Regular Board Meeting - June 16, 2026

001We're going to call this meeting to order at 5:30. Uh, let's do roll call. Just tap on it. Just tap on. >> Okay. All members present except for Sylvester Vasquez. Uh Dr. Paul. >> Yes, ma'am. Um tonight we do have two public hearings. Um and we will start with our first one. Um and our deputy superintendent, Mr. Crisp along with Walsh and Mo Casey will be presenting us some information. >> Thank you very much. First of all, introduce Blake Henshaw with Walsh Gyos. Uh Kathy Matias and Justin Barlo with Mo Casey back there. Uh we're here to talk about Project Orca. Uh great opportunity for the greater San Antonio area, Bar County, and the Southwest community. Uh a new and I'm going to let Blake talk about it. It's called a jetty. Uh it's a

002new way of doing business in Texas, I believe. Uh and so the possibility of an investment of $2 billion in our community uh by Toyota uh on that could come in the future to expand the existing manufacturing facility in South D with a new complete vehicle assembly line. Uh two billion >> two billion. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Uh and the construction if if it if it comes to fruition would commence in 2026 and begin in 2031. Uh we are partnering with Mo Casey to kind of talk about the financial implications so the board is fully aware of what would happen when if this would become uh part of Southwest ISD. So I'm going to turn over to Kathy. >> Thank you. Nice to be here. Um we worked on Mo Casey worked on the Toyota

003313 application all those 20 plus years ago. So it's kind of come for full circle. He said a lot of the things about the project. Uh, one of the things to note is that the project will be loaded located in an opportunity zone, which are these federal zones that are designated as I think low economic development helps them develop. And because it's going to be located in an opportunity zone, it would only be taxed at 25% for M purposes. It's still fully taxed for INS just like 313 was, but M is a 25% um taxable value uh based on the market value. So whatever the appraisal district sets for the market value, you're going to get M taxes on 25% of that. So that's a little different than 313. Um the limitation does start in

0042031 and it runs for 10 years, very similar to what 313 was. So what is how does it imp implicate uh impact your finances with school finance and the equalized wealth equalized system? It's not an equalized wealth system per se anymore. Um you know you're if you get more taxes, you're going to lose state aid. So you're pretty much revenue neutral. And that is what we did. We we found when we did the analysis on the Toyota project that you do get a very small baby gain which could possibly be due to rounding or some interactions of formulas um in tier 2 golden pennies. We're talking about like you know a,000 to $6,000 a year for a total of about 30,000. So it's pretty much neutral revenue for you. It's not hurting you which is

005the good news. We don't we want to make sure that none of these projects impact districts negatively and it does help you um just a little bit in there but it also helps with your INS rate because uh you have give you a little bit more bond capacity. The peak value for INS purposes is like 838 million. So that would be additional on your tax roles uh in probably I believe it's in the first year of the limit. And so that can help with capacity or possibly adjust your rate down which helps all of your taxpayers in the school district. Um typical that's what would happen with 313. Same thing fully tax rein which can impact your bonds. Um you know for M you're the company would save about $39 million in M taxes over

006the 10 years. During construction which is the first three years the company does not pay any taxes for M purposes except on land. land is still taxed. It's not part of the incentive program at all, but um they pay zero taxes in during the construction period. So for anything else, so that but so that between the three years of construction and the 10 years of the limitation, the company would save about $39 million as it stands right now. Of course, the values that the company estimates or what they think it'll be, it's ultimately set by the appraisal district every year. And that's kind of the highle summary of your finance. Any questions? And then Blaze kind of kind of talked walk you through the process now that we're moving forward uh through this. And uh

007hello again to everybody. I think uh about a year ago I zoomed in and and talked with y'all when we were when we were considering this. I hate the microphone because I have a very loud voice as it is. But um I'll try not to talk too long because you know being a lawyer I like to talk and so but I will I will keep it short. So um essentially this is the first step. Um tonight uh we're having a public hearing. um you'll be approving uh our agreement and Mo Caseasey's agreement and those are uh paid you know the the fee application fee that the company paid basically pays our fee to represent you. Um and then you will be making uh a motion in and approving a resolution that says that you're you

008are okay going forward. It's not an agreement. It's not like the final uh stamp, you know, uh done deal at this point. It just means that y'all are voting uh and passing a resolution that you are agreeable to move forward. Um this process is a little different than the old 313. It's a three-party agreement. So if y'all vote tonight that you're agreeable to move forward, um then we will be negotiating that agreement. It'll be between the district, the governor's office, and Toyota. So it's a three-party agreement. Um, you know, we found the governor's office is some kind like the uh the the fly in the ointment when it comes to these uh agreements, but uh they seem to be getting a little better. So, um as far as negotiating the agreement, it's pretty statutory. There's

009not a lot. We're just going to make sure that it it meets the statutory requirements. uh the numbers are are correct, but I say negotiating and and and I mean that very loosely because um unlike the old 313s where you could uh there was amounts you could negotiate. You could some districts even threw in a little bit of bonus here or there for maybe your education foundation, we can't do any of that under the statute. They they absolutely precluded and ban that. Um and so um that that agreement usually it may be anywhere from uh 6 months uh you know it we have up to a year uh to enter into it. So really it's going to depend on the timeline of the governor's office and Toyota and I'll be available. Um and then once

010we have that agreement um ironed out um everybody, you know, make sure that all the numbers correct, we're all good, it meets the statute, then we'll bring that back to you at a at a later board meeting and that's when you will approve the agreement. Um and uh so that's that's where it goes. So you would vote tonight to say that you're agreeable and then tomorrow my office will send out a letter uh which is statutoily required. We have to send a letter to the governor's office and the compeller saying that y'all are agreeable uh to move forward and so that will be coming from my office tomorrow uh assuming you know you all vote for that later at your public meeting. So that that's the process. Um do y'all have any further questions? So

011you'll get to see me one more time. Thank you very much. Um, do we have any people in the audience that would like to ask a question or have a comment? No. I I would like to go on the record that Toyota is an excellent um partner with Southwest. So, I think anything they do is going to benefit us. >> Thank you. Okay, since there's no questions or comments, we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 5:38. Then we'll start our next meeting at 5:45. Five minutes. We're going to call this next public hearing in in order at 5:46. Um, we'll do roll call again. >> Thank you guys. Dr. Ball. Yes, >> we'd like to welcome Loretta Zavala and she's going to give us a report on ESSA consolidated federal grant application um and

012then open it up for public comments. Thank you, Loretta. >> Thank you. Good afternoon, board members. Dr. of all. Uh what you see uh on the display is a um breakdown of the allocations we received for each of the grants under ESSA. For title one, which is the grant that's used to provide highquality education to all students, we are projected to receive $4,447,536. And we kind of break that down into how we're going to be using that. 80% 88% of those funds are used for uh staff salaries as well as instructional materials, supplies, online uh materials and extended programs for students. 5% of those funds will be for any sort of professional development and or conference trainings that staff may go to. less than 1% is used for the not private nonprofit funds that we

013send to region 20 because they they have the SSA with us where our students that live within our district but don't attend our schools attend a private school we have to send the funding that would follow those students to instead of sending it to the private school we send it to region 20 and they provide services to those students so that is the PMP less than 1% and then slightly more than 1% is for our parent involvement activities both at the campus office and at the district level for title one part C migrant those funds 100% of them go to region 20 we have an SSA agreement with them and they provide all of the services for our migrant students title two which is increasing student academics based on improving teachers and principles through professional

014development and training that breakdown it well the amount we're receiving is $577,380 $8 and 61% of that goes to our support personnel, which is salaries for either coordinators or specialists, people in the curriculum and instruction division that assist with that. We also have 19% of those funds that go towards contracted services for consultants or professional development. We have 11% that is earmarked for materials and supplies and then 5% for travel to conferences or trainings that are outside of the district where we don't bring someone in. Title three funds, the amount that we're allocated is $261,569 and those are the funds that are used to improve the education of our limited English proficient students. That breakdown is 75% of those funds will go to support personnel. Again, these are the coordinators and the specialist people who

015assist with those uh demographic of students. 14% is going to be earmarked for the development of uh those instructional staff again their PD. 7% is for um funding travel for not only teachers but any of the administrators related to the bilingual education program so that they continue to receive uh their own training. And then in title four, title four is the well-rounded uh improve safe and healthy students and then the utilization of educational technology. We are will be receiving $338,132 and the breakdown that we are looking to allocate those funds are 58% of those will be for safe and healthy students and improving the conditions for student learning. 26% will be for the practice of students to improve their technology. And then the last one is 12% and that is for well-rounded education which is

016college readiness, fine arts, things of that nature. And that that is the breakdown. Do you have any questions? >> Can you go to that? >> Go back. >> Can you go to the previous slide? I just want to get that percentage. >> Okay, that's all I needed. Okay. Do we have any um questions? Board members, any comments? Okay. Also, anybody, let me look at my agenda. Make sure I'm not doing it. Yeah. Any public comments on the thing that was presented? No. Okay. Um thank you, Loretta. >> Thank you. >> And being that there's no more comments or questions, we'll call this meeting to a close at 5:51 and we will start again at 6. We're going to call the meeting to order at six o'clock. Dr. Paul. >> Yes. Uh today we are going

017to start with our invocation and pledges. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, I did it again. We're going to do roll call first. Somebody's missing, right? Hello. Roll call. >> Thank you. Everybody's present except for Sylvester Vasquez. Please join us for invocation and pledges. Okay, sorry. Lord, as we gather here tonight, we are reminded that the work of education is ultimately about people. It is about the students who walk through our doors each day looking for opportunities to learn, grow, and discover who they can become. It is about the teachers and staff who invest their time, energy, and hearts into making that journey possible. It is also about the families and community members who place their trust in our student our schools and share in our hopes of our future. As we begin this meeting, may

018we approach our conversations with wisdom and decisions with purpose. With when challenges arise, may we meet them with patience. When opinions differ, may we respond with understanding. In this season of summer, we are especially grateful for the chance that many have to rest, recharge, and spend time with those they love. May that time bring renewal and encouragement and may they all may all who are traveling, working or learning uh simply enjoy the days uh and be kept safe. We're grateful hearts. We thank you for the opportunity to serve and for the privilege of working together on behalf of all of our students. We ask all these things in your name. Amen. >> Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation

019under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. >> Thank you, Roger. >> We'll uh move on to recognitions. board, if you will join me um so we can have some recognitions. >> Wait right here. You're going to stay right here. Hold on. Wait. Right. Line them up right here. You do. >> All right. Today we are recognizing the Southwest Pony League's Allstars 2026 World Series champs. And boy, let me tell you, we have some amazing young talent from the Southwest ISD community. Our very own Southwest Pony League was blessed to have >> Guys, what y'all are going to do is go shake their hands, okay? Go shake their hands. Go shake their hands. Good job. Good

020job. Good job. We were blessed to have six teams with the Ponies South Zone World Series Championships last summer. Teams from Texas, Louisiana, and Florida faced off to claim the Pony South Zone Championship. The following teams did an amazing job representing the Southwest ISD community. This first team you see up here is Texas made for you full south zone pony world series champs led by head coach Robert Gusman who happens to be a southwest high school alumni. Interesting to note that his father the coach's father Raul Guusman was the founding president of Southwest Pony League back in 1992. The Gusman family's dedication to the Southwest community has been for two generations. Coach Robert not only worked in the field and in the concession stand, but also the league president for several years. Now, he's been

021able to add being the head coach not to one, but two Pony World Series championship teams. Congratulations. Perfect. >> Oh, there you go. Look. >> Show your rings. You got your Showings. >> Everybody look right here. Oh, hold on. Hold the um >> smile. One, two, three. >> Hang on. Let me fix this. >> All right. There we go. There we go. >> There we go. Hang on. Look right there. Sure. If all the parents for these wonderful young students, will you please stand? We'd like to recognize you also for all your dedication to make this happen. It It's truly a team effort. The the the kids, the coaches, the parents, all the hard work. So, thank you all so much for doing this. We are so proud of you guys. We are very, very

