AISD School Board Meeting 3-23-26

001All right. Good evening. It's March 23rd, 2026. The time is 5:00 p.m. This is 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 Westrom present. >> Rich McDowell present. >> Leann Artho present. >> Matt Slaton present. >> Craig Hawksley present. >> And I'm Slaton present. We do have a quorum established. Uh at this time, it is still 5:00 p.m. and we are going to adjourn to closed session under the authority of the Texas Government Code 551 Subchapter D 4551.074, personnel matters and public officers 551.071, consultation with attorney and 551.072, deliberation regarding real property. >> Mhm. >> All right, good evening. Time 6:12 p.m. We have returned from executive session. We have some guests here from the

002Jane Westman Elementary. Miss Tellus, you want to come up here and introduce who you have here with us today? >> I would love to. Good evening, everyone. As Mr. Clayton said, my name is Lauren Tellus. I am the principal at Jane Westman Elementary, and I have the honor of presenting to you our yearbook club that throughout the entirety of this year has spent an enormous amount of time prepping all the pieces for our yearbook. So, they are going to introduce ourselves, and then we will say the pledges. >> Hello, everyone. My name is Reyhanika, and my favorite part about the yearbook club is when we went to the women's basketball game, and I took pictures of the women playing their basketball game. >> Nice. >> Hello, I'm Anaya, and my favorite memory of yearbook was

003also whenever we went to the basketball game, and we were able to take pictures of them playing. >> Sounds great. >> Hi, good Good everyone. My name is Ria, and my favorite part of yearbook was also going to the basketball game and taking photos for big events at JRE. >> Awesome. Good job. >> Hello, my name is Grace, and my favorite memory from this year is getting to make the whole yearbook. >> Awesome. All right. >> Hello, my name is Raya, and my favorite thing about yearbook is when I took pictures for the staff kid Halloween night. >> All right. >> My name is Channing, and my favorite part of yearbook was when I got to use the pro camera on Veterans Day. >> Awesome. Good job. >> Hi, my name is Dexter, and my

004favorite part of the yearbook is when I got to go to the basketball event and take pictures. >> All right. Cool. >> Hello, my name is Jackson, and my favorite memory from yearbook was being able to take pictures at our Great Kindness Race. >> I get it. That's good. >> Hi, my name's Anya, and my favorite part of yearbook was when we went to the women's basketball game and took pictures. >> All right. >> Hi, my name is Nikolai. Wait. I am in the yearbook club crew, and my favorite memory in it is taking pictures of the police dog. >> Awesome. Nice. Nice. All right. Police dog. >> Good evening. I'm Rachel Peterson. I teach kindergarten at JRE, and it has been an honor to spend all of my Mondays with these kids, and we've

005worked so hard, so it's a pleasure to get to show off all of their hard work tonight. >> Excellent. >> I'm Sarah Albert. I teach third grade math and science at JRE. It really has been so fun to meet throughout the year, and we are so thankful that you are having us here tonight. >> Thank you for coming. >> JRE Teacher OF THE YEAR. >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, RIGHT, ARE READY, YOU CAN LEAD US IN THE PLEDGES. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. >> Thank you. >> Thank y'all so much. We're going

006to go take a picture. >> Yeah, hold on. >> Take three steps forward. Turn around to me. >> Take three steps back, all of you. About six steps. Scooch one left. Three steps left. >> One step left. >> left. There you go. All right, we're good. Parents? You can start snapping your pictures. >> Yeah. >> Start snapping your pictures. >> Wow. >> All right, Mr. Hawksworth, if you'll lead us in our opening prayer, appreciate it. Dear Lord, thank you for all the blessings you provide to us each and every day. Those that we're aware of and those that we are not. Please be with this board and administration as we make decisions tonight that honor you and are in best interest of all the students and staff. We love you, Lord. Amen. >> Amen. Thank

007you. >> Thank you, Mr. Hawksworth. All right, we have recognition. >> We have a very special recognition, hot off the press from spring break, so. >> I know, you don't even know what's going on, do you? I think that's what's going ON RIGHT THERE. YEAH. SO, WE ARE VERY HONORED TONIGHT TO get to recognize the 5A Division II State Championship Ladies Basketball Team in the State of Texas and coaching staff. So, Coach Where's Coach Westmoreland? Would you come on up, sir? By the way, he is also the coach of the year for the Texas GIRLS COACHES ASSOCIATION. SO, WE'D LIKE TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT FOR them to recognize them. I think it was final record of 34 and 5, is that correct? Okay, 34 and 5 and uh we had Emma King was our

008MVP. CONGRATULATIONS, EMMA. BUT I KNOW THAT VERY GLAD TO SEE YOU all of you with your gold medals. Very special day. It's a great season. We look forward to having um so many of you back. Blair is a senior. Is Blair back? There she is. It was really fun watching you play this year. I know we're going to miss you, but we'll get to see the rest of y'all back. So, Coach Westmoreland and your staff, we just want to recognize you guys and see if you have a few words, we'd love to hear from you. So, anybody wants to to speak? >> Well, um I'm very blessed. I've got a great group of uh girls and uh support staff, coaches, y'all that have really helped us on. You know, when we became a 5A school,

009um we had a really good team and we knew that this was going to be uh we knew that this was going to be a challenge. When you become 5A, it's just a different level. Uh a lot of good teams, a lot of athletic teams and and uh you know, I think throughout the years ever every year we've just got a little bit better. It and we've uh become, you know, we've changed some things we did in the off season. Um and and so just really this year just all came together and that was what was great with this group of girls. They're selfless. I've been doing this for 23 years. I've never had a team of of girls that truly care about each other. They get along. Um no animosity. Uh and that's what

010made it special. It made it a very enjoyable for all of us and uh you know, our practices were great and then when they got to the games, um it just all showed there and you know, that's it's girls that care about what they do in the classroom. Um and then they're when they get on the court, they're just so competitive. We're not the tallest. We're probably not the most athletic in some of the teams we played. Uh but it didn't matter because they all played as a unit and then I'm very fortunate. Um I work I want to recognize my coaching staff. I have Casey Wallace. She's back there. SHE'S MY VARSITY ASSISTANT. I'VE BEEN in this district 9 years and she's been here 10. She's been with me most of the time. When

011I first got here, she was our our uh my varsity assistant and then we she went down to the middle school and that was a blessing because she coached these kids in middle school and and a couple years ago, I got her to come back up to the high school. And then I have uh Quentin Tabor. >> Mhm. >> He's our JV coach, but also in our in our staff, everybody's a a varsity coach. They all help, and that's what makes it fun. And but he's just done a great job with it. Our JV I think has won 88 straight games, and that's what makes us really good is that our everyday in practice our our sub-varsity teams can give us a good look, too. And then I have Justin Ham BACK THERE. >> MHM.

