001uh call this meeting to order at 6 pm and declare that we have a board forum present. The mission of Bransport ISD is to graduate each student to be future ready. Please staff our invocation to be led by Mr. Dunn and our pledges of allegiance led by Mr. Schultton. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, just uh thank you for beautiful day. Father, thank for the rain last night. And Lord, thank you for the men and women that worked so hard to get our power going back. Just pray that you bless them. And Father, we just thank you that we can be here tonight for our visitors, each family that's represented here tonight. Spread a blessing on them. Father, we're just thankful that we get to recognize the great things that our students and staff are accomplishing.
002Father, may the things said done here tonight just be your your honor and your glory for this we pray. Amen. Amen. 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. Honoriance to the Texas one state under God one and indivisible. All right. This time I'll ask questions. Good evening, Miss Pearson. Principal Pearson, I'd ask that you please come stand with next to Mr. Matthew, please. It is with great honor that I recognize Miss Pearson of TWW OG as the elementary principal of the [Applause] year. Miss Pearson is a proud VISD graduate and has dedicated over a decade to shaping young minds and driving academic excellence. Since stepping into the role at TWW AG
003in the 2022 2023 school year, she has transformed the campus with her innovative strategies and student centered approach. Known for fostering a culture of collaboration and lifelong learning, Miss Pearson ensures every child receives the support they need to thrive. Before leading TWW A, she taught at Clute Intermediate, served as an assistant principal there, and later took the role of dean of instruction at Grady Rasco Middle School. Her passion for education and commitment to student success continue to leave a lasting impact on the BISD community. Once again, congratulations, Miss Pearson, Elementary District Principal of the Year. And also I'd like to ask Principal Cheryl Roberts to please join Mr. Massie at the front. It is my pleasure to recognize Miss Cheryl Roberts as our secondary principal of the [Applause] year. Cheryl is a passionate advocate for
004student success. She has dedicated her career to shaping the future of education at Lake Jackson Intermediate School. Cheryl has served as LJI principal since 2023 and has empowered both students and teachers to reach their full potential. She is committed to excellence, forwardinking, and living out our vision of setting the standard for educational excellence. Her continued focus on building relationships within the community have made her a standout leader in BISD. With more than 20 years in public education, Principal Roberts began her journey in education at Best Brandon Elementary as a teacher, followed by roles as a campus assessment specialist, district coordinator of assessment and accountability and then an assistant principal at Brazeswood High School. In 2014, she advanced to associate principal at Brazeswood. Driven by an unwavering commitment to ex to education and a strong focus
005on empowering students, Principal Roberts continu continues to shape the future of BISD in a meaningful and lasting way. Congratulations, Principal Roberts, secondary principal of the year. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. One, two, three, and another. Anybody else? You're welcome. [Applause] Good evening. I'm here to present our spotlight educator award. The purpose of the BISD educator spotlight award is to recognize outstanding teachers across our district. These are teachers who go above and beyond for not only students but their co-workers as as well. When I call your name, if you could come stand next to Mr. Matthew. This month at Spotlight Educators for secondary is Michelle Hubble [Applause] from elementary is Jennifer Nicholas from OM Roberts [Applause] Elementary. Mr. Pebble is an eighth grade math and algebra 1 teacher
006at Freeport Intermediate. She's described as being a dedicated and tireless advocate for her students, staff, and the campus. As a math teacher, she goes above and beyond arriving early and staying late to deliver effective lessons and offers extra tutorials. She also supports the campus by preparing the weekly intervention draft, working all home games, and sponsoring NJHS and coaching athletics. Additionally, she serves as a team lead and mentor guiding fellow teachers with care. Parents have shared their appre appreciation for her commitment to providing rigor for her students and so they can excel. Mrs. Hubble's impact is invaluable and the campus would not be the same without her. Thank you. Mrs. Jennifer Nicholas, stream teacher from Owen Roberts Elementary, demonstrates exceptional dedication to student learning by creating a dynamic classroom environment that blends reading, math, art, science,
007and fun. She collaborates with grade level teachers to align stream lab lessons with current teaching classroom skills through engaging hands-on activities using Legos, bridge building, and science experiments. Her creative approach makes complex topics accessible and exciting, sparking curiosity and highlighting real world applications. With a passion for science, she integrates skills students will need in fifth grade, preparing them for future success. Mrs. Nicholas inspires students to explore careers in stream fields and fosters a lifelong love of learning. She's a true Robert's rocket. Thank you both. Congratulations. Thank you very much. One, two, three. Another one, two, three. [Applause] Good evening everyone. I'm Coach Zeller. It's always an exciting time to get to make it to the podium. That means we've had some state level qualifiers or or programs make the state level. And tonight we have
008three programs that we're going to se celebrate. So, good evening board of trustees, Mr. Massie, and our BIC community. Thank you for the opportunity to recognize and celebrate another outstanding group of athletes and their coaches. A special thank you to the parents and the fans for their support and energy at these as these student athletes competed throughout the year culminating at their respective UIL state championships. We're going to start this evening with the Brazesport exporter swim program. Uh head coach Adam Collins and then assistant coach Beatress Owens was unable to be here. The exporter swimming program has done it once again marking its third trip just in my time in the district. uh to this very meeting uh to be recognized for its state championship uh or state championship meet uh recognitions. Joining us this
