001[Music] welcome everybody it is a little after 7 March 18th regularly scheduled board meeting uh call to order item B Declaration of Quorum five members present welcome everybody thank you all for being here welcome to the meeting of College Station Independent School District border we were elected at large to represent the interest of our community and our state in educating our students our mission for our students in this district is Success each life each day each hour we adhere to all pertinent laws policies and procedures in posting agendas and conducting our meetings the detailed agenda information was made available to us at least 72 hours in advance we've all come to this meeting informed and prepared we've just completed a workshop meeting where we heard reports and discuss much of the information needed to make
002decisions in either this meeting or in upcoming meetings this is a meeting of the seven trustees in a public setting rather than a public meeting as such public comment is included on the agenda a specific time requires us to listen rather than take action so as to abide by the open meetings act we're pleased that you have taken time this evening to join us we are very proud of this school district we thank you for your interest in and support of our students that will bring us to item C1 pledges I think we have kiddos from Creek View greens prair and Spring Creek tonight right good evening I'm Donna barington I'm the principal at Greens Prairie Elementary and I have two fourth graders who are shining stars they're amazing students and I'm going to let
003them introduce themselves to you um so I'm going to turn the mic over to them uh hi I'm Leila I'm Adeline tell us your favorite subject in school my favorite subject in school is Texas history your favorite memory about green prair your favorite thing about green PR um my teachers and I like to read I like to draw and I like to bake tell me your favorite thing to bake brownies subject uh my favorite subject is Oho Texas history okay your favorite memory about GRE Prairie Miss B okay and you are your hobbies um reading singing and randomly dancing okay all right nice ladies thank you good evening I'm Mindy choa I'm the proud principal of Spring Creek Elementary and I have two of my wonderful fourth graders with us tonight I have Brooklyn branch
004and I have K and Granger they have been with Spring Creek since kindergarten and they have been a joy at Spring Creek they both bring so much happiness and just a ray of sunshine as you can tell KAS are best dressed always at Spring Creek um and so I'm going to let them share with you what makes Spring Creek so special hello my name is Brooklyn branch I love the receptionist miss choa and miss young and my my class hi I'm K Granger and I love Spring Creek because our staff and our faaly always helps you when you need help and I'm Mike mcer the principal at Creek View Elementary I've got four of our uh two of our fourth grade um can't count um yeah I wasn't educated at creie but thankfully um let's
005see here um got two fourth graders here that are fantastic leaders on our campus um and I'm going to let them introduce themselves howy I'm Colin Sledge I am a fourth grader at Creek View Elementary and a leader at Gator kids what I like to do with my free time is play games my favorite thing about quick view is Gator kids because it has a lot of fun I in my future I want to be a YouTuber and what if I was a principal I would put Pro I would probably put fifth grade here at Creek View Elementary hi my name is Tucker I am a fourth grader at Creek View Elementary I also a leader for our Gator kids program my favorite thing about Creek View is our teachers and our Gator kids program
006if I could change about our school it would be to have fifth and sixth grade at our school so now so I told him that you guys were in charge of things so all right so we'll do the uh we'll start us with the pledges col you're holding it if you could stand for us I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the Tex I pledge allegiance to the Texas one State under God one indivisible uh now for the moment of silence you may begin thank you may be SE [Applause] seated all right very nice okay come on get thank you thank you guys St St recogniz come up here we
007go first well this is a new tradition for us and I love it so I get to introduce to you uh the hardest working the biggest heart the go-getters uh these ladies are in initiators they just do they see a need um but most importantly um they love their kids and they are our sped team Amy EPS is our dyslexia teacher Jenny forner is our reading uh resource teacher and then Angela DEC is our pair professional Amy and Jenny open the doors at Greens Prairie so we've been together for 14 years now and um and then Angela came to us 10 years ago so uh but you talk about uh loving kids and um just doing what's above and beyond but uh sometimes they work with the students that are struggling and to build their
008confidence uh to be uh proficient successful readers they take that job seriously and so they are a model and an inspiration uh to the staff to the students and to me so I appreciate all of you very much and I I love having them uh call Greens Prairie home so thank [Applause] you okay so I would like to recognize my instructional coaches Brook Thompson and Melissa Crouch but Mel Melissa Melissa Crouch is still on spring break so we're only going to have Brook tonight so we have Brooke because our structural coaches go above and beyond any other their coaching duties they do everything on our campus and most importantly they've been helping us kind of roll out and Lead our solution to PLC which is a feat it's a huge feed and so they have