022proud of you. Okay, so now you're gonna come out this way and go around so we can do the next group. So, we are so proud of you. >> I think Coach Guzman needs to stay because we have one more of his team. >> Good job, guys. Good job. >> Our next team is Texas Made 6U Shetland South Pony World Series champs. Also led by head coach Robert Gusman. Good job, sweetheart. Good job. >> Great job. Thank you. >> Okay. So, now you're gonna hold this one right there. Okay. We're super proud of y'all. Okay. Awesome. Come on over, sir. >> Awesome. >> Follow me first and I'll let you take them with your friends. Okay. >> Ready? Right there. Perfect. And One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Hang on real quick. If

023anybody wants >> If the parents for these wonderful individuals, will you please stand? We want to recognize you also. >> Thank you. Jesse's last two were not here, >> guys. Thank you. So, we'll go right this way. Okay. We are very proud of your rank medals, all your hard work. Yes. Awesome. Awesome. >> Thank y'all coaches. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Our next team we'd like to recognize are prospects, AU Pinto Softball South Zone World Series champs led by head coach Leanne Coleman. Congratul Fix you. Fix you. Fix you. >> Congratulations. >> I'm going to give it to one of the girls to hold. Is that okay? >> So, are you queen bees? Are you queen bees? >> Perfect. So, you scoot over a little bit that way, a little bit this way,

024just so we kind of balance it out. >> Oh, I said it. >> Perfect. Perfect. And you, sweetheart, you're going to hold this nice and proud. >> Six. Shetland softball South Pony World Series. That's who this is. >> Shetland. In case y'all didn't hear me, this is Prospect 6U Shetland Softball Southstone Pony World Series champs. >> Yes. >> Want to make sure. >> So, if any of the parents for these wonderful young ladies, will you please stand? We'd like to recognize you also. So, if any parents here, thank you'all. And you're going to go that way. Okay, sweeties. Good job. Go this way, sweetheart. Awesome. Good job. Good job. Thank you. >> And now we also would like to recognize Prospect's 8U Pinto Softball South Zone World Series champs led by head coach Leanne Coleman.

025>> Congratulations. >> And if you stand kind of like right here in the middle right there. Beautiful. Beautiful. Okay, we'll stand a little closer. Any family members for these two young ladies? Will you please stand? >> Awesome. Oh, okay. Let's take another picture. Another picture. >> Great job. Very proud of y'all. Good job. Right through there. Okay, y'all. Keep playing. Okay. Good job. Now, we did have two more teams that weren't able to make it, but we do want to recognize them. Queen Bee's AU Pinto Softball South Zone World Series runner up and prime time elite 10U Mustang Softball South Zone World Series champs as well. That does conclude the most exciting part of the meeting. So, we'll take about five minutes and we'll let people exit if they'd like to go. Thank you'all for

026coming. Okay. Um, we're going to move on to item five, which is the consent agenda. Board members, you have had that available to you. Are there any questions or things that you'd like to remove from the consent agenda? We have a motion and a second uh to approve the consent agenda. If there's no other questions or concerns, all those in favor, vote yes. Those not vote no. Okay, motion passes. Thank you'all. Um we will move on to second page. Item uh six, items of information, the construction update. >> Yes, ma'am. Uh >> first we have Alvarado Elementary. So Wel Jimenez and James Nichkar here uh to give that report. >> Good evening. Uh we're very happy to be here this evening to present construction update. uh project overview. You're at this point very familiar with

027the building and have visited out there and and seen how things are going. Uh we're about 97% complete at this point. There's still some uh minor work going on on the exterior and a few things going on on the interior, but most of those activities on the interior are finishing out and finalizing uh just finishing touches and such. Uh as you look at the exterior of the building, you can see that, you know, all of the uh main exterior finishes are in place. You're starting to see landscaping in place. Uh so nice green looking grass and some trees and and such. And uh as you can see, the uh what we call butter blocks, limestone uh blocks uh or seating and benching are out there in the front and also uh in the courtyard. Uh

028also this is looking at the main entrance as you enter into the uh the main entry vestibule and also looking at the uh library canopy. So as you get into the main entrance you can see again more completion. You can start seeing the light fixtures. The ceiling uh the floor is covered there uh protected but there is a terazzo tile floor beneath that. And you can see uh the tile on either side uh of the uh of that entry vestibule. Uh looking also into the cafeteria, you can see the uh acoustical wood slats and uh light fixtures, flooring is in place, uh acoustical panels and such. So again, starting to look more complete. Uh this is looking into the library. We're starting to see the pops of color from the paint. Uh the vertical striping

029as we've talked about in design kind of uh is uh meant to symbolize the the spine of books uh as they were stacked in the library. Uh looking into the gym again seeing more completed look. The flooring is in place. Uh still finalizing but uh uh acoustical panels. Uh looking into the corridors again looking more complete. flooring in place, wall tile, Wayne's coat, uh sink areas. Uh looking into classrooms, you're starting to see the mill work all in place and uh ceilings finalized. Uh and going into the corridors, you're starting to see again the flooring and the coloring and starting to see that language of neighborhood. As you can see here, the corridor has the striping, the yellow striping, and then you go into the classroom and the mill work has that same. So giving

030that sense of neighborhood in that area. Same thing is happening in the orange and other colors. So uh looking at where we are in terms of uh finalizing uh I'll turn it over to uh James to talk a little bit about uh how we're finalizing with the city and such. >> Right. So the big focus now is just kind of finalizing our permits and inspections with the city. Um, so that's kind of an ongoing process, you know, that's been ongoing for the past few weeks. So, those are starting, those final inspections are starting to close out. Um, next week we'll have final inspections for uh fire and building. So, all of that's coming together great. Um, like said, the sites sites really uh starting to come together and all those colors are starting to come

031out. So, it's looking really nice. So, we're looking forward to seeing you guys on the next visit so you can see how it's looking. Any questions? >> Okay. And we have uh the next one is the Legacy High School edition. So, Raul Giannis is here and Zack Pacion with Jors. >> Good. >> Uh, good evening members of the board. Dr. Ball. Uh, appreciate the opportunity to present uh to you all tonight. Uh, the project um the addition uh Southwest Legacy High School uh going extremely well in terms of the pay application percentage complete uh through May uh is 89%. We're actually a little bit further along uh than that. I would venture to say probably about 95 96% uh in terms of overall completion. um you know some of the scope of work that's happening.

032Now if we can go to the pictures the next page um a little bit of an overview on the top left um picture uh kind of shows an overview of the entire building. Uh with that we we have all the the exterior uh building envelope completed. Uh all of the roof has been completed. Uh obviously all the face brick all the exterior materials have been completed. On the photo on the top right um you now you start seeing some landscaping on the exterior. We got some trees. Uh speaking with Zach earlier, um the soder, the grass is going in uh this week. I think it already started yesterday. Uh so that should be completed uh fairly quickly. All of the exterior sidewalks, things of that nature have already been poured. So uh we should start

033seeing that exterior uh be completed fairly quickly here. Um the next couple of shots are just some interior shots. Uh we have the two stairwells, the south and the north end. Uh you start seeing some of the finishes already completed uh in these spaces. uh lights are all burning. So, we've got both first and second floor pretty much completed. Um in terms of finishes and on the on the interior, all of the restrooms, all the wall towel, partitions, fixtures, everything's done. Uh the last two uh pictures at the bottom um is the um the choir room uh where we got all of the VCT already in. Some of the tiles are out. I think they're doing some above ceiling work, but all of that is completed. Uh the bottom right picture is a general or

034typical classroom. uh which again those have been completed as well. Um so again the uh the project as a whole I think is uh uh came out pretty nicely and in terms of the uh uh overall intent that we wanted to make sure it matched the existing building uh and I think that did pretty uh pretty well and kudos to Joris uh for being able to get us there. >> I have a question on the choir >> um I can't it's kind of blurry but I think it says choir suite >> view or something. Is that level the tile? >> The >> It looks raised just the way the picture shows. >> Yeah, it's it's level with the floor. I think there's just a small little lip uh on there. Obviously, we've got the concrete

035of the polished concrete next to it, but it's got a nice little trim on that. >> So, how much room is there between the not I guess I'm what I'm asking is the yellowish part. Is that flat? >> It is >> like the concrete. >> Okay. It's just hard to tell here. Yes. >> Okay, that's perfect. >> That's the same type of transition. >> The pictures make it look >> like it's elevated. >> Yeah. Okay, that looks really pretty. >> Yes, but it's everything's flat. Yes, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> I was I got to visit um earlier this week. It's absolutely beautiful. The choir room is, I told Richard, it's absolutely fantastic with all the sub, you know, spaces on the side where kids can practice. >> Looks great. Um, just like Miss Adulkan

036said, that part on the floor where it's like the decorative piece that's in the hallways gives it a really special touch. >> Yes. >> You can't tell which is the new building and which is the old building when you're walking inside. So, fabulous job. I thought that was the biggest compliment when you walked in and said, "Where did where did it start and where did it end?" Just because it transitioned. That was the obviously the original intent to make sure that this all looked like it was built at the same time. >> I also love that there was an office space there that an administrator can be in that area, too. So, great job. Great job, Thomas. >> Appreciate it. >> Do y'all have any questions? Oh, I have one thing. >> So, um, we

037visited Creel the other day. Well, probably a couple months ago. in in the hallways. Well, that doesn't happen at high school, right? They don't take those food carts around the high school. Okay, then we don't have that problem. Okay. Perfect. Thank you all so much. >> Thank you all so much. Appreciate you all. >> Construction updates. >> Thank you, Brandon. Uh we're going to move on to we have the monthly tax report. >> Yes, ma'am. We're tracking really well. We're at 94% collection. Uh similar to where we were last year at this point. got a few more months to get to the We like to be about 99% collection. >> So, our goal is 99. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Um and then we have the monthly financial report. Do anybody have any questions on that?

038No. Um the monthly investment report? >> Yes, ma'am. I I would talk a little bit about the investment report. uh due to ongoing conflicts and politics and things that are happening around the world. I know starting in early January, we started to see a dip in interest rates on our investment portfolio. Uh and so we recently went through a few months where, you know, when you're talking about what we have with fund balance and bond funds and the amount of money we have out in the market, we saw uh a projection that we'd think that we were going to be targeting as the year went on actually coming in a lot lower. Uh fortunately in May at the end of May uh this is calm now rates have kind of gone back up. So hopefully

039this summer there will be some great traction but right now just on investment uh revenue we are projecting to have a lower revenue than what we expected for this fiscal year. >> So as a board when we start looking at the budgeting process we have to consider that that we're not going to have that. Thank you Brandon. Um, we have monthly I mean report on gifts and bequests. Um, the enrollment report of purchases over 100,000. Uh, Southwest ISD Education Foundation annual report. >> Yes, ma'am. We have Miss Collier, Jenny Collier is going to give um a report. Southwest ISD is very blessed to have a foundation that started many years ago and still flourishes and does a great job under Miss Collier's leadership and also with some amazing foundation members that are in the back.

040So we're Thank you Jenny for giving this report. >> Good evening uh Dr. Ball and board members. Yes, I'll be presenting the inaugural annual report for the Southwest Education Foundation. Now before we go into the port report, I do want to give a little background on our foundation. Like Dr. Ball mentioned, we've been fortunate to have the foundation since 2007. Dr. Ball and Dr. Gates were instrumental in getting the foundation off the ground and started. So thank you for all that work. Over the years, we've seen a lot of changes along with some few steady familiar faces who have remained committed throughout the journey. Now the foundation has accomplished some great things and we're excited about building on that success. This past year, we partnered with Foundation Innovation to help modernize and strengthen our organization.