009evening for her third time in a row, junior Sophie Stoers, returning to the podium this this year again after earning two medals in the 2023 and in 2024, Sophie once again competed in a highly competitive pool of athletes. She is the 2025 UIL 4A region 3 champion in the 100yard backstroke. She qualified for her third trip to the UIL state championships where she finished fifth in the state in the 100yard uh backstroke. In just three years of high school competition, Sophie has accumulated an impressive list of accomplishments. And here are a few. She's a three-time district and region champion in the 100yard backstroke, a three-time state qualifier, a Brazisport High School rec record holder in the 100 backstroke, the 100 butterfly, and the 500 freestyle. She's a 2025 TISA, which is the swim association academic
010allstate recipient, and she is currently ranked number one in her 2026 Berriesport High School graduating class. So, outstanding set of accomplishments so far, and we still have senior year to go. We're looking forward to a great senior year. Sophie Stoers and Coach Adam Collins. Congratulations. Congratulations. Well, or either one. One, two, three. Another two, three. [Applause] Okay, the next group that we will be recognizing this evening is our Brazeswood state qualifying powerlifters. The Brazeswood High School powerlifting team is coached by head coach Kirby Inennis and assistant coach Emily Robinson. This group put in tremendous a put in a tremendous amount of work in the weight room to prepare for their powerlifting competitions. Powerlifting is scored by the combined total of three lists or three lifts, sorry, the bench press, the squat, and the deadlift. The
011following athletes qualified for the state meet in Abalene just this past weekend. Junior Ethan Garza. Ethan finished top 10 in the 165 pound weight class at the regional meet with a total lift of 1,300 lb. That is the automatic state qualifying total. He was able to get a personal best of 500 lb on the squat and 330 lb on the bench. He lifted 470 lbs on the deadlift. Ethan gained valuable experience at the state meet and will no doubt continue to work and be back for his senior season. Congratulations, Ethan. Junior, Michael Squentes. Michael finished tied for third place in the 181B weight class at the regional meet with a total lift of 1,450 lbs. He lifted his personal best of 335 lbs on the bench. He lifted 540 lbs on the squat and 575
012lbs on the deadlift. Michael battled at the state meet, finishing the meet as the 24th place lifter in the 181 pound weight class across the state. Congratulations, [Applause] Michael. And then joining Michael, I recognize assistant coach Emily Robinson and head coach Kirby. Great job. [Applause] Make it look really small. All right. One, two, three. Another, two, three. [Applause] Okay. And our final group for the evening is our largest group and almost always is on our individual sports, our Brazwood wrestling team. Our wrestlers um are among the largest group to recognize this evening. Led by the coaches, head coach Curtis Roberts and Frank Sodto. This group of athletes grappled their way through the competition and I put 246A, but that is not right. 126A. Everybody else is 246A. um again in the region six championships or
013and again in the region six championships. These accomplishments earned the following wrestlers a trip to the UIL 6A state wrestling championships at the Berry Center in Scyfare ISD in February. So now we will recognize each of these qualifiers. First senior Karen Kim [Applause] Karen was the region three runner up in the 165 pound weight class which qualified her for the UIL state championships. Karen ended ended her high school wrestling career as a 6A UIL sixth place finisher in her weight class. She is a three-time state qualifier with a total of 107 career wins. Karen is the first Brazuswood ladybuck to break 100 wins. [Applause] Congratulations. Senior Lupita Gonzalez. Lupita earned her trip to the UIL State Championships by finishing fourth at the region 3 championships. Lupita battled the best of the best in the 152
014lb weight class in the state championships. She became the second Ladybug to surpass 100 career wins, finishing with a total of 103 career victories. Congratulations with the [Applause] pizza. Senior Michael Verrial. Michael was the 126A heavyweight wrestler of the year. He fought his way through the region three championship bracket, earning the title of region three runnerup and UIL state qualifier. Michael completes his high school career with a Brazwood high school record of 108 career pins. Congratulations, [Applause] Michael. Senior Aaron Raina. Aaron was the 126A lightweight wrestler of the year. He fought his way through the region three championship bracket in the 113 pound weight class, earning the title of region three runnerup and UIL state qualifier. He competed strongly at the state championships and earned this the distinction of the state's fifth place wrestler. Aaron
015completed his high school career with 165 wins and earned a total of 913 team points for the Bucks. [Applause] Congratulations. And then tonight, we want to recognize senior Aurelio Abara and junior Laney McDougall. Uh they also finished with strong 2025 seasons. Each of these athletes qualified for the regional championships and ultimately earned a spot as a state alternate uh after their regional competition. Congratulations Aurelio and Laney on your outstanding achievements and your successes to get to that [Applause] level. Coach Frank Sodto, assistant coach of the year. Coach Curtis Roberts, head coach of the year. Great work. Thank you. I struggle with You're good right there. Wherever you want to be. Y enough really stand, two, two, three. Anybody else? [Music] [Applause] Okay, that concludes our recognitions for tonight. Yes. At this time, in accordance with
016BED Local, the board will provide an audience with individuals who've signed up prior to the meeting to address the board. Tonight, we have one request um to speak to the board on an item that is not on our agenda. Um Mr. Dunn will be the time keeper. We'll have no more than have five minutes as we move forward. Uh Mr. did well. Be real brief. Just have a question. No, you can't answer them tonight, but somebody can get back to us. We'd like to know that if compat comparability rating is no longer a concern, then why are more staffing trucks being made? We understand about the sixth grade, but we don't understand about other staff. So, we'd like to know more about that. Thank you. All right. The next item on our agenda is the