012>> ANOTHER COACH THAT SACRIFICED. He's the head track coach. So, he goes and does basketball every day and then he goes to the track. And y'all seen he's had some pole vault state champions and done a great job with our track program. And just uh Lindsey Griffith came up from the eighth grade. Um Coach Ham just his wife just had a little baby, so he right uh during the playoffs. So, he did as much as he could, but then Lindsey Griffith came and helped. And then Aaron Fowler is also with us. He's our athletic trainer. And so, I'll real quickly just recognize these kids if you want me to, but I have >> I have uh sophomore Breasha Bell, uh junior Emma Keen, junior Landry uh Murphy, sophomore Addy Sims, junior Mallory Cockendall, junior Kinsley

013Vest, junior Lexi Earhart, junior uh Sorry, Wrigley Green, junior Alli Keen, junior Eva Gernigan, freshman Kobe Green, and then finally our senior, lone senior, and just did an outstanding job of leading our team all year and just uh being the captain and and she and Landry are two captains and just did a great job. Just And she's another kid that sacrificed. She's going to go run track in college. Every year with the playoffs, you know, she gets to track late. And she only gets two or three meets before district, but it's been so important to have her a part of our program. And and she's been with us since seventh grade and is very good. So, that is Blair Mosley, our lone senior. So, just uh thank y'all for giving us the resources. Y'all help

014us. I'm telling you when we get to go play our playoff games, when we played in Childress, we were able to go the night before and spend the night. And I think that makes a big difference. Those are close games that help us. And and just uh the charter buses and just the send-offs and everything special. When we got back uh from the state, uh, championship, we had probably 150 people in the parking lot. And that's what makes it special. Uh, we're very excited, uh, to to be the the first team that's won it. And we hope this, I mean, we've got a lot of other good teams that have been right there. And so, hopefully it's like when we were 4A, we started winning a lot of stuff. But, but this group has definitely

015put in the work and and couldn't couldn't happen to a more deserving group of girls. So, thank y'all. >> THANK YOU. >> AWESOME. CONGRATULATIONS. >> I MEAN, THIS IS THE THIS IS this is the first >> Okay, we're going to move up to the public forum portion of tonight's meeting, so uh one thing that's differed in my time here on the board, my 9 years, I've got readers now. So, I'm going to throw these on and read here. Okay, so for public forum, we'll move into uh that portion of tonight's meeting. Please note board policy requires speakers to sign up in person before the meeting's called to order. During 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

016needed, 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're 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. The presiding officer may reduce the allotted time for each individual to speak to no less 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

017permitted 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. Our board policy BED and this board's operating procedures, board will not allow disruption of the board meeting by members of the public. If after one warning from the presiding officer, any person continues to disrupt the meeting by words or actions, the person will be removed from the meeting. All right. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Mr. Harper. Uh all right, we have one person signed up to speak tonight, uh Gary Nelson. Good evening, Mr. Nelson. Uh you will have 5 minutes to speak. When you have 1 minute

018left, Mr. Matthew Slaton's going to let you know you have 1 minute left. You also have this fancy timer up here. So, whenever you'd like to begin, the floor is yours. Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you very much. Uh and uh this is not the first time for me to be here and address this August board. Uh I was here, I believe, in December of 2023 shortly after passage of Senate Bill 763, which advocates for the placement of trained and certified chaplains in public schools. And that passed the state legislature. And then it went out to all the school districts and at uh a recent chapter meeting for the North Texas chaplains, I operate as the Texas director of operations for the National School Chaplains Association, so I organize these events around the state.

019It uh came to my attention when one fellow uh that lives in this district said, "Hey, I live across the street from the high school. Is there I'd sign up for the training if I could go to work over there?" And I checked the rolls and it appears as though you all have not made a decision on this yet. So, uh I came tonight to ask you if you have made a decision. And if you have, that's great. And if you haven't, to ask when that might be voted upon so that we can get our roles updated and I can inform Mr. Phil Luckett, another famous NFL referee from the coin toss uh debacle that you might recall a number of years ago. He's also a uh missionary that spent about a dozen years in

020Russia that uh now professor at the Perspectives courses that I uh help uh put on at Flower Mound. Anyway, he's interested in becoming a chaplain and would like to come to work for you all if uh indeed you would accept him either on a volunteer or paid basis. I guess you have that choice as well. So, that's my question to you all and uh that's uh about all I have for the evening. If uh I could go away with an answer one way or the other. >> Mr. Nelson, if you'll leave your uh contact information with Mr. Herring right here, I'll make sure someone from the district gets uh in contact with you. >> Very good. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Okay, I'm going to shuffle the agenda and we're going to

021go ahead and go to action item uh 11A. And we'll go back to our regularly scheduled programming. So, I will entertain a motion to approve action item 11A as presented. >> Move to approve 11A as presented. >> All right. Mr. Matthew Slayton with a motion to approve the administrative contracts in 11A as presented. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Uh Mr. Craig Hawksworth with a second. Uh any further discussions, questions, comments? Okay, all in favor please raise your hand and say I. >> I. >> Any opposed, please raise your hand. >> No. >> Uh, you have one no, uh, Mrs. Artho. >> Okay. >> Thank you. All right, now we'll go back to the consent agenda. Do you have any questions on any of the consent items? Okay, let me go over donations.