041Together, we've updated our bylaws. We're in the process of updating our policies and procedures to better position the foundation for the future. We've also are in the process of transitioning to a working board model, allowing our board members to take a more active role in our efforts. You'll hear me reference foundation innovation several times throughout this presentation as I share the work we've accomplished this year. Uh this year we've recently recruited some new board members, also elected a new executive board. At this time I would like to introduce the executive board. Dr. James Gates, our president, if you would please stand. If you are here, please stand when I say your name. We have Carla Medina, director at large. Travis Versive, VP of events and marketing. Dan Chot, VP of finance and governance, Dr. Samantha

042Berego, vice president of programs, Kyle Gates, vice president of development, and Priscilla Vometo, board secretary. And I'm going to briefly name all of our uh general board as well. We have Ryan Bergman, Julian Casillas, who could not make it today because his wife gave birth to their second daughter. So, congratulations to him. Gan Russell, Jorge Flores, James Nichka, Raphael Bedoya, the Smiths, Danny and Helen Smith, Marty Smith, Erica Nirvasz, Manny Moika, and Chris Sulloway. Thank you for all the work we all do. Over the last few years, we've been very intentional about ensuring the foundation operates independently from the district. We've taken several steps to establish that independence, including purchasing the foundation's own supplies and equipment and creating a separate Google Workspace account. While the foundation is its own organization, we've also worked hard to

043strengthen our partnership with the district. Currently, our mission is to provide financial resources and serve as ambassadors for the programs and initiatives that support Southwest ISD's strategic plan. The vision is to be the foundation of choice for businesses, civic groups, and other philanthropic organizations that invest in talented civic-minded future leaders. Um, as part of our work with the foundation innovation, we will be evaluating this mission and vision uh just to make sure that we're aligned with the district's um strategic goals. One of our priorities has been maintaining a clear communication and ensuring our efforts align with the district goals and priorities. Now, this alignment is especially important when it comes to awarding grants and supporting initiatives that have the greatest impact on students and staff. For example, at one time the foundation was awarding grants

044for gardens, not realizing the district was moving away from classroom gardens because of the upkeep, especially through the summer. Now, moving forward, because of that, we plan on bringing in people from CNI and technology before we award grants to ensure alignment with the district. Now, before I dive into this year's annual report, I'd like to take a moment to look back at where we've been the last few years, let's review the foundation's progress and accomplishments over the last 5 years. In 2021, in the years prior, the foundation was raising on average about $140,000 each year. During that same time, the foundation would give back about 20 to,000 $30,000 more than what was raised each year. In 2023, I stepped into the role of executive director. Brandon Medina and Dr. Sam Ruiz also began taking on

045more responsibility. Their roles were expanded as they took on more of the fundraising and event coordination efforts. Together, we became more intentional and active in pursuing donations, applying for grants, and applying to participate in United Way, and gathering the documentation needed for audits and insurance. Here's a closer look at those numbers. As I mentioned in 2021,223 on average it was about 140. 2022 23 it was 131. Uh 2122 we raised about $147,000. And if you look at the funds donated as I mentioned it's about 30 20 to 30,000 more than what was raised um that we were donating back to the district. Um during 2023 and 2024 we took time to closely look at what was working and what needed improvement and where we had opportunities to grow. That was a year with this new

046team. So, we really took it as a learning year. That following year, we set a higher fundraising goal and we were proud to exceed it. Now, a big part of that success, of course, was thanks to Dr. Ball who helped us think through strategy and making stronger connections. I'm not going to lie, it also helped that we had just passed um the district had just passed a bond and so that created an opportunity opportunity for many of our vendors to step up and sponsor and support the foundation. Last year, Daniel Barson took over from Dr. Ruiz and brought in some wonderful ideas and has been a great addition to the foundation. Now, I also want you to take a look at there is a reason the foundation has been able to donate more to the

047district than what it's raised by looking at our investment account. Last year, the foundation gave back a little more than $640,000 to Southwest ISD. That support included the $50 HB gift cards for every employee, district initiatives, and both the teacher and student grants. Now to make this possible, the foundation used a portion of the interest earned from the investment account along with the funds raised throughout the year. As a result, the investment account decreased from about 5.1 million to 4.7 million. If you look at that first chart there, um that first bar, that's why we started off the year at 4.7 million. However, over the over the course of the year, the account continued to grow to continue to grow. And as of May 31st, it had returned to approximately $5.1 million. Um, it often

048feels like the more the foundation gives back, the more the account is blessed and continues to grow. I'm not really sure if it works that way, but I think it has more to do with the markets, but it definitely feels that way. Now, we are currently on track to finish the year approximately with 375,000 in interest earnings. Now, this pattern has bar has been fairly consistent from year to year defi despite all the interesting things that happened over the year in politics, but we've still been very steady. A few years ago, our VP of finance recommended moving to a slightly more aggressive investment strategy while still maintaining a strong focus on safety and preservation of funds. Now, while interest earnings will always fluctuate with market conditions, our investments have consistently generated positive returns and allowed

049us to continue supporting students and staff and district initiatives. Please note that even if we do no fundraising whatsoever, if we hold no events, that investment account brings in more than 300,000 on average each year. Now, we go take a look about uh we're going to take a look at our efforts throughout this past year. In 2526, we heard uh we held our golf tournament at almost Basin Golf Course and we raised about $111,000 and we profited a little more than $88,000. Our total expenditures were $22,726. That took place at almost basin golf course and we couldn't have done it without of our all of our without our sponsors. And our top sponsors for that tournament was First Financial Group of America, FFGA, and Joris. Thank you so much for your support. Now, this was

050the first year that Travis Verstiff took over as golf committee chair and I'd like to note that he introduced us to 20 new sponsors and brought in eight new sponsors that we had never tapped before. And so, it just goes to show when our board members are more active how much more that we can do and benefit. Taking a look at Casino Night um over at Country Gold, we raised almost $112,000 and our net profit was $82,000 with total expenditures at 30 or $29,000. Our top sponsors were Joris, Fluger, Ken Con, First Financial Group of America, and Brazos Urethane. Again, thank you to all of our sponsors that support us through these events. Now, I'd like to take a look at where some of those funds are making their greatest impact. One of our most

051popular programs is our educator grant program or teacher grants. We received 286 grant applications that were asking for more than $800,000. We approved 79 applications and awarded a little more than $200,000. We have a dedicated grant committee that reviews and scores every application. To ensure the process is fair and unbiased, committee members do not see teacher names or campus names when evaluating grants. Instead, each application is scored anonymously using a standardized rubric. We've updated the application page uh with tips on how to write a winning grant application because we really want our teachers to do well when they take the time to um apply for a grant. Mr. Barson, who works with the grant committee, took a deep dive on those grants. And so I wanted to show you this. So when you get questions,

052here's what he found. The number of grants awarded um to campuses correlates with the number of applications from each campus. One trend we've consistently seen is that the campus that submits more grant applications tend to receive more grant awards. The campus um where there is principal buyin and encouragement are the campuses that really farewell in our grant process. For example, Mr. Jonathan Cruz encourages his staff to apply and at every staff meeting and it shows last year McNair and I'm sure it's similar with those other principles. Scobby and Sky Harbor submitted the highest number of applications you can see on that chart. So, as a result, those campuses were also awarded the highest number of grants. It's really a great reminder that the more educators apply, the more there is and the more there is

053principal buyin and encouragement, the more opportunities there are to bring innovative ideas and resources to our classrooms. Now, taking a look at the types of grants funded, um the majority or 50% of our grants went towards instructional materials, 30% went to field trips, and the rest went to curriculum, um educational furniture, campus event, and some presentations. Again, this is why it's important that we work with CNI and technology to make sure or to ensure we are not overlapping in supplies and such. Moving on to our student experience grants, our newest initiative. A couple years ago, a few principles mentioned to me that there was a need for student internships and camps. They would have students approached them that were accepted into camps and internships but didn't have the means to apply. So I went back

054to the foundation and we discussed it and we created the student educational experience grants and as you see that list there there have been many things that we've been able to award our students. We sent more than a hundred students to PaloAlto STEM camp SeaWorld camp. We've also had a national high school cheerleading competition. We helped them fund with that trip. Um we had sent the student to a Harvard online summer camp. Um, Titan esports students. 10 students applied for the registration to go to the state championship and they went. The foundation approved a grant to a female legacy student to attend a welding camp at Rice University. Most recently, we sent Scobby student Ava Fernandez to Magic Theater Summer Camp and her and her family came in to speak with us and talk to

055us about the impact and the great meaning it's had to be able to apply for this experience grant. And I'd like you to take her words. I'm Ava Fernandez. I'm a foundation grant recipient. And thank you so much for all y'all do. Theater's important to me cuz once when I was in fourth grade, I signed up for a competition of acting. And ever since I done that, I just like fell in love with acting. and I just love the theater and how everything works, the music, the dancing. It's really what I love and I want to start like go further into the future with it. So, as a parent, um this helps tremendously not only with the financial barrier, but seeing my daughter and the excitement, the love and passion that she has for, uh

056theater, choir, the arts, it it excites me to see that those opportunities are there for her. She excels. I've seen where she's grown, you know, her confidence, her ability to um be positive and be a role model to other students. And she started at such a young age and wanting to have this opportunity. It with the grant money and the education, it teaches you no like new ways on how to act, how to communicate with others, work with others, how to speak and not be afraid, and how just to express your true self and not to stay. seeing her grow, she is so adamant about it and her passion is just tremendous and it it just excites me and seeing her on stage, seeing how she shines and you know just seeing her smile and

057seeing what how much she loves is doing it, it just excites me and I thank the foundation for allowing us that opportunity to provide that financial aspect of it, right? so that you know she can grow and continue to pursue what she wants to do in the future. And I can't wait to see what the future holds for her. The application is really meaningful. I'm very grateful that my mom helped me sign up for it. I feel like anyone who wants their dream like definitely try out for this grant because this will help you like like help you continue on with your future job or dream or whatever you want to do and it'll give you better education on how you can learn to try the new things of that job. >> So the process

058is really easy you know this it's awesome that Southwest provides that opportunity for students. It um eliminates financial barriers for parents. You know, it's important for parents to know that these resources are out there. Um it opens up opportunities for our children to grow, learn, and it provides them with experiences, right, that they would not be able to experience elsewhere. Hi, I'm Liz Fernandez. I'm a proud parent, and I want to thank the Education Foundation for offering these opportunities to our students. Thank you. students that we've heard um that wouldn't have been able to do some of these amazing things without the education experience grant. And it's also interesting to note, I haven't even let our foundation know that I got an email um this past week from a parent that we awarded her student

059um a grant and her work, her place of employment also has grants for foundations and she's applying on behalf of the foundation to help us give out more grants. So, that's really kind of nice that everyone's finding out all the great things that we're doing. Uh, now I'd like to take a look at our district initiatives. Um, this past year, as I mentioned, we were able to give more money, a little more than $300,000 for district initiative. And there are a number of things projects that we've worked on. I couldn't list them all, but I named I listed a few here uh that we wanted you all to know about. Character Strong is social emotional learning curriculum for middle school kids. Destination Imagination. We were able to pay for almost every group from our all

060of our campuses to go to state for destination imagination. They also help with the intent attendance incentives, the bikes, um legacy dance, the training facility, the flooring, um Crealdall building actors interactive music lessons, Legacy High School cyber security classroom, um and the Southwest High School glass blowing workshop. Those are just a few that I've mentioned. Also, um I saw in person the drum line for Indian Creek that we've been able to supply those kids with drums. And that's not very common for elementary schools. It's our first elementary school that we that we were able to award that to. And you see these children, their faces light up playing the drums. And it's so awesome to see them find their passion at such an early age. And we're just really setting the stage for them to

061really pursue their passions throughout the year. So, we've done a lot of great things with the district initiative funds. So, what's next for the foundation? Well, as part of our work with the foundation, we are asking for you to approve theou later this evening. Um, the foundation is also working on finalizing and approving the 2627 budget. We are also updating and approving policies and procedures and as I mentioned earlier, re-evaluating the mission and vision and defining and clarifying our committee roles and responsibilities as we move as we transition to a working board. So, this concludes my presentation. Do you have any questions? I have a comment. Um, first, thank you, uh, Miss Dr. Gates. You've been in since the ground floor with Dr. Viegas. We really appreciate all your hard work and your fiscal responsibility

062to the foundation and and to the whole community. Actually, I just have a couple things I'd like to uh maybe have considered just when y'all are doing your budget. Um, as you know, we are all the districts face a deficit, right? And so I did learn recently that Alamo Heights Foundation kind of gave the district a little money to help offset their deficit as a one-time gift. So just, you know, you know, little plug. Um, also the ability that y'all get y'all have to give $600,000 and still have over $5 million in the bank. It just really speaks to um the fiscal responsibility that y'all have as a board. We really appreciate it because other districts are not in the position that we're in to have such a generous foundation and y'all are still making,

