CSISD Board Meeting 9/16/2025 - Workshop

001[Music] Welcome everybody to our workshop Tuesday September 16th 2025 5:00 call to order declaration of a quorum seven members present. Thank you all for being here. Item C hearing of citizens we have none for our workshop. Item D1 construction update. Mr. I'm at. >> Yes, sir. President Horic, Dr. Hawk Rider, members of the board, thank you for this opportunity to give you an update on our current construction projects around the school district. In case you haven't noticed, we are making progress. Um, so we'll go through everything that we have currently on the ground um that's moving right now and we'll also introduce you a couple of things that are upcoming um that will be getting started very soon in the near future. Um so first and foremost, very excited to announce to you that our

002middle school um athletic improvements project that started late last October um has already been completed. Just a couple of small punch list items that we're taking care of right now. Um and so we're really excited for that. We've already hosted a number of middle school games at these facilities as well as sub varsity games as well. And so with that, for our student athletes, these new facilities are great. This is now something that they can take pride in. They are topnotch in the state of Texas and our kids have really bought into taking care of it and making sure that we represent College Station ISD to the best of our ability. >> You expanded our facilities. You allowed us to host more events as well as host more people here at our at our stadium.

003>> There's not too many school districts that have this kind of facilities for the middle school level. >> Thank you, CSISD. [Music] Well, I'm very excited to be here with you today to highlight all of the middle school improvements that we've had done across the school district. just some of the highlights of what we've done at each of the fields. Um, obviously I'm standing on a brand new turf field which is um available at all three of our schools. We redid the track surfaces. We've improved the safety fencing around the area. LED lights on our light poles, new restroom and concession stand facilities that you can see over my right shoulder. We only had to expand the one there at Wellelver Middle School. But here at AMCMS and College Station Middle School, they both got

004brand new facilities that are more up to par with what we expect of our facilities here in College Station ISD. We've increased the capacity of our bleachers um at all three of our stadiums and so we're very excited for that now uh to be able to host more people in a more comfortable setting. Um and then just really and truly overall I think it's great for our kids when they come up that they can take great pride in their facilities. >> This is night and day difference from what we had before. Uh my own wife went here as a middle schooler and had been the same for I don't even know how many years and to get this incredible upgrade is just beyond uh what we could have ever hoped for. And so we are

005thankful. I've gotten nothing but uh great words and affirmation from students, from parents, from community members >> here at Bobcat Country. Uh we just want to thank uh the voters as well as the district and the board of trustees for their investment in our Bobcats. >> It's been an exceptional experience being able to have a nice new facility like this. Thank you for supporting CSISD and more specifically, thanks for uh supporting Walber Middle School. So, as exciting as this is, technically our facilities have been open for two weeks. And so, unfortunately, I've got to bring some bad news to you today related to our facilities. So, they've been open for roughly two weeks. And we've been contending with people on the facilities throughout construction and various things of that nature, but we are already experiencing

006a lot of damage from these facilities being left open for the general public's use. And so, uh, just highlight a few things for you. So, this right here is from a kickstand on a dirt bike. Why would a dirt bike be on the track? And I'll show you a video of that. This is something we've been dealing with quite often. This gate was locked. This pole was actually bent backwards to where it was able to get through the latch and somebody was able to push through. They ripped this back. All this was brand new. None of this was bent. We had to bend this pole back just to be able to shut the gate again. And there was a gate open just right over here. You'll see more of what we're dealing with. And so

007you'll notice right down here in the lefth hand corner of the track, you'll see a young person on a dirt bike. the centrifugal force that that dirt bike generates going around on the track. We have run off a number of people that are doing this type of um things on our track, it's causing a lot of issues. It's already caused a lot of damage. It's kind of like when you were a little kid and you rode your bicycle as fast as you could and you slammed on the brakes, see how much your skid mark would be on somebody's like fresh, you know, like driveway or something like that. They're doing that with this, but there's so much force generated by those bikes that it rips the track surface up or it cracks the track surface.

008And so, um, our coaches are very frustrated reaching out to me on the daily. Um, you can see here, this was a situation where a young person was jumping up and down on this uh like it was a trampoline and then there was multiple kids jumping on it. By the time we got there, they were gone. But it's a situation where we're we're doing our best to keep up with these facilities. We've already replaced this board once. Um, and this is another situation where the kids are they're they're setting it up and they're trying to run dirt bikes over it or they're using it for different bicycle ramps and things of that nature. And you can see more track damage. This next this next slide is going to have some images on it that I

009debated showing you, but I get these pictures sent to me quite frequently. I'm usually opening my text messages before 6 a.m. from the coaches at the middle schools who are getting ready for middle school practice and they're quite frustrated. Um, and it's this type of situation, a brand new turf and our neighbors are allowing their dogs to walk on the turf and use the bathroom on the turf and they don't pick it up. on top of the fact they're using it on artificial turf or the fact that we're finding golf balls from where people are out on the turf at nighttime chipping golf balls. I've got to tell you that's not good for our turf. That's not going to be good for the longevity. Um there are some things that we're trying to do. Excuse

010me. So, we do have these posted around the facilities. Um we are um getting new cameras installed on top of the the concession stand and restroom facilities. U the new Perry weather lighting detection that's being installed on all three facilities. That's an additional thing that we've done this year just to provide better lightning detection at all these campuses. But it comes into a situation where even throughout construction, I had people that would call me very upset, very outraged that we were not providing them with access to the stadiums. Because even though we finished the tracks last January, we kept the facilities closed to the public as much as we could because we still had ongoing construction with our restroom facilities and the concession stands. We have people that reach out quite frequently that want to

011host their team practices at our public facilities. There is a lot of usage that's happening on these campuses on a daily basis. I want to bring it to you all for discussion tonight because if we opt to lock down our facilities and post a sign that says closed to the public for rental for rental usage, contact this email address or something to that effect. You're going to get you're going to get emails. You're going to get phone calls. I will tell you, I've already made the executive decision. We closed it at AMCMS. And we had to close it at AMCMS because of what the college kids were doing to our campus over there. College kids don't email board members. People from College Station Middle School, people in the community over there, people in middle school

012are more inclined to potentially email a board member. So, I want to put it on your table for you all to discuss it now because we're two weeks of this being an open facility and we've already got several thousands of dollars that track. If we decide to fix that track now, we've got to mobilize. We've got to cut out patches. And it's not just as simple as you cut it back. No, you've got to cut out chunks of square. There's so much that you have to do to be able to get it to adhere to that track surface again. And so it's not it's not just a quick and easy simple fix. It's not a cheap fix. You saw the young person on the dirt bike. That has happened frequently. We have been fighting that

013battle for several weeks now. Um sometimes we have success, sometimes we do not. It's an ongoing battle. And so our coaches are desperate to lock them down. Our coaches really want to lock them down because they're taking great pride in their facilities and they're really agitated with me that I'm telling them, "No, I need to have a discussion with the board. I need the board to have a discussion because you're going to have to support the decision if that's the decision we decide to make. Um, I look at it like this. Public tax dollars also pay for pay for our gymnasiums. We don't allow people free access to our gymnasiums, but that's for you all to to consider. >> That's College Station Middle School. >> Multiple times. We've had it at Wellelurn Middle School as

014well. Uh, we haven't been able to get video. We've had bicycles. We've had dogs. I mean, dogs are are are very common um on our track and and turf facilities. Are they open currently? Were they open all the time or what were the hours that the fields were? >> And so what we're we're saying is whenever um the fields are open after school use is over. And so uh basically from the time that our last practice is over, we've even had it for years now where some campuses some other schools within the area not affiliated with the school district come over and use it um at College Station Middle School for their track program. Um, so we've had to have conversations with you can't access anything until our our student athletes are off the fields

015or off the surfaces. And so right now what it is is as soon as our ser as our day is over, we leave the gates unlocked so the public can come out and walk the track so the public can come out and utilize the facilities. Um, that's something that we've done for years. It's it's always happened at CSMS. Sometimes occasionally we'll lock the facilities. We'll post a sign that say it's it's closed down, but it doesn't really do a lot to deter people. Now we do have anti-scalable fencing. Although you've seen where somebody already bent it back to be able to get in through a gate that was locked when there was a gate that was unlocked. And it really just comes down to what I mean because I've had people in the community say

016to me, "Y'all y'all invested so much money in these facilities, we should be able to use them." And yes, I completely agree with you, but at the same time, I don't want to continue to go back to the community and ask for additional bond money to repair these facilities that we have just recently finished and we're already two weeks into it and we have that much damage. So clearly it was daylight in the video. How common is it that stuff's happening, you know, at a reasonable hour, after hours, late? I mean, talking college kids, they're going to be late, I would assume. >> Yes, sir. I mean, the golf balls, uh, a lot of times those are taken. I mean, like we have found numerous golf balls on on each of our facilities. It, uh,

017a situation where get late in the evening, people walk out and they they chip golf balls. um it causes issues, you know, so sometimes it's dark, sometimes they can find their balls, sometimes they can't. It's just a situation where, like I said, we have really nice facilities. Our community invested in those facilities by voting yes on that bond, and we have delivered on that. And we have fantastic facilities that our kids and our student athletes and our our coaches are proud of. If we continue to allow them to be accessed this way, then we've got to be ready and prepared for the damages that are going to come with that. So my initial thought is one and it won't stop everything but possibly lock it up at some point in the evening. Um maybe when