022All right, for March of 2026, ABC, uh, fiscal year 26, number 10, $3,000 for boys and girls track meet hospitality room. ABC, fiscal year 26, noted donation 11, $2,400 for baseball, softball youth night. ABC, fiscal year 26, number 12, $8,147.25, girls track apparel. ABC, fiscal year 2026, number 13, $2,127.10, football guardian caps. Uh, Hilltop Elementary School PTA, $1,580. That's 1,080 for the kindergarten field trip and 500 towards the office. Co-serve, $250 to JRE as part of the Energizing Education Program. Uh, do we have any amounts for the last two? Those are just good thoughts. Good thoughts from Dacu. Uh, pizza for JRE teachers and staff and Mr. and Mrs. Hobby, teacher uh, personal development day breakfast for teachers and staff. We I just need to see the total at the bottom, please. >> I don't

023think there was one. >> There was one. Total March donations, $17,504.35. >> Okay. >> And you know, I ask you guys, does anyone have any questions on um the consent items? Okay. I will entertain a motion to approve the consent items in totality as presented on the agenda. >> I'll make a >> motion we approve the consent items in totality as presented in the agenda. >> Thank you, Mr. Hawksworth, for the motion to approve. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Matthews Slate with second. Any further discussion? All in favor, say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right, thank you. I'm going to do Mr. Slate. All right, Mr. Cohen. >> Yep. >> Just I'm sorry, Craig. Good evening. >> Good evening. So, lead with our Gibson Middle School update tonight. Uh

024start off with an overall shot. Uh work is continuing to request progress well around the site. You can see uh the metal panels being installed. That's the copper looking material you see here between some of the windows and uh and the brick areas. A little bit closer shot, the other angle, and you can see metal panel being installed inside the courtyard as well this time. The shot uh looking at our gymnasium and fine arts area in the back. Uh you can see some of the canopies are going on the building around as well. And a shot of our main entrance. Uh you can see the wood beams that we've got that go down the main corridor. We've got those in just select areas and so they kind of uh or mimic in these copper looking

025metal panels kind of mimics that wood look. A little closer view of that work going on. Uh brackets above the windows for all the uh sun shade canopy that will be going on. This view is looking down the main corridor. Uh here you can see again the wood beams. Uh they've unwrapped them now. We've got a roof on there so they still remain to be finished. Uh duct work is being installed. You can see those going down the corridor as well. All the interior masonry is complete. Uh the stone on the right you can see there. This shot is looking in the cafeteria. Again, we've got the wood beams throughout the cafeteria. Uh and they're doing all their mechanical rough in, condensation drains, mechanical, electrical, lighting rough in at this time. In the back you

026can see the stage. Raised floor has been poured. Uh that's a raised concrete deck back there. This picture of our band hall. Uh in here you can see that we've got ceiling grid installed. They've got lights in the grid. They've got uh HVAC registers in the grid. Uh so the the building itself looks this way uh probably through about uh 75% of it has just got grid going in. Lights and grills again in the hallway by athletics. Here's a shot of one of the locker rooms. We've got lockers installed in there. Uh we've got all the paint uh except for the final last coat that will be going on later. In our bathroom areas we've got tile work that's going on. We've got tile on the wall here. Uh Uh the floor is now prepped

027for floor tile. Here's a typical classroom. Um again, most of the classrooms throughout the building look like this at this time. First coats of paint on, grid in, lights in. Um We've actually got millwork starting to go in as well. It's uh all delivered to the site and scattered throughout all the rooms that it goes in. So, that work is commencing. These are classroom hallways. Uh see the tile on the walls throughout. Uh they are nearing completion with all of that wainscot tile. It will get uh a tackable panel above that. So, instead of having to put staples in the sheetrock, which I know maintenance loves, Tommy, um we have tack walls, so they don't have to do that. This is uh one of our uh water fountain areas outside the bathroom, so we did

028some red decorative tile there where the water fountains will go. And here's a look ahead. Um continue with wall and floor finishes. Uh millwork and casework has started and will continue for a while. And doors and hardware will start installation very soon. And uh we should be getting our HVAC started up so we can start conditioning the air and control the humidity a little bit. And then just the key milestone dates that we continue to track and we're still on track for that substantial completion sometime in July of this year. And we'll coordinate all of the furniture deliveries and uh band equipment, weight room equipment, etc. with that schedule. Are there any questions on the middle school? Okay. Moving on to Ball Elementary School. Again, picture overall site. So, the middle school is to the

029left, just out of the frame of this shot. Uh you can see grade beams have started in the kitchen area. Here's a little bit closer shot of those grade beams in the kitchen area. Here they're setting up concrete pump for a grade beam pour now in this photo. Uh so, underground utilities have just recently been completed. Uh plan is to continue with grade beams around the building and then follow that with slabs. Uh steel erection will commence very soon. Uh we've got a lot of it stored. The crane has been mobilized on site. And uh they are currently starting underground plumbing and electric under the building foundations. Any questions on that one? All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, Joe. >> Thank you, Joe. >> You can just do it from there. There's only a

030couple slides. If you want to just do it from there, it's fine. Or this one. All right. So, we do have several things that have happened in the last month or so. I want to start out though with our Teacher of the Year. So, Friday we had our Teacher of the Year Prize Patrol Parade, and some of you were able to be there for different parts of that, but we toured the district. Um thank you to our I guess it's our uh high school cheer and some of our Majestics, right, Mr. Herron, and the drumline um accompanied us on school buses, and we hit all seven campuses. So, congratulations there to Bonnie Barkley at Hilltop Elementary, Madeleine Williamson as third grade teacher at uh West, Maddie Fairchild fifth grade teacher at South. Sarah Albert, third

