Board Meeting - March 24, 2025 – Regular Board Meeting 5:30pm

001Time is 5:30 and I call this meeting to order. Uh we will have roll call. Liz Gutierrez here. Jordan here. Priscilla here. Albert Bariel here. Belinda Gonzalez. Oscar Rodondo here. VM Rodriguez. Here. Let the record show that there is a bor quorum of board members 61. All right. Let's stand up for the pledges of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for alliance to the Texas one and indivisible. All right, since we have nobody that signed up for public participation agenda item three, we're going to move on to agenda item four, the presentation, reports, and action items. This is 4 a the recognition of the westo ISD special Olympics athletes missa and miss le. Okay. Good

002evening. Today we are honoring our Special Olympics athletes for the 2425 school year. For all those have already participated. We'll start with WOE. We have Bill William Blanchard, area bowling competition silver medal, regional bowling competition gold medal. [Applause] Joseph Gampos, area bowling competition gold medal and regional bowling competition silver [Applause] medal. Christopher Salazar, area bowling competition fourth place ribbon at regional bowling competition gold medal. [Applause] For West Oso Junior High, we have Evelyn Delos Santos with Unified Robotics Competition, bronze medal. Nehemiah Garcia, area bowling competition fourth place medal and regional bowling competition gold [Applause] medal. Josiah Gonzalez, area bowling competition silver medal and regional bowling competition silver medal. Hermolindo Miranda, Unified Robotics Competition, Bronze Medal. Josiah Ramirez, Area Bowling Competition, silver medal and regional bowling competition fourth place ribbon. Orlando Vasquez, Unified Robotics Competition, bronze

003medal, West Oso High School. Christian Calderon, area bowling competition bronze medal and regional bowling competition fourth place riven. Kevin Hernandez, area bowling competition silver medal, regional bowling competition, silver medal. John Ma, area bowling competition silver medal. Regional bowling competition fourth place ribbon. Brian Nelson Unified Robotics Competition Gold [Applause] Medal. Trinidad Perez area bowling competition fourth place ribbon regional bowling competition gold medal. Regional floor ball competition bronze medal winner state games floor bottle gold medal and unified robotics gold medal. Robert Kintterero, Unified Robotics Competition Gold Medal. Marcus Rios, Unified Robotics Competition Gold Medal. Aan Rivas, Area Bowling Competition, fifth place ribbon, regional bowling competition, silver medal, regional floor ball competition, bronze medal, and winner state games for floor ball silver medal. John Paul Trovinho, regional floor ball competition, fifth place ribbon and winner, state games for

004floor ball gold medal. So this is our first year with unified robotics that we have now with our special Olympics as part of unified. So, our students that have special education supports and our students within our general education classroom, they combine together and they go and do these competitions. So, this is our first time going out and our team really did represent us. So, we're so proud to now have these additional programs and athletes joining us and was just an honor to see how much our students have grown and how we continue to represent West Coast ISD with all these great awards. Great job, guys. Great job. [Applause] Little bit of rearranging. And Miss Leo is our delegate. And we also have Robert, Cindy, and Miss Garcia Rosanna that are also help with our Special

005Olympics. They're so grateful for all they do. Thank you. All right. [Music] Okay, we'll begin with comments from the board. Uh, Miss Jordan, uh, congratulation to the students and the teachers and and the parents for for the participation. We are so proud of you and congratulations Miss Gutierrez. Congrat congratulations to all the students, the teachers, the staff uh that go out there and help the students. Congratul hope you all keep on doing what you're doing. Mr. Ardondo. Yes. Once again, congratulations to everyone, all the parents, all the students, all the sponsors and teachers. Uh great job. Thank you. Mr. Val, congratulations. Job well done, Miss Vela. Uh, great job, Bears. Congratulations. Yes, y'all did a phenomenal job. I mean, all those medals and this is our first time with with Unified Robotics. Unified Rob. Okay.

006Very. And to the teachers, thank you so much. We know that we could not have done it. And those students, I'm sure, are very grateful as well as their parents. So, thank you so much. [Applause] All right, we're going to move on to agenda item 4B, the presentation regarding the education service center region 2 scholarship recipient for Westo ISD, Miss Moore and Dr. Zena. Can we maybe move and get a hold of her? She's not here yet. Oh, shall we? Who's not here? You can wait one minute. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. She's like I thought you meant Zendo. Okay. She's right there. Oh, is she she's parking? I think that's what they said. Um, you want me to move on? Yeah, let's move on and then we can go back right back.

007Let's just move on to agenda item 4C because the recipient is just about getting here. The presentation of student travel grants for the Business Professionals of America, BPA, and the Technology Student Association, TSA, by the Westoso ISD Education Foundation. Our presenters are Miss Moore, Miss Diana Kuggerero, Miss Brenda Woods, Miss Cage, Miss Jasmine Essuchia, and Miss Lisa Flores. Good evening. Uh, thank you for having us. The Westoso ISD um education foundation is excited to be here this evening to award some travel grants to two student groups, the Business Professionals of America and the Technology Students Association. The foundation was formed about 10 months ago and we are pleased with the support and partnerships that we have formed along the way that have helped us to achieve some of our mission goals. My name is Diana

008Kugerero and I am the co-chair of the foundation. Here with me tonight is um some members of our executive board. Miss Anna Himenez, vice president of programs, Miss Brenda Woods, where is she? Vice president of finance and governance governance. And Miss Beverly Cage, uh the vice president of marketing. Go ahead on. Thank you for having us tonight. We're pleased to present um a $2,500 check to Technology Students Association. Come up and receive your check. Technology Student Association. You're okay. Okay, let's stand up. Let's go. Let's go. You want to move it? I've got it. Thank you. Congratulations. [Applause] And we have um a $2,000 check for the Business Professionals of America. Wow. Get up. [Applause] Okay, comments from the board members on agenda item 4C. Miss Vela, uh, thank you so much to the education

009foundation. We really appreciate your support of our district and our students. Um, it's a a huge blessing for for us and them. Um, and congratulations to the the both teams here today, Mr. Viel. Good job. Well done. Lots of participation, Mr. Ardondo. Well, thank you um education foundation for uh putting this together. Um I know that um you had to revive the foundation after being gone for so many years. So, um, the efforts that y'all did to fund raise all this money is now paying off and it's going to really benefit our students, our staff, uh, our teachers and all that. So, uh, our dollars are going to go a long way and thank you once again for raising all that all that money. Thank you, Mr. Miss Gutierrez. Uh, congratulations to the students. Thank

010you to the foundation for presenting these students with these grants and uh hopefully that we can continue doing this for the students of Westo. Miss Jordan, uh, thank the alumni for your gifts toward our students for them to be able to represent Westoso and we appreciate all that you do for us in the district and congratulations to our students. Thank you. Yes, definitely. I did want to piggyback a little bit on what Miss Jordan said as far as the alumni. Uh I don't know the exact number but I'm sure Miss Diana cano or Miss Beverly Cage you know but uh there our education foundation is made up of many of our alumni from Westo. So, we're very appreciative that they came and revived our educational foundation because, as you can see, it's benefiting our students

011and our teachers because a lot of the a that money goes a long way and it's also money that Westosa at this time does not have. So, yes, we we give a lot of uh commendations to the uh foundation board. How many alumni do you know, Miss Katiero? Well, currently we have uh seven Hall of Fame um recipients. The people that are on the wall at the junior high, seven of those are in our organization. And I we have about 12 alumni. Yes. And they're recruiting. They're still recruiting. Support so we can raise money. Raise money. Yes. So, anytime you hear of an event that the educational foundation is uh supporting, we they would appreciate your support in any way possible because like I said, as you can see, it does benefit our students and

012our teachers tremendously. So, thank you so much. All right, so now we're going to move on to agenda item 4 D, the recognition of the West. Oh, I'm sorry. It's gonna be just calling the students and talking about Oh, we're not going back to that other one. She's not here. She's not here. Okay. 4D, the recognition of the West High School Business Professionals of America, BPA. Is it on? Yes. Yeah. All right. So, thank you so much. So, these students um we have five students that I think three of them are here tonight that competed um in Dallas uh February 28th to March 2nd at the state level. Um none of them advanced the national level, but it's quite an honor to make it to the state level for Business Professionals of America. um the

013group had a little bit of a bump because their teacher unfortunately got injured and so Miss Lomas stepped up and so thank you so much Miss Lomas for kind of pretty much at the last minute changing her schedule to get them to uh Dallas to be able to compete and do all the things. There's their long days and um it's a long trip and so thank you so much Miss Lomas for your willingness to do that um and support these students. So we really appreciate that. So, um that we might want to make sure you get your little goodie bag. Miss Garcy, if you want to hand do you want to hand them the one? Okay. So, we have um Paul Ramos competed in fundamental word processing. You can come on up. Okay. Sinara Tatum

014competed in medical coding. Benjamin Molina competed in medical coding. And then um Daniela Huerta is not here but she competed in management marketing and human resources open concepts whatever that means. And then Jazelle Breeze competed in basic office systems and procedures. So congratulations to these students. Miss Lis, do you want to come in in the picture? One second. Got it. Thank you. Congratulations. Not yet. Okay. You want me to move on to E? All right. Agenda item 4E, the recognition of the West Rosa High School powerlifting regional qualifiers. Miss Moore, Miss Filillmore, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Zubia. We had on February. Well, Gina's Oh, she's there. [Applause] She placed fifth overall in the state of Texas. Wow. Way to go. And so accomplish this really. Wonderful. Great job. Next we have Anthony label is our

015boys uh regional qualifier. Uh he did an awesome job last year. He did not make it. He says, "Coach, I'm going to make it." I was like, "I'm not sure." Because he was about 600 lb short and he put in the work and he and he put over 600 lb to make it to Wow. Wow. accepted to Shriner University and he has a very good chance get to sit down in April the 12th to talk to the recruiters [Applause] Yeah. All right. [Applause] Okay, Miss Gutierrez, any comments? Yes, ma'am. I'd like to congratulate um Miss Inosa. Great job. I hope you continue on this. And to Mr. Lea, never give up. You said you were going to do it. You did it. Great job. Congratulations. Yes, Mr. Adondo. Uh, congratulations to both of y'all. Um,

016great job. Are they uh juniors or seniors? Uh, Anthony senior and sophomore. Great. So, a lot of potential and uh outstanding for your senior year. Uh, thank you, coach, uh, for coaching them and all that. I know you wear a lot of hats. So, uh, bus driving also, right? All right. Great. So, the coaches do a lot of a lot of work. They work with other coaches and they help with other sports and a lot of them also help us driving the students to the competitions and all that. So, once again, I also want to thank the parents. Uh, without you, they wouldn't be here. So, thank you. Continue to support them. Thank you. Definitely, Mr. Aariala. I would call Gina Inosa the Renaissance as a student at Westoso and uh I think it's a

017great thing to set goals like Anthony did and work hard and achieve those goals. Congratulations. Yes, Miss Vala. Uh congrats to our athletes and to their families. We are very very proud of you guys. Way to represent our district. Congratulations. And Miss Jordan. Oh, I just ditto to everything. Everyone has said and the young men that's going to Shrina, you're going to love it. My daughter graduated from Shrina. You're going to love it. Yes. Congratulations to our powerlifting regional qualifiers. Y'all did a phenomenal job and your coaches as well. Thank you so much. [Applause] You want me to go back to B? 4B. the the presentation regarding the education service center region 2 scholarship recipient for West Oso ISD, Miss Moore and Dr. Zena. Um just so everyone knows that it's because of Miss Jordan's

018um good fortune and luck that this is happening. We went to a um dinner in honor of our board and there was only one raffle thing that was being given away and Miss Jordan was lucky. So, um, be lucky. I did. She won us $1,000. Nice. Hello. My name is Esanza. I'm the executive director of the service center education. With me is Mr. Alex Garcia, board member. We are very pleased to be here to present a $1,000 scholarship to our Selenas. And I understand she's also at the top of her class. Where is she? Oh, there she is. That's what it was. Congratulations. [Applause] Board of trustees of region 2 and myself. Great. Thank you. Yes. right here in the middle. Alex, Miss Cheryl, Miss Filmore, come on. She was also last year. [Applause] Thank

019you. Congratulations. [Music] Miss Vala, any comments? Congratulations to Adoselli. It's great to see you back in the West Oso district. Um, we hope that this uh this scholarship is a big blessing to you. Yes, you're welcome, Mr. Vad. Congratulations, Mr. Aridondo. Uh, yes. Thank you for the scholarship. uh region two and the recipient um it's going to help a whole lot with your uh with your um school expenses, college expenses. Yes. Books and all that. So, uh thank you once again, Mutes. Congratulations to Aelli. Nice to see you again. uh uh to ESC2. Uh thank you for the scholarship and Miss Jordan, thank you for getting that that win. Thank you for having that. Good luck, Miss Jordan. Uh thank you for education service center for giving that to this young lady. It's going to

020benefit her greatly. And and congratulations. Yes, definitely. Congratulations Sully. I know you you have made us so proud. So they had to come back and give you another scholarship. So congratulations. All right. Now we're going to move on to agenda item 4 F, the recognition of the West Dosel High School Lady Bears basketball team. Mr. Sims, Miss Moore, Miss Filillmore, Miss Gonzalez, and Miss Erica Pñena. Come on up. These are the coaches, right? Coaches. No, that's not what [Music] [Laughter] um we had an amazing season this year. Yes. Uh, which you guys are going to be able to see all the honors that the girls got. Um, what I like about it is that the young generation is now able to see it. You know, that usually they hear about it, but now they they

021were able to see it. And it's good that uh that I work at the elementary and these kids, all they got talked about is the the lady bears. Thank you. [Applause] So, our Lady Bears um basketball team, they were first place in the district. They were district champions, they were area champions, regional champions, and then they had a state semi appearance. And so now, as we call your name, you do it. I think that I remember they want me to call the name so you can do the put that on them. There we go. Okay. Okay. Right. That was what y'all wanted, right? Okay. Okay. Trying to follow directions here. Okay. So, I'm going to call up the Westo High School Lady Bears basketball team 2425. Miss Isabella Brown, Miss Ivana Walker, Miss Malaya Sweatz.

022Where is she at? There she is. Miss Victoria. Woo. Miss Milani Williams. Cavette. Miss Cavette [Applause] Hutchkins. Miss Jayla Hicks, Miss Olivia Shaw, Miss Desiree [Applause] Torres, Miss Kiana [Applause] Johnson, Miss Alise Veral, Miss Alia Martin and Miss Zakara Stafford and Miss Sarah Gonzalez. I'm so sorry. Team manager. Wow. Two rows. Okay. Here. Here. Oh, do you want me to say it or you want Yeah. Oh, Miss Erica, coach, assistant basketball coach, Erica Pena, assistant coach, Miss Delila Gonzalez. Our head coach again, Mr. Quincy Sims. And then the rest for the board members. Oh. Okay. Okay. I get one. All right. And did you get one? Yes. Principal Miss Dr. Olia Gutierrez. Okay. And then athletic director Coach Filmore. Do you want to read these? Okay. So, additionally, several players and coaches received 2025 district

023basketball honors. Co-VP for the district was Jayla Hicks and Malia Sweatz. Raise your hand. Yeah, go up so they can see you. Co-offensive player of the year for the district was Olivia Shaw. Co-defensive. I guess they were being nice because we should have just wiped all of these out. But co-defensive MVP was Melanie Williams. Sixth man of the year was freshman Kiana Johnson. First team all district, Isabella Brown, Ivana Walker. Second team all district, Evette Hudgens and Hudgens and Desiree Torres. Our all academic was Victoria Vela, Malia Sweatz, Victoria, Jayla Hicks, Alice, Viral, Z Stafford. Um, again, our Texas Association of Basketball Coaches, um, All State TABC, Jayla Hicks, Malia Sweatz, and Milani Williams. Two players also achieved the TABC Allstate honors. Um that was Jayla Hicks and Malaya Sweats. The first one was all

024regional. Additionally, players achieved Texas Coaches Association TGCA honors which was all state Malo Sweatz, Jayla Hicks, Melani Williams, and all state academic Z Stafford. And then the allstar junior is um Olivia Shaw. And then I had to save the best for last. The coach of the year in our district was Mr. Quincy Sims. And I just real quick, I love what um Mr. Sim said about these these girls being an rep, you know, an example for the younger students. They are athletically and their character. I mean, you watch them, they had challenges, right? some calls that we may not have agreed with, but these girls had so much character throughout the entire season. They did. Wow. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Wow. [Music] [Applause] Can somebody hold it? Can somebody hold it? Yeah. Anybody hold it?

