TISD Regular School Board Meeting – November 10, 2025

001Good evening. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Temple ISD Board of Trustees held here on November 10th, 2025 beginning at 6 PM. Our first item is to call to order and we do have a quorum tonight. Our second item is the pledge of allegiance. Would everybody please stand and face the American flag? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to the Texas. One state one and indivisible. Item three is public comments on agenda items. Has anybody signed up, Beth? No comments? Not. All right. Item four is superintendent recognition. Members, would you please come in front of the dis Our first item is a

002recognition of District 54, Representative Brad Buckley. >> [applause] >> I'll make a few comments and then pass it to Representative Buckley. uh if he'd like to say some give you some time to think about some things. Um so I've had a chance to work with Representative Buckley u very very close in the last several sessions. I'll tell you there's not a single representative in the House or Senate that spends more time working on education than Brad Buckley. And I know that I'm not just saying that because he's here. I've seen him in action close and afar. I've seen him in very very difficult spots. Uh but he's always been focused on some of the most key issues. Assessment, accountability, reform, public education funding, uh discipline. He has been focused on all of those. His name,

003whether it's directly attached or indirectly, is around all those bills. He works very close with his constituents. I recently heard that you are filing for reelection. um or you're going to file for reelection or uh but anyway, I I I want to thank Representative Buckley for what he has done for um children in the state of Texas. I want to thank him for his leadership and also thank you for your friendship on a personal level. um he has always been in contact with us uh and along with his other constituents and he has put in countless hours uh to help children across Texas uh no matter how difficult the position has been uh that he has been in. So anyway, we are honored to give you this award and recognize you and want to congratulate

004you. >> Thank you Dr. um first of all thank you very much Temple ISD. Uh it's uh it's really an honor to work um alongside you. My my wife's been in education for 32 years. Don't tell her that you're doing the math in your head. She started when she was 14. But uh you know, she told me, you know, the most important thing I can do is make sure that when you propose policy or policy comes down the um the pathway that you talk to those that have to implement it. And Dr. has been a trusted adviser. this board has been engaged along the way to make sure we get it right. Um, and and I'm I'm going to have to take you down one peg though. You were my favorite Temple Wildcat, but now

005it's Torian York who leads the defense for Texas the 9 and0 Texas Aggies. So, um, anyway, so I I think that's going well and we're sure glad Temple uh produced such a fine young man. Uh but you know, Temple has been there at the forefront of our work on highquality instructional materials. Um the um funding bill that's you know, the school finance system is something that's very difficult. It's very complicated. Dr. played a huge role in making sure we got that right. Uh when I got down to what I could get done, I called Dr. and said, "Here's what we can do. How should we do it?" And then on accountability and assessment, we literally sat in his office just wherever it is, I guess across the hall or behind us or wherever it is,

006down downstairs, wherever we were um and walked through it page by page. And that's the type of impact that he's had um on our legislation because he's trustworthy and he's respected across the state. So, this means the world to me. Uh I I enjoy my service in the Texas House. Um, but the most important thing we can do today throughout all of this is remember that the adults in this room are are making tremendous contributions. But the star in Temple are the students and um, you know, those that that get to grace the hallways every day. Um, I know it keeps everyone working hard to make sure they get the best of what they need because they are they are they are the future and I am so excited to see what they'll accomplish in

007a great school system like Temple ISD. So, thank you all very much for this recognition. It really means the world. God bless y'all. Thank you. Our next item is the Temple High School Highlighters National Winner of in the Mark of Excellence National Jazz Honor Project. The Temple Highlighters are the top jazz band at Temple High School and are the oldest high school jazz program in the state of Texas. The Highlighters are also once again national winners in the Mark of Excellence National Jazz Honors Project. So, you wait right there till I call your name. The Highlighters are one of just three high school jazz bands from across the country to earn national winner honors in the Mark of Excellence Project. National Winner is the top honor presented by the Mark of Excellence and the Highlighters

008are now fivetime winners of that honor. The band submitted three selections for consideration for the honor. Thaad Jones's Big Dipper, Duke Ellington's Addie, and John Clayton's arrangement of Horus Silver's The Jodie Grind. Did I say that right? I had to ask the kids how to say those things. Members of the Highlighters who are here to be recognized tonight are we'll start with the saxophone group. Uh Mallerie Gerald, come on through. Uh Matthew Barfoot and Amari Dobbins. For on trumpet, we have Dianix's Maldonado Ortiz. >> Yes. And then we have some special awards that the students don't even know about. Um but Job an Angiano. Did I say it right? Okay. He won an outstanding soloist on the trombone. Way to go, Joe. Yes, that's awesome. >> Awesome. >> Can I just say something real quick?

009Watching you solo, you know what I'm going to talk about Marcus at the area competition last weekend. >> You were incredible. You were unbelievable. >> That's awesome. >> Also on trombone, we have Deonte Nixon. Go ahead. Noah Pena and Aiden Lamin. And then in the rhythm section, we had Michael Gary, but he's not here tonight. And then we have Malik Badger, outstanding soloist on the vibrophone. Way to go, Malik. [applause] And Amari Trailer, outstanding soloist on the piano. There you go. Yes. [applause] [cheering] >> The highlighters are under the direction of Mr. Marcus Duran. Mr. Duran, head on up there. And we also want to recognize him tonight. Right. Right. Kiddos, congratulations to all of you for your national recognition and we're extremely proud of you and the way you represent the heritage of Temple

010ISD and jazz bands. Congratulations. [applause] >> Does everyone have a medal? Okay. Thank you everybody. >> Well, on behalf of the board, I we just want to say that we're so proud of you. Um this group everywhere they go, they make a great impression. Uh whether they go to Austin and play, whether they're competing on the national level, um people stop me in HB and tell me good things about the Highlighters. So, u we're just so proud of you. And when you think about the nature of high school and how, uh students are always leaving when they graduate and new students coming in, this group consistently, uh gets top honors. and that would be so hard to do and that's a testament to the hard work of the the new students and the good example

011of the returning students and of course a director that brings out amazing things in in the students. So, uh your community is proud of you and your district. So, thank you. [applause] Okay, Paris, we want to make sure you got the pictures you wanted before we let them move. So, you take as stand up, take as many pictures as you want. Everybody smile and look pretty. You look excellent. Everybody good? All right. Congratulations. Thank you. You got that way, Miss Cheryl. [applause] >> [laughter] >> Lot of smileies in that group. >> I love it. >> Our next item is the alumni spotlight. Dr. Adams, >> Mrs. Tonight we're going to recognize Mrs. Renee Henry. She's a proud graduate of the Temple High School class of 1978 and we're thrilled to shine our alumni spotlight on

012you. So Mrs. Henry, if you'll join the board. U Mrs. Henry also attended Emerson Elementary School and Lamar Middle School during her time in Temple ISD. She would go on to receive a master's of science and social work from the University of Texas at Arlington and earned a doctorate in education from the University of Mary Harden Baylor. Mrs. Henry would serve as a department chair and faculty of mental health services and was the first African-American to serve as president of the faculty senate at Central Texas College. She would retire from Central Texas College after more than 20 years of service, but continues to serve the college as an adjunct faculty and adviser. When asked about her favorite memories of Temple ISD, Mrs. Henry remembers Mrs. Barbara Baron's teaching her the life lesson to define herself

013so as not to leave that job to others. She also remembers sweeping UIL in band. Look at that. uh with threes one in concert and three ones in sight reading under the direction of Mr. Derward Howard. What does um when asked what does a wildcat mean to you? She said I was fortunate to be among classmates who set the pace rather than be limited by circumstances. I learned the importance of determination, grit, humility, and grace. Renee Henry will forever be connected to Temple ISD. her children, grandchildren, and currently her greatg grandandchildren have or are being educated in the district. She says that has she says that has made obtaining and pursuing additional education a legacy for her family. Mrs. Henry and her husband Earl Senior have three children, eight grandchildren, and two great grandchildren, and

014six of them are Temple ISD alumni and two are still being educated with us today. Thank you, Renee, for the way you represent Temple ISD and for your continued support for our students in our community. We're so pleased to be able to recognize to you tonight. Congratulations, [applause] >> Renee. It's truly is an honor for us to recognize you. You are truly an outstanding alum of Temple ISD. uh the the the challenges that you overcame and the the barriers that you broke. It's truly remarkable. Uh you're just a few years ahead of me in high school, but uh we both went to the same place and it's amazing the type of students that come out of Temple High School and we're just so proud of you and again, you're still part of our community here.