031grade teacher at Jane Westerman Elementary. Jennifer Augenstine, sixth grade math teacher at the sixth sixth grade center. And then April Dominguez who teaches and she's also the cheer coach over at Argyle Middle School. And then Matthew Woody, social studies teacher at Argyle High School. So congratulations to our teachers of the year and also to our finalists that I know the campuses got to celebrate during that time frame, but it was a great time. Had lots of great pictures that you probably seen. We Facebook live did so it was it was a big day. So now the seven of teachers here will move forward into the next round where we will pick a district and secondary and a district elementary to send on to the regional level. Is that right, Dr. Jordan? Okay. So looking forward

032to that round. So congratulations to all of them. I think probably the best part of all of it is when their family shows up cuz they don't know they're coming and so we're all parading down the hallways and it's chaotic and loud and the kids are cheering and out of context and they make eye contact with their family and then all the tears start rolling. So I think that's probably the neatest part of the whole trip on that Friday is for us to get to observe that and see that see them see their families. So it's really cool. So thank you to the families who make time out of their day and make the trip to come join them for that. It's it's pretty awesome. So congratulations. We also celebrated our diagnosed educational diagnosticians not

033too long ago and we have eight in our district. Those ladies are fabulous. They work extremely hard to work to help our students through testing and special needs and those that are are going through that process. So just want to celebrate our educational diagnosticians as we had that week. We also have obviously our basketball team was here just recently and coach Wes Moreland, coach of the year. That's a huge honor and I know that one thing I didn't mention a while ago is the really neat thing about being down there for the state tournament, the state championship was it was also the 2016 teams 10-year reunion down there and so we got to see the 2016 Lady Eagles who won the state championship in 4A and they were honored over that weekend. So that was

034that was really neat to to be there 10 years later with with this team. Uh we also had boys and girls powerlifting. We had eight lifters actually competed at regionals and just this weekend Lauren Mansfield placed second as she was silver medalist at the girls state powerlifting meet um on Saturday. So congratulations to Lauren. Uh we also have um want to special thank Jim and Kelly Reed with Little Joe's uh the restaurant here in town. They jumped in on that state championship day and held a watch party. Um Mr. Warrior and his technology team and the maintenance team, we delivered a a large TV over there and they logged in through our NFHS account and had a pretty good showing. How many of y'all were there? >> It was packed. >> Y'all were Yeah, you

035were there. Yeah. And so it was full. Um and that was really neat to see because those that couldn't travel to San Antonio been able to to uh really support local restaurant Mr. Mr. Jim and his wife and their and their Little Joe's restaurant was really cool to see. So we saw lots of pictures. So I just want to publicly thank them because they really gave up a lot of space in their restaurant for um our community to come together and and support our Lady Eagles. We also found out this weekend one act play is advancing so that's great news. They will advance to by district action um for UIL action. And then Mr. Herron was able to be at the Tom Thumb Grand Thumb Grand opening a few weeks ago um over there at

036North Lake and we had our Argyle Middle School Jazz Band and the Majestics from the high school and the cheerleaders of the high school. So we had a they had our Argyle Eagles there and that was a big kickoff and I think they met Troy Aikman, is that correct? Yeah, that was the big news I heard. So thank you for taking them over there and just thank you for Tom Thumb and we're excited to have them in the community. And then right now we are in the middle of soccer playoff season so great news is our girls and boys soccer teams both won round one last week and they both play tomorrow night. So, the girls will be here at 6:00. They drew another home game, which is fabulous, at the stadium and the boys

037will be in Crowley at 7:30 playing Trimble Tech. So, looking forward to our soccer teams continuing post district action tomorrow night. And then another big one we had, historic milestone for our fine arts department. So, the first time in school history, we are sending the largest group of qualifiers to the UIL state theatrical design. So, seven total students in costume design, set design, makeup, and group design. So, that is a new milestone for the high school as well. And I believe that is all I have on there for those. And then just the enrollment class size updates that we do each month at this meeting. You'll see there our projections. We are just 29 students over snapshot. Those are our actuals right now and then we have our class size ratios. Still hovering right in

038that just that 20 and right below and everything pre-K through 4. And that's pretty much I think that's every classroom filled except maybe one or two right now in the district. So, we pretty much have all of our spaces utilized and we've been working with the principals in how we're going to work through that next year, but before we have our next opening. So, anyway, so those are our most recent numbers. And then just a few district updates. On the last slide we I know we kicked off Dr. Jordan held a webinar and opened up the enrollment at the high school for the new SOAR program, which is the virtual and hybrid learning. So, as of today, we've had 46 requests just right at 2% of our student population at the high school and nine

039of those 46 are brand new to the district. They're not currently enrolled. So, that's the interest right now on that. We're holding our very first ever job fair uh, this Saturday. And Dr. Daniel shared this morning that we have 67 RSVPs, so a lot of interest um, to coming to our job fair this weekend. Looking forward to that opportunity. Budget process, we'll have another budget workshop April 8th, so that's the next round. Ms. Stewart will lead us through that. Band is having their third annual run on the 18th of April. We have AEF gala on the 25th of April. Saturdays are full if y'all are wondering. Saturdays are full this month. And then big event coming Mr. Herring will be this will be being pushed out through communications, but we're going to have a tailgating

040tours stadium and ISC ribbon cutting event Wednesday, April 29th at 6:00 p.m. And so hopefully the community can come out to that. A lot of activities lined up for that. Am I Am I right on that? There's a lot of activities lined up. Okay, very good. And then we have an update on the Red Hawk logo. Uh, the committee is meeting this week to process the second round of edits, so getting very close on that. So, that's where we are right now. >> Awesome. >> Any questions? >> No, but I can give a shout out to Rick and his team. I mean, when you look at your slides, you can just see how many Well, first of all, the teacher of the year celebration and what their team does and how great they do a

041job of that. And then all the student >> Mhm. >> achievements and how they highlight all that. And then you see in this thing he's got logo updates and um, ribbon cuttings and >> It's a full load. Appreciate what you've done. >> Yeah, they are. Thank you very much. >> You can attend those events in person, too. They're pretty awesome. >> Or let's just send a shout out to Rick for all the great work he's done. >> they've done a lot of great things. >> you can overlook it. Thanks. >> Republic. >> 50 How many days did you say? 56? 56 days? >> Who's counting? Who's counting? >> Apparently you are. >> All right, thank you, Dr. Krupka. >> You're very welcome. Good evening, Mr. >> Good evening. How are y'all? >> We are wonderful.