025Get in, Miss [Applause] Moore. Congratulations. All right. Congratulations, Mr. Sim. Congratulations. Oh, okay. Miss Jordan, you want to start with the comments? I just want to congratulate uh I just want to congratulate the young ladies. They did an awesome job. They encountered a lot. But I tell you, they represented the district well. They did. And the Thank you for the coaches and the parents uh for doing, you know, uh being supportive and uh congratulations to to them. They did an awesome job. Mr. Gutieres, I want to congratulate all the students, all the girls. I I didn't make any games, but I heard that you all really played with a lot of character, and that's the way to represent Westoso, and I thank you all for that. Coaches, parents, uh teachers, all that helped them get

026where they they are. Thank you so much, Mr. Yes. congratulations to the uh Lady Bears. Um they did an outstanding job on the court. They also do an outstanding job uh academically. Uh I know that they probably play u other sports. Some of them are probably in early college uh honor role top 10% and probably career ready. So they wear a lot of hats and they represent the district very well. Continue to support them parents not only now but as they go to college or choose their careers. So yes, thank you Mr. Viel. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Congratulations. Yes. And Miss Bella, congratulations to all the girls. Uh, Coach Filillmore, our coaches. Thank you for your leadership. Um, these girls had did a phenomenal job this season. It was a pleasure being at almost every game,

027whether home or away, miles away, hours away. It was so worth watching them on that court. Um, a lot of them are seniors and we're going to miss them very much. Um but they really uh set a standard for for uh our girls athletics and so we we are so proud of them and how they represented our district. Yes, the representation was just phenomenal and there was a buzz in the air knowing that they were at semifinals and I mean people were just excited about getting their t-shirts and going to represent. So, congratulations, Cheryl, to that basketball team and coach uh Sims and um I don't know the names of the other coaches, but yeah, it was very very well done and those girls showed a lot of character on and off the court. So,

028thank you so much. All right, are we done with the recommend recommen? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't turn the page. Okay, now we're going to move on to agenda item 4G, the recognition of the Westoso High School Running Bears basketball team. All right, we need Mr. Avery, Mr. Garcia, Mr. Flowers, and Mr. Thomas, Doc, uh, Miss Moore, and Miss Filillmore. Come on up. So, now we're up to the presentation of our running bears basketball and I will let um Coach Avery, head basketball coach, talk a little bit about his team. Good afternoon, evening. Uh, I just want to go on record saying I'm very proud of these young men. Uh, they've been with us for the past three years. And just a a small little story, uh, two years, three years ago, we

029had a rough time. Uh, making the playoffs and getting a lot of wins, but these kids stayed committed, came all summer, uh, and last year we made the first round of playoffs. Yeah. Um, even though we lost that first round, me as well as those boys had a bad taste in our mouth about it. And, uh, we told ourselves we're going to be committed and dedicated to this season, which they were. They were here all summer and gave us all it had. U, despite all the adversity we faced, not only did we make the first round, but we made the second round. Not only did we make the second round, these kids made it. It's not on us as coaches. All we could do is support them. But these young men made it to the

030regional tournament which Westoso boys has not been in the past seven years. So I tip my hat off to them. Uh incredible young men and uh I just want to thank y'all publicly about all y'all gave to this program. And I look forward to seeing you seniors uh flourish out in the real world and and do what you can do to change the world just like I think I'm changing y'all lives. be a change in somebody lives. So, thank y'all for that. Thank y'all for the parents. Before I leave, one more thing to say. Uh, a lot of these guys here, a lot of them didn't receive all district honors. And whether you know it or not, I probably shouldn't say this, but I think they almost had to carry me out of the meeting

031cuz I feel like a lot of these kids were deserving of awards that they they shouldn't have had. But I told them and they always know. I don't care what anybody thinks about me. They they gonna know that I give my all to them and everything I do is for them and this program in this community. So once again, I just want to say thank you to you fellas as well as everybody here today. So, um, we have senior Amari Sanders, junior Aan Salazar, junior Maurice Rosales, senior Lauron Eckles, senior AJ Flores, senior Gerald Harper, Southore Kaden Thomas junior Cangelo Richardson senior Jordan Hernandez I did that without a script and we have a few more missing but though these are the ones that are here and then um again like he said area champs

032regional semi semifinals and first team our district honors goes to Gerald Harper and Jordan Hernandez. Second team all district honor go to Amari Sanders and Aan Salazar. Sixth man of the year goes to Cangelo Richardson. And honorable mention goes to AJ Flores and Lauron Eckles. And I think as coach Avery said um all of them on our end were the team MVPs district. So, I just want to thank the coaches and the students for student athletes for their hard work and dedication. Thank you. [Applause] I did not. Y'all want to walk over here? I know they some of them coming from the track. They've been in track practice, but Oh, you can just raise your hand. Uh, coach Josh Prao, Coach Chanty Thomas, Coach Samuel Flowers, and Coach Garcia, Steven Garcia. I I know I'm

033talking a lot, but I just want to say I appreciate these uh guys, too, cuz whether y'all know it or not, they probably were tired of me every Saturday morning. They had to get here an hour early just to go over film and talk about the game plan for the next week. So, I tip my hat off to these uh young men and thank you for making this program better. Yeah, if you want to do two rows. Talst one's in the back. There you go. [Music] Mr. Right. Last round of applause. [Applause] Start us off, Miss Gutierrez. Yes, ma'am. Congratulations to all you students basketball players. I hope you continue even after you finish here at Westo. And I know that um you all did a great job. parents, thank you for those early morning,

034Saturday mornings that you have to get up and bring them out here. So, thank you to the coaches and all the staff. Thank you all. We will congratulating you. Yeah. Can they wait just a little while so they can Yeah. I should have told them. I'm sorry. Okay. Hold on a sec. It's way over here. They can't hear her mic. Oh, they can't hear your ears. Uh, Miss Gutierrez, here we go. Okay, we're gonna rewind a little bit. We wanted to congratulate y'all. That's That was all. Okay, Miss Gutierrez, I'm sorry. Okay, I want to congratulate all the basketball players. I hope that y'all continue after high school and you all flourish in the if you do go to college or whatever your intent is. Coaches, thank you so much for all the work you

035did. parents, thank you so much because I know it's hard getting up Saturday morning to bring them over here early in the morning and uh have to come back and pick them up and that I know how hard that is. I I did that for years. So, thank you all and I hope that you continue to support the West OSO uh basketball team and the coaches. Thank you uh again coaches. Thank you so much, Mr. Arzondo. Yes, thank you players. Uh outstanding year uh all the coaches, all the parents for their support. Uh guys, uh I know you learned a lot as a team um working together. Hopefully you'll use that down the line in in the real world. Uh I encourage you to continue your education either with a career or college. Uh continue

036your education and then uh don't forget that we're still here. Come back and visit us. Thank you. Please, Mr. Viel. Uh Coach Avery, you have such passion and and and I guess you it oozed out to the players because they you all just had passion. That's that's why you achieved what you did. Congratulations, Miss Vala. Congratulations to all our athletes, our running bears, our coaches, the families. Uh you guys were definitely so fun to watch this season. Uh we're going to miss our seniors. Uh we wish you guys the best and congratulations again on all of your achievement achievements this season. Yes, definitely. Um, I just want to say kudos to everybody, especially uh, Coach Avery. You know what you said, you have turned that team around and you know the again the buzz is

037in the air that you know you're going to do great things here with this basketball team. So, we're looking forward to it. Congratulations to your team. Again, we hope on whatever endeavors that you have, you're going to fulfill them because now you know you know you you were on a winning team. So, thank you for everything. Um, thank you for the program because it it is flourishing. Can I say something? Oh, I'm sorry. I like to skip her. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I had the privilege of watching these young men. I tell you, they have character. They came together as a team and they've enc they encountered a lot from different school districts, but they represented Westo so well and I want to congratulate them and uh the coaching staff. You all were wonderful and

038I thank you all for uh what you do for our students here in the district and uh we just we're overjoyed that we came this far this year and thank you all. Thank you. Y'all can go now if you wanted to. I'm just saying. Well, I will tell you though, if you remember the education foundation, they're going to be um a next one of our fundraisers this summer, if I don't know if Coach Avery knows this yet, is um we're going to have a basketball tournament the end of July, 1 of August where we're going to try to get alumni and students and a lot a lot of people to raise money for the foundation. So, don't go too far. Thank you. We'll be there in full support. Thank you. All right. Now we're going

039to move on to agenda item 4 H. The presentation discussion regarding the balance scorecard priority 2 report attract develop support and retain highly qualified and effective staff. Miss Moore, Miss Gomez, and Dr. Rietta. So um before Miss Gomez and um Dr. Rivera start, I want to kind of give you a little bit of context. I know you a lot of times you ask us what are the class sizes, what are the ratios. You may hear things like, "Oh, we have really high class sizes, low class, you know, and everything in between." So, um, you're going to hear a see a lot of numbers, but we're trying to kind of tell you where we're at. And then, um, in two weeks, we have our first budget meeting. And that budget meeting is going to focus on

040staffing. So, then we're going to be turning the numbers, you know, in terms of staff you hear today into dollar figures. Um I have shared just so that everyone could publicly know that we're still waiting of course on the legislature to know where money you know to know where additional funding is coming from. But um when you're saying do we really need this person or do we really need that person um or do we need to shift positions based on you know what the needs are. That's the point of this presentation. Thank you. Okay. Okay. a quick overview of our 2024 2025 school year. Can you Oh, I was waiting for Byron. I'm so sorry. So, our enrollment this year, we are currently at 1,799. Of those students, 348 of our students are transfer students.

041So, we do get a lot of students that come in on a transfer. John F. Kennedy at John F. Kennedy Elementary. Our prek kinder class has 88 students. We have six classroom teachers in prek kinder and the ratio is 14. It should be to one, right? It's 14 to1. Pardon me. Our kinder, we have 132 students. We have seven classroom teachers. And our ratio is 19 to1. Our first grade has 138 students, seven classroom teachers, and the ratio is 20 to1. In PE, we have 362 students at JFK. And so those 363 run through the gym. We have one PE teacher and then we have two pair of professionals to assist with that PE teacher, with that PE classroom. Our music, we have 362 students. Again, that's the enrollment. So we share the music teacher

042with Westoso Elementary. So they don't get to go to those specials every day. They kind of rotate. We also have the art teacher that we also they also share with Westoso Elementary. And so once again they are there half a day and then they go on to West Elementary. So those 362 students are funneled in at different times, different days. They don't get to go to that to art every day or to music every day. they kind of bundle in and so that they they'll all have an opportunity to run through those specials. Westoso Westo Elementary in second grade we have 140 students there is seven teachers and the ratio is 20 to1. In third grade we have 152 students, seven teachers and it's 21 to1. In fourth grade our counts are 131. There is

043six fourth grade teachers and the ratio in in fourth grade are 22 to is 22 to1. Our fifth graders have 120 students. There is six teachers and again the ratio is 20 to1 in the fifth grade. West Esso Elementary has 543 students. They have two certified coaches in APA that help with that with those numbers. Our music and our art students again we have are we share the teachers with JFK. So it's very difficult the students don't have the opportunity to go to these electives every day because we have to make that rotation and ensure that everyone is being serviced and covered. But I know that they don't I mean they don't go every day. I mean, but do they go at least once a week? Yes. On the the music and the art? Yes,

044they do. Oh, like for This is what? Oh, this is Westoso Elementary. So, does do your grade levels go at least once a week to either music or art? Yes. Yeah. Because we I mean, they've never gone every day anyway. So, but I have to ask you also, Miss um Gomez, when I know you're putting the student teacher ratio on second, third, fourth, and fifth. So, but what when you go to PE and music? So, what is the rate? Because I know on that one you do combine all the fifth graders. So, what is like do you have an average for every for the grade levels? We didn't Go ahead. Well, do they y'all want to call out? Do y'all know your averages for like how many students are on the like in on the

045field for PE or or youth so not everybody is okay. So from that 120 let's say it's fifth grade uh half is being supervised by that one full-time staff member and the two parasif two certified okay and okay and does that apply also for JFK certified so you have one certified and two pairs she has two certified and one how many and a pair. And a pair. Okay. I thought you said three pairs. Okay. Well, that Yeah, that makes you know because I know it's 543 students, but Right. They're not all out in the gym at the same time. Yeah. And that's why I was like with, you know, one certified of them go to PE and then the other half go to art. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. I'm just saying so the numbers can

046look I mean we can understand the numbers. They have additional rotations. I mean third se the your grade level numbers. Yeah, everybody can see that. So, so PE goes out one grade level at a time. So, uh we can go back to the numbers, please. That's okay. So, they go out one grade level at a time. We have fine arts rotations. So, um second grade, uh let's see. Let's go to let's what's my biggest one there? What's my biggest one? Third grade. So, third grade, half of those students go out to PE and they're supervised and do their activities. Then they have um seven other fine arts classes. So seven of those classes go to a different fine arts. So we have a library, we have computer lab, we have either art or music depending

047on who's there that day. We have different things that they go to, robotics. Um we also have a health and fitness. We have all kinds of different things they go to. So then they all go to seven different classes and then they switch, right? So then those seven classes go out to PE and then those seven classes outside come in and go to their uh fine arts classes. So because there's too many there's too many outside. So when my very first year here they all went outside. So my when I go to a new campus I like to say let's just see how everything goes. They were all going outside. I said I hate to change things first year not not on this campus it was at JFK. Um, but that was one thing I

048changed because it was way too many kids outside or actually in the gym. It was in the gym. Too many littles in the gym with little supervision. So, we changed it at that time and we've just ke I've just kept doing it the same ever since. Yeah. Well, that's a better understanding because, you know, I mean, we all know I mean from being educators that Yeah. a lot of times those 543 students went outside with Oh, no. Wow. No, we go one grade level at a time and we even go half and we only do half of that. Yeah. Well, that that's really good to know. Really good to know. Sorry, I just needed to have that clarification. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm sorry, Mr. Davis. You can go on. So, we go on

049to West Esso Junior High. We have the three grade levels. Sixth grade has 141 students. Our seventh grade has 129 students. And then the eighth grade has 123 students. So each one of this grade level has four core teachers. So it's a little different at the middle school because they change classes. So they have their ELA e teacher, the math, the science, and the social studies. And then the other two periods, of course, the students get to go to electives. So now we go to the junior high electives. This is going to be much longer. We have 116 students that take art where there's one teacher. He teaches six periods and his ratio is 19 to1. We have an AVID teacher. 107 students take AVID at Wester Junior High. There is one teacher. She has

050four periods of AVID and then she works with special education the other two periods. And the ratio for the AVID classes is 26 to1. We have band and choir. There's 133 students that participate in either band, choir. There's two teachers for the ratio of 22 to1. Career investigations. This is broken up per semester. So each semester there's 61 students that are taking career investigations. There's four classes. The teacher has four classes and two athletic classes. And the ratio in those career classes is 15 to1 per semester. Our PE we have 266 students that are not involved in athletics and there's two teachers. We have a male and a female teacher and their ratio is 44 to1. Boys athletics, there is 81 boys that participate in the athletics class. So there's four coaches, four teachers and

051the ratio is 20 to1. Our boys athletics class is held in the morning. Our girls athletics is held last period of the day. There is 46 girls who participate in girls athletics. There's three teachers and their ratio is 15 to1. Our ROC, there is 20 West Junior High students enrolled in ROC. Our ROC instructor, we he is at the junior high half a day or he has some classes at the junior high and then he helps with the classes at the high school. And his ratio is 6 to1 for that junior high class. We have a Spanish teacher that we share with Westo High School. We currently have 74 students that were enrolled in Spanish and the ratio is 24 to1. She is at Westo Junior High for three periods. So we break that down