017consent agenda. Are there any items requested to be pulled from the consent agenda? This time we'll allow allow public comment from individuals that have signed up prior to the meeting about the court. Anybody have that? Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Second motion by Mr. Dunn, second by Miss Quay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Okay. Under action items, our actions, our first item is waving tuition fee for non-resident transfer student for the 20 25 2026 school year. Mr. Whitehead, thank you. Good evening. In accordance with board policy, FDA local is my pleasure to present the recommendation to wave tuition fees for non-resident transfer students for the 2526 school year. Sections 2536 and 2538 of the Texas Education Code and Board Policy FDA provide guidelines for
018non-resident transfer students. Section 25.036 1036 states, "Any child may transfer annually from a child's school district of residence to another district in the state if both the receiving district and the applicant jointly approve and timely agree in writing to the transfer." And I did add a second bullet that the current practice currently taking place is that districts always agree to send but may not agree to receive. Additionally, section 41.124 of the code further states that the board of trustees of a school district with a wealth per student that exceeds the equalized wealth level may reduce the district's wealth per student by serving non-resident students who transfer to the district and are educated by the district but who are not charged tuition. And that's the reason why we do request that you wave the tuition fee.
019So, a little bit about our conditions of acceptance for non uh resident transfers. Non-resident transfer students must apply annually and meet the condition of acceptance into BISD. Those provisions are attendance meets the 90% threshold, attitude and behavior, parent cooperation, and students must participate in all state and local testing. All approved transfers are typic typically good for one school year and a renewal application must be submitted annually. However, if the criteria are not maintained, the campus principal may recommend the transfer be revoked at semester. Currently, the totals for the 2425 school year and and they do change throughout the year are at 253 out of district transfers, which is down approximately 8% and is reflective of our enrollment trends of all students in the district. We have denied 16 out of district transfers based on program
020capacity. One example would be life skills classrooms or pending discipline or attendance issues. Here you can see in the lefth hand column where uh where students transfer from. The majority of our students transfer in from Angleton and Columbia, Brazoria, followed by Sweeney and Danbury. On the right, you can see that we have students who transfer out of the district as well and where they are attending. Note the column in the right on the right is from 232 23 24 since it is a TEA lagging data indicator and the left hand column is current data 2425. So, it's a little bit apples to bananas. Sorry. Uh, there are some online programs that are based in districts throughout Texas. So, anyone participating in those programs, as noted in the bottom right, show transfers to the district associated
021with that online program. So, just a little additional information so that you can see how our campuses stack up. Uh in our Lake Jackson feeder pattern, preK through eight, you can see that Bidle has 31 transfers. Brandon has limited approval of transfers because they are full. They do have some continuers or some students who are grandfathered in. Roberts has 11, Rasco 20, uh LJI 15. So in that feeder pattern, there are 91 of our 253 counted students. Moving to the CL Richwood pre-K through eight feeder pattern. Uh Griffith has 16. Uh CIS has 19 a total of 68 students in our Clute Richwood feeder pattern. Oh, sorry I failed to mention across the top you can see where those students are coming from. Um CBISD, Angleton, Sweeney Alvin. We do have a few um hers
022and theirs from other districts. Sometimes that's associated with a parent who works for the district. Moving on to Brazeswood High School, we currently have 68 out of district transfers. 32 for Angleton, 25 Columbia, Missouri, and then a few others from similar districts you've seen on the charts. Moving into the Freeport prek through eight feeder pattern. As you can see there, we have a total of nine students transferred in. Uh it is a little further in travel of what we can include here. To get to Freeport, you have to pass through include Lake Jackson a lot of times. So we do have uh quite a few less as well as the total enrollment in Freeport as well. So nine total there, preK through eight. And then moving to finally Brazesport High School. We have 12 total
023out of district transfers. Five from Angleton, three from Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, and two from Sweeney. Um, also included in this uh BSA. We have five student transfers to in our BSA program. And then the bottom chart there kind of gives you just a little snapshot of the special programs that the students we have transferring. just additional data there. Um you can see at risk 80, GT41, we have a good representation our GT sped 30. So just a little additional information of special programs that of our of our 253 students, 242 of those students did meet one of the criteria for identification. A little extra the there is a current bill. Um there's a lot of language about parent choice and Senate Bill 12 does include a provision. It it's it's uh not yet approved, but
024it is uh outlined in Senate Bill 12. There's a provision for out of district transfers. Um this this bill does share the common criteria that pretty much everyone already uses. So parents do, if this bill were to pass, parents would have the option of sending their student to any school in the state as a transfer student. But the criteria outlined in this bill does say that unless it is full, the child has a history of criminal behavior or discipline problems. Um, that wouldn't really change anything for us because we still we do this already. It might change something for a district that does not allow any out of district transfer. So really no change to our current practice. With that being said, at this time the administration recommends that the board wave tuition fees for