015That that that means a lot. >> Thank you. >> Would you like to say something? Honey, will you stand? Jaylen is our great grand. Darren is our great grandson. Sean is working in the district. She's our eldest. As much as this means to me, the fact that my daughter recommended me far exceeds any honor that I could receive because you know your your children know you, right? They grew up in the house with you. And so for her to think that I was worthy of being honored just floores me. Thank you guys. Thank you to my friend, Miss Marleene, my coworker. Well, now my boss. [laughter] Thank you so much for coming. Thank you guys. >> I just want to say one thing. Congratulations. And I know that you do a lot of community service,

016a lot of hard work, and especially in our churches. Thank you very much for all that you do. [applause] >> Thank you. Why don't we first have your family >> [applause] >> So good to see you. Congratulations. Thank you again for coming. Thank you, sir. celebrate. Thank you for coming. >> Item five is executive hires and I don't believe there's any items tonight. Okay. Item six is the board presence report. First item on the agenda is the Temple Education Foundation update. And Kathy Denton, welcome. I believe you got some good news for us. >> Just a little clicker. So, my name is Kathy Denton. I'm the executive director for the Temple Education Foundation and I am happy to be here tonight. I love my job. I love being able to give you good information. So,

017I know a lot of you already are very familiar with the Temple Education Foundation, but I also like to make a recap just in case there's someone in the room who is not as familiar. So, I'll just kind of go quickly over the mission, the purpose, where we are going, and how we get there. So, of course, we have our formal mission statement, but I'm just going to go to that second blue area where I say we desire to maximize classroom success for our teachers and our students. And our purpose, like how we do that is we fundra for student scholarships and innovative teacher grants to maximize that classroom success. One thing I kind of love about TEF that is very simple, we're out there raising money for the student scholarships and the teacher grants.

018So teacher grants, they get 40% of our annual income. And this last August, we were able to give away $80,000 26 $80,26. And why you see that number? Because you might be going 40% 40%. Well, the 40% is the what we raise TEF, but then we have a a will left to us in the state and one of that that donor's desire was to help prehood development. So, we funded the grants for prek through second grade through his estate. And so then freed up our 40% to go and fun the the third grade through 12th grade. It's one of our favorite days. We try to keep it a surprise on who our grant winners are. And so we're just out there visiting the campus and surprising them with our grant patrol. So now we come

019to the 60% and that is our student scholarships. And so we awarded $134,150 in student scholarships. And then we have nine last year we were able to add nine new scholarships. That was a great scholarship season, so to speak. We have three kinds of scholarships. A pass through which are when they're funded every year. A name scholarship at 2500 up to 24,999. And then we have our endowments of 25,000 and above. So we were just fortunate that we had a lot of people from the community actually reach out having interest in establishing scholarship. Here are some pictures of our last event, our impact event. That's our scholarship recip. So the middle picture is the Turley construction science. Turley and Tab went in together. That was one of our new scholarships and that one focused on

020construction science. So here's just a financial snapshot of last year. Our fiscal year ends in June of 2025. And so really with this, I just would say I want you to see that we have a strong endowment and we have positive year to date returns. But I'm going to show you September. So our obviously we have a lot of movement like we close it out in June the summer months. And so September what was exciting is now you start seeing some of our fundraising efforts and especially because our our distinguished alumni event October the 1st. So you start seeing some of that money coming in the door. And so what we're excited to announce is that this was a historic year for us. We were able to raise more than 200,000 with our distinguished alumni

021event. This event is the event that pretty much sets our budget for the year. Other things we do also are important, but this one is the big one. And so we were able to award I mean to celebrate Sharon Wilson, Jerry Kyro Jr. and they had a lot of community support. It was really a great night. So we've never be able to do that. And I will say every year after we walk away from a distinguished alumni event, we feel like oh next year every year, sweet. So that is just so we were excited about this night. Then our other fundraising efforts, we have our Century Club parking. We sell we sell 72 parking spots, premier parking spots at $150 each. So, we're kind of locked in. That's always going to bring in around 10,000.

022Then we have the employee giving campaign. And so, this is another number that we're very excited about. Last year, this campaign dipped for us. It was like $8,000. It just dips. And so, we thought, you know, what can we do to help that number to kind of regain some of that energy, some of that And so one thing we did is we got a really cool long sleeve t-shirt. I see one right here. The long sleeve t-shirt might have been the ticket. And so we did like a long sleeve t-shirt. We went into the schools early on just to talk about the employee campaign. We also asked um seven brew to partner with us. They were new in our community and they said they wanted to do something. like the campus that has the most

023particip. But what was exciting is it's up to 17,26. So we that's another really great number for us this year. And then another small fundraiser we do is this allar pseud And that is that number fundraiser. We were doing a tournament for a couple years and last year we moved to a car. It was our very first time. We were really excited about the way the part went. The goal was 15K. We brought in 19,000. And so this is last year's graphic. So we have the save the date for May the 16th. And so we have the same thought like we would like to see 15 or 16,000 come in with our ship. We have I just wanted to kind of show you some of our headlines. We felt like we had good coverage in

024the paper. We love to try to spread the word about TEF and TISD and doing that. So we were able to have a lot of good headlines. So this is just all the headlines. You can also follow us on social media and then I want to talk to you a little bit about our friends of the foundation. So we are kind this is our third year in. So we in the past before we started friends the only way you could be involved with TEF was through a sitting board position but we wanted to really kind of have our tentacles and be out more so in the community. So we started the friends of the foundation and this is pretty much when you can be hands and feet like you decide you want to join and

025be a part and kind of just tell us things you would like to do like auction items, photography, I like to decorate tables, whatever it is and then whenever we get ready to do something like you know, we're going to do a car show. Do you want to come and do a breeder? And then you're like, oh yeah, that's a great Saturday for me. I think I'll do it. So, we started the friends of the foundation and we're just still building that. We have ideas to try to grow that program. So, it's not a board position. It's just like you coming alongside us to be in that those hands. You have any questions? Kathy, I wanted to ask you one thing on Facebook. I've seen you doing a throwback series. Will you will you talk

026about that? >> Well, thanks. So, Lindsy Macy, I really have to credit her. She has been our social media person and she likes she loves to go through old uh yearbooks and just find pictures and then pick them. So, it's really just a Lindsay idea that she tries to go back in time. But we do see traction and people being interested in seeing time, you know, pictures from their reunion, their graduating years. >> Kathy, I just want to say thank you for your hard work and the hard work of the board members and all those involved with TEF. This is important, you know, raising the money for the the grants and the scholarships and both of them impact lives, our students lives. So thank you so much and I know this board supports because we

027have a number have a current and a number of former TEF board members here. So this is close to our heart. It really is helps provide things that the school district is not able to do and so this is truly important. >> Thank you. >> It's my pleasure. >> Any further questions? [clears throat] >> All right. >> Thank you so much. Item B, resolution to cast votes in the Bell County Appraisal District Board of Directors Election. >> Sure. Okay. Board of Trustees. This is actually the board of directors um election for the Bell County Appraisal District. And there's a list of five nominees. Uh due to the size of Temple ISD as a taxing entity, we have 245 votes in which we uh split the votes. 123 for Sam Fulture and 122 for Todd Scott.