052to the ratio is 24 to1. Our tech app class, we have 93 students. There is one teacher and there's the ratio is 15 to1 because he has six there's six different periods. And then theater arts, we share theater arts teacher with West High School. There is currently 62 students at West Junior High taking theater arts and her ratio is 15 to1. And again, we share that uh that position with the high school. Okay. Uh go back to PE, boys athletics and girls athletics. So, I want to know how do you work that out to where you have two teachers for PE for 266 students and I know your ratio is still 44 to1, but for boys athletics, boy, it really curves down to 20 to1 and you have four teachers. How? So the boys athletics

053are the are is a class that has they have the basketball players, they have the football players, they have the track and any other sport that I may be missing, softball and baseball. So they the some of the the coaches are usually teachers. So as I explained earlier with the career investigation, he has four career investigation classes and two athletic periods. So those co the athletic classes have a more attendance, more teachers because they're all broken up into different sports and that's the class that's a period that all girls athletics have are in the athletic classes. So there you can have volleyball in there categories, right? Where in PE in PE it's straight it's straight PE. What do you mean straight PE? So PE they'd be all be doing the same activity versus athletics depending

054on what sport is doing jumping jacks right and PE and this is sports specified right based on what sport you're playing but on the girls sports don't they have softball and um right volleyball and track yes ma'am which is contrasting athletics where in athletics they're preparing for a specific sport is a required physical education course for students that may or not be they're not in competitive sports. Well, no. It says boy athletics 81 and then you have four uh teachers and then the girls you have 46 and you have three teachers. But basically, don't they have the same ex uh exclusion of football? All they both have the same sports, the same sports. The only difference is that football brings out, excuse me, a lot more participation. And so that's why that boys athletics class

055is so much larger. But you have double the students in boys. Yes. Okay. Well, and you also again have some girls of course that will be go to volleyball to basketball then to track you know. Um but that's gets covered under girls athletics. Yes ma'am. Okay. Do we have any girls participating in b in football? Not no ma'am. Not this year. It's been a while that we haven't had. Two years ago. Are they allowed to participate? Yes ma'am. They do. Two years ago, we had a young lady that played all the way through from junior high through high school. Wow. Okay. So, we're going to move on to West Tesso High School. Our ninth graders, there's 147 students that are freshman. Our sophomores are the class is 108. There is 127 juniors and 117 seniors.

056The high school's enrollment is 499. When you look at the core classes, there is five English teachers. There is five math teachers. We do currently have one one vacancy. So, there's four math teachers at the time and we have a long-term sub with that one vacancy. Our science teachers, we have four science teachers and then we have four history teachers. How many periods does the high school have? Seven. they're teaching. So again, we're going to have a lot more electives here at the high school. Our art, we have 134 students that take art. There is one teacher. She teaches six periods and her ratio is 22:1. In Avid, we have 85 students that take AVID. We have one teacher and her ratio is 17 to1. Band choir in mariachi. This is a little difficult. We

057have three different things that go in that go on there. First period, which is a large with the largest classes, the the marching band. We have one full-time teacher. We have one teacher that is their only first period from the junior high. And then we have a teacher that's their first and second because they all participate in the first period band. And then he stays behind to do the mariachi class. So again, we share two teachers with the high school in as far as band choir is concerned. And then the ratio is 23 to1. Our business class there is 97 students that are currently taking business. We have one teacher and the ratio is 17 to1. Culinary arts we have 110 students, one teacher and the ratio is 18 to1. education and training. There is

05834 students and her ratio is 11:1. She teaches the education training only half of the time and the rest the other classes the other three periods she is helping out in Dr. Goodus. She taught a health class and then uh can't remember the other one and then helped out with some dual credit um like overseeing dual credit. Yeah. Our engineering there is 90 students that are currently taking engineering. We have the teacher teaches it's one teacher. She teaches five classes of engineering and two classes of physics and her ratio is 15 to1. Our graphic designs class we have 72 students one teacher and the ratio is to1. Our health science class 83 students one teacher and again the ratio is 14 to1. In PE we have 77 students, two teachers and their ratio is 38

059to1. And then boys athletics at the high school has 111 students. They have six coaches there at the time and their ratio is 18 to1. Girls athletics is 43, four coaches and 10:1. ROC, we have 28 students at the high school that are currently in the ROC program. one and a half teacher because we share one with the junior high and the ratio is seven to one. Currently there is 151 students taking Spanish. We have a one teacher a full-time teacher and then a halftime that we share with junior high and this the ratio is 17 to1. In theater arts there's 47 students. Again she travels from junior high to high school and the ratio is 23 to1. She teaches two classes at the high school. our DAP center. We have two teachers, one that

060covers the junior high and one that covers the high school. The beauty of it is that one of our teachers is also spit certified, so she gets to work help with that. And so in the event that we do not have any of the inclusion teachers, the students are always covered. So we know that our special ed students needs are always being met. Great. Our preliminary changes for 2025 2026, our goal is to eliminate one prek teacher because our numbers are smaller. And then at West High School, we're going to we're looking at eliminating the education and training teacher class. What certification of teachers? It's just it's just under low enrolled you the the What specifically is that training? What exact are you teaching? What's the teaching in that class? to prepare people to be

061students to be a teacher. We just haven't had the interest unfortunately and so we have to make you know kind of a cut somewhere. Um because if in order to remember in order to offer a pathway we have to or we have to offer four classes and so if the enrollments and interest just isn't there you know we're looking at where are low enrollments. Of course, just to clarify with ROC won't our contract with the military is we required to have two teachers and that's why that you know we we reducing that's not an option. I was going to ask because students and you have a one and a half teachers but because of the requirement because really it's not Yeah. No, we looked at this. No, but it's it's when we signed the contract

062with the army, that's the contract that was signed. And the military does contribute towards their salary. Right. Right. Yes, ma'am. Uh on that to eliminate one prek position. Uh I mean you all were all JFK was all over Facebook, all over social media that they wanted more kids, more students. What happens if we get all these students in the coming year and you've eliminated this this one class? Well, right now, so last year we hadundred students in five classes and that's why we added a sixth class. This year we started the year with 80 and we're like in the mid 80s. So we still have plenty of room to grow those even five classes. Um what we found that happened was when CCISD started that prek3 program which they did last year um they started

063and I'm we're not changing diapers. So, I mean, we that's, you know, I think there's been a lot a lot of negativity about telling a teacher that's certified EC6, okay, you're going to be teaching three-year-olds. Um, but anyway, they started that preK3 program and so a lot of the parents started their kids in CCISD in preK3 and rather than transfer them, they probably made friends, etc. So, that's where enrollment went down. So um I mean if we have over you know we'll have a capacity for 22 times you know 110 students which would be quite a bit of increase from where we have that's why we lost enrollment too because uh once that program over there started with the threes the other children that we had in the upper classes they put them over there

064so they wouldn't have to drive to CCISD plus over here. So we lost children that way too. they want them at the same campus. Okay. So, those are that's exactly what we're looking at for the 2526 school year. We continue to work with the campus principles for staffing and we will look at different areas that need to be curtailed. Thank you. Thank you. For our special education overview, we do have our students and services. Our first slide does cover how many students we have per campus and then our services by disability. So at JFK we have 55 students who 133, Westo Junior High 75 and Westo High School 49 with a total of 312 students that we're currently serving. our students by disability. Our numbers do look larger here because some of our students do

065have more than one eligible disability that qualifies them for special education. So of that population we have 36 students that receive services for autism, nine for emotional disturbance, 45 for intellectual disabilities, 98 for specific learning disabilities, five for orthopedic impairment, 55 for other health impairment, 125 for speech impairment, two visual impairments, non-categorical early childhood four and then developmental delay is now the new um terminology. So we have two currently labeled that but those two is the same disability. So that'd be a six total deaf and heart of hearing one and for our related services we have physical therapy of 18 students occupational therapy 72 counseling 14 and then our transportation services are 28. I do have a question on your, you know, uh, like JFK. No. Can you turn it back? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Um,

066I'm just curious to know, are those numbers, you know, weaning down because you're exiting the students? Is it because second grade moved to West Oso Elementary? I think she I know. Yeah, I know. That big Yeah, that big old uh pop, but I'm It's still the the numbers are going down as you go from Whoa. What? WO E, I'm sorry. And WJH and W I mean JH and HS are those numbers weaning down because you're exiting the students out of the program. So, as we go through high school, we have seen that some students have either left the district or we So, it's not necessarily that you're exiting, they're they're leaving. We do have some students that may meet all their goals. They're doing completely fine now. They don't need a specially designed instruction that

067would be dismissed. But then also, you have your students that, for instance, speech therapy, that might have been their only eligibility. So then once they master their goals and they no longer need that since that's an independent disability that can stand on its own for special ed services once they're done and dismissed with that then they no longer require services either. So as you could see our speech and impairment was 125 on its own where we have students that receive services. So it just varies on whether our students leave, whether they come back or if they no longer need services. Do we know like exact numbers this you know this is due to them exiting the program or this is due because they just moved away for our exit programs we do at the end

068of the year see how many students um it's a great accomplishment when our program works well isn't that when you all introduce the 18 and over program yes so those are ones are students that still need continuation of education for functional skills but our students that now have closed those learning gaps, they're meeting all their standards, they've met their IEP goals. That's a huge success and a tribute to the teachers that work with them day in and day out. So, we have had students that all they need are accommodations. They no longer need specially designed instruction or someone in inclusion and they're able to maintain. So, with those students, they'd still receive that. They may go under a section 504 because they no longer need specially designed instruction. But we have had some students that

069have really excelled through the program in special ed and um have been exited. We're just You could give us the numbers not right now but later on of the students that have actually exited you know. Yes ma'am. Per campus. Yes ma'am. Well we Yes. By the end of the year we'll be able to tell you a clear picture but I can't tell you by now. That's where we typically look at them. And then one more. Um, you would think that most of those students would get diagnosed, but maybe like you said they some of them were just transfers in like at JFK because JFK number but I see what you're saying. Well, WOE is because of second grade moving. But it is that attributed also to the being diagnosed at that campus. That's a lot.

070Yes. So, and we'll go through this a little bit here later also, but now with dyslexia being a part of special education as a specific learning disability, we're seeing that increase in testing as well. So, for instance, our first graders, they get screened midyear, then we have committee meetings, then from there, anyone that the committee recommends additional testing, then they would go on. If they get tested in the summer, beginning of second grade, then the following year would fall on the WOE side instead of because they're going to second. So you're not even if you diag started diagnosing them in JFK, they're not going to be admitted to the dyslexia program until second grade. Not until they have their ARD. So they may be in the process of evaluating them because they do have those

07145 days and then 30 days to do ARD. So it just depends when they get consent signed when the testing will be completed. So you could start like at the beginning of JFK and they could be in that program at JFK. Yes, ma'am. Because we also screen kindergarteners as well at the end of the year. Yeah. I have a question. I have one too. You want to go first? Go ahead. Yeah. Uh how do we uh assist the do uh the deaf and heart of hearing? So we our student actually gets tra services at CCISD. So we provide transportation and since our population is so small they actually have the schools and specialists there the surrounding districts and their students too. Okay. All right. I my question is um the physical therapy and the occupational

072therapy who is doing these services? So they doing it here at the school? Yes. Everything's done here at the school. We have our physical therapists, Miss Straworn and Miss Cox. They come in and work with students based off of their IPS. And then we did actually able to hire a full-time occupational therapist. She's been with us three years, I believe, now. But that's really helped us a lot because she does evaluation and services. And then Miss um Getto is a Kota, so she's the assistant that helps with providing services since we do have so many students. Right. So we don't have the company that we used to have or the contracts the contract that we used to have with the people that were coming in last last year or the year before. So physical therapy

073yes only because the cost isn't we would be paying more to hire someone full-time due to the number of students that we have said about OT and then we did a little bit more research Miss Alvarado and we finally got them. They made more it's costefficient to have someone here full-time and then just have the kodas contract. We have looked into it like for physical therapy. Yes, we would be paying probably an additional $40,000 if we hired someone on from what they submit every year at the end of the year. We pull services because when we're working on budgets, we look to see how much did we spend that year, how much do we need to allocate and then what student services that we have and it would actually cost us a lot more money.

074And if we had higher numbers of students, most definitely it would be a recommendation. But due to the small amount of students that we do have, it's costefficient to continue with contract services. On the 312 students, special needs students in Westoso ISD. Out of those 312 students, how many are transfers from other districts? Do you know? So, that is something that we can gather the information from. We didn't break down that part, but we can definitely get that. I can say that we do get a lot of families that try and come in and continue to apply for transfers. There's a good word out there that West Coast ISD does great things for their children with disabilities and special education and um so we do have students that are transfers but we can definitely get

075that number for you. So do you work with Alvarado because I know she's in charge of transfers but you're in charge of special ed. Yeah. So if there's a family or multiples as they come in, she'll contact me and say, "Hey, these students have disabilities." Then from there, I look at our staffing ratio to see if we can um support the students as well. Okay. Right. And so in every circumstance and it's on our trans we're transfer policy that actually when we have a policy committee we're going to review that transfer policy but it states in that policy and our practice is if adding that student would require adding a teacher or even a pair then the answer is no. We like to our kids get the service the full service first before we give

076transfer students. Yeah. So for our next one, we have it broken down by grade level and counts. So for our students, they receive special education support. Our early education, we have eight. Our prek 7, kinder 22, and first grade 18. So with that total of 55. Westo Elementary, second grade has 27, third has 33, fourth has 44, and fifth has 30 with 133 total at that school. Westo Junior High sixth grade has 37, seventh has 17, 8 has 21 with a total of 75. And then Weso High School 9th grade has 14, 10th has 10, 11 has 13, and 12th has 12 with 49 students. So then we begin to look at our staffing. So our staffing is based off of our student needs and depending on the higher needs that the student does have,

077we do have to provide additional staff to ensure that we're providing the supports and safety as well within our classrooms. So for our adaptive education, our ECSE preK, we serve eight students in there and there's one teacher and one pair professional. In adaptive education kindergarten, we have 11 students with one teacher and two pair professionals. Our adaptive education first grade has six students with one teacher and two pair professionals. And then our inclusion behavior support has one teacher with one student. So with our adaptive education classrooms, our students still receive inclusion support. So if a student goes out to inclusion, a pair professional staff member does have to go with them. So they're providing the support within the classroom. And then they do work amongst each other. So if a student needs to have services

078or if they need um different supports they make a breakdown of the schedule so that all students needs are met. So you said one on the last one the inclusion you said one teacher and one student serve but it says eight. Yeah my apologies. Eight students with one teacher serving. So of those eight students are they among those numbers like eight 11 and six because they are behavior support. Oh yeah, you said prek through first. So they are servicing those. So they may support in there or these are the students that just receive behavior support within the general education survey. So they're not in adaptive edit. For Westo Elementary, our adaptive education teachers classrooms is 22 students. That's second through fifth grade. We have one teacher and six pair of professionals. Our behavior intervention is

079second grade through fifth grade with 11 students. We have one teacher and one pair professional. Our prek through 2 resource and then inclusion for second grade that's one teacher that provides the student services to 16 students. Inclusion third grade has 23 students with one teacher and one pair professional. Fourth grade inclusion 38 students with one teacher and one pair professional. and inclusion fifth grade 22 students with one teacher. So on the adaptive ed on West Elementary and the behavior intervention, they're not they're not inclusion. I'm getting I got it mixed up. So adaptive ed is strictly what I mean just give me a general it would previously be known as life skills. Life skill. Okay. And behavior intervention. Well, they have they need the behavior chart and all that. Are they considered in inclusion programs

