AISD School Board Meeting 4-20-26

001All right, good evening. The time is 5:00 p.m. It is April 20th, 2026. It's a regularly scheduled meeting of the Argyle ISD Board of Trustees. At this time, we will determine if a quorum is present. Leona McDavid, present. Josh Wester, present. Rich McDavid, present. Leanne Artho, present. >> Matt Slaton, present. Carrie Hawks, present. And I'm Sam Slaton, present. We do have a quorum established. All right, so we have one little activity we need to take care of, one little special recognition before we adjourn to close session, as we normally do at the beginning. Um, but with all the spring activities going on, there are some calendar conflicts um happening tonight. And it is the induction of the Argyle High School National Honor Society, which is a very important evening to recognize our scholar uh students

002over there. And three of our scholar students happen to be children of three of our sitting board members who also have business with the district to conduct tonight. So, we're going to have a little special recognition, Mrs. Knowles. I'll turn it over to you at this time. Okay. Okay. Do y'all want to come up? So, they can get a chance to witness this incredible event for their young ladies. All right. Face that >> Face whichever direction you want. Why don't y'all face Ms. Knowles since she's going to read the oath. >> Okay. That's right. Will all the candidates please stand? Thank you. Uh candidates, it's my honor to lead you in the pledge, which will signify your official induction to Argyle High School chapter of the National Honor Society. Please repeat after me. I pledge

003myself to uphold I pledge myself to uphold the high purpose of Argyle National Honor Society the high purpose of Argyle National Honor Society Okay. to which I have been selected. to which I have been selected. I will be true to the principles I will be true to the principles >> for which it stands for which it stands >> scholarship, service scholarship, service >> leadership and character leadership and character May I always seek May I always seek the light of truth the light of truth hold scholarly habits hold scholarly habits engage in worthy service engage in worthy service and lead forward in all things and lead forward in all things that shall advance that shall advance the welfare of my school and community. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate each of you on

004this achievement. It is a very significant honor. You will find that when you apply for college entrance or for employment, that college faculties and personnel in the industry recognize the society membership with respect. You may be seated. Hold on. Oh, no. We got something special. Okay, ladies, if you'll go to the microphone. Oh, yeah. So, if you would please tell us your name and your dad's name and your favorite thing about attending Argyle High School, so we all know who everybody belongs to. Okay. Um my name is Sawyer Slayden. My dad is Sam Slayden. And my favorite thing about attending Argyle High School is getting to see the warm and smiling faces of all the people and getting to engage with my friends and being in classes that I love. Excellent. Thank you. Good. Thank

005you. She didn't say fine arts, either. Okay. My name is Georgia Slayden. My dad is Matthew Slayden. And my favorite thing about Argyle is seeing my friends each day and learning about the things I Excellent. Thank you. Congratulations to both of you. All right. Next. My name is Ella Westrum and my dad's name is Josh Westrum. Um My favorite thing about attending Argyle is seeing my friends in the morning and probably sit sitting in my car before school. Excellent. So, it sounds like their experience is a very positive one. That's right. Congratulations, ladies. We're very proud of you. And thank you for giving us an extra little ceremony this this evening, so we can all be a PART OF IT. YES. YES, WE'RE GOING TO DO A PICTURE, IF YOU DON'T MIND. MR. Harris will

006take a picture of you. All right. Who's that? You want to sit back here? Are you just doing this for fun? We'll do a group one and then we'll let the dads take one. He's a Can I put the idea in my head? Yes. You're going to have to do it. Everybody take a big step to the right. I'm good. Okay, we'll let them do this Say "Area 51". Okay. Are you going to do all the pictures? We'll do all the Okay, perfect. All right. Okay, 1 3. Good job. Oh. Photo bomb in the back. 6 Perfect. Okay. That's sure. The girls, good job. Yes. I know. That's yeah. But once again So who has a voice that can help me out with this? Yeah. Thank you all. Hey, Shannon. I know. That's good. Bye,

007y'all. Thanks for coming. >> Thank you, ladies. I have so many slightens. All right. Now, the time is 5:06 p.m. and under the authority of the Texas Government Code 551 Subchapter D, the board will now go into closed session to discuss 551.074 personnel matters and public officers, 551.071 consultation with attorney, 551.072 deliberation regarding real property, and 551.076 deliberation regarding physical safety and security. >> Mhm. >> All right, good evening. Apologize for the delay. 6:26 p.m. at this time. We have our friends from South Elementary that are going to do our pledges. Come on up. Good evening, Mrs. Age. Hello everybody. Thanks for having us here tonight. I am the proud school counselor of Argyle South. And I brought some of our fifth grade student leaders from student council. And I'm super proud of them tonight.

008So they're going to introduce themselves. You ready? Okay. All right, I'm Crosby. And why do you like South? And I like South because the teachers teach you stuff that is amazing every single day. My name's Audrey and one thing I like about South is how nice the teachers are and how much they help us learn every day. My name's Ava and my favorite thing about Argyle South is that they always greet you with a warm hug each day. My name is Jackson and I like Argyle South because of the community we have there. My name's Abhinav and I like Argyle South because of the people. My name is Shataraju and I like Argyle South because all my classmates are really nice and kind and the food is really good. Ready? You got it. I pledge

009allegiance 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 Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. All right, thank y'all. We're going to take a picture. Hey, we're standing. You're going to come behind us. Yes, we are. Yes. Yes, we are. We're going to find a window. Sorry, it's all our numbers. All right, here we go. 1 2 3 1 2 3 Perfect. Great job, Austin. Thank you, Austin. Thank you, guys. Thank you. I'm going Thursday. Yes. Yeah. Uh hi, I'm Bonnie Barclay, the music teacher at Hilltop, and this is the Hilltop 5th Grade Choir. And uh we just came to sing for you guys tonight.

010I actually only had one song planned, but the choir really wanted to sing two for you. So, this first one is just for you, school board. We We wanted to share that we appreciated you. And so, we're going to start with this one. It's called Who Do We Appreciate, and we'll move on to the second one. Okay, y'all ready? Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? You. We think it's you. Two, four, six, eight, who's the one we think is great? You. We think it's you. We think you're fine. We think you're dandy. We think you're better than sugar and We think you're top-notch, A-okay, sunshine on a sunny day, all right, out of sight, super-duper, dynamite, you. Hey! Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? You. We think it's you. Two, four,

011six, eight, who's the one we think is great? You. We think it's you. Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? You. We think it's you. Two, four, six, eight, who's the one we think is great? We think it's here. HEY! NEED TO KNOW THAT WE APPRECIATE them and we we had sung that song this morning for our parent volunteers and they're like, "We should sing it for the school board, too." And I said, "Well, okay." So, y'all are appreciated. Thank you. Uh this next song is is the one we I had planned for us to sing. It's called Make You Proud. Um and it's just one of my all-time favorites. Um and we hope to make our parents and our school and our families proud um as as we go through our educational career.

012Are y'all ready? Okay. You should be. Are you not? Okay, so Make You Proud Make You Proud is up here. Quickly. Quickly. Okay, y'all good? Okay. Can everybody sing? We're good? Okay. While I am growing and after I'm grown I'll take what you've given the seeds that you've sown following roads I may not know, finding my way, hoping to grow. I hear your words here in my heart, wherever I go. To make you proud. To make you proud. I will always try to make you proud. To make you proud. To make you proud. I will always try to make you proud. Sometimes I wonder. And sometimes I fear. When choices surround me. It's not always clear. What should I say? What should I do? Lessons I've learned help me get through. I can be strong.

013I can be brave. Just thinking of you. To make you proud. Make you proud. To make you proud. Make you proud. I will always try to make you proud. I will always try to make you proud. I will always try to make to make you proud. I will always try to make you proud. I will always try to make I will always try to make you proud. I will always try to make you proud. I will always try to make you proud. Great job, Lil Docs. Good job, LIL DOCS. NICE TO MEET YOU. GREAT JOB. THANK YOU. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO SAY to I don't want to ever say this. Hold on. You don't go anywhere real quick. Stay right there. I want to say one. Yeah. Say everybody but they're all chattering right

014now. So Thanks. That's understood. I understand it. As they make their way out. All right. Thank you. You're so welcome. Good evening. Sleep great. I like the way you sing your directions. Can you share that with my husband? I need you. Oh. Stop singing, mama. You shouldn't be that happy. Great job. I told Miss Barkley to hang on just a minute because I wanted to recognize and kids are excited. She said one thing they do is they know how to make noise, right? But Miss Barkley is the teacher of the year at Hilltop. So I just wanted to MAKE SURE EVERYBODY SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING YOUR CHOIR. A wonderful way to start the evening. Thank you. >> Congratulations. Have a great evening. All right. Again Thanks again to Argyle South for leading

015us in our pledges for Hilltop Choir. That was amazing. This time, Mr. Hawksworth is going to lead us in his penultimate opening prayer. >> means. It's your next to last prayer. Okay. Bow your heads, please. Dear Lord, thank you so much for all you do for us each and every day. Thank you for the things that we're aware of and the many things that we're not aware of. Please be with us as parents and administrators and and board members to do things that are in the honor of you and in the best interest of these students. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Hawksworth. Okay, this time we're going to move into public forum. We have two individuals signed up tonight. Let me take a drink of water real quick and I'll

016read my paragraphs. All right. Moving into tonight's public forum, please note board policy requires speakers to sign up in person before the meeting is called to order. During this portion of the meeting, board members will listen to comments, but as the designated spokesperson, only the president may respond to the speaker if needed and refer concerns to the appropriate administrator. Speakers can comment on agenda items, but trustees will not be able to discuss the items until they are before the board during the meeting. Board policy BED Local provides the presiding officer the ability to adjust the time allotted per speaker for effective meeting management. Pursuant to that policy, an individual's comments to the board at tonight's meeting shall not exceed 5 minutes. Presiding officer may reduce the allotted time for each individual to speak to no