025non-resident students for the 2526 school year. And I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Does that Senate bill does it wave fees automatically? Is there any word in it? I didn't see anything regarding waving the fees. No, it may may they may not have addressed it in the bill. I didn't see it in the bill. Yeah, I believe my understanding is it's written to not be able to allow districts to charge. Yeah. Which again wouldn't change our practice already. Yeah. Just wouldn't have this action. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Question from the audience. All right. No questions. Do I have a motion to approve? Yes. Mr. Shy, you have a motion by a second. Second from Mr. Dunn. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank
026you. Uh we have no items for the consent agenda. So we'll move into our reports. Uh first report, teacher incentive aotment update. Mrs. Neighbors, our chief human resources officer. All right. We have an update for our teacher incentive aotment. Um we got we received um approval for our new data set, our second round in February. As you know, TIA was developed. TIA was developed by TEA with the intention of creating a pathway to a larger salary for teachers so they can begin earning six figures. There's three levels of designations eligible eligible for teachers to earn. That's recognized, exemplary, and master. TEA funds this additional revenue. So when a teacher earns a designation, they're being paid by TEA. Our designated teachers will earn anywhere from an additional 4,000 to over 20,000. And we're proud to be
027one of the first districts in our surrounding area to be fully approved and have already had one successful payout this past August. A lotments are based on teacher designation level, the campus's economic um level, and campus rural status. Our goal is to be as inclusive as possible. All teachers have the ability to go through um the process of earning their national board certification. Um they're reimbursed for the cost of obtaining this certification and once received, they'll always hold a recognized designation status and earn the recognized level pay. Um our district local plan um we measure for designations um by including our teacher evaluation system at 30%. Our classroom student growth has is 60% and then teacher attendance is 10%. The top 30% of eligible teachers will be designated. says 30% has the ability to flex
028based on hard cut scores. So we can go a little lower or a little higher. The 23 24 submission included K through 12 reading teachers, first through 8th grade math, algebra 1 and algebra 2 teachers, geometry. All of these subjects include special education teachers and intervention teachers. Um, and then this data submission included fifth through eighth fifth through eighth grade science and biology. We're continuing to look for areas to expand. We're currently piloting a social studies screener and we're now looking at how to use the unique learning system as a student growth measure for life skills teachers. This program was approved to te by tea for TIA use and our district already utilizes it. As you know, our plan and data was fully approved in February of 2024. This is our third year in this
029process and our designated teachers received their first payouts in August of 2024. This is a cycling process and in October of 2024, we submitted our data with the proposed designations based on data from the 2324 school year. The data was analyzed and approved last month and we now preparing to communicate with our new and existing designated teachers and they will be finding out tomorrow. So um the teacher incentive aotment finance breakdown 90% of our designated 90% of a teacher's um funds that they generate goes directly to the teacher. 10% goes to the district and that helps us um pay for professional development, anything to do with our appraisal or evaluation system, um any kind of system we use for tracking appraisers, TIA support, our TIA lead, and assessments that we might use that can help
030pay for screeners. Last year, we anticipated to generate 1.2 million and generated almost 1.4 4 million in TIA funds. This year with new designations, existing designations, and teachers that came to the district designated, we're anticipated to generate approximately 1.9 million in TIA funds with 1.7 million going directly to designated teachers in August of 2025. Um, just a quick overview of how our data is viewed and what it's compared to. Um when we send it in, it goes to text tech for verification and they look at four domains. Um domain one is teacher observation in relation to student growth or observation scores and student growth aligned. Um student do domain B student growth and comparison to screener history. Domain C this looks at our our evaluation are our evaluations consistent across campus and district. And domain
031D, this compares our designation, designated teachers to STAR performance for the district. Just a little overview of T TIA by the numbers. We've been participating for three years now. 187 designated teachers will generate TIA funds as of this spring. Um we've distributed 1.3 about $1.3 billion to teachers directly and our anticipated aotment this year is almost 1.9 million. We will have our actual amounts at the in late April again and then last year it came in a little bit higher and so we're hoping for that this year as well. So to talk a little more about our teacher designations this year we had 453 teachers eligible for t to earn a TIA designation. Um we had 22 the top 30% is made up of 139 teachers who earned designation. So we submitted their data. So
03222 of our existing teachers with designations earned a higher designation. So they might have gone from recommended or recognized to master level. So their payout will be larger this year and then their five years start. So if they they'll it'll be go from recognized this year it'll say master and then they'll get that payout for five years. Um, we have 58 teach newly designated teachers and then we have 59 teachers who were already designated either come up with the same designation or it could have been lower but they were still in that top 30% of our data set. Um, we had 48 previously designated teachers or they had earned their national board certification. And that 48 also includes any teachers that were new to the district that came to us already designated. And we have
033had two or three hires that came to us with designations. We are seeing an increase in our secondary teachers earning designations, especially with the inclusion of science and biology this year, 11 of our new designations actually make up science and biology teachers. And so out of the 187 designations, um 150 are elementary and 37 are secondary. We see a higher concentration at elementary. We just had a lot We have more elementary teachers um that are eligible and we what what happened the next couple slides it's just looking at the um existing designated teachers by campus. It will also show you new and higher designated teachers by campus. And so the top um chart has the 133 designations from last year. The bottom chart has the 80 which includes the 22 higher and 58 new. And