063you know, money off of that initial $4 million, which I really we really really appreciate. Um, another thing, let's see. Oh, there's some things that we really want to do as a district, but we can't take out a fund balance because we're already looking at a deficit. So, as a board, we would appreciate any help that y'all can provide on those things, those one-time things that we have to do that we just really don't want to take out of the budget. So, that being said, I really appreciate y'all and the fact that you gave $600,000 to for our kids and our families. I mean, it's just remarkable. And that you still have $5 million in the bank. It's just a testament to y'all's fiscal responsibility, and we really appreciate it. We'd like to keep it

064at the $600,000 if y'all can >> or higher because of everything costs so much money. >> But um we do appreciate y'all and we are not any part of the governing board of the foundation. So all of that's to y'all but just little things that would help us. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else have any questions? >> I have another comment. Sitting on the foundation board as the board representative, I have to say that I am super proud of all of the work that all of you do on a daily basis. I've seen foundation members just work very hard for in order to achieve giving out all that money. It's not an easy task. I've seen y'all get up early, you know, go to the different events that we have and work really hard. And

065it's really very appreciative. We really appreciate it. and I've always let them know that it's it's unbelievable the amount of work that gets done with this foundation and um very proud of the work that you all do. Thank you. >> Thank you. Does anybody from the foundation have any comments or anything? Thank you so Yes. Thank could you all just stand one more time so we can give y'all a round of applause? Thank y'all so much. And don't feel like you have to stay for the rest, you know. >> Yes, sir. Thank you'all. Okay. Uh let's move on to partnership with Teach for America. >> Yes, ma'am. We have Miss Barson that's going to give um this information as we are always looking for ways to make sure we have uh teachers to fill our

066vacancies recently started to look into this and Miss Barson will share more information. I'm happy to bring to the board a partnership that you may have heard of in across the nation. It's a national company. Um it's Teach for America. You may remember in years past we had City Year and other um core members come that want to volunteer or want to go work in different areas for two years of service to kind of gain some experience and to learn some different skill sets. maybe see a different part of the world. Well, Teach for America provides us the opportunity of getting um applicants from across the nation who want to come in to work as teachers. And so, we are going to start our adventure with Teach for America. It is a full-time paid position

067um that is primarily sought after by title one school districts. It is a two-year commitment. Teach for America has a history. They have brought more than 750 teachers to the San Antonio area through their history with over 450 alumni. You may remember and Helica Romero who was a principal here. She was a Teach for America alumni and she was proud of that position. The teachers um have worked in numerous school districts and this will be our first adventure working in partnership with Teach for America. Teach for America provides pre-ervice training to all their applicants and they coach them on classroom management on readiness. They do it throughout the summer while the applicants are moving to San Antonio. They coach them throughout the year and throughout their tenure of two years with them. So they'll always

068have a Teach for America coach. They will also get a veteran educator mentor provided by Southwest ISD and they will find assistance in passing their state certification through that organization. In addition to that, all core members are degreed. So they all have at least a bachelor's degree, some of them more. Um, they have applicants from Duke University, from everywhere, marine biologists to just about any other type of degree you can think of. The core members, um, will come into Southwest and be reviewed by the curriculum department to ensure that we're vetting the best applicants possible. And we hope to fill our vacancies in special education, our core classes, and our bilingual with these um applicants from across the nation. Southwest ISD will make sure that we do have a strong vetting system because they'll be

069coming in from other states. Um we will get to hire and place them at the schools of our choice. We will ensure that they are all assigned a qualified experienced mentor here. We pay $5,000 per teacher to Teach for America to ensure that they have training, coaching, and they have somebody working with them to get their certifications completed. And then we will ensure that we also train them in their core content, their curriculum, and we help manage anything that they need like we would do any new teacher. We are not obligated to hire any Teach for America applicant. We allow the principles to go through their regular application process and then they are allowed to select them and then we choose them um to be employees here in the district. So this is a new

070adventure. We had two strong applicants come through. We're late in the process. Next year will be early in the process. So we had two and uh we selected one of the two. So we will have our first Teach for America applicant this year and hopefully grow that into 10 to 20 in the next couple of years. >> Does anybody have any Daniel? >> So after the two-year process um do are they afforded the opportunity to stay if they want or or do they have to go back to their home location or how's that work? >> Their time in their core is over so they may choose whatever they want. Our hope is that they will love Southwest like we love Southwest and they'll want to stay. >> We I just want to let the board

071know we currently have 15 vacancies districtwide. Most of the vacancies are in some very targeted areas of math, science, special ed, and bilingual. So, this is one of many resources that we're using to make sure that we bring quality candidates to our district for our students. >> Can we direct that company as far as like those kind of applications? >> Yes. Specifically, >> yes, we did. >> So, specifically, um I know some of the principles were looking for those teachers have been conducting some interviews. So, you said right now we only have one, but we could we get more by the end of the summer? >> We may be able to, but we can interview all of them, but we only want to make sure that we bring the ones that we think are the

072correct fit for the school and and sometimes they're coming in from different places and if they just don't seem to understand what kind of students we have here and what our expectations are, we don't move forward with it. We're being very particular with it. It is our first adventure through this partnership. So, we want to make sure it's positive and that even if we have one, we're going to make sure it's successful, right? >> And then we will grow there. We did come late into this process. Um, usually the application pools will start up in January. We started in midspring. This next year, we'll be early in getting that application process in with them. That that's that's exciting because I know when my boys were little, we had a lot of teachers coming from the

073north, right? Yes. And we got one from Iowa that was phenomenal. I won't say her name, but she was phenomenal. And I mean, she wanted to come down to Texas. So, I mean, we can really benefit from getting people from all over. And like you said, if they like our system, then >> and there are a lot of states that have tenure >> that you have to wait till someone leaves before you can come in. So you're subbing for years on end. And that's why that Iowa teacher came here because there was more opportunities in Texas. We're hoping for the same thing. >> Yeah, I think it's an awesome thing. Anybody else have No, thank you, Francis. And then TASBY employee survey results. This is another tool that we use to gauge how we're doing

074at the district and our and our campuses. We use this tool to gather information as we've been planning what changes we need, what's working. Um, this falls under Miss Barson's area and she'll give some updates. So, we have conducted the TASBY survey for the last three consecutive years. We do this annually in the spring. Uh the scores are compiled by TASBY and they're anonymous. So we don't know who put in what survey, who answered each question. It all comes to us in just raw data after the fact with nobody's name attached. Scores are shared with principles and then through our um to our employees through the superintendent communication platforms. Some of the results are that 81% of all staff took this survey this year and then 22 criterias were used to actually gauge satisfaction in

075their jobs. From there we had um only a 2% loss in one of the categories and the majority of the people who applied were teachers with 48% of the people who actually applied to the survey being teachers. For the factors of job satisfaction, the top four things that contributed to making teachers want or have job satisfaction was compensation and benefits, respectful treatment of all employees, job security, and work that is meaningful to them. Now, this is really small for you, but if you need a booklet, we can give that to you later. But this actually is just the factors that contribute to job satisfaction broken down over the three years. So you can kind of see the growth areas that have coming. You see some of them are gradual inclines, some of them are a

076little bit declines and some some go back and forth. For job satisfaction, I would tell you that most of the areas of job satisfaction are in the mid 90 range in all categories. The ranges are somewhere between 84% and 97% but the majority of the employees are happy to be here at Southwest ISD. It is a very high average uh according to TASPY. I am going to pass this one on to the superintendent as these are the scores related to the superintendent. >> So this is this is my part. Um, I've been doing this survey for 10 years and when I specifically brought it to Southwest, there's a lot of apprehension because the principles get rated by their campus, different department, whether it's child nutrition, human resources, lots of departments, but I wanted to put

077myself out there um to kind of ease everybody's mind to say we're all in this together. Um, and we use this as a tool to get better. So my team, my immediate team knows what my goal was. My goal was to become a better communicator. TASBY has told me many times that at 80% that's some of the highest scores that they have seen. But I wanted to to do better. And one of the things that we changed was how we did the Monday message. So many of you noticed and commented to me how the Monday message included questions that our stakeholders asked me and then we answered them as a team. So I see the superintendent on campus and at district events scored an 82% that did go up from the 81. I feel comfortable

078approaching the superintendent with any questions or concerns. That also increased to 69%. The superintendent is a good communicator also went up to 82%. The superintendent cares about students 88%. The student superintendent cares about staff 79%. The superintendent holds employees to high expectations 84% and the superintendent clearly explains the reasonings behind changes in the district. That was a significant increase. also we truly attribute it to the questions that people got to ask us and then that we responded to them. So these questions are very similar to the questions that are asked by uh the the principles also have these same questions and their teachers custodians all their staff at the campus level answers these questions just as these are answered by all the employees of Southwest ISD. So I wanted to share this with you because

079this gives us an indication in regards to what I need to do a little bit different whether to enhance or improve or just change but there is a lot of growth um in these areas and highest rating for the superintendent cares about students and then there was an increase in all areas. I don't know there's any there's more to this but I don't know any specific questions about this part. Miss Barson King. >> And so those similar questions are the ones that are the foundations for what I'm going to report. So I'm going to do the highlights for you in any areas of concern for district communication. All about the same in all areas and all the categories. I listed the three years. You can see there 2026 which is this current year is in

080blue. It's on the top and then it goes down historically. The highest rating is the district shares important news and event. And the greatest growth is that employees have a way to express concerns to district leaders. As Dr. Ball um stated before, we have an avenue for teachers to voice their questions and concerns and to get an answer and a response of time within several weeks. Senior staff, it's a slight increase in all areas in this area. The highest rating is uh the senior staff has the best interest of students and that the greatest growth is the belief that senior staff values employees in the district. For curriculum instruction, there's a slight increase in most areas on this category. The highest rating being teachers are held to high professional standards and the data needed to

081make instructional decisions is readily available. The greatest growth is seeing CNI on campus supporting teachers. Administration and human resources slight increase in all areas in this category. Highest rating. Department staff is knowledgeable and helpful. Greatest growth. Staff is responsive to calls and emails. And I know who to ask for help when I have problems or questions. Business and finance about the same in most areas or slight degrees in this area. Highest rating. Staff is responsive to calls and emails. Greatest growth. I know who to ask help when I have problems or questions. Special education about the same in most areas. A slight decrease in uh this some categories. Highest rating. I know who to call to ask for help when I have problems and questions. Greatest growth. The policies, forms, and information I need are

082easy to access. Bilingual ESL department increase in all areas in this category. Highest rating. I know who to ask for help when I have questions and problems. Greatest growth is the same as above. But the focus will be on policies, forms, and information being easily accessible to staff because that area was a little bit lower. it's below 80%. We also have our also have our department comparison. Um, student discipline was one of the considerations that we had in there. There was an increase in two of the three areas and stayed the same for the last one. But the what area that we want to focus on is enforcement of the student code of conduct because it was only at 60% agreed. Athletics increase in three of the four areas including respect, responsiveness and and and

083knowledge. Slight decrease in the area of accessibility for policies, guidance and counseling increased in two of the four areas. one stayed the same, including knowing who to ask for problems, being responsive, and the department has knowledgeable staff, which all were over 91%. There was a slight decrease in understanding where the policies and information access was at 85. Transportation increase in two of the five areas and stayed the same in the other two, including staff being courteous, respectful, helpful, and buses on schedule. a slight decreases in buses being available for field trip at 80% which is still a high percentage. Child nutrition Winston did a great job increase in all four areas with positive ratings from 89 to 95%. Technology a slight decrease or stayed the same in uh all areas from 81 to 96% which

084is all still over 80%. largest decrease is in maint maintenance and repairs of equipment and that went from 85 to 81 but still in the 80 percentile. This one is a little different. Just like Dr. Ball had a line of questions, we had a line of questions for campuses. So, we took the um the total score and kind of averaged it out for you so you could kind of see where the campus climate score rating was. is to ask questions on their supervisor, on their administration, how they felt about the resources they had um being given, the support that they get on campus by either peers or their leadership. The campuses with the highest score ratings are there in green, Big Country, Elm Creek, Hidden Cove Steam Academy, Indian Creek Elementary, Sun Valley, McNair Middle