042Right. So, this is a recurring item it seems like almost in every meeting for information only purchases above $100,000. So, on the information this month we just have one item. This is for the network equipment for MacAulay Elementary. And this equipment is everything in their technology wise as far as network access points and switches. It's from the 2022 bond because that's where the project is from and this was included in the original budget of that project. So, if you have any questions about what all might be included or any additional items on there if not we'll bring it back next month for consideration. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Seat belts on buses. This is part of Senate Bill right? 546 I think. >> 546 yes. Part of the most recent legislation. >> Good evening.

043So, the the Senate passed a a bill 546 that talks about equipping all of our school buses with seat belts. So, it's we don't have to have seat belts in the buses until September 1 of of 29 but we have to have a plan before this May. So, when they passed that bill they made us bring to you guys the our plan and um, kind of what it's going to look like, and then uh, we'll take action on it next next month just to after you see what our plan looks like. Uh, right now we currently have 17 buses without seat belts. After assessing the age of them and when they would time out, uh, there are only six that we feel like we could retrofit and, uh, make them last the 5 years after

044'29. Um, if you can somehow prove that your your buses will last 5 years after, uh, 2029, you you're eligible to get a grant to to pay for the retrofit. But, uh, the way it looks right now, we're currently going to have to do that before they, uh, tell us we qualify or not. So, our plan is to, um, drive the buses, the 17 buses until 2029, and then the summer before 2029, or sooner, depending on how, um, our budget works, we'll have those six outfitted with seat belts. >> When do they tell you when are they going to tell you if they're going to give you qualify for the grant? >> Let him tell you that. >> So, TEA is doing, uh, a seat belt audit, so to say. And so, what they're requiring

045us right now is is we present this to the board, and we report through a program they call Sentinel. We report how many buses we have with three-point seat belts, how many we have with two-point, which would be lap belt only, which we have one of those, and then we have 16 with no seat belts. You report that to them. They're going to gather that data across the state. It's required to be in Sentinel by April 1st. Then, um, then we they're requiring all school districts to to present that to the board, and then they're going to present this in January to Governor Abbott. And then he's going to bring that to legislation to see if if they basically identify that how many school districts need you know, buses how how many buses they have

046across the the state don't have seat belts, how much money it would cost, and it costs about 40 to 45,000 per bus to retrofit seat belts cuz they have to change out the entire seat basically from the ground up. Um and then they're going to decide legislation will decide if they're going to move forward with that. They could change their mind, "Hey, we're not going to do this cuz it cost too much money." Um the or they will move forward that it's we're going to grant grant X number of dollars to school districts to for each of their buses that don't have seat belts to retrofit them. >> So, it still has the potential to be an unfunded >> unfunded mandate. Yes. >> Yeah, man, that's just >> the best way to say it. >>

047to the list. >> I mean, just and just to add layers, I mean, just think of all the work, time, and effort you know, they all go So, they go, "Oh, your central office is too big. Look how big central office is getting." You know, and you're like, "Man, you know, look what y'all get to do." They they come here and say >> got to go through all that with no guarantee of getting the funding in >> And then yes, so you have to hire all the people, pay all the people, do all that work. >> 300,000 >> could have just done it in the beginning and paid for the seat belts probably. >> Sure. >> It's just unbelievable. >> It really is. >> So, the out the the end of the day, what are

048you telling What are you saying that we may end up we have to make any Do we have to make any We have to make financial commitments before we know if the grant money >> Really? >> is available? >> No, we do not. >> Do >> It's It's just they want they want the community and and the board school boards at each district to know how many this is for their district, how much it would cost if they had to fund that out of general fund money. Um which most of this is this is a new mandate. So, no one has planned this money. So, they're they're just wanting this to be informed the the community and the school boards. And so, we're reporting that and then moving forward they're going to >> Is there

049a possibility that the financial commitment that if it's going to cost $250,000 to retrofit all the buses, we don't know if they do approve a grant, they may approve a full grant or partial. We don't know. >> We don't know. >> Okay. >> And that has to come out of M&O, not bond funds, right? >> We don't know. >> Okay. >> So, that would Yeah. Without grant funds, if it was for us to fund, that would be a decision to make at the time, you know. Um if it if we were replacing them with new buses, of course we do have funding for that in our current bond um as part of our replacement program. If it's retrofitting, I think we would have to take a look at how long would that retrofit it for?

050How long do we expect it to last and determine whether that would be appropriate for M&O or for bond funds. >> It's a capital improvement, right? >> It is. >> So, on the buses we I think we approved what, six or seven or nine buses recently? Are we buying them with seat belts? >> Yes. So, in 2018 they passed all that anything manufactured after '18 has to come with seat belts. So, all of ours have seat belts that have been on order. >> Right. So, help me understand, are they the kids putting seat belts on that have this I mean, they have to wear them or do you have to have somebody >> They are supposed to wear the seat belts. >> is this other issue about I mean, you can retrofit and put them

051all in there. >> It's another can of worms. >> bus driver and a full bus of kids. >> Yeah, here we go. Okay. Next month. Right. >> Any other >> There's an unfunded mandate for seat belt monitors. >> Right. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> Okay, we are on a series of budget amendments this year. Uh this is our third one for information tonight. Uh do you mind scrolling to the second page? All right, so this is our first one we brought forward a revenue adjustment. Um and this is as of the end of the first semester. We looked at where we actually were with all of our ADA, all of our special programs. We looked at where we felt like our tax revenues were compared to what our property values were in