018the last you know the custodial staff when they're headed home. And then second, you know, of course it would cost money, but puts, you know, maybe even temporary signs up that say something to nature of if if these rules continue to be broken, the facility will be shut down to the public. Uh just to so we can give give everybody a warning that hey, if you keep doing this, you're going to cause it to be not used by anyone. >> Well, one of the reasons why I decided to bring it to you tonight, obviously, it's a it's a major concern that we're two weeks into a facility being finished and we have damage already from from general public and you know all it takes is one bad apple to ruin it for everybody but at

019the same time I I fully anticipate this will get some traction with WTAW bill Oliver. I fully expect this conversation to get out there at some point. So I thought that might help spread the word. Um I know we've got some run clubs in town that want to use the facilities and they want to make sure that they're getting taken care of and everything else. It's just a situation where these aren't cheap facilities and I mean a dirt bike numerous times and it's not it's not just one individual, it's multiple individuals. It's just we've had numerous reports throughout this project with our contract manager at risk who's there on site quite frequently calling us saying I've got this going on or I've got a kid on a dirt bike or we've got kids setting up

020a ramp and they're jumping their bicycles into the sand pit which it may all seem very harmless but that's not the intent of it and then it winds up we get a broken board or we get a cracked um pole jump or pole vault pit standard. So >> ultimately, we built these facilities for our kids. And I I know the g general public likes to use them, but there are other facilities in this town they can use. There are plenty of public parks that I know they don't have a track as nice as that or turf, but I don't have a problem locking them up. We have too much invested. And as someone who personally went out and walked streets to try to get the bond passed, yeah, I don't want have to go back

021to voters to say, "Fix the facilities we just asked you to build because of irresponsible people." Another issue we have is you run the risk by leaving them open of potentially boarding a warranty on a product. And so I don't even have to begin to tell you what a warranty on a turf field potentially could help us. You know that that field's 120 yards. And so there may be damages on there. We don't have any idea. And you take just the pictures and a few videos. There's probably 20 times that out there that we never know anything about. And having security cameras is great. we're going to put them up and you know unless I've got a vehicle, how do we identify? And I mean there's just there's a lot of moving parts. It's a

022tricky subject because it's extremely political. Uh however, I think Josh even mentioning the fact of other teams not affiliated with our school district. Uh in my opinion, shouldn't have any access to our facilities without renting them. You know, your kids don't go to our school district. uh whether you're a taxpayer or not, you're not sending your kids to our school district and there for our kids. Uh we've already had uh one of the schools in town, they want to come up and be out on the field and stretching and stuff or our kids are running track. That's not a place for them during a CSISD function in my opinion. But, you know, it's not an easy decision, but it is a conversation to have. We're six to seven to $8,000 in two weeks of it

023being open. We can do the math of how many weeks we're going to be in school. $10,000 a month is problematic because that's not anywhere in the budget to cover six figures uh for needless repairs for people not taking care of other facilities. >> Josh, do we keep our high school fields and tracks open? >> Uh no, ma'am. Those facilities stay locked. They've always stayed locked. The only time that those are occasionally left unlocked is when a coach forgets to close a gate or or um you'll see it all throughout the summer. um our our young people are very uh very adept at getting into the stadium and utilizing our facilities, but typically speaking, it's our own students that are getting into the high school facilities, but our high school facilities stay locked down. >>

024I mean, our middle school fields now are a smaller version of, you know, the quality of our high school fields. And so, to me, that also might signal that we need to consider taking care of them the same way we take care of our high school tracks and fields. >> We don't have anything else. We've put it on your radar and we'll bring it back next next month if you are good with that and take a deeper dive into it. >> So are you you mentioned the cameras. Where are we with those? I mean have have we not had any cameras and I know your point that it doesn't it's not a >> So we have cameras on the safe. >> We have cameras on the back of the buildings and we have some still

025shots and some images. Um some of these are situations where you can't identify who they are because they're wearing a a helmet with a mask or they're wearing a hoodie or sunglasses. Um, and also it's a little bit of a distance shot. Like you're looking at them coming in, you can't necessarily see them doing the damage because the right now currently the cameras are on the back of the buildings, which if you think about it, AMCMS, depending on where they are in the field, that's a long view. Um, at CSMS, you get a little bit closer at Welver Middle School, you're having to go across a bus lane before you're seeing anything. And so cameras are being added. You do have one of the concession in there, but we're getting cameras added. But at the

026same time, I will tell you at College Station High School, we have been working with College Station PD. We have made a number of reports since last February. We have a young person that continuously is breaking in to the facility and prying open the uh bay doors um to the concession stands and and trying to help themselves things. And even over the summertime when there was nothing in there, they were still creating damage and we've spent thousands of dollars fixing those rollup doors for the concession stands there at College Station High School. And we had the individual on camera, they could they look at the camera, but they got a hoodie on, they got sunglasses on, and they got a mask on. Um, so it's just situation where cameras do a lot to deter the

027people that are going to be deterred, but they don't do a lot to deter the people that are going to do what they do. >> Yeah. You're not going to have coverage like at a campus in a hallway because the facility is too big and it's wide open, >> right? And I mean, if they're really trying to do something nefarious, they're going to, you know, try not to be noticed. I was going to ask also about um, have we involved police with some of these? >> Not related to the middle schools at this point. No, ma'am. not even let them know to maybe keep an eye out. >> I mean, we've we've recently gotten these new signs posted, but it's a situation where we're leaving them, you know, right now we're leaving them open to

028the public. And so, um, it's other than, you know, the bikes, the skateboarders, unauthorized vehicles, um, we we've establish the same curfew as what the city of College Station has at their parks. Um, and so we're working through these things, but there's been nothing at this point to I mean, a lot of times we're getting called and we're trying to get there in the moment. We have that video of the young person on the dirt bike because Mr. Buckner just happened to be in the area, was able to pull in right quickly and get a videotape of it. And I cut the video short just because um, you know, young young person wasn't real excited about being videotaped and and had quite the attitude. So >> yeah, if the facility's open, CSPD has no jurisdiction

029to do anything. It's open. the facility's locked up, it's a different conversation because then >> coach is saying it's a closed facility. Right now, we don't have that. And so, our coaches would love for that. Our coaches are agitated with me that I'm not allowing them to lock down those facilities. AMCMS, I told you we've done that. Um, I'm not worried about how college kids feel about it. And >> how's it been there? >> Um, we've still had some issues. You still see golf balls. Um, when we were doing it throughout construction, we've had a number of issues with the tennis court there. You've had a number of issues where young people are on the tennis courts um playing tennis whenever there's things in session, school's going on. Our facilities are locked down completely when

030our facil whenever students are in on campus. Uh but that hasn't deterred them. You know, some and it's just they're not bad kids. They're just completely oblivious college kids. Um and so it just it like we were all there once upon a time. >> What is the plan? So we've got these signs up. >> We're getting >> this is just an update. I mean, are we four weeks to the next board meeting or >> for us to come to a decision or make a decision or have more discussion then? Just just curious trying to >> I mean is that 16 grand >> with four more weeks? I just am curious. Hopefully by bringing this to your attention tonight, it's going to get out in the community and people are going to recognize that we've got

031a problem and hopefully, you know, self-p policing is always the best policing and so if people help us take pride in our facilities, it'll help us keep our facilities open to the public. At the same time, I don't know if that's the best course moving forward. Um, it's really I wanted to bring it to your attention tonight to make you aware and also so that way uh you weren't surprised in the event that you got a phone call or an email because we'd elected to close a facility down. >> It technically does not require board approval. Okay, that yeah, that was my question. >> I really just wanted to bring it to your attention because it is very disheartening that we're two weeks into it and we have that much damage. >> What's our liability

032if someone were to get hurt? >> I know they're not a student, but if someone gets hurt at one of our facilities very tricky if it's open, >> it's locked up. There's not a case at all. Signage, you can't get in. The facility is open. There's a little exposure. How deep? probably not as much cuz we would have to uh as a school district governmental immunity. They'd have to prove negligence which is a high top high platform for them to hit. However, there is potentially exposure if you get an attorney who wants to see what they could do. Correct. >> So, I'm assuming most of the hoodies are to you hoodies. I'm just kidding. Just kidding. So, question uh for >> thought orange was outlawed here. No, it wouldn't be orange. just a question uh

033for consideration, right? So, if we're look because have nice facilities, we got people in the neighborhood that want to use them. If Mima wants to go for a walk after, you know, I I'm all for that on the track. I would love to do that. I also want to shut it down because we got people who can't follow the rules. One thing we might consider, and actually maybe uh Kevin's back there, he may be able to bring some CTE expertise. You can set up things that allow uh animals not to pass through that people can. Now, what you're talking is about um is like it's probably not going to be ADA compliant, but you can set up barriers so that you can't get a dirt bike through, but a person can walk through. Right? Now,

034again, you may have to be physically able or whatever if you want to take your dog who's got the little wheel cart cuz the rear legs don't work on the track. They might not work right and and I want to help that person, that dog, but it doesn't work. So, um again, I'm with you in wanting to close it off because we do that with the high schools. I also understand that we want citizens to be able to enjoy what we have. So, um it might just be a couple things we look at. I >> know what you're talking about. Yeah. >> Um that may not cost a lot that to at least >> gates that kind of turn and Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Put in the style >> turn styles, whatever. But