028They both are incumbents. They've served uh very well for the appraisal district on behalf of Temple ICD and uh so we're wanting to put them forward in this resolution. >> Members, any questions? It does require approval. and move to approve as presented. >> Motion by Miss Gowen. Is there a second? >> I second that motion. >> Motion by Mr. Gains. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All oppose the same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Item C, consideration of approval and acceptance of the annual financial audit report for 2024 2025. >> Actually, that's the one. That's not >> Okay, Mrs. Stanford. >> Good evening board of trustees and Dr. Aut. Tonight we're printing presenting to you the fiscal year 25 financial audit for your year of review. We are not going to

029ask you to approve it just yet um because there's been a delay in timelines with the federal government and our external auditor is going to explain that a little bit better than I can. >> So just to clarify, we're just going to have a report tonight and the approval item will come at a future board meeting. >> Yes, sir. Okay, >> that is correct. And so over the past few years, we've worked to try to make this report more straightforward to understand and focused on transparency for our community and stakeholders. So before turning this presentation over to our external auditor, I'd like to briefly revisit the purpose and the value of the annual financial audit. First, it's an annual requirement of TEA to ensure compliance with state and federal standards. Second, it's a financial tool

030for investors and stakeholders. With the recent passage of Prop B and the anticipated bond sales this spring, this audit will help demonstrate to investors that TISD is financially strong, well-managed, and ready for the next phase of our capital projects. The external review component ensures our financial statements are presented accurately and fairly that our internal controls help protect protect taxpayer dollars from fraud. This year we partnered again with Singleton Clark and Company as our external audit firm. And I'd like to thank thank partner Nathan White and his team for working closely with us throughout this process. Additionally, I'd like to put two people on the spotlight publicly and I'd like to thank Donna Olman and Terry Barles for all the hours that they poured into this report that we like to call an audit report. In

031fact, I feel like it's kind of a novel. This is certainly a team effort, but without their expertise, it would not be award-winning quality as it is. Nathan, and at this time, I will turn it over to Nathan White for the presentation. Good evening. Uh, as she said, my name is Nathan White. I am uh the audit partner with Singleton Clark uh that oversees the audit of uh Temple ISD. Um uh as Brandy was saying in regards to the board's acceptance of the audit report tonight. So [clears throat] this is the first time I've ever encountered this in my years auditing. Um but currently the compliance supplement which dictates um how we perform the single audit which the district u requires due to uh the amount of federal funding that it receives. That's currently still

032in a draft phase and that's handled at the federal government. In fact, it's signed and the seal on the front cover of it is the office of the presidency. So, um, until that is settled and finalized, we can't technically issue any single audits. Um, I don't know when that's going to be given the government shutdown. I suspect, um, maybe December, January, something like that. Um, we're going to ask that you table it tonight and then you guys, you know, we had to present it tonight because honestly, I got 24 school districts and everybody likes Mondays and Wednesdays. there was never going to be a way that I could present, you know, 25 in the month of January. Um, so that's why we're trying to brief this now and then hopefully you guys can just accept

033it as soon as you guys essentially get the green light. So, um, without further ado, we're going to start. Uh, you guys should all have a separate leaflet that looks something like this in the back. It's actually the single audit reports. There we go. Uh, it's going to be page 13 in that little leaflet. This is the schedule of findings and question costs. At the top here, we have the summary of auditor's results. The type of auditor's report issued is unmodified. Um, that means that we believe the district's financial statements are materially free from misstatement. Um, we had no material weaknesses identified, no significant deficiencies, and no non-compliance material to the financial statements. If you look down below in the second section there under federal awards, you can see the child nutrition cluster, that was

034the federal program that we performed the single audit on this year. Again, kind of pending in a way. Um, we we know all of the compliance requirements generally. they don't they don't fluctuate too much from year to year and we always do more than we have to anyway just to make sure that we cover our bases. Um but so far as the single audit pertains to Temple ISD uh we believe the child nutrition cluster as well to be free from any material misstatements. We had no findings of any kind. Um and you can see that kind of on page 15 for you guys. I think you'd flip one additional page to see the summary there of financial statement findings and federal awards findings. And so that's it. Uh everything looks clean under the hood, so

035to speak. Uh after this, I got a couple other things I want to touch on real fast. So, if you'll flip in your main report, our next stop is going to be in the notes to the financial statements, and that's going to be for you on page 87. And I'll go ahead and Oh, thanks. Okay, this is page 87 in the notes to the financial statements. Um, I want to key in on note disclosure 22 here, implementation of new governmental accounting standard. Um, so over the last half a decade, we've had kind of like a slew of new governmental accounting standards that we've had to recognize. Um, and that's not just school districts, it's cities and counties and everybody. This one uh is in relation to compensated absences, which the district had previously recorded a

036liability for. And what that represented was um the district has a policy and if you can see I don't know if they can see the P there you go um on page 72 I know they're kind of far apart so I apologize uh for anyone following along in the report um but that's the district's compensated absences policy and historically the liability represented any potential cash that would leave as so uh I want to say it was employees with the district for 10 consecutive years and and there's some other stipulations and then there was um sort of like pay rates based on how long employees had been here um and then they were retiring and they were subject or they could receive cash payments for certain uh days. Um but with Gazsby 101 um we're now

037required to also recognize the liability in relation to any staff state days. And so um every you know full-time employee at Temple ISD and every other school district gets five state days every year. And so now we had to kind of calculate the financial impact of what someone's accumulated state days balance is right like Dr. O probably has quite a few in the bank right of state days accumulated over years of service that went unused. we have to now sort of evaluate that and that goes into the financial statements and that is added now to your compensated absences liability. Um, and I can show you that one. I don't have a slide for it. Um, but it'll be in your debt note if you wanted to see a little bit more of that. That's on

038page 68. And at the bottom of page 68, this is note 8, bonds, loans, and other long-term liabilities. Um, that very last liability under other long-term liabilities. Uh, so when we restated for the balance as of July 1st, 2024, the district's liability was $ 8.6 million. Um, and then we had a slight increase through FY25 to bring that up to $ 8.8 million. And that just represents everyone's essentially unused or unpaid accumulated uh compensated absences for all the like I said full-time employees in the district. Um, and then we actually apply like a usage rate there um to try to reduce the liability a little bit. Um, next, our last stop for me is going to be on page uh 48, 48 and 49. This is a two-page C3 exhibit. This is the statement of

039revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balance. Uh, on the left hand side there, uh, we have the general fund. And if you peer down toward the bottom of the page, you can see the district added $1,35,754 to fund balance to end at $46,929,825. Uh that represents about 46% of your annual operating expenditures or I mean almost right on the money, five months. So uh which is a great place to be at as far as financial health is concerned. Uh we generally recommend anywhere between three and six months. So five is an ending balance and you have a lot of assigned and committed portions of that fund balance certainly um and plans for it I'm sure um but just in terms of the overall figure that's a really good spot to be >> and I just

040wanted to explain a little bit more about that we do have to apply the fund balance to our 2526 operating budget and so even though Mr. White said that we have five months operating expenses. Every year our expenses increase and so it's actually down to four weeks and three days. I mean four months and three days. Um but about that as you may recall we had a projection at the end of the year where we projected a deficit of $600,000 to end with. And so that projection included all planned renovations to the Wildcat stadium with all work either completed or nearing completion accounting for the retainage at year end. However, due to timing, as we always have to factor in, in the volatile economic environment, approximately 1.5 million of the project cost remained outstanding as

041of June 30th. So, even though it appears that we added $1 million to fund balance, we actually have already accounted for these costs going out the door. And so, then we would have hit our target of the $600,000 deficit. It's also important to note that this figure of the 1.5, we've already spent 1.2 to as of today. And so, like I said, it looks like we have a million dollars extra on the books, but that is not the case. It's just due to the timing of the fiscal year. >> Any questions? >> So, just for clarification, that's obligated based on the renovations. Yes. >> And it's just a matter of the timing of the June 30th fiscal year piece. That amount was outstanding. Therefore, obligated to be paid after June 30th. >> Yes, sir. So,

042our our operations team already had the work in place. It was just based on the actual construction getting completed and the billing of the construction companies. We could not recognize it before June 30th even though we knew it was already in the works. And so just for timing, it appears like we've added. >> So the outstanding amount was 1.5 million >> and we paid >> and instead of showing a million going into fund balance, you minus the 1.5. That puts us at about where we thought we would be deficit wise, 5 to $600,000 deficit budget. Okay. Yes, sir. >> Page 44 could also kind of help highlight some of this stuff as far as the classifications of fund balance and I think directly relates to what Brandon's discussing with the $1.5 million. >> Yeah, there's

043a figure of 1.476 that shows that it is committed for capital acquisitions and contractual obligations. And so that's just the leftover fund funds from the tax maintenance note that were 100% committed to the Wildcat stadium. Thank you all so much. Members, do you have any further questions? >> Okay, appreciate it. Thank you. >> Item D is future items of discussion. Dr. Okay. Um, tomorrow is a holiday. For those of you, and I know several in this room, Dr. Mayo, um, Shannon Meyers, Bella Casey with the Temple Daily Telegram had a chance to go to the pass and review ceremony today for our local veterans and, uh, it was really exceptional. Our band and our cadets did a fantastic job representing the school district. Very proud of them. And our, um, veterans and their spouses felt

044honored. It was was quite the treat. Uh, as I said, tomorrow is uh our holiday, Veterans Day, and then um the 13th, which is Thursday, we actually have a board retreat. We're visiting two campuses, Meredith Dunar and Samson Howard. And both those principles are here today. I hope I'm not surprising you when I say that. You know about it, right? Yes. Smile. Okay. Oh, I see Crystal. There you go, Dr. Kur. Okay. Um, and then, um, November 17th, we have a special board meeting at noon, uh, to canvas the election. I think legally you only have to have two board members to do that. I'd certainly like for as many of you could be there as possible. It'll be at lunch. It'll be quick. It's one item. Don't anticipate it being anything other than that.