034this represents our 187 designated teachers as of this spring and what campus that they belong to. student growth measures. This makes up 60% of our TIA scores. And you can see that out of all of our eligible teachers, 2223 data set, 61% um of our students. I have to it's the way this one comes up. All eligible teachers this data submission year showed a gain in average students growth from 61% to 66% of students growing to or past their target. For our designated teachers, an average of 82% of students are meeting or exceeding their growth target. So you can see the difference. Our top 30% is significantly higher than um all eligible teachers. And then we also actually saw a gain in our student growth scores um in our non-desated teachers. So they showed a
0356% gain. So we're starting to see growth across the board. Um for our teacher evaluation component, this is from our 2024 summitive rating. Um TESS is our state approved and created teacher evaluation system. The ISD data reflects that designated teachers have higher evaluation scores which align with higher student growth averages as shown on the previous slide. So um we are getting ready to send out emails tomorrow. Um, our teachers will learn what their designation rating is and then our campus administrators will learn who all of their current and new designations are. Um, TEA will notify BISD of specific TIA a lotments in late April. Um, we are planning a celebration for our designated teachers and we've actually asked for some feedback from our campus administrators. um because without necessarily giving out their designation, we would
036like for them to be able to display and and you know be proud of earning that designation. That's pretty awesome. Um and then we will official tea emails will go out to designated teachers detailing their earned designation. Um and then we will get ready to disperse a lotment in August. some important dates for 2425. Um this is going to be a cycle every year. Um we're working on finalizing the current um end of year data set and summitive. um we'll be prepping for the next data capture submission which will be the 2425 data and it will be submitted to T Texas Tech in October of 25 and then we'll be doing this again next spring March getting ready for our next set of payouts. Um that's it. So, do you all have any questions? Yes,
037we are very excited. We have teachers that are very anxious to learn if they are designated or not. And I just want to thank Cinnamon. She does an amazing job with our TIA data and communicating with our teachers. So, Coach Sh and I were wondering if this is retroactive. Yeah. You want to come out of retirement? No. No. I do want to appreciate Miss Neighbors and Miss Hyde's work on this. It is a lot of work. As she mentioned, we are one of the uh well, we're the only neighbor district uh in our area that took on this teacher incentive aotment. And it is a lot of extra money for our teachers. And the reason why other districts didn't do it is because it is a lot of work. uh when you have to have
038calibrations aligned to teacher evaluations have to be aligned to the um uh student outcomes. You know, not everybody just gets the high evaluation. It's based on how well your students are learning. And so, uh again, I just want to say thank you for all of your work. Uh our district has been out ahead on this. I know we have three or four teachers at um Laneir that are making $22,000 additional compensation that's funded by the state, not us. So yeah, it's it's really it really is is a game changer for our staff. So thank you. Anybody in the audience have question item, bond planning and construction update? No. You have a planning update from Ludy Casino, our chief finance officer. Come on down. Thank you. Good evening. Um, tonight I'll be giving you an update
039on the current uh 2025 budget along with a preview of the 2026 budget developments. I'll also give a brief overview of the legislative changes pertaining to school finance. This is part of our ongoing effort to ensure that we maintain fiscal responsibility in alignment with the district goal that Braz will exercise fiscal responsibility to ensure financial strength and secure the resources needed to equip and maintain quality facilities and educational programming. As we re as we review the 2025 budget, I want to highlight some key figures and trends. The 2025 budget was adopted with an 11.7 million deficit. We had originally budgeted chapter 313 revenues at 6 million, but the actual payment will be around 12.5 million, which is above expectations. The budget projected ADA at 10,086, but we're currently at around 10, 2016, just slightly below
040the target. Our special education mainstream ADA is also a bit lower than expected, but other special education services are performing better than anticipated, bringing in an additional 1 million. For state comp, uh we had budgeted for 7,61, but the actual count is only 6,287, resulting in a 2 million shortfall. We expect to end the year with a fund balance of 38.2 million, which is just 70 which is 77,000 above our target of 38.1 million. So, while we have seen some shortfalls in ADA and staycom, the budget is still performing better than expected with a projected deficit of 5.6 million. That's actually 6.1 million better than we had originally anticipated. The 89th legislative session is in full swing and Senate Bill Two includes several provisions that will have an impact on school finance. I want to
041highlight three key provisions. The first provision is an increase in the basic aotment. The basic aotment would go up from 6,160 to 6380 which is expected to bring in about 2.2 million in additional funding. The second provision is additional state additional state aid for regional insurance cost. The bill introduces a new state aid of $55 per ADA for districts in regions 1 2 3 4 and five that own and lease property. This is projected to bring in around $550,000. Lastly, an adjustment to the special education allotment. Uh this provision would change how special education funding is allocated, moving to an intensity of services model. Districts would also receive $1,000 for each special education evaluation conducted. The expected increase in funding from this change is about 500,000. Uh I've also included a list of the finance