035we might just look at a couple of those options. And even then, I would still be a proponent of locking them at some point. Everything gets shut down at some point in the evening or at night or whatever. Something some something to consider. >> I think that's a wonderful suggestion. And I also don't see I mean I don't know how much trouble it would be but like um Josh had said can we lock the gates at at least at 11 or or >> we can have I mean we can >> if somebody is there on campus I mean we've already said it's a curfew at 11 p.m. Does that make that makes some >> not sure we're having any issues when it's pits dark at night. I think the issues are during the day. Uh

036you know you're fixing to have a time change right now so you your coaches could lock it. I think you still run the risk of exposure if it's open at all. And I think it goes back to and we'll have some conversations that give you guys an update. Uh I don't think any schools that aren't affiliated with this school district should have access to our facilities without paying for them. Period. Is everybody else has to pay for them and because it's an open facility, oh, we get to use it. No, that's not how that works. It's our facility. It's our decision. So, we'll have some internal conversations and follow back up next month and pursue some other potential options and potential closures and also give us a few more weeks to get some more data

037and I'll keep you updated via email. >> Thank you. I'm sorry to have to kind of be Debbie Downer on that, but it is really exciting and and our people do love our new facilities. And so, moving forward with the construction update for you. Um, if you've driven by Consolidated here recently, you see that we have a very large crane out there. We are going vertical with steel, which is very exciting. right now. Uh we'll have our last um delivery of steel on Friday or Saturday of this week. Uh which means we're getting very close to doing more of the detail work. Um and you know, the more vertical you go, the more quickly you're going to get to a place where you can start drying in a building and things of that nature. And

038so just a quick summary of what we've got going on. As a reminder, this is part of the bond from the 2023. Um over the summer, uh we went back into the building and picked up some some things from previous remodels and just went ahead and expanded on some of that. We removed all of the lockers within the building. Um, you know, there's LED lighting. We've been replacing ceiling grid as much as we can in areas where there has already been roof repairs done. Um, and then what you'll see here is the Wayne's coat. Um, the six foot tall there, gray tile going through. You may recall once upon a time there was the uh square tiles that were like the maroon and the white and the gray. Um, some of that had been taken

039out of the building, some of that had not been taken out of the building. And so we went ahead and took it all out to have a continuation and a flow throughout the entire building. And and obviously redid the floors as well. on. It looks really, really good in that building right now. Um, since I've taken these pictures, more has happened. Uh, the steel crew is currently working five 10-hour shifts and one 8 hour shift on Saturday. Uh, it costs quite a bit of money to have that crane on site. And so, they are moving very quickly um to get that done as quickly as possible. And the crane operator has been great with school spirit. If you haven't noticed, we do have a tiger flag at the top of the crane, which has been

040one of the most popular things that we have done with all of our construction projects thus far. new skylights um as part of the roof project. We did have a little bit of a hiccup with one of those. There was a leak. Um sometimes you don't find leaks until it rains. Our contractors getting that taken care of. They'll make all the necessary repairs. But this is your previous There's three skylights that run down the main corridor of the building. This is your previous skylight and what it looked like and this is the new one. It really does a lot to open up the building and bring in some fresh natural light. Um and it's a great improvement for the interior of the console campus. So what you see here is the white cap. Uh this

041is where we're getting closer and closer in certain areas. Once you see the white cap, we're done with that area, but you've got a lot of other existing work going on. We did finish tear off last week, which is fantastic. That's the hardest part of this. I'll remind you that this roof had two existing roof um sub or surfaces on it, and so the tear off was quite extensive and it was quite challenging um and it's taking a great deal of time. You may recall that we started this project last April and minus weather, if weather kicked them off a roof or if we had to hold them back because of an SAT or something happening on the weekend, this crew has worked every single day with the exception of Easter Sunday. Now they are

042currently running two crews. They run a crew through the night and they run a crew during the day. U these people are absolutely getting it. whenever they told us about this uh situation they told or this roof they said it would be roughly 18 months um willing you know if everything continues to go they're trending like they're going to finish that ahead of time um I understand now why nobody really wanted to tackle this project it has not been fun in the slightest uh this has been very challenging in many of ways uh but we're very pleased with the contractor and the work that they're doing uh for us on that project high school um if you've driven by there we have a lot of work going there it seems like all around the building

043as well. Jamala is our contractor there. Uh we got started late last spring, late April, early May. Um the estimated completion has always been December of 26 is really October of 26. We are pushing as hard as we can to be done in August of 26. The reason to be done in August of 26 is much easier to move in during the summertime. Makes it much easier on the counselors to set their master schedule. Also, with this addition, we can get rid of the six portables that are there on site, and that opens up a number of parking spaces for staff there behind the building. So, there's a variety of reasons why we're pushing so hard to get this done. You may recall, we're adding a number of classrooms and labs for CTE, art classroom,

044science classrooms, the third gym for that comprehensive high school, um, and then some other things as well. And so, some locker room efficiencies, um, and doing some things, um, that are really going to benefit the entire campus. And so, we're excited for this project. This is also a part of the 2023 bond. And so what you see here, this has actually been poured back since uh I most recently showed this to you. This is the area off of the gym. You can see the fieldhouse there across the street. This is the academic area right beside the gym. Um and so where we have a raised slab and tomorrow morning, we'll be back there at 3:00 a.m. pouring these grade beams and everything else that's going on with that project. This is off the academic wing

045on the other side of the building, and this is off of fine arts. And so we have a concrete pores scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3:00 a.m. uh where we'll do additional work there with all of this and get that poured out. Uh we move the concrete pores up as early as possible for two reasons. One, we want to try to avoid as much school traffic as possible. And number two, obviously with the Texas heat, you've got to try to beat that as much as you can. And so, uh it's it's going quite well. Um we're really pleased with the progress there. Uh very happy with Jamal and the job that they're doing for us at College Station High School. Jamalo is also our contractor at Rock Perry Elementary School and you will know that

046this is a two summer project. There is far too much to get done in one summer. Um, however, I have asked this to Dr. Hawker a number of times. He looks at me like I'm crazy each time. I've asked the EIC, we personally would love to see a start date for school year after Labor Day. That would be amazing. It would make it much easier on summer projects if you gave us a little bit more time instead of having, you know, teachers return to the building on August the 1st and we're at the end of July and you really only had six full weeks in the summertime to try to get things done. So, >> let the record show that was Josh Syc that made that request. >> It might be popular, baby. Be careful.

047So, this is also part of the 2023 bond. U you'll see here today we got the stage curtain reinstalled or the brand new stage curtain installed there at Rock Pill Elementary School. Uh you'll notice this is the new flooring going down the hallway. If you've been to Rock Prairie anytime uh recently the existing building, you've got that old BCT tile. Um and it is it's looking rough. I mean, doesn't matter how much of a coat that Project Ford's team puts on it with wax and everything else, it gets beat up. It's got missing tiles. There's holes in it and things of that nature as well. And so very excited with how it's turned out. We did that side of the building. That's your cafeteria, your gym, your kindergarten classrooms, and in those hallways there as

048well. We're also currently we've drilled our peers. We've poured. We're getting ready to do slab work on the office edition that will be coming out off the building. And then another big part of the summertime was the car rider line. And so what you see here is the hydro seed. We are watering this daily. You're getting this to take in. Once this is taken and we trust that it's going to hold up, this safety fence around the perimeter will come down. We're keeping it there now to try to keep traffic off of this. You don't want hydro seed on your clothes. You don't want it on your shoes. And we don't need the traffic because it doesn't help the seed take hold. If you're wondering, from here to here is 65 cars. 65 cars that

049would have been in a single file line all the way down Welsh in the bike lane. The most cars that I have seen in the lot when we were pulled all the way up and we had a number of people that were really squeezed in was 82 cars. And so I do feel really confident that this has been effective for us. We've worked closely with the city on where they wanted the entrance. We've got signs up on when they can turn in here making a left-hand turn at for drop off and dismissal. they can only approach it and come in and take a right-hand turn. And for the most part, it has worked out really really well for us and we're very pleased with it. This is a third third grade bathroom. We are treating

050the third grade and some of these we've got construction ongoing. So, we're doing it like airplane like airports. Um we've got it all blocked off. The kids can't get into it and we've got three contractors that we have badged through their contractor. We've badged through HR. We have badged a number of variety of ways that are working on site daily. Um it helps us because there is so much to do next summer. We got to however be a lot easier with a start date after Labor Day. Um but for us, this is just ongoing project. So as soon as we get done with third grade, we'll shift and move down to the fourth grade wing and do the same thing. Over the break in October when you have a few days, we're going to start

051doing some demolition on the atriums um those areas there to try to get that work ready to go. And we're working very closely with Miss Newton and her team on a daily basis trying to get as much done as possible. And so very excited for what's happened at Rock Prairie. It really is pretty. Uh it does look really nice. Um I can't say that I'm responsible for picking any colors or even the floor. Uh but it has turned out very nice. CTE phase two. So we got that project started in late May. We've had some issues with the soil. We've had some issues just trying to get the project going. Um as far we've been working every day, but we've really just had some issues where it's like we're banging our head against the wall