080also? So, it depends. Some students do have where they may receive either all day or certain times within the behavior intervention classrooms and some are in the classroom that they may need cool downs or they need that check-in. So, depending on what they're in inclusion also. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So those teachers when they serve as adapted adaptive education they serve a second through fifth grade how are they spread out I mean explain that to me. So they're if the student has inclusion minutes a pair professional will go with them out to the inclusion classroom and then come back. Other than that we do have them within the classroom based off of their curriculum and modified teques on what levels that they need. So the teacher prepares all the lesson plans and gets everything ready for

081them. And then what they typically do will do some type of rotations or if there's a group that needs a level one, they they'll be working on specific skills while the other students are. Okay. All right. I just um and physically they're in two they're in separate connecting rooms. So there it's not there's not 22 kids in one. our teacher does provide all the instruction to them. It's just as they move through. So in your opinion, is that enough for that adaptive education for those students to have that one teacher? And I I know I mean we did rotations too, but to be able to get to all those students in your opinion, ideally next year we'd be considering a second teacher for the numbers and for students that now we have coming up because

082she'll be gaining more students than she is losing from fifth grade going to sixth grade. You know, you're in the middle of, you know, fifth grade and they're preparing for the star. These are star two students for the most part. Oh, star. Okay. But still, you know, for any any kind of testing, uh, it's difficult. So, and one of one of the, um, I mean, there's a couple of things in that room right now. One of them is a a parah that's been with us for a very long time who's actually finishing his degree. Um, and so he's in that room right now. Um, and he'll be certified basically. He should be certified if everything goes well, you know, in May. So, he's one of he's among the paras. And then um some of the

083board members that went in there saw um there's some strong paras. You know, I'm just saying, you know, maybe to consider having separating, you know, a teacher for second through third and then one through fourth through fifth. I've seen that in the Yes, ma'am. in the schools that I taught because I that to me is kind of spreading them thin. Yes, ma'am. You know, from second through fifth. It's my opinion. I'm sorry. Go. Go ahead. For our secondary, we have our adaptive education 6th through 8th. There are 10 students with one teacher and two pair professionals. Our behavior intervention services, seven students with one teacher. And then our inclusion 6th grade through 8, there's 66 students, which four teachers and two pair professionals provide services to. And then our West Oso High School adaptive education

084are 9th grade through 12th. There are 14 students with one teacher and two pair professionals. And then our inclusion/behavior supports from 9th through 12th. We have 35 students with three teachers. When you send that information that she wants as far as what was that information? The transfers. Yeah, the transfers. Can you also tell me I mean it's pretty obvious when you see the low numbers but give me the student teacher ratio sixth seventh and eighth for the inclusion. Well it would vary very much between periods because say a child has a disability in math calculation but they're have strengths in reading so they may only get inclusion support for math only and not for other subject areas. So, but give me an average like well I mean whereas if that teach you have four teachers

085for 66 students and I know two pair of professionals and two pair and I'm not saying that that's that to me that's pretty well you know staffed but I'd still like to know what are the ratios on the average for sixth grade seventh grade and eighth grade. Okay. Yes ma'am. on the behavior intervention. You have here you have seven students that are being served. All seven are in that one class with one teacher or is it No, ma'am. They're not. Some of them are within the inclusion settings or in the general ed setting and then we do have some that receive direct services in the classroom. Okay. Okay. So our next one is our dyslexia overview. I just wanted to give some background information. I know we had touched on this earlier about house bill

0863928. So what that occurred was it passed by the Texas legislative legislature basically saying that now dyslexia qualifies for special education services as a specific learning disability. So through that they have seen across the state an increase in special education just as we've seen here in our district. So some of the requirements for that are that we have to do screening treatments on students for dyslexia. In kindergarten, we have till the last day of school to screen all kindergarteners. And for first grade, it's by January 31st, 2025. after they're screened, we have a committee that comes together that looks at the qualitative and um formative information to see how did what were the observations, how did the student perform, do we see that there's a need for additional testing from there. If a student does

087show at risk and there's a concern for it, then they'll be provided to the name to special education, then the diagnosticians will move forward with obtaining consent from parents. And if the consent is approved, then they'll move forward with testing. So with the evaluations, one of the thing to be mindful of is that it's all based on the students specific needs. It's on a casebycase basis and it's all database decisions. A long time ago when children would qualify for special education, it was that they took a norm reference test. If they had a strength and a weakness, then you were in special ed. If you didn't, then you didn't qualify. Well, now with a specific learning disability, a lot of that has changed. It gathers a lot of majority of the information comes from your

088MTSS program. So, they want the teacher input, the classwork, how are they performing on their um assessments, just the overall classroom instruction feedback from there. So, in order for them to be qualifying, they must have one or more qualifying disabilities, and then that they require that specially designed instruction. So that may either be that they need that pull out support for dyslexia that they get our program or that they need inclusion support or they need an IEP goals something specific that's specially designed and that'll qualif that'll make sure that they get the supports that they need. So with the assessments I provided the pathway graph on what we follow that's from the dyslexia handbook. So basically it just lets you know, okay, if the student's at risk, look at it. If you say no, they're

089not at risk, then you continue on grade level supports. If they are at risk, okay, what did the analysis show? Did they have characteristics of dyslexia? Or does the student just struggle testing, but overall within the classroom, they've done really well? So the committee would decide based off of those observations. If it's a no, then they would continue on with that MTSS. If it's a yes, then we'd continue getting that consent from the parents for an evaluation. And then from there, once the evaluation's done, then the art committee would reconvene. So it just gives a flowchart on how we're required to follow through for our dyslexia assessments. So with that, the district does use a specific dyslexia instruction. We use the reading by design. That's our program name. the students take a placement test when

090they have qualified for dyslexia through special education and then from there it'll let the teacher know what group they should be in. So the important thing to remember about the program is that it's ability grouping. So you may have different grade levels together, but because you want to make sure that the volume that they're at that they're all on the same level so that then they're able to progress. So, for instance, you wouldn't want a student at volume five and a student at volume one because the instruction would be so vastly different that they wouldn't be able to keep up with each other. So, we are supposed to group based off of their um placement tests. So, they are required to meet four to five days per week at a minimum of 30 to 45

091minutes. So, for our students in elementary, we're not allowed to have more than six students within a group and then secondary it's eight. However, TEA did indicate that your students that struggle most within reading, you don't want to have them met those larger groups of eight. So, that's really important. And then teachers must be trained by the regional education service center. So, one of the great things about this is that we've got a really good rapport and relationship with ESC, too. So, they've done a lot of free stuff for us. So, as we had new teachers coming into the dyslexia program, they've came and done observations. They've came and worked with them. They just really offer a lot of support with um special education that we're extremely grateful for that they continue to get grants

092and be able to work with us. So, as far as your settings, can you go back to that? Yes. Um you're saying that depending on the test results, you're going to group them by that and not necessarily by grade level. So like a second grader can be with a third and a fourth if they're on the same they have the same test results. Yes, ma'am. Cuz then they would be on the same volume in lessons. They'd be learning different skills. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. So our dyslexia campus overview currently we have 93 students. We have one at JFK, 55 at Westoso Elementary, 23 at Westoso Junior High, and 14 at Westoso High School. And again, you do see that number one at JFK. It's because then the students went to second, that's

093now at Westoso Elementary. But we are currently conducting the screeners and then we are doing evaluation still on students that were getting tested. So you will see an increase in that number. Dyslexia grade level counts. So our early education zero, prek zero, kinder 1 and first grade zero. Westo Elementary 2 second grade 6, 3r grade 13, fourth grade 22, and fifth grade 14. Westo Junior High, sixth grade has 14, 7th has five, and 8th grade has four. And then our West Susso High School, we have nine in ninth grade, two in 10th grade, none in 11th grade, and three in 12th grade. And our dyslexia staffing, one of our staff members does service JFK and WOE. Then we have another teacher that services. And then one that services Westo Junior High, Westo High School, one.

094So, total of three dyslexia teachers. And one of the great things, certified. Yes, ma'am. Certified. Certified teachers. And um one of the great things also at Wesoso Junior High is we've still implemented the really great reading program. So, she does do the period of that. So, our students that need additional reading support, we're able to catch them because, as you know, we had been seeing students still struggling with reading. So, we've we're seeing progress there in those classrooms as well. So, as far as I I see the teacher count, but I always get mixed up. So, do you have a dyslexia coach also? No, ma'am. We did previously with the grant that was a 2-year grant co when it was CO or something. Um, we had gotten awarded the dyslexia grant where the where we

095also got to pay for staff members to go and get certified to be diagnosticians. So that was Miss Whiteside previously and then when she left the district, well, the position closed together because then we no longer have. We didn't fill that. So right now, as far as dyslexia, you're staffed with three certified dyslex dyslexia certified teachers. Yes, ma'am. And that's two like and she as she said two of them though got their masters specifically and graduated in December and are also have their master's what is exactly is the master's degree in it's special education with a certification for diagnostician and they've both passed so now they're able to help us with evaluations as well like diagnosticians how many diagnosticians do you have we have four and then they are a these extra two will be

096able to help. So, our goal is that we continue to continue with the evaluations, not have students waiting along, being able to get through faster. And we're very fortunate because every time I turn around, I hear districts looking for diagnosticians or contracts or something. So, we truly are fortunate that we are fully staffed on that and are able to assist with that. Yeah. So none of our we don't have any more dyslexia staffing as far uh that are grant because of grants. Okay. No. Um that huge house bill too that um is being proposed includes a huge part of it is ch adding money to special education and then changing the way special education is funded. So right now um all of those students in her flowchart that say yes they need a full independent

097evaluation. That's a full independent evaluation um we don't get any funding for those students. Right. So the proposal the house proposal right now is to give $1,000 per um evaluation. So we'll see. And then there's also you know a proposal where the funding for sped right now it's based on setting. So, for example, um any student, right, in an adaptive education class is fun is let's just say that's their only issue. I mean, if they have medical needs, that's different. But let's just say they're in adaptive ed because they're in adaptive ed. They're getting funded equally. Well, again, when we visit those classrooms, not all students that are adaptive ed require the same amount of ratio of attention. So, the looking is looking at the intensity of need. So, how they'll think of that, I

098don't I don't know. And um just again to know that um even the student that's that we're generating the most amount of money is probably in some cases 150% to of how much it's actually you know 30 25% is is how much they're I mean there might be students that require onetoone we're not no in no situation are we getting anywhere near that and as far I mean I know this is what as far as the dismantling of the department of education and I know there was a lot of talk as far because it's you're it's special ed that's what's really covered under that because most of the other stuff it is covered by local so um are we looking at that and preparing for it? I mean what what you tell me what we're

099we're doing or supposed to be doing. Well, again, the ratio is when we we're we're receiving the state the ratio of state we get actually get four times as much state money than federal for special education. So, it would it's about I mean we get two and a half so 20% of of of the special education budget hurt us if Oh, it would hurt us tremendously. Tremendously. Um, are you getting any updates as far as, you know, oh, we're just gonna dismantle, but yeah, who cares? I think it still needs to go to Congress. I mean, that's, you know, essentially what needs to happen. There was a thing on I have a question real quick since we're touching on the funding. Uh, so the funding that we receive overall for special education, does it cover?

100Not even close. It doesn't cover all the services. It doesn't cover all the Not even close. Staffing. So, we're we received $2 million from the state for special education and it cost us $3 million. Well, we're spending $3 million and then from the federal level 400 and some between 400 and $500,000 that we receive. The shortfall comes from the local taxpayer money or where does the you just have to make make cuts other places, you know, just other places. I mean, where where does the money really come from? Again, we just have to, you know, be very conservative about how we're spending in other places. Yeah. We're not getting that from the federal government or the state of Texas. So, there's a bunch of unallocated. So, when you get money from the state, there's x

101amount of money has to be spent on um special education, bilingual, GT, etc. But then there's some general money that you decide how you spend it. Yeah. It just comes out regular from your regular ed. We just kind of shift that. That's not from the general. Yes. general fun. Okay, that's okay. Okay, I did have a another question from earlier on our ratios, teacher ratios. Yes. Is it safe to say that those numbers are a little skewed? Uh if the if we look at attendance versus enrollment, how did we arrive at those rate trolls? Was it enrollment or is it actual attendance number? No, enrollment. How many students are on a teacher's roster? So it could be less because uh our um they'll be absent from school, right? In terms of how many students that

102teachers responsible for is on their role. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you, Miss Dr. Data. Thank you. All right. Uh we are going to move on to agenda item the five consent agenda. A the approval of the board meeting minutes. Uh, A1, special board meeting, Monday, February 3rd, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. A2, regular board meeting, Monday, February 24th, 2025 at 5:30. 5B, the approval of the monthly investment report for February 28th, 2025. And 5 C, the approval of the general fund financial report for February 28th, 2025. May I ask a general question? Sure. I uh I noticed that there was an increase from uh the state and revenues to us. Some of the tax return money is that or it looks like there's some local and some state revenues that increase versus last year.

103Yeah. Last year they had to recapture almost 2 million as compared to this year we're getting the full amount. So that's why we have that big increase. Yes. because we don't have to pay them back. That's Yeah, because we that had been uh did we allocate that into our actual budget or is that coming for our next budget that we're getting? No, we allocated that to our actual budget. So, state re uh local revenues is are we getting more uh taxes from that? Yes. This year we're getting more tax because I see an increase in both of them. Yes. All right. Thank you. All right. Uh, do we have any other questions on the con consent agenda? If not, I need a motion and I need a second. I'll make the motion that we approve

104agenda items uh A through C, consent agenda items. Second. Okay. A motion has been made by Miss Gutierrez and seconded by Miss Jordan. We'll go ahead and vote. Le Gutierrez. I Jordan. Hi. Priscilla Bella. I Albert Variel. I Gonzalez. Oscar Rodondo. I Roma Rodriguez. I This motion passes six zero. I couldn't count. All right. Uh we're going to move on to agenda item 6A, the presentation regarding uh the renovations of the West ISD softball and baseball fields. Thank you guys for your patience um very much. Thank you. Y'all can come up. Okay. Okay. Okay. I was going to say, why didn't you include them? These are not recognitions. These are renovations. as they're coming up, I thought it would be appropriate fitting for at least one of the softball baseball players to come up and

105and um thank you guys or say whatever they needed to say to the board at this time. Um hello, my name is Isaiah Galdwan. I am a sophomore here at West High School and the uh starting second baseman for the varsity baseball team. And I would like to say thank you for uh thank you to everybody and the school board for getting us what we've got for this program this year with the new good dugouts um new new equipment and that it will be very useful for this season and we would like to pay it back to y'all by bringing bringing it the state championship to [Applause] first and foremost I want to thank the school board and community for giving us the opportunity to do redo our softball food. It means a lot to

106me and the softball team. The softball team and I are are so appreciative for everything you do for us for us and for always supporting the softball program. We really appreciate your support and commitment for providing us with a great facility. The softball field being redone helps us players feel more comfortable, motivated, and boost our pride and team spirit. Thank you from the Lady Bears softball team. Great. Oh, my name is Isabella Martinez, a junior on the second base, too. Starting second base. Great. Great. Well, I just want to say that we we heard from the parents and we uh we did communicate that with uh our director, Miss Filillmore, and our superintendent because you you did have parents that voiced their opinion that hey, it's time to and it's not because of neglect or

107anything like that. I mean, Cheryl will let you know it was because of money, but uh I think, you know, we we had that discussion to where every sport needs to be funded, you know, just like we fund basketball and football and baseball and all those, you all deserve it also. So, I'm very happy to see I know that seventh and eighth just played and yeah, I had some phone calls from parents that said, "Wow, it was looking great." Uh, hopefully we can attend those. Uh, I asked about the bleachers and they were like, "What bleachers?" So, what about that? Not yet. Not yet. One at a time. One. Okay. Yeah, because I asked about that as Yep. bring me your own chairs. So, is it No, I just want to know. So, do I

108have to bring my own chair? No, we have bleachers. We do. Those just wouldn't re um they those weren't redone yet, right? But we have But okay. So, are we looking at that as far as the following year or does does Cheryl need a budget amendment? We Cheryl needs a budget. Cheryl needs if you want the bleachers done. Okay. He's gonna um coach um Gonzalez is going to come up and coach Wadell. Coach Gonzalez is a softball coach. I mean baseball coach. Coach Wadell is the baseball coach. And I'm I'm talking because I'm looking as he's talking. You guys can view a picture of the dugouts and things that they're doing. Okay. Want to restart a minute so I can kind of elaborate a little bit what's going on. So um I'm just starting to

109feel like I wasn't playing when I So up there on the screen is kind of um a presentation that we went over. I had originally taken some pictures, but I didn't think it was doing the the dugouts justice just to see the still pictures. So, that's our our new dugout. Um, we went ahead and and moved up that I guess that platform right there, that wall that the WO 4T forward and was able to enclose the dugout and and redo the seating and uh make additional selves for for helmets and bats. So, um this is a a picture of what the guys see every single day and and it's a big upgrade from what we had. Um, one of the biggest things is just the space. Uh, now we're enclosed. It's a little more private.