017less than 1 minute for effective meeting management. Speakers are not allowed to receive time from other individuals. Tonight, each speaker will receive 5 minutes. Specific complaints about individual district personnel are to be processed through the district's grievance policies as set out in district policies DBA, FNG, and/or GF. Speakers are not permitted to refer to individual students or employees by name during the public comment period. Additionally, if you have a pending grievance that may come before the board in a level three hearing, please refrain from addressing the topic of your grievance except through the grievance process per be board policy BED and this board's operating procedures. The board will not allow disruption of the board meetings by members of the public. If after one warning from the presiding officer, any person continues to disrupt the meeting

018by words or actions, the person will be removed from the meeting. Awesome. All right, tonight's first speaker, I apologize if I mispronounce, Ariana Paloni. Good evening. Hi. You'll have 5 minutes when you begin and then Mr. Matthew Slayton will let you know you when you have 1 minute left. Thank you. Dear members of the Argyle District Board, my name is Ariana and I'm a foreign exchange student from Italy at Argyle High School. I am very grateful for the opportunity to spend this year here growing, learning, and becoming part of this community. When I chose to came to the United States, I left everything familiar behind at only 16, my family, my friends, and my native language to pursue this experience and live the American high school dream. At the beginning of this year, I was

019registered as a senior but later moved to a junior status because of the uncertainty about graduation. However, I am still taking senior classes and sharing my experiences with senior students every day. I fully understand that I'm not earning a US diploma and I'm not asking for one. In my home country, we don't have graduation ceremony, which is also why being part of it here would mean so much to me and all the other exchange students. I simply want to sit down with my senior friends, celebrate with them, and hopefully have the chance to walk across the stage. There are only a few exchange students at Argyle. Allowing us to participate as a honorary graduates would not only take would only not mean anything a lot to us, but it wouldn't take anything away from others,

020but it would mean a lot to us. I just ask you to think about this from a personal perspective. If your child traveled alone on in a to a new country, worked hard to adapt, and dream about this moment, would you not want them to miss it? Would you want them to miss it? I respectfully ask you to reconsider this policy and allow us exchange students to participate in graduation as honorary graduates. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next speaking, uh, Kirk Brody. Good evening. I think Mr. Herron made the announcement about people having to sign in ahead of time because my wife was here a month ago and had something prepared to this day. And, uh, she didn't didn't know that she had to sign up. So, I'm

021going to first of all start by reading what she wanted to say. Argyle ISD, uh, we appreciate the opportunity opportunity to address the board. We have had an incredible honor and delight to host Ariana this past year as a foreign exchange student from Italy. She is definitely a part of our family and has jumped in and tried to make the most of her year abroad. We were disappointed when we learned of the policy with Argyle that does not allow foreign exchange students to participate in the graduation ceremony. There are only five exchange students attending Argyle High School this year. They all understand they are not completing the requirements to receive an American high school diploma, but have dreamt about participating in the ceremony itself. We have a hard time understanding why this very small number

022of students wouldn't be able to be considered honorary graduates and simply be given the experience of walking across the stage and hearing their name read. None of them expect to receive anything. They just want the full American high school experience. Please reconsider the policy and allow the students to be honorary graduates in May. That's what my wife wanted to say. When my wife and I were married about 30 years ago, if anyone, you know, and you start to think about having a family, most people say, "Well, you know, kids are expensive. You know, you have to give a lot of time, a lot of lot of activities." You know, they always kind of try to ultimately discourage you from having too many kids. If they had only told us that you have to go to

023that many high school graduations, we would have maybe listened to them. But we went on to be blessed with eight kids. We've had three graduate from a high school in Wyoming. We had an exchange student walk through the graduation ceremony in Wyoming. And now we have one graduating this year. We have three more to go. And we hope, even though I love a good high school graduation as much as anyone does or does not. We hope that you'll consider to make this a part of the international students bucket list. They don't get, you know, I never imagined that in other countries they don't get dressed up in a in a gown. They don't throw their cap into the air. They they don't do a ceremony at all. So, when they think about their bucket list,

024this is definitely one of those things that we had never thought that Ariana or her friends wouldn't be able to participate. You know, we as silly as you know, me wanting to go to high school graduations would depend on how many kids I would want to have. Uh it's kind of silly that they wouldn't be able to walk. One minute. And we hope that, you know, in a a light-hearted way you would consider making an exception or, you know, whatever you have to do, put an asterisk in the program that except for the Italians, the two Spaniards, and the German, everybody else has met the the standards of the Texas Board of Education. So, thank you for your time. I wish my wife could have been here, but she had plans tonight. Hopefully, you can

025could consider this. We wanted to say it a month ago or even even longer. Thank you. Thank you. All right, that concludes public forum for the evening. Okay, we have a consideration for All right. I'm just seeing here. All right, I will entertain a motion to approve item 8A as presented with no amendments. Do we have any discussion or questions for a motion to approve? I motion to to approve item 8A. All right, Mr. Matthew Slayton with a motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Hawksworth with a second. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor, please raise your hand and say I. I. Any opposed? Opposed. Okay. And then, action item 8B, do we have a motion? I'll entertain a motion to approve that. I make a motion to approve action

026item 8B as written. Mr. Hawksworth with a motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Rich McDowell with a random second. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor, please raise your hand and say I. I. Any opposed? Opposed. All right. Thank you. All right, now we have consent items. I think so. Yes. All right, for the April 2026 donations, we have ABC fiscal year 2026, number 14. Uh Uh $15,000 for football head hunting fee and Florida-based opponent travel / expenses. ABC fiscal year 2026, number 15. Uh $1,357 for wrestling Hall of Fame board and overlays. JRE PTA, $3,489 for author visit, silent disco, star student snacks, and Popsicle party. Give Miranda Realty, $300 for JRE UIL end-of-the-year celebration Kona Ice. We have Paragon Marketing, $3,000 for football. Total April donations, $23,146. See

027if there's any questions on any of the consent items. Could we get a little bit of an explanation like I received um about the first one, please? Mhm. Just to let people know. >> You want to talk about that one? The first donation? Yes. >> Yes. Okay. So, historically when you when you all realigned in February, then you set your schedules um for football. Um and I know for many years here we've had a really difficult time in setting pre-district games. Um I know Coach Rogers works really hard. Sometimes you can get a game rescheduled really easily and then sometimes you're still looking for games. So, last uh UIL alignment, we had two non-district games, I believe, and this realignment we have three scheduled. It's become more and more difficult to find those. Um you

028want to play against someone that's your caliber or your size um that gives the kids and the students an experience. Um and so in order to provide those games in the past, I know we've traveled to some neutral sites, right? We've had For 2 years we went to Sulphur Springs to play um a game as a neutral site. We went to uh Waco one year in the Mary Hardin-Baylor, I believe, another year. Um Were there some others I'm missing on that? Okay, thank you. Um And so, when you do that, uh at the size that we are now, you're talking seven to eight charter buses. Um I think in that um information I provided, I looked up the last two that we went to. Um it cost us a little over $3,000 for two. So,

029that kind of gives you an idea of what it might be in two years. >> buses and it would cost us it would it would take seven to eight for an away football game out of the metroplex like that. So, um we engaged with uh a head hunter to find one game this year at a cost to the district of up to 10,000. And that is a guaranteed home and home game. So, instead of doing a home and then away, you get a home game this year and a home game next year, which means we have the gate for both years. Um the concessions come in for both years, um and you don't travel for for that game each time. And so, we have a um actually another game that we need to fill. And

030so, this one is the booster club is donating the funds for that uh particular game. We are still searching for that game um and trying to fill the schedule, but that's what the donation is for. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Liz. You're welcome. Any other questions on the consent items? Okay. I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent items as presented. Motion to approve consent items as presented. Thank you, Mr. Wester. Motion to approve, do I have a second? Second. Dr. McDade with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor, please raise your hand and say I. I. Any opposed? All right, thank you. Good evening, Mr. Cohen. Good evening. Hello. So, giving you our monthly update starting with our middle school, Gibson Middle School. A couple of overall shots of the site. And

031one thing that I took notice of is that you see the parking lots are getting less and less full of construction materials and more and more full of cars. We've kind of got everybody on the inside now working on all those finishes. So, that's one thing that's nice to see is that the parking lot is getting cleaned out other than parking of the labor. In this picture you can see some sidewalks are forming out front. That is one of the the last activities that we're working on outside and all the rest of the landscaping will follow that once they're done. Just some more outside shots around the building. Glass is installed. I think metal panels are right at 100% complete around throughout. Our sun shades, as you can see in this picture over the windows,

032they're continuing installation on those. On the inside is where all of our work is really focused now. All the finishes are going like gangbusters. We're starting up units, getting some conditioning going on throughout the building. So, we've got tile going up on all the walls. Floors will start very soon. We've got millwork being installed. This is a view of the reception office reception counter in progress. This is one of our teacher work rooms. Here's some tile that we've got up in the bathroom. So, as soon as they get that tile done, the plumber's following in right behind him setting all the fixtures. In case anyone notices, yes, the mirror is broken, but it's already on the list to be replaced. It was a terrible picture to put in here, but that's what they sent me.