009been wonderful wonderful helpers with that and they have been so optimistic thinking outside the box it has just been a joy this is um Brook's first time being instructional coach and she is rocking it she is just so wonderful with our staff and with our students I don't know what we could do without you thank you so much for all you do [Applause] all right I got a team to bring up here so if you could come and join me here um I brought a sta a group of Staff members that a couple years ago started a program on our campus and we talked about it a little bit um some of our students got to share um during the pledges that they are part of Gator kids and Gator kids is a program at
010our school um that meets once a week after schools and it's really geared towards um building a community of of servant leaders and so they they raise money for different projects um a couple things that they've done they've done trick- or- treat for Unicef they've done gratitude challenges around the campus to recognize the hard work of our teachers campus beautification never goes un Unum looked Salvation Army bell ringing they spent the whole day uh bell ringing on Saturday for Salvation Army they packed food bags and so really it's just an organization that teaches our kids that it's it's above and Beyond just the math and the and the reading and the science and and those subjects but really teaches them how to be better community members and each of these ladies um gives above and
011beyond and so this is um Elan cortan Amy Tolland Jody Smith Christina moing um Susan is Anna Langford Tabitha revelo and Karen Rossman were not able to make it tonight but each one of these are a model for our kids um and one of the things that we work on as Gators is talking about being gracious accountable trustworthy giving outstanding effort and respect and these ladies model that for our kids um and they teach them about each of those qualities and um just very thankful for your hard work and dedication Beyond um the classroom so thank you we [Laughter] [Applause] all right Mr hak members of the board uh it's again uh my honor to recognize um some more folks um here tonight we have students who have recently uh competed in uh state level
012competitions and we're excited to recognize them here tonight we have four student groups and we'll start with our state wrestling participants so the district had nine wrestlers compete at the 2025 UIL State wrestling tournament last month in Cyprus we had both high schools represented um leading leading the way for um College Station High School was senior John humph he was the Lone csis wrestler who advanced yeah come on [Applause] John John was the Lone CSC wrestler who advanced through the championship bracket he made it through two rounds before finishing as the sixth best wrestler in the state for 5A 165 PB weight [Applause] class um and then our our next highlighted athlete was College Station High School junior Nadia [Applause] elzando Nadia led the way through the consolation bracket for CSC wrestlers advancing through four
013rounds and securing a top 10 finish in the 126 pound weight [Applause] class so we did have seven other wrestlers and qualifying for the state tournament is a feat in itself and we commend all of our CSC wrestlers for their hard work and perseverance this season this accomplishment is a testament to their dedication and strength as as well as their coaches um of our CSC wrestling program so please congratulate the rest of our wrestlers and wrestlers I'll call your names here in just in just a second everybody give them a round of [Applause] applause so from College Station High School Anella [Applause] cantero College Station High School Ariana Lopez [Applause] from College Station High School Brenda Cuna and from A&M Consolidated High School Josiah Tia [Applause] laella and I believe we do have one of
014our coaches here Jason you want to come up here Jason divorce [Applause] stay right here oh one more guys one more one more all right thank you congratulations all right the boys and girls swiming dive teams from A&M Consolidated High School recently competed at the 2025 U State swim meet in Austin after both the girls and boys teams finished second at the regional meet at the state meet the boys finished fifth and the girls finished 12th and tiger swimmers and divers brought home um over five medals from the state competition in addition to their success at the state meet the team received several all district and All Region honors and um in addition to that this is um this is a long tradition for the Consol swim and dive team um they've made um more
015than 10 consecutive trips to the state swim meet um in the course of their history and so uh we'd like to congratulate these student athletes for their hard work dedication commitment to continuous continuing the legacy of success here in csis let's give them a [Applause] hand so students as I call your name if you guys will come up receive your certificate and shake the hands of the board members and then we'll take a group photo at the end uh first B [Applause] bickham Alexis blle [Applause] Jaden [Applause] winaman Helen huner Ethan [Applause] Jen jayen [Applause] guac Ariana Larsson Colby Martin Cooper POG Brooklyn [Applause] pool Joseph guav Nate sherard and Edward Yang and coaches Marcy Kirk and Dusty C [Applause] we have a couple more who do we have all right Kelsey Kelsey rasm okay