110The space is there. We've already had that turf and we were able to cut it the length of about four feet there that you're seeing. That turf is going to be painted red here in the next couple of weeks. And uh there's still a little bit of cosmetic things that need to be finished, but this dugout is about 95% finished already. Uh if you take a look around the the area, the size of this dugout and the upgrades are it's we're right on on par with everybody else now. Instead of having a dugout that needs to be redone or is from the, you know, early 2000s or even before, we're we're up to date with everything that's going on here. So, this is currently the visitor side that used to be the home side, but

111we're going to we zoom off over here with the drone to the uh to to my home side. Now, this is the the area that we wanted to be in. This one is um naturally a bigger dugout. Uh that's just the way that it worked out. So, then you can see we were able to cut turf, put it in the front. The kids can come up and lean on the on the wall there. And uh the original wall was right there on those those posts coming up. So, it was really small. It was a really small dugout, but now we're able to to kind of go up and lean on that wall there and watch the game and and it feels a lot more, I guess, inclusive, like we're all together now. As we go

112along there still, he's going to take a little turn into that one as well. This one has u shelves as well. We were able to put a a white board with the the pin board there so we can put the lineups and uh we were able to put a trash can. We can fit a trash can now in the dugout. And we left about a 6 inch gap at the top, 8 inch gap for for ventilation so the air can get in and out because it does get hot out there. But um the those shelves there will get painted and and those those benches there are going to get stained and painted as well. So again, a little cosmetic things that need to be finished, but other than that, it's looking pretty good. Uh we

113were also able to make a shed right there on the side as you can see that gate. um a much neededed shed for for just rakes and shovels and and helmets and and just a lot of just field stuff that we So, we got rid of the bus. You'll have heard about the the famous bus that was holding their stuff. So, we were able to get rid of that. And since we're on this side now, closer to the parking lot throughout that gate there, we were able to um I was used using my activity fund to kind of create a bullpin area there so we can have upgraded mounds and uh a workout area for the kids and for the guys to to use. So those those posts those Tost that you see around the

114area on the on the left hand side there uh were just Tosts that we found laying around the school. So we were able to do that and that's going to be our new um our new bullpin here. So those those boards will stand up I guess on the side and we can build up the mound in there and that's going to be a new bullpen area there for our guys. So um with with that I guess the dugout project being almost complete kind of just jump started a lot of other projects that we got going on and making some upgrades that were were needed. But everything I just mentioned there is also exactly what happened on the softball field. The only difference with that is um the softball field didn't come out four feet. They're

115relatively already close to the field and coming out four feet wouldn't be such a great idea with them being so close to to the batter and and um and the field. So everything else, the the dugouts, the uh the enclosed dugouts, the ventilation, the the shelves, and the um the cubby holes were all the same thing as as far as the cage as well. And the cage as well. Yes. So everything's about 95% done. And hopefully in the next two weeks or so, we can finish this up. Wow. We had some pictures of the softball. We didn't have We have some pictures of It's up there, right? Yeah, sorry. I'm feeling a little bit under the weather today. Um, I want to thank Coach Filmore as well as the school board for being uh supportive

116of our girls this year. Um, it's it's a work in progress for us and that's what we tell our girls. It is a work in progress and you got to believe in these things and things are starting to happen which is is a good thing for this program. So, um, we have the uh the dugouts as well too and um, one of the things that the girls like about is the benches. Uh they enjoy having the uh the the helmet helmet boxes as well too. And then the other thing they they enjoy now is having the um the cage there so we can uh get our stuff that we need for the field automatically versus um going to the bus which is not there anymore which is great. I heard a lot about that the

117bus and uh again and going over to the fieldhouse. So it's it's um again a work in progress for us but uh we uh are preaching this year. believe in our program and believe in Wes doso. So we are going to turn this program around. So thank you. I think one of my favorite pictures are the is is the um actual batting cage. Yeah. I was going to ask you about that. Is the next one up there? Is it complete? Is it Is it There you go. Is it complete? Uh Cheryl is Yeah, the batten cage up there. It has the nets going across and the turf inside. It's completed. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Wow. It looks good. That that has been a great addition for the kids, too. Yeah. I was glad that my grandson

118came down here because he plays uh uh soft baseball in uh Mississippi and he was on a team down here and he used I was a batting cage, the old one. And he came back and said, "Y'all ought to be ashamed of yourself." But this one is real good. The whole playground, the the whole uh area, it looks very good. And I wondered why you y'all moved to the other side instead of on this side. And I said, "Oh, they moved over there." It was because it's bigger. Uh, it's a it's a bigger it's a bigger dugout. It had a storage area. And plus, we can we can use the the extra space behind the dugout. Yeah, it looks good. They did a great job. It looks So, who are they? Who who who did

119this? Cheryl, the what is Daniel and Gilbert Martinez? Daniel Danny Gonzalez. Danny Gonzalez and Gilbert Martinez. I talk to this man pretty much every other day and he's a Westos alumnist and I don't really know his name but I know him when I see him. So, um he you know he he uses his construction name but um uh his company's name out but he um and I have ventured to say because really and truly um coach told me from the beginning step by step he was telling me everything. He was in my office all the time just talking to me talking to me. He still comes, coach. I'm just checking in. He still comes and he's he has these ideas. Everything you see out there on the baseball field, he's saying, "I just found this.

120I'm you know, it's not going to cost us any much more, you know, and so coach is really good about that." But with this um we got a steal for the price. I think heard thought they were just doing the softball, no the baseball fence and they didn't know that we had talked to somebody else and he didn't look at the paperwork. So, he had to honor what he had did. So, there's a lot of things in there that that is not a $13,000 um renovation. And so, we we um got that still, but I did promise him I did guarantee him because he's been so v, you know, dedicated in what he's doing. I mean, Sundays, Saturdays, late at night, early in the mornings, he's coming up. And I told him that moving forward,

121if we had any construction work that needed to be done that we owe that that much to him. Tennis courts. Could we uh Well, could we get uh are we getting sponsorships for the like advertising around their We have we have sponsorships and we've had to go different routes and you'll see that the coaches have done different things because the fields are turned the wrong way. So the the they gave us red um windcreens and they were supposed to go around the field. The wind is so bad that it tears them tears everything down. So coach Widell has his against the stands and then coach um Gonzalez has it kind of at the bottom because the fields are turned totally in the wrong direction. So you get all the wind. So anything on the fence

122that is um they just they So we're not able to do any kind of sponsorship on there? No, we have sponsorship. is just not posted. Can we offer him a spot? So, this is what I did for him um on we have um a huddle online ticketing. So, if you go and purchase a ticket, his advertisement, okay, is on the softball and baseball tickets that that's and I told him that. So, that's what we do. The advertisement I was thinking that kind of cost sometimes to do that, but um he his his um advertisement is on our online purchase tickets. Let me ask you, Cheryl. I know that they're dismantling uh the little league. Are they doing that after all? They're doing what? The the the little league uh on Green View, I mean on

123on Greenwood. You said they had they had passed a bond where they were going to redo the facilities. Oh, I I didn't know that. I don't know what they're going to do with the like the old uh if they're going to get rid of the stands or something like that. We might want to look into that. Yeah, they are. A lot of times they just disregard it and send it to the landfield. So, I'm I'm looking back this way because both of them they'll come with dirt. They'll come cuz that we got they'll stop up the street and get things from people. If they're getting new ones, they're going to get rid of them. So, we might want to keep an eye out. I can reach out for that and I can I can pass

124by. And I know your dedication to the field long before the renovations, coach. Uh several years ago, I saw you out there with um string and line and everything trying to get those lines perfect. And even though it wasn't a perfect field, you tried to make it look real good. And I noticed then that you were dedicated not only to the kids, but to the field. So, a lot of it goes on, it's not only teaching the kids baseball, it's maintaining what you have. One of the things that I like for you to do is teach the kids to to respect the gloves, the equipment, everything that's there. If they want to kick something, don't kick the brand new furniture. Maybe we should get a little dummy or something and kick the dummy or something.

125But if if we learn them, teach them respect for for property and for for others and for the equipment and all that, I think it'll go a long way as they grow older and mature that they when when it comes to them paying for the stuff, they're going to respect, hey, that costs money. So, I think it starts with the coaches instilling that in the kids and it that's in any sport also. So, it's funny you say that because that's just a conversation that that we had earlier today about after practice and after the games to make sure these dugouts are are cleaned correctly and everything's thrown in the trash bins and and you know, for a while there we didn't have great dugouts and now that we do, I want them to respect it

126and and and make sure that it they play they play it forward. They play it forward to the to the correct the kids coming in and and if the junior high works out in the morning, if they see the dugouts clean, then they're more likely to leave it clean as well. And just to have a sense of pride about the the facility, one of the things that they're doing, and I I really like it, they're making the kids um be accountable for even watering the field, teaching them how to do those things. So you'll see the girls out there, they have the holes and they're at the end of practice, they're sprinting, you know, and so I really appreciate them teaching them responsibility, accountability, to leave it there for somebody else and go home and

127you're done. But when you have to put in the work and sacrifice, then it really means a lot to them. keeping the fields clean, the pride of doing that and respecting, you know, uh if we do damage this, you know, it it's only hurting us. Exactly. The only uh uh I noticed that you had somebody out there taking the We had someone out there. I was at the softball. You were over there and somebody was over there at um the baseball field and I was telling I talked to Miss Mendes. said, "I have to get someone paid out there." I said, "Because it's a lot." And I think the baseball softball together it brought in $500 and something dollars that night. So, I was like, "We really have to get someone out there to be

128scanning." So, I do the softball field and after the game, I move over and I have Miss Treble that's helping me out at the baseball field because before that, they was just walking in and I'm like, "How are we going to make money for that window?" You said that they can even park there and they don't have to go in. Well, I was talking to coach today and he started he said, "Oh, coach, I think Friday I have this good plan. He's had these little stakes in and they're not going to be able to park there." It was like 12 cars. So, that was five something plus the 12 cars, but I told him, "Let's take the windcreens um at in the evening and let's put them around there so they can't even park and

129see. We can move them, you know, during the day so that the wind don't rip them up, but at night, let's do that because they're going to He said, "Let's charge them by car." And I said that there will be something drive in that might be something we could think about just charging a bike because we might be able to make more doing that. Thinking outside the box something if it it works get money. If if we do make we put up those windscreens that's going to encourage them to come around. But then again if if we encourage them to come around then we need to have seating for them. So that's kind of something that and that's where the stands come into play like you were asking about earlier. So if we do encourage

130them to come in to sit, we have to have a we got to provide you got to provide the seating. But I wondered how we was going to fence that in because you know people were just walking in because the the bleachers are on the outside. Have we thought about fencing that in so you'll have somebody there to actually the picture that I showed you there is just a it's a it's a temporary I guess you could say it's a box but you know when funds come in again and I can you know raise a little bit more money I would like to take that fence all the way down so they're no longer able to come up right so and then that that would make them come in to to the at the at

131the baseball field in Flower Bluff they covered the whole fence with the like Venetian blind stuff thing. So because cars were being parked because there's a a driveway there. There's like a cars were being parked there and they wouldn't pay to get in. So the whole field all the way around is covered with those Venetian blind. Um I'm saying Venetian blind cuz that's what they look like. The wind tears almost rips it. So because it's facing the in the What is it that you all use? I mean, there's got to be something we can put on and Oh, the just the screen. Okay. Because Oak Park has it. What you're saying is probably weaved in between. It's weaved. Yeah, it's weaved in between. It It looks really nice. It's all white. I I think they're

132now going to paint it to their colors or whatever, but it's all white. But they had the problem also that on the side all the cars would park there and all the cars were parked, so nobody was going in. But now you can't see nothing into that field. nothing at all. I was like, I thought it was a safety issue, but I talked to the coach and he said, "Oh, no, no, the people were not paying to come in." So, I think maybe uh we can get some kind of funds to get I I don't know. Do they sell those venition blind things? I don't know. But they weaved them all into the to the Okay, those are they are you talking about? Yeah, like little white fence slats. Like we could use some of

133those fence don't mess up with they go in like they Yeah, they have them all in. Yeah, it looks really nice. So maybe we can try to get somebody to donate them, you know, donate. And I guess once you do that, then you can put your advertising over because it'll it'll block it. And that's what that's uh because that one that you're saying, Oak Park has it for their playground and it's already torn up. Cheaper. It's a it's a it's a cost-effective way to go, but it's going to And where would you get those uh stakes? There's a you can get them from Home Depot or any big box construction company as well. I'm I've got to ask for Yeah. So, I I just want to say that I reiterate that I really appreciate the

134work both coaches. Um I have to say coach Wadell came in to me. I said he's nagging. He's nagging. But he wanted the best. Yeah. You know, for our kids and coach um Gonzalez always his input, you know, it's a it's an inside joke. I guess it's an inside joke. I'll take it from the basketball coaches. you know, if you're not a baseball coach or softball coach, you can't come in our office and talk to her because I'm always talking to them, trying to, you know, get things um moving in in, you know, positive direction for um for the comm community for the community and for our kids. So, we'll see. Hopefully that keeps our softball and baseball players home to Westo where they should be. And you I mean I just don't know if

135y'all are aware that uh at maybe two years ago we started talking because we had parents coming up and saying you're going to have several students in your junior high. These are girls that play in a select teams. These are girls that are winning and you could have like the gentleman said the beginning that we could have a championship team coming up. uh they specifically were saying about the girls. Uh so that's what got the ball rolling and then we had a lot of calls from parents saying I I get it too, but I want them to be true and dedicated to the to the Westo and not I mean we didn't always want facilities to be upkept but that you know we we're hoping that's not the primary because if it is then we'll

136start finding other things that need to be done or I'll go or I'll go. Oh, no. I mean, yeah, that dedication needs to be moving in a positive direction. Um, and so we're we're hoping that we continually yearly able to add on bits bits at a time. And I think that's I mean, that's the way to go. I mean, I think you do it with the other sports also. You don't just oh, now we're going to have this grand thing, you know, like the football, they have the turf. um you know, but that was quite a bit of an expense, but it has I mean, in your opinion, it's paid off. So, I think that's that's all we can do right now because we have to do everything in increments. We do not have the

137funding to do we're going to have a whole who was saying about their u TMS, GP, their complex softball. Yeah. Cheryl, are we allowed to use uh maybe volunteers that need uh like I'll say the National Honor Society, they might need some volunteer hours that we could use them for ticketing or are we allowed to do that? Um I I I really wouldn't recommend a student to be out there. I think it would have to be an adult the booster club. Um we well we have our booster working inside concession stands. We try to make sure that's up and running during the the thing. So it has to be an employee paying somebody. Yeah. Employee. It has to be a bonded employee when it comes to funding. So I I've been I have one person

138in mind with there are like um nine different sports going on right now. So I am limited to who I have. So I put myself there and another person who's not in season. So they're they've been very cooperative with me. I mean you're if you hire somebody you'll get more than enough to to cover for it then. Oh, absolutely. Right. We won't hire. We'll just have a coach that's not in season to help us out. And then she she's willing to um um I talked to Miss Mendes today. That was the first thing I called it. Phone rang probably about 7:45 8. And she said she consented to it. So I said, "Okay, thank you." They say 510 games, that's five grand that you would have never had. Right. Right. You're right. You know, you're

