001All right, welcome everyone. It is 5:00 and I'm going to call to order our board workshop declar declaration of a quorum and we have seven members present. Thank you for being here. Uh we have no uh hearing of citizens signed up for this meeting. So, we're going to move to our workshop session on uh our receiving our construction update. Mr. Syc. >> Yes, ma'am. I'm President Eig, Dr. Harkider, members of the board, thank you for your time this evening. We've got a few things going on around the school district to have for about the last 18 months. You may have noticed as you drive around town. So, we're going to give you an update on some timelines this summer and on when you can expect to see some of these projects completely finished. So, without
002further ado, again, appreciate your time this evening. Uh we'll be talking about obviously the addition to&m consolidated high school and phase 4 of the remodel that will take place as soon as the students leave the building on Friday. College Station High School Rock Elementary CTE phase 2 which I'm really excited about and the stadium improvements um that are ongoing at both of our comprehensive high schools. So with&m sol you may recall that we approved the guaranteed maximum price in the March of 2025 and started uh construction there mobilized in April of 2025. Our contractor is Durotch. Uh we are 95 96% done with the addition. I'll be able to show you some pictures of that. That's what you see here on the west side of the building as you drive past. That's the old bus
003lane um and things of that nature. And so really excited about how well that progress has prog um how far that project has progressed. I will tell you that we still have a lot of work to do on the interior of the building this summer. And we have a very aggressive 65day plan uh that we will use to try to execute and try to be out of the building uh before the teachers get back in August. Now that's the best made plans. We'll see how that works out for us, but we have a lot to do um with that. So, in the new rooms, you've got 16 new additional science labs, four special services rooms, a new weight room for the auxiliary staff or for the auxiliary athletic programs across the street, and then a
004new film room. Uh this summer, we'll be working with the blackbox theater, which we've already pretty much um we're about 70% done there. We've been working on that throughout the school year. Uh we'll be breaking down some walls and creating a new cheer room which will allow for consolidated to have a cheer room and a dance room make it equitable to what college high school has. And then phase four, we've already gotten in and torn up the and demoed the band hall. Uh we'll be working in the fine arts wings. We'll be working in CTE. We'll be working in the cafeteria. Uh we will be working in the kitchen and we'll be working in the gyms as well and some of the athletic locker rooms. So we have a lot to do this summer, but
005we're really pleased with the progress that we've made thus far. Uh this is a great aerial shot of the building. Thank you, Ezra, for this picture. Uh, it's a great drone shot. This will be the bus lane that you see there in front of you. But that's your new addition. And then on top of that, you can see the brand new roof that we've worked very hard to get done that we started um around the same time that we began this project in April of 2025. It looks great. Uh we're still punch listing some items on the roof and things of that nature. But for the as far as the addition goes, we're in really good shape. We've actually got a punch walk scheduled for next week. And so this is one of the new
006science labs that you can see. We've already started moving in lab tables. And we really are just working on the fine details as we work through this. And reminder, this is one of 16 additional science labs on both the first level and second level that are now available to the annual consolidated science department. This is one of the new special education classrooms. And what you'll see here, there's four of these classrooms, but these classrooms are all intertwined and they're all connected. And so that first door when you come in from the hallway, um, is a restroom that is connected to the classroom next door. It has a shower. It has a track system that allows them to be able to move students and they be able to help them lift students on the changing tables
007that might be um a little bit bigger than what they can handle. You've got a storage closet and then this nearest door to the edge of the picture is a kitchenette that has enough room in it for them. It was a very specific request that they be able to put a dining room table in there so they can work on those types of things at the table with the kids. And so we're very excited um for how that looks and how it turns out. Uh I guess about a week ago I met Gwen's leadership team and her department chairs after school hours and we walked through it and there was a lot of excitement and so we're very excited um to see what that looks like for them moving forward. This is a view coming
008in um from the north end of the hallway on the first floor looking all the way down back towards what would be the auditorium and things uh going into the cafeteria. So uh this matches the the existing building. Uh you'll see there we've got Ramboard down cuz we've got the floors done. We really are just working on some of the minor details. Over the summer, we'll have graphics going in. We've got to do some way finding. Um, you can see the paper way finding on the wall there. So, there's just a lot to do. And then we'll demobilize out of the parking lot with the job trailer and everything that we have for our layown yard. Uh, our plan is to demobilize on July the 20th. And so, that will give us plenty of time
009to get out of the way. We're probably going to need to get some work done painting the parking lots. We may not be able to get that done before school starts. We may have to do it on weekends over the over the start of the school year. Uh but when we move out that'll be 96 parking spaces that go back available to the campus. And so that'll be really big and really helpful for the campus. College Station High School, our contractors, Jamala, we uh again guaranteed maximum price was approved in March of 2025. We did not start this project until May of 2025. On November the 19th of 2024, I reported to the board that our estimated completion date would be December of 2026. We've been very aggressive with this timeline. We started instead of
010initially doing it in phases, we did all four phases at once. Um, and so in a minute I'm going to show you a picture that shows you just the amount of scope of work that we have ongoing on this campus. It's a lot being added to that campus. It's 100,000 square ft. I'm very excited to report to you today that area A and area B, which are the academic wings are we have scheduled CO walks, which are certificate occupancy walks for the start of August, which means that if everything goes to plan, we will be able to move into those academic wings before the school year starts. Now, they very well may be moving in during that week of inservice, but we will have them ready full four or five months ahead of when we
011thought we might be able to get them ready. Area A, or excuse me, area D and area G, which is the fine arts wing and the new gym edition, and those will be ready about midepptember. So, we've been working at this six days a week, uh, pretty much non-stop since this project got started, trying to, uh, make sure that we could deliver this as early as possible because we wanted to make sure that we had this for an entire school year and we weren't trying to move in middle of semester. uh we focus on the academic wings and that's one of the reasons why you see those coming available first in August and not the gym and not the fine arts space. Now we've got plans with them. Uh we've been working closely with athletics
012with Mr. Eekes, Mr. Grimes and and we feel really good about the things that we've got ongoing on that campus. And so this is a great great shot of just how much we've got um taking place on that campus. So you can see all four additions coming off all four ends of the building. Uh like I said, it's a little bit over 100,000 square ft. Uh, one of the things I really love about this picture is you can also see all the other work from bond packages that's ongoing in the background from the softball field and the baseball field. You can see the shine on the new bleachers that's uh been expanded there on the grand stands. You can see the jumbotron in the background. And then behind the press box there, you can see
013where we are working to add the additional restrooms um that are uh required for the capacity addition that we had to the stadium. I want to point something out to you on the on the brick. Um so here on the left side of your screen, uh we've we've bricked the building. We're working on bricking the building. and we're going around now and that'll be an ongoing process. And so, uh, right now the brick does not match very well. Okay? It stands out like a sore thumb and I've had a lot of people comment on it and I've had a lot of people, uh, send me some emails and and and and express some concern and I understand where they're coming from. I want to assure people that we pulled the exact same submitts as our
014previous architects with this project when the building opened in 2012. It's the exact same brick color. It's the exact same watercolor. It came from the exact same company. There's a difference though. one, that's 14 years of weathering on the brick that is sitting next to it. Number two, we're not done yet. They will go back when this process is finished when we get all the brick up and they will acid wash the brick and they will scrub down all of the mortar. And once that happens, it should lighten up or darken up a little bit and match the existing building. Now, is it ever going to match perfectly? No. Even the new brick across the street at Consolidated, exact same situation, doesn't match perfectly. It's a little bit easier because it's a brown brick versus
015a red brick. Even the brick at Rock Prairie does not match perfectly, but it's a little bit closer because it's not so red. It's a little bit more of a pink hue to it. I don't know exactly how to describe that color at Rock Prairie, but I want to assure everybody that this is the exact same brick, the exact same mortar from the exact same company. Now, if it doesn't come from the same batch, it's not always going to match identical, but it will look much closer once they acid wash it and clean it up. So, just wanted to make sure I pointed that out to everyone. Um, and from where we go from there. And so area A and area B are these two wings here on the front of the building. Um area
016G is that large wing in the back left corner and area D is back there in the right hand corner. And so with area D uh we were actually able to get in this past week and start demo in the orchestra hall which will become the new blackbox theater. We are building a new orchestra uh wing and with the new addition. We're also adding a new ensemble room for band and a loading bay for all of the um all of the fine arts programs where they'll actually be able to back their 18-wheeler up to it, have a much easier time um loading from there. Uh with area A and B, when those two wings are done in August, that will be an additional 18 classrooms, nine labs, five CTE rooms, and one art room that
017are available to the campus. It's really significant because you can see in the background of this picture, you have six portable buildings. Those six portable buildings house 12 teachers. Those 12 teachers will be moving into the building. Students will no longer have to walk out of the building to go to class in the portables, which leaves us in the procurement or in the situation where we've got to now figure out when we're going to auction off those portables. We're not going to be in the business of keeping portables just to keep portables. They will go. So, that will also open up between 43 to 45 parking spaces in that lot. That'll be uh readily available for the staff on that campus, which will be big and helping them. And also, it'll be a benefit to
018the Cougar Club that'll be able to sell those spaces uh during football season as well. So, lot going on at College Station High School. I'm very excited about the progress and very excited that we are trending months ahead and that we're going to be able to get them into the building to experience uh the new addition for a full year versus having to wait until semester. This is one of your classrooms on level one. You will see that is all your built-ins um that are getting ready to be they actually started installing those today. Um and so we're making great progress there. That's area A on level one. These are the restrooms where you can see that we're making great progress. will be starting floors here in the next week or two. Um, a lot
019of this just has to do with the we've got to make sure that we get the building climatized just right and so that way the floors are ready to uh be laid down. And then the third gym, uh, you can see we made a lot of great progress here. And one of the things I want to point out is this now provides College Station High School with a third gym. It provides them with the opportunity to have five volleyball courts, which is the exact same opportunity that they have at&m solid high school. So, we're equitable across the board. And one of the biggest things that I'm excited about with this gym is not necessarily the gym, but what's happening beneath it. It wasn't talked about a whole lot when the bond passed, but College Station
020High School has an overcrowding problem in their fieldhouse as well. And so with this space beneath the gym, we are going to be able to move the baseball program, softball program, cross country, and track programs out of the fieldhouse into new locker room spaces beneath the third gym, which is going to free up all of that space in the um in the fieldhouse across the street. And so it'll be it'll be a much needed benefit to the campus as far as more space is concerned. And on top of that, we're currently we've been remodeling since uh since semester the additional locker rooms. And so prior to this bond package, all of our varsity level sports were not on gym level. They were all in level zero down beneath the gyms. And so what we've been
021doing is working to provide locker room spaces for volleyball and boys basketball and girls basketball that are on gym level. so that way their locker room spaces are even with the gyms. And so with this new addition comes the volleyball locker room. We're remodeling the other two to accommodate the boys and girls basketball team. So we're really pleased uh with how far we've come in that progress in just a short amount of time. >> Josh, can I ask a question before we move to Rock Prairie? >> The uh the you're shooting for completion of classroom space and science labs at both high schools by July before school starts, correct? Uh at Consolidated I would tell you that we're done with the science labs at College Station High School. It will be August before we're done.