016and Maddie Kus [Applause] right [Applause] all right students from the college station High School business Professionals of America chapter recently competed at the state leadership conference in Dallas with 11 students qualifying for the national competition students demonstrated their expertise and professionalism competing in various events across categories such as Finance Business Administration Management Information Systems digital Communications and design management and marketing and Communications and Health Administration in addition to competing students contributed internship hours to help ensure the success of the conference and participated in leadership ship personal growth and development Workshops the chapter's engagement and Outreach were recognized by the BPA carees social media Buzz award students as I call your name please come and be recognized by the board Nam win Sawa myamoto Kelly ding Derek win Andrew Kim Lynn Win and their adviser chenica
017Brooks [Applause] great job give them a second to get their certificates all right all right and lastly we're proud to recognize a group of exceptional students from A&M Consolidated high school and college station High School who recently represented csisd at the Texas Association of future Educators state competition in Galveston these students are a part of The Ready Set teach program which is a pathway for future Educators and allows them to gain hands-on experience and develop the skills needed to inspire the Next Generation competing at the state level is a remarkable accomplishment and our students showcase their creativity dedication and passion for education so first earning a gold medal for her exceptional work in the teacher created materials category is kaln uh kiik from College Station High School sorry Kik all right also bringing home a
018gold medal um in the interactive bulletin board category is niky Walker from A&M Consolidated High School all right winning a silver medal in the interactive bulletin board category is I'm sorry I'm so I'm going to butcher your name I'm so sorry J jna Carter from A&M consolidate high school then also competing in the children's literature at prease Spanish was Samantha Pon Rodriguez College Station high school and in exploring Support Service careers was uh Maricella gabone right and their adviser Tiffany Thorne [Applause] sorry good evening everybody my name is Chuck Longwell I'm the driver supervisor with the transportation department and I'm here to recognize one of our newer drivers uh Sergio aruno Sergio came to us right at the end of October um and and quickly got his license and has has be become one of
019our very reliable drivers uh I don't think anything actually shakes this man um I've been in conversations with him and he just yeah okay um uh he has become a source of just a constant U calm and he's always there when we need him um picking up where where things might have fallen off um and he's just always there and I'm very very thankful that he decided to come work for us um so I have a certificate here for you and a gift card that was provided by E3 and the Education Foundation along with that fancy parking spot so thank you so much for everything you [Applause] do it's a new traine all right that'll bring us to item C4 we want to recognize the artwork there at the back of our board room from
020the students at Creek View Greens Prairie and Spring Creek so make sure y'all check those out before you head out today brings us to item D1 board reports anybody like to go first I have a couple um we had the February meeting of sha um that I attended and at that meeting um Tracy Buro gave us a safety update from the district and I felt like that was really informative for everybody that was great um and just on a side note you know thank you to miss Buro for all the work that she does in that area um Education Foundation has a lot going on it's the end of the year they're always busy but a couple things to note um One new thing this year is that the Education Foundation is matching uh a
021two a $20,000 Grant to help with um a new a initiative we have in our district and I think that's really cool because this is all you know partially in part to our new CTE Center um and the things that are happening there but um that money is going to support a freezer sale at the brazza city youth Livestock Show and that helps some of our csisd students to recoup some of their investment they've made um in this year so that they can continue to do those same things next year and that's a really great new program uh also senior Hall of fame's coming up um on April 23rd and that's where we're going to be honoring 64 of our outstanding students and the Educators that they've chosen so um thank you to Education Foundation