042provision included in Senate Bill 2 in the link above. There are more provisions filed. These are just the three um that were easy to calculate as we're still very early on in the legislative session. This table shows the projected revenues under the two scenarios comparing the current law and that would be the first column with the basic allotment at 6,160 and the second scenario is the changes proposed in Senate Bill 2 with the basic aotment of 6380. Under the current law, the basic allotment is 6,160 and total available revenues are projected to be 118 million. This represents the revenue we're expecting under the existing funding structure without the changes in the bill. With Senate Bill 2, the basic allotment increases to 6380, which would bring total available revenue up to 121.3 million. This change reflects
043an increase a $220 increase in the basic aotment adding about 3.3 million in in revenue. As a result, the projected deficit would decrease from 12.6 million to 9.3 million, cutting the deficit by 3.3 million. Again, this is a very preliminary estimate. We still need more information like property value estimates and other key data to finalize the numbers. Also, this estimate does not account for all the provisions in Senate Bill 2, which could further affect revenue and funding. Uh before we dive into the cost reduction considerations for the 26 budget, uh let's review the expenditures for the current fiscal year. The adopted budget for this year totals 130.6 6 million in expenditures. Out of that, 86% is spent on salaries, which shows the district's strong focus on staff compensation. Uh the next largest expense is contracted
044contracted services, which mainly covers things like utility payments. Together, these two categories make up the bulk of our spending, and they really highlight the significant cost involved in maintaining our staff and essential services. Now, we'll take a look at some of the items that we're considering uh for budget reductions. And the first item is a change in fiscal year. So, um uh one potential way to reduce expenses for the next fiscal year is by changing the start date of our fiscal year. Right now, the school uh school districts have the option to start their fiscal year either July 1st or September 1st. For Bransport ISD, the fiscal year starts September 1st. If we shift our fiscal year to July 1st, we could save about $5 million by eliminating two months of of operating expenses. This
045would only provide a one-time savings as it's a benefit that would apply just in the first year of the change. Even though this is a one-time boost, it would help prevent the district from di dipping further into fund balance next year. Uh here are the pros and cons of changing the start date of our fiscal year to July 1st. Uh the pros include a one-time increase in our fund balance since we would be operating for only 10 months instead of 12 months. Also, campuses would be able to start purchasing materials and supplies earlier instead of waiting until September 1st for the new budget. Another benefit is that it would align us with other government agencies since federal grants operate on a July 1 start date. The cons include an accelerated budget adoption timeline, meaning we'd
046have to adopt the budget by June 30th instead of wait instead of waiting until August. Also, the business office would need to adjust our plannings and certified property value estimates don't come in until July after the budget is usually adopted. This could make it challenging to finalize budget projections. However, the district could amend the budget before the PI fall submission deadline and the budget the budget submitted to Texas Education Act uh agency becomes the district official budget. This table shows the timeline for the proposed change change to our fiscal year. The shift would start with a 202627 fiscal year beginning in July 2026. For the 2526 fiscal year would operate on a modified schedule running from September 1st to June 30th of 26. Uh, this adjustment would set things up for the new fiscal year
047to begin on July 1st, 2026. Now, moving on to some of our expendure uh expenditure reduction considerations. Uh, this table outlines some additional expense reductions considerations for the upcoming fiscal year. First, moving suffer licenses to capital projects could save the district about $1.5 million. Next is a reduction of 400,000 uh in property insurance cost. Uh and by not expensing workers compensation next year, we could save 245,000. The workers compensation fund has a healthy fund balance which makes this adjustment possible. Together, these measures are expected to reduce expenses by about 8.4 million. the bulk of that coming from the change in fiscal year. These reductions give us a significant opportunity to manage and reduce costs all while still maintaining essential services. There are several additional expenditure reductions considerations that are still underway. One of these is
048a high school master master schedule evaluation which aims to identify any efficiencies we can make in the high school schedule. We've already completed the staff the campus staffing meetings and we're now reviewing the results. We'll have more details uh on this in the next budget update. We're also doing department staffing reviews focusing on areas where we can optimize staffing. Along with that, we're analyzing department budgets to find additional opportunities for reductions. Finally, we're also reviewing the potential increase in staff compensation which could lead to an increase in expenses. So, this table shows two different budget scenarios for the upcoming fiscal year. It's uh the two scenarios with the different basic aotments that were that were discussed earlier. Uh the scenario one is based on current funding formula with a basic allotment set at 6,160. This
049brings total available revenues to 118 million while expenditures are 130.6 million resulting in a projected deficit of 12.6 million before any budget reductions. This was the same uh budget uh projected at the LA during the last uh presentation last during last board meeting. After considering after considering 8.4 million in potential budget cuts, the revised projected deficit would drop to 4.2 million and this is not accounting for any potential pay increases. Scenario two is based on the provisions from Senate Bill 2 where the basic aotment increases to 6,380. This would bring total available revenues to 121.3 million but with the same expenditures of 130.6 leading to a projected deficit of 9.3 million before reductions. After factoring the factoring in the same 8.4 million in budget reductions, the projected deficit would drop to 900,000. Still be still