022>> Okay. Is there have you had an opportunity to discuss logistics with the principles and helping those teachers that are impacted or having to move uh or change classrooms right there before school? Is there a game plan to assist them? >> Yes, sir. We'll have um Connley Gear will be readily available to help move teachers. We'll have the boxes delivered and things of that nature. College High School. This development has been very recent so that Mr. Grimes and I haven't had as much coordination, but we've had some um at Consolidated across the street. We've actually got plans to start moving some of the science equipment into their lab spaces um over the summer. And then we'll have we have furniture delivery for&m Consolidated is actually set to be June 8th. Furniture delivery for College Station
023High School is set to be between July 1st and July 15th. I've got a moving window there depending on how far along we are. Uh but everything will be coordinated for those people that are within those portables. um they will just they'll have to set their classrooms up. Both the furniture will be there and we'll make sure that the boxes get to those classrooms for them and make it as easy as possible so they can get acclimated and then get ready to start in the school. >> I was just asking I know in the past we had always tried to coordinate and get them boxes so they could pack them. >> We've got they're not anxious about when they return and everything. Yes. And then we just get the boxes to wherever they need to
024be to unpack. >> We will we will take care of it all. It'll be just like it's the same system that we've always had in place. George has been delivering boxes and in the situation with College Station High School, this I mean we've been working and working and working to get here. It's just there's been a lot of unknowns and so we're really excited that we're even at the opportunity where we were able to schedule CO walks for August. Now granted, we could get told like we don't pass. We don't get a certificate of occupy. We don't think we'll get there. Uh but we're going to make sure that we coordinate with our campus. >> My question is specific to one campus. It's just in general to support the teachers who are >> Yes, sir.
025They'll be those teachers in the portable that have to move into the building. they'll they'll be supported. >> Okay. Thank you. >> So, Rock Perry Elementary uh guaranteed maximum price was March 2025. You may recall that when we did this one, uh this is Jamal is our contractor, which is the same contract that we have at College Station High School. When we initially did this, we put it together as one guaranteed maximum price and that was to help the Rock Prairie project. By lumping the Rock Prairie project with College Station High School, we ensured that we got good numbers because a lot of people weren't interested in the Rock Prairie project because they thought it was smaller. By putting together with College Station High School, we ensured that we got some of the same subs
026and it made it more competitive for us. And so, um, really pleased with how that's turned out. We, last summer, we got the kindergarten wing done and the gym and the cafeteria space. We've also got the new roof. We've already taken care of all the safety fencing. We've taken care of the new car rider line. There is a lot of work to do this summer. We've got the awning to put out in front of the building. At the same time, we have to remodel the north side of the building. So that is all of your other grade levels, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, all of those pods. Um the car, excuse me, the front office edition, we opened that up in March. Um and so you can see it right here, um
027just to the left of the entryway there. That was open at spring break. The front office staff has moved in. It's been a wonderful addition. I think the campus has very much appreciated it. And when that happened, we were able to demo the old office space over spring break, and we've already started putting it back together. It'll be an additional uh prek classroom and it will be um some additional class not classrooms but office spaces and and some storage for them as well. We also got into the library at spring break and we have already gotten ourselves to where we are be blasting the floor right now to ensure that we control the moisture so that way whenever we lay down the floor it doesn't peel up on us in a year or two from
028now. Um but we couldn't be more excited and more appreciative of how much the campus has worked with. All of our campuses have been great to work with. Uh, but here's your new office staff or not new office staff, but your new office edition there at Brock Prairie. It looks wonderful if you haven't seen it in person. Very excited with how great that turned out. Uh, the floors and everything else came out came together really well. And the and the office staff clearly has a flare for how to decorate things because that looks a lot better than anything I could have done myself. All of the restrooms have been done. Uh, we did these individually throughout the year uh, one pod at a time and so we worked around the building and we're very appreciative
029of how flexible the campus was was with us. So all the restrooms are done, which is a lot of the heavy lifting that has to be done when you're trying to remodel the campus in roughly 65 75 days. And so we're very pleased to have that taken care of. This is your library at uh Rock Prairie, excuse me. And so like I said, beat blasting the floor right now, preparing to start laying floor down um as early as Friday, potentially Saturday. Uh you've already got all your new built-ins in the new circulation desk and everything else. And so we anticipate having the library buttoned up in about the next week to where we can move things in there to store them for the summer. uh to be able to work because one of the things
030we're running into at Rock Prairie is a lack of space because of all the things we have to move out of the classrooms. Uh this is the old office and this is where we have already framed it out and drywalled and turned it into what will be the prek classroom. Um it may seem like there's still a whole lot to do there. Uh but working within the confines of a school day and everything else, we're very pleased with how far we've come in that and we'll be able to move uh make a lot of progress this summer. Obviously, substantial completion on this is going to be right up to uh just a few days before school starts. Uh our goal is try to be walking out of there as the teachers are walking in. Uh
031we'll see how that works out for us. We had a meeting this morning. We meet weekly. Um and we're always constantly talking about our schedules. CT phase 2, our general contractor is Pogue. Uh we had a guaranteed maximum price um in April of 2025. We started that project in May of 2025 and uh our estimated completion is July, mid July. And I will tell you that we are trending very well. um looking like we're going to be able to hit that and we've got it set up for all of the equipment and furniture to be delivered on July the 15th. And so one of the things I'm most excited about with this project is what it does for us as a school district. We will no longer be sending kids to Brian CEK. All of
032our kids will be staying in-house and we'll be taking care of our own. And at the same time, uh we've got a multi-purpose arena in this facility that will also allow us to start hosting larger functions. And so instead of having to go to an athletic banquet at Brian Legends Center, we can start hosting these events in our own facilities, which is um one of the things that we prefer to do. So um you know it, we've got a mechanics, animal science, auto tech, construction, uh cosmetology, multi-purpose arena, and the vette lab uh as long as welding. And so this project, if you haven't seen it in a while, um it has come a really long way. Uh we were pouring the last sidewalk there in front of the building last weekend. Uh these drone
033shots were taken last Friday. Uh very pleased. Our last Thursday. Very pleased with how far we've come in this um this amount of time. It's an amazing facility. It looks great from the back. There on the bottom lefthand corner is a pole barn. There in the middle on the bottom is a um is the paint booth for the auto mechanics. You can see the four bay doors open there for auto mechanics um and so on and so forth. And then this is your multi-purpose arena. It's got two classrooms there on the back side of that wall. Um, it's got a bay door that allows it to go uh for them to bring animals across if they're doing a uh some type of show. It's a lot like the expo center is going to be. We'll
034be able to drive tractors in and drop down clippings if we need to. We can scoop them out, take them out, keep the building clean, um, and everything else in that nature. So, we're really excited for this space. Like I said, this is an opportunity for us to host large events and large banquetss in College Station ISD and not have to have people going to North Bryan to take care of that. Josh, what's the seating capacity like if just to get a sense of scope of that space? >> So 7,800 square ft is that space. Uh I actually did chat GPT with Theresa Bendon today. Um Theresa Benon was driving, not me. Um and so we estimated that you could sit as many as 600 to 800 people if you just did stadium style in
035a straight line. Uh we're not going to buy that many. We're going to outfit it to have chairs and tables for 250 people. That's about the largest functions that we do for athletic banquetss and things of that nature. Obviously, this can be used for whole scale training and things of that as well. >> That's great. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> This is one of the cosmetology labs. Yes. >> Sorry. I was going to ask a different question, but I thought of it on the a previous picture or two back on the fencing around that because that's changing. That's a difference, too. Is the whole place going to be completely enclosed and with >> So, we will have we'll have a new gate. Um the new gates actually uh all of the masonry has been
036done for the new gate. We have not installed the new gate yet. We'll wait a little bit and try to get through some more of the construction before we do. It'll have a card reader as well. And so the new gate will have a card reader. So for those people taking care of their animals, it'll be just like the badges that we wear with the uh RF on the back, uh they'll be able to badge in. We can also control when people come in because this is a school date. And so people can come in early in the morning, but whenever the school day hits, 8:25 to 4:00 or 4:05, they can't come in to feed their animals. And so that'll be able to also give us some control as to when people are coming
037in and out of the facility. uh specifically around the CTE center. When you get out there and take a tour, you'll see that we've got uh the same standard safety fencing that we have um now across the district, the six foot anti-scalable black vinyl coated. Uh but we'll also have card readers on some of the gates um that'll control access in and out of that facility as well. Part of that too is because the the amount of equipment that we have and some of that equipment is on the outdoor exposed space. Uh and we don't want anything to walk off. So, we're doing everything that we can to secure that as much as possible. This is one of your three cosmetology wings. Um and so uh making great progress here. Uh that cosmetology is going
038to it's going to be an amazing program. There's a lot that goes into it. Uh we have we're really pleased with how far along we've come in this um this amount of time. Uh feel really confident with everything that's going in there. We fully anticipate in the next week to two weeks that this building will be completely climatized and it'll be closed in and that you won't have any uh won't have to worry about anything on the exterior as well, which allow us to um get everything the temperatures that we need so we can start laying the floors. This is your welding lab. Uh so you can see the large brackets and everything else coming down. That's going to be for your compressor hoses. And then you've got the uh the track system in the
039ceiling for moving large weight around the building. This is your auto mechanics lab. Um very excited with how this has turned out as well. And then stadium improvements. Uh our local contractor is Jacody. Uh guaranteed maximum price was May of 2025. We started last June. If you recall last June had an exorbitant amount of rain. We were trying to do baseball softball fields. We were trying to get out of the ground on the fieldhouse edition. We were trying to get ground across the street and we had more rain in June than I think we've ever had before. And so what I have quickly learned about construction is that you are not really in control. Mother nature is. And as feel very much the case with our stadium projects, uh we're making great progress. We're working
0406 days a week on almost all of these projects. That's certainly the case here with the stadiums. But with this is the fieldhouse expansion and consolidated. We're increasing the grand stands. We've already done that at College Station High School where we're able to host little Olympics there in that facility. Uh it went great. The new grand stands look amazing. Uh we're working on new press box at Consol. We're repairing and making some upgrades at the press box for College Station High School. Um and then you've also got um the roof situation. Uh unfortunately the press box at College Station High School has leaked since day one. Uh and we're working through that right now. Uh doing new waterproofing, going to be pulling the panels off and doing a lot to ensure um that that thing
041does not leak moving forward. And then obviously both of our stadiums have digital scoreboards. We've yet to tie the one in at Consolidated because you can't tie it in anywhere. Uh but we were able to put it on display at College Station High School for little Olympics. Mr. Dunson was on the camera. I was up top and we were getting things figured out. Matt Cole from technology was a big help and uh seeing little kids on the big screen and watching their excitement was really cool and it uh made all the stress that went with that project very much worth it. So um that is your fieldhouse edition. That is the new weight room at Consolidated uh right behind us. Uh what you'll see laying down on the ground over there is a temporary AC
042unit and we had to go with the temporary AC unit because HVAC are long lead items and we knew this going in and we ordered the HVAC systems that we need. We need three specifically for the addition here at Consolidated. And we ordered those right off the bat and we still do not have all of them. And so we've gone with the temporary system to be able to get that placed to um so we can start getting climatized and we can lay our floor down. But um on the back side of this is meeting rooms that'll be flexible and it'll be turned into three flexible meeting spaces for the consolid. And you can see there through the glass um the jumbotron that's there in the background of the stadium. And so uh this looks great.