022for all the work they're doing for our kids and teachers um I'm on the Head Start policy Council so just a few updates um for Head Start First grab a cup of joe uh this coming Tuesday the 25th um here at 9:00 a.m. it's going to be the chat and it's going to be all about Early Education and Head Start secondly um they have a Roundup coming up uh so go to that on Wednesday April 2nd 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. there's just a couple things you need to bring with you just to see if you can become a part of our Early Education group um here at the district and then thirdly um it is the national Head Start 60th birthday this year so um big deal it's been six Decades of getting kids
023involved at an early age and it's just really important to kind of celebrate that so yeah all right uh superintendent update yes sir the year is flying by we have only nine weeks left in the 2425 school year so time is flying by and as you can tell by your calendars the spring is extremely busy uh Wednesday we have a DEC meeting at 4:10 Thursday is our success team meeting Friday is our last truste tour we'll visit V visit College Hills I'm going to look at tweaking this a little bit next year that on our visits we'll do a AM and PM visit so we can get around to more campuses so we'll look at that and change up that schedule a little bit next year and do 9:00 to 10:30 come back here for
024lunch and then a 1: to 2:30 U and hit a school uh twice to kind of a little bit more on your time but we'll get you around to see and if you can't make one but possibly you can make the other so I'll get that scheduled out towards the end of the spring uh we have a secondary Staffing analysis with leadership team here in campuses starting next Monday and Tuesday so at the April board meeting we'll kind of give you an update of where we are from a staffing analysis standpoint uh K through2 and what that looks like and March the 29th as our brazes County Youth Livestock Show can I just point out one thing that that you've done in um the the note I didn't know if you were going to say
025it so I waited but the legislative update email that just came out yesterday am I right yes ma'am right I just want to make sure that I mean it was great to have that and make sure everybody's aware that that um that is available to for you to sign up and and and get regular updates that I that we're providing the district's providing about key legislative bills and where they are stand so I mean it's it's a great it's a great resource do we have that on the website also that they can actually go where where can they access that on the webs board legislative updates it's under the the board it's under the board and then our okay wonderful I begin I want appreciate that very much yeah the legislative session we really start
026picking up now the the last St of file bills has passed so things will really start picking up uh there is a major divide between both houses when it comes to vouchers and what that looks like and a really really large divide when it comes to funding public education and what that looks like and so they're not uh it's not a surprise they're generally not each house is not super close but uh hopefully there's going to be a compromise that will benefit our school district and our and our teachers and staff members uh big time here in the next several weeks so we'll see how that pens out all right that bring us to item e hearing citizens we don't have any signed up and then that brings us to item F consent agenda those
027items are item G i1 J1 through j7 that is all move to approve the consent consent agenda I second motion by Miss Simmons second by miss igy any further question or comment all those in favor say I all those same sign motion carries 5 bring us to item K1 consider approval of a guaranteed maximum price amendment of 38,8 78,3 for the construction and renovation of Anum Consolidated High School with durch Inc and to appoint the district superintendent Dr Tim Harrier to the district's representative and to authorize him to execute the agreement with durch Inc Mr Buckner okay thank you for having me tonight um so durch has uh they were selected this past June as the um construction manager at risk for one of the uh major Bond projects of the 23 bond which is
028the additions and Final Phase of renovations to Anam Consolidated High School um they uh after multiple meetings with stakeholders for that campus with uh principal um Department leads and everything and working with VK Architects able to come to all of the construction documents and the design of this project and the durch put this project out for bid um earlier this winter and opened up those bids February 5th and after consultation with durch uh VK and representatives from College Station including myself and um Josh simac we were able to come to a uh GMP for this project so the GMP they came with is 38 m878 188 uh for this project they are looking to commence on this as was brought up in the workshop earlier next week on Monday and has a substantial completion in
029the summer of 2026 I move to approve as presented I'll second motion by s in second by Miss McAdams any comment or questions just to make you just mentioned that there was a good discussion of this with a lot more detail on it in the workshop and that that if you know if anybody wants to see the schedule and the plan for um for how it's going to be man managed over the the next you know 15 some so 15 so months you know that that you can go look at the workshop yes yes yeah all those in favor say I all right all those opposed say sign motion carries 5 Z Item K2 consider approval of a guaranteed maximum price of 56,800 715 for the construction and renovation of College Station High School Rock