052just because of the soil content out there, the sulfate levels and various other things. But we are still on track to have this open at the beginning of next school year. And we're very excited to be able to provide a mechanics, animal science, auto tech, construction, a complete cosmetology, like a completer, all three levels, a multi-purpose arena, vette lab, and welding. And so this is going to be a fantastic facility. This is really cool. And so one of the things that we're having to do is we're having to drill 223 peers for this building. Some of these are as big in diameter as big in diameter as 36 in. And so typically speaking, when you drill piers, you bring in a machine, you drill the pier, you drop you drop in a cage, and then

053you pour the concrete. Well, this with the augur, this is called auger cast piles. And so with the augur, it's got a hollow tube down the middle of that augur. They drill the hole on. As they pull it out of the hole, they pump it full of grout, concrete cement, if you will. And you'll see that you've got the lift with the cage there, and then they shove the cage down into it. And so it makes it a more efficient process. They're averaging between 15 and 20 a day. Uh last week we got up to about 85 in one week. And so this is really speeding up the process for us. It's fascinating to watch. Um it's a lot of fun. But we are if you've been out to CT recently, if you're ever on

054that site, it looks like Grand Central Station. There is something going on everywhere. And there will be something going on there at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning as we pour back the remainder uh the other half of this driveway. Uh this is something that we're able to pick up that's an additional scope with this project. Um and so we're taking this all the way up and this takes obviously into the new facility, but it also comes down the side of the barn. Uh tomorrow on on Thursday morning at 3:00 a.m. we'll be pouring half the driveway and the parking lot area for the new facility. We need that parking lot area to be able to stage the steel that's going to be required for the building and it just makes it easier on everybody. Baseball

055and softball. Uh Jacody, local contractor is our um representative on that one. They are working with Symmetry Sports Construction. Uh these these projects are ongoing. Uh I will tell you before Dr. Payne says it, I jinxed myself in May. I said that I was hoping for a drought and we got the rainiest month of June on record. Um and so I won't say anything else about that. This is part of the 2024 bond. Jacody has been great to work with. They were also on our middle school projects. Uh they are on site daily. They're a local contractor. Cody McKeen in fact is a consol graduate from back in the day. Miss Hester was his principal. So oh she knows consol baseball is very close. What you see here is the uh the final stone. That's

056the 38 stone that's on top and that is the last thing that happens before we go down with turf. And so access to this field is somewhat challenging and it's access has been really challenging on all most of our fields but console baseball consult CSHS softball and baseball present some challenges because of the tightness of the space and so you'll see here uh they're working through this once they get this final graded uh we are in shape to be ready to start laying down turf early next week and so we're very excited for that. Consol softball has its turf but we're not yet quite complete. Uh we've got to get the white fence topper. It will be white for softball. Uh, and the foul poles will be painted white and we'll also get this uh,

057flag pole uh, repainted as well. But we're waiting on some of that. We've got to get that in. There's a couple of pieces of the fence that we're having to get modified to be able to fit. And then we've got some netting that's going to be going in around the bullpin that needs to be installed and then we'll be able to punchwalk that and give them access to it uh, for the consol softball team. At CSHS baseball, they have made up a great deal of time on this project. And so this one too is in the final stages of the gravel being done there. We'll be pouring concrete on the batting cage there at 4:00 a.m. on Friday. Um, and so we'll have that done Friday and then they'll go back through and they'll regrade

058everything. And so it'll be a situation where um they're doing the big stone and then once they have the final grade, we'll be uh putting it putting turf down on this field very shortly thereafter as well. The fence crew has returned and we're working through that. Now, um, one of the hardest things about CSHS baseball is the only way to access it is through CSHS softball. And so CSHS softball is not as far along. Symmetry has brought in additional crews. And so we have additional crews in town that are working on both sides of town and they're working very well in conjunction to get all get us caught up as much as possible. So once we get done laying turf at the two baseball fields, all crews will come to College Station High School softball

059and they'll hit that one like gang busters and it'll be a situation where we're able to really make up a lot of time. And so we really appreciate all of our coaches and their patients. They're chomping at the bit. They're on these job sites every single day. I get text messages and phone calls quite frequently. I talk to them on site quite frequently. They're excited and we're excited to be able to provide these for them. I really think these facilities are going to be fantastic when we finally get to the finish line. And I appreciate everybody's patience as we work stadium improvements. Again, local contractor Jacody and you can see we've got some things going on. We've done a little bit of work um over at College Station High School in the press box. A

060lot of that work will commence or will start again after the football season. Uh you know that we've got work going on right next door here now uh with the the fieldhouse expansion. We're getting ready to pour that slab in the very near future. Unfortunately, we pushed hard as we could. There's your slab as we get ready with the poly. uh trying to get ready to waterproof. Uh we're getting our rebar in. What happened to us this summer is we were late um trying to get we weren't late. We we got our permits a little bit later than we had anticipated for our um for our digital screens and with all the other projects that we had going on. Plus for console in order to have access we're because we have to have a crane.

061We're going to have to rip the bleachers out to get access to be able to get in there on a more permanent basis. Also though, per with the city of College Station, we work for utility purposes and other things. We have built a road behind the Cassal baseball field that will make it for us easier to have permanent access to this moving forward. Uh just right now with the way things are, it didn't work. However, we were able to get the DZone done. Uh this was a challenging project. I cannot tell you how many times we drop submersible pumps into these to pump water out of them so that way they could continue to work. So, very impressed with how dedicated they were to getting that done. These Dzones are used on both sides of

062town very frequently and they look great. Um, and they match as closely as you can possibly hope for when you have five years of UV light on one versus one that's brand new. And so we're very pleased with how that's turned out. Those are getting used quite frequently. Um, college high school. So with each of these, you take away a Dzone, you take something away from a track program. And so we were able to find a way uh with pushing the budget and stretching it as much as we could that at Console their pole vault will be moving back across the street behind the softball field. And at College Station High School, we had to build an an additional triple and long jump pit uh there behind the portables to ensure that they could still

063host track meets um on site. And so we got it all graded out. We'll be getting track surface on that in the very near future um and getting that taken care of for the coaches and moving some fences and things of that nature. And so elementary fall zones, this is part of the 2021 bond. Some of them had been done. There were four that were done as single projects over time. Um unfortunately the situation where that did not get complete. And so um we didn't have any funds for it right away. However, Miss Wilson was able to uh through some bond savings and interest earnings was able to find some money for us to get this done. Mr. Butner has spearheaded this project with Playground Solutions of Texas. They too have brought in additional crews.

064And so here's where we are. We've uh completed at College Hills um at Creek View for the Gators there. We have completed it there as well. And we installed a new uh pavilion or a shade cover that their PTO had paid for. Um at Riverbend, we're waiting on a piece of new playground equipment to come in. And once that's installed, we'll get that fall zone completed. This is South Null. We have an equipment repair um that is we're waiting on. It's a spring and once that spring comes in, then we'll be able to complete it there. Southwood Valley is complete and at Spring Creek their fall zone is complete as well. Um, these look great. Couldn't be more pleased. This is not just as simple as just go in and lay it down. You've got

065to pour curbs, you've got to do gravel, you've got to do grading, there's a lot of different things that go into it. Um, and it's it's not the easiest project. And so, we're really appreciative of our campuses that have been patient with us as we've gotten these done. The weather impacted our contractors as well. And so, as timelines got moved, things got shifted. And sometimes it would be a situation where at 9:30 at night they texted, "We're going to be there in the morning." Great. We weren't going to say no. It just was short communication. Um, and it really was challenging. And if you're looking for an industry to get into playground equipment is astronomically expensive and so it is crazy how much that costs. But you can see here um how great these products

066look. You can see the new curb. Uh the campuses picked the colors of the fall zones that they wanted. So these look great. We're very excited on how these have turned out. Um and and some campuses had as many as three or four of these fall zones that we're getting uh covered in. So they look great. We're very excited and happy that our kids are back on those projects. So here we are with the roof project. So you know where we are with Cassaul Rock Prairie. We got that one started this summer. We expect that one to be complete by the end of this month. Same thing for Cypress Grove. Mechanical repairs are done at Spring Creek. We're monitoring this very closely. Uh we had a storm not too long ago and we only found

067two leaks whereas used through the like there was buckets in the ceilings everywhere in that entire building. And so we're very excited for how that's transpired. That building has leaked from the day it opened. Um, and we're really confident that these mechanical repairs are going to help fix that problem for them. And then you've seen the work gone going here at Central Office. And so we did decide to go ahead and just give it a face fresh paint because we had so much damage to the Stuckco. We're going to redo all the window seals. Uh we have we have windows and offices in this building that you can physically stick your hand into uh with your fingers because there is no window seal left. And so I don't tell you that that causes moisture to

068get into the building. Um, in this breezeway here, a lot of the drainage is built into the columns. And so, we're saving that work for a little bit later. We're waiting on some few things to come in. That's going to be a little bit more intensive. We're going to have to rip some things out. And we're really going to have to work hard because what's happened to us is those things are clogged up over the years. There's no way to get them unclogged. There's no way to get them to work and function the way we need them to work. And so, what happens is we have some offices that we can no longer utilize because whenever they get a lot of rain, they back up and they flood into that office. and we're not going