043Uh we're in a good place with it. We just really uh need to get those HVAC units in, but we found a temporary solution to be able to work around that so we can continue to progress forward. This is going to be on the first level of the press box where you can see we're framed out. Um, we've got the grand stands arriving on June the 24th. And so before then, you'll see a lot of work being done on the front side of the press box to ensure that we get things taken care of so we can clear out of the way cuz right now one of the biggest challenges at Consolidated is we're working in a very tight space and we have boom lifts that are working to get up there and we can't
044have those working in the same space as the grand stand. So you'll see a lot happening over the next month with the front of the press box. This is your view from the film deck up top. I wanted to show this. Uh it's these fieldhouse uh these press boxes are almost identical. Uh this one right now looks a little bit bigger because it doesn't have grandstands in front of it. But the bleachers across that's the visitor bleachers. Those are brand new. Those are the identical size as what we have at College Station High School. And behind that is this facility that's currently going in which is also almost the identical size as the visitor restroom facility that's at College Station High School. And so you can see there we've got the face brick going up.
045We've got a couple inspections on um upcoming um and then we'll be able to really start to tie that building together on the inside. At College Station High School, this is the interior of the new press box. Uh what I'm showing you here are line of sight windows. Previously, um everything ran all the way up and if you wanted to see anything that was happening on either end of the field at College Station High School, you really had to lean forward, put your head up against the glass almost to be able to see. And so these line of sight windows will help with that. We've also installed some new um built-ins there on the shelves in the front. And then we've added these these are coaching platforms. Um we've added this in the press box
046as far as the press room is concerned. We've added this in the coaches area and we've added this in the hospitality area. And what that does for us is allows you to take better advantage of the space you have. So instead of a lot of wasted space behind the coaches, now they have this platform where they can sit up and still be able to see um over the top of the coaches that are there in front of them. This is pretty standard in press boxes across uh the state. And we're doing this at Consolidated as well. And so a lot to unpack there in a short amount of time. Um we really feel confident in everything that we've got going on. We feel like we'll be able to get these projects delivered. Obviously Rock Prairie
047will be August, Consolidated will be August. We've got the certificate walks or the CL walks scheduled for College Station High School um for early August. And we think area D and G, the fine arts wing and the gym will be in midepptember. We will certainly coordinate with the people that are there in the portables to ensure that they um have the easiest transition into the new addition as possible. Um and other than that, I am open to any questions. >> While you're doing the timeline, real quickly, remind did I miss on the stadiums? um >> stadiums is end of August >> even for I mean consol will be done at the end of >> you don't have to look so shocked but yes ma'am >> okay all right >> now thank you for that I'll
048I'll be thinking about that at 2 a.m. Um obviously weather has to cooperate. >> It is excitement. Um so our substantial completion date is the end of August. Uh Coach Schmidt was great uh with us and he worked. He's built in his first couple of games are going to be on the road. Um but we're we're in a situation where obviously weather impacts us every single day and the forecast doesn't look good for the next week. So if you're doing a rain dance, please stop. Um but we're we have a very aggressive timeline. Jacody's going to come through for us and we're going to do everything that we can to make it happen. And so we've got a lot to do. Uh, but we have a a good timeline. We had a meeting this morning.
049We meet weekly. We meet on site daily. Um, and if the weather cooperates, we'll be able to hit a lick and we'll be able to get it done. >> When is the first football? >> Uh, first week in September, but the first three weeks ended up being on the road. He scheduled the first two non district games on the road and then when they drew the first district games on the road, but we've got a three-week buffer, so it won't be until week four when they play on. I believe that will be the fourth week in September, I believe. Yes, ma'am. >> Through scheduling, you have a two or three weeks built in just in case. >> I have not told my contractor that, but yes, sir. >> Okay. >> How are we on budget?
050>> Great. Uh we have plenty of contingency left in all of our budgets. Nothing has gone over. Uh we feel really confident that we'll be able to expand the scope of the projects that we're going to be able to do. We've expanded the scope on all of our projects right now. And part of that was the aggressive timeline and then getting the guarantee maximum price. The other part of that was doing all of these projects at once and not in not having the inflationary costs hit us uh so hard. Uh but right now we are under everywhere. Uh we have not gone over. Um we have a lot of contingency left. Uh we're keeping a close eye on it. I do not want to have to answer to Miss Wilson about spending too much money.
051Um and so the fear of the CFO is very real. I say that out loud. I want to compliment the district on the CTE commitment that we've had for many years going on and and now having all the kids not have to go to Brian and having all the facilities there because I can't remember the number. I think we have 45 or 50 certificates we offer within the district certificates and licenses and AI is not coming for welding. It's not going to replace vetex. It's not going to replace auto tech. It's not going to there's uh those are jobs that kids can get right out of high school. um now that we have all these incredible facilities and the commitment we have um from the CTE folks to train and equip kids to uh be
052successful um I think is outstanding. So having these facilities is great. They look great. Um and I know that's been a long-term commitment u between the bonds and and the people we have in place. So uh I'm personally really grateful and excited for all of the things that we have going on there. Um but also what that means for the community that we can give people jobs and they can stay right here. So, one thing I failed to mention is I'll be uh sending or Dr. Harkard will send an opportunity for you all to come take tours uh very soon. Obviously, we're at a lot different place with consolidated. We've still got to tie the building in, but we can see the new addition. Um Mr. Field, if you need to come over and say
053goodbye to the pit, we can get you get you in there pretty soon. A lot of people are really emotional about that. Um I don't quite understand the the the draw to the pit, but I have been charged up by a lot of Cassaul folks. Um Miss Simmon being one of those. Um, so apparently the memories from the uh late 80s and early 90s are uh really strong. Um, >> 2001. Thank you very much. >> Well, you and I are that wasn't You and I are 2001. I want a shot at you. >> Relax, sir. Relax. All right. >> That was a shot next to you, man. That wasn't at you. Uh, but no, there'll be tour opportunities coming up. Uh, we're ready to show you CTE. We can uh we can take you through
054the building at CTE. We can show you some of the action that we've got going on across the street at Consolidated. Uh, we'll need to wait a little bit at uh College Station High School, let a few of the finishes get in. Uh, but there'll be opportunities for tours across the summer. Um, so be looking for that from Dr. Harkider. I'll put it in transmitter, one or the other. >> Well, I just, you know, Mr. Simac just spent like 25 minutes talking about as quickly as he could. Um, and that's how long it took him just to just to touch on everything that you're doing right now. And it's a really significant amount of work. Um, and I mean I'm amazed as a parent um, every time that I drive by one of the sites,
055which is often um, and see the progress. So, I just think we should not take for granted um, what the district personnel and all of our construction workers, everybody has been doing, um, to have these projects get to this point and be almost done. It's it's really just great. >> Well, thank you. Obviously, it's taken a lot of coordination and we have to extend a special thanks uh, Miss Elder, Mr. Grimes, uh, Don Newton there at at Rock Prairie, both our athletic coaches and everything else. And then obviously working with Kevin Ross and Clink Skills out at CT. Uh, people have been great to work with. Everybody's been very accommodating. Now, at the same time, like we're doing everything we can to receive orders at 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 and try to make sure that
056there's no trucks in the parking lot by 7:00. So, it's been a it's been a work in progress, but everybody's been really flexible, and we know it's been really inconvenient. But, I hope everybody knows that we have been um working as hard and as fast as we can to deliver these projects on time, under budget, and and to get out of people's way so everybody can get back to normal. Uh we want that for everybody. Uh our kids go to these campuses. Uh we're on these campuses daily. And so, it's going to be it's going to be great when we're all said and done, and we're going to be set up for the future for a really long time. specifically with the CT center and both our comprehensive high schools taking the capacity to 2700.