033Uh here's some painting graphics going on in the gym. They're nearly complete. Got a a few little details left to go, and then we'll be also be putting some mascots up in these gyms. They have not started on that yet. This picture is one of our science lab. Um so, you can see our wood casework and our lab tables stacked up there in the left corner. More graphics. This is our athletic hallway down by the gyms. Some more painting. We've gotten our bleachers finished and press box set for the football field. So, that's something that's happened over the last month. This picture is of the concession and restroom building and outdoor storage there next to the track and field. And then upcoming look ahead, lots of finishes. We'll be getting wood floor delivered very soon,

034so it has to acclimate for a while in the space. So, that'll be coming out getting put in the gym to acclimate for they can install. Uh we'll be starting on our doors and hardware throughout as air gets started up. And then they are frantically working to get out of the courtyard so we can close up the last of the building. We got the little piece out so they can get in and out with equipment. So, as soon as they can finish that courtyard, we'll close up that one little opening in the classroom wing. And we are still looking for a July substantial completion date for start of school in August. Are there any questions? Okay. Moving on to Michael Ball Intermediate School. Um Here you can see uh foundation work in progress. Um, the

035slab that's been poured is our storm shelter. That's the gym. Uh, they've been working on grade beams. Uh, so you can see that happening around. A little better shot of some of that. Uh, underground plumbing has been going in. Uh, you can see on the right side all the plumbing stacks coming up. That is the kitchen area. That's where we've got the most plumbing up for the whole school, of course. Uh, front drive and parking lot's been poured now. That's complete. Um, so there's just a little bit of paving left in the back and then all with that all paving will be complete. A little closer up shot of the gymnasium. They'd started the block on the storm shelter. Um, so they're just on the first course right now, the first 4-ft lift. Ground level

036shot of that work going on over the storm shelter. And then here's that kitchen plumbing I was talking about. Just a direct overhead view of that plumbing going in. Uh, so look ahead. Uh, we're going to continue grade beams and foundations. Structural steel erection should start. Uh, although I would like to say we've have suspended construction while we work through the redesign that we talked about, uh, at the last meeting. Um, looking at the band hall spaces, art rooms. Some of that underground plumbing is affected. Uh, potentially some of the openings into our storm shelter are affected uh, with those changes. So while we work through that design process, we've told the contractor to to hold the work so we can get it redesigned, uh, get it quoted, uh, and see where we land with

037the the fees before we continue moving forward. These will still be the next activities, but it will be a little bit before we get there. So there's there's likely not going to be, uh, any update for you next month. I'll probably still be in that phase of design and pricing somewhere in there. Do you have any questions on Ball Intermediate? Is it still looking at an on-time opening? Yes, we're still looking at an on-time opening. It was It was opening much earlier >> Earlier. uh than needed anyway, so we've got the the time to do this, but of course we want to get through this as quickly as possible and get back under construction to make sure we meet that date without a lot of trouble. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Gibson. >> Yeah. Thank you.

038Thanks, Jeff. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, Dr. Carpenter. All right. So, superintendent report. Absolutely. Lots of things going on across the district with our students and our staff. And so, tonight we are going to go over a few celebrations. We had a couple weeks ago, Senator Tan Parker and Representative Andy Hopper came to visit Argyle West Elementary. And we made a visit into Miss Murphy's classroom. I know most of I think everybody on this up here on the dais has been in Miss Murphy's room. And while we were in there, Mrs. Gibson was conducting um a speech lesson. But they took time to engage with our students in Miss Murphy's classroom, and then they spent some time directly with Miss Murphy in the hallway afterwards um asking her what uh policy changes really um

039at the state level would help support her classroom, her students, special education educators, special education students better um as they get ready for the 90th session. And so, we had about a 20-minute uh conversation in the hallway, and then she followed up with a letter to them, and has heard back, and we've had great responses. So, um we are going to continue to encouraging Miss Murphy and our other educators to um engage with our legislators and our lawmakers because they they are taking the time to come visit, and so we appreciate that. So, thank you to West, and thank you to Ms. Murphy for letting us come in the classroom there. We also have um our Lady Eagle Track and Field team. They were the district team champs, and then they just won the district

040I mean the area championship this past Friday, I believe, or Saturday, and they are regional bound to Lubbock. Uh their biggest meet is the weekend of May 1st. So, really um good work going on with our Lady Eagles in our track and field program. We've had several records broken, so very very proud of them. And then we have Argyle High School boys golf. The whole team regional champions this past week. Um they were out in Lubbock as well, and they are headed to the state golf tournament in Round Rock, I believe, April 27th and 28th. So, we've got that team going. We have uh ha ha the tennis team was also in Lubbock. We have a lot of people in Lubbock this last week at the Region 1 regional or the Region 1 regional championship,

041and out of that Julia Lightner is competing uh she's advanced to the girl's singles state competition May 7th. So, we're very excited for Julia. She's competing and finishing up her senior season as an Argyle Eagle. And then we also have um the softball team. Our Lady Eagle softball team has clinched a playoff spot. So, we um they're they're finishing up, and they start by-district play this Thursday. Uh they're in a three-game series, I believe, at Northwest High School. Is that correct? And they're playing Azle. So, getting ready to kick off so- softball uh playoff season. And then moving to the fine arts side, we've had some choir excellence going on. Our uh we had the concert choir win sweepstakes, so that was a big a big win for them and the Bell Bosse. And then

042soaring star, we have Portia Winfield over at Argyle South. She's an occupational therapist in the district serving our students with special needs, and we we definitely surprised her and caught her off guard when we were over there that day, and the kids were very excited to celebrate Ms. Winfield. So, we're very proud of her. And then what we had a big first this past week this last week over at the middle school, and uh we had the Texas Association of Student Councils recognize the student council at the middle school for outstanding student council and sweepstakes awards. So, congratulations to our future leaders there. And they are led by Rainbach and John Prothro. So, very proud of them and and Ms. Johnston for what they've done. I know the student council's done a lot of things

043over there, and they've really had some incredible growth. So, very proud of them. We also had I want to just brag on our principals and assistant principals and our HR department. We had our first ever job fair March 31st, 28th, 31st, what was Anyway, it's kind of right at the end of March. It's a Saturday morning. And we didn't really know what to expect. We had 120 uh want to be future Argyle ISD employees show up that morning, and it was well-run. Dr. Daniel and his department, they had it very organized. Um but I think the principals would attest I mean they were the ones with the tables, but everybody wanted to be in Argyle, and I know that's the story we kept hearing from everybody. And they had the opportunity Athletics was in there.

044We had some fine arts. And the opportunity to meet all of those people and at least have a chance to shake hands and and be introduced. And then some of those, I believe, are finding their way into the district, and you have a short list of those that haven't found a spot yet, is what I hear. So, I just wanted to um thank Dr. Daniel and his department and then all, of course, our campus leadership teams. It was It was well-executed. Uh we have a district champion UIL academics headed to the regional meet this week in Lubbock, and they had 821 points total in the district UIL meet. And then one-act play has advanced. They were the area champions uh for the first time in 5A, and they're headed to Lubbock this week. So, we

045had a lot of kids and sponsors in Lubbock last week over the weekend, and a lot of them going this week. So, prayers for safe travels for everyone, and we're very, very proud of everyone competing at those levels. And then, um from enrollment class size updates, we are as of today sitting at 6627. So, you can see the enrollments there of our campuses, and then our class size averages, um as we're nearing into the last month of school home stretch stretch and last month of school. Again, for those that um have heard this every month, I believe, but those that have not, last year um about this time, the board chose or elected to put about 3 and 1/2 million in new positions and filling up all of our classrooms with teachers to to get

046our class sizes down, and so that's been very manageable this year. We know that all of our classrooms are full going into next year, and um those will we will see some growth in those numbers, but it gave us a little bit of cushion going into that. So, we appreciate that um from our board as being a priority that they heard from the staff last year and continuing to keep that as much of a priority as possible. And then from just updates, we have realtor breakfast this Thursday. So, Mr. Herron and his department, we will be hosting How many do we have already? At least 30. Yeah. 30, yeah. So, we'll end up somewhere probably around 40 realtors here on Thursday. So, they'll be here, and we're very excited about having them and hosting them.

047We also have the gala for Argyle Education Foundation this Saturday. So, I think there were just a few tickets left as of yesterday. If you haven't, um you know, we get those. It will be at The Reserve at Marty B's, which is the brand new beautiful facility out there at Marty B's. So, we're looking forward to that, and hope those can join everyone can join us. Then on the 29th, we have tailgating tours. So, we're going to have the stadium and ISC ribbon cutting right back here. Special guest will be our girls state championship basketball team. They will be signing posters and autographs, and so we will have a community event at 6:00. We will have hot dogs. Mr. Herron, what else? Uh we're going to do a Student recognition. Student groups will be doing

048games. Student groups doing some games, and then we'll have kind of a dedication ceremony, a ribbon cutting, with and then we'll have a special finale, right? Excellent. Okay. So, hopefully you can join us. Come out and join us for that. We have a special special board meeting on the 13th for all of our spring student staff recognitions. We do We do one in the fall, we did one in the wintertime, and then we'll have another one in the spring one. And then on the 18th, we will have our special recognition for trustees Sam Slayton and Craig Hawksworth as they will be completing their tenure as trustees. I believe we have a little celebration we'll schedule. So, we'll save all of our speeches for that night for you guys. I'm sure everyone up here will have

049a few words they would like to share. You're ready, Mr. Westrum? >> Mr. Westrum's already written his speeches. I'll do this now. Let's move it up. Um so, we will we will that that board meeting will be a little out of order, but we will we'll start that evening celebrating and recognizing Mr. Slayton and Mr. Hawksworth, and then we will have our induction with Ms. Waddleton. She'll take care of that, and Mr. Ford and Mr. Dixon will take their places on the board. And so, we're very excited for that opportunity as well. So, big night on the 18th for our Board of Trustees. And then we will have that same week on the 21st, we'll have our graduation, first class of 2026 to graduate in our brand new Argyle ISD Stadium. I know the high

050school has been working very hard on those logistics, and we look forward to celebrating our seniors that evening. Um we will also have the next morning elementary secondary teacher of the year announcement. So, that'll be Oh, there's a missing a C there. Announcement going on. So, we'll take care of that, and that'll be exciting. We had all of our campus ones, and then we'll have the final announcement on Friday morning. And then my last announcement is a leadership staffing update. So, one of the questions I often often get from the from the trustees when we're talking about recruiting and retaining um and really building staff and what we have here in building a pipeline of our talent is how do you recognize and identify top talent and how do we compete to retain those top

051talent people. And so when we have the opportunity and we see something in people within our organization, we want to help them grow cuz they do such an incredible job of helping others grow whether it's on the campus level or in the classroom level. And so we have um a leadership announcement this evening that I would like to take the opportunity to announce. And so we are going to be appointing Ms. Lauren Tullis as the director of staff, student, and learner services starting next school year. Which then um we will be appointing Ms. Hillary Laird as the new principal of Jane Longman Elementary School for next year. And Leanne Rudolph will be transitioning into the district curriculum specialist um ELA-R and social studies. All three of these ladies have done a fantastic job um in