139right. When I looked at it this morning, I was like, "Wow." Y and that was because we were and some had gotten in gone in and I and I made the announcement because she hadn't gotten there yet. I said, you know, go to Westa website because I'm telling you the scanner is coming and she's going to ask you for your ticket and they were very Taff was very good about it and they how do you get there? and I I showed them how to get to the site. And so she did that and I went back over to the softball field and I started doing that um over there. And so what they do now, they try to walk from the from the baseball field to the softball field, but I think Miss Jordan happened

140to be standing at her daughter and I was pointing to her like bring them over here and so they came and so they were able to purchase their ticket as well. So yeah. Yes, ma'am. I'm going to ask um do you know how high is the fence and about how much do you need? The fence that we currently is it 56 in? It's uh it's a 5ft fence. Okay. And it's but it's just a welded wire fence. It's not a chain link fence with the top bar. Once you start looking at the chain link fences with the top bar, it starts to become a lot more expensive. Right now, we're just using those Tposts and we're going to run um a welded wire across that across that area. We It would be no use in

141buying these slats for the fence because you're talking about slats. Yeah. Okay. The slats the slats because I'm looking at them right now. The slats would be a six foot a sixoot slat. It's a sixoot fence. Okay. 6 foot would be 68 in. 702 72 72 inches. Just 92. Well, they only come 56, 68, and 92. Don't cover the first half of the fence because nobody could be that short. Well, they might go down and just look. I don't know. No, because I'm looking at it and um I can have I'd like to know about how many B. It's not expensive. It's not expensive. We would probably need uh to run to run that area back there. It would probably be like around 200 feet, 250 ft of fence. Can you run an estimate by

142the junior high? Say again. You're talking about the fence by the junior high. We're talking the fence by the junior high. So they don't they don't drive. That's where they be. They can't see in. Correct. You would need about 250 ft of those fence slats and they're about an inch thick. So you'll need a few a few boxes. Well, that's I'm looking at it and and it's not expensive. You got a donor. So run an estimate. Send it to Miss and send it to Miss Moore and then let me know so I can start. I'm pretty sure we could pick up some donors. Not expensive. Okay. All right. Yes. Looks good. It y'all did a great job. It looks good. Miss Jordan. Oh, you already said Miss Gutieres. He looks very good. I'm glad that

143they finally got to fixing that field. They all sports need to be to have the best. Wait till they finish the your hang. These are comments for you all. Okay, we'll be talking about how Thank you for what you all do for the kids. Thank you for what you all do for the fields. Like I said, it is uh it's about time it gets done. Been here a long time and I know that it's been negle Well, Money's been an issue, but big issue. I think we need to get back on making sure that all our sports facilities are at the best that they can be. Definitely, Mr. Arondo. I said my piece, Mr. Riol, you're very resourceful and we appreciate it. Miss Vela, I was impressed with our athletes for coming to this meeting

144and sharing uh on behalf of your teams. That's very impressive. Shows great leadership. Coaches, we appreciate your leadership as well. And I I was able to attend the ODM away game. Um our softball team just looks so professional out there. Great group of young ladies uh playing out there. Baseball team, y'all are doing a fantastic job. We're just uh very proud of you guys and uh we're hoping um I mean the these these changes, these improvements look incredible. They look very very amazing compared to what it was before. Um, and we're hoping that it just gets better and better. Yes. Ditto. From uh like from from what Miss Vela said, uh, great things are happening in baseball and the word's getting around. Uh, how are your crowds? I mean, are they bigger? They're definitely bigger.

145And was that high school or was that junior high? Okay. Well, kudos to y'all. Y'all are doing a fabulous job and bring back that championship. I'mma be out there looking. Thank you very much. [Applause] All right. Now, we're going to move on to agenda item 6B, the presentation and update regarding the facilities planning committee. Miss Mendes. Good evening. Uh, Miss Denise Hernandez, director of maintenance and and transportation will be presenting this. Okay. Are you volunteering for this to click? Huh? Are you volunteering to click? Oh, you're going to click up there? Well, it's okay. If you do it, I can I know you're right. If you did it, he can go home. I know you're right. Go ahead. Okay. The goals for our facility planning committee is basically we want to evaluate our facilities a

146little bit more closer than we have had. And we want to be able to be more proactive instead of reactive because right now we're just kind of reacting to the emergency items that break and we're trying to find them funding so we can be able to bring them up to par. And we're bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders and that includes uh different people from different uh expertise and there have different ideas. So that's going to help us so that we can be able to plan better so we can have a roadmap so that we can be able to you know prioritize set our goals and when we come here in August for the budget so we can be able to have a better budget for our maintenance and facilities because right now we're

147kind of like I think if there's anything left over we'll give it to maintenance and then when things break we'll come for a budget amendment. So we want to be a little bit have a better plan for that. Okay, our committee, like I said, it's a diverse group. Uh we have, you know, engineers, architects, we have our um our principles in there, which I I feel they're it's really important because they're the ones that are out there. They're in their um departments. They know what needs to be addressed immediately, what can be kind of delayed and what is that wish list that we need to have so that we can budget for it so that we can be able to you know utilize our funding more effectively. And uh we are working uh to have

148a a 4-year expense protection plan. And that will be looking at historical data so we can see, you know, what is it that we're spending more money in? What how can we make changes? What can we what are the key insights that we need to do? What trends are we seeing? Uh we'll be reviewing the departments and we'll be looking uh we're you know eventually hope we're hoping to do a walk through every uh you know department every room so we can see what the need is out there you know so we can be able to prioritize a little bit better and ultimately like I said our goal is really so that we can be able to budget and be able to utilize that money. Where can we find funding? Is it all should it

149all come from general funds? Should we do u you know um bonds so that we can hit the INS or you know is there grants out there? What is it that we need to do with so we can maintain our facilities and do a better job than what we have done before on your previous one of your committee members. I would like for you I mean to send it when you're sending all that other stuff that we're requesting. I I would like to know who those people are, what kind of background they have as as far as facility planning committees. Uh I don't know who Michael Alvarez is. I don't know. I know Tony Hos. Oh, okay. Mike Alvarez is with train. He's the one that you know, but I'd like that in parentheses. That

150way we can see that we can do that. the, you know, the people that we have actually do. I know you have to have your administrators on there because they have to have a say in the facilities that we're planning for, but I would like to know the background of those people that are on there also. Okay, we can do that. Uh and and I want to you know express my I appreciate the time because these are professionals a lot of them and they're you know in the middle of the week they come over here or the remote in and they you know we they take the time and they're dedicated to the district. Okay. Uh Miss Denise will can you go over the work that you've done in Yeah. We're finally wrapping up the

151controls project. Um, now we can on our cell phone we can access the controls which is nice. Um, the only thing is we're just waiting for the engineer to sign off on everything and then after that we're actually talking about the scheduling of when we're going to run the air conditioning, how when we're in unoccupied mode, how high we're going to bring that temperature. So just finalizing everything. Um, for all your campuses. Yes. Yes. And that's based on the engineers uh to be knew what's ideal. Correct. Yes. Yeah. They uh you know we we discuss what we want the unoccupied set point to be at. Uh and I don't want it too high because you can run into issues. Of course you got to look at the energy saving. So it's kind of a balancing

152system when we're going to shut it off at night. Um we do know that it takes a long time in the morning to get the schools cool. So you just you have this balancing act that the closer you get to summer, the earlier you have to start the schools and then you have to leave it running a little later because you've got a lot of events that occur at night and you don't want it to get hot. So it's just a balancing act. But like I said, it should be wrapped up within a few weeks where the engineer is going to come down and sign off on everything and make sure it's running right. Uh the boiler at the junior high. I think I have pictures in in there of the boilers or we didn't

153put those in. No, this is Yeah, this is just Okay. Um we have one boiler in. Uh we're waiting. We got a price on new gas lines. They were in pretty bad shape. Um once we get that, we're going to have to shut both boilers down for about four hours. Um it's cheaper to do it during the week. Um, so we're going to have to watch the chill water that it doesn't get too cold because it will it will really be cold in that school if we don't watch it. But, um, that's they're going to have to do that to install when they they can't they have to have both boilers off to hook up all the piping. That's the only way it's going to work. And that's going to be an additional cost. Yeah.

154About a little over 20,000. Are there any issue with any valves or any any other controls? No, just the piping. Yeah, just the gas. I mean, and I don't know how long it's been there. It It could have been before these set of boilers went in. It's They're in pretty bad shape. You don't want a gas leak, right? That's the last thing you want. So, uh, we're working on that right now. We should get a PO pretty soon and hopefully we can get these two installed pretty quick and get it over with. But so, has that money been encumbered for the HVAC and the boiler? So, that's in I mean, we have that money Not not the boiler. Yes. But not the piping. That's an additional 20,000. You're saying the 20,000. So what what what

155are we doing? We're looking for that. Yeah. We're going to see if we can find the funding. If not, we're going to have to come back to the board for, you know, an amendment to hit the general fund. Yes. Yeah. These are all, you know, this is where you look for funds in different accounts. This is where when you get towards the end of the year, it gets pretty difficult because you're like, okay, what am I not going to do? So yeah, but in these cases you have to do them, don't you? You have to. Yeah. So whether it's hitting the general fund or not. No, but what she meant that she looks at other line items and see what she's not going to do. Like if we put money for concrete or something, what

156are we not going to do? Because we are going to do this. You're going to take some of that away. Yes or not? Is you said it has to be done during the week and it has to be shut for four hours. It's $15,000 to do it extra on the weekend. Yeah. No, what I'm thinking is can it be done when the students aren't in school where you can, you know, their hours are 8 to 5. Um, that's what I do is I always try to look for days when the students aren't there. Exactly. Yeah. If we have that, can we, you know, so that that way we don't go in overtime and we can have them come and get it done. I can try I can try to do it the April 11th, the

157day after Easter if if they'll go if they won't consider that their overtime. 21st. Yeah. Hopefully. Yeah. So th those are what I do all year. I look for when the students aren't here or we're out and I'll bring them in on that day. Yeah. If if they'll wait that long. Oh, okay. Yeah. Because remember they they've paid for the boilers now and that's their money tied up. They want to put them in now. Yeah. So they can get their money. Yeah. So I I'm going to see if I can install it. I mean I'm I'm going to do my best. Let's move the kids outside for a day. Yeah. That would be really fun. We'll move it to that day. And they might I mean we we if we have to we'll shut the

158chiller off and then we'll watch the temperature. That's what we did during the the cold weather. So that's what we do behind the scenes trying to keep it at that that temperature. But yeah, we will try to push it back to if we can hold off till the Easter weekend. Hopefully they can do it then. Yeah, we'll try. And then of course, we went over the softball and baseball field. They look great. Um, we also replaced six broken doors at the elementary over spring break. The ones that they wouldn't even close anymore. So, uh, we've done that. Uh, there was broken tile in the kitchen at the elementary. We also replaced that. I'm just waiting on an exterior door for the kitchen cuz it's rusted pretty bad. You can only paint it so many times

159and then the rust gets to it. And then once that's done, that'll project will be done. I mean, there's more doors. We need some in the the gym area. I'm going to get a quote on those. I found out today the one that just got the card reader at the high school, that door is bent. So, wow. It's not working correctly. It's It's working right now, but it is going to need to be replaced. The doors are just CCISD selling their Carol doors, are they? Yeah. CCISD is tearing down Carol. They have They got a whole door slew of stuff right outside the They just had it all outside. Yeah. It's just there. Yeah. Uh Okay. So, we replaced the tile and then the I guess the the next one is we're going to talk

160about the gym. Um, as far as I know, that's the original wood floor with the varnish. Um, they're not making the varnish anymore, oil base, because of the toxic fumes and the length of time it takes to for it to cure out and to apply. So, we tried to go with a waterbased. We didn't really have a lot of time to sand it down, right? I mean, we're using our custodial staff that has to clean the building and then they're trying to sand down the floors so you can see what a mess. I mean, they're a mess. I'm I'm not going to cover it up any other way. I got a quote to sand it down to the wood just like the high school competition gym, but like everything costs money, but it it's uh

161you know, they have the specs here, but it would look just like the high school gym, the competition gym. Very nice. Yeah. See, it has they're gonna they're going to use a drum sander and that takes, if I remember correctly, about two or three weeks. So everything, like I said, if we if we can find the funding, let me know. We'll shut it down. Is that that $30,000 you have there? Yeah. 30,000. Yeah. So what happens is on this floor, we we bought a machine and we have to buff every time, but as soon as you go on it, you can see the marks. It takes four hours to do the floor. So even though we do it late at night, when the gym class comes in the next morning, it looks like that by

162the time they go to play. So, it's uh So, you're you have a water base, you said. Pretty nice, huh? But now you're going to a an oil base that's approved. It was a oil base, but the companies they're they're not making it anymore. But we went to water. Yes. Now we have back to oil. Okay. No, we're going to we want to go back with a water base and then that's it. Once we go with the water base, it only takes them a day or two to do it. Whereas before we had to keep them off the floor for at least 10 days. So, what's what is what is it going to cost to maintain it once you get it to where you need to? Not not a lot. I mean, of course, once

163a year they the best thing to do is to bring a company in once a year. Right now, I think it's running about three or $4,000 and they come in. It doesn't take them long to do it. Strip it. Yeah. Okay. They'll just scuff it a little bit and then put the varnish down. But I really The key is every year. Yes. That's the key. And and then once we skip that one year and do it the next year and do the next year, we're back to square one. Yeah. And if if you look on the floor on the picture that we had of the floor, it actually has it where it's almost down to the wood in some parts. It's just peeling off. It's so old. That's why the the only solution is you

164could see it there around just big clumps of the I think I'm a little confused because it it says there apply two coats of oil base, but you're telling me it's water. Yeah, that it's we're not using an oil base. Okay. So, that's wrong then, right? Okay. That's where I'm getting the confusion. Yeah. The MFMA approved oil base. Yeah. We're not going to do what they're using water. Yep. Okay. We're going with just got to find the money now. We just need money. Find the money. And then we're going to just go over the roof. Um if you look at the high school, we're going to look at that one first. A full roof replacement. You see, of course, you get 30 years out of it, but we can pay a little bit less than

165half and just do a roof restoration where they can apply apply uh fluid over the existing roof to to get it to last longer. And after those 10 years, then you'll need a roof replacement. Yes, I know you can only put so many layers on before they make you take it all off again. To answer my question, if you go with a 10year in 10 years, you better replace it probably. I think they're only allow it. It depends on the weight, but I think it's we could do another one after that. I'm not sure. I can check on that for you if you want to be sure. Well, options is Yeah. If we do B instead of A, don't expect another 10 years out of it. Or Yes, you can. Yeah. Depending on what happens

166between those 10 years if we do any kind of maintenance. Yes. So we need to be aware of all those things. Yeah. So that when we decide, right? You know, maybe we pay the extra because yeah, it's we have to weigh those things. Well, high school's definitely roof has lasted a lot longer than JFK. But the thing is it still sounds we can still salvage. It's salvageable. It's it's in good shape. Considering the age of the school, the high school roof is in pretty good shape. And that's when you look at the gravel surfaces because I don't know if anybody notices it, but there's two surfaces of roof on that high school. So the gravel I mean the gravel's over the uh athletic the slanted well and and you can see on a picture kind

167of in the middle that the what what looks like it's red. That's actually the gravel. Right. So, and of course there's a big cost difference, but I feel like on the gravel, we don't need to redo that. We'll just, you know, shift the gravel around a little. It should be cheaper. That should last. And then the JFK is the one that the next slide. Yeah. Uh full roof replacement would be for 30 years. The fluid applied roof, there are some sections that are going to have to be cut out because we've already got water underneath and it's damaged. So, um you could see the difference. It' be 15 years on the if we don't if we do the roof restoration. Um then the wall panel system, if if you've ever gotten up on the roof