057Uh it really sets us up to be in good shape as a school district. >> Yeah, it really is. It is fantastic. So much work that's basically been done in a year. Well, I mean a little or 15 months um by by the time it's done. So yes, kudos to your group. Couple of questions um on kind of on the money side because and you've alluded to this, but I think some people look at um accelerating all these projects so fast and think, oh, are we, you know, we're working people, you know, 3:00 a.m. in the morning, you know, can you explain, you know, how it actually saves a little bit more on how it actually can save us money to be accelerating these projects and, you know, even though we're having to pay people
058to work 20 hours a day sometimes. >> So, the the best example I can give you is this. Um, so guaranteed maximum price, it's locked in. And so with the GMP on all of our projects, our price is not going to go up. So, as you well know that we're currently in the design phase of a new central office. And so, uh, when we were at about 25% design phase, uh, the Iran situation had not happened. When we got to the 50% design phase, the Iran situation happened and all of a sudden fuel costs gone up 30% and people were starting to reflect that in the numbers that they were quoting to us for their services. And so, um, inflationary costs can change. That was that was in a month two month span on how
059quickly 30% increase on some things just because of a fuel situation. Um for us with the projects whenever Dr. Orider and I sat down and looked at it and everything else and Miss Wilson as well when you start to look at the formulas and you look at how much inflate like you could be $2 million in a year on a project like College Station High School or even more for a project like Consolidated when you start to think about if you wait and you don't do those projects and you lose $2 million because you sat and you waited on the inflationary cost. No thank you. Um, in the words of my good buddy the Red Rocket, like don't worry about the mule, just load the wagon. Like, we're good. We're working and we're going to
060keep working and we're gonna get it done and um we'll sleep when we need to. >> Um, and you kind of mentioned other money that's left in our from these bonds. You're you're mentioned you're going to be under budget, but do you have any kind of where are we on the dollars a bit more? >> Well, I can give you a breakdown for that once we finish these projects. we can certainly come in and close those out or I can put that information for you in transmitt. Um I'm not going to say I'm not going to quote numbers to you right now, but I will tell you that we're in good enough shape that we feel like there's some things that we'll be able to do on the athletic side of things that weren't called
061out. Um at Consolidated, we've been in good enough shape that we're able to make some improvements to the gymnasiums that weren't previously there. Uh and what we'll do is we'll evaluate Mr. Buckner and I who is our executive director of facilities. We we know there's some things around the district that need to get taken care of. There's some floors that need to be done. There's some restrooms that need to be remodeled. And if that money whenever that money is there, we'll evaluate and we'll identify what projects need to be done. Uh but we really feel like between all of the bonds that we have that we'll have the opportunity to expand and do some additional things. One of the things that we're going to have to consider here at Annual Solidity next door is additional
062parking. And so we've already kind of scoped out the idea of what we could do potentially to add 56 parking spaces. That's not to say that we're going to get there. Uh but we've got that. Um out at CTE, we've looked at the idea of possibly putting a concrete parking lot in front of the A barn. um to tie in with everything else in that facility. And so you've got restrooms that could be done at some of our elementary campuses or some of our intermediate campuses. And so then there's always roof projects. Um and so uh you can't go wrong investing in a roof. And so uh there will be things that'll be there for us. But the opportunity, you know, the most important thing aside from inflation or whatever the money is is the
063faster we get these projects done, the sooner our voters have the opportunity for their kids to experience these projects. And that's the biggest piece for us right now is delivering for the kids. >> And honestly, that was my last comment. It's just a reminder, you know, um a thank you to y'all, but also a thank you to the voters who are making these projects happen, but also as we're going to move into our budget discussion, right? the just the reminder, you know, this money um come does come from our local taxpayers, but it's because they support um our facilities and our schools. So, we really can have um the needed spaces and good quality spaces, you know, for our teachers and our students. So, thanks to them and we can't use it for other things,
064just what it was >> um the projects it was dedicated for. >> Yes, ma'am. >> So, really quickly, I'm curious about the mechanism. Is are the bonds like a line of credit? Like do we have like a how do you actually receive the money and spend the money? >> Yeah, it's basically wired. So you go out and sell bonds. We have one more sale left between the the sum and then the money's wired to us. We invest the money and then we spend it as we need it. >> So it I mean it's we didn't >> like it's basically a loan. >> Yeah. And then we pay interest obviously on whatever we spend. Correct. But just to be clear, if we chose not to spend money we had left over, we'd be paying less interest.
065Like because the bond passes, you're not forced to spend every dollar on. Correct. Yeah. Right. So, I mean, we'll want to take that into consideration. I there's lots of stuff to do, but also at the same time we're talking about >> all the ways we're going to pay the other bills that we have that feel I want to make sure I understand that mechanism. >> Yeah. And now only anything that you save with bond money can only be spent or not spent. It can't go back into the general fund to be spent on anything else. >> But you don't have to spend every dollar. It's a maximum. >> We've got to deliver what we promised to our taxpayers. Correct. And at that point in time, there's x amount left over. Yes. And that's the board's
066decision on what projects to move forward. >> Okay. Great. I just want to understand the how that works. Thank you. >> Dr. We have to be careful. I think it's arbitration at that point. if you earn too much >> goes on a certain amount of years. You have to pay back what they call arbitrage if you don't spend that money within x amount of time. But yeah, we're we're not in jeopardy of that with the escalated timeline. If the timeline got drawn out too far, it' be more of a problem. But since we've been more escalated, that won't be the issue. It would just be the next direction that the board would like to go. But can I follow up on that because I think there is a different difference and I'm just I'm asking
067between the money that we have the bonds we've already you know sold and we have in our savings account and we are you know using to spend on these projects and yes paying interest on and the and the amount you mentioned there are some we still have not gone out for. Right. So that is a little different. >> We've got one more sale left. Yes ma'am. Thank you, Mr. Simk. >> Thank you. >> All right, we're going to move on to our district math curriculum update. I can talk fast, too. Um, it's like it's a race between me and Josh. Um, well, good evening, um, President Egy, Dr. Hawk Rider, members of the board. My name is Jennifer Smith, and I'm the the coordinator for K12 mathematics. And this evening, I'd like to share with
068you about the process that we've used to evaluate and select new instructional materials for K12 mathematics. The presentation um is just basicallyformational and no action will be requested at this time. However, during the June 10th um special board meeting, we'll be requesting approval for the purchase of the selected materials um outlined in tonight's um presentation. So, our goal tonight is to recommend our instructional materials for to you guys um for our adoption and I will go over three main parts. Um the context of the task in in general terms and then also our review process as well as our recommendations. So, the context of our task will be broken up into two parts. Um the first part is about just math instruction and call station ISD as well as what has changed since the last
069time we've adopted textbooks. So, the math instruction CSISD, um, I want to highlight three different parts. The researchbased instructional strategies, sometimes known as RBIS or Arby's, it's not the curly fried restaurant. Um, the first time I ever heard that, that's exactly what I thought. I was like, what are we talking about? Um, also the connection to Deor's four critical questions, the work that our collaborative teams are doing on each of the campuses and their math departments. and then also um sharing with everyone our math vision statement for our district. So let's start with the researchbased instructional strategies. These are brought to us by um the TEA and that was brought about um as we're coming out of COVID in 2021. Um the uh the RBI or Arby's um provided equitable opportunities for all students to
070have access to ongrade level instruction and that's important that all students have access to grade level instruction. um they are the high impact teaching moves backed by research that helps students not just get answers but to understand and apply mathematics and this will help us to be able to reach all of our students. So for mathematics um there are researchbased instructional strategies for English language arts uh reading um but I'll obviously focus it on math. Um so the math researchbased instructional strategies are in four um pillars. the balance of conceptual and procedural understanding, the depth of key concepts, coherence of key concepts as well as productive struggle. So the balance of conceptual and procedural calls on math instruction to include opportunities to represent, discuss, and make connections of mathemat among mathematical ideas in multiple forms.