069to have anybody sitting in those offices until we get those uh fixed and taken care of. Another thing that we'll be doing is we'll be ripping out the awnings on both sides. uh the one awning that has no cover, the awning that has the cover that's very aged and dated and looks worn out. We'll be getting those out and taking care of the columns, but at the same time, this uh this cover, this uh not pavilion, the the aluminum one, it'll be stretched out halfway through um on one side of the breezeway, so people won't have to hug the wall when they're walking down the breezeway to not get wet. And so, I already talked to you about consol roof repairs. There's your central office. And then uh for your helltorm roof repairs, just want

070to give you a heads up of what's coming down the pipe. So that hail stom that hit last spring break that really hit the north side of town. It hit all over, but it really hammered the north side of town. We have been on every single roof in this district multiple times. We have been on there with our adjuster. We have been on there with our um with our adviser for our roofs. We have been on there with engineers. We have been on there with insurance companies. We have been up and down these ladders a number of times and we have worked through this as much as we possibly can. And so where we've landed are these four roofs. And so at AMCMS you have some damage and so it'll be roof repairs. It'll be

071roof repairs for Christy's Closet, the Barbara Bush Center, roof repairs at Oakwood. Unfortunately, College Hills, which makes sense if you think about where that storm hit. That is the roof that got the most damage. That will be a complete new roof. Unfortunately, uh, with the way things are today, these are 2% of our building value for the deductible. And so, that's going to be a pretty penny, uh, when we finally get to that place where we're ready to do that. We could start these roof projects in the near future. Right now, we don't have a lot of issues as far as it causing flooding into the building or leaks into the building. And we don't want to disrupt a campus environment with a roof anymore than we have to. And so, we're going to start

072these late May and push hard to get them done over the summertime. not as worried about the roof repairs, but at College Hills, uh, it is it's a challenge when you're doing a roof and it's an occupied space and you're trying not to disrupt the learning environment. So, that leads me to the last one that you'll be approving tonight. Um, or that'll be on consent agenda tonight, Swift Corporation. So, you may recall with House Bill 3, the Texas school safety requirements um outlined that we had to have 6 foot tall anti-scalable fencing um all the way throughout district providing any structure where we provide or around any structure or any outdoor space where we provide learning. And so that could be your fields, that can be your playgrounds, uh so on and so forth. And

073so it has been done on some campuses, it has not been done on others. It was being done and it was clustered in groups and it was situation where as we were going through this and we were getting these projects done, it looks amazing. So, we went with the black vinyl coated. It blends in a little bit more when you're going to have that much fencing around facilities. Uh, we decided to do a little bit of an upgrade because it looks less institutional in my opinion. And also, the black um mesh with the vinyl coating on it blends in. Uh, it's not as obvious that it's a chain link fence um and it dresses up our facilities a little bit there. Uh, what was happening to us is as this was going on, um, some

074of these were being done and it was like we were having to go back and make irrigation repairs and there was just some things like, oh, we should have adjusted to this. And so, uh, when we took over this project, we decided to work with VLK. VLK, uh, worked with us in designing all of this for the remainder of all of our campuses. And so, we will hit the remaining campuses, um, very soon as, uh, we'll get that started as quickly as possible. And so, there is everything that we have currently going with construction. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them for you. Now, >> were there any dirt bikes on the roofs? >> No dirt bikes on the roof, and we have taken the portaotties off the roof. I did

075want to provide a quick update since Mr. Simak wanted to share his idea on school start time. Jeff man just sent me a text. He utilized chat GPT. We would end the school year June the 22nd. So, we're going to send Mr. Simacker around to all 19 campuses and see if he can sell that. Then we're going to put him at the HBS uh in the evenings with a little tent set up and let him gather all the feedback he'd like to. >> Thought we were better than that, Jeff. Man, >> I do have a question. Well, first I want to thank you. Um, especially with the fiscal looks like responsibility y'all are doing on moving so quickly on the the new bond projects. Um, you said one thing that concerned me, the 2021 bond,

076you said we didn't have money left to do some of the projects that were designed for that >> and I appreciate Miss Wilson obviously finding the money to get it done because those seem like really important projects. So, what happened there? >> Um, I can't speak to exactly what happened, but we did come up short on some of those projects. There was there's some projects that if we have bond savings with uh these packages, we'll certainly go back and catch. Uh without diving too deep into I'll just say that, you know, some of it is when you do singleton projects or when you only go to a buy board and you don't put things out to bid or you use I think one of the things that's helped us the most is we have competition.

077Um Miss Wilson and Mr. Butner and uh Miss Schaefer uh they put it out for a bid like a CSP out at uh transport or excuse me at purchasing for our fence project. Previously we were begging people to try to come and do our fence projects. We had nine people there for that bid opening. Um and so I think it's that part of it is when you do singleton projects you lose the economies of scale. When you work with the same people over and over again maybe people lose that competitive edge. And when you do open yourself up and say hey we're working with all new people. Bring us your best value. Um, I think it certainly helps you be more competitive and allows you to, um, tackle and do more. And obviously, um, when

078you move at the pace at which you're moving, you avoid that inflationary cost. >> Well, I really appreciate it, y'all. Um, it especially the baseball, having a baseball kid, super excited. But everything looks amazing over there. Um, and I I just appreciate the constant work that's being done and people in the community see that that you guys are being good stewards of the taxpayer dollar. >> We're certainly trying. Thank you. Yeah, it is amazing how much you do. I say you and Mr. Buckner like the busiest guys in this county. Um along those lines about I mean you mentioned we're r getting people to do extra shifts and extra crews. I just wanted to clarify that when that happens that's not costing. >> So part of it with us how does that work with us

079or is it already in the contract? So, we have we went Seymour, which is contract manager at risk. And so, we get guaranteed maximum prices. And once that guaranteed maximum price is locked in, unless there's a change order from us or something where we're going to use a contingency, something that we request to be changed or like there's there's contingencies built in, owner contingencies, and different things throughout because there may be some adjustments that you make. There may be things that you find as you're going into projects. The Cass baseball field next door has delivered a number of surprises. Existing facilities sometimes are a little bit harder to work on. Uh, new construction is certainly much easier. Uh but when we're locked in on the guaranteed maximum price, they have a they have a substantial

080completion date and they have certain number of rain days that they can have. For example, the middle school projects had 150 rain days. We started those last October and from last October until just when we finished that project, there was 150 weather days. U now they didn't take every single one of those, but that's how many days were accounted for that were considered to be weather days that were lost. Um but with the GMP, the price is locked in and it's on them to deliver it by that sub substantial completion date. It does not impact our money. >> Yeah. And for certain projects, they'll have uh other projects lined up to start at X date. So like Symmetry and some of them send additional crews to get us done so they start their new projects

081on time. So it doesn't cost us anymore. Just if they get behind, it speeds up the process for them so they don't miss a start date on another job that's coming up. >> Yeah, that's what I thought based on the contracts. I just want to make sure the community knows that all that extra work is out there. We're not I mean it's already built in to the commitment that they've made to meet. >> It works out good for us if we hit them at a time where they're kind of in a dead period and can send multiple crews before they start something else. Then the only other last thing is I think the other thing we did with the bonds this time is we recognized we um we put you were on the bond committee

082put extra money into that be for um potential inflation right because I do think that was part of the problem coming out of the previous bonds the 2021 and I don't I mean I obviously the things you're working are on are helping as well but that was one of the issues on the the previous bond was all was the inflation and the ability to get what was needed to finish those projects. So, um, but you accelerating things and is helping with this one immensely. >> Yeah. I mean, I won't Yes, I'll just leave the 2021 bond there. I mean, there was certainly inflationary costs and obviously we had a we had a motivation to move as quickly as we could because we didn't know what was going to happen with tariffs and we wanted to

083get guaranteed maximum prices locked in. Um but we did like so but the good news is is because we are moving quickly we will we will be able to go back and pick up some of those bonds or some of those projects that were missed in the 2021 bond. Um but I'll just leave that there. Uh, I got a laundry list of stuff that you just said, which is amazing because you talk faster than Jimbo. But, um, >> hey, for 1% of Jimbo's buyout, I'll leave right there. >> Uh, I appreciate what you're doing. I appreciate what Buckner's doing, Miss Wilson, all y'all. Cuz, um, as fast as you're talking, you can see how fast everything is moving out there. And so, uh, the dedication to that and like Miss Simmons said about the fiscal

084responsibility, I think that was a big piece of even folks that oppose the bond. >> Um, and and so you guys are delivering on that and and we're seeing things and that's that's awesome and and more importantly, our kids are going to be able to utilize it a whole lot sooner and that's what's going to be exciting for them. >> Well, I would be remiss if I So, Mr. Butler and I are managing it, but we're not managing it alone. We have Brian Bill and Ronnie Klene, um, construction coordinator and construction inspector. Um, and those guys, uh, we all take turns. Um, you know, sometimes we're on job sites at 3:00 a.m., sometimes we're on job sites at 5:00 a.m. At Console, we've been there as early as 1:00 a.m. Um, and so those guys

085are very much a part of the team as well. And so, uh, we try to tell them to stay away, they try to tell us to stay away, and it usually winds up that all four of us are on a job site at 3:00 a.m. because, you know, it's just kind of how it goes. But, uh, very appreciative of those guys and the work that they put in. It is, it is constant. It is it is every day of the week there's something going on. Um and then on Saturdays they're working and on Sundays I'm driving around checking job sites so I know what kind of conversations I need to have on Monday morning. >> Thank you guys. >> That'll bring us to D2 transportation update. >> Good evening everyone board members. Dr. Hark Ryder.