052the district in the roles that they've served. And they are true champions for students and for teachers and we're very honored to celebrate them, recognize their talents, identify them as top talent, and to put them in positions to continue to grow. So, congratulations, ladies. We're very PROUD FOR YOU. SURPRISE, EVERYBODY. UM MS. TULLIS, I'm going to give you the mic for just a moment. If you I'm sure you're never short on words. You probably have a few things you'd like to say. Ms. Laird, we're going to call on you after that. Good evening. Good evening. So, I am overjoyed about the opportunity uh to take on this position. Um opening and being the principal at Jane Longman will be um forever one of my greatest honors. It will be it will ever forever hold a

053special place in my heart um and will forever be one of my greatest honors, but the thing that I preach at the puppet the most to my staff is about constant growth and being better and the next goal that we're working towards. Um, and it would be remiss for me not to do the same thing. Um, and so often when I would go into my um, conversations with Dr. Carpender middle of year, end of year conversations with her, um, one of the things that I would often speak with her about is um, where my where my next goal is at and where my next opportunity lies. Um, and she sees the passion that I have and I appreciate that so much in her and I am so excited to move into this building and into

054this role and continue to learn and grow. Um, but as I began to have this conversation with her, my very first question was, but what happens at my at my baby, my school, you know? Um, and when we began to have that conversation, having Mrs. Laird move into that role was the ultimate choice. She is the best person to um, move in and continue the great work that has happened there. Um, so I'm very honored and very excited to move into this role and very excited for um, Ms. Laird to take the reins at Jane Long Intermediate. Ms. Laird. I'm a substitute. Ms. Rudolph, come on up cuz we're going to let you >> See, I'm providing support already. You see? Well, congratulations to you. >> Thank you. And I feel the same way. I

055shared with Ms. Tullis and Ms. Rudolph that they are made for those positions as well. And I want to thank the trustees for your belief in me and our district leadership for this opportunity. And I know I have big shoes to fill and very cute shoes, too. And so I I'm committed to continuing the excellence that Ms. Tullis and Ms. Rudolph have established at JRE and that the students and the community have established. And so I'm dedicated to do that. I also want to thank the campuses that I have been a part of. Currently Hilltop and Ms. Williams who has prepared me for this role, the staff there, my South staff, my West staff. JRE is the campus I haven't been at and so it's really an honor to take on this role there. So

056I'm just very thankful and I'm ready. So thank you very much for your BELIEF IN ME. MS. RUDOLPH, COME ON UP. DR. JORDAN, WOULD YOU SAY A few words about Ms. Rudolph cuz I know that you had the opportunity to Absolutely. >> that appointment. So for the this particular role in curriculum specialist for the district, it's centered on ELA and social studies. And the first thing that came to my mind when I heard that Lisa was retiring is we have to have somebody who has that passion and knowledge when it comes to literacy because that's where it all begins. And Leanne has that passion and that literacy knowledge. She was ahead of the curve before the science of teaching reading was being talked about, she was in my office telling me we have got to

057make this change to the science of teaching reading before I heard anyone else say those words. She is ahead of the curve, she researches and it is a huge blessing to have you join us in our department and to serve the whole district. Thank you. Do we have anything else to say? I'm sure you will. Um as a coach's wife, I wasn't ever able to stay in a place for more than five years. So I'm super excited for this opportunity to let my um dreams blossom with such an amazing district and I'm excited to see the foundation has been set um by learner services. So, where we go from here is just going to be a dream come true. So, thank you very much. >> Very very proud for you guys. THANK YOU, LADIES. AND

058I KNOW MRS. LAIRD IS ALREADY GOING TO START going She'll be going over to JRE some and meeting with staff and getting the chance to get build relationships and then we'll schedule something for the families as well. So, congratulations to all of you. We're so very proud of you. All right, so the next presentation we have it will be I believe Yes, there we go. So, I think all of you probably remember in the fall I had shared with you that Mr. Sailor was out of our communications department was kind of given the the task of hey, can you please figure out how we're going to what the design process is going to be for the logo and mascot of what is now our girl Legacy High School. And just kind of gave that to

059him and what he has done with that process is incredible. It is bigger than I ever more than I ever expected um and so he did some great work with students and some staff and his little committee that he brought together and he is here tonight on behalf of the committee and the students and everyone to fit to share with you the finished product of that process and remind everybody where we've been and where we are now. So, Mr. Sailor, thank you again um for your professionalism and just being able to take everyone through this process cuz it was well done. Thank you, Dr. Carpenter. Mr. Clayton, trustees, thanks for having me again tonight. Uh the last time we were all together was whenever I was presenting this original scope of this original sorry, the

060scope of the mascot and color transition team. And at that time the role of the committee was to give you the best amount of information possible going into the decision that you made in December. And we gathered a lot of information from the community and from students and presented that you made the decision and then you said go do it. Get out and start working. So our role we felt changed from phase one to phase two. Phase two we thought was to guide the logo design process and create a brand identity shape for the feedback from students, the community, and team expertise. And I'll keep coming back to that. Um Our team members on this mascot and color transition team was Mr. Jason Bird Mr. Rick Herron, this is Hillary Laird. Congratulations. Donna Lumston, Shannon

061Knowles, Todd Rogers, Heather Sayre, Coach Wes Morlan, and Mr. Holly Williams. Um I want to extend my personal gratitude to the committee for actually welcoming me with open arms and never turning down any of my continuous stream of emails, requests, meeting requests, logo revisions, and all the rest of it that went into the seven month process of going from the idea of needing a new mascot logo and colors to the actual practical reality of it. And as a quick recap of the entire process we started last September, late last September by putting out our community feedback form. And we got over a thousand 100 form responses. It was all from East Zone families sent through ParentSquare. And in addition to that, our committee and many administrators here at the building and on campuses received, and

062I'm sure the trustees as well, a lot of feedback from the public in informal channels that sort of trickled back to us. And it was definitely a wide range of comments and suggestions. I think as you all know that if you ask a thousand people what their opinion is, they'll give you you'll have a thousand different opinions. Um and we took that information, we synthesized that into the presentation that we made earlier in the last fall. At that same time, we went before the students and the staff, particularly the students of our East feeder zone campuses, and we presented to them uh and gave them sort of like a worksheet survey to fill out that helped identify the things that they thought they would want to see in a logo {slash} mascot and sort of

063what their preferences were for things like color. And we collected terms, we collected uh sort of a ranking scale of what they would choose if they could choose between some of our top options from the community feedback form. And uh they were really great. They were really great kids. They were chosen uh sort of in a broad cross-section of student groups, athletics, academics, extra extracurricular, fine arts. Uh and in the case of the middle school, we had our first the students who will be the first graduating class of Argyle Legacy High School. We also went before the superintendent advisory councils with the student and teacher one to just give them sort of a opportunity to hear our pitch and hear what we had to say. And then of course, we had our 10-member logo or

064mascot color committee team, which I would call in this presentation I call the experts. They're the expertise behind this. Which is not a small thing because you may have an idea about what a logo should look like and in the age of chat GPT, you can generate a logo instantaneously. But whether that logo works in the distance, um whether it's visible, whether it's uh something that can be made into printable materials, whether it works on a wall, there's a thousand things you have to think about and that was probably the most important part of the committee's process in phase one was identifying those things which wouldn't work and narrowing it down to options that we could present to you that were the things that we thought were at least feasible and let you know the

065ones that we thought were probably going to be the most cost-effective, most easy to implement, and the most long-term structural stability of all the different choices that we had. We uh this is just an example. This is our survey. This is uh when we went to the students and their little worksheet cuz you can't put uh just a regular old survey in front of students and hope that they would even ever be engaged. So, we put it in sort of a worksheet format in a way that they might understand and we didn't run this through any sort of complex system to figure out what they were saying. We just read them and aggregated the data and added that to the community feedback form and uh once again, that's what we presented to you guys uh

066in November. And in that feedback, that kind of the key takeaways, when you condense it all down, was that everybody wanted a really strong design. I mean, that seems obvious, right? I mean, nobody wants to have a logo that they're not proud of, that doesn't have any strength to it. But it was a reoccurring thing, something that they could be proud of. The design they wanted to be distinct. And I think by that they meant they wanted something that wasn't uh based off another logo or based off of another design. But most importantly, even though uh many people were split on whether or not they wanted to continue the eagle mascot or go with a new one, everyone agreed that no matter what, it should honor the legacy of the Argyle Eagle. And that was

067a very key cornerstone of the entire process as we were developing it. And last, the word that came up more than anything else was school pride, the words. So, we were mindful of those components, those key takeaways, when we began this design process. And that helped us have something to bring to the designers when we were getting ready to launch the process. Because when you have designs, often times you have a concept in your head, vaguely, that of what you might want to see. But until things start coming down to paper, until you start getting actual things on your desk to look at, you don't necessarily know what you want. Well, as the design process goes along, you'll see this in a second, uh those iterations begin from this point, which is an important thing.