085School, and Castm High School. The lower rating campuses for this area were some of our new principles, but sometimes that happens with growth and new principal, new leadership was Bob Hope Elementary, Medio Creek, McAuliffe Middle School, Southwest High School, and we put Cass Legacy, I'm sorry, we put Southwest Legacy there because they only had a 68% uh participation rate where most people were over 85 or above in their participation at the very end, we do allow for all the employees to write information to us or to TASBY. And so these are some of the accolades that were included. Um, and they group them into different categories. So these are the categories. And so it may have a 100 people applying to this, 50 people, three people. I've tried to put the top accolades in for

086you so you could see what the most of the um people wrote about. So, the supervisor is supportive, appreciative, they love their administrator. Overall, the district is a great place to work. The campus and departments have adequate time for planning and um collaboration. I'm not going to read them all, but you can kind of see them there. There were also a list of concerns. So, I thought it was only fair that we write both the good and the concerns so that we able to address the concerns um through campus leadership. Um they want to review base pay. They want to make sure that the supervisors have good communication because some state that their supervisors have poor communication. Um the district um uh some supervisors show favoritism and some supervisors may be unfair. Campus departments have

087clicks, things of that nature, benchmark testing. Those are typically uh the complaints that you would hear from campuses, one or two people. We took all of them in so that we could address them all. And then after that, there was a a space for suggestions. So, everybody's always good with suggestions. So, we have a list here and then those lists will be um divided out between the people who can actually make decisions on them. For example, providing 30 hours of GT training during the school year um as opposed to people getting in the summer. um revamping breakfast and lunch options, bringing MCL's back. Uh you may have heard people want to consider a five-week pay period, things of that nature. Um so those are the things that are in the suggestions. That is our summary

088report of what was in the TASBY survey. >> Do we have any questions, comments, concerns? No. Thank you, Francis. Um first read of revisions to the board policies FDA local and FDB local. >> Yes. Uh Miss Barson has been tasked also with a very small change to make sure that we're consistent in regards to our transfer in district and out of district transfer students. So she has a a small policy revision. Um, so in front of you, um, just to make sure that everybody knows, there is the new revise sheet that I provided from you from TASBY. Um, it wasn't in the board book as the final revision from TASBY due to our TASBY member having um, an emergency in their family, but it was provided to us this morning. So, I made sure I

089provided it to you today. And so with this, you're going to see the red lines um based on the changes that they're asking us to revert back to um because we were too specific. And so it provides um no leniency for the superintendent or principles to decide who can come in. It can only be one of those stated policies. In addition to that, we have continual questions over who provides transportation or not for um for people who transfer and the district does not provide that unless it's required by law. And lastly, we do have a question on what factors to consider when approving a transfer. Historically, we have used the ABCs. So that was attendance behavior in class, the amount of work that people provide and do in class. We stop doing that and so

090we're going back to that model and that ensures that we don't take in perhaps an 18-year-old that only has four credits to graduate and then they leave us and then they consider our dropout. So, it really is a factor about considering all things, but putting it in writing so people know that we will consider all of these factors before we bring in a person into our district that may hit us um on accountability on the back end because we didn't factor in all considerations of academic history. And that's FDA. FDB is our inter district. That's somebody transferring within the district to another campus. And this allows the principal the same two things. One, to consider their academic history at their former school before moving them over. And B, to ensure the principles understand, I mean

091the parents understand that we will not provide transportation for that in district transfer. This is the first read of these two items and then they will be approved later on hopefully in my section through administration human resources. Any questions? No. Thank you, Francis. We'll move on to the budget update. >> Yes, we have Scott that's been working on the budget. Um, so he has some information to share with us. >> Scott, do you have more gray hair now than when you first came to us? >> Yes, especially even since last week. >> No, but uh good evening board members, Dr. Ball. Tonight we're going to talk about the uh upcoming 2026 27 budget. So without further ad, let's go. Am I missing the button here? Roger. >> Okay, there we go. All right, so tonight

092we're going to talk about the uh the goals of our budget, kind of look at where we're at currently with our year-to- date current budgets, and then kind of take the first attempt at our upcoming 27 budget. So um the first thing is our budget goals. Of course, everything we do is to support education and provide opportunities for all students. And of course, we also have the fund balance uh board policy that we need to keep in mind as we continue to move forward in this process. So, all right, we also have the recently added strategic priorities and goals and those are available for you. All right. Um, as we go through the budget, there's a lot of hot topics out there right now. Um, in the world of the school finance, and one of

093those is the flow through payments. We have the TIA, the TRA, and the SSR, which are all funds that we receive into the district, but they're earmarked. So, they have a specific use, and so we have a limited flexibility with when we receive those in. And so, it makes a little um little harder to to kind of utilize those funds in other areas. Uh we also have the recently approved voucher program that will be taking place next year. And as of April, we have um the list right there. You can see the number of applicants and um people in our district who are eligible to receive a voucher. Not sure if they were already in private school or not, but this is the numbers we have to look at that. Another um issue affecting school

094school funding is the political climate. um recently uh released article, we'll talk about that next slide, um talks about the enrollment decrease across the state. So, it's hitting everybody across the state. And then another big hot topic is the special education funding. Um this will be something that'll that'll be taking place in the in the 2728 school year. Um next year will be a a year where they kind of kind of mirror it side by side and our of course we'll keep an eye on that because there could be some big changes coming there for us as well. So, some of those hot topics. Any questions on those hot topics? All right, moving right along into the hot topics into the newspapers. These are the hot topics that made their way into the paper. As

095you can see, we're not the only people having um some issues with our with their funding. There's a lot of um school districts out there struggling as well. They have uh seen some school closures and some drops in fund balance. So, and also some drops in enrollment. So, statewide. All right. >> Oh, yes, ma'am. Hang on. Could you go back to that? >> Yep. >> Okay. Um, El Paso ISD also is in the process of filing the same thing. Crystal City, the insolveny. So, I mean, that's a pretty big district. >> Yeah. And it's that's pretty scary. That is a big district. And I even believe their neighbors might even be having issues, >> too. It's it's it's a big hit. Um and then also on the positive side with the legislators, I know that

096there are some of our legislators that are talking about um that there's two fund like accounts. There's the rainy day and then there's something else that has billions of dollars in it. And so they're fighting to release some of those funds to us. So that would be nice. >> That would that would certainly be a welcome to our district. All right. So, here at Southwest ISD, we have some specific issues that we are dealing with as well as other issues. And one of those is an increased health insurance cost as well as our increased utility costs. Furthermore, we've lost a little bit of our funding due to enrollment decreases and some hold harmless funds that were not actually held harmless. So, but we have some strategies that we're looking to kind of combat those things.

097We have a we're continuing to work on attendance and you just heard that we are looking at opening our b our borders to kind of a limited uh um enrollment. There's also an avail availability sorry for us to use the state comped funds a little bit different than we have in the past. So that's that's um give us a little more flexibility there. We're also in the process of applying for the new instructional facilities aotment. Um that should bring us about an extra $500,000. And of course, we're going to continue to look at department budgets and positions through attrition. So, we'll continue doing that process um this budget cycle and all budget cycles. So, all right. So, we have some examples of some items that are in our current budget that are that are very

098important items, but just kind of a little bit underfunded based on our interpretation of the law. So, we have the some examples of under underfunded aotments such as transportation and safety aotments. You can see that we receive funds from the state but our budget exceeds those those those revenues. So, but we have to have it. Very important items. Another item that we have is after school care. You can see that we that we have a budget of 200,000 but we receive about a 100,000 in revenue. So, it's a little um little offsetting but it's very important. So, we want to keep keep that going. extracurricularized um projects that are um programs that are very important to students um education is of course athletics and fine arts. As you can see, we have very large budgets

099for those items and we bring in a little bit of revenue to kind of supplement that as well. So just come some examples of uh expenses out there. All right, that all brings us back to where we're at year to date. So as of last Tuesday, we are looking um kind of at where we're at right now with the budget. Uh we originally uh started off with a revenue of 182 million. We're at 120 right now. We still got a few more months of state state funding to come into our into our into our bank accounts. We're looking forward to that. Um we are right on track to spend the the funds that we've uh been allowed to spend, I guess. So we have $188 million budget and we are on track for that. So

100any questions about where we're at where we're at year to date? What did you say? The 182 million and we only have 120 million. >> So we have a about 120 million that we've received so far from our revenue. So we still have some more state funding coming in. So 119 8110 on the transactions. That's our >> Do we have a projection of what we're going to get? >> Um we should uh we can forecast that out. Um, we've got about, let's see, June, July, August, three more months of revenue. So, got most of our tax dollars as we heard earlier. So, really, really looking at state funding. So, should get some our state funding. >> Do you have like an estimate moneywise what we're going to get? >> I I do not have that

101with >> Okay, that's all right. That's just a big old number. >> Yeah, it's a large amount, but we get uh paid from the state in different months. So, we have our large tax dollars. >> Okay. Well, if you look at the state funding there and the revenue where it says state, uh, we adopted 126 million. That's what we anticipated getting in revenue. We've only gotten 70 from the state because we don't get paid every month from the state. We get money up front and then our we'll get bigger checks. So, we're roughly still getting 50 million something like that. Okay. >> Uh, you think you're going to hit the 126? >> I I don't because that includes the ADA. So what they're doing now, the state is updating PES and so they're going to

102adjust us and so that's where uh we may see some ADA losses. Those won't be as bad as like some of the other investments I talked about investments and the shards. Uh but we do anticipate getting most of our state funding. >> Okay. Thank you. >> We also have our 26 25 26 budgets with the food service and debt service and we're moving right along there. we will have our next upcoming payment for our debt service in August. So that will close out that budget as well. So um so as we get ready to write the 27 the 2027 budget, we have some assumptions that we plug in into our budget modules. And so we have the average daily enrollment uh average daily attendance of 13,558 students and a projected enrollment of 15,94. So those

103are two very important numbers. is pretty much drive our revenue and kind of we base a lot of our our projections off of those numbers. So, including our staffing, just some historical uh trends that you can see in our on this slide, you have our enrollment trends the last few years. We were looking pretty good for a while and we've kind of plateaued. Same with our ADA. They go hand in hand. So, got a little bit of an increase this year. Um we hope for a slight increase next year. Hopefully, we'll get some good news in our next presentation from the demographer that category. Any questions on the enrollment? All right. So, in our enrollment by classroom, just in case uh anyone's interested, we have this breakdown by each classroom. This is what we actually

104use to staff our our schools with. And um this is a uh guess this is our enrollment that we also project our our campus budgets with as well. So, all right. historical fund balance. So, as you can see, Southwest ISD has enjoyed a very nice fund balance. We continue to have a nice fund balance, but we are heading in the wrong wrong direction. So, we will keep that in mind as we continue to move forward with this process. As you can see, um since 2019, we've had like 11 million swing in the negative. So, we'll continue to utilize the funds as we need. Um, but as we continue to write our budget, we will keep in mind that the fund balance as we're getting closer to the the board of board approved four months. So,

105we need to make sure that we're that we're keeping that in mind as we move in that direction. So, um I know we did use some of the ESRE funding um in 21 22 and 23. So, that kind of supplemented the fund balance a little bit. So, we have a higher budget there and I think the district was planning for that. So, they were able to um save some of those costs and and use those funds now as we're kind of short. So, that's kind of what's going on in that capacity. Any questions? All right. Proposed revenue. This the revenue is kind of the building block of the budget. So, for us, we're looking at a revenue of 184 million, almost 185 million. Of course, this this number may change by the time we get

106to August. We have not received our projected uh certified values yet. U we also kind of keep in mind our investments are a little bit lower. We're showing that here as well as our our Medicaid and char program. Um you can see that numbers kind of a lot lower than has been in the past. Any questions on our revenue? No. All right. This is our campus aotments. This is what we are providing each campus um for them to use for their day-to-day items such as their custodial supplies, their their copy machines. Um we've got a little bit tighter this year than we have in the past. Um we've kind of we trimmed a little bit of the budget down over the past year to make sure that we can try to save some money in