086I appreciate y'all having me here today. Um just to give you an update um obviously Transfinder is the biggest thing over at transportation um that we've been implementing um at multiple levels. It's it's a multissource system. It's not just routing. It's all the things. So we're going to actually um talk a little bit today about the stopfinder app, which is our app that coincides with parents. We're going to talk about our student bus pass or our IDs um that the kids are using to scan on and off that system. We're going to talk about enhanced student safety. Um what that means for us, what that means for our community, um geo fencing that goes along with the Stopfinder app and how that helps parents and our current ridership. Just so y'all kind of have an

087idea where we're at. Um so the Stopfinder app is a comprehensive real time tracking app that every parent um has the ability to download to their phone. Um, it gives them the real-time information about their students, uh, transportation. Uh, it provides, um, local estimated times. It provides what time their bus stops are, what time they get picked up, what time they get dropped off. Um, it keeps families informed throughout the whole process. Um, it gives them also the ability if they have multiple children, like I have five boys, so I would have had maybe five buses at one time that I would have been trying to keep track of. So they can track all buses, not just one. Um, it accommodates different routes. So if you have a sped student or if you have a

088regular student, um, you can look at all of those things. It's very convenient and very easy to use. We've talked through a lot of parents like, I don't know how to do this. Well, go ahead and get your phone out and I'll talk you through it over the phone. Um, and we can do that. So the Stopfinder app, as you can see here, um, this is just kind of a picture of what it would look like if you were a parent. and they obviously have two kiddos on there. One's in fourth grade, one's in ninth grade. Um, as you can see, it kind of shows their stops and it shows their their stop times and when they actually get to the school. So, they could scroll up and down and kind of look at it

089and see which kiddo they're looking for. Um, it sends them notifications for when the bus arrives at their stop, when they depart, and when they get to the school. Um, it kind of takes the guesswork out of it. It's not perfect. Um, obviously with traffic here in College Station, it can be a little bit of a battle, but um, we try to do the best we can to keep our routes as efficient as possible. It does reduce the wait time, um, and helps you, you know, schedule all these after school activities when you know when your bus is supposed to be there, if they're going to be able to do those things or if you need to pick them up instead of them ride the bus. Um, it allows parents to customize notifications for their

090students daily schedules. So, what that means, and we'll talk about it a little bit later, is about that geo fencing. They can be notified as many times as they want. Maybe you're that parent that wants to know when they go through every single intersection. I don't really want all that information. I just want to know maybe when you're 5 minutes from my house. That's fine, too. So, maybe when you enter my um neighborhood, I want to put a geoence right there so when they go through, I know, hey, you got five minutes. You better get out to that bus stop. Um it provides flexible notification settings. It literally takes about two minutes to set them up. Um, I can also say Josh Syme was one. I said, "Hey, do you have it set up?" He's

091like, "No, how do you do it?" I said, "This is how you do it." He did it in like a minute. If he can do it, anyone can do it. So, it enhances the convenience and um it reduces unnecessary alerts. Whatever you want to, you can customize it however you want as a parent. So, these are kind of a sample of our um student bus pass ID system. Um the top is a picture of what they the badges actually look like. Um it has our logos all over it which look awesome in our new branding. It gives a picture of your student. It gives their name, their ID number and then on the back it just has the bus. I actually was um here the other day and I talked to someone who worked the

092at the fieldhouse or the ticket house for one of the games and a kid came up to get in and he didn't have his ID. He's like, "Well, I have this." And he's like, "What is that?" And he's like, "Well, it's my bus pass, but it has everything on it." So he allowed him to use it. So that kind of was it's something we didn't even know would be used as a second ID. Um the badges are issued to every student that is registered for the 25 26 school year. That is why we push registrations out. Like we need to kind of get a number of who we're going to carry every year. >> Register, sorry to interrupt, but registered for school or registered to ride a bus >> for transportation. Yeah. It's something totally

093separate. Um, we try to coincide with when they're registering for school, go ahead and register for the bus. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's okay. Um, we work through those things. Um, it also it also has the student picture on there. They can't get a badge without a student picture. So, with that being said, that has been a little bit of a challenge, but we're working through it with every campus. So far, every campus has been really lovely. They usually have one or two people that that's kind of their job during the day. If they have new people that register, they go ahead and take a picture. They can upload it to bus pass at csisd.org. It comes right to us and we can print the badge that day. I don't want a kid

094not to ride just because they don't have a badge. Um, we also have had some parents that have said, "Hey, my kid doesn't have a picture. How do I do that?" They can actually take a picture and do it the same way. Upload to the exact same email address. We'll get it get their p their badges. um made um so but again that is a big feat that is a big task and we're working through that um with the schools and they've been really great with helping with that process. Um I also want y'all to understand when it comes to these pictures sometimes even though Johnny's in 11th grade the picture system Johnny looks like he's in second grade. So it's some it's I don't know why it's like that. I think the the it

095just doesn't talk very well with e school. So there have been times when we've gone into e school and I'm like he is so not in second grade. So we have to go back to the school and say hey can you take another picture even though his school ID he has like his full grown man self but in e schools not so much. So those are things that we work through daily. Um, real time tracking. Like I said, when they badge on and bad badge off, it notifies a parent saying, "Hey, my kid is in transportation care and when they get off the bus, that's shown as well. I also want to mention that some things that we work through because like I said, technology is wonderful until it's not." So, as we move through

096this, we're learning things that were like, "Oh, we didn't even know that was a thing." There is a button on there that's called service all. And my people are finding out if you hit service all, it services all. So anyone that is registered to ride the bus, it says, "Hey, you're on the bus." Or, "Hey, you're not on the bus." So a lot of my people been using them at campuses when they go ahead and get to the campus and they offload everybody. They just say, "Service all." Because I've gotten some phone calls, their parents are like, "Hey, my kids sitting right here. They're not at school." I'm like, "It's okay. We're going to take care of it." So, we're obviously doing extra training with our people to make sure we're using the badge system

097the correct way. Um, so we use this to not only help parents track their students, but we like to navigate our routes and our drivers. We want to make sure they're going the right way, they're following the routes the proper way. If they need to divert, how are we going to do that? Um, and this tablet system totally does that. You could never have driven a bus before and I could give you a tablet and you could get on if you so dare and get every kid home. Um, I'm not gonna say it's be a quiet ride, but you could totally do that. Um, it's really easy to use and my drivers are actually coming around to it. They really love it. So, this right here is actually a shot of what the tablet looks

098like. So, when your kiddo badge is on, if they are in the right place at the right time, at the right stop, you see where it's kind of green. Green means good. Green means everything's great. They got on at the right time at the right stop. If it pops up in the gray area, like that one student right there, it's basically saying, um, this student can ride, but I don't think they're supposed to get on here. So, it also alerts our drivers like, "Hey, you need to check into the student a little bit more. Um, if they pop up red, red is no. Red means Johnny's not allowed to be on your bus. He rides a different bus. So, you should probably find out why he's on there. Um, one of the reasons why this

099is a wonderful thing is because we do have students that ride home with other students. There's a process for that. They need to get a bus pass. They need to have it signed by administrator so we know where they're going and the campus knows where they're going. So, we don't have mom calling me saying, "Where did Johnny go?" "Well, they had a note from you." or well they just got on a bus. So it also helps us track them that way. Um and then if it pops up in a blue color it means hey there's an issue with maybe Johnny's um student record. So maybe it says that his home record is South Null but he goes to College Hills. So see how that conflicts. So want you just hey can you just check into

100that and make sure that all of his information is correct and so we can go and correct those things if we need to. So, like I said before, the cards, they serve as a temporary student ID when their regular ID is misplaced. Um, it's a backup identification and it gives the drivers the correct information on each student. Like I said, they're colorcoded. So, when they see a different color pop up, they can tell what they might need to do. It also gives a waiver information. And if those of you who don't know what our waivers are, it's basically a statement from a parent saying, "Hey, I want Johnny to get off with this person or Johnny can get off by themselves. anyone that is a younger sibling can get them off. It gives them a

101list. So when they scan on or scan off, that list pops up and it has the driver can ask for an ID and if that person actually is supposed to be there and get little Johnny then we can go ahead and let them have them. If they're not, then we just take them back to school. So that's a safety feature as well. So enhance student safety. Obviously, what I just said, um, with them knowing who is on the waiver list and who isn't, it gives parents the confidence that their child is safe in our care. Um, it provides the real time visibility of where their students are at, keeps them accountable. Um, I know they have their phones and they're allowed to use them on the bus, but obviously this is just a little bit

102more. It gives them the notifications, let them know where they're at. Um, they can get as many alerts as they would like. Um, the system keeps trackable of multiple students at one time. So, they only need to have one app on their phone to get all their students information. So, enhance student safety. Um, what does this do for our kids? What does this do for our community? What does it do for us? It provides immediate information for who has boarded the bus for us. That's always um important. It provides overall student security um through the monitoring system. It creates accountability trail for students. Where are they at? Where are they supposed to be at? Are they supposed to be on the bus? Were they supposed to ride home? Um, we have some parents that'll call