068We came to you in November. We made the presentation. You remember I had all the jackets lined up here. Uh Mrs. Lumsden and Coach Rogers, they both presented to you guys well and had a moment to talk about what they thought uh how important it was to have the student voices uh in the process and hear what they had to say. And then in December, you made your decision at the board meeting, which I'm sure you remember, but I included a picture there anyway. And immediately afterwards, we went to winter break, and when we got back, we hit the ground running by bringing in a team from Fluger Architects. Uh Tony, who's our design director, and Cameron, who is the actual designer of the logo, they met with us virtually, and we laid out our

069basic requirements and our goals and our aspirations for the project. And we said, "This is what we want. Let us see what you get." So, the design process is actually kind of an interesting one. It's highly iterative. So, it starts out with a designer, and in this case, uh he chose a variety of sort of silhouette and form shapes to try to see if he could distill a picture or distill an image that both conveyed the things we were talking about, but also looked like a red hawk. Because when you get to logo creation, unless you make that logo extremely uh unique and anatomically correct to a red hawk, you run into the problem of your bird of prey looks like all the other birds of prey. So, he was trying really hard to narrow

070it down to what it was that made the red hawk look like a red hawk. And it sort of landed in the sphere of a red hawk is a smaller but powerful sleek bird. So, a lot of forward momentum and energy in that design. Uh with maybe a little bit less verticality to it. We did a little bit of uh color visiting to sign find out what exact colors will work in the real world. Um we don't want to get into the discussion of the nuances of colors, whether a particular shade of blue works in print, fabric, paint, thread. There's a thousand different ways that will all be explained in the branding guide, which is something that we'll produce after this meeting coming into the next couple of weeks that will give vendors and external

071users clear set of colors that says when you want to put this in paint on a wall here at the district, you'll use this color. And that'll be something that we will produce. As the process went on, we tried a variety of different sort of silhouettes and action shots and eventually landed on that we really just liked the head portion of the mascot. We liked that better. Some of the other ones just kept landing too close to other logos and other mascots that other teams use or they just weren't clear at a distance or they just didn't quite give us the feeling that we wanted. In the design process, as we were going back and forth with the designers, we found that they were kind of heavily leaning into the black outline design, which is

072something that we didn't specify, but as soon as we thought about it, we saw it and we were like, "Okay, wait a second. We can't have black in this logo. It has to just be red, blue, and white, right? Because black is the accent color of the Argyle High School Eagles." And the committee pointed that out right away. So we sent back to them a few options that we had found and that are sort of a a duo tone three value where they meld the colors to make it look like there's an outline, but it really is just a low number of colors. So then he came back and gave us some more options and we you can see that we just gradually further refine the shape, taking the elements that we liked about each

073time he sent us something, taking the ones we liked, disregarding the ones that we didn't, and sort of gradually getting closer to what we wanted. Once we had it close enough to probably 98% of what we wanted, we thought it was probably time to say that we had made our choice and as a committee. And we started making this presentation. We started preparing. We met. And we came up with the idea that we needed to go back before the student committees or the student groups that we had met with to get their feedback again and their reaction. It was astounding. I had one question that I led with on all of these. It was very simple. It was I veiled the logo. Yay or nay? All yays. Ecstatic. Exuberant. They love it. Um they think

074that it's a very bold design. They think that it's exciting. And the most common refrain was, "I'd wear that on a shirt." Uh we've had a variety of community members who have sort of they were facilitating these groups. We had teachers. We had staff who saw it. I have yet to hear anyone who wasn't extremely overjoyed by the direction that it went. It has exceeded expectations. And I do want to stop to thank the design team from Pfluger for doing an absolutely outstanding job under a lot of pressure from us. So, that brings us to today. And I just want to make one little disclaimer is that we didn't have the final final final 100% complete logo design till today. And we could have put it into the presentation, but we thought it's probably best

075to just wait until that is completely buttoned up. And we've got it set on the website with all the right colors and everything so that people aren't taking what's on this presentation and going and running with it, finding out they we a lot of money on something that wasn't quite the right logo. Now, the logo you will see tonight for most people will be pretty much indistinguishable. Uh it will have some variety of different feather shapes, maybe some slight adjustments to line and shape. Things that sort of add up to another 2% of the logo. But once again to the public, I want to remind you that this is not a reproduction quality thing that's going to be distributed here. Uh so even when it appears on board book, I would avoid using it. If

076you couldn't tell, this process has been 100% collaborative. It was the entire purpose of bringing it to the community, uh involving the students, and having a committee made up of experts from our staff. And piece by piece we put this together. And everybody is inside of this logo. Everybody who had a hand in making it, we're all uh going to be able to look at that and say that we designed it together. So, the Argyle Eagle logo was the basis for this entire design. You came up with that? >> Yep. That was amazing. All right, good night. You got the Uno reverse card right there. This is it. This is the Argyle Eagle logo. Uh no. So, we started out with this design in mind. As I said before, we wanted to look forward, but

077also be mindful of the past and where they came from. Now, one of the interesting things that the experts in our group, our panel here, they decided that were uh would be like right off the bat, this very warned about, was being able to display the logos with each other and not have it looked unbalanced, right? So, when we started out, we gave the logo a frame. You look at this one, that shape is a rectangle. If you put that shape next to a square shape or a circular shape logo and you put it with our other logos, you will find that it would be highly unbalanced, right? So, that was step one, we're just realizing that we sort of wanted it to be in that same rectangular sphere. And in fact, to fit inside

078that exact rectangle. And I want you to pay attention to these elements of the existing logo design. Because we'll be revisiting those as we go through the logo design uh to show you where they are called back in the new design. I'll put that down there in the corner for you. Okay, first off, you can tell right away it's facing the other direction, right? The eagle faces for you this way and this one faces that way. That's because if you had them both facing the same direction, it'd be the same unbalanced look, right? It would feel like it was leaning to one side. Plus, you have the added benefit of then the logos can look at each other and sort of be together in a family and I like that. That's a good image. So,

079I put the outline here and taking it away. And first, I'm going to show you the red section of the logo. This is the first callback section. Now, it actually doesn't call back to the red feathers in the eagle logo, it calls back to the white feathers at the crest at the top. And you can see those three sort of feather shapes in the original logo and also right next to the eagle's eye and those are what are called back inside of this part of the logo. And obviously, what color does a Red Hawk have to have in it? Red. And so, that section is there. You couldn't necessarily do the red as the beak or focal area because red and that particular color of blue that we chose, the blue is such a higher

080or lower value color. In other words, it's darker by such a large amount that the contrast would make it look strange if you tried to use red to show, say, the beak or the mouth or the shape of the eye and then have it be accented by blue. It would work, but it would be visually confusing. So, that's why in particular this section is red. Next, you have the same three crest shapes at the top, those three feather callbacks. But, as part of our expert team, they recommended having a silhouette on this form that could be reproduced easily in threads and cutouts because if you have a shape that's got lots, like, if, say for instance, if you didn't have that smooth blue outline at the top, that jagged shape would make it extremely difficult

081to put that in thread, to make it very small, to cut it into stickers. And we So, we provided that sort of smooth gradient at the top while still actually having the callback. The bottom plumage of the old logo was revisited in this blue color. Now, on the display and on this presentation, that blue color looks a little bit darker than it is in real life. When you see it actually printed out, it is a much lighter color. That's just the nature of computer screens and printing things. But, we recalled those same sort of chevron shapes down at the bottom with a little bit of extra movement thrown in and an emphasis on negative space. Next, we have the beak area. This is where I was talking about before where that blue color really hits.

082Using that as the basis, you can then make accents. If you notice right away, the difference between these two logos is the mouth is not open on the Redhawk one. That was a subtle way for us to introduce a visual difference, while we also sort of compressed the shape of the beak to make it more of a narrow beak than the eagle's more rounded shape. And it also has that same callback to the eye feathers on the other one. The eye on the Redhawk logo is a more slanted shape. When you see it in the final form, it actually kind of has a very nice strong aggressive, not angry, but nice aggressive look to it, focused. And I just want to go through one more time before I show you the official unveiling of the

083logo. This is the red part. That's the blue part. And without further ado, Argyle Legacy High School Redhawks. WE FEEL THAT THIS DESIGN brings together the best elements of the legacy of Argyle High School and the forward-looking forward-moving nature of our district. It's a uh logo that I think people can be very proud to put on their jerseys and on the walls of their schools, but also one that shares the same common elements that make it part of one family of logos and one family of schools. This is what it looks like with its wordmark on it. This wordmark was designed by our team, so we can actually trademark this as well and use it. This is a custom-drawn font. In the theme of that family of logos, we have them sitting with our district

084A in the center. And if there's any image that I'd like to leave you with on that, it's of two birds soaring together in the sky. And that is the theme of our logo. That was the design that we chose, and it was the feedback and the mandate that we think we were given by the community. Uh that's the last of the presentation. Before I disappear, I just wanted to say thank you to you all again, and especially thank you to Dr. Carpenter and my boss Rick Herring, and to the committee for the overwhelming support that I've received during this process and the freedom to explore the entire thing as I saw fit, which was a wonderful opportunity and a testament to uh the nurturing of careers in Argyle ISD. And I want to thank

085you all very much. So, that's all I have. >> FANTASTIC JOB. THANK YOU. >> LET'S SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, SO DON'T RUN off too far. That's all right. They quit listening to you. Christopher, may I have questions or comments? That's awesome. >> Fantastic job. >> Great job. Great job. And I I love this image. It's a great image and I like that you put them opposite of one another. It's artistically it's just it's very, very nice. Thank you. Great job. That's great. Thank you. Nice job. It was a great job keeping us on our toes the entire presentation. >> It was fun watching him. We're like, "Okay, how many more?" Well done. Thank you, Mr. Sailor. Okay. Next item I get to read our Board of Trustees annual continuing education report.

086So, under the State Board of Education rule, completing required continuing education each year service is an expectation of any sitting board member. So, we get to say I get to say has completed, has exceeded, or is deficient in the trainings. The requirements for the trainings are measured the first anniversary of the date of the trustee's election or appointment or two-year anniversary of his or her previous training as applicable. So, there are eight training areas for board members. Local orient district orientation, orientation to Texas Education Code, post legislative update to Texas Education Code, team building, additional continuing education, evaluating student academic performance and setting goals, identifying and reporting abuse trafficking, and other maltreatment of children, and school safety. All right. Mrs. Leanne Artho has exceeded her requirements. Dr. Leona McDade has exceeded her requirements. Mr. Matthew

087Slayton has exceeded his requirements. Mr. Rich McDowell has exceeded his requirements. Mr. Hawksworth is incomplete. Mr. Sam Slayton incomplete. I'll get him on May 20th. Um and Mr. Westrum continuing with his incomplete status. Awesome. All right. Consistent. Not consistent. Consistent. My protest of the TEA continues. Oh, yeah, me too. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. No, they're all they're all me, too. Some of that continuing education I got to learn about what they do. All right. That's all I got. All right. Waste Management Services. Mr. Ledford. Mr. Ledford. Good evening. Good evening. >> Good evening. So, um every month we get lots of operation utility bills and we review those and there's a few of us that look at them and and make sure everything is is working like it should. Um we've noticed that our trash

088service has gotten extremely expensive and we're trying to figure out a way to overcome that. So, uh I talked with a bunch of of different districts and they've since enlightened me that that we don't have to follow what's called a a franchise tag with our trash. So, uh what a franchise tag is is our city or a lot of cities throughout this area will have an agreement with a certain trash service and that city is only allowed to use that trash service and not another trash service. So, since we are a government entity, we don't have to do that. So, now that we've found that out, we have uh asked three or four different waste management companies to to give us a quote and we found that we could save a drastic amount of money