050this is before considering any potential pay increases. As we continue to work through these adjustments, we'll be sure to keep you updated with the latest information. Here is the budget planning calendar for the next step so you can see the timeline for what's coming up. And that concludes my presentation. So I guess I'll be fairly confident that we could potentially hit that July 1st. Yes, that will give us a whole year to plan for that uh because it will be for the next year. This year we will uh work towards reducing uh the five million that we anticipate we can reduce and those are the expenses that we typically expend out of our everything that's not salary in July and August. So I'm confident that we can hit the $5 million in the in the
051change of fiscal year. So So how close do we get with our how with our estimates of property values? We usually can't imagine we're extremely surprised by no confidence. So we will have actually there will be a meeting on April 30th to give us the first uh the first estimate on our property values and that put it into our template. It will give us a better projection as far as how much we think we're going to collect in taxes. And uh as you know, our staff comes back in the middle of August and their budgets aren't released until September one, which is always a frustration and challenge to love they want to have access to their budgets when they come back to school. We also love it also makes an easier transition for the business
052department because we are opening a new budget when uh most people are not back. So, it's a lot easier for us to make that transition as opposed to doing it at the beginning of September when everybody is anxiously waiting for us to open that budget and start purchasing. That way, the campuses will have everything they they need to start the school year. Are most districts on July? About 350 districts are at July 1. We do see more considering it as a because you do get a one time. Yeah, you do get a one time uh yeah top benefit from it. So we see more and more two months moving up. We do see more uh districts like us are considering it because of the onetime payment. Uh as far as the budget adoption process, it
053it will change. Again, we work with estimates because we don't have our certified values for July. So, uh, having worked in a July 1 district, it is a little odd that first year and then you, at least for myself, I saw the benefits after being there for a year, it's just so out of what we're used to always running where we have the budget and normal adopt uh, budget adoption process. You adopt your budget uh, in August and your tax rate at the same time. Well, with this accelerated timeline, you would adopt your budget because by law, you have to adopt your budget before you do your tax rate. So, you adopt your budget in June, but you don't adopt your tax rate because we can't adopt our tax rate until TEA lets us know
054that we can, and that doesn't happen until August. So, our tax rate will be adopted either in the August board meeting or the September board meeting. The deadline for TA is September 30th. We need to adopt a tax rate by then. uh that gives us plenty of time to go back and revise our revenues just in case you there are some changes. A lot of the times what I or at least what I saw in in other districts has been that really is not necessarily that you are decreasing revenues is that you may be shifting because remember if we collect more taxes and we get less state revenue. If we get get more state revenue one they have this inverse relationship. So if one increases the other one decreases. So if we were to um
055our projections for our property for our certified values would be would be le more or less and we collect either more or less taxes then we would be able to adjust that either more or less and state it and kind of offset each other and balance if that makes sense. questions from the audience. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Bond planning construction update. Good evening. The following is in accordance with board policies TV local. It is my pleasure to present the planning and construction update for the 2019 bond program. While you're waiting, I want to thank you and Mr. Burgerer for all your efforts today with the utility issue we had uh at three of our facilities. Yeah, I know those were day those are day killers there. You have to drop everything you had
056planned that day. Yeah, that was a significant outage, but Let me try again. A victim of a power outage. It's not a big deal. A little ironic. Let me move it. Anybody ask God? I just shared access. So, we are now at 91.8% complete or in progress. Uh, that includes the carryover from the 2014 funds that weren't utilized. Starting with the Brazeswood pool replacement. I've got several drone photos in here. These are from Friday of this past week. Um, we're wrapping up with rebar for the pool walls and we're planning to start shooting shot uh Monday or Tuesday of next week and that will take 3 to 4 days. Uh, just several different angles here. These guys are doing a great job. I think I've never seen rebar installed that is this complex as fast
057as they are doing it. And then this is standing just outside the walls looking down at the rebar into the pool bottom. We poured the pool bottom on Tuesday of spring break. That went really well. Oh, and then something else. The center bulkhead. That'll be also, excuse me, installed with shockrete. It's solid concrete that divides the shallow pool from the deep end and competitive side of the pool. This is a rendering that we've shared before of the pool deck. Another one from the opposite corner. And this is just a site plan graphic. Uh kind of shows you the orientation of the pool in relation to the other facilities on the property. And this is just showing the layout of the pool and the equipment building and the diving boards. This is kind of a traffic
058flow plan for the bus parking. Uh we're adding some concrete to get some pull through spaces for the buses in the uh child nutrition maintenance and transportation renovation project. We had our final design meeting last Thursday. Um and this is a drawing that shared or presented by BLK to show the floor finishes that they're proposing. Um, and that is also the upto-date floor plan that we're moving forward with. These are renderings that they developed and shared with us on Thursday. Uh, shows you the metal panel colors that we're planning to move forward with. The signage on the building isn't finalized yet. Uh this is just a good representation of what the facility will turn out looking like. Uh another view from the maintenance side. This is looking on the child nutrition corner of the building.
