001All right, good evening everyone. Um, I'm going to call this meeting to order at 7 o'clock. Declaration of a quorum. We have seven members present. And that's going to move us to our recognitions. We welcome our students from Creek View and Spring Creek. How's it going? My name is Mike McKver. I'm the principal at Creek View Elementary. And I've got two wonderful fourth graders that are going to introduce themselves as we get ready for the pledges. >> Hi, my name is Kennedy Mason. My favorite subject is math. And what I love about Creek View is all the sweet teachers. And when I grow up, I want to be an author. Hello, my name is Rosio. My favorite subject is math. My favorite thing about Creek View is lunch and whenever I grow up, I want
002to be a teacher. >> My name is Melanie Young. I'm the assistant principal at Spring Creek Elementary and I have two awesome fourth graders to introduce today. Hi, my name is Lauraai Kennedy and my favorite part about Spring Creek is that Spring Creek is a very exciting place and the teachers make everything you learn so fun and enjoyable. Not only are the teachers kind, but they are also welcoming and make me want to never miss a day. Hi, my name is Micah Camp and I'm in fourth grade at Spring Creek Elementary. What I love about Spring Creek is that the teachers are caring and they make learning fun. I also love the events we did like the field day and glow run and I'm also in the fourth grade student council. I really love Spring
003Creek. >> Good job, guys. Okay, we're going to lead you guys in the pledges and moment of silence. You guys can come over here. You ready? >> Okay, >> audience, please rise. Salute the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Now the Texas flag. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. >> Please stay standing for the moment of silence. >> You may be seated. Like a bone to go. for being here. >> What? >> Oh, okay. Okay. And then Spring Creek today would like to recognize our front office staff. So, if you will come up here, please. I
004know y'all are so excited about this. These ladies um help our school run every single day. They are the first face that you see when you walk in. The last one that I see when I walk out and um we have another person that's supposed to be here um one of our secretaries who's been on maternity leave. Um and so she wanted to stay home with her baby tonight, which we all understand. Um, but everybody has filled in gaps when there's gaps and um, we have laughed together, we have cried together and it has been a roller coaster of a year that I just can't imagine doing alongside anyone else. So, thank you guys. All right. And when when we got to select ours, we decided to select our early childhood team. So, if you
005are here, come on up. Come on up. >> So, here we have the who that are with us. We have Julie Hamilton, Becky Culvin, Jess Pace, and Deborah Morabu. And um also in our early childhood team, we have Jaden Su, Jodi Easterling, our family facilitator, and Robera McMurray. Um and when I think about what makes Creek View such a special place, it's this team right here. Um we've got around any given day. Come on in. Come on in, Robera. Come on in. Come on in. Here we go. You're great. You're great. And um on any given day, we've got anywhere from 50 to 60 three and four-year-olds running around just bringing life to um our campus. And um that's the first thing you see in the morning. They're at the at the doors at 7:20
006greeting all the kids. And it's like the the best welcome to see just the joy that these kids have for the day. And it's just because of the experiences that these ladies get to bring um forward. whether it's ooey gooey day, we're playing with shaving cream, the mud day. Um they have lots of fun. They also learn lots um they're learning about freight trains today and different colors and just the kids the engagement. Not only are they learning that, but they're learning how to how to be great people um and how to resolve conflict and how to um just exist with 20 other little ones running around. Um, and so it's just it's just a joy to get to to see the work that you guys do um and the energy that you bring every
007day because I don't know how you do it. And so I'm I'm thankful um just for the for the effort that you guys do. So thank you. >> You're good. I got my eyebrow. >> All right, we're going to continue the recognitions portion of our meeting. So, President Eigy and members of the board tonight, we are always proud and privileged to be able to recognize student groups who compete and achieve great accomplishments at the state or national levels. Tonight, we have three student groups. The first being our high school wrestlers. Tonight, we're proud to recognize a group of student athletes who competed at the highest level in the Texas in Texas high school wrestling. Last month, eight wrestlers from College Station ISD qualified and competed in the 2026 UIL state wrestling tournament in Cypress. An
008accomplishment that represents months and really years of discipline, resilience, and hard work. To reach the state tournament, wrestlers must first place in the top four of the district contest and then the regional meet, competing against the best athletes from schools across the district and region. Tonight, we have several of our competitors here with us. We're going to start with our wrestlers who competed in the 5A competition on the girls side of the bracket from College Station High School, Nadia Alzando. NADIA placed fifth overall in the state in the 5A class in the 130 lb weight class. Also from College Station High School, Audacious Burns. And then our last girl competitor from College Station High School, Daniela Calderon. And on from&m Consolidated High School, girls, Turquoise Heisen Greb. Also from&m Consolidated High School, Alexis Chapa. And