071The depth of key concepts calls for concentrated time and effort on the most important topics. Coherence of key concepts calls for math learning to build and spiral concepts within and throughout the year, telling a continuous connected story that math isn't just a file cabinet of isolated facts. Um it's really about the connectedness between um the content in the skills that we are learning each of our grade levels as well as across the grade levels. And then the last one may seem bizarre seeing that it says productive struggle. It doesn't mean that we're going to leave kids in the struggle area because, you know, math is not everyone's favorite. Um, my favorite, but it's not everyone's. And this is really calls us to provide opportunities for students to work collaboratively to um solve problems using those
072different representations because may they may all not attack the problems in the same way. And then also helping them to explain what they're thinking through. And so making sure that we're giving multiple different ways to solve the problems that um at our at hands. The next big piece that I want to call out are the the four questions that our collaborative teams, each of our teacher teams are really diving into um as they plan for math instruction. And so the first question is what do we want students to know and be able to do? And we are really focusing in on those essential standards where you know as all good math teachers say every standard is the most important and we need to teach every one of them. and we are teaching all of them,
073but they all don't have equal importance. And so, we have to really dive in and dig in um and work through like what is the most essential piece that we can guarantee that all of our students are going to be able to be successful for um for each grade level. Question two is really about how are we going to know if they've learned it. So, we need to think about the type of assessments that we're using. And assessment doesn't have to always be the ugly yucky word. Um it's like how what is the information? what instructional decisions am I going to make as I respond to that data? And so if we have some sort of formative assessment, little intermittent um assessments throughout our learning units um like once I get that information back, how
074am I going to respond with my group of students? It might be different if I'm in a secondary, first period to second period. Um but we need to make sure we're doing that as well as the summitive assessments um as a full um cycle. Questions three and four kind of go together. And so as we're planning, we need to be prepared to figure out like what are we going to do if our kids are not able to learn it in the the time frame that we have and what kind of systemic timely interventions can we help to support them? But as well as we have kiddos, we have very strong kiddos in mathematics that have already mastered some of the material. And so how are we supporting them in differentiating and extending their understanding of
075mathematics? And so that leads us to this math vision statement. So, back in 2023 during August, um one of our um district PD days, we we talked about in different uh collaborative teams, it's like what do we want our math um courses to be about? What is our math community going to be? And so, taking all their ideas together, we crafted this statement. It says, "We aspire to be a mathematics community where students reason and persevere with confidence, apply mathematics to solve problems, and use models to explore real world situations, equipping them for future academic career and career success." And um as I met with our committee of of teachers that helped make this recommendation that I will share later, it was important to us all that we are really looking for instructional resources or
076materials that can really fulfill all of these things. our researchbased instructional strategies, our um sits really nicely handinhand with the work that we're doing our collaborative teams with our PLC's and then also helping us fulfill this mission statement um not only for kindergarten but all the way through you know pre-calculus. So also there are some things that have changed through this process. So back in 2023, we had House Bill 1605 that was um put into place which um also connected to the high quality instructional materials materials HQIM and also the instructional materials review and approval um otherwise known as EMRA. And you can see like throughout this presentation there's so many acronyms it's it's a little crazy. Um so let's talk about House Bill6005 really quick. It was passed during the 88th Texas Legislature and
077it established a few things. It established an expan expanded process for um the state board of education to approve high-quality instructional materials. It increased the funding for highquality instructional materials. Supported parent transparency with instructional materials, created a clear teacher protection guidelines for planning time, and provided new requirements for the Texas essential knowledge and skills review and revision. what typically has um been the catalyst of determining new instructional materials has been this the change or revision of our our standards, our Texas essential knowledge and skills. At this point um for mathematics, our standards have not changed, but we've exhausted all of our our subscriptions and licenses and all of our um connections to our our current resources. And so we had to take a look at like what resources are available. So with 1605, one of
078the things that I wanted to make sure to tell our committee of teachers is um what is it in a nutshell? And so there's really a lot of pieces. And so what I'm going to highlight are the things that are starred. Um and so just a reiteration about the first one on the top left. It talks about the ex um expanded process for the state board of education to review and approve highquality textbooks and instructional materials that is supported by the TEA and repeals prior law authorizing TEA instructional materials portal and quality review. So the previous processes are different than what we have done now. This next piece really um really talks about that additional funding. So I want you to think about three buckets of money. Um, so it says on top of the
079instructional materials and technology aotment, the IMTA, that is a bucket of money that we've been leveraging for mi for many many years throughout how we're determining um our our resources as well as how we're paying for the resources. And we usually get those in a bienium um rollouts. um with the the House Bill 1605, we also have the opportunity to use a a bucket of money called the state board of education um entitlement funds. Um and those are only can be used for the approved materials and we get $40 per student every single year and that money is able to roll over from year to year to year. Um, we also have access to $20 in addition to the $40 for for our students um if we determine um the blue bonnet materials are where
080the way we want to go. And that $20 provides the printing um the fees for all the printing costs for those state-owned textbooks. So, we could leverage that if that's the road that we go down. Um the third star on the left um it says the state board of education textbook approval no longer is bound to an eight-year cycle. And that's kind of where we've kind of run out of our cycling. Um, and that they're no longer linked to 50% of our TEICS. Now they need to be linked to 100% of our standards. They can go past our standards, but they need to be at least 100%. Uh, the last bullet, uh, excuse me, the last star on the left, um, talks about the publishers must also offer parent portals for instructional materials transparency, so
081parents can take a look at the materials that their students are using. And the one that I want to highlight on the right hand side, the star right in the middle, um many of our teachers did not realize this, um but House Bill 1605 required TEA to develop a state-owned textbook in certain grades and subjects and um they are subject to the approval of the state board of education just like any other textbook and that is otherwise known as the blue bonnet materials. So again, one of our acronyms HQIM. So what makes a high quality instructional material? um as mentioned before 100% of alignment to our standard. That's the minimum piece. Um for these materials, we need to make sure they're suitable and appropriate. And so that's basically um we don't have a big issue
082in mathematics. It's more going to be the things in in the English language arts, the science, and the social studies. Um we also the the materials have gone through a quality review and I'll share about that in a moment. Um so the state board of education has a committee as well made up of stakeholders across the state that could be teachers, parents, um administrators, other um uh folks within the field of mathematics or English and such u for all the different content areas that kind of go through that quality rubric piece. Um the material should not have factual errors and so again that's not necessarily a huge issue in the math world. um we want to make sure that they have physical and electronic specifications uh to meet all the the the requirements for ADA
083and things like that and then again with the parent portal. So again thinking about what makes a high quality instructional material. So the state board of education has a website called the instructional materials review and approval or IMRA is what I call it. Um, and so I just wanted to share like a picture. You may have may be familiar with it, maybe not, but the picture on the left is what the actual website looks like. And so you could go there and take a look at all I call it a little bit of consumer reporting. Um, if you're ever like an Amazon, you could click like what did the other people say? Well, this um if we click the the um it's like the first blue box, dark blue box on the left, um it
084goes to the actual rubrics. And so the picture on the right hand side shows you kind of the makeup of it. So it would give a listing of all of the different um resources that are on the approved list from the state board of education and then each of the columns are all the different elements of that particular EMR rubric and you can see um there there's percentages they all don't have 100% for all the different elements even though they may have been approved by the state board of education. So our review process is the next part. So, we have this bit of a timeline and and and it it got really compacted um this spring, but between November to February is when the state board of education was going through some different approval processes
085to determine what type of math materials were going to be put on the approved list um because they have to make that decision. And and so I was watching closely through all the state board of education meetings and waiting for more options to be put on the list to um narrow it down um for us. Um, you notice something called creme probably throughout the the snake of the timeline. And that stands for the committee. Uh, I'm gonna say it wrong, so I'm gonna go back and look at my little note really quick. Committee for review of instructional materials. And so we had several meetings throughout um the spring. Um, we also had um a day for educator review, a stakeholder review, which is our community review time, and then we had some vendor presentations as
086well. And that kind of leads us to the little locator circle or um the gray circle at the bottom of where we are tonight. So just thinking about the pre-screening the work that I did previously. So we were looking for this is one of the things that were really important to all all of our our teachers is that yes we want to see 100% alignment of TEICSS. We also want to say like how we've interpreted our standards. Um, yes, we see it on the EMRA rubric that they have been a 100% alignment, but we also wanted to look at our own pieces and say, did we have we um agreed? How about that? Uh, and then we also wanted to make sure that we have Spanish resources for our kinder through six dual language program
087and that each of the resources um integrate their researchbased instructional strategies. So the committee for review of instructional materials or otherwise known as creme um all of the the folks that were on the committee were nominated by their their principles and so um the principles uh gave me a nice list of teachers that were really committed into the work that they have been really diving into the different um things uh during their collaborative team times as well as just leaders within their own campus. And so I got to narrow it down. it was hard to do in some some campuses. And so I just wanted to share with within the committee we had teachers that were general education teachers, special education teachers, dual language teachers, as well as if we think about our secondary campuses,
088intermediate, middle, and high school, we had on level teachers as well as advanced course teachers in the in the mix. So our committee was basically about 34 actual teachers. Um, and then also our 16 instructional coaches from kinder through 8th grade were also a part of the committee as well. and they kind of served more as a support person for the different grade level uh groups. So on April the 6th um we had a district PD day and so all of our teachers had an opportunity for half of that PD day to dive into um the digital versions of all the resources that I shared with them. And so, um, one of the things that, um, the CRI, our our bigger committee, um, were able to help it to determine was like what did we
089want to put on that rubric, um, or feedback form for the teachers to kind of give us feedback to kind of narrow down our selections. So, again, the importance of the alignment to our standards. They wanted to look for the balance between the conceptual understanding, procedural fluency. And so, conceptual understanding is like the why, why does math work? And then the procedural pieces are like how are we actually can do the computations the balance between those two uh the multiple ways to represent and solve problems sufficient supports for differentiation they like to see a suite of assessment and data tools to help support them in the work that they're doing with their collaborative teams and they they wanted to think about like what type for me as a teacher what kind of high quality support