045But just to canvas the election results of this last uh, election for Prop A and Prop B. >> [snorts] >> uh in in both cases um we were successful in in that effort. Uh November 18th, middle school advanced academic parent night. That is next Tuesday here at the administration building at 6:00. That's always a really good event. And then uh the 19th and 20th are our policy and facilities committee meetings respectively. And then we're off to Thanksgiving. Come back regular board meeting December 8th. That board meeting usually doesn't have a lot because we're coming off of Thanksgiving, but um we're working really hard to load it up for you. [snorts] Um the leadership team, they're saving all their items for Christmas. And then uh December 11th, the board retreat, that is the uh vision piece.

046the last time the board worked together to establish the uh vision and mission statements and well actually vision mission and belief statements was in 2018 uh when I was hired and so uh it's time to revisit that. Uh the last board retreat that we had team building. Um there were some uh questions back and forth and uh responses submitted from board members that um that basically revealed that you know we need to to revisit the vision and the mission of the school district. Things are changing, times are changing and and we need to change u directionally to support our students. So this will be a sequel to that meeting. Uh region 12 will come in and facilitate uh that session and um hopefully we'll have a product. If we don't uh we'll have another meeting.

047I don't think you rush things like this. We just want to make sure you do it right and it's thoughtful and we think about u our community and our families and our students. And that's all I have. Oh, and then the last thing is uh you have um an additional page that has all of our fine arts important dates, our performances from elementary performances uh all the way through middle school and high school. It's always a fun time of year to come out and watch our students, choir, band, and so forth, perform theater. Um and uh want to encourage you to attend as many of those you possibly can. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. All right. And also I want to ask does there any future items of discussion the board wishes to hear

048at a future board meeting? Okay. Item seven is consent items. We have 7 A through J2. What is the pleasure of the board to deal with these items? >> I'll make a motion that we approve 7 A through J2 al together. >> Motion made by Mr. Gaines. >> I'll second the motion. >> Seconded uh by Miss Gowen. All in favor signify by saying I. Uh the same sign opposed the eyes have it. Thank you. Item eight, human resources. Dr. Ward, no items. Okay. Item B is academics B1 update on gifted and talented procedures. Dr. Rogers, welcome. >> Good evening, Mr. Posie, Dr. A, and members of the board. Uh last spring, Dr. Watson, Miss Armstrong, and myself enrolled in two professional developments uh from Baylor University related to gifted and talented education. And so we

049were able to participate in those courses for free based on our partnership with Baylor TIP uh the Baylor TIP program. And so after completing the courses, the three of us met together to share our learning and also to review the Texas State plan for education and of the gifted and talented students so that we could identify strengths within our program as well as short-term and long-term opportunities for us to improve on our service model. So in your board packet, you will find the updated district GT handbook for parents and students. and I'd like to highlight just a few key components and updates to that document. So, first and foremost, one of the goals was to ensure that our GT model address the needs of K through 12 students. So, as you may know, we have

050a GT coordinator that is elementary focused. And so, a lot of the materials that we pushed out previously were focused on elementary, but we have gifted students K through 12. And so our desire was to make sure that there's continuity between our service of gifted students after they leave elementary. And uh so the start for that was to uh create a document that is K through 12 and not just elementary focused. Um on page four you will see the reference to the state plan that I mentioned. Uh and I'd be happy to share that with you directly if you'd like me to um email that to you or I can have Miss Boyd or Miss Moore email that to you as well. On page five, you'll find the identification flowchart for elementary students. That's not

051new, but I wanted to just put that in front of you just in case um that's something that you are curious about or want to reference in the future. On pages 8 and nine, you'll see specifics regarding elementary and secondary service delivery models. I want to point out to you the addition of the parent advisory group. Uh this was an area that we recognized as a need after we reviewed the Texas state plan. And so Dr. Watson and Miss Armstrong worked with our new GT coordinator, Crystal Wy, to put that in place. So our very first GT parent advisory meeting will be held next week on the 17th. Uh and so that will be an opportunity for parents representing every campus in the district, elementary and secondary, not only to learn about our GT programming,

052but also to give input on how we can better support our students. Additionally, you'll see on page nine, >> Dr. Rogers, how many times a year does that advisory group meet? >> Well, this will be the first one. So, Dr. Watson, how often are you planning to have that team meet? >> Um, so you'll see on page nine an update to our middle school services. And so, as I mentioned, our GT students in middle school are served through advanced academics, but I think we all know that there are students who are advanced academics uh who qualify for advanced academics, but they're not GT. And so they're really getting essentially the same thing. And so we started to brainstorm what can we do for our students who are GT in middle school beyond just the advanced

053academics course. And so u Miss Armstrong worked with our librarians at our middle schools. And we've begun um just a few months ago to begin to pull those students out as well periodically from I believe it's uh each campus is choosing when they're going to pull those students out. But those students now have an opportunity to be pulled for enrichment. And not only for enrichment, but to be uh collaborating and learning with their gifted and talented peers as opposed to all of the students that are in advanced courses. And so um those students have additional instruction, additional learning opportunities, and those facil uh opportunities are facilitated by our campus librarians. And these students will end the year with a showcase featuring their learning at the end of the year. And so that's another great experience

054that um our students need and don't necessarily have at every campus to be able to showcase their learning. Um similar to the showcases that we see at Travis Science Academy. So those are just a few adjustments that we were able to make immediately upon reviewing the Texas State Plan. And our goal is to continue to identify opportunities for us to improve on uh the services and the delivery of our gifted and talented service model K through 12 throughout the district. And so um in addition to that, Dr. Watson and Miss Armstrong, I'm sure will be here with you probably within the next few months to share the advanced academics update, which will also highlight some of the accomplishments of our GT program. So does anybody have any questions? Any questions, members? >> All right. Thank

055you very much. >> All right. Thank you. Y'all have a happy Thanksgiving. >> You do, too. >> I I have one question. Were there any changes or anything with regards to English language learners or EBLs in terms of the gifted? >> Not that I can recall immediately. I'd have to go back to the plan and review it. Um, but off the top of my head, I didn't. And we'll make sure the parent groups have representation from that particular group as well. >> Yes. If they don't already, it's a little bit of a struggle to get everyone from every campus, but I think especially with us having Garcia um in the group that we'll have representation, but I'll verify that as well. >> Thanks. >> All right. Item two is campus improvement plans. Dr. Adams. >>

056Well, good evening everyone. Um I'm here tonight to just share a little bit about each uh area that our uh campuses are focused on in in order to appro improve academic achievement and ensure high quality instruction is happening in every classroom. And so all our campus leaders are here tonight and I appreciate them giving of their time um as we kind of walk through this. Um so um just just a reminder this year our theme as uh campus leaders is leading for impact and our leaders were challenged this summer to really look at their student achievement data um and their processes on the campus to identify areas that they wanted to improve uh upon and each campus team identified uh what we call wigs or wildly important goals things that are critical uh to improving

