001[Music] Sorry to disturb y'all's conversation. Um, we're going to go on and get started on our workshop. Tuesday, June 17th, 2025, 5:00. Welcome everybody. Call to order. Declaration of a quorum. Six. Back to six members present. Um, but we'll be back when we reconvene later on. Uh, welcome everybody. Thank you'all for being here. Uh, item C1, public hearing. We're going to open up our public hearing notice. And we have not had anybody sign up to speak on the public hearing. So, we will now close that. Which closes item C2, right? She'll go ahead and present. Oh, yeah. She going to present for Sorry, Heather. Miss Wilson, come on. Appreciate it. Mr. Horic, thank you for giving me the opportunity. Dr. Hark Rider and uh board of trustees, thanks for giving me the opportunity to do
002a public hearing. Uh, of course, we've gone over this several times and we've had several workshops pertaining to the budget, so this is going to be a little bit more condensed, but if you have questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. So, the things we're going to go over today are just the legally adopted budgets. That's your child nutrition, your debt service, and your general fund. And by law, we're required to adopt these by July 1, no later than or we cannot expend anything. Therefore, we can't pay anybody. So, that's kind of important that we kind of get this done in June. Uh we'll start with the child nutrition budget, and this is just kind of a highlight. We didn't increase any of the student meals at this time. Uh we did lose
003some funding on our child nutrition program because we were getting about a half a million a year. uh for supply chain things from COVID and we're no longer receiving those funds. So, you're going to see a little bit of decrease in revenue. Uh Miss Scott Goodlet worked really hard to try to decrease her expenditures to meet that revenue. So, you'll kind of see that. We're kind of look at it really closely this year. We're hoping not to have to increase our meal cost, but we haven't done that in many, many, many years. Uh the staff raises that are in this plan are based on plan F. That does not mean that we have to adopt plan F. What that means is I've done the worst case scenario that we're looking at. Okay? So that's the
004highest that we're proposing. Uh and so this is what we're looking at here. So child nutrition funds were proposing 9,799684 in revenue and the same amount in expenditures for a balanced budget. So you can really see where there is an increase in uh there's a decrease in local revenue, an increase in federal funds. Uh that's typical. And then u of course we've had to decrease our child nutrition program. The other one there is our water utilities and things and that is a decrease in the budget as well just based on historical information. Do we have any questions about the child nutrition? Just a very quick one because you put change in fund balance on there. Do we keep a fund balance for the child nutrition part of the budget? Yes, we do similar a similar
005percentage. Yes. Yes. Is it included on the big number that we look at? It is not included on the big big number at all. There used to be a six-month requirement that you couldn't hold over that that much in fund balance and they've decreased that. So, we don't have that um requirement any longer to spend that down as much. So, we're we're we do really well there. The positive is is through COVID and feeding all kids with federal funds, you get a higher re reimbursement rate on feeding a a economically disadvantaged child than you do a regular pay child. You get more funding. And so because of that, we're able to have a a great fund balance. Does that make sense? All right. So, we'll move on to the debt service fund. So, with the
006debt service fund, right now, we're proposing the 23.7 cents. That's what we did the previous school year, and we're hoping to hold it at that rate. That rate is what went to the newspaper at this time. If we have to increase that rate higher, we'll have to go back and put it in the paper again, okay, before we adopt a tax rate. Uh the crazy thing about the debt service right now is the hold harmless. That was from Senate Bill 4, I believe, where we're going from a h 100,000 to 140,000. There's some other legislation that passed that if you that you can't defease debt or you can't increase a tax rate high enough to defease debt. Does that make sense? So, what they're trying to do is if you increase your tax rate to
007defeat debt, they decrease your home whole harmless amount. So, you can play with the debt, but you're really kind of stuck there. I know that's really confusing. I I looked at it several different ways, and every time I would decrease my tax, it would decrease my hold harmless. So, we'll kind of monitor that once we get our uh certified numbers. We can really look at that a lot harder. and then we'll probably have an amendment to the budget. Okay, there are some other things and I'm going to go ahead and just show you what this looks like because the first time I looked at it, u I was a little taken back. So, our proposed budget is a $2 million deficit in the debt service fund. That totally has to do with timing because we