009on the boy side of the bracket, we have John Humphre. John placed fifth overall in the 165 lb weight class and is a returning state medalist after finishing sixth last year. From College Station High School, Fabian Cruz. And from&m Consolidated High School, Canunu Mendoza, College Station High School Coach Jason D'vores and Morgan Landrith and&m Consolidated Coach Grant Uker. Stay there. >> Come back. Come back, >> coach. Hold that smile. >> All right. Congratulations, guys. Our next student group to recognize is our swim team from&M Consolidated High School. The boy the boys and girls swim and dive teams from&M Consolidated High School recently competed at the 2026 UIL state swim meet in Austin after the team earned the region 65A championship. At the state meet, the Tiger boys made history, earning the program's first ever state
010title with a combined seven medals with individual and state individual state titles in the 200 medley relay, which set a new school record and set the second fastest time in 5A history in the state. And yeah, give him a hand. also earned a state title in the 100 freestyle. Several of the Tiger boys race times qualified them for considerations for the national all-American qualifying times. The Tiger girls finished 10th overall in the state with standout performance from junior Brooklyn pool bringing home an individual state title in the 200 medley and a silver medal in the 100 breast stroke. Students, as I call your name, if you will come up and receive your certificate and be recognized by the board. First, we'll start with our state championship. State champions, the boys team with Ethan Jen, Jaden
011Quac, Logan Quac, Colobby Martin, >> Neil Pang, Cooper Pogue, Nate Sherard, and Edward Yang. The girls team B. Bickham, Cornin Hamilton, Helen Hunziker, Ariana Larson, Chloe Melains, Brooklyn Pool, Juliet Quav, Kelsey Resm, Musen, and their coaches, Marcy Kirk and Dusty C. All right, here we go. All right, congratulations guys. And last, we are proud to recognize a group of exceptional students from both College Station uh high school and&m Consolidated High Schools who recently represented CSISD at the Texas Association of Future Educators State competition. These students are part of the Ready Set Teach program, a pathway for future educators that allows them to gain hands-on experience and develop skills needed to inspire the next generation. Competing at the state level is a remarkable accomplishment. And our students showcased their creativity, dedication, and passion for education at
012the state level. So students, as I call your name, if you'll come receive your certificates from Dr. Hark Rider and allow the board to recognize you. We'll start with our students who earned gold medals first place at the state competition. We'll start with Michaela Suz from College Station High School teacher created materials. Paige Newer and JC Oer from&M Consolidated High School interactive bulletin board. These are national qualifying students. And our silver medalist, Andrea Diaz from&M Consolidated High School. And our bronze medalist, Nadia Alzando, College Station High School. Chloe Blanco&M Consolidated High School. Reagan Hodgeges & Consolidated High School and Jelly Gentry from&M Consolidated High School. And let's give these future educators one more round of applause. I think Tiffany Thorne, their adviser, I think, is here. Tiffany, you want to come up? Give Tiffany a
013round of applause. All right. Congratulations, girls. You're going to have a seat. And that will conclude the student recognitions portion. Okay, while we're kind of shifting here, I want to also recognize the artwork at the back of the boardroom is also from our Creek View Elementary and Spring Creek Elementary students. So, be sure and take a look at that as you can tonight. Um, that's going to move us to item D1, which is board reports. What do we have board? >> I'll report for Shaq. We've met uh twice since our last board meeting. Once in person. Uh at that meeting, Miss Hester shared with us about the work in the district of our nurses and counseling services. Uh we met a second time virtually to finalize the shack annual report which the board of trustees
014will see uh at our April meeting. >> Yes, I'll go next. Um the budget committee met back in February 19th right after our last meet our last board meeting and as we discussed briefly in in workshop, we the group that was there spent some time looking at some potential ways to maybe um try to save some money on our budget uh for the for the next school year. And so had some little table discussions and and each table kind of came up with u some of their priorities out of that list. And I think as Miss Wilson said, the committee, we're going to meet again and hopefully get um if you're on that committee, show up next week and so we can have everybody's input on that and and then the committee will bring kind
015of the summary of what what came out of that meeting to our April our April board meeting. >> Um I can report the community advisory committee met. um they've collectively we've kind of decided on how do we support teachers that's kind of the theme um and they talked about the survey results and um they compared how the committee answered the survey versus how the teachers and the overlap um they um asked the question what makes teachers come to CSISD and it was great we actually have a lot of teachers in there and um the teachers um said one of the reasons some of them like to come here they said community support central office support um the training and they feel like they're not micromanaged here. So, it was great to get some perspective back
016from the teachers, but um like I said, overwhelming. We were just trying to figure out how we can support teachers best in our district. So, I went to the intergovernmental committee yesterday and um they the presentation that we heard was about&m's cesa centennial. We learned how to say that word. um the 150th anniversary of ADOM is going to be coming up and so they kind of talked about all the different community of and campus events they were going to have maybe even potentially some that some students from our own district might get to participate in. So be looking for that as they roll that out this summer. Um teacher advisory council has not met since the last board meeting but we are actually meeting this week. So we'll hear about that next month. Education Foundation.