090for me as I you know dive into teaching my students but then also ease of use is it cumbersome to use because if it's cumbersome to use they're less likely to use it. Um so during that review um I was able to narrow down um the different um vendors that we were going to to listen to for presentations. And so our teacher committee uh rubric, we were able to kind of narrow it down to connect the the math vision statement for CSISD uh the work that we're doing to se uh support our collaborative teams and align it to the EMRA rubric from the state board of education. And so what they did um they helped me work through this and and so this was what was on our own rubric. So when the teachers, our
091committee, our CRI met with um the the different vendors, um I wanted it not to be a popularity contest. I wanted them to say what is the evidence to show why one particular resource looks better than the other in that um process. And so we had broken up into two parts. We had learning quality and you notice there are three things that was stars. Those had a heavier weight than other things. And and you notice again probably there's lots of connection back to those researchbased instructional strategies. And then the last piece is the lowfloor high ceiling task. We wanted to make sure that we had tasks in our resources that could provide different opportunities that we could provide one task and have different levels of students all be able to access that um task to
092be able to work towards that. Um the second part of that rubric that the team uh worked on um or evaluated is the implementation quality. So you can see a lot of connection really to the work from their collaborative team. So again, how do I fulfill the mission for CSISD or excuse me, the vision and then also what what type of materials are going to support us for our implementation. So they're looking for um supports for formative assessment and the data use differentiation whether it's intervention or extension. Um they really would like to see exemplars of student work as well as teacher guidance like I may have changed a grade level or I might be new to mathematics or I haven't gone through college to be a certified math teacher. I've got maybe gone through
093an alternate programming and I learned about teaching but I haven't learned that third grade math or seventh grade math that sort of thing. So what kind of guidance can that instructional material um provide for me? Also like what's the quality of the assessments? Are there assessment banks and the usability of those again the ease of implementation or the prep burden? They wanted a digital and print access to both types of um ways to get the materials for the teachers as well as students. What type of family supports will there be? um English and Spanish. We know that we have um other languages that are important and some of the resources also had additional pieces, but that was our baseline, our bottom line. Um and then also um classroom language development and dual language for K
094through six like are any of the materials did they have um the language support through mathematics of like cognates, false cognates and things like that for um mathematics. And so going back to um this time my Whoops. I let the cat out of the bag. Oh gosh, I'll get there. I apologize. That's what I was looking for. Okay, so on the 28th, um the vendor presentations happened and we heard from three vendors for each group. Um for um elementary we included fifth grade because that's a part of the fifth um elementary standards. And so we had three uh resources um or vendors that we listen to. We listen to the blue bonnet u materials um vendor. We listen to Savis Envision and then we also listen to Accelerates um learning with STEM scopes math. um
095for secondary what we looked for and that would be grades six through pre-cal. We listened to um their blue vonnet um provider as well as Savis um vision and then um we did Mcgra Hill. McGra Hill only has resources from sixth grade through high school um so the elementary didn't have an opportunity to listen to them. So through that process, um the teachers worked through that rubric after listening to all the presentations and I went to each of the the grade level groups and and so I looked at their information and and they had to come up with a pros and cons list of which ones, you know, what evidence showed um which one had the strongest connections to the what we're looking for. And at that point um they shared with me what they
096would want to recommend to the board. And so as going through all the different um table groups um every one of the table groups except one selected one particular vendor um pre-calculus only had one vendor. It had it's McGra Hill. So that but they listened to it. They they still did their evidence. Um but I shared with the the teachers on the creme is that is important that we had the same vendor for kinder through fourth grade at the minimum because we wouldn't want a different vendor for each of the grade levels. If we could have the same vendor for six and fifth and sixth grade, that would be just fantastic for because they work in the same building. And then if we had the same vendor for five through eight, that would be even
097more fantastic. And then I told them, I said, you know, in high school, since the courses are not necessarily um there is a sequence between all of them, but like if they had different um vendors, that would be okay with some of their high school courses. And so like going through all of them I I was quite they and they didn't like coordinate with anyone from table to table but they were a they shared um their their selections and so our recommendations were this. So kinder through fourth grade, fifth through sixth grade, 7th through 8th grade, algebra 1, geometry and algebra 2 all selected SAVIS and Vision plus Texas Mathematics as their number one recommendation um to be able to bring to you tonight. and then pre-calculus their only selection um it was the only
098choice that they had really um was McGra Hill Texas math and so um that helps us um with our our cost savings as well um so what we are requesting to purchase and again there's no action tonight um that would be more of the the special meeting on June 10th um is that we have two years of access to the digital platform for teachers and students uh two years of student consumable workbooks for K through 4 as well as 5 through eight and that will help us with our printing costs as well. Um a class set of hard textbooks for algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2 and pre-calculus. And then also all the teachers to have a printed edition in conjunction with their um digital piece. And so some of you may be wondering why two
099years. Um so I mentioned earlier that at this point our catalyst of standards changing hasn't happened yet, but we are in need of a resource. Um so in November of 2026 um the ad hoc committee for the state board of education um we'll come back and give a final report to the state board of education to determine like what happens next with our standards. But we need to have a resource in between that can support our teachers in the work that they're doing with our students. So that leads us to next steps and so on June 10th we'll be bringing to you guys um the request for approval for our materials. So that leads me to the end. If you have any questions, >> do you always see that much agreement with all the different
100grade levels or is that kind of >> I honestly was shocked. >> Okay. So kind of neat to see then. >> Yeah. Okay. Yes. Um I went back um and I looked through I I I recalculated today because I just wanted to make sure. Um, so the committee groups, um, they they had, um, SAVIS as their number one recommendation except one particular grade level in elementary. I went back and looked at our April 6 data from all of the teachers that were able to um, give feedback and there was about 72% of our our teacher group um, across the district. And as I went through um, it was it was very similar. Um, high school and middle school was a little bit different from the the the actual teacher group for the committees. Um, but
101Savas was their number two and so out of the the ones that they were they were looking through. So, but I really I was not expecting that. Um, but it it it helps like in working with all the teachers and and delivering PD and supporting them in that way. It does help with them having the baton passes between grade levels and and then also grade levels with the campuses. This says Sabbath and Vision plus Texas Mathematics, but it is it the Texas um stateowned? >> No, that's why you're right. Thank you for asking. Um no, it is not. Um you know, it is not Blue Bonnet. Um it does not have the Blue Bonnet stamp on it. Um but it did go through the same process um as the Blue Bonnet materials. I will say
102this, um, for the our dual language, um, the Spanish version has not been on the approved yet list, the approved state board of education list yet. Um, but what Savis is doing for us is they they will be able they'll basically gift us a a Spanish for every English that we purchase and that would cover us during this two-year gap. Um, but every arrow is pointing to that the the Spanish version for K6 will be on the approved list um, starting next year once they go through that final process. Their English and Spanish versions of their reading product has already been approved. And so it truly is just the translation portion of that. And so we are expecting that it to go um um to go through. So to follow, it's not the blue bonnet,
103but it is state board of education approved, which means from the money. >> Yes. >> Piece. Yes. >> The $40. >> So let me go back to this slide. Sorry for the So that second um star on the left hand side where it says um uh choose we have $40 per student to use with a state board approved material. the Savis and the McGraw Hill are both on that approved list >> and then sorry I'm keep at the discussion. So my next thought is then how close does that get to paying for >> this? >> Oh it >> does the $40 per student clearly will pay for it? >> Yes. >> We actually started getting that money a year ago I believe or and and that money rolls over for year to year and so
104we had a pot of savings honestly um at this point and so and talking with Dr. Dr. Hawk Rider, we didn't want to go more than two years at this point just because not knowing what's going to happen with that final report with the state board of education and the ad hoc committee and so but we needed a resource to support our teachers and our students. Now, >> thanks. >> I'm just a little surprised your mission statement only has English. It doesn't have any numbers in it whatsoever. I'm just I don't know if Miss Parks and Mr. Hogan have pointed that out to you or not. Well, I can >> I'm sure we can probably add some in there. >> All right. >> I can just appreciate that um this process was done with teacher,
105you know, the teachers that are going to be impacted that are in our classrooms, you know, they're getting to look at this. They're getting to help make that decision. So, I mean, for us here who are not all experts in that particular field, that's that's what we need to hear. So, thank you for walking us through that. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Great job. >> Okay. Our last workshop session is going to be the discussion of the 2627 general fund budget. Miss Wilson. Good evening, Miss Eigy. Dr. Hark Rider, board of trustees. Uh we're going to discuss a little bit about the budget. Of course, we've seen this before. We're going to talk about the current budget, where we are right now. We're going to look at those enrollment trends real quick. I know you've
106seen them before. We're going to look at the estimated 2627 budget along with some of the assumptions that were utilized when we built it. Uh, of course, one topic that's always out there is fund balance. So, we'll look at that one more time and then talk about the compensation plan. Okay. So, the current budget, this is kind what what it kind of looks like. Uh, we budgeted 157 million right now. We've collected year-to- date 154 million.5 if you want to be technical. Um, if you look there at the min me minimum foundation state funding, it looks like we're overbudget about three million 3.6 that we've overcolcted. We've actually I kind of brought that out before. We get another $3 million payment in the month of May. So, it looks like about 6.6. However, that's an
107overpayment and every bit of that going to go back to the state. So, what you're looking at on the budget is actually what we're going to receive. So, don't get kind of off on what you're seeing on the far right hand side. Everything else is trending really well. Uh, here are our expenditures for the year. You can kind of look, we budgeted 156.3 million. We've expensed to date 79.63% total of our budget. Um, and we have 31 million left to spend. I like to look at it like this because of the fact that you break it out with that like I said several times. That $130 million budget number there is 83.4% of our budget. So, you really kind of want to take a look at that one and monitor that one. However, like I'll
108say it before, I'll say it again. We have a huge payment come out that comes out of that in the summer that gets rebooked to these uh financials and that is our TIA payment teacher incentive aotment money uh because it was earned in this school year we have to book it out of this school year. So even though we don't pay that until August it will come against these numbers and so that number does not reflect that when you look at our estimates. So you're looking at access. So our estimate actual revenue looks like it's going to come in about 158 million and our expenditures are going to fall around 152 million. The estimated fund change could be as high as 5.8. I think that's the highest we'll see but we could see a higher
109number. I mean not a higher number but a little bit around that number. I want you to point out the one-time increase to fund balance is 4.8 million. That is made up of two different things. That's made up of that additional revenue received back for re-evaluating taxes back in 24 232 24 and we got over a $2.4 million payment there that's in that number as well as the hell claim. When you look at the hell claim, please keep in mind that that uh those dollars are actually committed in our fund balance. So when we look at fund balance a little bit later, I can show you kind of where they're sitting ready to make those roof uh repairs. Um there are a lot of things that can affect our financial statements and these are just