059This is looking at the bus barn kind of in the back corner of the property there and then at the fueling station and other side of the bus barn. This is just a timeline for that project. The only thing that's changed is that we're going to the um we're presenting the GMP in the May board meeting instead of the April board meeting. Um and construction will start immediately with a anticipated completion date of August 26. And then the Rasco stacking lanes, we wrapped up design on that. It's going out to bid in the next few weeks. And it will also construction I'm sorry the GMP will go to the April board meeting with construction starting after school that's out and completing at the end of summer. This is just an aerial a site plan with
060an overlaid I'm sorry an aerial image with the site plan overlaid on top. So you can see a new tiein with the city road. It's a double stacking lane and then it merges to a single lane and Pick up drop off is on the bottom end of the campus there. This is some images of the bleacher replacement, excuse me, at Brazeswood in the competition gym. Uh we anticipate them completing the bleach the new bleacher installation by the end of next week. Just a photo of the other side. And then they had some vinyl graphics to complete. Uh that was done as soon as the old bleachers were removed. so they could get a lift to access that top right corner. And the work for plumbing replacement at Basco has gone very well. All the plumbing
061has been replaced that we had problems with. We're covering it all up. The last restroom uh was inspected by me on Friday. They covered that up today. All the CMU or block work, masonry work has been completed. We've started painting the kitchen. the bulk area of mess and that's just a single staff restroom. These are some of the group restrooms. We got drywall covering them up, paint started. That was the last restroom they started covering today. And then the overlay roofing system started on Wednesday of last week and this image or these images were taken on Friday. It's going very very quickly. They're telling me six weeks, but a lot of that is the metal work that is a little more complex. And that is all I have. Any questions? Sorry, I'm super congested right
062now. Questions? All right. Thank you, Tim. Thank you very much. Our next item is board committee reports. Uh I will say that the uh education foundation cash caravan was a success. Um teachers were excited, the kids were excited. Uh I think 70 was it 70,000 plus was given straight to the teachers for for them which is a big thing also. U I think a big kudos go to the chef and I can't ever say her last name right at Brazport. Mahog I can say that. Um anyway, she's her cooking team won first place at the ABC cook off last week, the week before last spring break. They kind of um they really won and somebody said no, they didn't. And they readded and they really did. So that's pretty good for about five or six
063high school kids to go win a a barbecue cook off and do a great job. They're getting ready for their state competition the first I think first week in May. Um and chef by the way did receive one of the grants for a new barbecue trailer for for the kids. And so it's uh it's going to be a big big thing there. All right. Um our next uh work session discussion our next regular board meeting is scheduled for April 28, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. Uh at this time uh next on the agenda is the executive session. Executive session may be called for the purposes permitted by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code section 551.001 through 551.146. Section 551.071 consultation with attorney. Uh section 5517.72 for the purpose of discussing the purchase, exchange, lease
064or value of real property. Uh section 551.074 personnel matters include appointment employment evaluation reassignment duties discipline dismissal complaint 551.04 4 superintendent midyear review 551.076 intruder detection audit report finding for Bradford ISD section 551.082 for the purpose of considering discipline of a public school child or complaint or charge against personnel. We will return shortly. I've got [Music] 8:25 shooting. [Music] We would like to reconvene into open session. At this time, we have an action item to discuss the superintendent's contract extension. Do I have a motion? Uh yes, Mr. Reinhardt, I'd like to make a motion to extend the BD superintendent contract another year through 2027 2028. Do I have a motion to approve? I second. You made that motion. We have a motion. Uh we have a motion. We have a second um to approve. Is
065there any discussion amongst the uh board at this time. Having none, all in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Nay. Do I have a motion to adjourn? Let's go. Missy, I'll take that away from you with a little talk on it.