103and say, "Hey, I think my kiddo is on the bus. They were supposed to be a car rider." And they had no idea. So, we call the driver, find out, yeah, they're on their way home. Um, it generates the real time writership counts. That's really important for us as a department because that's how we plan for our transportation. Um, what do our buses look like? Are they full? Do we need to add another one in that area? I know this summer we added two new buses just to the Southern Point area because there are kids everywhere over there, all over there. Um, so it helps us to organize and optimize our space on our buses and when do we need to add more? Um, when do we need to add less? Maybe this area has

104scaled down so now we can take this bus and move it over here where it's necessary. So, it's a a really good managing tool for our department. So, the geoence technology, um, like I said before, it maps out specific drop off points and depending on where you as the parent would like to have those, you can set them up at the beginning of your neighborhood. If you know we go through an intersection and that's 10 minutes away, you can put it there. If you want to follow the bus one day and put them all the way along and just know exactly where you are all the time, you can totally do that. um for monitoring our vehicle activity. It helps us to track where our buses are. We can actually pull up their GPS in

105real time and find out where they are. So if we have a parent that's like, "Hey, um your bus is running a little bit late. I where are they at?" We can pull it up and say they're going to be there in two minutes. Holds fast. So um that's good for our department to be able to use that. It creates automatic logs of vehicle activity. So we can do our state count. We can do our um daily counts. We can do our mileage. Um they can fill out their VTRS with their which is their vehicle trouble report. So if they have an issue with their bus, they can fill that out right there in the tablet and it goes to the shop and gets a work order generated. Um all those things are utilized just

106within this one system. So this is kind of what it looks like when they set up a geo fence. So this is like castle gate. So, let's say it's right there at the beginning of Castle Gate and that person lives about three or four streets within. That's probably about 5 minutes to their stop. They just wanted to know, hey, when they're 5 minutes out, I need to tell my kiddo to get to that that stop. If they wanted to put geo fencing all along that route, they totally could, but they only want to know 5 minutes away. Um, so it kind of gives mom and dad a piece of mind if they're at work. Hey, did Johnny get home on time? Yep, he went through the geoence and he got dropped off. Um, so whenever

107the school bus goes through this geo fence or this designated area, it automatically sends an alert. Now, one of the things that's been a little bit confusing to the parents, which I want to go ahead and air out right here, is this system does not send late notifications. That comes strictly from my office. Um, we actually have to go in and type that out when they're running 15, 20 minutes late. We actually have to do that um physically. It's not an automatic, hey, your bus is running 20 minutes late. A lot of parents were a little bit confused about that. They thought they would get those late notifications, but I try to stress to my drivers, if you don't tell me you're notif you're 15 minutes late, I can't tell anyone you're running 15 minutes

108late, and I'm getting yelled at for it. So, we need to make sure we're staying in contact. So, that's something that we're working through, and we're getting better at. Um, we're not obviously perfect. Things happen all the time. sometimes. And I know at the beginning of the year, I've been the only person in the office answering five phone lines and doing radios all at the same time. So, I can tell you those notifications did not go out. I did the best I could with what I had. Um, >> just quickly curious, do they go out if there is a notification, do they go out on the app or >> Yes. Okay. So, >> they go out directly to the app. So, what it does, >> not an email or what or a text anymore. It

109used to be it goes. >> No. So, I pull up their bus route and I actually say, "Hey, this bus is running 15 minutes late due to traffic." I send it goes to every parent that has uploaded that app. So, that is another thing that we're working in progress. We always tell them when they register, please get this app. This is this is our way to talk with you. Um, they don't always do that. And you'll see at the end how many people have actually downloaded the app and how many still do not have it. and we've been you this is what our second year kind of that we've been using it. So, um I can't make them do it but we try we do our best to get it out there. Um so this

110is our current writership uh writership. Obviously we have 14,042 students total. Um right now our current bus registrations are 400 or sorry 4,363. Um the students that are current but they are not registered. That's 124 that they're writing today but they are not registered. We have called parents. We are talking to parents daily. Hey I need you to go in and register. For some reason they just don't want to do it. So um I've talked a few of them through it over the phone to where I've actually done the registration for them to push their kiddo on a bus the right way. Um, but it's gonna actually be one of those things where we're going to give them a date and we're going to refuse transportation before they actually say, "Oh, I'm gonna go do

111it now." Um, we haven't gotten there yet, but uh, our current school year bus ridership as of this morning was 3,668 kids daily. Um, and that is growing. I'm sure it'll be bigger tomorrow. Um, our employee transfer students were transferring 172 students currently up to date this morning. We have 11 students that we're transporting to DAP. We have 21 McKenna Vento students that we are transporting. Um, bus pass IDs that we have printed for this year have been 7,000. With this number, I want y'all to understand we took the registered students from last year and we had CI Solutions do a batch print. So, there's a lot of those students that are not riding. So, we actually have them in a file for each school in case they decide, hey, I want to ride. Oh,

112here's your bus pass. You already have one ready and made for you. Um, we did everybody in the school district that we had um last year with the exception of our seniors. We took our seniors out obviously. Um, now this also is probably about 1,500 that we have printed ourselves since the first day of school. We have two printers at transportation and I have two ladies that have diligently been going through lists, going through cards. Um, drivers bringing the list. These don't have badges. These have an issue with their badge. Can you please reprogram them? And they've been doing that. So 1,500 of them since the first day of school we have printed in our facilities and given to the drivers and given to the kids. So our stopfinder app that's active right now we're

113doing pretty good. This is a really good number is 3,343 parents that are actively using the app. But as you can see to our writership we're still a little short. So we just keep keep working at that um to try to make it better. And that's it. So, do you all have any questions? >> My only thing was a reminder about um kind of how this was funded uh and when >> we started piloting it last year. So, this would have been general fund money that started last year on a pilot then fully funded this year. >> So, I mean it's kind of a safety thing, but it's really just in transportation budget. I mean, is that >> was just general. How did you code it? >> Yeah, the safety grant is specific on what

114we can and can't use and unfortunately it's not part of it right now. >> Okay. >> You're welcome. >> Yep. That's a good start. Try this. Good evening, Mr. Hark, Dr. Hark Rider, and board members. Uh, I'm here to present you the preliminary 2025 STAR and our state accountability rating results. Um, a recap of our 2025 state assessment. This was the third year for STAR 2.0 where they updated it and gave us the different test items including the extended constructed responses, multiple choice and I mean multiple answers and other things. Uh there were limited changes in the design that occurred from the 2023 original um update the star. We did get more details with the 2025 extended constructed responses than we had in the past. Uh this year for the first time ever in 2025

115results for our Telpus uh students that are English language learners, we actually got to hear their speaking recordings which is going to help us greatly with uh supporting those students. Overall, our testing process here for College Station ISD went very very well. Um, TEA continues to have their parent uh portal and website available for all as well as we have paper copies at all of our campuses for those stu those parents that want them. Uh, just a quick reframe with our refresher with the test design and passing standards. Masters is the highest level a student can get. This is where a student's only missed uh two or three questions and it says that students on track for college and career readiness. Meets is the next level. Um this says at meets a student is ready

116to go to the next grade level. Approaches is passing the star assessment. However, if a student's at approach at approaches, that means they're probably going to need additional support. they will pass STAR but they'll need additional support and of course did not meet. So we're going to look at our state and district performance and we're going to break this down by subjects, grade levels and campuses. For reading 3 through 8, the overall view for grades 3 through 8 and reading you will see here state is in blue, College Station ISD is in red. We're well above the state and all of those 3 through eight subject readings. And that is for grades 3, four, and five. We combine English and Spanish test takers together. Okay. To look at a little deeper, this is our grade

117three reading. Again, all versions, English and Spanish together. Uh 2024 is in blue. 2025 is in green. And you'll see on the far right your difference. Uh those that declined in red are green growth areas where we grew and college station ISD highlighted there in the larger print. Can I just ask because I know we're going to see a whole lot of these that look like this. I mean when we're when you're looking at this for instance, what are you looking at to say >> that we were successful in that? I just I mean I know what I'm kind of looking at but I want to see >> well and remember this is performance. Um this is just straight star performance and how they did on one day and one period of that child's life.