107this category. I know as we move forward for next year, there won't be as much funding for some of the I don't know some of the field trips and whatnot. So, we're kind of making sure that we're keeping this budget um as as tight as possible and we're doing the same thing for the department budget. So, all right. All that being said, oh yes, ma'am. >> Be before we do anything about cutting the budgets, I I really want field trips to be important. The kids love the field trips, and they they really get to do very little as far as field trips go. >> Field trips are fun. I like them, too. >> Um, yep. So, yeah, we'll definitely look at that number right there. It's uh we're also looking at some other items to

108see if we can trim around. Um maybe try not to buy so much stuff at one time. Kind of like we talked about the just in time. Um not storing as many things on campus. Um but yeah, for sure. Here we go with the draft of the general fund budget. This is uh round one, I guess. Um this is a very base model base model budget. I guess not a base model car, but a base model budget. We've got a a a budget that has a salary freeze in place currently. Um the siphons are in place. The only increase to this to the salaries would be the uh principal um strategic compensation. We're looking at we're added $120,000 to that budget category just to make sure that we can hold harmless all the all the

109salaries. So um as we move forward with the strategic compensation. So u payroll right now is makes up about 82% of our budget. So, we're right on track with that part. Um, when it's all said and done, we have 189 million in expenses, leaving us with about um minus 4.4 million in in the hole. So, which at the end of 27, if we go with this budget, we'd have a projected fund balance of 55 million, which is still within our our three month uh that's actually four months worth of operating expense. is the dollar amount for the three months. Is that on here? >> Uh, I did not put that on here, but it's about 45 million. So, >> 45 million. >> So, when we look at what we have left that we could even

110consider using, we have to take out that 45 million. >> Yes. Okay. >> We would have to uh keep that in mind. The starting point would be the three million >> and then that would leave us if at this projected fund balance that leaves us >> 10 million. Perfect. Thank you. >> Y um any questions on this draft budget? >> All right. All right. So, next steps, we'll meet again in July, kind of talk about compensation, um, and then see another draft of the budget, and then hopefully by the end of July, we'll get our certified values, and we'll be ready to, uh, talk about the budget and adopting the tax rate in August, and then start the new school year in September. Any questions? >> Yeah, >> any questions? >> Y'all are doing a

111great job. >> Thank you. Just get that red number lower. We're We're good. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, Scott. Um, now we have the demographic study update. >> Yes, ma'am. Tonight with us, we got Brent Alexander. Know he's pretty familiar. He's been doing this for us for a while, helping us project uh, you know, it's a big part of our budget, but it's also a big part of our growth and like future bonds and seeing where we're going in across our community and what's happening. So, he has a lot of information uh, tonight. I know it's been a lot of presentations, but this is very important for us. So, uh, I'm going to turn it over to Brent. So, it's all yours, sir. >> Dr. Ball, board members, good to see everyone

112again. Um, tonight I have our 2526 district demographics update to, uh, share the key highlights with you. U, let's start by taking a look at the annual snapshot numbers. Uh you can see um on the right hand side of the of the slide you can see that the official enrollment for the 2526 school year was 14,868. That's another record high for the district. So if you look back um over the last 10 years uh the district's enrollment has grown um just under 1,200 um net total students. That's about an 8.6% 6% uh increase which with a lot of that growth happening after the COVID pandemic. So you can see over the last few years. Now recall the greater San Antonio area is made up of 32 uh public school districts. I've given you the official

113enrollment totals for uh the 25 26 school years uh for each. Uh you can see that Southwest ISD has uh has the sixth largest total enrollment now. uh in the region it moved up from seventh place moving ahead of of SEU. Uh recall a year ago we talked about uh enrollment being forecasted to surpass 15,000 potentially grow towards 153. Um but this year we saw enrollment flat. Um you can see that the net growth was 35 students. it it was up um just a little bit above no change. So um but keep in mind that after we uh presented back in the spring last year um you all uh did halt your prek3 program and you made several changes to your um enrollment policy and your out of district transfer policy and then combine that

114with the political environment over the last year. You can see um that all of those things have contributed to um a flat number. U I've given you updated uh timeline u average growth percentages. So you can see the last five years the district is averaging 2.1% growth. The last three year about 2.7. The last 10 year right about 1%. So that 2.7 when you compare to what the other districts are seeing uh in the region here on this map note that I've highlighted districts that are um that have experienced a decline in blue districts that have seen growth are highlighted in red. Uh so to just like you saw in the previous uh budget report um many of the districts that are shaded in blue here are experiencing the things that you're seeing in the

115headlines. Um declining enrollment u the closure of of schools. Many of these areas especially in the mid- urban uh areas of of the district or excuse me of the region are experiencing aging in place uh and uh declining enrollments. um for their younger population. Now, I'm going to show you, you guys are a little bit different than that. Um you all had a 8.2% growth over the last three years. That ranks sixth overall. Um keep in mind you you you self-imposed some restrictions on yourself. So even with those restrictions, you all had the sixth most growth on a percentage basis and you had the fourth largest enrollment growth of all the districts in greater San Antonio um over these last three years with a net growth of about 1120 students. So um there's a lot

116of positive things uh people want to be here in the district but but it is complicated and I'm going to talk about that um as we move forward over these next few slides. Uh these are the latest numbers that we have from our national data source. These are census based numbers. So the numbers for 2025 show that the the district's overall population is now over 78,000. Um there's over 23,000 total households. Um the growth rates for both population and households are faster than what we're seeing um from the district from enrollment that you can see there three to four and a half% growth. So um what we're seeing is the the number of households is growing faster than the than the population. So more people are moving in um that with a smaller uh number

117of children the household size is getting smaller. And this is a trend that we're seeing across um the state. You all will see that the chart there on the right there's there's over 20 nearly 22,000 estimated residents of the district that are under age 18. Uh think about enrollment being about uh 15,000. Um and I'll show you here in a minute the the the the numbers that are actually living within the boundary. But but there are a considerable amount of of younger people that live in the district that are not enrolled and and I'll go through that here in just a second. But this is a um our timeline of the totals by grade. Um I've highlighted everything in green. Recall the the uh the growth wave or this pulse that has moved through the

118district over these last 101 15 years. You can see how many of those are um how that that pulse is now up in the upper grades in 10th through 12th grade seeing record enrollment um these last two years uh for a a number of years prior to COVID and then and then it's recovered well prior to CO you saw the the numbers in elementary through really in K through eight begin to decline behind that big growth wave but but we've seen the numbers come up over these last few years. So, this is a this is very encouraging. This goes against a trend that I see in a lot of districts today. Most districts that I'm working with are seeing declining numbers in K through2. You all are actually growing and I'll show you uh what

119that birth rate and what's contributing to that coming up. Um but do note there in the prek column that that change that reduction of about 155 160 uh prek students that was your program change there that that that caused that change. So just note going forward when you look at our forecast at the end we have adjusted um our numbers for prek to be right about that 800 number going forward. Um the totals by attendance level are shown here. Um you can see that kindergarten um that growth in those K through2 numbers have influenced continue to influence elementary. You can see these last uh four years uh since the pandemic we we've seen the numbers for elementary continue to grow and this year you all had a record 6100 K through5 students in the district.

120those numbers um those younger grades moving up are now starting to move into the middle school grades and and you see these last two years the the numbers uh in six through eight are starting uh to grow. The high school numbers have flattened out as that that growth wave begins to age out. I've given you all the the numbers for the official numbers from uh the TEA for 2526 for each campus there. Um I'll mo move ahead and show you a couple of metrics that we look at each year. Um here you can see the the graph showing the students in 12th grade represented by the the yellow bar versus what's what's coming in. U prior to 2017 you can see that you had um considerably more younger students moving in than than uh at

121the upper grades but that inverted. The lines still remain very close together. So it does moderate the pace of growth when you when you have more that are exiting than coming in, but they're growing uh back together, which is which is an encouraging sign. Now, um to some of the the things we've seen in the headlines, um yes, the the u the overall uh numbers for u kinderg or excuse me, the birth rate in the state has been flat to down. Overall the the enrollment for the state is down. Um but I wanted to point out here that you all um are kind of going against a trend with the growth um in your kindergarten and your birth rate. The blue line represents the the totals for uh bursts for the the four main zip

122codes that make up the majority of of the district's boundary. You can see that those numbers, the data that we have through 2023 shows that for for 2021, 2022, and 23 mothers that lived in the within the district, um the number of children that they've had born has have climbed to record levels. So, this is an encouraging sign because not only did you reach a 13-year high in kindergarten this year, your position to see kindergarten surpass a thousand next year and potentially grow towards 1,200 or more over the next two to three years if those students show up. Um, just a comment on the birth rate before I move ahead. The majority of the burst within the district has been in the 78252 zip code. That is your Cinco Lakes area. All of the 1604

123up to Highway 90 area. So some of that uh number will fall in Medina Valley schools, but a lot of it falls in southwest schools. So that portion of the district is poised to see um or continue to see growth. Now this is our mobility slide. Remember, we're looking at uh students that were uh enrolled in K through 11 and then are present in in in 1 through 12th grade the next year. The numbers this past year were a little bit smaller, but the overall net result uh was just about the average that we've seen, just under 400 newcomers into the district. So, it's been very consistent since the pandemic that you all are seeing about that amount uh coming in um each year. Now, we get the TEA transfer report data every spring. So,

124I've given you the updated number here. So, this this is this the slide that that talks about um students that live within the district but are attending another public school district or public charter school. This does not include private schools. So, this is saying um that just under 3,800 total students that live within the district boundary are attending uh elsewhere. That's what the orange bars represent on the chart on the left. So, you can see the majority of those are attending local charter schools like we've talked about for years, but those numbers have been pretty stable as you can see uh in the chart. Um, also your neighboring school districts are um through their open enrollment programs are are are pulling uh students. So, we've got students going in different directions. And this is u

125something that as everyone competes for uh having more um higher or higher attendance with dollars uh tied to that number. You can see the wide variety of of other school districts and and charter schools that the district's having to compete with. We've also seen a little bit or incremental growth in the virtual learning and I've and that's been a theme for many districts that I've met with over the last year as they look to expand or pro potentially bring that back next year. So, we're going to see more of that out there. So competition for your students uh remains uh very strong. All right, moving ahead to uh just look at the geocoding. U the students enrolled uh in the 2526 school year are shown there represented by the yellow dots. That's about 14,000 students

126that live within the district boundary. So uh that's 94% of overall enrollment. That's what's been very consistent these last uh few years. Um but I thought you would like to see these these theme max maps. I have given you two uh versions. Um this first one is um well the first one should the label should be this is the sixth year from 2019 precoid to 2025. So areas that are shaded in red those are the areas that you have seen uh the most growth. So, um, looking at that, everything is kind of in between 1604 and 410 with that area that is, um, out there where the current, um, Alvar Roto Elementary is being built around Southwest and or Legacy in and Resnik. Um you can see those that's where the majority of the growth

127that Watson Road Fisher Road corridor also you can see the around Medio the the uh old parasol corridor in there but then also that Cino Lakes area that's up there in Southwest Elementary they're up south of Highway 90. It's kind of blurry. Um, that minus 278 and minus 236, where what streets are those? I can't tell. >> Well, these are these are planning areas that we created, but those are basically the that's the the net decline that are really in the Indian Creek and the Hidden Cove in the the former Sky Harbor attended zones. that these are you all are experiencing the losses of or declining enrollment in that in those areas inside 410 which is >> you know all related to the Sky Harbor decision but also you should pay attention to that you

128have declining enrollment in the north in the Creald and Big Country area those areas have also been influenced by nearby charters in aging >> what color are those >> they're blue that's that 250 that's all in the upper >> okay >> panhandle. So many districts that are in the mature areas if they are um you know their housing is a generation old or more or they're nearby um charter schools that we're seeing declining enrollment no matter which district you're in >> and then up in so that minus 252 is in the big country area. >> Yes. at the very top. >> You know, it's one caveat I should say with this. We do have the prek numbers that have dropped a little bit. So, up in in that area, you could you could have 40

129or so that were in the data that are not with that program change with the three-year-olds. So, but still even with that those are the areas that um have seen declining enrollments and this if without this you all would be growing even faster. So, that's always something to consider. Um I've given you the three-year number here u just so you can see how that compares to the six-year but generally the same areas. Um and and also remember that the Elm Creek area out on the west side of the district has also uh been growing. And then many of the areas that are uh that are currently uh Bob Hope and and Spicewood have seen but the older areas in Bob Hope and Spicewood have also seen uh some maturing in in declines there. We use