052there. And so there is an adjustment down about 190,000. Now, we still have to go back and do some work and look at the 4-6 weeks, the fifth you know, we'll progress through fourth, fifth, and sixth. But we also have this frozen uh property value issue that I've discussed with y'all during the budget workshop. And so there was some discussion from TEA that came out and said, "Hey, we recognize this is an issue. We are going to look at it in a different way." And actually they were trying to fix the issue. So how that affects each district individually we're still working on, so that's not included in this. So I just wanted to point that out since we did talk about that um at our last meeting. So this is this is as of

053the end of the first semester. That's where we felt like we would be at at the end of the year. We will come back and any anything that we feel like we need to um amend based on the new information on those frozen levies would be in a fourth amendment at this time. But we still want a little bit little bit more time to look at that and evaluate it and feel like how how we feel like that affects our district. Uh but this is where we are now and then on the expenditures if you go down just a little bit further. The expenditures really yeah just uh mainly a couple of areas. Um there's some winter storm repairs. That's in uh that's the largest one here on function 51 um that we had to

054do some over there at the 377 middle school campus. Um we had some repairs there in the auditorium for asbestos line. Um, we have some software um, at Function 53. Um, 93 is for um, a uh, day school there that goes along with our sped program. Um, and then we've got some training, some um, instructional professional development in um, curriculum and instruction. Um, and so all of those total up to about 68,000 there. And the net if you'll scroll down just a little bit, the net change um, reduces about 258,000, but we're still at a positive 177,000 um, estimate for the year. So, again, we've got we know we have some additional changes to look at and bring to you. Um, but this includes everything that we know about as far as expenditures, but I

055do anticipate another amendment at least for revenue in the future. >> Phyllis, can I ask this question? This is this a product, this adjustment amendment that you're bringing forward, a product of having to predict what current rev property tax values will be? >> Yes. >> current year as opposed to last year? >> The change between moving money from um, what you would consider uh, current property taxes and state funding, yes. It It adjusts that necessarily in which category that comes in based on using the estimates in um, the July 20th certifies and not getting the information until later in the year. That's correct. The main adjustment though would be um, on our um, where we were at with our ADA through the first semester. Um, if y'all remember our enrollment was a little bit under

056um, when we first started school than what was projected. And so even though we've met that now, that ADA for that first part it still has to be averaged in. And so that's that and our special programs, special populations, um, and all the different categories and how fast some of them are growing compared to others and the funding that those bring in. >> Can you go back to that page cuz I just I'm trying to get my mind right a little bit as we talk about legislative actions that would potentially benefit public education. So, one of them that you're saying you're making this adjustment is because when you're doing a budget when we're in the budget year in I guess July heading I think September >> Mhm. >> you're you're making a budget and you're

057having to predict ADA average daily attendance, right? Because that's how Texas has elected as one of eight states in the country that still funds on ADA. >> That's correct. >> So, you have to make a guess. >> Mhm. >> And then and so that's why there's some people out there in this space that think that in in basically the majority of the country funds on enrollment. Because you're it's a little bit more predictable as to what your enrollment's going to be as opposed to your attendance. >> Yes. >> And because Texas is one of the few states that is funding on ADA, which seems to make no sense um we're having to make a budget adjustment because we're in the prediction business. >> Right. >> Okay. And then the other thing you're saying is is

058that because Texas changed their laws and said, "Hey, we need to now budget off current tax year as opposed to past tax years." You If you budget off past tax years, you know exactly what it is because you're it during your budget year, you know what the last year's tax values were, correct? >> That's correct. >> But Texas thought, "You know what? Let's come up with another great idea to really make it difficult to operate a public education system." And they said, "Let's change it to current year." And so that means that we're sitting here this summer and we're trying to come up with a budget based on a projection of what property taxes are going to be in our district that we won't know until January. >> That's correct. It's um I believe we're

059up to uh 22 or 23 T values which are generated out of the property values that are turned into the state from from the CADs. You know, way back when you only had about 10 to 12. Every time they pass a new law, you get another one. So, you're using trends, but yes, up till a few years ago they used prior year. So, you knew when you're developing your budget what those numbers were and you had a it was one less thing that you were having to project out. You had a firm number to start with. But, when legislation changed to current year, you get the certified in July. However, you're estimating all of those T values off of that and you get the actuals from what the state gives you at the end of

060January. >> And so, here we are in March. You just figured out what they were in January. From what you were predicting last July and we're having to make an an adjustment. >> That's correct. >> people think, "Hey, man. How how can I really help public ed?" One two ways you can really help public ed is saying, "Hey, we need to fund off enrollment and we need to kind of address this current year uh budgeting off of property taxes." I just didn't want to glance over that because I think sometimes we just kind of study it and know it. Most people don't and thought it'd be worth emphasizing. >> Thank you for pointing those out. Those are those would be good items to have. >> Well, and and the hard part on that is to

061piggyback on that is we start school in August. And when they when they do things in January or they do things in July, it's no, we start school in August. We have to be ready in August and August is when you're doing your tax rate, your your budget approval and all of that. And it's like sometimes you're just going on I go you know how I feel about you because you're like awesome and you understand all of this stuff and I I really trust your your judgment your and your level of knowledge, but honestly tell me to the public, we're you know, we don't have, like he said, we don't have firm numbers. We throw it when we when we're actually having to make those decisions. >> That is That is correct. >> and August

062and all of that, and you don't really get, like you said, until like you said, till January the repercussions of the decision you made back last July and August. >> That is very accurate. We're trying to use trends in different ways to to estimate those, but yes, we're we're estimating all the way through. >> But it But the bigger issue you said she says is ADA. Is when you budget off of average daily attendance, but you I mean, I mean, you're budgeting off average, but you're spending on enrollment. You're building on enrollment, you're hiring on enrollment. >> to have a teacher, you have to have supplies, you have to have everything for every single student, regardless of whether they're here every day or not. >> Yeah. >> And we're already, I mean, obviously, the 90-day