110a few things that you can see. Um I had to recently turn in a report to TEA and we had to turn in square footage of buildings and everything else. And we have over $2.6 million I mean million square feet that we um we keep we clean, we we keep up to date, we heat, we cool. uh over 5300 acres 5300 acres of land that we um we water. And so when you take those things into account um if we have a gas leak, if we have a water leak, if we have anything like that, those are going to affect our numbers. Um, another thing that when you're looking at this Ashars repayment, you know, we booked that for 750,000 in Ashar's repayment that's sitting out there and that's not in that number that you
111see there. If we have to make that payment, you're going to see a decrease there. Uh, we start we're going to start the roof projects a little bit early. That was in the budget amendment. If that's a half million, that's going to affect that number and we're not going to see as much revenue. uh if the teacher incentive aotment comes in a little higher that'll affect that number. The other things that you don't see but their bookings at the end of the year is something called a payroll acral. And so what happens if we give a raise tonight we're going to have to take two months of our teacher salaries and we're going to have to pay them out of the higher rate and charge it back. And so you you've got to kind of
112keep those things in mind as well. Um, and the other things that you'll have to look at is like um your sabidas and your capital leases. Those are just gasby bookings that we do in the month of June when we close out our books. Um, I'm working with the accounting department to see if they can get those to us earlier so we'll have a clear understanding what that is in the month of June. But those are major journal entries they do just to close out the books each year. Um, and it's basically they call it a right to use a subscription. And so they're making us capitalize just a subscription we would pay on a yearly basis. Another thing is our leases are like our copier leases. They're actual leases. However, because we hold them
113for five years, they want us to put them on our books and capitalize those. And so that's what you're kind of seeing those big hits to capital outlay. That's not that we're spending capital outlay out of the general fund. Those are those big booking entries that come at the end of the school year. And so those are some of the things that can affect the numbers as well right there at the end. >> Quick question on that one. I just want to clarify if is the 4.8 million part of the 5.8. Yeah. Right. Just to be clear, right? Yes. So, >> but I just kind of want us to keep having a set aside for connection. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. So, the enrollment trends, we've kind of looked at this before. I did put
114the estimated in there. So we had 13892 at snapshot. I estimate about 13686 at snapshot this year. That's a little over a decrease of 200. That's a lot of that is attributed just from those bigger class sizes graduating and some younger smaller class sizes coming in. I am estimating that our kinder will be a little higher than it is this current year because I'm I'm estimating that we'll kind of see a little bit of those 1263 right there at 1,263 birth rates. When you look at historical and moving forward numbers, you've just got to keep in mind when you see it kind of start tearing off, we're hitting some of these 1,163 1,179. We've got some lower birth rates coming up. So, you can kind of see where they might move a little faster than
115we're kind of looking at right now. Um estimate estimated budget and adjustments. Of course, we've talked about the board budget priorities multiple times. Those are things that you guys have established over this school year. Um, and then last month we talked about the budget advisory committee and I'm really proud of the work that you all have done as well as the budget advisory has done to come up with the committee recommendations. And even though we don't have to make as hard of decisions of some of the things that we've seen, we're ready to make those decisions. We're at a good place and we're staying very mindful of where we are in the process. And so I feel like we've done the work u we've done the work through building um staffing models. We've done the
116work through right now with the new software doing the position control doing it onetoone position so that we know every position in the district. Um we've done all of the hard work I feel now that anything like if the enrollment continues to decline or things like that we're ready to make those decisions. We've done the work. We again we know our data and we know what we're looking at. Some of the other things they talked about, of course, is just the staffing reductions. In a little bit, I'll show you kind of what that means. But we are making those decisions. Every time a position is open, we're taking a hard look at that to make sure that's not something that we can reduce. Um, a little bit later, I'm going to show you about the
117substitutes and bus numbers and just show you a little bit where we're off and the fill rates that we're currently experienc. And then, of course, you've heard the other things as well. Um, we have looked at class sizes for middle schools, high schools, intermediates, and elementary class sizes. We have built a allocated budget per student for all of our campuses. We've done the zerobased budget for our departments. And we're kind of pretty much lean and mean right now. And then we evaluate the other positions. I was asked last month to kind of give you some detail on what those cuts look like. None of these are based on raising the class sizes. is where we've lost enrollment. We've reduced the the the teachers to the students that we're serving. And so you can kind of
118look through that data. Uh you'll have this information, but so I don't want to really read through it, but you have it here on what it means. The one thing I do want to point out because Forest Ridge and Greens Prairie, we do have additional teachers going there. Any place in our district when we look at growth, those are our two little uh elementary schools that seem to grow a little bit more than the others. We're keeping a watch on that through registration. However, we've covered their needs as of right now and we feel like we're in a good place, but it's not something that we're not going to be paying attention to. Um, Oakwood, this is our intermediate adjustments that we have. Uh, you'll see Cypress Grove Intermediate, we're holding there. We could have
119reduced some of the staff there, but we didn't feel that was great for the makeup of the classrooms when you start looking at how many special education kids are with the regular kids and things like that. So we felt like we needed uh to keep the teachers where they were and so we held at that campus and then you can see the rest for PCON trail. They're a little bit higher in enrollment coming into this next year. Uh secondary staffing very little is done there. We've been doing this over the last few years. You can just see basically a reduction of ELA a E ele at Welburn and College Station High School, a math teacher. And then you can kind of see a reduction of an intern position at College View High School. And then
120we have the additions of course with opening the career center um this next school year. When you look at revenue, if you have some questions about that, I've taken into consideration that we will have those students next year. And so where we would have a huge cut because of the loss of the 200 students, some of that is offset by offen offering those additional classes for those kids. Uh special education reductions. I know you heard from Miss Grande last budget uh board meeting and she talked about the special education coaches being repurposed to the class uh to the classrooms and then reducing those R facilitators. And of course I've already of course I have already touched on the all the um district positions and then looking at that. Can >> can I ask just Dr.
121Hark Rider on the the reductions we're handling those through attrition and reassignment. Correct. >> Yes. Okay. >> Thank you for bringing that up. The non-payroll adjustments, these are increases in the total budget, but our total non-payroll budget only increased overall by about $83,000. Okay, so these are some huge increases, but we've offset them in other places. So there's about 70,000 increase in in custodial budget. That's really just for the additional classrooms that we're having to clean as well as that career center. Another thing that's in that number that we're run wanting to do is bring in um something that we've been paying out of the bond program that we feel like really needs to be attributed to the general fund is redoing our floors, our gym floors over the summer. So, we've moved that money
122into the general fund. So, you can see it reflected there. 40,000 that's where we're looking at those athletic trainers and so we're going to kind of do some contracted services to try to get through and make sure that we're taking care of all of their needs. There's about 37,900 more for fine arts. I felt like I was a little too tight on the allocation for band and so I increase the per student for band going into this school year. In addition, we have some needs for contracted services for choir to make sure that they're taken care of and those numbers are reflected in these as well. 157,000. Most of that is probably a non-funded mandate where they're requiring us to bring more security for events when we have larger crowds. So, that's a portion of
123that is covered there. The other portion of that is really when you look at just our security officers and the races they'll receive, we have to make sure that's covered within our budget. And so, that's the other piece of that number. When you look and compare security from one year over to another, that's one of the savings that you're seeing reflected in fund balance this year is because we had a grant that we could move some of those cost over, spend that grant down, and then take those funds and then you're seeing that go back to fund balance. But with this next year, we don't have those that grant at this time. And so we're going to assume all of those costs within the next fund cycle. Uh there's $230,000 increase in human resources that's
124um reflected in a new software program for TIA so that we can make sure that we're tracking appropriately and returning in correct information to to tea. Um so we're excited about that. And the other is the RISE program. So we're nearly doubling our RISE program going into the next school year. You're going to see some cost here, but you'll see some savings on the other side as well. uh 41,000 that's just an estimated increase in the budget that we pay Brasses County for the appraisal district. Uh and then 160,000 we're going to pretty well come in this year flat on utilities. We're going to be right there. Um might be 50,000 short, might be around 50,000 under, but we're kind of monitoring it. We're closer than I like to be. uh but we're going to
125have to increase just for those additional spaces and pay for the utilities for um the career center. So where did we come up with some savings? There was um when we were when I received the budgets what some of the things that we used to do here in the school district is each department would budget for legal services and then they would budget for the worst case in their legal services. And so what that happens when that happens and you and you say, "Oh, we have this much turned into fund balance that we didn't spend." A lot of that is because if you have 250 over here, 250 over here, and 250 over here, but we spent 300,000 total, then we don't we have a we're kind of overbudgeted. So, what I did this last
126year going into this year is gathered up all of that and we have one legal account. Uh, another thing we have is one insurance account. We don't have insurance in every department. We have one account and then we try to keep other things down. Like for example, uh one of the budgets that were submitted with one of the departments was submitted at a $1.7 million up a million dollars from the previous year. But in the budget when I started looking at it, they budgeted for worst case in every possible way. So what we kind of do with those contingencies is hold back some money for contingencies in case we have something come up. we have money to be able to cover those expenses versus budget it in multiple places. With all of that going on,
127we are really tightening up our budgets, if that makes sense. So, where we would say, oh, we're going to roll this much into fund balance or this, we're trying to make sure that we've got a good number and we're tightening it as much as we possibly can. Yes, we still have contingency set aside. We have contingency set aside unless there's like a software program that comes up in the middle of the year that we need to fund um our teacher incentive not teacher incent um attendance incentive program that we do I set money aside in contingencies so when those campuses get the award I have money to give back to those campuses so like when you see for example $70,000 in campus allocations that was really a $40,000 decrease but 30,000 of that is really
128just that intendance incentive money that we're able to give back to campuses. So, we have that money set aside for them. Uh we went with a new software conversion this year. So, you have upfront costs the first year. You go live with one and then you reduce those costs. And those are some of the savings that you see here. And then because we were tightening up so much this current school year, um I was able to release some contingencies because I feel comfortable that we're going to cover everything. Uh, and so I was able to release about 330,000 in contingencies. And then there's some other small programs that we're kind of tightening up that make up about 103. So, um, these are some of the decreases that make up to kind of offset those increases.