130the geocoding to update our student yields. This is a summary of each one of those. The first up is the is the single family. The current u single family enrolled student yield is 0.44. You can see how that trend has been u gradually declining. It's it's kind of leveled off there around 0.45 as more homes come in. But um 75% of the homes that are built in the district today are on 40 foot wide lots. So, as I talked to you last year about that, those homes are smaller and as the as those smaller homes have been built, we've seen the yields go down. That number also represents um that not every student enrolls. So, if the historical norm is around 0.6, you can see there's a proportion of that that that are are not

131represented there. Um, I've given you a list of all of the subdivisions that are active and many of the newer neighborhoods are producing a 0.2 0.3 yield per house. So, it takes more homes to yield faster growth. Um, but I just want you all to understand that that that low that yield is low uh historically, but it is what we are seeing pretty much every area of the state with the new type of housing that's being built. Um especially the new more affordable entry level type homes that LAR and your Horton Cyex are building. Uh they're 2500 square feet and smaller. These yields are lower. Um apartments as we get more apartments coming in, more build to rent units coming in. The yields still right around 0.4. Um that that number is also declining. It

132also represents competition. Um but it's been a little bit more stable historically this this past year with some of the newer um apartment complexes that has opened the the yields have been slightly smaller. So we are factoring all this into our enrollment projections uh that you're going to see uh at the end. Um I'll move through the the portion on the macroeconomic quickly here. The key takeaway is that the the macroeconomic conditions for greater San Antonio is still very solid. Job growth has slowed down. That's probably the biggest concern. You can see here that it's it's it's come back um over the last two years from that normal about 23,000 a year that we saw from 2010 to up to the pandemic. Um mortgage rates still stubbornly high. Um remaining above three. This is the

133resales. the turnover of existing homes continues to be flat. That I talked to you before about house lock or mortgage lock. A lot of lot of that just continues there. There's really been no change and we're not expecting to see a change until interest rates drop into the fives. Um but overall there's still about 18,000 19,000 homes being built in greater San Antonio. The numbers are still pretty good. the the builders have not overbuilt the the region and the numbers are pretty strong and you all are a leader within your new home construction is a is one of the leading areas of of greater San Antonio. So here are the numbers that we counted through the end of March. U there were 1378 starts 1423 closings. These are off a little bit from last year

134but last year was a record high. Um so um the numbers are running uh really close to those record numbers. Um and you can see that the demand for um homes is is is strong enough that the developers are continuing to put about anywhere from 1,200500 new lots on the ground. So just in the last 12 months ending in March there were 1488 single family new single family lots that were added. Here's what I was uh referring to. You all are the fifth most in greater San Antonio. When you take all of the 18 19,000 houses that are being built, you all are fifth in terms of uh total production. >> A quick question. Um when you were doing our projections, did you include that new subdivision on Pieraw Road, the LAR Homes one? Like

135I think it was like 300 homes. >> Are you talking about Yes, I have that coming up. >> Perfect. So, u here's a list of the top producers. You're going to see many of these um fall into um elementary zones. Then these are these represent the the upcoming fall 2026 attendant zones that you'll see that they many of them feed into the Resnik attendant zone. But just a quick point, uh one of the things that has been a big topic uh nationwide is affordability. Um you all have uh many of your new homes today are actually below the the median for the region. So affordability is is a key driver. Um I know that it takes more of those smaller houses to generate fast student growth, but you have a lot of demand for people

136moving in to to purchase the the median house. It's about about 275 today. Um now with um Alvarado under construction there, we we did the tenant zones um back in the fall. Um so the data that you see in the report now is based on those new attendant zones. So the majority of the construction that is out there, residential construction that's been been out out there the past year falls in the Alvaro attended zone. Um so you can see a little more than or just under 600 houses over the last year have been built in the attendant zone. Bob Hope numbers, Southwest and Creewald Road numbers also very strong. 69% of the activity falls into Resnik. Um so uh you can see how with this Resnik will trend larger than um the other eventually in

137terms of of total enrollment and this is the reason for that. Uh but then when you look at high school, you can see it's it's about a still about a 6040 split between Legacy and Southwest. Now, what's inventory-wise? There were about 800 homes under construction in March, about 2400 lots that are fully developed. U then coming behind that about,50 lots under development, and then we've got 3,400 that we're watching um in in the in the proposed pipeline. In addition to that, there's about 2 2400 apartments that are still um that are still planned. So, when you combine everything, we're talking about 7,700 single family lots, 2400 apartments. This map here shows the new elementary zones. Um I've circled areas of focus for the developers. You're going to see there's a lot of in um continued

138focus on that Watson Road and Fiser Road corridor around um the uh Alvarado attended zone. Um there's still a lot of attention around uh Vita in the area there in the Bob Hope attendant zone. Um but your Sunshine Trails is um what you were talking about. That is 600 plus lots for LAR that's coming. I've got some good photographs of it coming up. Um and then there's still um hundreds of lots to go up there in the Applewood area. That's that in Sino Lakes area that that fall both in Creall and um and Southwest Elementary attended zone. Here's some photos. I'll quickly go through these starting in the southeast. Uh here's Vita right next to the University Health Medical Center. These photographs are from the end of March. Um this is LAR moving into the

139smiley track there south of 410 west of Zarzamora. Um Hunter Pond moving towards buildout and Applewood Meadows. Here you can see one of the newer apartment complexes there. Um at 16 and and 410. Um this is preserve at Medina. Uh up in the upper left you can see the future Ember emberstone apartments that are under construction. and that'll bring about 250 units uh in those those are actually in the Spicewood attendant zone that running kind of through the middle there is the boundary between um Alvarado and and Spicewood. And so here's another shot. Here's Watson at the bottom of the screen and you can see some more of the the development that's coming in. Um the Watson Road Corridor is very interesting to to um take a look at. I'll move forward to this slide

140because you it gives you a little better view of what's happening. You have um subdivisions where KB home and Medina crossing there. Um but you have Habitat for Humanity that has done Rancho Colada and then you have Verono Farms. You've got that's there's almost 600 lots that are in that plan zoning case um on the vacant track that that's kind of next to Commamino Rial. So this whole area is a big area of focus and and you can see if you just turn your attention and look north that on the photograph here that you all have three schools right there positioned to handle that residential growth that's coming. Uh I'll move over to um as you move back towards 35. Um here's Lar at Valley Soul. And then um there's a little some smaller ones

141down there um on Bonormy Road in Campto Hill there in the center of the photograph. Um when you when you jump back up to the to the 90 and 1604, here's some of the newer lots in Applewood shown here on these photos. Um, sorry for the helicopter being a little um turned there, but this is Cino Lakes as it moves towards buildout. Um, note that Lucky Ranch, uh, most of what you see in the photograph here is in Medina Valley, but there are still 300 lots that are planned in this area there. That's kind of the upper right um, that are Southwest ISD. You can kind of see the vacant land to the to the east there. And then this track that's down here under development, it actually extends further east and will eventually pop

142over the boundary into Southwest ISD. But here is Summer Hills. Sunshine Tras is what's already been under already been building in, but it's Sunshine Trails, which is the 600 plus lots that LAR has on Parasol that's between 35 and and Parasol. Here's a here's another view of it. If you look in the upper left corner of the photo, you can see Southwest High School and Southwest Elementary and and the um the admin building right there. So, it's not too far away, just right down the road. Um another big subdivision. Okay. So, when you put all of the um developments together and forecast them out, we're looking at about 5,100 homes over the next five years. Um generally that's about 1300 um over over these um next few years. Uh the numbers will come down as

143some of these popular areas build out. Um so um there could be newer developments come in to to keep the number up towards this 1,200 1300 a year but right now I'm forecasting it to slow down based on what we're seeing. Um, but we're looking at 5 to 8,000 houses over the next 5 to 10 years. Um, plus the additional multif family developments. Um, and so then taking that into account and then taking in the program changes that we've talked about, u all of this we we've we've re revised it down a little bit from where we were a year ago. Um, not looking at more of a three to three and a half, but more of the two to two and a half% growth. So that's what the new moderate is on the budget

144report. You saw the 15-1 my low scenarios more of that. But I'm you know your your roll up is close to 15 already. So all of this residential growth should bring um some growth. It should push you towards 152 153 and that keeps you in that low 2% per year. So if that happens, we're going to see enrollment grow towards 16 to 17,000 over the next three to five years. You all have the capacity to handle that growth. What will come um first is more the need for more elementary space and that's what we show here on the blue line. It's similar to what we saw a year ago. it. You're right now you're still looking at um not moving into that 90 plus capacity utilization until five to six years from now. If if

145the market speeds up, obviously that could move up in time. But right now at that 2% growth, you're looking at probably in that that 20 31 timeline before things get really really tight at the elementary level. Um I've given you my um projected numbers. We'll have to um iron some of this out based on your program decisions, but but these are our initial number campus projections by grade level. Um so with that said, I will uh answer any questions that you have. >> Can you help us get better roads? Is that part of your job? No. Do y'all have any questions or any >> Yeah. clarifications? Okay. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. >> Thank you all. >> I will say it's nice having the same guy all the time because you already I

146mean you have the background to really keep us well informed. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Um we're going to go to item N uh temporary pause and recalibration of secondary dual language program. And then after that we're gonna take about a five minute break to walk around and then come sit down again. >> Yes, I have Miss Felia Teras who's gonna present that. We're going to keep it brief. >> Thank you. >> My my leg was falling asleep. So, um, good evening board members. Dr. Paul. Um, this evening I'm going to present item of information in regards to the secondary dual language program on behalf of special programs and the bilingual ESL department. Um, so as you can see here, um, the reason that we are doing this is because after doing some program

147evaluations and in preparation of our staffing meetings, we found that we, um, really want to focus on the progress that our students are making or aren't making. And so when we looked at that, we looked at what does their progress look like for emerging bilingual students. We also looked at what does our staffing look like. And I know there was just a presentation that was made in regards to how we have uh teach for America and we do have some shortages in those areas. And then also are we following a coherent and model that is actual um being followed with fidelity? Are you doing it or okay? And so this is really the data that we looked at when we look at the EB progress when we're looking at their TEL pass scores and which

148is the English language proficiency rates. We looked at overall as a district there was a 36.4% progress rate that we did make. But when we look at the campuses we noticed that there were 14 out of 18 campuses that did show a decline. And so 10 out of our our 18 campuses did earn their three to four uh four points in pass. And so with that, we will have a further breakdown of the data when we present our annual report in November. And so we found that eight out of the 18 campuses earned zero points. So when we were looking at our dual language program at secondary, we found that it would be a better um more feasible idea for us to focus on those students and those campuses who are not making those progress.

149So basically, we want to pause the secondary dual language long enough to give us maybe this following year to really identify what our targets are going to be, what type of support models we're going to put in place, and then also what type of staffing we're going to need in order to be able to continue these services at Mclliff, specifically Resnik and Southwest Legacy High School. And so when you look at the secondary campuses and the progress and the points that they earned, two middle schools are the ones who did actually earn their points. McAlliff was one of those and McAlliff does have that dual language program at secondary and then the other one was Scobby which just has the ESL program. >> Are you saying the ones that did not meet? >> Correct. So

150McAuliffe did not get their points and Scobby did not get their points. McNair did get their four out of four. Resnik did get their three out of four. And then when we look at the high schools, the high schools did fairly well. Southwest High School did get their four points. Um overall, Legacy got three out of four and then CAST STEM also got three out of four. But if you notice, Cass did lose a little bit of value and they do have a very small number of emerging bilingual students. So, a lot of that sometimes is taken into consideration, but in particular, McAuliff is one of those schools that does have a large number of emerging bilingual students and they do have the dual language program. That doesn't necessarily mean that all emergent bilingual students

151are in the program. Some of them do get serviced by ESL. So, in particular, when we're talking about the dual language students at Mclliff between the grades of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, we're talking about approximately 82 students. When we look at the elementary campuses and their results, we can see that overall there was a weighted rate of about 39.3%. So we do have the 11 campuses. Two of them did show improvement. You can see there which ones did get their four points. Southwest Elementary did get their four out of four points and they also showed some value. Spicewood Park, they did get their points, but you'll notice that they did have an 18 um percent ch uh drop. um Creald Road, Sun Valley, and Big Country did earn their three out of four points.