008changed our fiscal year. And so what we're doing right now is we're collecting taxes for a February of 26 and an August of 26 payment. We're expending our expenditures on an August of 25th fifth 2025 payment and February 2026. So what's going on here is our payment in August of 25 is higher than our payment in August of 26. Now, if I increase again, if I increase my tax rate to kind of drop that down, I'll lose my hold harmless. And so, you almost have to increase your tax rate more than 3.5 million, which is in hold harmless right now, to get that to do anything. And so, we'll continue to monitor that. It's a complete timing issue. So, what questions do you have? I mean, I know that is extremely confusing. So I mean
009the the 2.1 million that is showing a deficit there. So it is only temporary but it would come out of our our fund balance. The part that is set aside for it comes out of fund balance. But that's a great point because what's going to happen this year is we we uh um levy taxes to pay for February and August of 25. So that money, a large fund balance is going to increase in your debt service fund. Okay? And then that's to pay your August of 25 payments. Then we're levying this tax to pay our August of 26 taxes. So our fiscal years no longer line up. In addition to that, TEA looks at our debt payments when they're figuring our hold harmless based on February of 26 and August of 26. And our expenditures
010are on a different time frame. We're changing our fiscal year. Yeah. Well, well, we're the No, it's happening. Yes, it happened because we changed our fiscal year. But this is something that we're going to face with if you level your debt out. And once you level your debt out and you're not seeing huge fluctuations, you're not going to see this. But but since there was there's over a $3 million difference between the 2025 and the 2026 payment, we're getting hit here. Okay. Does that make sense? I probably should have just said it like that. No, it's sorry. Thank you for understanding tonight. Complicated things. Well, no. It's fine. It's just when I looked at it the first time, I was like, uh, how good it's going to look next year. Yes, absolutely. No, it's not
011going to look geniuses next year. Well, or have to do it another explanation of why we're putting money in fund balance. That's for sure. Um, okay. So, then here's the general fund. So, there's a few things that are happened here since we put the paper notice. So, when we did our public notice, I gave this guy this to you guys. It was based on current law. Okay? However, since then, they've come out with a new compressed rates which are higher than what they were last fiscal year. Okay? So, we put it in the paper at 68.22. 22 versus 6969, which is what it is figuring right now based on my preliminary numbers, not my certified numbers. Okay? When I certify numbers come out, they're going to be based on 140,000 homestead exemption versus a 100,000
012homestead exemption. So to get my number, my preliminary numbers were a lot higher than 5%, but we built everything based on 5% just to try to take into account the the change between 100,000 and 140. And I feel pretty comfortable about that. Now, if they come in higher, we're going to be able to compress that tax rate a little bit more because we're not compressing to the floor. And most people in the state have been compressing their tax rate to the floor. But however, the entire state only grew 5.7% in property values was what's being estimated. So our compressions are a lot different this year than they have been in the past. Therefore, it's almost going to take an 11% increase to get you compressed to the floor. So we're probably not going to get
013there this year. So uh we're going to be in in between there. So right now we're going to just sit right now until we have our preliminary I mean our certified numbers. And then of course I have to submit those into TEA and TEA tells me where I set my tax rate. But what will happen is if you remember the cups and I tell you okay if I have state funding then I'm going have less local funding. What'll happen is we'll have to do a budget amendment once we have those because our bucket should be the same. We just might have to decrease tax increase state revenue and move some things around like that. Okay. Okay. So um there's that first hit. Uh we are budgeting a decline in enrollment. We were estimating a 1
014point I think 4% going into this school year. Of course, we lost students this school year. Plus, we anticipate to lose a few more students going into the next school year. So, there is a decline in the budget. So, if you were looking at how Bill Two runs and comparing it to what I have, you might think they have a little bit more revenue, but they're anticipating us to have more students than we do because they don't have our actual revenue, our actual PES records, right, just yet to show where we ended this school year. Okay? So, then they'll start making some of those adjustments. Uh the staff raises are based again on plan F. That means that's the highest raise that we have in our our runs. So, if if it's less, that's fine.