129Again, total non-payroll cost increases about a little over 80,000. All of the budgets are in for nonpayroll. They're actually in our new Muna system and ready to go. we're ready to start doing our payroll piece. Um, I just wanted to bring this up to you because you might have some questions. Uh, of course, we won't adopt our tax rate next month when we adopt our budget. We'll adopt our tax rate in August. But I wanted you to have an idea of where things were looking. So, our current tax rate is 6963. Our estimated increase for preliminary value right now is a 6% increase. Okay. of that 6% increase, 8.6 billion is in ARB reviews. That's more than half of our total taxable value. And so you can kind of see why I would be a
130little conservative. Um, but if you look at the next one, the numbers that we currently have built in the budget is with a 3.9% increase in value. If we see a 3.9% increase in value, you can kind of see the tax rate. And guess what, guys? I got those flipped. Uh the 6%, you see, if we get a 6% increase, we see the 6759. If we get a 3.9, our tax rate will only go down to 6878. That makes sense. Now, that's just your compressed tax rate. That your MCR is your maximum compressed tax rate that's set by TEA. And then of course the golden pennies that we have approved. Now you might think we have no more money and I know you get tired of the cup slide but basically we'll adopt a a
131budget based on a 3.9. We don't get our certified values until after our budget is adopted. We don't get those until July. Once we get our certified values, that's when I turn it into TEA for them to set our tax rate. So we're going to post in the budget the more conservative one. So, we're going to post in the paper that we're looking at the 3.9% increase versus the 6%. As long as we post the higher rate, then if it's lower, we're okay. We don't have to repost. Does that make sense? Okay. But it doesn't mean we get more money if we get a 6% increase in value versus a 3.9. It does benefit us on the debt service side because we don't have recapture there or we don't have to offset that with state
132revenue. you would post the 6%. >> I will post the 3.9 estimated >> okay >> for the budget >> because it's not a certified number yet. >> Okay. >> And just to note, both of those are tax rates that go down for >> Yes. Yes. Yeah. >> Yes. >> And we won't be going up on our debt side either. Odds are we'll be decreasing a little bit there. Uh so when you look at current revenue here you have when you look at our current budget it we have a change in fund balance of 1.2 million. You roll everything forward we have a deficit budget of 2.5. Do I feel if we have 1% of our payroll remaining could we cover that? Yes we could cover about 2 million. Does that make sense? So when when
133that's another thing that that is a little bit different. Okay. So because for example this year this year we're short on sub money we're under budget on sub money and we're under budget on extra duty pay. We're o overbudget on health insurance. Those are things that fluctuate based on the year. And so even though you have to plan for those things, you won't know those until you get into the year. You also won't know about unfilled positions. And so you kind of got to estimate that you're going to cover 100% of your subs. You want to estimate that you cover 100% of your extra duty pay. You want to estimate that you cover 100% of your health insurance. So if you estimate that and you're 1% off, that makes a huge number when you're talking
134$130 million. Does that make sense? And so that's just what I want to point out. Um 1% of 26 million and that's our non-payroll cost. I mean that's still a big number, but that's extremely tight. Does that if that makes sense because you're talking utilities. Mr. Sim could have a gas link and it could cost me that 1%. U put putting the numbers together. So this is kind of what you look at here with those decreases in those positions just because of the loss in enrollment. You see that 622,000 and that's the net of all of the positions. So we're looking at about $155 million budget without taking into account any raises. And so you get to the 152 for the estimated revenue. So that's where I got the 2.5 um budget. We're going to
135look at all of these things going forward. Uh we're going to continue to look at the compensation expectations. We'll continue to look at the staff ratios. I know it's big on your minds about the fund balance. Uh we're going to continue to look at equity between inefficiencies in our departments. We hope we don't have to go to class size, but that could be something that we could look forward and those are decisions we'll have to make in the future. And then we're going to look at every way possible that we can kind of you utilize anything that TEA is throwing out to generate revenue. And those are even meetings that they're having across the state just of different programs that they're having. How could we utilize their programs to help us generate revenue? Um, fund
136balance. This is something that we talk about all the time. We need three months operating expenditures. Of course, that just means you have a baseline fund balance. Please don't make make sure you don't think that's a healthy fund balance. That is the fund balance you need just because we have to have cash to operate. However, we have an unassigned found balance of 40 million. I have committed things that I know that we need to commit, including the roof repairs and other things. So, I feel extremely comfortable with the 40 million. And then, please remember, we're going to add to that number this school year when we close the budget. So, those are things you want to keep in mind. >> We're going to add 1.2, right? We're going to add 1.2. >> We're going to
137add more than that because we have those onetime cost. If you think about like when you go back to that, the 1.2 2 is a budget, but when we close out the year, it's going to be higher than that because the onetime cost alone that we're going to put into fund balance is over 4.8 depending on the >> I thought that was how much we pay for SHs or how much we pay for roof projects. >> I thought a lot that was dedicated. That's not going to be the unassign in sorry unassigned. >> That's already committed. I committed it right when we put the revenue into the budget. Does that make sense? So when we that number is already reflected. Do you see right there 2025 it went heard 3.9 to 16 million. I committed
138our fiscal year change and I committed our um I committed our fiscal year change. I committed the roof project and I committed anything that we knew that was coming up. So when you look at the unassigned that is a solid number. That's a number that you can look at. In addition, you'll have that over probably close to five million roll into that number and increase it this year. Those are the onetime costs for the re-evaluation two years ago that we got $2.4 million on. We got money for our roof projects. That'll add to the unassigned column be. It's already committed. I safeguarded. That's what I I was just trying to make sure that we didn't spend something. Does that make sense? I was just trying to make sure we set that money aside because we
139were going to have to utilize that money for roof projects and it couldn't be daytoday operations. Does that make Okay. So, when you look at this, you can kind of look at laying out a threemonth budget. If you look at the plan, the first plan I brought last month is 39.95 is what the required fund balance would be. And then 75 75 days cash on hand. So when you look at first ratings and things like that, they they do a lot of recommendations on cash on hand, that's just because we have to have money available to make budgets and make payrolls and things like that till we get reimbured for fed funds and other other u revenue that we haven't received at the beginning of the school year. Uh then if you do the 2%
140and the 3% and have a $4.8 $8 million deficit. When you look at a three months of that new expenditure budget, it's 39 million still underneath the current unassigned fund balance. Um, some of the proposed compensation plans. Of course, I always want to bring to mind what we look like when we compare our pure district and even our close districts that are close by. It's like Brian ISD. Um, so here is just a relook at that that I brought last month. Uh, another thing is just the substitute pay rate. Uh, what we would recommend if you would look at short-term and possibly increasing that $15 for our shortterm pay for our subs, that would be for your non-deree, degreed, and degreed certified. That would get us in line with Brian. Um, and then make sure
141that we're kind of closing the gap there. We feel like we are pretty good on the long-term subs. Just wanted to bring this to you as well because you remember we have like 22 unfilled transportation positions and so you can kind of see how we rank most comparably to Brian ISD because they're close um to us for those positions. So this is what I brought to you last month. There was just one tweak in it when I took out one to two for House Bill additional pay and left the four to five. I know there's been some questions about that. What does that mean? If you look at the information that I submitted to you guys, you can look at the different pay plans and you can look there where we walk from four to
142five. I had to give those teachers at least a $5,000 increase. We only gave them 2500 last year. So I have to make them hold this year. So when they walk into that, we have to make sure that they have at least $2,500. And so that's because the different pay plans. If we adopt a pay plan for a teacher with a $650 raise, I've got to make up the difference. And that's the House Bill um three adjustments there. Okay. The reason why it goes down is if you get a higher raise, then you're making up a less to make that hole. Um this is the other one that I was asked to kind of pull some information. What if we gave a 3% of midpoint um for our administrators and then 3% for our teachers?
143That would be a $1,900 raise for our teachers and then those were the numbers you would be looking at. So, what questions do you have for Dr. Hark Rider or myself? >> The salary piece is also an action item on the compensation. So, we can discuss now, but we can have a longer discussion later on if you'd like to. We can answer any questions now. give you some time to think. >> Can you go back to the one that kind of summarizes what our fund balance will look like after um with the different options? >> Okay. And then on these different offerings, I don't have the 3%, but I do have the one and the two and the two and the 3%. >> And if you remember, it's 2.5 million plus the costs. And that
144last one, I think, was 3.8. I just want to be sure that I'm understanding the slide well. I I think I do. But you're showing us with the one and 2% and the two and 3% um where we would be with our fund balance with that deficit budget and you're saying to us that it is still what we need is still under what we would have. Does that make is what we need is under what we have currently have. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. I just want to be sure. >> And then just the changes there, it's because our policy reads three months of expenditure budget basically. And so as our expenditure budget increases, so will our requirement for three months. But in both cases, we're we're okay there. >> The the number we need is
14537.9. Correct. >> That's the minimum. That's the three month >> 41 million right there. 41551. We don't want to go lower than a fund balance of 41,951. >> And you're saying at the three-month operating fund balance, we'd be at 39095. >> Yes. So, it's under what we're required to have. >> Does that make sense? >> Yes. But how does that work? >> So, it's not what you It is not a good position to be in. >> No. No. Okay. Okay. I'm Yes. I'm I'm tongue ti I'm tongue tying. Okay. So we have unassigned and assigned which is in our board policy 41551. Okay. They said you you want three months of fund balance. And so that would be 41551 is how much fund balance we have. We're only required to have 3905 if you do
146the first one. 39 342 if you do the second one. Does that make better sense? Because >> 39 is not what we would have. It's what we need to have. what we need to have. So, we're under the mark. Yes. >> Yes. Okay. Yes. Great. I was like, well, we probably should talk about that. All right. Thank you. >> And was it the same? I know you don't have it up there. Was it the same for the 3%. >> The 3% is a little higher. So, if you want to go back to these numbers, you can kind of see the difference here. And so, it goes from 2.3 to 3.1. We're still under, but we're just a little closer. Okay. >> Can you you mentioned that um you know the state started talking right? They've
147been having some committee hearing meetings um interim committee. Uh have you heard any any positives about extra additional funding coming out in the next legis session? >> Yeah, I can speak to a TASA legislative committee I'm on. We had a meeting yesterday uh and the word right now out of Austin is they expect this to be very little discussion at all on K through2 education this session that the legislators do not have an appetite to discuss anything with us including changing STAR additional funding they're not going to touch the uh basic aotment and so the issue now is TRS is going to become potentially a larger issue than TASA had expected and they said we could potentially look at having us to contribute more to TRS than we currently are, which is more money out
148of our pockets. So, it's not setting up with all the chatter behind the scenes well at all. Be more of a defensive session for public ed versus an offensive session. And I think that will probably be a common trend for the next several years. We don't really have anything to negotiate with or against since vouchers are in play now. So, it puts us in a bad position. >> Yeah. I I think I mean that's the news I've heard too. And to me that's the one of the things that um makes me so wary about even getting close to um the amount of money that we have, you know, that we need for our fund balance because the horizon does not look good at all. in terms of any additional money from the state. And then
149we pair that with the enrollment predictions that we have. And you know, it it it looks kind of grim. I mean, the now we're talking potentially 200 less students next year, which I mean, you've you've accounted for that in there, right? Yes, ma'am. Right. But um as that progresses to the next year potentially it becomes a point where we can and we have you know we can adjust the staffing ratios in the classroom to match those those enrollment numbers going down. But we still have a a whole slew of fixed cost between our facilities but also just between you know admin at campuses managing campuses. So um it's it's the similar debate every year whether you know we've got to support the teachers we have but you know we have to watch and plan for
150our financial stability moving forward and some years are worse than other and this one does not look very promising. So I am very wary of um going I mean me personally I'm looking at the the middle the B option is is the most I would feel comfortable doing just because of so many so many unknowns moving moving forward. So that's where I am. >> Okay. All right. Well >> we are going to have an action item on this. We can have more discussion um before that um for 100%. But um I think for right now unless we have just a real specific question um would it be all right to table that until we get to our next meeting at that action item. >> Thank you, Miss Wilson. >> Um and that is going to
151bring us to item E, adjourn.