057student achievement. Um, we've got our own little language, uh, as campus leaders. Um, and we've [clears throat] created improvement. We're not actually making hair. No. Um, but that would be great. And I think these these folks could come up with some fun stuff for us to wear. Yes. Um, and so we're really focusing on targeting these specific areas and positively impacting student achievement. And so my goal, my my presentation is really around what are the wigs, the wildly important goal that each campus has for you. and the leaders are here if you have a question as well. So, we'll start with our little friends, um, the Meredith Dunar Panthers. And so, uh, for the last couple of years, Mrs. Dr. Kers, sorry, Dr. Kurs has been focused on building teacher capacity around the area of

058differentiation, right? A four-year-old that's been in school for six months is different than a than a just a, you know, someone that just turned four. And so, really focusing on making sure that they differentiate for all learners. They call it their panther pride instructional strategies, which stands for plan with purpose. So that we don't just have uh uh centers, but we have workstations. Those little four-year-olds are so precious when they're working academically. Um [snorts] they they focus on aggressively monitoring by tracking kids. They nurture language. Um they want kids to think deeply. And so they really focus on what are the questions they're asking our littles so that they're thinking and and talking out loud. um focusing on hands-on writing, uh engaging their minds. They've really taken a deep dive into conscious discipline um to

059really support kids in mo in uh regulating themselves instead of the teacher doing that for them and then responding intentionally with this that differentiation. And they really build uh their coaching and support around their teacher capacity um through targeting the delivery of that differentiation. And there's just some cute little friends doing all the things at PreK. And we'll be so excited to show you all this in person on Thursday. Um at Wheatley Alternative Education Center, uh they continue to focus on supporting students um through restorative practices. Carl's kind of the leader of that uh work, but also goal setting. He tracks attendance, grades, work, uh which is classwork, not outside work. um but he'll probably talks to kids about that as well and behavior on a weekly basis. And um he's really challenged his teachers

060to lead uh through professional learning. And so this is their last uh PD day. They all got a little special uh uh award from from uh Mr. Pleasant um because these were our teacher leaders for that day. Um Hector P. Garcia, Hector P. Garcia is really focused on um internalizing and delivering the new math and reading curriculum. You're going to you're going to hear that a lot because we are implementing Blue Bonnet for the first year. And so these folks have worked tirelessly to make sure they understand the curriculum, that their teachers know how to uh really understand what they're supposed to be teaching, that they're prepared, they rehearse with their staff. And so you're going to hear that trend over and over at all the campuses because that's really the focus of our elementary

061principles this year. Um, but Hector P Garcia is also really focused on closing that achievement gap, making sure that the domain three scores are really strong and so really analyzing that data. And here's an example of a teacher actually demonstrating with her uh team on how to um teach uh one of the uh problems in math. Um and there's the kids doing a hands-on activity as well. Um for Kennedy Powell um they call their instructional focus sorry let me click the KP core 4 instructional strategies and that's aggressive monitoring highle uh questioning student discourse and most importantly visible thinking can you see what kids are doing or or what they're speaking about when we think and we say when we when we speak that's our thinking and when we write it down um or or

062show our problem solving that's our thinking. So they've really focused on that, those core strategies that they were focused on last year that showed them such great success, but how do they embed that into the lesson design with our new curriculum? So we don't want to we want we don't want teachers to throw away those tools. We want them just to incorporate them into the new curriculum. And they're also very focused on closing the achievement gap, focusing on their advanced learners as well as their uh special populations to make sure that all students are achieving at high levels at KP. and there's just their cute little friends and they are um uh doing a little fun experience again with the hands-on having the kids solve the problems instead of the teacher do that for them

063for Samson Howard Elementary. I love that little smile up there. Um so Dr. Thomas has been very focused on building teacher capacity. Um she's got a large uh uh uh staff that she works with over there. And so just continuing to build those um first and second year teachers in their capacity through action coaching. Um she's one of uh very uh dedicated to having practice clinics on campus, making sure that teachers uh build that capacity across a large a large group. Um and then she's very focused on internalizing implementing uh the new curriculum. There's a group of teachers there really focused on uh reflecting on how their implementation is going so far and making some adjustments. And there's a little friend up there doing his his math. And he is smiling. Um Scott Elementary, again,

064you're going to see another that that theme going through as well. We want to make sure that we're understand the curriculum and we're delivering it so that it's at um at the level that we need it to be for students to to close those achievement gaps. Again, we're very focused on ensuring all students achieve. So, it's not just one student group and but we're leaving others behind. We want to make sure all our students are hitting that. And so, there's there's some friends doing their math right there. And that table of the teachers right there is actually Miss Williams office. She she hosts planning with her teachers right in her office where she's got coffee and candy and all the things in there. Um, but they're also focused on tracking student progress over time. Then

065for Western Hills Elementary, um the Roadrunners are focused on the implementation of the Roadrunner 5. Again, those things that brought them success. How do they incorporate that into the into the curriculum? And so they really focus on making sure that they monitor students so that all students are doing the learning, um ensuring they have students speaking through discourse, really focused on problem solving and independent practice. And um they call it student engagement, but basically they mean everybody does the work um in every Roadrunner classroom. Um and so there's some of our students up at the top uh uh doing some of their uh math activities um um with their friends. >> Dr. Adams, can you explain to the board? I I've been out on a couple campuses and I've seen instructional I was just at

066Kennedy Pal not too long ago and I saw a cadre of instructional coaches from other campuses and they were walking in and out of classrooms. I believe they were looking at math instruction. Yes. Uh but we've been sending different groups to different campuses and then I also understand we have some [clears throat] school districts in the area that are interested in coming over and looking at classrooms whether it's Florence ISD uh Corsacana I think there's another one too and I'm trying to think of who >> is coming next week. >> Um so uh kind of talk to the board about that. What are our instructional coaches doing when they're going from uh campus to campus? What are they what are they looking for? What are they trying to learn? How are they trying to develop

067and so forth? >> Sure. So, we started this work in the in the summer with what we called the lead for impact series. And we we asked our principles, instructional coaches to really get a strong understanding of the product itself, the curriculum itself, and then what would be the implementation. And so, Blue Bonnet actually comes with a walkthrough document of what are the implementation things, what should we see kids doing, what should we see teachers doing. So, our coaches led by Dr. um Watson uh do different walks. So they go to different campuses and they um they observe. It's really great for them to see different things at different schools. So they can see the level of implementation. Uh it helps us to build expertise amongst the instructional coaches. Our principles um also participate in

068those to build their expertise. So they can see those things in action and we can identify um any gaps that we see. So what's our next step, our next level? Um region 12 is our product um supervisor. they kind of help and support us with that training and they walk with us as well to give us their expertise. But again, it's just making sure that we all understand what's the what's the implementation supposed to look like? What's the level of rigor? How do we make sure that we keep it on grade level and we don't lower it? And then how do we support our teachers in really developing that because every single one of the teachers wants to do an amazing job. They are very dedicated to it. They they like the curriculum, but it's

069just a lot when you're trying to learn it. And so it's just building that expertise. Did that answer your question or do you have another question? Okay. All right. So in terms of Bond Middle School, um Bond is really focused on just continuing the work that they did last year. And so really focusing on ensuring that they give consistent feedback and learning. So all students are doing the work, but the teachers giving them feedback on how they're doing. um as well as making sure that they are uh continuing to focus on their internalization so that the teachers have a really strong understanding of the lesson design and how to ensure that we keep it rigorous for students. Um and here's some friends and they are doing some work in the library. If you haven't been

070to the library, it's pretty amazing, right, Mr. Hobs? um they're very focused on ensuring that they see independence of in the students um and they have those uh the the students and they also really embed those EB language supports for this campus because we have quite a few newcomers here um for Lamar Middle Schools. Lamar Middle School um really has two focuses. The first was they wanted to decrease misbehavior. So there was um when Mrs. Rhodess went to that campus, there was quite a few student uh the student discipline data was a little higher than we would like it to be. And so one of their specific targets was to um implement the Bearcat rise which stands for I wrote it down. It stands for responsibility, integrity, service and excellence in all that we do.