015we can do a budget amendment. And then the revenues and expenditures are budgeted on current interpretation of a House bill 2. And so we're still looking through everything and we're we we feel comfortable with what we're presenting, but they're still tea is still giving us guidance on what the legislation passed. Okay. We had some as as close as last week, we had some guidance come out on the salaries. So we're still working through everything. Any questions? Two quick things. The 6822 has our eight eight golden pennies in it, right? So, it's would be whatever that Yeah. four is 022 and then it's 6169. And then the 140 I mean, you're saying you're working the calculations in that. Doesn't that have to go officially to the voters? Is that true? The 140 I don't believe has
016to It's not going to Okay. I I can somebody The 65,000 has to go to the voters. Okay. Yeah. And the 65,000 is those that are 65 and older. That has to go to the voters. Okay. So, this is this is coming. Thank y'all for Can you Can you remind me again when do you get your certified? Uh July 25th. Okay. All right. So, this is really kind of going through. I just wanted to touch real quick based on kind of where our savings were this year to kind of put it back in place. Um we re reestablished staffing models. We just made a few adjustments there. Really trying to just to get those classrooms to 22 to1 for our elementary, 25 to one for our intermediate, middle school, and high school. That was really
017our goal there. And so that's where you're seeing a majority of those savings. So of course, we had some increases just for the minutes to cover our minutes and sped. Uh the increase in campus budgets, we increased their budgets by 75,640. Most of that savings came from the central uh office where we were taking things from central and moving it back to the campuses. Uh we review zerobased budgets. Um we we have some contingencies in here for curriculum. We have some additions for esser loss and then we have some contingencies for of course our attendance incentive and then for a financial software. So those contingencies plus our increase um in custodial supplies due to the loss in esser comes to about 866,000. Um then we had some savings across the board when we look at
018different departments just where we could save money per student funding in different departments as well as uh just looked at everything. Um we decreased training in some places. We moved things around. We looked at savings that we could receive based on temps and um overtime pay and things like that. So that was about another $799,000 savings. And then of course we reduced that 40,000 400,000 for departmental budgets. Um, the other thing I want to discuss before we go into the budget is compensation and what we're looking at. Of course, what is built in this budget is House Bill 2 retention on every plan. What we've done is set aside the money for teachers with 2500 as we understand those to be today for three to four years. And though those that are 5,000 for classroom
019teachers, we've got five plus years that get $5,000. Um, that was based on Texas Education Code 5.001 001 when the legislation met when TEA came out with their guidance they said an 087 teacher is what qualifies for this which is typically what we know is a classroom teacher and that's a PES code that we'll be submitting into TEA and that's how we'll receive our funding. Uh the other allotment we receive for staffing is 45 for regular program allotment that can be used on these type positions. The only thing that cannot be used on is administrative. So we can't use any of that additional funding on administration. That funding is about 515,000 for our our district. So we have six proposed plans, but to make it easy, I've kind of broke it out into two plans
020because the teachers are the same on three, you know, and then four through six in a sense. So A through C and then uh D and F. So A through C or House bill two raises for classroom teaches teachers based on their experience. So it goes back to House Bill two. If they have uh three or four years, they get the 25. If they have five above, they get 5,000. Our district then said that if you are one and two, you get 25 at least. So, we kind of made that right for them. It increases a zeroyear teacher from 57 51750 to 52250. And then 2500 for all other employees. And so those are the employees that they're they're not qualifying as 087 records or classroom teachers. So, that's going to be our librarians, our
021uh nurses, our dyslexia, ESL enrichment, um uh our instructional coaches, things like that. This plan would give them the $2,500. Uh then the other plans, pay families, which is your administrative pay scale, your auxiliary pay scale, and your clerical pay scale, are all based on the following. It would be a 3% midpoint, the 5.8 million, 4% is the 6.4, and 5% is the 6.8. A. Okay. So that's if you would go with plan A through C and this is the cost on that plan. Now there was a little bit of movement on teachers, librarians and nurses because the first time we looked at it, we did it based on a percentage but then then when we came back and started looking at it further, we just made it all House Bill 2 eligible. Okay. So