030PR and Rock Prairie Elementary with drala construction and to appoint the district superintendent to the district's represent representative in to authorize him to execute the agreements with drala construction Mr Buckner so this project was kind of the same timeline as Anum Consolidated High School uh drala construction was selected as the uh construction manager at risk this past summer and uh through various meetings consultations with Architects and through all of our design process um this project was formulated and drala came to us with the notion to merge these projects together one is because Rock Prairie Elementary was a smaller project and there was a uh apprehension that we would get the uh subcontractor turnout on bidday and by combining these we were able to formulate this into a larger project that was more attractive for subcontractors
031to bid on and that is what we did and we were able to um come in um under budget on this project as well as drala came to us to shorten the length of this project by changing How We Do College Station high school as doing all four areas at the exact same time versus spreading it out by doing that we were able to shave off uh six months of the project and close to $100,000 in in savings as well so doing that was uh more beneficial to the school district to uh to move with that U philosophy that they Pro proposed so with that being said um bids were open on this one on February 19th and after going through all those the GMP for the guaranteed maximum price for this project is the
03256 m850 715 for both Rock Prairie and College Station High School I move to approve as presented second motion by Miss igy second by Miss Simmon any further question or comments I guess just the added comment that and you mentioned it the the cost savings but this was really discussed and brought up in the workshop as well I mean your team is taking on a lot of uh projects um started now right um and but that the you mentioned some of the cost Savings of doing put putting these together but also just as uh um the potential inflation costs that could happen if we you know DeLay So I think um a lot of good argument for for having this all get started even though it's going to be busy for y'all's team and also
033a lot going on at one time it'll be V busy but it'll be uh quick two years for all these projects but um you don't know what the future holds with with things going on with the potential of the tariffs everything else we don't know where prices could be I I've did projects during covid and it was up and down and it was very crazy with dollar Mount so it's better to get locked in as soon as you can and move on these projects and delay it thank you and besides the financial incentive I um am thankful that our district is moving forward with all of the projects for the bonds that our community you know has given us the ability to do and not it's great to have those for our students sooner rather
034than later so appreciate that all those in favor say I I all those opposed same sign motion carries 5 Z Item K3 consider approval of track repairs at aim Consolidated High School Mr B so this one um as youall know pis replac the or resurfaced the track at ANM Consolidated High School this past summer after that was completed um actually quite a few months later or so it was found that in one of the corners of the track that that portion of the track in Lane 8 is starting to slump off it is on the end where the uh the creek is back there so this is separate from that this past summer this is a new project but since helis did that one it was determined to be able to keep our warranties and
035everything else that they have provided us for that project to go with them during this project to re make those repairs as well as to fill in the area of the track where the bleachers were in the end zone that were uh recently removed and this project has some contingency in it of 14,000 but it gives us a total project cost of 152,000 $835 can I ask a question sorry a question on this one because when I would first see this knowing we we just did the track repairs that I would have expected this to be part of what they might cover with a warranty and um being that something that the foundation and the part of the structure would be part of it can you explain that a little bit more why this is
036not included in what we just we just paid them the Consol project was only a resurface all they did is put the a new Surface on top of the track and this issue was not present during that portion of the project this summer this this issue arose after it was all completed that's why it separated and we identified the issue ourselves it was not present prior to yeah it wasn't present several months after that and so it wasn't until started track practice uh early January middle of January that we noticed um that it was not what it was 3 weeks before then anyone have a motion I move to approve as presented I second that motion by Miss Simmons second by Miss Wilson further comment or question all those in favor say I all those
037oppos same sign motion carries 5 thank you thank you Mr bugner uh we will go into executive session for two items thank y'all for being here tonight if you're here when we get back we'll see you then [Music]