118Um so there's so many other factors. It's one data piece, but we need to take many many other things into consider >> and I and I certainly agree with you there and I know that this does not necessarily give us what we need to help an individual kid. But when we look at it in aggre aggregate like this, so I'm looking at a campus for a test, >> I'm just I'm assuming I'm looking at the stuff over the differences that helps me see and I'm looking for as much green >> as possible, >> right? >> Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's what I we're looking for. And does it in >> and I really want green in every of last three column because that showed every I mean a kid mastered or that level master before

119they mastered >> they do but there's flaws in the system. There's flaws in the system from a standpoint of STAR truly doesn't matter me measure true growth per child. >> It's an aggregate of everybody together across the state. Correct. And so it's not a true comparison. We're looking for growth, especially across grade levels, and looking at maybe above does didn't improve, but meats did or masters did. If you're off one or two percentage points in red, that's not a big deal to me. I don't get concerned. If it's double digits, it's more concerning. But anytime you're at five or more points to the green, that's pretty good bit of growth. Five or points to the red, what happened in that situation? And it's not fingerpointing. It's what what's then you dig into the standards, you

120know, especially if you've got across an entire uh 10 elementary campuses and and eight out of the 10 grew in that area and two did not. Why didn't they? Generally, it could be a curriculum issue. It does not have anything to do with how good our kids are, how hard our teachers work. It could be a curriculum fall that that we need to dig into a little bit deeper on how those kids did. But yeah, we look at red and green 100%. But then there's always oneoffs because it's not true. So a lot of times star is a or our map data I believe Sherry has a tab she'll show you in a little bit was about 95 96% accurate predictor of how our kids did on map >> was correct on how they did

121on star. And so seeing that true growth for a child because a child could be growing really well in MAP and showing progress but maybe they didn't pass the STAR test. That's okay. Okay, maybe they didn't pass it the last three years, but if we're growing them, eventually we're going to get them there. >> Yeah, I really appreciate that. Um, and I guess the other thing I was I think I said it wrong, but when we're comparing 24 to 25 here, they're not the same actual kids, right? It's a it's a whole another set of kids. >> Yeah, we look at it across and >> kind of an aggregate type. >> We on our end will look at the same kids third grade scores, how they're doing on fourth grade. >> Yeah. >> Thank you.

122>> Yes. Because we're gonna see a whole lot This would be two different groups of students. We also look at cohort. It's just not in this presentation, but >> we can share this presentation with you guys. Obviously, we'll fly on through it so we don't keep you too much, but then you could go back and dig into it and we can answer questions later, too. >> So, then we're going to move to fourth grade reading. Again, the same setup where you have your blue 24, green 25, and the differences there. >> Sure. Hang on just a second. Let me I'm trying not to slow you down. The other thing we look at is look at the bottom percentages of meets and masters. So as a district there in third through 8, 57% of our kids

123uh were at the meets and 31% at masters. Those are solid numbers. Those are numbers also we pay attention to. >> Then we're going to move to intermediate uh fifth and sixth grade at our intermediate campuses. again by campus and with a district. Middle school reading, seventh and eighth grade reading. And then we're going to move to mathematics, grades 3 through 8. Again, the big picture, the 2025, grades 3 through 8. again, English and Spanish for third, fourth, and fifth. Um, again, we're above the state in all areas. Reminder with our seventh grade math, um, usually 40, in this case, 58% of our students took on grade level, grade seven math due to our advanced math program. 42% of our students are taking above grade level math in seventh grade, but still above the state.

124So this is our third grade mathematics, fourth grade math. Then we'll move to our intermediate schools for fifth and sixth grade. middle school math. And I want to point out here with our middle school math for seventh for the seventh grade, remember we have many taking advanced. And you will see that in the eighth grade math, you see all three of our intermediate schools, Cypress Grove, Oakwood, and PContrail that also have eighth grade math t uh test takers. Now we'll move to science, which is only in grades five and eight. Again, we are above the state. Grade five was science uh English and Spanish combined. So for science I put fifth and eighth grade on the same slide. Fifth grade would be your three intermediate schools. Eighth grade your three middle schools. We move to

125social studies which is only grade eight again above the state and eighth grade would be your middle schools. I don't know if we're going to talk. That's the one that seems to have the most red. Are we going to I don't know if we all had dug into >> you look at the state anywhere you see a percentage especially here for us that maybe it's something that we feel like we didn't quite get there and then you see a state percentage at 55% above to me and and Bobby may say otherwise to me there there's a testing issue there you know that that test is not without flaw they'll try to par parade the test out with well we get teachers to help us write the test in the end the teachers are giving input

126ood. They're not writing the test. They're part of the equation. Uh Bobby and her team digs in. She meets with our social studies teachers, dig into questions per standard of where we could do a better job of teaching those standards. And then our goal obviously is to progress and next year there's more green and and moving our kids forward. >> My wife has served on the English version of some of those focus groups and I will tell you they do not always take teacher input into consideration at all. do get an email every year thanking our teachers for helping though >> for what that's worth. It's really sweet of them. >> True. >> Right. >> True. >> Is this >> correct? No. You know, the other thing is you you realize a lot of times

127and and I was a social studies teacher and and a lot of times kids go through now we have windows of testing and generally that social studies test is towards the end. kids are tired depending on what grade level they've taken multiple tests and they're like a and so we have to do a good job of of making sure our kids understand throughout the year. Social studies is very important to us and for them to concentrate and give us our best effort there as well. But it's something that that Bobby digs in with her team just like we do math, ELA, science. We treat it just the same. And so growth is is where we want to be and continue to work for that. I yeah just again wondering if something had happened and you're

128right it's not big jump give big gaps in most of the cases >> you're also looking at a more subjective subject right math is black and white it has rules >> well and I think what you said about you know looking at ourselves in comparison to um other groups I mean my husband's a professor sometimes he gives a test and all of his students tend to not perform well on that well they're you know there so there's something more going on then they're not bad students or something like that. So I think sometimes just comparing ourselves to other groups. Would you say Jeff? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> We also lack uh and Bobby I believe with some team have have written some different benchmarks for our kids to take. Our kids don't get that

129in MAP and so we've created some metrics on our own to try to tap into kids and see where they are throughout the year. And that's something new that that team has started. And so I think over the course of multiple years, you'll see that number continue to increase. So from the grades 3 through 8, we will now move to the end of course exams. These are your high school courses. So again, with our state versus district, we're well above the state. This is our English one and two. Um, these are your ones that have the extended constructed response. And we have we did a lot with our district last year with those extended constructed responses. >> There's a lot of criticism this year across the state on uh computer grading on our kids responses.

130uh a lot of districts, I believe I read on two or three different ones that uh didn't agree and made tea rescore those tests and they saw a 25% increase in all the tests that were graded by humans versus the computers. Uh and TEA charges us, I believe, $50, sir. Is it 50? Yes, >> $50 a test to rescore them. Now, if if it scores higher, they don't charge you for that one. If it doesn't, then they charge you for it. So evidently in the new legislation that passed where we get to do this three times a year, uh they're not going to charge us, but then I read where no, the last wording said yes, they will charge us again to do that. >> And doesn't that speaking of that legislation, isn't English 2

131EO EOC impacted? I think it was eliminated. That would be eliminated. >> Was yes. >> Yes. Then we move to algebra 1 and you will see with algebra 1 we have uh middle schools that participate in this as well. Next we move to biology. And last, but definitely not least, US history. So, some highlights from our 2025 star. We um College Station ISD met passing standards at higher rates in all subjects in every grade level and all EOCC exams. Um the other thing the big celebration that I really like seeing is our M's level that means their college and career readiness. In 75% of the tested grades and subjects including EOCC's our students uh increased from 24 to 25. Then also as we mentioned earlier our map growth projections they predict how you're going to

132do in STAR and we went I went through every grade level and every subject and over 95% of the areas they predicted our students correctly. So from the star performance data, we're going to move into our state accountability. So what you've seen tonight with star performance, which is what's used in student achievement or domain one. There is a second domain, school progress, which goes into a growth measure, transition table. Um, whichever of those is you your campus or district does better in performance or progress is overall 70% of your rating. Then you have your closing the gaps the domain three which breaks it down into multiple subgroups. That's the final 30% of your rating. Our accountability systems been in transition. 2023 accountability was involved in litigation and we received those ratings in April as we

133were giving 2025 star. 2024 accountability was also in litigation and we received 24 and 25 at the same time in August. It's been busy in my office. So this is our 2025 rating for College Station ISD and that performance student achievement we had a 84 and our school progress 81 and closing the gaps where we have all the different breakdowns and race ethnicities ecodisk special ed homeless migrant all the areas a 79. So it gave us an overall rating of 83. So since we have so many at one time, we wanted to give you the brief history because we've had from April to now three different years. Um 2122, you will see there at the bottom, that was the previous accountability system. The 2023 accountability system went through a huge revamp, revisions, new calculations, new

134measurements. That's also where we went from needing a 60 for an A in CCMR all the way to needing a 88 in CCMR to be an A. Um, so the 22 rating there on bottom and then they also gave us the 2022 what if with all the new calculations. Um, then 2023 was released back in April. 2024 and 25 both came to us in August. A different view here is each campus for our district. 2023, 24, and 25 all side by side with their overall rating. And that last column showing their overall change from 24 to 25. A different aspect with accountability is you can receive distinction designations. So we wanted to bring this to the forefront. Distinction designations take into many factors other than just performance on star. It looks at attendance rates. It

135looks at accelerated student learning. So those students who weren't successful, how did they do the next year? It looks at your um students who make meets on all their star test. One of the biggest things is they look at your subjects but not at approaches or meets but at masters. What percentage of the students on that campus got masters? For your high schools, it will look at EOCC retest rates and how well they do, ACT, SAT, AP, as well as advanced and dual enrollment. So, you can see here in 2023, we had 21 distinctions. In 24 that grew to 37 and then in 2025, we get to celebrate 49 distinction designations. Um a lot of conversations are handing uh going around this um our attendance. So many of the campuses were so close. It gives

136us a report for each campus. It's compared to 40 other campuses that they're similar to and it gives that campus a detail. Were you in the top quarantile? So that could be a gold star. Are we in the second, third, or fourth quarantile? So it's a different lens of looking at data and we are looking at those closely. It is all public now texas.gov we had the all the delays with litigation but now everything is public and I will take any questions or comments. Thank you.