071And so they really focus on how to build that. And I would tell you that their um their um office referrals and instances of misbehavior have significantly decreased um with their focus on this. and um the campus is very well managed and um students are in class doing what they're supposed to do which is great. Um and then they're um continuing to focus on rehearsal. They have quite a few teachers that are new to the profession and they want to build their capacity so they're prepared to go into the classroom and so they're continuing to work on their um PLC processes so that teachers are prepared and ready. Um, if you've never taught math before, what an amazing opportunity to have ma math teachers demonstrate for you how this would look and and what you

072should focus on so that you're prepared um to go into the math. I wish I would have had that as a te first year teacher, but I didn't. But that's the that's the work that um Lamar is focused on. Then for Travis Science Academy and Dr. Lucas couldn't be here tonight. She's ill. But she again also wanted to focus on uh schoolwide behavioral expectations and really parent communication uh to reduce their student behavior. They weren't happy with their um instances of discipline. I will tell you that so far her referrals have decreased by 30%. And October is a rough month for referrals, right everybody? Yeah. That's when the behavior gets up in October. Kids get comfortable. Um and so they were down 30%. So, they were super proud proud of their wildly important goal and

073they're going to continue to work on that. Um, and they've also had 96 uh% of their students who are um having uh having some issues or instances of having a parent conference and that's really amazing for middle school. So, they've really focused on that parent conference as well. That's just some data she gave me. Um, they also really want to build teacher capacity. Their focus is around the kids showing the work and and providing their visible thinking. So problem solving, showing text evidence, um all the ways that kids can tell you what they know about stuff, really focusing on their learning and giving that feedback to students. And then at Temple High School, uh Dr. Mayo has been focused focused on kids opting into learning. He wants every class to look like that band performance

074because those kids are locked in as the kids would say and he wants that to happen in every one of his class. So he's really been focused on ensuring the expectations of kids are that all kids are doing the work in class. Um and then they have uh redes they have really focused on their lesson design. So making sure that they're requiring all students to do rigorous tasks. It's not just if you're an advanced class you have a rigorous work. No, every class should have rigorous work. And so there's an example of his um PLC schedule that uh PLC plan that he's uh reworked and um is working with his campus to do. Um, but I think every class should be like band, right? They they perform at high levels, don't they? Um, and then

075lastly, Fed Fred Edwards Academy. So, Trisha wanted to focus on building literacy amongst her her students. Um, these are students that often are behind a little bit when she she's got to catch them up. That's their focus, right? [snorts] And so, up at the top, you see a uh literacy group where the kids are reading just for fun. They're reading um and uh and they're doing a bunch of different reading strategies. Her newest project is five for five. Am I saying that right? And so the kids read something they're passionate about for five minutes. And that may sound like really short time, but if you're talking about a kid who really has never read for fun at all, it's it's amazing. And they're getting excited about it because they're reading about a car they want

076to buy or a job they'd like to have or something they'd like to eat, right? They're just they get to choose something. and and uh so that's that's something little always just trying to chunk it and and entice them to do it. Right, Trisha? Yep. Um and then she also focuses on daily attendance which makes Brandy really excited because she wants the money to come in with attendance. Um but this is one of their incentives. They do weekly incentives for attendance if they're over 85% or they got perfect attendance that week. And right here the kids are making moms uh for homecoming which is always fun. Okay. Um lastly we have three campuses that are that uh we um also um have to focus on based on um come the closing the gaps domain. And

077so we have three campuses that currently are in comprehensive support have that label from the state and basically what the state has told us is we want to improve student performance in the closing the gaps domain. This is a federal uh uh focus, right? Um and so we have chosen to uh focus on improving uh Jefferson, Thornton, and Ray Allen through intensive curriculum and instruction improvements. Um and we have the support of the strong foundations grant, which is how we are able to pay for um all the um extensive training and uh uh uh supports that we have provided for teachers and for leaders. And so, um, I would at your at your, uh, uh, at your seats, you have a copy of the targeted improvement plan. I'm going to walk through that just a

078little bit and let you answer any questions, um, if you have and and then I'll let you move through the process. So, the federal identification process um, uh, identifies schools, um, who have a concern in the area of closing the gaps, which is domain three. Um and it looks at all 14 subops, not just the two um that the state requires. Campuses that have a CSI identification are required to uh you know have some training. They have to develop a team um and then they have to develop and implement a targeted improvement plan and really focus it also on leadership building the leadership practices of the campus principal. And so what you have in front of you is our targeted improvement plan that we are submitting for your approval tonight or for your consideration um

079tonight. And it's focused on us implementing uh the new curriculum in and ensuring that we're building the have the instructional supports in place um so that students are receiving high quality instruction every day um and uh and uh making sure that it's on grade level so it's aligned to the expectation of the state assessment. And so again, closing that achievement, great gap for all students. On the second page, you'll see a list of the capacity building. Capacity building is just all the way that we're all the ways that we're making us smarter. So there's there's areas that I'm attending training as the principal manager that what the principal is being asked to do, assistant principles, instructional coaches, and the teachers. So every we're we're focusing on building the capacity of everyone in the building. Um

080and then we are required to identify very specific milestones. So you'll see that we have milestones not just for this year but next year it's a two-year process for every campus. And so Ray Allen is in there because they've made progress but this is their second year as required. Um the other two campuses are in their initial year. And so you have very specific things that we're supposed to do to ensure that we um build capacity. So you have very specific milestones there. Um resource deployment. We have to make sure that we um are very specific about teachers having the materials they need so that they can uh deliver the curriculum daily. Um we have uh uh implementation checkpoints. Those are those learning walks that Dr. was just talking about where we're walking through camp

081the campuses to see what the level of implementation is so that we can determine what are the next steps or what areas do we need to support the campus with um through training. In fact, we had some walks a couple of weeks ago and we had a principal ask us for some additional support in the area of reading and so Dr. Watson was able to organize that and get that in place for her. Um, we also have coaching support. We have a product advisor that comes on campus and uh helps work with teachers and PLC's, helps coach our coach, observes our instructional coaches, that's their coaching teachers. So, a lot of wraparound support for the campus to ensure that they're successful. Um and then lastly, uh we have to um we have checkpoints for our

082student assessment. So, how are we tracking to see if students are making progress? And then the last area in the plan is performance management. Um so, uh there's someone from my team that's on site weekly to just check in with the principal, observe classrooms, observe PLC's. I do a monthly check-in if I'm not the weekly check-in for this campus. Um and then we have school support meetings just to support them overall. Are there any questions about the targeted improvement plan? >> Members, do you all have any questions on this? >> How many years? >> It is two years. The identification lasts for two years. So even if you do amazing and you no longer have any concerns with your data, you have to conclude it for two years. So Ray Allen made extreme progress, but

083we're still required to do it for two years. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Thank you. The next item is the public hearing on targeted improvement plans for Jefferson Ray Allen Thorn Elementary Schools. At this time, I'll open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to come up and uh speak on this, please come forward now. Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. Next item, consideration of approval of target improvement plans for Jefferson, Ray Allen, and Thornton elementary schools. This is an action item. >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion by Mrs. Alexander. >> Seconded by Mrs. Cook. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All oppose the same sign. The motion passes. Thank you. >> Thank you. And I also want to publicly thank the principles for being here tonight and all the hard work that

084they do to improve student achievement for the district. Thank y'all very much for everything y'all do for the kids and thank y'all for showing up tonight, too. I know it's >> It's okay if they leave, right? >> Oh, yes. Please do. Yes. >> Thank you. Our next item is facility and operations. Mr. Boyd, no items tonight. >> All right. >> Okay. That's what's coming up. >> I told you. >> Yeah. Item D is finance. Uh, Mrs. Stanford. Stanford. Item one, consideration of approval of the 2025 tax role per section 26.09 Texas Property Tax Code. >> Thank you, Mr. Posie. I guess nobody wants to listen to the tax roll tonight. I wouldn't either. Um, but unfortunately or fortunately, over half of our funding typically comes from payroll uh from property taxes. And so, this is

085an important topic to kind of understand. Um, the Texas Property Tax Code section 2609E says that every year we must present to you the tax role for approval just to state that we fully understand what we've been presenting. And so the presentation in front of you and it should have been included in your board book, I'm going to walk you through kind of the highlighted parts just to kind of grasp an understanding because these are statements that honestly every year I have to scratch my head for a moment just to try to figure out what they're trying to tell us. So on page one there is a TISD tax levy and it is located off to the left hand side 3/arters of the way down highlighted in blue and it is stating that the the