022it moved a little bit on the on the cost. here is when you look at D through ELF, you're looking at 2500 for your base pay and that's 1 to four years and 5,000 for any teacher 5 years or older, I mean or over in experience. Uh the beginning teacher pay would move from 51750 to 52250. Of course, we would cover the TIA in this me the budget as well as any market changes. And again, that 3% would be at 6.1 4% 6.696 696 and your 5% would be $7 million to do a 5% raise. Uh again, that budget, these are the cost. So if you did the 5% raise for the pay families and then 2500 for uh teachers one through four and teachers five and over older over in experience, sorry. Um it
023would be the $2.1 million deficit to the budget. That is what is built into the current budget. So I wanted to break it out a little bit. So just what our increases and decreases are. So this is just looking at per object code classification. And you can kind of see where we had increases and decreases across the board. And then further I wanted to break it down by your local, state, and federal. Of course once we have our certified numbers, you can see you'll see some movement between the state and local revenue there. Uh the rest is kind of set um based on current understanding of House Bill 2. I do want to say that because we could find some other things out that could adjust revenue up or down. Uh if you look at
024your student related expenditures, we're up $3.8 million. And then all other expenditures, including your maintenance and operation expenditures, were up 993,000 per this budget. Total expenditures increased 4.8 million. Of course, seven over seven million of that would be the 5% raise if that was what was adopted. Uh the other sources, of course, that is our flood at Pebble Creek. We just have a few items that have not come in yet. And so that's a little bit of change from the last time because I need to set some money aside so to cover those expenditures in the next school year. That's the little $4,000 there that they just haven't received everything. And so, uh there's your difference. Uh we want to talk about fund balance. And so if when you look at this money and you
025look at the expenditure of the previous budget, we're really close. 39 million is what we would need. We anticipate adding about 6 million to that unassigned fund balance that currently is at 38.5. Uh if we were to add 6 million to the fund balance this school year with the 10 10 month versus 12-month budget, that would give us about two years to be able to reduce the budget to get it under control. Does anybody have any questions so far? Can you remind me of the increase in salaries? I like that you um put the a few slides up where you the expenditure budget showing for between last year and proposed for next year that 5.4 million. How much of that is do you know the number of how much was directly funded from House Bill
026two? How much is the state actually how much of that is actually coming from the state and how much else are we going to have to try to you know put in to to meet that. Do you happen to know that? I can't. Yes. So we get 515 for one of the funding and right now it's sitting about $3.5 million for the other. So you're looking at a little over $4 million. Some of the runs go as high as $4.4 million for additional funding. It's going to depend on those final decisions on what qualifies as a classroom teacher and what doesn't. So, that's going to be some of it as well. And then there's another thing out there where they have caught on. I was hoping that they wouldn't, but uh they have caught on
027to the fact that a lot of some of our teachers, 29 I believe, are funding from federal programs. And so, I think they're going to catch us there where they might not give us the funding for those teachers. That's going to be 100% absorbed by our federal grants. And I hate if that's the case because that just means that that's less money that we can spend out of local funding. And that that could hurt us a little. but they have not made a decision on what they're going to do with our federally funded teachers. So depending on the raise, a little over three million we would be funding. So basically a potential deficit if you went with plan F, the 2.1 million deficit would be basically all money given to staff and raises. There is
028some I do want to point out there are some one-time expenditures in the budget. And so, uh, when you look at that eight, there's about a half a million sitting there are just onetime expenditures. And I always kind of like to bring that up because that's something you hope will decrease in the in the upcoming years. Um are we pretty confident as far as you know they House Bill 2 funding that we're going to get based upon the teachers years of experience. Yeah. Okay. So there there will be some adjustments there but then it'll be adjustments in the teacher salaries as well. So uh where we are at this time because we're adopting a July one budget we have movements in and movements out. And so what will happen is it'll be based on snapshot.
029So what we turn in on snapshot of years of experience of those teachers as well as um the count of them is how we'll get our funding is what they said. So where we are in October. So we'll have a few retired teachers that will be moving out and younger teachers will be moving in. So there'll be some fluctuations in revenue there as well as expenditures if you want to know the truth. Because when when you adopted July 1, we haven't hired everybody. We haven't put them out. we don't know their years of experiences. And so, usually you receive a little bit of savings on that because you've got some of your older teachers with more experience and then you're hiring some younger ones and that's going to fluctuate where you are on that scale.