089going with someone else. So, um we're I've I've found that we've got at least with uh one of our bids, we've got about $57,000 in savings. Um I'm not quite ready to tell you who that is because I'm waiting on one more, but uh as far as the next month at our action meeting, uh I'll I'll be able to recommend a certain trash service that we would go with, but we'll we'll definitely save at least $50,000. Okay. Uh Mhm. How many years are you getting on an agreement? So, I want to do one year. So that we can do this every year. And make sure I I know that that might make the cost just a little bit more, but it's not enough to be able to be stuck in a a contract for 3

090years because most of them when you get into a 3-year contract, they have a an understanding of they could go up to 7% increase. And that just scares me a little bit to to stay locked in with somebody for 3 years. Uh if it's the same with a 1-year increase, even though we might pay a little bit more, we're still getting a a huge savings compared to what we were getting. And the frequency of service will remain the same? Yes. For sure. Okay. Is it as far as the percentage of what we've spent, the savings as far as that, we don't want to do those numbers at the moment. I don't know it off the top of my head, but give me a second. I can look it up. We currently spend in trash service

091about $230,000 a year. Okay. I see. It's 20%. It's a lot. It is, yeah. And I think a 1-year's certainly a transition year is a smart approach. For sure. It's nice to be able to look at those those bills every month to just see where we're kind of spending a little bit more money than we feel like we should. And we always find ways to to make it better. Does this particular business, do they service as another district in our area? Like in you've gotten feedback that they're reliable. So, one of the companies services North Lake in a few areas. Uh the other company does all of Northwest ISD. All right. So, Northwest ISD was using the same company we're currently using and transition to that. So Any other questions from Mr. Ledford? Appreciate you

092having us. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay, I believe I'm up next. This is local policy. Okay, so the next two items pretty much go hand in hand. I'm going to do the policy piece first uh since it's tied to the opening configuration. One of the conversations we've had we've talked a little bit about FDB local which is your interested transfers transfers and there's a sibling clause in there. Um and that sibling clause it's written pretty it's actually very restrictive the way it's written and it really is has an unintended consequence on families because the way it's written is it limits it to just the time that the older sibling is finishing out and particularly if it's Argyle High School. So if you'll pull up the policy um link there. So what this revision would

093do just because as we read through it and realized the restrict language and had some feedback on that it would basically give a student granted a transfer under the sibling provision in a year of an attendance boundary change. So for example, the juniors and seniors at Argyle High School um shall be eligible to continue enrollment at that if they have sibling continue enrollment at at that campus in subsequent years provided they submit the annual transfer application and we have room and capacity and everything. Um but it only applies to students initially approved under the sibling exception during the implementation year which would be that 2027-2028 school year. So an example, if you have a a student that is a fresh this is a senior that's going to stay over here at Argyle High School and

094they have an incoming freshman sibling then this would allow that freshman sibling to finish at Argyle High School because the way it was originally written restrictively would send that student back to its zone campus the sophomore year. So this would allow the student to finish um but it would not it would not take into account anybody below the freshman year. So, it's just the student the sibling that comes into high school with the one that has the sibling exception. They could finish out. So, that would be the the policy recommended recommended change on this. So, that goes hand in hand with the presentation, um which I'll go into next and then we can answer any questions. If you have any on that, we can wait till I get through because you're it's going to come

095back up. So, on the opening configuration, um we talked about this a little bit a couple months ago and so I've got an update with you uh we we sent out a form to kind of went over this. We did some get data gathering. We've been uh looking at uh gathering information from other districts, how they've opened, you know, we talked we had that the parent meeting on the East Side parent meeting back in October. Uh we've been continuing to have those conversations, talking to other districts, and then we created a timeline of parameters, brought that to you, and then we put put out a feedback form. Main thing that we gathered from the data gathering is there's really no right or wrong answer. Every district has done it a little bit different in what

096really best serves the students, um you know, for their for their district. And our goal was to determine what best serves our students uh that are going to be zoned for East Legacy uh high school in the East in the 2027-2028 school year and then make those decisions the best we could for those families and how those students are impacted, you know, with different activities that their programs they're part of. So, we uh did an update with you all in March. At that time we told you we were going to go out with a parent poll, so we did that um to the eighth and ninth graders, which are the class of 2022 29 and 20 Excuse me, 2029 and 2030. And so, that's who it went to. There were, I think, 302, I believe,

097emails or students that were eligible for that email. We sent it March 19th. We sent the second email out March 26th and then we We a call to action in a third email April 1st, because that due date was April 3rd and we were trying to get more responses from families. We also review and consider the FDB local, which I just shared with you. And then tonight we're presenting the data from that from that with our recommendation as a team, and then for you to consider action May 6th at the special meeting. So, the data we have 302 eligible responses of currently enrolled 8th and 9th graders, that's the class of '29 and '30. So, for the class of '29, if they were we got I've asked them the question, "If you were given the

098option to attend Legacy as a junior, um what would that look like?" And so, we had 186 of 153 respondents. We had a basically a 56% response rate. Um those of that response rate of preference within those respondents, 24 preferred going to Legacy High School as a junior and 76 preferred staying at Argyle High School. We actually had some parents complete it that do not even have kids currently enrolled in our district as well. Um so, then I we did a prediction model and prediction model to the full group based on that data. Basically gave with a 95% confidence interval gave us about a 22 to 54, you know, students would have choose to go to Legacy and, you know, 100 to 131 would choose to to stay at Argyle High School. So, that's how

099we the juniors came out in that data. Uh for the sophomores, we had 74 of 149 respondents, so it was a 49% response rate. Uh the preference there was that 46% of them would go to go on to Legacy and take their high school career there. 54 would prefer to stay at Argyle High School. percent Um that prediction, running the same prediction model, we would have about a 90 with 82 and 67 with a 95% confidence interval, that would give us anywhere from 64 to 100 students wanting to go on to Legacy and 49 to 85 or so staying at Argyle High School. So, of the sibling data, um two confirmed they would take the sibling option in that whole in those two of those two classes, six were unsure. Um and then so that's

100what what led us to revert review that FDB local because we know there's probably some more in there, but those are the ones that actually responded. Um and they said some of that would just depend on what the exact programs were. So, in summary, um we pulled together district leadership team of athletics administration and fine arts administration and the high school principals from middle and high school middle and high school. Um and we you know, we thoroughly looked at everything. We looked at ninth and 10th and no option. Um which is the least flexible choice for 10th grade students, meaning they're going to start at our high schools as a freshman and then if they're zoned in Legacy, they would be forced back to Legacy. They would not have the option to complete at our

101high school, especially you know, we talked about different things they would be activities they would be involved in. Ninth grade no option and then selective 10th grade option. We even talked about, okay, well, if you were, you know, in marching band, you could stay you have the option to stay or you were in a varsity sport, but that just became too subjective. We weren't comfortable um really being able to define that. And we talked about no ninth grade no option and 10th grade with an option, so which is the most flexible choice for the 10th grade students, meaning that if they started out at our high school, they would have the chance to stay or they could go over to Legacy and spend their last three years there. Ninth grade no option with 10 and

10211 option. Um Miss Lumston, I'm going to let her talk in just a minute. She talked a bit a little bit about the upper classman logistics of that. And then the ninth and 10th no option and 11th with option and again had those upper classman logistics. And we talked about this, I don't know y'all, quite an hour and a half almost two hours that day and kind of going through all those different options based on our data. Um the non-respondents, you know, they could shift those final totals, but based on those prediction models, we felt like we had a pretty good set of data. Um and really our projections are for planning and then we'd have that revision to the siblings the sibling exception that we brought in as a as a recommendation. Um so

103with all of that the recommendation from the district our team is for the opening of Legacy in 2027-28 is ninth grade no option of course so the freshman that year if they're zoned Legacy would go and to give a tenth grade with an option. We just felt like there were too many students that could potentially fall in that that realm of and we talked to different districts that forced them to go and it just wasn't what was best for some of those kids cuz they were already with their march you know they might have been marching at a varsity level already as a freshman. Um they could have already been you know in a a varsity sport as a freshman and what that was going to do to some of those students that were competing

104at a level and then having to switch and then to allow for the sibling exception. We we talked at length about it oh you know opening up obviously with a little bit fewer sophomores than we had anticipated if we did a forced sophomore but our conversation I'm going to let them talk a little bit about the more the why behind that it just really led us to open with ninth tenth cuz we you know we had a good number of the tenth but just not everybody so they could if they wanted to stay they could finish out and then that's just really a one year issue and then from that year on it matriculate matriculate up and the numbers are at where they need to be so Um Miss Lumston Coach Rogers who else was

105in there Mr. Byrd who all don't mind coming up to the mic kind of talking through some of those reasonings um from your perspectives I think were really important Miss Knowles too. I know you love a good mic. So Miss Knowles loves the mic. >> Yeah. I think it's ironic that the mascot on my side has its mouth closed. But I'm also okay >> that's not you. Just just I just Miss Wheeler actually pointed that out to me, so she's fitting right in. Um, one thing that I brought up in the discussion was going through this middle school split. Something I've noticed from scheduling and making sure all the students have what they need is we have a couple of grade levels that are the same, like 7th and 8th is is very similar in

106scheduling and course offerings, but when you add 6th, it's kind of a different thing, you know, they're doing beginner band instead of big class band. There's just different things that come with those grade levels that aren't the same. So, I think there's a reason in high school you have upperclassmen and and underclassmen. So, when you add that junior group, if you don't have enough, and I think the numbers were saying something like 54 is very small. I always said like we need about 75. Um, when you add that junior group and upper level classes and upper level electives and practicums and even something as simple as prom, you know, if you're going to high school over there, do you want to do a joint prom? Well, we'd probably have to. Prom's not the deciding factor,

107but it's just an example of adding that junior adds a lot more other stuff. ASVAB, SAT, um, the type of counseling they need from their counselors. And I just the number that the survey showed doesn't really warrant adding all of those extra types of services for that number of kids. Um, so I think we can provide a better better service with the with the numbers by sticking with 9th and 10th grade. I'm all for choice. I want them all. Like, bring them all the first year. It just doesn't work that way when you're opening a new campus. Okay. Any questions on that or just step aside and let me There'll there'll be questions when I leave. Uh, I started off with the the premise that I wanted a junior option and a sophomore option. I

108thought that was the best, um, for an athletic department to fit in, find spots to be, uh start varsity teams and all that. But, after a thorough discussion, I realized the challenges uh that we were going to have academically. And uh I defaulted to what we chose uh by the simple fact is I thought that the sophomores would come to our building. Uh they may want to stay, and um the rules that we were discussing um every uh just to meet with her is very subjective and and I didn't know how to how to placate that and guide people and lead people uh into that decision-making. So, I feel like just giving them option, uh it it gives the kids uh and the parents an opportunity to make that choice and live with that choice.