086property taxes that we should collect for TISD within properties within our boundary is 84 million. Now, it does say approximate next to it, which is typically something that we don't normally see, but because the the tax role was finalized before our election results were ready. That's why it's listed underneath approximate. However, they did use the property tax rates that were part of Prop A and Prop B. And so, the tax role does not change. There is no additional statements that are going to go out to our taxpayers on behalf of Temple ISD for this. Underneath that, we've talked a lot in the past about the tax increment reinvestment zone. And so that total levy that I was just telling you about um of 84 million that includes all of the properties that are located within

087the zone. So we are a pass flow through for that. We are going to collect it's projecting 14 million. We are going to turn around and cut that check right back to the city of Temple. However, the state of Texas will pay us back to make us whole on that. So there's nothing to be afraid of there. Um, if you will turn to page two and if you're looking in the board book or the one on the screen, this lists all the property exemption categories and the corresponding exemption dollar amount. So, if it's homestead, if it's disabled veteran over 65, these do include the higher exemption amounts that were approved by voters in the November election. So, for the general taxpayer that owns a home, it this includes the $140,000 exemption. For our over 65

088and disabled population, this does include the $200,000 exemption. So, the taxable value loss that we are going to see from these exemptions is 3 billion. Um, this is active or static, which means this is the total. This is essentially what we cannot tax on today that we know of. See, page four, sorry, page three breaks down each of those categories that we just talked about, but all the property categories. Um, this shows you like single family residences, multifamily residences, and this shows you how much of our taxable value breaks into each portion. And so it it shows a net taxable value of 7.6 billion, which will align back to if you wanted to flip back to page one, you would see that figure in there. Um, the next page is our effective rate assumption. This

089is the one that's that I had to scratch my head on and go back and reread, honestly. What this is is it compares this year's figures to last year's figures. So, this shows everything new. So, at the very top, it'll say total new value market. That that number I did not highlight, but what that's showing is that represents all new construction and major property additions for 2025 that have have occurred. This is important because we're looking at our schools adding new classrooms to them. We're projecting out for enrollment. And so this is a number that operations and budget finance department will really have to keep our finger on just to kind of see where we're at as long um with the student services department for projecting budget enrollment in the future. Additionally, underneath that it

090says total new taxable value. So this is the portion of that growth that we saw that is subject to taxation. This represents actual real growth and not just inflation. Now towards the middle of the page, it says total exemption value loss. This number is 570 million. So to put this into perspective, that number used to be 48 million last year. The reason why or the sharp increase is due to Senate Bill 4 and 23, which is the homestead exemption increases. And the state is supposed to reimburse us to make us whole for those exemption amounts. So to kind of explain this, I went over page two a minute ago and I said there was $3 billion loss in exemptions. That is supposed to represent the whole pie of tax collections. The $570 million to put

091it into perspective is how much those exemptions grew from last year to this year to show that exemption pie got larger when you look at it. I used the word pi instead of bucket. I know HR will be happy about that one. So, um, next you'll see data on the average homestead value, which I think is also important. This first category, it lists category A. That is on single family residences. You'll notice it says the average homestead exemption is 145,000. We all know that the general residence is 140,000, but that shows us that there is more properties in these in these Temple ISD boundaries for over 65 and disabled to make that average homestead exemption increase to show it at 145,000 to balance it out. Um, the next number underneath that, it's just combining farm

092and ranch land into that number. And so it just kind of says the exact same thing. The most important numbers is on the next page and the very top of it says the median homestead exemption and it says $140,000. This is important to note that any changes that have happened have been systemic, meaning driven by the state policy of homestead exemptions. That is why we've seen all of the growth in exemptions. It is not from local market fluctuations. And then the last highlighted section at the very bottom shows that within our boundaries 111 properties were protested out of that they have granted um an awarded value of 111. Sorry, that is how many they have granted and awarded out of the protest filed. And so our the original market value of those properties was 37

093million and it decreased down to 22 million as in what's taxable to us um for the district's net taxable value. I know that's a lot of figures. The key takeaway is that the homestead value increase was passed by taxpayers. Our average um deduction on homestead exemption for our property tax taxes um for the ISD is 145,000. All of this is driven by either new buildings in and growth and by the exemption. Any questions? >> Members, any questions? This does require approval. Is there a motion? I'll move for approval. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Motion by Mrs. Meyers, seconded by Miss Gowen. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Same sign opposed. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. >> Item E is student services. Item one, cyber security audit. [clears throat] >> Welcome,

094Mr. Thank you, Mr. Posey, Dr. Board. I want to take a few minutes to go over our cyber security plan. Um kind of show where we started um where we are today and then we had assessment that kind of gave some uh feedback on which direction we should be headed. [snorts] So in 2023, we had your support to create a cyber security initiative. Um in that cyber security initiative we worked on improvements for manage detection and response. Duo multiffactor authentication. ICE is what we call identity services engine. AMP secure endpoint protection and Cisco umbrella. There's a slide for each one of those. We'll go through a little bit of what they do for us now and some numbers that that correlate that data. Cisco Talos is our manage detection and response. They provide 247 coverage

095of our network. Um the numbers here are based on this calendar year from January till now. Um they've reported about 121 highle reports where they contact us for recommendations on what action to take. U average mean time for an investigation is about 30 minutes. So from the time they see an incident to the time they put remediation to it takes about half an hour. And this year we've had four high priority incidents. Um those are incidents that are critical to the district and to the network at that point they have a phone tree that contacts our staff. If for some reason we don't answer, whether it's during the day, at night, 3 in the morning, if we don't answer, we have what we call playbook set up that they can take action. They can pull

096devices off the network. They can go as far as shutting the internet completely down uh on our behalf and then contacts us in the morning, let us know what the threat was and how we want to move forward. That way it mitigates that threat and keeps us from spreading during the early morning hours, overnight. Gradient Cyber does the same thing for us. They do it for our Microsoft products and our cloud products like Google. Um here's kind of a breakdown of what they've done over the same calendar year. So about 451 events there between January and October. So that's averaging you know more than quite a few a month. What 10 or 15 so a month that they're investigating those and they have the same things. They have the playbooks they can contact us. high

097is uh what you don't see here is the reports that they remediate on their own. They're constantly scanning files, scanning devices and things that they can remediate. That's kind of like what we call low hanging. They take care of those without contacting us. These are the ones they actually contact us on, want to give us recommendations and then give us the final say on what we do for taking action. MFA multiffactor authentication, we use Cisco Duo. Um, we have Duo installed for 1380 users. Um, in the past 180 days, there have been over 9,000 authentications and about 800 of those were denied by Duo. Meaning someone could have been impersonating your contact or your information trying to log into district resources. But because of MFA, we were able to detect those threats and keep them

098from getting access. ICE identity services engine. This is a network protection. What we do is we set uh controls in place so that devices and/or users can't connect to our network. Um for hardware, we take what we call MAC addresses, a physical address. That address has to be loaded onto our network and saved within this engine. If it recognizes a device that's not there, it denies contact for the network that goes for wireless or wired. If someone wants to take a device that's not allowed in nice and plug it into one of our network drives, unknowingly, it'll block that device from accessing resources. Um, same thing for users. If you're not in what we call active directory, if you're not in there and you try to contact our network using some other credentials of a

099user not there, then that's also um denied. Um, [clears throat] since we've implemented, we've uh put in over probably 57 close to 60,000 different devices that could be from during campus refreshes throughout the years, but currently serving about 60,000 log devices. So that any device outside of those 60,000 try to connect, they won't be able to. And then that's just kind of a breakdown um of the different devices, Apple and Windows. But the one to be alarmed about is the 54%. That's the unknown. Those are devices that have tried to access the network and we've denied that 54% of devices. >> Has there been any >> has has there been any um I don't know um breaches detected on devices that aren't computers. So for example, our cameras, our thermostats, anything like that. Does that