063session starts in January, so we're we're kicking off internally, you know, more incentive, which kind of a BA basic allotment type approach, we're looking at buckets because we know that special education, safety and security, there's a lot of things that are underfunded, so we're going to we're spending time and working through the summer to figure out what it is that we're spending in these buckets because that's what we're going to do to go after versus just a basic allotment increase. You know, we've got to we've got to build a show exactly where it's hitting us hard. And that's in getting That's from getting it working with our legislators to figure out what's the best way to approach our needs. So. >> And and the other hard part of it is is that the needle moves

064every 2 years. >> Yes, it does. >> And it's not always necessarily what it used to be, it's something new. Or unfunded seatbelts for school buses, all that kind of stuff. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Okay, so going to take a few minutes a little longer than a few minutes probably um to go through some long-range planning. I know this is something that we internally have been looking at for a few months now and we were ready to bring it to you as a board publicly um to have a discussion. So, I'm going to kind of go through this. There's going to be a lot to it. There's a lot of slides, but I also believe in putting context with everything because I want to make sure everyone has access to what

065our team internally has been using as we've gone through this and what we've studied. Um but it started kind of with one big question. You know, we've heard and seen a lot of districts around the area, the DFW Metroplex, closing campuses, closing campuses, declining enrollment, declining enrollment. And while that has not been our issue at this time it's giving us a pause to look and say, "Okay, what's going on, you know, 10, 15 years down the road?" Because at one point these very districts were in our position. So, it's caused us to have some conversations um as an administrative team how do we meet today's growth challenges without overbuilding and then underutilizing campuses down the road um into the future. And so, that's really what we started with that question and then we started looking

066at our grade spans. We started looking at feeder patterns. We started looking at what are those levers that are really going to affect the facility utilization over time. Um Frisco is a district that um did some work that we kind of looked at and realized, "Okay, this is kind of there's some things that we can look at in there." And so, that's what started this about 6 months ago internally with our team. But that one question then turned around and led to four more questions because as we've worked through this, we have talked about temporary campus configuration. So, we know that the middle school is going to open next year at Gibson with seventh and eighth graders, but Argyle Middle School is going to have sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. The very next year, we're

067going to have high school students over there. And while this district at one time had combined sixth through 12th graders, we have heard from some parent feedback that they're concerned about sixth graders being in the same building with high school students, even though it's temporary temporary. Um so, that's the question that this led to is could we effectively separate sixth grade students from high school students while the middle school is temporarily housed there at the high school at Argyle High School or it'll be actually Legacy High School at that time. Um future elementary zoning adjustments, you know, as the district prepares to open a fifth elementary, how could we minimize zoning adjustments and reduce reduce the disruption for families, especially those in established neighborhoods, cuz we know that we've been through we've been through two

068re-zones since I've been here. Um and so, with this fifth one coming on, how can we look at that differently? Um feeder pattern alignment, you know, our current feeder patterns, are they structured to provide the greatest flexibility and continuity for staff and students? You know, we've got the sixth grade center 800 Eagle Drive that's really technically in the east zone, but it's matched with the four, you know, with Scott Gibson. So, just kind of looking at feeder patterns. And then, you know, the bond committee talked a lot about this building at one at one time and as far as the departments and how do we strategically address increasing need for this this building space and department space? Um and it wasn't in the last bond. So, how can we look at that as well? So,

069it really one question led to four questions and so, this has taken a while to work through internally as our team. So, kind of usually what we talk about we use the term think think tanks. We have our internal study group that we've been working on with demographic reports. Uh we've asked for a demographic report audit that um Ms. Stewart and I are waiting on um that's that will be coming in by the end by the mid by the middle of April. Um she's had her district funding and finance committee reviewing some of the different demographic reports and then using a regional superintendent cohort that has fast growth district superintendents, but also districts that have um pretty much stalled or are are losing enrollment and looking at closing campuses and we've all tried to work

070together and lessons learned that they've been through, you know, as they went through this 10-15 years ago. Um so it really kind of led to a purpose statement cuz in order to really study anything, we have to have a purpose behind it and we're looking to balance growth and sustainability with our current bond programs. We want to be able to make this last as long as we can and get as much out of it as we can uh planning for our needs, but also protecting the community and our stakeholders from overbuilding and underutilizing facilities 10 years from now. Um and so that's what's really driven this entire study. Um one that meets student needs now and then not create as many challenges 15-20 years down the road. So the study we started with our elementary

071forecasting. So this is if we were to open everything that's in our current bond programs, which is Macoball Elementary and Elementary School number six uh that was that's in currently in our bond programs, this is the this is the chart and the timeline of opening. We have our pre-K through fifth grade and projected enrollment and this is uh with our winter uh we just received a a new demographer winter update just to make sure we were on right track with this. Um and you'll see there that we have a lot of seats available. Um so as we started with this chart and we realized that after this next year, we start banking quite a few open seats from an elementary standpoint, do we need six full elementary schools? And so that's where we started with

072this process. And then it led to another piece as we went through it. And so you'll see there if we went ahead and built all six elementaries, you know, we're still 500 seats potentially available 10 years from now. Um and that's, you know, over half of a campus. So, we started with that question and looking through that, then we went back and looked at, okay, the way we zoned, the current zoning for the middle school and high school, from the two between the two, um we knew that from a middle school standpoint, the way those zones were written or the way the zones were adopted, we were in pretty good shape from a middle school standpoint until the 2034 school year. Then we were going to start going to start seeing some pain points in

073the eastern zone for middle school. So, that one was balanced pretty decently at that time for that. Where we weren't balanced was in the high school forecasting. Um and so, we knew that when we adopted this, that we were seeing potentially outgrowing the legacy high school zone, that outgrowing that campus by 2030, um if not a little bit before that. So, 2030's where we had the numbers in there, and that was from the December 24 data. So, this is everything that happened in December 24, but bringing it back just as a reference point, what we currently have is exceeding capacity there and starting in 2030. So, moving in in 27 and exceeding capacity 3 years later. So, it took us back to our main question, how do we meet the challenges for today without overbuilding