030And Josh, we're not making any really any assumptions. We're going basically off the guidance like on the coding of the teachers. So, we followed everything. Some districts were going out instead of putting that additional money for teachers into the pay scale. They were wanting to put it in the stipens because tech technically it's an aotment that could go away so it's not in technical law and then we received guidance. I think I sent you guys Friday. We had planned on putting it in the scale. The guidance came and said yes, it had to be in the scale. So we've we've kind of followed and hadn't made any. We've kind of I guess probably more than likely done worst case scenario of how it would impact us financially versus best case and I there are a
031lot of Senate bill runs out and so I've looked at every single one of them and but then we've also I've counted every one of our teachers on each step so I haven't looked at their guidance in a sense of just to make sure my number's higher than their number you know when you're when you're backing into the numbers so that we don't get caught anywhere. So hopefully that'll be the case. There a lot of the guidance that are that's still to come is stuff that we really don't have in the House bill runs yet because they're holding back on how this might affect because they don't know how it'll affect. There's just a couple of them in there where we we've got to know how many kids qualify for um intervention because they've failed
032the STAR test. You know that that's number is a fluctuation number that we don't have any historical information in a sense financially wise. Uh the other number that's in there is interventions because we'll get the $1,000 per sped intervention and we're going off of what we anticipate our interventions to be. But you know th those numbers we'll be pulling in the future and then getting a better idea. But those are still small aotments going into the to the big picture. The biggest the biggest allotments of course is your $55 in your um basic aotment, your 106 based on enrollment. Uh and then your $55 based on ADA for your additional funding. But like I said, those are such small per student aotments and those are they're they're pretty set. Isn't there some sped money that
033we won't get till the next year too that could really help us out? Yes, we will get additional sped money in the next year. However, if you remember when I when we started talking about this and they were taking that guaranteed yield out, we're going to lose some of that money. Um, it looks like this bed funding is going to be higher than what we're going to lose, but you're not going to see that huge increase. Like, if they anticipate us to get a million, we're still going to lose a large portion when they held our go guaranteed yield and they upfronted our money this year with the full $55 in the basic aotment. And some of the a lotments you'll see kind of go up, but if you remember that $55 increase in basic
034aotment, it'll increase how much money you get in sped a little bit, how much you get in dyslexia because it all goes off that formula. I feel like we've been looking at this for a long time. you've been looking at this a lot, but um just from the perspective of those who might listening and trying to understand, you know, what we're come down to today that we've been looking at for a little while here, we've got a situation where classroom teachers specific definition of classroom teacher is going from the state to get these 2500 or 5,000 if they've reached a certain amount of experience and we as a district are trying to see how do we bring everybody else into that. um and not just those that are on the classroom teacher pay scale, but
035then our other staff as well. And I think it's just important to note that um these three cate like there's the three columns that you have when you're talking about plans A through C and uh D through F. You've got classroom teachers, the others who are on the teacher pay scale and then all other staff. But um c give us some examples of who are in that all other staff if you don't mind. Okay. So, are we talking about all other staff for teachers or are we talking about all that third column where it's three, four or five percent? I just think it's good for clarity for us to understand. We might make assumptions about what that um that column is, but could you give us some examples? So, when you're looking at the different
036groups here, clerical and professional is all clerical and professional. Okay. Auxiliary, when you're looking auxiliary, so if you're looking at aids and things like that, you're going to be clerical professional. If you're looking at a secretary, an aid, a uh LVN, a um a receptionist, a registar, a an attendance clerk, that's really going to be your category there. You your auxiliary staff are your bus drivers, your custodians, your maintenance guys, your food service cafeteria workers and and and employees uh like that. your administrative p professional staff is your APS, your principles, your counselors, your art facilitators, um your nurses, your diags, your LVNs, your admin here in central um your uh gosh, I don't know if I'm missing anybody, but there's a director of maintenance, directors, correct? Your um director of custodial, your you know,