109And I thought that was that was the the better option when we looked at everything was presented. And will you talk just a little bit because we talked about with that being doing that option, we could wait a little bit later for parents to have to make that choice, so they would be able to get the fall of their sophomore seasons, you know, kind of taking We do. Uh I think when we originally looked at a timeline, I think we were looking at uh you know, uh possibly a a late summer, early fall. And I think if uh if we're able to delay that a little bit, uh obviously your fall sports uh start in August. Uh therefore, you're going to look at volleyball, um you're going to be looking at cross country, uh and

110you're looking at football. Um but but quickly quickly those basketball teams and soccer teams are starting to formulate. Uh we have preliminary cuts uh just before the season, just to get in the class period for like baseball. Uh softball's not currently cutting anybody, uh but the preliminary cuts uh in soccer uh all happen right there. So, these kids will have a good picture of where they're fitting in the program. And uh all All stuff should be out there. You know, they're got to be paying attention and be aware of what surroundings. But I think it gives them a good picture to push that decision a little bit later in the fall so they have a clean picture of where they're going to fit either at Argyle High School or choose to go to Legacy. And

111I think that will be more evidence to support in their their decision making. Anything else besides that? >> Yep, that was what I Can I see if Mr. Bird would kind of share his perspective? I share the a lot of the same perspective as Coach Rogers. When we started this process, I was kind of the same on the junior option along with the sophomore option after our long conversations with the schedule and some of the challenges that we were all going to face. I think we all agreed that that was the best option is the one that's been presented. Um for the the fine arts, it's it's unique like we we talked about the varsity band's different cuz varsity marching band, we're going to have 70 freshmen participating in the varsity marching band. So a

112lot of the students and will will come over here and participate in the varsity marching band and some of them may want to continue with that. Some there will be several who will want to go back and start their own legacy at Legacy. Um and they they will have that be able to have that choice which I think is great. And um and so I think regardless it's it's going to both all the programs are going to flourish. And I feel very confident about that. Any questions? Well, I have a question for both you and Coach. I think you I think you answered my question because I was kind of I'm kind of was like y'all the more choice the better, you know. But when I look at that survey, it looked like the junior

113option there really wouldn't be that much interest in it. There's There's not Is there a space challenge at all at either campus? Not really. I mean not to that point, no. Cuz you're already pulling out By the time we get to there, you're pulling out the freshmen and then some of the sophomores, so it gives it it frees up space over there. >> So, when you say in your marching band, you're saying, "Hey, I have a lot of freshmen and young under you know, freshmen and sophomores that are going to participate in in uh in marching band." And so, that at the those transition years, they're both going to be high-performing opportunities at both campuses. Yes. >> Okay. Sports, I see a little different maybe is you know, your sophomores that are high-performing sophomores want

114to an opportunity to compete on a varsity team. We would have said You would think. And I mean, you know, but that you know, I mean, those are I don't know, man. In in there's not that many that probably see the field. I don't know, five or eight kids that >> I I occasionally I occasionally have sophomores participate in varsity football, but it's but it's common in soccer and cross country and track. >> Maybe baseball a little Baseball, yeah. Okay. And so, this gives those kids that are high performers the pro the advantage is they could stay if they choose, if that's important, and they can compete in a varsity sport their sophomore year. Yes, sir. Where they may or may not be able to do that Here. Well, certainly won't be able to do

115that football. May or may not be able to do that at Legacy as a sophomore in those non-football sports. Correct. We we did have a freshman play varsity football this year. That's a rarity. Right? And and he played JV basketball and he played varsity soccer, all the same kid. But not that's not normal. Do you see this having a potential, if you give a 10th grade option, in your high-performing athletic sophomores who want to play varsity stay, is it is it going to do you see that causing a little bit of a struggle for Legacy High School to be competitive Well, you have to have years. Okay. I I think I can answer it. So, critical masses, right? So, basketball's five, soccer's 11, football is basically 22. Uh and so, the critical masses are going

116to be there. Um we have the luxury in January of of '26, '27. The luxury of '27 to decide what sports to play and what level to play. So, we'll have a better scope and understanding of playing varsity sports. Do I think it's going to impact varsity sports? Uh I think we've got to be careful what what does impact mean. When we were we have 5A numbers now. We have more athletes, all right, than we've ever had that I've coached. When we go back to literally 3A numbers, all right, they're not going to be as dispersed widely in all the sports as they have before. So, I think they're going to be very competitive. Uh they are going to face a challenge of immaturity and youth, but I think they'll slowly grow through that. I'll

117paint a picture more like this. Um in 5A, kids make it to the varsity, hopefully their senior year, maybe get playing time their junior year. We can We can attest to that. That that's that's that's normal. That's what we see normal. When we were that classification, there was many times where a freshman and sophomore was getting opportunities to contribute at a very high level during those years. Sometimes they would be they would be three-year starters. Mhm. >> I personally don't think it's going to delay it. I think with our growth, I think it's going to be just fine. It They're going to have to grow organically over there. We're not going to bewitch it and wiggle our nose, all right, and automatically play for a state championship because we're not going to have very many

118older kids in the building. I think that I think they're naturally going to grow organically. Hopefully, we're we're accepting the culture that's that's in our school district, and we just transplant it over there like sourdough bread yeast and let it grow and let it let it blossom by the day right in the what we want it to be. That's the whole idea behind it. So, I think giving the kids the options to stay here I just remember we're we're we're we're already fixed on the option means they're staying. The option means they have an option. So, we're really not sure how many kids are going to choose to go over there. Okay? And we're not in we're in in this premise we're assuming that the good ones are going to stay or either the ones

119that already have varsity positions, they may choose to go over there. I've seen it happen. >> Okay? Sure. I mean, it depends on who we hire. I mean, we're going to be a little bit further along in the hiring process. Okay? We've got we're we've got to hire a principal. If they know the principal, if they know some of the teachers, if they know, all right, coaching staff, anything. All those things are going to be conducive to kids wanting to go over there. Academics, you can't talk to yet. Academics, people trying to get into the top 10. Trying to try something new in the academic world that they otherwise haven't done are going to be appealing to people. They want to get into the top 10. Cuz if they're not in the top 10 over

120here, it gives them a greater opportunity. So, I think all those things are going to be appealing. So, you don't you don't think that the 10th grade option's going to be Um there's obviously benefits for the I'm a choice guy, so I like giving families certainly those families that are going to be impacted by the transition years. I'm all about giving them the choice. And I see the benefit that you don't sit there and say, I don't think this is going to cause Legacy High School giving those sophomores the option to to get off to a bad start or struggle. You you think there's going to be enough I I I don't think so. And and like I said is there's we're when we were over there, our kids did a lot of things. Now,

121we're 5A. One of the reasons for giving more option is because kids have specialized. There's going to be a natural process to, all right, losing all these specialties and doing and doing a lot of things. That's what we wanted. Yes. Okay? It's going to trigger that. That's going to take time. Okay? Just just think about the AYSA football player, okay, that moves from fourth grade to fifth grade fifth grade to sixth grade sixth grade to seventh grade and and he he's he hadn't matured yet. He's not crawling, okay? He's he's he's he's just not developing. Well, there's going to be more opportunities for him to maybe stay through the seventh grade and eighth grade and find their spot when they otherwise, all right, get overwhelmed when we have 90 freshmen trying out for varsity football.

122Okay? That's the whole purpose for the second high school is to create opportunities. But, the opportunities have to be taken advantage of. Okay, so let's you Excuse me, can I ask you one question? Do you would you Do you think there's going to be a chance for that? Sometimes you have these very high-performing sophomores that are just really good athletes who can play multiple sports. As they should. As they should. And sometimes that can be really challenging at the higher classification because of the course work and the specialization that goes on. Absolutely. That that kid may actually want to because if you multiple sport opportunity may be better at Legacy High School than Legacy North. I mean, I don't know if you want to answer that. I would I would like I would like to

123think that's going to be an attractive feature of Legacy High School. Yeah. Is I can go do more than one thing. I mean, that's what got us off the ground. Go to Argyle, you can do more than one thing. How many kids did we know moved in that wanted to play baseball and football and we made it work. How many kids wanted to be in band and athletics and we made it work. We made it work. Leon was grandson grandson grandson We made it work. So, I I I think I think with that going forward is we're going to hire a bunch of teachers and we're going to have a building principal that are going to make it work because that's what we're currently doing at Argyle High School. I mean, it's going to work

124because of the leadership that you put in place and the parents that that buy into the program. >> to make it work. We got to make it work and we and everybody, all right, is is all in. I get a text, "I love the logo. I'm getting fired up." We're talking about uniforms. All right? Okay, well, that's the energy that's going to be required to get this thing off the ground going. All right? And and parents are talking to me all the time at baseball, softball. "We're fired up, coach." I'm glad. I got up at 4:30 this morning. I'm not. Building something can be a lot of I just all I'm saying is yeah, I've been in the middle of it, all right? So, I'm not all right, as highly energized about it as but