152And then you can see also that some of them did lose value. And then you can look at the elementary campuses that got zero out of the four points. So those are going to be our big focus areas. And like I said, coming in November, we will have more of the data broken down. So, um, we know that in order for us to really see this progress, we want to make sure that there's capacity and, um, fidelity with the the programs that we are implementing, whether they're at elementary or at secondary. So, one of the biggest um findings was the um ability to be able to staff these these um classrooms with certified dual language teachers that are also certified in the core content area such as biology, history, or whatever it is that that

153we're asking them to teach in that Spanish language. And so we're not going to completely abandon the dual language program at those three campuses because we did implement it for a reason a few years back and we wanted to make sure that we continue with those students being able to be uh truly bilingual, biterate and bicultural. And so at this moment we are just going to be pausing the program like I said in order for us to be able to come together and re-evaluate what of our what are our resources? Do we have the staffing? Do we have a plan in place to be able to grow these teachers? And with the help of some of these other resources, if we can be a collaborative effort to be able to fully implement a true dual

154language program and so um what does that mean for the students? They are going to continue to get services. We already offer an ESL program at secondary at those three campuses. So with that same model as those other students who are not necessarily in a dual language program, they will continue to get their services. Um there won't be a disruption in any of that. They will continue to be monitored through their ELP committees. And so um we will just make sure that they continue to get the type of support that they need from the special programs division. And so before we decide to relaunch this, we will be coming back to provide the board with an update as well as senior staff. And so we want to be able to make sure that everything is

155aligned for our students, that we can staff it accordingly, that the curriculum is there for our teachers as well, and then that it's being implemented with fidelity, but at the same time, that we have our targets in place to be able to make sure that um our students are uh being able to be successful academically. And so, um, if we find that we cannot really fulfill all of these areas, then we will be honest and be able to bring that to you. And so, again, there's not going to be any disruption in services. We're going to continue to um be able to find ways to recruit teachers, retrain, um, retain them, and also provide the training that they need. also make sure that we stay in clear communication with our families and making sure that

156those students are being monitored and that um every student has a documented service plan to make sure we're also in compliance. And so again, we're just going to be pausing the dual language program at those three particular campuses. And so the cohorts that we are discussing are those fifth graders going into sixth grade. they will just be um referred for ESL services at those three campuses. The current students that are going to be moving sixth to seventh grade, seventh to eighth grade um also will be recommended for um ESL services and their parents will be informed as well giving them the information knowing that they're not going to have any disruption of services. And then also um the cohorts at the high school which are going to be 9 to 10 and 10 to 11.

157And I think that is yes the end of the presentation. Are there any questions? I try to go fast. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Um we're going to take a short five minute break and then we'll come back6 but we don't adjourn, right Roger? Okay. We're just going to go on a break. going to um go ahead and resume our meeting. We'll go to item seven, administration and human resources. Consider approval of revisions to board policy FDA local and FBD local. Those are the things we heard earlier, right Francis? Yes, ma'am. So, I'm asking for the board to consider the approval as presented >> unless there's I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, you go. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second um to approve it. All those in favor say yes. No, I'm

158sorry. Vote yes or no or abstain. Okay, thank you. A motion passes. Okay, moving on to item eight, business and finance. Consider approval of the ESS consult. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Consolidated federal grant application. >> Yes, ma'am. Similar to the uh this was a presentation in the public hearing and so we're recommending to the board to approve the ESA grant application as presented in the public hearing. Could you all turn your microphones on when you make a motion, please? >> I move that we approve the grant application. >> I second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Uh, please vote. >> Hello. >> Okay, there it is. All right, that passes. Thank you. Um, consider approval of change order number two for the child nutrition freezer edition and renovation project. >> Yes, ma'am.

159Change order number two is just a credit back to the bond funds of $8,012. Uh, and so we're recommending the board to approve change order number two. >> Okay. Brandon, does that um money go back into the bond funds? >> It does. >> Okay. >> We need a motion. >> I move. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any questions? No. Please vote. Okay. Thank you. That that passes. Thank you. um consider and take possible action to approve engagement agreement with Mo Casey as financial consultant related to application on taxable value limitation on eligible property. >> Yes ma'am. Uh so at the public hearing the first public hearing I know that we had Mo Casey and was gay here presenting on the possible jetty with Toyota. uh to during the application process, Toyota

160had donated or not donated had to pay to the district $30,000. $15,000 will be used for us to consult with Mo Casey with So right now I'm asking the board to re and recommended to the board to approve our engagement agreement with Mo Casey as our financial consultant. And there's move that the board approved the financial consulting agreement with Mo Casey on application for taxable value limitation on eligible property with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas Inc. Texas Comproller of Public Accounts. Application J000032 under Texas Jobs Energy Technology and Innovation Act, Texas Government Code subchapter T and delegate authority to superintendent to execute same. >> A second. >> You second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. Are there any questions? No. Please vote. Awesome. Thank you'all. Motion passes. Um, consider and take possible

161action to approve engagement agreement with Walsh Gayos, Kyle Robinson, and Delos Santos PC as legal council related to application on taxable value limitation on eligible property. >> Similar recommendation uh this would be funded with the the $30,000 would be using the 15,000 for wash. So recommendation is to enter an agreement with Walsh Gayos to represent us in this project. >> I move that the board approve the legal services agreement with Walsh Gayos, Kyle Robinson, and Delos Santos PC application for taxable value limitation on eligible property with um Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Texas Incorporated. Texas Controller of Public Accounts Application J0032 under the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Act, Texas Government Code 403, Subchapter T, and delegate authority to the superintendent to execute the same. >> A second. >> Thank you. We have a motion

162and a second. Are there any questions? If not, please vote. Thank you. Motion passes. Uh item E will be pulled until after close session. So we'll move on to item F. Consider approval of Southwest ISD Education Foundation memorandum of understanding. >> Yes. And this is to continue the partnership and the work that I presented this evening. This will be brought back for approval every three years. >> Thank you, J. >> I move second. >> We have a motion and a second. If there are no questions, please vote. >> Thank you. Motion passes. Thank you. And then consider approval of PA intercom replacement at Southwest High School. >> Yes, ma'am. The Southwest High School uh current PA intercom system is not functioning properly due to its age. Uh it kind of been Frankenstein together throughout the

163years. Uh so Southwest ISTD staff has reached out to Lonear Communications Incorporated uh for a quote to replace this system. Lonear is the service contractor that works on our existing Southwest High School system and then all of our PA systems. And this is the new system will be uh standardizing across the district that we've been doing uh at all the other locations. So the districts and it will also be part of the 2023 bond fund will be what it's paid from. And then so the staff recommends board award the contract to Lonear Communications Incorporated to install that new PA system in the amount not to exceed $199,857. Thomas that does that include the complex or no >> this is strictly the high school build the building the career center and the a building. >> I

164know we talked about >> complex that's a that's an item that will be coming back in next month's >> meeting. Thank you. >> I move >> second. >> We have a motion and a second and if there are no further questions please vote. Thank you. Motion passes. Thank you, Thomas. Um, let's see. No, nothing under item nine. Item 10, consider approval of a legal service contract for Maddox and Munice PLLC for special education legal services. >> Yes, Dr. Hogan has uh some information in regards to a law firm that we would like to use. >> Yes. Um, you know, in regards to kind of the complexity that we continue to see in special education and related areas, we continue to see increases in TEA complaints, due process um, hearings, um, and really just the overall

165changes in some of the regulations and laws regarding to special ed. We really want to look at a change in potential um, legal services um, for Southwest to really look at making sure that we are providing the best services to our students and our families and to our district through this process. Really what we did is we looked at what our anticipated legal support needs are for special education and related areas. And then we looked at the expertise of potential uh people that could bring services to us. And then we looked at um individuals that have represented Southwest in the past. Um also their availability, their responsiveness, and just the district needs in general. And so what we would like to recommend um is that we look at the legal a legal contract with Maddox

166and Munice. Um those legal services would be funded through the approved legal service budget and utilize on an asneed basis in accordance with the negotiated fee schedules and engagement and agreement. And so tonight, the recommendation to the board is to approve legal service contract with Maddox and Munice PLLC for legal services and to authorize the superintendent to negotiate and finalize any agreement. >> And this would be moving all of special ed >> and related areas. So special education, 504, student service areas that that kind of all relate together. Yes. >> Okay. And is that for a year, two years, three year? Is it a yearly contract or >> I believe the legal agreement that we have looked at is a year-to-year basis. Yes. >> Okay. >> Board members. >> Uh I move to approve the

167legal services contract from Madison PLC for special. >> I second. >> We have a motion and a second. Are there any questions? If not, please vote. Thank you. Motion passes. Um before we go into close session, Dr. Ball, do you have anything? >> Yes. Last week there was a conference and we had several members of our team that did a fabulous job in presenting. I would like to introduce and recognize some of them. First of all, we had a penguin project presentation and Dr. Paul Derson and some of the students participated and it was wonderful. So congratulations to you all for job well done. We also had a presentation with TIA strategic compensation and Anita Chris did that. Um so I'd like to congratulate her on a job well done there. Uh I think she

168was assisted by the deputy and uh we also had library services that did a presentation and that was led by Veronica and Laura. So we'd like to congratulate them for representing our district so very well in that. We also were featured um in a toolkit to champion public education. We are on page 21 and so just wanted to share that with you. Everybody got a copy of that. So wonderful things. Tomorrow we start a session of three sessions for our summer book bus tour and it's a lot more than just books. I know Winston and his staff are going to be there, Francis and lots of staff members, Delila, everybody's going to be out there. So if you can join us, it's from 9 to noon. It'll be a wonderful event and that's taking place

169tomorrow. Then we have one in July 28th. >> Where where tomorrow? >> Spicewood. Uh the 28th is at Aquatics and um August 6th is um at McNair. Just a reminder that we will be closed the Fourth of July week. And then just recently, Mr. Madreal received a $5,000 uh grant opportunity for some of the teachers that have been TIS readiness approved. So very excited about those things that are happening in the district. >> Are the offices closed on Thursday for June? >> Yeah, this Thursday. Yes, >> this Thursday. Okay. Thank you. >> Just to piggyback a little bit on the penguin project. Um we it was very well attended by sessiongoers and I think we're going to get at least one or two schools that are going to be willing to take the leap into

170the penguin project. So it's going to be transformational for those school districts just as it has been for us and uh Carl and Richard and Aubrey did a fantastic presentation on that. Thank you. Yeah, exactly. That's all. So, we'll Oh, let me read it all. As permitted by sections 551.001-551.146 of the Texas Government Code. Mona, can I just do I have to read the entire thing or is that enough? Okay, we're going to be going into close session at 8:28. We're going to go back to item Daniel. Going back to item 8 E, consider and take possible action on application for taxable value limitation on eligible property with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas Incorporated. Texas controller of public accounts application J0032 under the Texas Jobs Energy Technology Innovation Act, Texas Government Code 403 subchapter T. I

171move that the board adopt a resolution regarding proceeding with negotiations on agreement regarding application for taxable value limitations and eligible property of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas Inc. Texas Controller Republic accounts application J0032 under the Texas Jobs Energy Technology and Innovation Acts Texas Government Code 403 subchapter Texas Tex Government Code sections 551.071 071 and 551.087. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor. Do we have any questions? If not, I call for the vote. Thank you. Motion passes. Um, and then under section 11, um, pursuant on to Texas government code 551.074, discussion on personnel and administrator employment, resignations, reassignments, leaves of absence, contract renewals. >> I move that we approve the superintendent's recommendation on personnel. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in

172favor say or vote. >> Okay, motion passes. Thank you. Um the B we already did, right, Brandon? Okay, that does conclude all I'm sorry. Okay. No, I mean that includes regular business, right? Okay. And then Dr. Ball. >> Yes. Um, I would like to wish Miss Idis Adulan a very happy birthday. Today is her birthday, so we'd like to wish her a very happy birthday. Thank you. I'm 62 now. Thank you. >> If that Okay, if that concludes everything, we're going to end the meeting at 9:24. Thank you everyone. Thank you for staying so late.