017Um they have had a record amount of scholarships applied for this year, 273. Um ceremony is in May. And then they will also be participating in the second annual um Brazis Valley Youth uh livestock show freezer sale for those who didn't um make the premium. So make sure to support that on March 28th. Um Darren Payne and I attended DIC together on March 4th. Well, I say we got like the the first part of it because we had to run to another board meeting, but we got first a presentation about a a neat pilot that was done this year called a parent family engagement pilot program. And it was it was um conducted at our our title one schools and it really seemed like it was very positive uh way where they where the teachers
018were meeting one with parents, groups of parents and helping you know share uh some of the the learning and the learning techniques so the parents and families could could take that home. And I thought that was a that was a neat program and I think going to continue to expand that moving forward is what I I got out of that. Um also then move talked about the district improvement plan some of which we will uh the goals that we have to approve later but also there is a form out there for our DEIC um committee members to still provide feedback on all the details of the plan for the district plan I think till the end of March. It's an open Google form. So they can collect that feedback from the their campuses and then
019feed it through DIC through that Google form and I think then it'll roll up to us in after that. >> Anything else? All right, Dr. Hark Rider. >> Yes, ma'am. As we get back from spring break, we enter the last nine weeks of the school year. So this year is going by just as fast as the last few, which is exciting. A lot of great things going on. Uh athletic related, uh College Station High School Cougar girls basketball team finished as regional semi-final champs. Uh all four soccer teams are in the playoffs coming up here in another week. The Console boys and girls finished first in district. The Cougar boys and girls finished fourth. So excited about all four of those programs competing in the playoffs here coming up shortly. In the CTE world, our
020FFA and 4H students have had success all across the state in livestock shows in Houston, San Antonio, and Fort Worth. Brazes County Youth Livestock Shows March the 26. And as Kristen mentioned, these uh sales for the premium auction and freezer sale is Saturday, March the 28th. Uh fine arts or dance teams wrapped up contest with several grand champions and first place finishes as well as individual awards. All VAR uh varsity orchestras earn sweep stakes awards. Nonvarsity orchestras earned sweep stakes and excellent ratings. And our winter guards are competing with success. They've got a big family showcase tomorrow night at 6:30 at Consolidated. And then coming up is our testing window. We do testing windows now uh for STAR. April 8th through the 10th is grades 3 through 8th reading, language arts, our English ones and
021two EOCC's. Then in the middle of April, the 14th and 16th, fifth and eighth, science, grade 8 social studies, biology, US history, EOCC's, and at the end of the month, grades three through 8 mathematics, and algebra 1 EOCC. And then that wraps up our STAR testing window for 2526, >> springtime, lots going on, right? Um, okay. We're going to move to item E, which is hearing of citizens. During this time, we will hear from citizens who registered to speak prior to the meeting in accordance with board operating procedures. The Open Meetings Act prevents us from responding to speakers regarding items not on the agenda. Comments related to items on the agenda may be discussed during deliberations on that specific agenda item. Public comments are limited to three minutes per person. Those needing an interpreter may
022have up to six minutes. Each person has one opportunity at the microphone regardless of minutes used. Unused minutes may not be acred by another speaker. The executive assistant will time the comments and alert the president when time has has expired. The board asks that those addressing the board refrain from derogatory comments. Please begin your time speaking by stating your name and whether you currently live in CSISD. And our speaker tonight is Andrea Buck. Good evening. My name is Andrea Buck and I'm a parent in CSISD. Almost one year ago, I stood here and entered the conversation for the very first time. Over the past year, I've spent a lot of time listening, asking questions, having conversations, and trying to stay curious about the many perspectives that exist in our district. I certainly don't pretend to
023have all the answers, but after a year of listening and engaging, I do feel like I've gained some clarity about a few of my concerns. Tonight, I want to talk about the idea that perceptions eventually become realities. In the past year, I've heard concerns dismissed as just perceptions, and I understand the instinct to do that. We all want to celebrate what's going well in our district, and there's a lot to be proud of here, and I'm grateful for the teachers and leaders who serve our students every day. But I believe it is both foolish and unwise to focus only on what's going well while dismissing concerns as misunderstandings or negativity. Perceptions do not appear out of nowhere. They form when people consistently observe or experience something that doesn't feel right. And when those perceptions are