168at JFK where the atrium is, you can see a bunch of bubbles and it's the whole wall is just full of water. So, that needs to be replaced. So, we've had some the atrium, right? Yeah. It's because of it wasn't it's not sealed correctly. I think that the atrium is is the windows to be honest. I don't I don't think they were ever put in right. Uh but there's a wall next to it which is where the cafeteria is and that wall's pretty in pretty bad shape. It's got big huge bubbles on it from where the water's just coming down inside. Those bubbles are on the inside of the cafeteria. You can visually see it or around the windows. Yeah. And the in fact the gym you could see it too. I mean it it's

169just been like that since the beginning of the building. Well yeah. So that's why there was nothing said about it. I was going to say so I know you're saying and I know it's money but if you're if they're telling you that that is it's getting wet. I mean, and we're not I know we don't have the money, but soon you're not even going to have the option of getting the fluid applied roof restoration because your whole roof is gone. So, you got to go with the 2 million and and there's I that's why I want to know those committee members. What are they because they do this stuff. They're they're out there. What are they recommending that we do for the meantime? I mean, and you might say, "Well, nothing." Part of that roof

170is already gone, Vilma. Or they're going to have to cut out, but it's already gone. So, but it all started with putting a 10ear roof or Yeah. 15ear roof. That's where the problem started. My dilemma is the fact that you're telling us all that is wet. It's all wet. So, yeah. So, how much more are we considering for Well, we're going to go on the next slide to tell you what we're thinking. I think Well, I'm just I'm voicing my opinion because I you know, it's hard to hear. All that is wet and it's getting it's What do you think that it's not going to get even more wet? Well, it's going to it's that they have the wall panel system. That's what that's listed there. That's the wall panel system. Mhm. That's why you

171there's electrical problems over there, right? because those wires get wet or what was getting wet that there was causing some electric No, um we've always Well, we we had a lot of electrical issues at JFK when we first opened it. Yeah. But if that was You said that this has been going on since the school I wasn't finished. I wasn't Go ahead. Uh and even that wall panel system, I'm just saying where are you going to get the 350,000 that we're saying that we do need it and all the other stuff that's getting wet? I just I I I want to know from a qualified person which would be you also that tells us what are we doing to it not further get worse or get wet. I think the I mean my understanding is

172the con that we're kind of going to get to next is we've tal we had talked about a huge giant bond but we're not there. So the idea was maybe even in a year to try to do a smaller bond to take care of. Well that's what I'm saying. So you're you're going to present that are we looking at that because we got to be looking at something because no 100% that's and that's getting wet. Oh, and that got wet since the beginning of that school because I I I remember you telling us about those windows and that they never came back and really install them correctly. So we just left it at that. our schools are going to be deteriorating if we don't start being proactive about this. So that's what we're looking at.

173I mean, I think our goal would be a, you know, I don't think we'll be necessarily ready for November, but for sure in a year to try to do that in May to go out for a bond election. Hopeful something in a year like a main. Yes. and and Todd, which is on our committee, he's he's the architect, you know, he he tries to get people out there. Like, they want to pull one of the windows out to make sure that they were installed correctly. Yeah. But it's it's hard to get people out. I mean, everything costs money. Nobody's going to go out there for free. You're talking about moving equipment out there and, you know, pulling windows. Uh, it all costs money. But we do saying if we were being proactive, why would we

174have left those windows from the very inception of that building being built? Yeah. They should have went after whoever exactly went after I mean Exactly. If our windows are getting wet, I mean, can you imagine that that wall is wet, you know? Can come in. I think we need to be a lot more proactive as far as possible and I know I mean they could say well it's easier said than done Miss Rodri because we don't have the money but you know but I think you know our plan is basically um probably in in May to do a really thorough to bring Tony Hasso in here again to look at again at the numbers of how much debt capacity we would have you know based a year from now that's to get the financial people

175in. I hope that you we know we have a financial person on that committee, but to also get the actual construction people that know the windows and that's who we have that's who was on that committee. Yeah, Todd Todd's Todd's very good and and they have addressed I mean we had a lot of issues too even with this building but people if they report it right away and say, "Hey, this isn't working right or there's a leak here." Sometimes you have a leak and we didn't even know we had a leak. So it's if well that whole sewer or I mean the the water system uh well it was when Garcia was here. I mean and this building had just been built and y'all did call in um Yep. poor man was out here every

176day, you know. An architect taught. Yeah. Yeah. And they were here and I think they said they did they did fix it. Yes. Well, we got to be proactive like that. That's that's how we have we have to stay on them until everything's fixed. If not, they get away with and and a lot of problem happens with leaks is how long has it been since it rained, right? I mean, that's what happens. It doesn't rain for a long time, so you're not going to notice it. Exactly. Once it rains, here we go. Yeah. And then you call them back and they're on another project. So, you just have to keep after them. That's that's the key. You have to keep after them. And good specifications. You got to get a good roof put on. I

177mean to start with you can't go to it cutting back on roofs or controls because in the long run we pay for it. Yeah. So who built the the the school? Which one? JFK JFK. Marsh I think it was Marshall company. Marshall I believe so. But I know that when we started with these problems they were contacted and it was Palasos was here at the time and he said it had been taken care of. Obviously it wasn't taken care of. Nope. because we kept pushing for that. Yeah. That it needed to be looked at. I remember you saying that about those windows. Yeah. That was a while ago and they tried, you know, they did they did come out and the the contractor at first came out and, you know, tried to reccocking them, but

178that wasn't the issue. It was the installation. Yeah. I I think so, but I don't know for sure because I haven't actually seen one pulled out. But uh so we'll go on to the next great thing. The junior high parking driveway. What's your visual? Yeah. So anybody that's pulling through to the junior high driveway can see what's going on there. It's just collapsing. The sad part is that underneath that concrete is our sanitary sewer line main that runs out to the road. So not only are we going to have to fix the concrete some more stinky stuff. Yeah. your area already. You wanted us to give you real information. I really I really wanted to do the high school, but it this one's going to take presidents, the junior high, because it's it's breaking up

179pretty fast and we're starting to get a belly in that sanitary sewer line. So, we're going to have to dig it out, compact underneath the line, you know, to bring it back up again. And then and hope that the line doesn't break. Yeah, it might be broken already. It might be broken. Yeah, I already had him go down there with a camera. It's just starting, you know, because of the weight of the buses and the cars going over there, it's starting to push the pipe down, but it's still good. I mean, we'll we'll have to dig it all the way down to where that pipe is. And that's 120,000. No, I promise you when they get there, they're going to say fix the pipe. Yeah, once we touch that sidewalk, it will have to be

180ADA. So, I have to take that sidewalk and go back, right, and slope it down correctly. So it's y you know you start running into like you said you know one thing and then it starts to run into other things. Wow. I always got such good things to talk about. How many more of these stay open? Okay. Fan power box. Can we afford to stay the JFK? Here we go back to JFK. We had seven rooms that had no heat. That's a fan power box. Um we got an estimate from train for $69,000. So average about $10,000. They're up up in the ceiling of the classrooms. They're pretty big, but we are working with other companies to see if we can get them just to string the elements, which would be a lot cheaper. So,

181uh, what exactly do they do? Do they help funnel the air from the AC? Yeah, that's what a fan power box does. And then it has a heat strip in it and and then when the air goes through it, it heats it up. But what happened is the the wires, if you've ever seen a heating element, maybe on a dryer. I've seen it. Yes. Okay. That's kind of what it is. It's it's heat up there and built in and they just heat up. Yeah. And and they broke. So they don't have the correct wire to put on there. But I've actually been working with another company that says they do have it. So if I can do that, we're going to save money. But for right now, train is saying they can't find the correct

182element size. So are we also like you know I know you don't have I mean you're the department uh do y'all look at like the warranty of these big ticket items to where you know it's going to last till for 10 years and hello 10 years was five years ago. Are we keeping track of that? We're starting today. We're starting to do well but we're starting 14 years. That's the whole point of this um uh expense projection plan is to have that, you know, because we talked about that. I mean, not when Mendus was here, but we talked about it with our financial person. Are we doing those five-year forecasts? Are we keeping up with those warranties? Because you have to, I would think, isn't that I mean, that entails part of your job. I'm

183not saying that you didn't do it, but I'm just saying you're not going to you're you got to look at all these big ticket items and the warranties on them and to say, "Yeah, the warranty was 5 years ago." I would hope that you have a list, an itemized list that says this power box is going to go out in 10 years. 10 years was in 2007. Uh what are we doing? I mean I just I think we need to be a lot more proactive because we have encountered so many maintenance problem. You are our big ticket item. Yeah. I mean, that's all we look at when we I know it's not I'm saying because I know you have come before us begging for money that we don't have and an unfortunate thing and I

184know like it doesn't look pretty, right? Like we want things that make like look pretty and look nice, you know, aesthetically pleasing. But I hate coming to the board and asking for this stuff because nobody can see it, but it's stuff that keeps our schools going. Yeah. But but we need to listen to where because in 10 years we didn't do anything about those windows that were when was that school built? 14 years ago. Yeah. We didn't do anything about those windows that were installed 14 years ago. We know that they were a problem. Yeah. But now we have wet stuff. And I just say we need to be a lot more proactive instead of reactive because this is costing us big time money. Not not small dollar amounts. Where are you going to get

185the 350,000? I know. Thank God there's more. We need to look at that bond. Well, no. That's I think that's really our only way. I mean, we can't even, you know, help out Cheryl with that baseball because we don't have 120,000. We don't have 350,000. We need Yeah. Well, how can we get the INS? Right. The only thing is INS and the bond. Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Really don't have no Yeah, but those financial people along with along with those construction people need to give us the advice. I mean, that's why we have that committee. Yeah. And that's and again, that's the advice that's come out. I think that's the conclusion of the committee at this point is there's no way we can do it without a bond. You're bringing me down. Like

186there's no way we're going to be able to fix all this stuff. with the bond we could, but not there's no way we could do it just out of maintenance and operations if it passes. If it passes. Well, the thing is again, just to remind you all, because we raise the INS, if we wanted to go for a bond in a year, we were talking we would not do any increase to taxes. That's what we're looking at. But we need to go for a bond to build a new junior high. Well, again, we have to take care of this stuff first. You got to fix. Can we kind of go through it because we do have a slide on that and it's kind of like take care of what we got first. Okay. So, we'll

187talk about the elevator. How many more of these do you have? Is it okay? I don't want cuz I don't want to hear. You're bringing me down. I'm like this. Well, is it meeting the standard? Elevator. Is the elevator meeting standards? I know it's not. I wouldn't get on it. Nope. I wouldn't get on it. It's in there on it position below the floor on the first floor. So, you're not letting nobody get on there, are you? No, you can't get on there. The doors won't open. You have to walk the stairs. Why can't we just close it? It is. It is closed. It hasn't been working since November. And just let it go. We let Denise kind of get through the rest of Yeah, let's let's let her get through because then they got

188to talk to us about the whole uh financial stuff. Okay. So, it's not meeting any safety standards. If we do repair it, okay, repair it. So, he can put a motor. I don't know if you saw the picture where there's oil all over that. Okay. So, I don't know if you can see the oil. So, we can put an oil pump in for $19,000. Okay. It's got to go inside the unit. We already spent 17 and that lasted how long? The only problem is we can do this and it'll start running again, right? For how long? I don't know. That's the brain of the the elevator elevator. Uh they don't make those parts anymore. So any of those relays or contacttors that don't work, we can't replace them. So do we want to put new

189more money into a bad Yeah. elevator. Let's just close it down. So yeah. Okay. I'll try to How do I do this? We're We're all excited. Okay. So for 115,000 we can remodel the elevator. But that doesn't include the doors. It won't look any different. Um, that's just the part that makes it work. Have any doors, right? I mean, we're going to keep the same doors. We're going to keep the same interior. But it's going to work. No, no. Let's just That's enough. Do we really have to have it? Well, the elevator people say yes to meet ADA, but I would think students up there that next year we will. Okay. Can we put Can we do a ramp instead of an elevator? We can. I did talk to the gentleman about the the chair.

190I I had That's 70 or $80,000 lecture hall them there. Yeah. And then if you can get the if you have the stairs, you go up. Yeah. How much is that? 70 to 80,000. Why don't we just use a lecture hall? He said by the time you get done with that chair stairs, that's what we're saying one classroom up that doesn't have an ADA student and have the ADA students at the bottom. That's I think that would probably be our solution right now. Right. But I don't know if that's I'm going to try to find out for sure if that's ADA if if we're going to be okay with that. That's my idea. Bring everything downstairs. Exactly. Yeah. But yeah, that'll be my next I'll find out because the science labs are up there and

191then if you mess with that but we can make the science lab downstairs. Oh my goodness. Sorry. Another 18 118,000. All right. The good news is what what's working the the thing is these are just some of your some of the projects we just decided to showcase that does not include everything that's out there. I mean, now we're looking at the turf. How many more years do we have on that? So, there's we just have a lot of different uh projects that we haven't addressed for the past years. So, we're looking at founding funding sources that is outside our local budget because as we know our fund balance, you know, it's about 3 million which is not really good. We need to aim at a 5 million fund balance. That would get give us a

192put us in a good place so that we can actually go out for a bond. But it is what it is. We only have 3 million. So we do uh we're looking at what is it. Do we have can we go out for a limited maintenance tax note? And that's probably uh our next step. U we're working with uh Tony Hassel and he'll be able to give us what is our you know loan capacity what is it that we have what are our options you know so that we can you know that would be the most smartest thing because you move it out of from your M into your INS that way we can actually you know have our fund balance grow larger and not and but still do this projects out of the INS

193and like Miss Moore said you you know, being that we did already raise it to 45 cents, we do have some capacity in there there so that if we do take it to our taxpayers, there's not going to be no tax race in there. Your question, uh, you know, Austin, they went down on the tax. Did we lose a lot of tax uh money this year because of the the reduced uh for taxes homeowners? Yes, we did lose them, but you know, uh, right now we are getting, you know, the home harm whole home harmless. So, we are, you know, it does even out right now. Oh, okay. So, we're looking at that and I think that's something that, you know, I'm hoping to, you know, once we identify our major projects so that we

194can see, you know, what's the dollar amount that we're going to be asking for, what's our capacity, we'll be able to have a little bit more answers. But along with that, I mean, we have talked to Train and they okay, they're helping us out. Do we can we do a a SECO loan and if that's possible, do we do both? Do we do one? The SEO loan would hit your um general fund that we would have to repay the payment from there. So, you know, but we got to see all our needs. The we don't know the answer right now. Is is it you know for sure the limited maintenance was a little bit a better um a better um how do I call a better uh alternative but do we do both I don't

195know right now uh the loan better alternative pardon me bond issuing the okay the bond issue yeah so the sec loan I mean it has its benefits because it's gonna it pays it's supposed to pay for it itself so because they go look in all your ways that you're you know you can be more efficient energy-wise. So that that in itself would be a good deal. But you know we got to look at everything. So and that's where we're at. We're identifying but the key is that we got to try to identify because if we got to you know tackle the higher price items and it we I did talk to Todd and then the roofs don't fall under that. No, those ones don't fall in there. And that's why I'm like one, we probably

196have to do both. You know, for sure you like I said, your first priority is probably going to be your limited maintenance tax, but can should we still do the SEC loan? That's the question there. But you've also prioritized because you got a lot of large ticket items. Yes. So, it's about also prioritizing you working with that committee. what do we need to get done that's not going to further going to get wet the roots or the main thing and then after that then once she gives you that prioritize list you got to look at the financials and and she has we had a she had already worked on like I think two years ago we had a a 10-year plan so we're working off of that but we're just kind of trying to see

197you know but the other thing is that as we go uh annually doing our budget you So it was common practice that we always cut back on maintenance you know like you know if there was whatever was left over we gave maintenance and we have to cut back and we can see that you know where we're at doing that practice. I think that's backfired. I I'll be honest. I really I think this budget, we got to really remember that. And we got to make sure, you know, that we put our maintenance and transportation where it's supposed to be. And we got to realize as important as our schools, our instruction is ma without our maintenance, without our AC, we're not going to get anywhere. So, uh, we, you know, because of ESER funding, we bought