037it's it's a huge pay family and it's all on one pay, right? just think it's good for us to point out we've got a lot of people um that are in those categories that don't fall on that teacher, you know, pay scale that we're also talking about trying to give raises to. And so I just wanted that to kind of come out into like here's what we're talking about on these three different um coordinators are on that, assistant directors are on that. Want to remind y'all too, we've got several different categories on the teacher pay scale that aren't part of House Bill 2. So, when we gave you the scenarios of the 2500 and the 5,000, all of those folks that are on that teacher pay scale are getting that number, not just those that
038qualify. That's where the roughly $3 million we make up to to create equity. That would be the D, E, and F. Yes, ma'am. Right. Yes. Yeah. That was something Well, it's something we've talked about as a team. We talked about it uh Friday during the special meeting. uh you know, in my opinion, there's not one group of employees that's more important than the other. It takes all of us and their role in our district. And so, I've never, as a superintendent, proposed different raises for different staff members. Equity is huge. And like I told you then, I think we've got an opportunity to really uh jump out there and close some of our scales uh some of the gaps that we currently have and continue to make us an attractive option. Jeeoff, are we talking
039are we obviously we're not voting here during this, but are we going to talk about where we're going to land now or during the the board meeting? You can discuss now. I mean, if you want to disc I' be more comfortable if you're discussing where you are to wait until we got an action item in front of us. You got questions about the plans, I think now is the best kind of time to talk about it. But clarifying questions, correct? But when we got the action in front of us, I think at that point probably be more appropriate. Okay, back to next steps here. Um, we'll adopt the tax rate in August of 2025 or September. We can adopt it in September. It would be probably the latest time, but then we'll also bring a
040budget adjustment back in those months as well in August and September and just kind of sum everything up once we get some final numbers. Are there any questions? All right. Thank you guys for your time. Thank you. Do we want to close the public hearing, please? Close the public hearing. Sounds good. No one signed up to comment, so we're good there. Item D, no hearing of citizens for the workshop. Brings to item E1, SB 401. Yeah, we've got a couple items for workshop. Uh, these won't take very long. Uh, there is a change in Senate Bill 401. Senate Bill 401 dealt with uh homeschool students being able to participate in UIL activities in public schools. So, prior to this year in 2425 school year, school district had to take action as a board to opt
041in to allowing homeschool students to participate in our UIL activities. There was a change in the 89th legislative session. And so as a as a district, a board of trustees has to take uh action by September 1 of that you opt out of homeschool students participating in UI activities. If a board takes no action by September 1 of 2025, homeschool students are eligible to participate in all of our UIL activities. So I'm putting this before you today. We had some speakers about a year ago um about homeschool students being allowed to participate. Uh at that point in time, we really didn't have a lot of discussion on it. I don't think most folks on the board had an appetite for that. So, just bringing it to your attention. Uh we will bring this forward at
042the July meeting for action on Senate Bill 401. Got any questions? We can talk through them right now. I guess it's important to note we don't get funded on those kids. We let them participate in our sports, but we're not getting money. I think people understand that. They don't understand why we're right. Not necessarily funding for students. Uh you know, I've always had the if I think we've got a great school district. If if our band, choir, football, theater is good enough, then our classroom should be good enough. That's just where I personally sit on it. There's not a lot. I've tried to do a quick search. I've seen a number at one point in time roughly 50 districts out of the 1,200 in the state had allowed the participation. So, it has not been
043it was an interesting change because you had to to make a decision to allow it to happen and you had less than, you know, not even a tenth of the districts that had taken that action. So, now you've got to opt. It was just a It's an interesting change in the law that to me was unnecessary, but it is what it is. [Music] Mine is not near as complicated as Heather, so Thank goodness. Okay, we have um six policies we will be voting on, not this board meeting, but in July, local policies. First one being a lot of them are board related, the BDA, BDAA, and that just aligns the district with practices and to clarify um board officers that when they serve and um when they how long they serve and that kind of
044thing. It's very very clear in the policy. Um then be any questions about that? Chie, could I ask just a general question before I mean I know obviously the legal stuff we have to do because the legal policy updates because they're the law so we have to accept those. So on these local ones I know usually you're getting some kind of recommendation out of uh TASBY to make a change. Were all these driven by something coming out of Tazby or are they some of them just things that locally we've looked at and want to change or are they just um what's driving some of the changes I guess besides just maybe some cleaning? It varies. Sometimes we as a district decide we want to look at our local policy and change some things and sometimes