024shared by many parents and teachers, they deserve careful attention, not dismissal. Recently, I spent time looking through the taper report for our district and specifically looked at our teacher turnover rates for this past year and years prior. What I found was concerning. For the first time in over a decade, our district's teacher teacher turnover rate is higher than the state average. That matters because many of us have been having conversations with teachers and staff who are expressing concerns about morale, support, and the direction of the district. And when the data begins to reflect those same concerns, it suggests that some of what has been labeled as perception may actually be reality. As a parent, there are also things I see that may begin as perceptions. For example, when I hear that board members must now
025be escorted onto campuses by the superintendent, I can acknowledge that there may be reasons for that policy that I don't understand. But my reality and countless others is that it feels unnecessary and raises questions about transparency. And when you add policies like that in the midst of a culture where trust already feels strained, it only deepens those concerns. When concerns are minimized or reframed as misunderstandings, trust erodess. But when leaders acknowledge concerns, even uncomfortable ones, it builds confidence that we are all working toward the same goal. I believe we all want the same thing, a district where students thrive and where the adults who serve them feel supported and heard. My hope is that when concerns are raised, they are not simply categorized as perceptions or negativity, but instead treated as opportunities to listen, evaluate,
026and improve. It's easy for any of us to assume the other side is simply mistaken and move on. But if the concerns being raised by parents and teachers are even partly accurate, and you choose to dismiss them rather than examine them, the cost could be significant. We will see even more teachers choosing to leave at the end of this year. That's not a risk that you should be willing to take because when perceptions are ignored long enough, they don't stay perceptions, they become realities. Thank you, Miss Bug. All right. Um, the next item on our agenda is the consent agenda. We're actually going to pull item I2. Um, and we'll get to that one momentarily. So, the items left are item G, item I1, and items J1 to J11. Do I have a motion? >>
027Motion to approve as presented. >> Second. Right. I have a motion by Dr. Payne and a second by Miss Simmon. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? All right. We're going to pass the consent agenda 7 to zero. Um that is going to move us to item H1, which is consideration, discussion, and possible action related to the district improvement plan goals. Mr. Man. >> All right. Good evening. Thank you, President Eigy, Dr. Hark Rider. Ladies and gentlemen, board of trustes. My pleasure to come to you this evening to talk with you. There we go. Uh they'll be up in a second, but to talk with you about our district improvement plan goals um and just kind of catch you up on to where we are with the process. And so um this is this is
028not new information, right? Our strategic plan has been in place since the um 2122 school year. It was developed in the spring of 2021. And we had a lot of community involvement. You can see listed up here, we had over 40 individuals from uh the community as well as u district and campus staff um really come through this iterative process over several weeks um to develop the plan that we've been utilizing for the past five years and this will coming year will be the sixth year of the plan. Um and we are planning on going through this process again in the fall. Um and so I just want to be able to call that out. Um, and it's not because we're done with the work. It's because this is the evolution of a continuous improvement
029cycle is we've got to continually evaluate are these goals the goals that are going to continue to push us where we need to be. And these are the six strategic goals of the plan that we adopted in the spring of 21. Um, and just like you see in front of you, um, goal one is enhance uh, enhancing the effect of instructional practices through innovative and personalized learning experiences. Goal two is to elevate academic outcomes of our historically underperforming student groups. Goal three is to enrich our school experiences by strengthening our relationships between our stakeholders. Goal four is to cultivate and strengthen our intentional partnerships with our local businesses, community, and higher education agencies. Goal five is to improve our technology ecosystem and all the things that come from devices to technology infrastructure and to ensure
030the safety of all of the technology environments that we have. And goal six is to transform our learner experiences through our integration of our technology into our classrooms and our instructional practices. And they've served us very well. They've been a part of our district improvement plan process since we adopted them. They've been a part of all of our campus improvement plans since we've adopted them. Um and in the district improvement plan process, what um we need from the board is to approve the goals so that we can begin the work of formally preparing for the coming year and meet the different timelines that you see having uh right here in front of you where over the next two months um we start that gathering of the feedback process with our different groups of stakeholders and
031then we take that to the DEIC and we get their input and then we get into the work in the summer um between the work we do at the district level, the work that the campuses do based around the goals um so that we can be prepared for the launch of the school year and whenever our teams come back with their staff, they run through their final versions of their campus improvement plans with their teams to then get them to you guys as a board of trustees to review um for the September board meeting. And so to start this entire process off, as we're coming to you tonight, I'm coming to you tonight to ask for you guys as a board to give us one more year under these six goals that have been treating