125I am excited about it. I mean, the logo was exciting. So, I've I've got a couple of questions. The projection of the graduating class of 2030 at Legacy High School, do we have any idea of what that number could be? Yes, I've got it right I've got it right here. I'm backwards. Right here. So, you've got the class of 2030 is sophomore if did the sophomore option, those are backwards. So, it goes 54% they would prefer Legacy, 46% stay. So, if you did the confidence interval, could be about 100 if they if that's >> three Is that 3A? Well, it's not about the graduating class though. Yeah, so the so the the ninth the ninth graders and a 10th grader option is definitely 3A the first year. Ninth graders and all 10th graders would be

126most likely 3A the first year. But, it's only going to be 1 year cuz it's the middle of the alignment and 9 out of 10 you double that for the next alignment. So they'll it'll should be most likely a 4A D2 going into the very next year. That's what we're expecting. But that that opening year is a 3A which we've expected all along. And then the kid that chooses the option to stay at Arlington High School instead of going to Legacy then that doesn't work out is he allowed to go or is she allowed to go back to Legacy? So by law we have to let them go in their zone. No matter when they make that decision. Right. We can't keep them from going to their zone school. So if it didn't work and

127they wanted to go to their zone school they would have the opportunity to do so. But they only have one choice. One time to stay. >> Legacy. One one time to stay at AHS. Yes. One time to stay, provide their own transportation, but they can go to Legacy cuz it's their zone by law. Okay. With transportation. Right. Okay. And you know, he mentioned with UIL yes, obviously football is the only one that will be the Renegades schedule the first fall. Um everything else has the potential to compete at the highest level of varsity um as long as you know, we feel like we've got the student students to to do all those things. So those are all I mean we're planning for all of that. So it'll just be depending upon the So that's you

128know, and I've experienced that same exact opening. No option at 10th grade. It's all 9 and 10. No option. Okay. And I would say looking back it you know, probably would have been better for the families and kids to have had that option at the at the at the 10th grade. It wouldn't have really long-term impacted anything. It's just really that kind of that first year that you're Does Miss Knowles have anything? Miss Knowles do you Do y'all know do y'all have questions? Well you were so you were probably was >> part of it. Yes. And I will tell y'all we've gone from one extreme to the other. It has um it has come full circle. The more we talked about it, the more we talked to other schools um who have gone through this.

129Um that's how we came to this um recommendation. We feel like at the end of the day people get a choice of what they want to do. And when we did the parent meeting, you know, those of you that were there, I mean, how many y'all had parents come up to you even at the end of that meeting talking about, you know, they they obvious that definitely was the sentiment. Yeah. And um we were looking for a way to do so if if at all possible. Um Yeah, I think the the local policy change is the right thing to do. For the siblings. For the siblings and I think that That's all the parents I've talked to this about the siblings. And we're all talking the same parent. And this is the same parent. They

130all got that phone call. But Yeah, I think That's that's that's great. I and I think some of the choices, you know, I I tend to favor so. So really our process at this point um if this is the if this is the decision that the board approves um May 6th or whichever decision, then we would I we talked a little bit that we would start in October with our teacher transfer form and our student transfer forms and kind of do that through the October-November time frame. Um that gives us a chance in December for us to review the data, staffing planning, course selection process so that we can finalize all that staffing starting in February cuz it's you get past February and it's too late and Miss Lumston can attest to that. She and

131Miss Wheeler are going through that right now with the middle school. It will not be much different being a secondary schedule. So we've kind of learned some timeline adjustments there. Is this coming back on the 6th? >> Yes, sir. So if for those sibling option families and I don't know if there's an answer to this, but let's say they know they're They're to take the sibling option and it's in in their East Zone legacy. And they're going to go to Argyle High School. Stay. What do they But they still have middle school years left. Mhm. What happened? Do they have to Middle school stays in their zone. They stay in their zone. >> Well, it's only for incoming freshman. It's only incoming freshman. Okay. >> It's only It's only if you're heading into high school

132this one year. Okay. So, it doesn't impact your middle school because you're already leaving middle school. You're coming into your freshman year. It doesn't matter who's behind you. >> Unless you're a freshman. >> Like any siblings younger than that. They're in their zone. They're in their zone. So, if you have that sibling gap of that overlap Very very few seventh graders. It's current seventh graders are the only ones that'll have an option to have a sibling exception. And it's just the ones that are tied to it. Am I thinking of this right though? I mean like so we're splitting middle schools next year. Mhm. So, you may have a kid that's going into eighth grade next year that wants to go to Argyle High School under the sibling option, but he's going to be at

133They're going to their zone middle school. They're going They're going to their zone. And they say, "Hey, I'm going so I want to go to Gibson with the kids that I'm going to go to high school." >> Right. We're They're going to their zone middle school. Their Their exception comes in for high school only. So, that one year they have to stay in their zone. Mhm. But they're in middle school. Yeah, you don't have to give me options in the first year. It's too much choice. Don't overdo it. I'll say I'll correct it. Too much choice. Yeah. Don't Don't tell me. I'll correct it. I'll try. Well, I I personally want to thank the four of you for working together. Yeah, they've they've done a great job. Very important. And And Coach Blackmore and Coach

134Zellers And that you all were able to come to a decision. For recommendation. Thank you, guys. Okay. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you all. All right. I think I sneeze. Let's get in the action. This is Jeff. Okay, bless you. So Everybody's this um action items. Yeah. So for action items 12A and 12B we are asking you to table that tonight and take no action. We are not prepared to make a recommendation. We will be prepared to bring that back to May 6th, but we need a few more days. Who's going to say? Okay, sounds good. Thank you. So we're we're we're actually administrative is recommending tabling 12A and 12B. and 12B. Exactly. So we'll move to 12C. Which is Dr. Daniel. This is an action item. These are professional contract recommendations

135um as discussed in at the last board meeting in a closed session. And this is not information only as it says in the background information. This is not a Oh, you have action on the agenda location. You're good. Okay. Questions? I'll entertain a motion to approve action item 12C as presented. Motion to approve action item 12C as presented. Mr. West, a motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Matthews said it was a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. I did great. Come on. If you're not careful, I'm going to for the last few hours. Yep, forget focus. All right. So this is See budget amendment that we presented last month. There's no changes from that presentation. Do you mind just scrolling down? Just as a reminder, we had

136some balancing out there between property taxes and um state funding. We also updated this through the um third six weeks where it includes all of the first semester. Um and I think we also talked about that we would probably have another revenue adjustment as we looked at the other six weeks as they come in. For expenditures, uh just some main items there. Uh the winter storm repairs are the largest item. Uh they are in that function 51 maintenance and operations. Uh there's some um some software, some training, and um some equipment that are in all of the other um listed there. Either a decrease moving to another function or an increase in the function there. Scroll up page. But the largest one being the storm repairs. So that all happened at the auditorium at 377.

137Are there any questions on that? It still keeps us in a surplus budget. She's learning, little one. I'll entertain a motion to approve action item 12D as presented. Make a motion to approve action item 12D as presented. Mr. Hawksworth's motion to approve. Do I have a second? >> 12E, sorry. No. No, D, sorry. I'm listening. Hold that. Sorry about me raising my hand. Dr. McDade with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand and say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, the next one is purchases above 100,000. As you all know, this becomes a We have these on most agendas, whether they're information or action. This one was You want to scroll it down? This one was technology for and I know this says Michael Ball Elementary. We'll get that updated on any

138future reports to say Michael Ball Intermediate. Um but it is the technology and the switches and network equipment that go in that building. It's from the 2022 bond and included in the FF&E portion of that bond. I'll entertain a motion to approve action on 12E as presented. Motion to approve action on 12E as presented. Mr. Western motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. McDowell seconds. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. Thank you. This is Mr. Ledford. Hello again. So, this is an action item to take action on retrofitting six of our our buses with seat belts. Uh, so just for to review, last month, um, the state is wanting us to take action by May of this year. It's 2026 and seat belts aren't required

139until 2029. So, the whole purpose of them doing that is to find out how much grant funding that they're going to be able to give us or or how much is needed throughout the state. So, it's our job to tell them how many buses we think we're going to need to retrofit before 2029 and then apply for that grant. That way they'll get all that information compiled from all those districts in the state. And once they receive that, they'll be able to tell us how much grant money we're going to get. Okay. So, um, that's kind of the gist of of what's going on. So, with no grant money, it's going to cost us about $270,000. With grant money, which we're we're definitely hoping that we're going to receive some, uh, it'll be cheaper than

140that. So, You really hope this is a funded mandate. So So, do we approve it pending grant money and then revisit it future board members? >> Yeah, provided the grant. Re- revisit it and decide how if we want to Right. This This is strictly answering the question for for TEA whether we are willing to retrofit by 2029 and meet the requirements or not. It's not the actual approval for us to go spend the money. And also, it's required now to put seat belts in, so it's not like whether you can There could be more There could be financing options. There could be Right. That's what I'm saying. I don't want to just blanket I'm just going to be clear. You're not saying I don't want seat belts on buses. >> No, I'm not saying There's

141only six of them right now. >> Thank you for clarifying. Just clarifying that. It was a little misleading. So, your actual motion is that we we agree to retrofit six of our buses >> Yes, by 2029. >> By 2029. We're basically agreeing to comply agreeing to comply with Texas Senate Bill 546 by the timeline presented. Sounds awesome. If the grant money is there, how we choose to pay for it can be determined. Correct. All right. I'll entertain a motion to approve action on 12F as presented. I recommend I move to recommend retrofitting six of our buses with seat belts before September 1st, 2029 per in compliance with Texas Senate Bill 546. Awesome. Dr. McDade with a motion to approve. Do I have a second? >> Second. Mr. Matthew Slayton with the second. Thank you. >>

142All in favor, please raise your hands and say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. >> one thing. Can I say real quick? I I know we tabled Sorry. We I wanted to I wanted to elaborate just a moment on the two that items we tabled for next With board meetings now having to be posted by state law three business days before the date of the meeting. You're posting those so early and we weren't able to finish gathering all the information we needed. So, that that has changed a little bit of how that works. So, um I apologize for that, but we had to get it on the agenda hoping we would have everything because we have to post the agenda so early um with the new law, but we weren't able to. So,

143that's the explanation real quick. Okay. Yeah. All right. It's 8:26 p.m. We are adjourned.