045it's driven by um policy. There are several things in here we were already doing that are now being voted on as local policy. Um, so it just varies. It depends on what it is. But there are times when we decide we want to look at legal and see if we can do something locally a little differently. And then I have to run that through TASBY and they run it through legal and then they draw it up for me in proper policy and then I bring it to workshop and then all districts don't bring it to workshop first. We always bring it to workshop first and let you ponder it and then vote on it the next meeting. But that's kind of this update was not driven by us. If we have an update that's driven
046by us, we'll bring it to you under separate cover. Yeah. Okay. That's kind of what I'm asking. So for these specific, correct? They were kind of just the I know that every once in a while we just get recommendations, but Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Okay. That's what Okay. The next one is BDB and it's again local and it just determines the number and the terms and the responsibility and it's pretty clear there. Any questions on that one? And then the next one is BDF and that's um separating um board committees from citizen committees and really putting u much more clarity on when you do them when you have them. They even changed the title of the policy and separated them. So and talked about how you can end committees that are have citizens on it versus
047most committees are board committees. So it just separates that. It's pretty clear. Any questions on that? Okay, the next one is EI local. This is something we already did as a district. We This was a local policy we declared a long time ago and it has to do with partial credit and if you make a 70 and a 60 and a course that you get partial credit for the 70, you know, so we we've been doing that for a long time. Um then the next one is FDE and again we've done this um it's the bully it's adding bullying to the um safe and civil schools and making sure where um kids if they have been bullied or they've been a victim of any kind of abuse or sexual abuse that in that person is
048in the school you can get a transfer. It's it's very clear and it's that's been clear for a while and we have we have had no schools declare um unsafe and have not had to deal with this. So that's been there for a while. So then the next one is um attendance um FEC and that's this is an interesting one for us because we've had attendance committees for years mostly at the secondary intermediate middle and secondary level where they're working with absences and whether they get credit if they come enough days. We've always had those committees. The principal has input in it, but they usually have a committee. And then we have to do seat time if they haven't come to school enough. They are releasing us of seat time. Now, we can look at
049whether they've met the TEICSS, and there's some beauty in that. And then there's not. So, we have um administrators have a mixed view about that, but it's kind of nice, but it also was something that we could hold over people that helped them get some of the things done at the last minute. So, you know, there you go. I was surprised to see that. Um, then FC FAC is um about whether we have um respiratory distress, which is if we allow kids to have their um their whether we have unassigned inhalers and that kind of thing. We do not. So, that won't pertain to us. We do have unassigned epipins and that's already been policy, but this is just looking at kind of the same thing with that with with um inhalers. So, we are
050not we are not recommending that to do that. That's not something we're going to do. If we want it, we have to do something different. So, any questions? is the the FEC local change. Is that a legal requirement or um it's a local requirement, but there's also a legal requirement with it that we've had in place partially? Okay. Yeah. I guess my question is because you mentioned, you know, kind of the good and the bad of it. Um is it something we could not adopt and keep the seat requirements or Yes. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I'd have to look into that. I don't know generally when the recommendations come out with like major updates like this we need to follow their guidance because the legal guidance is it needs to be updated
051and some of these changes sometimes are a result of potential u lawsuits case studies uh and then generally it's lacking in a year and then everybody's playing catch-up. So generally this is trends that they've seen across the state that maybe uh you know pinched a district, put them in a bad spot and so they recommend the the updates. I guess technically you could say no but then you're kind of exposing yourself to something that's happened somewhere potentially. Dang, dang lawyers. You got to have the tendance committees though. So so those are good. It's little question. So if they aren't required to be in the seats and we have to prove te's mastery is that grades for high school kids or I mean we the committee can look at all kinds of unique it's very spelled
052out in the long side of it you every situation is unique and the committee is now required to look at every unique situation the committees already did that so it's kind of funny I think part of the issue that this came up is because some school districts really weren't doing the committee is um with fidelity and we've done that for a long time. So that's my opinion. Yeah, it's always been a problem. Any questions? Anything else? All good. Thank you. Um that brings to a jury.