198what, five buses at one time. We would have never been able to do that. We're already falling back on a a bus. So, we got to make sure that we understand, you know, because this year that was this past year that was my objective is to put one bus and it wasn't able to make it in there. So if we keep on doing that, where are we going to be in a couple of years? You know, so that's that's the main thing, you know, from So as far as forecasting, I mean, just give me a general idea. You're looking at a bond issuance in a year. Hope hopefully. you know, you know, and really, I mean, we got to, and I hate to say it, but we're going to have to push back junior high,

199you know, because we are going to have to fix some stuff at junior high, but as far as building a new junior high, well, I think that's not reality right now. And I think Hos Tony Hos has had already mentioned that that, you know, where are we going to get $75 million? Yeah. And we have to fix what's necessary exactly for it not to come down. Yeah. So I would think and what about the loan? What what I mean how soon can you get that or you know that's when they're looking at like six months right where they're looking at our bill. Actually the sec loan is like has to be really quick. Uh he just called me today. He said I mean like funding's already going they they pulled it out sooner than what

200they anticipated. So we have to come out with you know a decision very very quick. But on that loan, yes, of course, you have to get engineers to justify that you're going to be saving money and energy. That's correct. It has to be a certain amount of savings in order for you to even qualify for those loans. That's correct. Because it has to repay itself. The whole thing is within so many years is what they said. Yes. So, which ticket items that she just went over, just give me an idea, would be covered under that loan? Well, it wouldn't be the rules like they said. It would be your lighting. It would be your AC. Uh the controls, the boiler. We We already replaced the boilers, but it would have been the boilers. And the

201lighting. I have a question. Just wondering. Okay. If a hurricane hit and it knocked down the junior high, how much is the insurance going to give us to rebuild? Well, we have a big deductible, but then the fact fortunate or anything. Okay. But the fact the fact that that you know if there's something that was not fixed by us for example I'm just going to say the roof you know if the roofs they we already know we have a roof the hurricane comes and knocks it down. They're not going to give us money for that roof because we didn't have a but if it skips a roof and it does the upside like a but the building itself knocks it down. But that's what I say. There's a lot of things that are broken in

202a tornado that passed through here and went and knocked down. Remember that tornado? It skipped all everything around here and it went and the one of the instructors died, right? Was killed inside that building. So that's what I'm saying. What if we get a hurricane and knocks on the building, not just the roof, but the whole thing will cover the roof. Okay. Yeah. But remember right now that that that structure in the bottom needs fixing. So they already know that. So you so it's like so we're not getting anything. In other words, probably a fraction of what you know we'll probably get a roof out of it. No replacement cost. Yeah. No, no replacement cost. I wish. You know what are your energy efficiency projects? I think I missed that. What What are those? Lighting

203was one. Yeah, lighting is lighting is your big ticket item. We can save a lot of money putting LEDs in the school. LEDs. Yeah. Okay. And that and that's kind of going to be the big ticket item. Now, the thing is if we go under a contract uh you have to pay him back, right? Or is that not tied in with the SEO loan? No, I think they wanted at that time I think was it 20,000 for a train to go into contract and that's why we kind of stopped because we we said okay well if it doesn't go through what happens to our 20,000 they're gone. But that's the cost of them coming in with engineers and and assessing our facilities. All right. And they'll they'll look at your schedule of your schools and

204they'll they'll do is they'll say, "Okay, you're not in the room at this time. you're going to back the AC off in that room, which we can do now because we have controls. But can we do that? Can we realistically say that classroom is going to be empty for an hour? I mean, that's a lot of scheduling. And and what we're trying to also get to, you know, everybody is our facilities. If you want to use our facilities and people think like it doesn't cost us anything, it doesn't cost a district for us to allow this organization to come and operate from here or whatever. There's no cost to us. There is a cost associated and there's a big cost because we, you know, exhaust our energy and our equipment. Our equipment is already aged

205and now we're, you know, exhausted more. So, we're trying to get everybody to understand that planning and also summer planning is very important. You know, can we, you know, utilize less of our rooms because we have the tendency that whenever we don't have rooms, we seem to still spread out. We still occupy those rooms. So, we need to be who's occupying I mean our own people, but we just decide I need a bigger office. I need a bigger, you know. So, we need to be more conscious of what we're doing because it's costing us money, you know, money that we don't have and it's costing us our facilities that we're not looking at him and we're like, you know, we think we can delay that cost and push it forward. And we're not in that

206position no more. We're in a critical stages that we have to be real conscious of how we spend. And every time we turn on the lights even like you know people like to have it really cold and and that's one thing that if we do this energy efficient you know we're going to have a set point. You know I was going to say don't y'all set that? Uh well but you know it if you look in the schools the temperatures right now they're cold in a lot of schools. But I think most they complain about it being too cold. They complain about teachers don't want it. Turn it up to 70 and you're going to get complaints the other way. But right now teachers have no control over the Well, they can take everybody's control,

207but y'all have to back us up, right? Like like you have, you know, anyone had your your maintenance. I mean, when the kids go to school with hoodies. Yeah. In the summer in the heat. So, hey, let's put it at 75 and leave it at some hoodies. I have it at 78 in my office. Nobody comes in. I know. The other day we were in a classroom and it was pretty hot in that classroom. That one classroom? Yeah, that one. Yeah, that one. That was like 74 degrees. That was hot. 74. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. That's why we keep in like we'll keep it. This This is what 71 in here right now, I believe. Just how many bodies are in? Yeah. Yeah. It was warm in there. I mean, we can we can do

208You have three six kids in a classroom with those hoodies and and they don't take them off at all. Really? Yeah. Or blankets. I've seen it with blankets. Why are they allowed to bring blankets to school? Go. All right. Are you having a me a meeting in the coming months, Miss Mendes? Every month. Every month. Every month. Yeah. Because I think we we're going to need that update every month to see where we're at. Even though we're saying that, you know, we're looking at a bond issuance. Well, like I said, I think in May, which is when we regularly do our priority four report, we'll do a lengthy report where we're making actual um proposals for going out for that. Yeah, it needs to be an agenda item because I I mean, I know that

209you all know what to schedule. I mean, it has to the scheduling has to go through y'all, but we need to be looking at this pretty close and seeing how how soon we can start doing all of this stuff. I mean, if we can go after that bond issuance and that SECO loan. We need to be proactive uh about it because um I wouldn't want to hear in a year from now, oh yeah, now we can't even do the as far as the roof. Now we got to do the whole roof. We're we don't have that other option, you know, because we didn't act on it. And I know it's acting on it. Well, it's you also have to have money, but we need to move on that. I I think I really think we

210should move on that. been pushing on the roof. Push it on the roof. Get us a number. Get us a number. We could just kind of We can't over give us the number. Well, I agree with Miss Rodriguez because it seems like we're getting deeper and deeper into some financial situations here that we need to deal with. But I think one of the things that we have discussed for years and years that and I know both of you have been here as long as I have. We have discussed that maintenance the maintenance of the buildings have to be like the maintenance in your home. We have to stay Yeah. Stamp with it every every month. We got to do something. We can't Well, we'll wait and come and fix that door next week. Well, no.

211We can't do that. You've got to keep up with it. And that's something that we have to do that is to allocate, and I keep saying this over and over, allocate certain money for a project and make sure it gets done. Yeah, you have to allocate it. Don't touch it. But at this point, she's telling you, we're not we're not even there. So, our options are these funding sources because where where are you going to allocate that $1 million just to renovate the roof? We don't have it. I mean, unless you're going to hit that, but what I'm what I'm saying the smaller stuff, we can do that before it gets too so expensive that we need to go out. frame of mind. Like you said, our our previous thinking was we're going to cut

212the maintenance and we're going to cut the maintenance. Well, we're saying that that did not pay off at all cuz look at look at where we're at because the costs have gone up on everything. I mean, it's not going to get any less. And I don't put everything in. Like for example, the elementary that fire system is over 20 years old, but it's operating. So, I'm not putting it in. I mean the the elevator is 46 years old. The life expectancy on an elevator is 20 to 30 years. We have way exceeded with it. We do things like that. I got to move on ladies. So what else do we have Miss Mendes on this? Any parting words? That's it. I mean we we're just going to keep on going and working at it and

213trying to find the funding that we need to do. Yeah. Okay. But for sure the committee will meet and come up with recommendation and then we'll bring that to you in May. Thank you. Or we'll bring you options, you know, and have Tony House. Definitely. Okay. We're going to move on to agenda item 6 C. Discuss and consider taking action on the WestD academic calendar for the 2025 2026 school year. Miss Garcia. Good evening. Good evening. Um, okay. So, I am bringing to you the West OSO ISD academic calendar um that our staff and parents voted on. Uh they did vote for calendar A which did include um inter session in October. The calendar does include the 75,600 mandatory minutes and the 187 teacher days that are needed. Um, is it basically the same as

214the one before? Yes, ma'am. Yes, this past year. Mhm. I have a problem with with with this. Let's see. You did a survey. You did a survey. We have 1,7 what? 99 students. That's what we have. 1,799. Looking at your survey, you have only 70 parents answering. 144 pounds, you know, 140 pounds out of 1,700, you had 157 responses. Okay, 157 responses. To me, those responses are not not even half of Well, also, right, but remember that each parent might represent two or three kids. So, you know, it it doesn't matter if they represent one or two kids. In other words, okay, I have 10 kids in the school, so I'm going to vote for whatever campus that they're in. That's only one vote. I mean, that should not count as 10 votes. Unfortunately, I

215can't make people complete a survey. We can put it out there. It was out there for two and a half weeks. Um, we did publicize it. It was sent out through Parent Square. Was sent out on I didn't see the survey at all, but I'm looking at the calendar and again, we're going to go with We're going to go with a calendar that um will be aligned with CCISD and aligning with another another district that just creates problems. I mean that we're going to be off at the same time. They're going to be off the same time we are and you know it our kids really don't have anything to do. I mean, we don't have nothing to offer our kids. And then CC, they're going to go to CCISD or to wherever they go.

216And that creates, you know, to me, we're not like on our own. I mean, we didn't lose students due to our calendar. No, no, no, no. So, no. That really doesn't matter. It's a good point that you brought up, Liz, but as far as the apathy, that's not on that's not on us. I mean I think it is a very good point that yeah our our population our parents you're being apathetic because she's right out of a thousand only 177 respondent but you know what those that want those that want to complain you didn't participate and we haven't had complaints about our calendar calendar really is more for the good of the employees of the district so I am going to say if you talk to students Kids loved the inter ready for a break.

217Yeah, at that time they were ready. I believe we should go year round. That's my belief. Year round schools would be the best because you have those interessions that you need. And I know Robstone to Midway, they're year round. And that, you know, I think it helps the teachers as much as it helps the students. Yeah, you know, they have that that that time to kind of like unwind or whatever and then they got to come back to how does that work for working parents? Yeah. But all we know is that again this is we the committee it's not that we just kind of randomly come up with this. No, there was a committee that met multiple times. So my question to athletic director, we don't have anything as far as uh camps during that

218week or anything. We don't have any we don't have camps going on because sports is still going on. Okay. That's what I wanted. We're in the middle of so we're not offering anything to the parents like she said the parents at work. We are not and it wasn't an issue. I'm not I'm not saying as a crit I'm just saying that the way that it is and part of it was to give our staff a complete break. So that's why yeah there's some schools that take that week. My thought was just with the year round when you have those interession weeks every year is the best. The parent can't take six weeks a year off of vacation time. What are you going to do? How are you going to pay for care? There's nothing available.

219So, but I think you're setting the precedent because you're saying we had it last year. Oh, Westa takes a week off in October. So, our parents probably already planned for that because that's what we're doing. One of the things parents like is if you want if you have the opportunity to travel, it's a lot cheaper to travel the middle of October that and it's not so hot. Yeah. He said he already has his flights ready. So, he's ready. Okay, I got to move on. Uh, do we have any other questions about this academic calendar? Anybody? Anybody? Okay, I need to hear a motion and a second for agenda item 6C. I'll motion that we take action on the WTOD academic calendar for the 2025 2026 school year. A second. We'll go with calendar A. Calendar

220A. All right. A motion has been made by Mr. Adono and seconded by Miss Bella to go with uh academic calendar A for the 2025 2026 school year. Let's go ahead and vote. Miss Gutierrez. Nay. Charlie Jordan. I. I. Albert Viel. I Gonzalez. Oscar Rodondo. I Rodriguez I. This motion passes 511. It's 511. Where's the other one? Where did the other Oh, I counted it as an absent, but it's not. It's an abstain. So, it's it's 51. Similar. Okay. Let's move on to agenda item 6D. discuss and consider taking action on the TEACS certification form for the 2025 2026 school year. Miss Moore and Miss Garcia. So, good evening. Once again, districts are required to certify that they have programs that meet 100% of the TEACS before they can spend their funding on other materials.

221Um, so superintendents along with boards must certify that the district has instructional materials that cover all elements of the essential knowledge and skills of the required curriculum other than physical education for each grade level. So um annually we do have to fill out this um certification certification of provision of instructional material survey. So um this is just stating uh subject by subject that we do teach um 100% of the TEICSS. All right. You have any questions on agenda item 6D? Okay. I need to hear a motion and a second for agenda item 60. I make a motion that we accept the TE certification form for the 2526 school year. Sandy. All right. A motion has been made by Miss Gutierrez and seconded by Miss Jordan for agenda item 60. We'll go ahead and vote. Gutierrez.

222I Jordan. Hi. Hi. Albert. Elena Gonzalez. Oscar Rodondo. I Rodriguez I. This motion passes 6. Okay. Okay, let's move on to agenda item 6E. Discuss and consider taking action on a nomination for the TASBY board of directors position for region two. Miss Moore. Um, so it looks like I guess this has been the same for several years that Moyesus Alaro. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing his name right. Moses Alfo. Dr. Moses Alfro. Yes. And he's the only one running. So, okay. All right. Are there any questions on this agenda? item. Okay, let's uh Anybody want to run for that? Do you want to be part of the TASB board? You're running against them? Oh, no, no, no. I I I think he's great. I think he's awesome. I like the man. All right. Okay.

223So, if there are no no further questions, I need to hear a motion and a second for agenda item 6E. Okay. We take I make the motion. Okay, wait a minute. I have a question on this. On the nominations, we're not going to get anybody from our board. So, we're going to nominate Dr. Alfao. Okay. I have a motion that we nominate for the TASBY board of directors position region 2, Dr. Moses Alfaro. Second. All right. A motion has been made by Miss Gutierrez and seconded by Miss Jordan for agenda item 6E. Let's go ahead and vote. Miss Gutierrez, I Jordan. Illa, hi. Robert Bell. Hi. Gonzalez. Oscar Rodondo. I Rodriguez. I This motion passes 6. All right. Uh, Miss Moore, you wanted to do the superintendent updates? Um, yeah. Uh we several of you

224were able to come to our um learning walks. Last week we were at West Sosa Elementary School. This week we are going to be at JFK. Um it's going to be Wednesday morning, I believe. Is that right? Wednesday morning. Okay. Wednesday morning and then Thursday afternoon. We'll kind of go through the same Wednesday morning. What date is that? The 26th. Okay. At 9:00. It's on that calendar that you sent. Yeah, it's on that master calendar. Yes. This one right here, the one we just got. Okay. Yes. And then um it's going to be uh Thursday afternoon at 1:00. Um it says March 19th. That was last week. It should say for JFK. Now they're doing JFK. JFK. Wait a minute. 20 24 25 26. 26. We're at JFK. The 26 JFK. Okay, I found it.

225I found it. We're here. Okay, I found it. Okay. And then um you can see all the other activities. We have our celebration of education again the end of April. And let me see if I remember the the theme is going to be celebrating the present, dreaming of the future. So, we're going to be focusing on celebrating what we've accomplished educationally as a district this year, but then also we're going to have some um different college and other career kind of people, welding and con uh cosmetology and people to kind of help the students dream about their futures. Great. And you can see all the other events listed. All right. And you did provide us with the April 2025 campus calendars. Okay. All right. Uh this it is the time is 8:49 and this meeting

226is adjourned. Thank you ladies, gentlemen being here. Y'all talk too much.