032us very well and driving our work across the district. Um we did take this through the DEIC in our last meeting and of the 19 voting members that were present um we had 19 of them vote for yes for the board um to adopt these as our six goals for the coming school year. And so that is the recommendation from DEIC to the board of trustees is for you guys to vote and adopt these. I'll take any questions or comments you may have. >> Motion to approve as presented. >> Second. Okay. I have a motion by Dr. Payne and a second by Miss Simmon. Are there any further questions? >> Oh, thank you, Jeff, for the presentation. >> You're welcome. >> I I guess one question. Sorry, I I have to have one. It really
033is when is and I'm just trying to remember when's the last time we've seen and I know we see pieces of it all the time, but the actual kind of progress as a board towards these these goals. you know, we usually got a presentation on how we're what the steps from the to the board on the steps that we're making. So, um, and maybe we can go back and look if we haven't had that in a while. >> Yeah, I would have to look and see exactly when that is. I mean, we do our monitoring progress as we do the checks and we provide those through DEIC and then we post those up on the websites that have it, but a formal presentation to the board. I'd have to look and see when that was.
034It's >> been a It's been a little while, right, but >> Sure. Wow. All right. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That motion is going to pass seven to zero. >> Thank you, Mr. Man. >> All right. That's going to move us to item H2. And actually, after the agenda was posted, um we realized that this item should have been on the consent agenda. It is an annual requirement. We do it every year. um you guys received um that in your um email and so we don't have a the district doesn't have a presentation for this but if there are any questions you can ask those now or I'll call for a motion. >> I move to approve as presented. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Martindelle and a second by Dr.
035Payne. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That motion passes 70. Thank you for understanding that mistake that we made. Um, that's going to move us to item I1, which is consideration and possible approval of the submission of estimated compliance costs to retrofit buses. Oh, wait. I'm so sorry. I'm That's not the item. We We just did that on consent agenda and I'm reading the wrong one. We pulled I2 and that's what we're going to talk about. consider approval of new CTE staff positions and I had a request for us to pull that from consent. Um just I think for transparency uh we talked a little bit at workshop about this item already. So is there anything that we want to discuss on that um before we or actually miss are you wanting to talk about
036this one? >> I can I was just going to read you the >> the memo. >> Okay, go ahead. >> So um all right. Right. So, College Station ISD is currently expanding the square footage and usage capabilities of the A barn to include the new CTE center. New programs to the CTE center beginning fall 2026 will include a mechanics, automotive, construction, cosmetology, and welding. The administration respectfully requests board approval of the following positions to support student enrollment, program expansion, safety standards, and basic campus operational needs. And so those positions are um automotive, welding, cosmetology, um a nurse, a custodian, and a security office um security officer that will be provided through contracted services. >> I I think I just wanted to make the point that these particular positions are are weighted ADA, so they generate
037more revenue than a regular ADA funding for us. Uh in addition to the fact that we currently pay Brian ISD tuition for our kids to take some of these courses in their regional tech center which will be recouping those funds as well. So I I know that the budget is tight and we'll be discussing budget and other positions through the course of the next several months. Uh so I thought it was important that we just denote to the public that these these particular the children that these positions serve would generate weighted funding on the revenue side. >> That's correct. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> Because currently between automotive welding and cosmetology, we're not generating any of those funds because we don't have those programs now. So it will be all be brand new money. And
038this goes back to uh the bond planning for programs that were identified and needed within the district that we wanted. So I'm happy to see these. I motion to approve as presented. >> Second. Okay. I have a motion by Dr. Payne and a second by Miss Simmon. Any further discussion? I'll say one positive thing for the state because this is a place where they are recognizing the need for um some of these types of these skills in our communities and we recognize the you know the need for these skills in our community and so um not only are we you know our community put did the bond to build the facilities but the state is helping fund the positions through that weighted funding. So I ought to give a positive note when I when I
039can. Okay. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That motion is going to pass 7 to zero. Um, and that is going to move us to item L1, which is executive session. So, we're going to move into that and we will return when we're done. It is 8:22 and we are coming back from executive session. We have no action to take. So that's going to move us to adjournment. Thank you all.