100come through this as well? >> That does come through this. anything on our network, cameras, wireless access points, if we have any cell phones, >> has there been attempts attempts, right? None successful, but there has been attempts. >> Wow. >> And that goes as far as anything we put on network. If it's HVAC controls or anything that we put forward going uh put on network going forward, um they do attack anything that has a surface to the network or to the internet. Uh AMP secure endpoint. This secures our actual endpoints, our ThinkPads, our Chromebooks that we uh put in the hands of our staff and users. Um, [clears throat] this is scanning all day, all night, 24/7. Uh, you can see some of the stats there. We have it on, 1245 computers that are staffed

101and it has scanned about 94.8 million files and log about 10 million connections. So any connection that it sees, it's constantly scanning those files that may have fishing, malware, or any type of virus attached to it. Kind of like your back in the day when we had some anti- antivirus, think of it as antivirus protection that's on a physical device that's constantly scanning for threats. And all these tools that I mentioned, they all feed back into Cisco Talos so that they're seeing this live as it's happening. And that's what helps remediate within 30 minutes if they see something happening. Cisco on road. This is another layer of security. This protects us on the outside at the internet level. Um where fishing attempts may come in or malware may come in. Um as you can see

102here, there's been about 40 million web requests daily. Um that's kids or staff using internet uh going out to any www. Every time you hit enter, that runs through Cisco umbrella. It checks it for validity, make sure it's secure before it gives access to the network. So this whole approach is kind of layered approach. As you can see, we kind of start with the 247 approach that has um we're in an industry that's not at work all the time. We have big breaks coming up. That's when threats happen. So, it gives that 247 umbrella protects us at that internet layer. Then we come down into the user layer with the endpoint devices and the u duo of multiffactor authentication. So, it's kind of security within layers. where we [clears throat] are today. This next section,

103um, every two years we do a cyber security audit. Um, next two section I've broke into two slides. I started with one where I could talk about all the great things we were doing that they found for us, but uh, that could take quite a while. So, what I did do is break it down into kind of like district findings of what we want to do going forward. Um, they found areas that we could strengthen. Um, let's sit there on the right, lease privilege access model. Um that's uh giving users access to the things that they need. Um and kind of like no more than just that. Um strengthen that password policy. I'll go into a little bit more about that. We have a pretty good policy for the staff. We do 12 characters. Got

104to have three or four controls in place including u upper lower African-American special uh character. And then they said we [clears throat] could review our um users and group objects. So we have users come and go over the years. Um, and some of those don't always get removed or disabled. So, we're going to tighten up on that and I'll talk to a little bit more about that in the next slide. Um, secure trusted access, especially for those secure areas like within Skyward, places like that. Securing those to where we maybe start setting just separate passwords for that so that only secured users can get to those those resources. And then retention policies. Um, [clears throat] not uncommon especially with the cloud. um we have a lot of data that's out there. We don't really go

105back and remove that data. If an employee leaves, it's kind of just disable that account and that data sits. Um so kind of strengthen that and eliminating that threat factor that that vulnerability surface uh is another thing they pointed out. This slide here is more of a department actions. We kind of took some of the things they said and kind of put some risk level to it. These here we can do within our department. that doesn't include going to other departments and working with other departments to um secure those other controls. Um so we have privileged accounts within our department and within the district that has certain access levels. Um some of them kind of get set up as a over the years maybe as a band-aid to kind of get someone access that they

106need um because maybe it was due at that time but then it doesn't go back and get cleaned up. So then that access just kind of hangs out there. So we'll start reviewing those. Um, some accounts have password, not required attribute set. There's some things that you can set without a password within our own systems. Um, but they've identified several that do uh that did connect to some not critical but some important resources that had those attributes set over the years. Um, non-existent and ineffective account privilege uh separation. Same thing there. [snorts] Um, that's kind of going back to the user lease privilege model. If you don't need access to it, then we should be removing those permissions. And then there were some users that was there that could allow devices to connect to the

107domain or to the network. So, we're looking at those and making sure that even within my own department, only certain users that really need that type of access um gets it. It's been kind of over the years, we've noticed that if you're in technology, you need all the access, right? But pertaining to your job description or your job function, there's some level of access you truly do not need. So we'll start eliminating those and scaling down to permissions right within our own department. Um so that brings us to kind of where we're headed to address some of those things we talked about. We'll be working with departments uh campuses and identifying resources where users need access and permissions. Um that will help us with our user and account retentions. When I talked about some of

108the users that we have that leave that we may be unaware of we gotten better at. but as they leave and come um making sure those accounts get uh updated and uh removed uh when they leave the district. And then going along with that, making sure our storage and retention policies line with what we want to do with their data. Um that goes as far as emails. There's ways we can store emails in case there's some type of legal for it that we may need later, keeping it towards seven years or so. But then there's some data out there that we have retention on um that's been in the district for many years. Um and it's just there waiting to be uh used as a threat against us really has no pertinent reason for being

109on the network anymore. We'll start identifying those policies and making sure our controls align with what the district decides. One thing we're working on as a department that will involve all parts of the district is kind of incident response for technology. So, in the event that we do get breached of some sort or we have to take the network down, what is that incident response plan um we're a smaller team that serves a lot. So, we want to make sure we have a plan in place that everyone knows their uh they're they're placing that plan and what they need to do whether it's calling contacting Dr. lot of contact and communications. What is that plan? Who's going to be that spokesperson and how do we remediate? And that also help us going forward so that

110if we have staff turnover, there's something in place that the staff coming on can easily be updated and trained on those procedures. And then the other one, storage cloud backups. Um I'll speak to Microsoft One Drive and Google Cloud. Um [clears throat] it's perceived that they're backups, but they're truly access. um they're created to give you access to those files where you have an internet connection but in the event that something happens to us say Microsoft or Google some type of files get corrupted they tell you that they're not a backup service so as we do backup things on our internal network that we have on premises like Skyward and some of our district shares the cloud backups we've been relying on Microsoft to just say those are going to stay up so we'll be

111looking at cloud backups to see and identify what data in the cloud we need to start creating backups for so if something happens in the cloud we can retain that data and not be at a loss. And then as always, our biggest attack surface is human, the human factor. So going forward, we'll always continue to train our users um give them education. We'll do fishing simulations uh throughout the year and just try to promote a culture that's uh built on security and and u proper internet and network use. Any questions? >> Members, any questions? Appreciate this work. It's sort of sobering, too. >> Interesting for sure. >> Thank you so much for putting all this together. >> Thanks for all your work. And now, intruder detection audits. Mr. Hawkenberg, >> good evening. And so our

112last audit report today is the intruder detection audit. Uh and I will uh uh also say about with Mr. Willis and the uh emails that the department sends and I do take enjoyment in calling him and saying you tried to get me but I I saw this one. So it's so our intruder detection audit. Uh this is there's three three parts of it. This is from uh TEA requirement. Region 12 is contracted and they come to each campus throughout the school year and uh have perform these audits. There are three phases. The first one is the intruder access and this is where they try to gain unauthorized access into the building. Uh and then phase two the exterior door ait. So then they check to see if the doors are propped open, if they were

113unlocked or if doors were broken. And then the last phase is the door logs, making sure that the door checks that we're required to do weekly are up to date and we have the proper documentation. So so far this year in the fall, we've had three campuses that have gone through the the audit. We've had uh Wheatley, Bonum, and Lamar. And so for phase one, the uh unauthorized access into the building, all three campuses, uh the the inspector was unable to get into the building uh with the access unauthorized. Uh phase two, the exterior door audit. Uh the one campus that had a door that was had two doors unlocked and one of those were propped open was bottom and that was in the construction area uh of the campus. And so uh we worked

114with the contractors of the company and we made some adjustments, got the metal gate and some other barriers. And then later that week, we talked with TEA and they said that while the door may be unlocked still with in that uh on the outside with those barriers that we have satisfied the intent of the law and so that while that still remains open, we are still uh denying access into the main building. And then the last one, phase three, the door logs. when they checked all our documentation though they were all up to date. >> All right. >> Any questions? Thank you very much. >> Item F is board committee reports. The policy committee meeting on October 29th, 2025 was cancelled. The next committee meeting will be Wednesday, November 19th at 4:30 p.m. Uh facilities

115committee meeting on October 30th, 2025. That meeting was also cancelled. And the next committee meeting is Thursday, November 20th, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. There have been no further agenda items tonight. Uh we are finished. Thank you'all very much for attending.