wish you nothing but the best. Thank you. Thank you Dr. for trusting me in this opportunity to serve. Um I want to assure you that all the decisions I make are always going to be in the best interest of students staff and especially district as well. So thank you so much. Good. And and and and again, you had good guidance there with Miss Morales there. Uh and of course, with all your your help and everybody else, hope they you all received an A. So, if you have any questions or anything, Miss Morales can guide you, especially now in the position that she's at. All right.

228Special place. Thank you. Uh 1484, discussion, possible action for superintendent's uh recommendation for the position of principal for Rudy Silva Elementary School. Dr. Yes. had four very good applicants. They're all good, but I'm recommending Claudia Martinez. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Los Santos, second by Mrs. Susita uh for the approval. Uh any discussion? All in favor, please say I. All oppose. Motion carries. You want to introduce you? Introduce her. And again, uh I'll ask Mr. Tecta, you any any congratulations? Yes, Miss Martinez is a familiar face to the board. I know she's presented to us before. She was in charge of the advanced academics and we know you've done a great job in your former position and you were already overseeing Silva. So, I know you're going to do a

229great job. I'm very excited for the staff and just wishing you the best. Yes, ma'am. Dr. Good luck and we're here to support you. Congratulations, Coach Guer. Exactly. you know, we're here to support and and congrats and for both we all enjoy the evening and and you know, you know what's ahead. So, uh, focus and I know you're going to use the summer to get ready for a lot of things, but take a little time to smell the roses, sharpen the saw, and let's get after it. Mr. Castile, same. Congratulations. Uh, again, you saw the data. There was increase, but you saw it. So, can't wait for y'all to get back to work and and continue that progress that's there. Congratulations, coach. Congratulations, Mr. Martinez. Best of luck. And we're here to support you, Mr.

230Los Santos. Congratulations, ma'am. And I know that that campus and those students and and staff and those parents and that that whole community as a whole is in great hands. So, I wish you all the best both of you. And again, congratulations again. I believe one of my grand nieces is there and she's very verbal. Uh, but she's she's uh I want to say she's a second grader maybe, but she says she'll tell you exactly what she needs or what she wants or what the students need. You know, that's the way she is. So anyway, all right. Congratulations again. Dr. Board of Trustees for um one putting me in this position to begin with. um was a wonderful reminder of my passion for being back on the campus and so I am so looking forward

231to this opportunity. We are on our way to a meeting. Thank you for your trust. Thank you. 1485 the discussion of possible action regarding waiver of attorney client communication privilege for limited purpose is requested by Mrs. Susa. Make a move. Go ahead. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second motion by as discussed second by Mr. Los Santos as discussed in close session for the limited purpose as discussed in close session. All right. Any any discussion? All in favor please say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Ajournment. Now you may stand. So,