074and underutilizing facilities? Because if you look at those charts, especially the elementary, it tends to look like it might be overbuilding and underutilizing 10 years from now. So, we started looking deeper at all the other grade levels, enrollment projections, grade spans, and feeder patterns, and said, okay, what if we reconfigure into an elementary, intermediate, middle, high school model, and truly have um a feeder pattern in that in that form or fashion? So, what if we had Mockingbird, instead of it being an elementary, it being an intermediate 5-6 campus, with Scott Gibson Middle School campus being 7-8, feeding into Argyle High School, and then having an Argyle Intermediate, Argyle Middle School temporarily using the sixth grade center as Argyle Intermediate for the east side until the middle school opens in 2029 and then have a fifth,

075sixth, and a seventh, eighth in that same property similar to how Mockingbird and Scott Gibson will be um on on the uh 407 site. And so we we started looking at that and right now our elementary is resourced in a way and it's uh Jane Ryon Middle West, most of South, and there's a few Hilltop streets that are in the Argyle High School feeder, and then all of all of Hilltop except those few streets and a little part of South right now that's in the Legacy High School feeder. And so that would um be the current feeder system and then elementary the sixth one when it we call it six right now, it may actually be our fifth one depending on how this all pans out, but that would be um it cause a zone

076at that time, but this would this would keep us from having to rezone elementary schools in 27 if Mockingbird becomes an intermediate a 5-6. So if what if we do this and again, I just showed this a few minutes ago, this is all pre-K 5 with six elementary schools. Just to remind you that we have a lot of seats available and so that's what led us to start thinking through this. We open Mockingbird Elementary, which is the fifth one, 27, Elementary 6 in 29. If we take fifth grade out and move fifth grade into an intermediate model and we have pre-K 5 removing fifth grade, we still have enough available seats in our pre-K fourth projections with five total elementary schools. So you if by taking fifth grade out, we still have room according to

077our 10-year demographer report to be able to um not have to open a sixth elementary and then that helps us repurpose and you'll see where that's going to help us in a middle school. So, from a middle school standpoint, based on current zoning, uh the way it was adopted in December of '24, if you were to take the fifth and sixth graders from the Argyle High School feeder and put them in Mac Ball Intermediate School, that's an 800 that's being built as an 850 student campus. That's what was in the bond. That's the way it's being built. Currently being designed. Take the seventh and eighth grade students into Gibson Middle School, which is being built for 1,200 students. You'll see there that those first 3 years, it's right there a little over 800 if 850,

078which our elementary schools are already operating that way. Um for just for a little bit there, but you'll see that Gibson doesn't get over, you know, 900 or not over 1,000 essentially with our current zoning. So, between the five, six, and seven, eight, you have 2,050 seats. And the highest we get there 1.7 to over the 1,800s, then it starts declining. You'll see it's declining there all those next several years. So, plenty of space in that feeder right now if we're going to have 2,050 seats available on that 50-acre property on 407. If we were to do the same thing um with the current zoning for the eastern zone, and we were to convert the six current sixth grade center back into a five, six campus for the legacy feeder for those 2 years, and

079then seventh and eighth be at the Argyle Middle School combined with the high school for 2 years until that next campus is open, you'll see there that we hit a capacity issue starting in '32 um based on the way the zones are currently built. And so, that doesn't get us as far as we would like it to get us in terms of uh the five, eight scenario there at the on the on the legacy side on the east side. And then again, that's based on current zoning. So, just to recap, we had our current zones for the two high schools. We We run out of space starting in 2030, the way it's zoned right now. We run out in 32 with the middle schools, the way it's zoned now. So, then we asked ourselves another

080question. So, question five, I guess. Is there a boundary adjustment we can make now for currently unoccupied housing developments? Um and those two really would be Burke View and First Ranch, which is the Oak Street Firemount portion. Well, Burke View's already in the GMS H S feeder, which is right to the south of us right here. And then the First Ranch portion is the Firemount portion that's It's just empty land. There's nothing going on right there right now. The portion of First Ranch in ETJ, um there's houses going in there, but this Oak Street Firemount portion is currently vacant. So, if we do that and we uh shift that yellow dotted sector dash section there into the western zone, what would that do to our numbers? And so, we did we we we ran that.

081Um you'll see there the very tip top of that is the 50-acre the the elementary and middle school site that is right there on First Ranch. So, it would be zoned there with it. So, if we did that, what does that do to our numbers? So, we reran it for the Macoball GMS configuration. And it keeps us pretty similar. Um you've got Both of these campuses are right next to each other. They're They're spacing that they can They can share some facilities there, which we would expect 5 through 8 to potentially do. Their buildings are separated, but they can still share some space. Um and they have enough seats to get us through the 34-35 school year in terms of um fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. The reason this also is appealing is sharing

082of staff. Cuz right now, share athletic and fine arts staff between the sixth grade center and Argyle Middle School. There's a lot of travel. Um it actually duplicates some staff because of the amount of travel versus if they were on the same site, they would be able to uh utilize staffing better. And then also you would have the sixth graders having access to some of the more traditional um band facilities as well. Um that they haven't had with where they are at the sixth grade center um right now. So, that is the Mack Ballard Intermediate Gibson Middle School configuration. And then it takes care of the growing out of the Argyle Middle School configuration, the new building. As you saw a while ago, um we were running out of that in 32. It actually takes

083care of that and in the next 10 years we wouldn't outgrow that capacity um on the legacy side. So, there's obviously there's a little bit here. Seat total seat wise, we don't outgrow it. There would just have to be some creativity in between the the 5-6 and 7-8 side. And then you've got the AIM AIS AMS configuration there that once that new campus opens in 2029, which um from an administrative standpoint, we've slated we've slated to discuss that and slated that to be over on the Harpool site. Um and then you have your 5-6-7-8 um and that's you know, that middle school's in the bond and so we will be able to make that configure that in a way build it in such a way that 5-6 7-8 may share some of the common space,

084but they would not be in the same sections of the building. So, that would be a 5-8 type campus. Um that's your numbers at a glance. I I broke them down here in the presentation portion, but that would be it if you just wanted to see them clean without the uh separated into the two the two slides there. And so then looking at that in terms of a high school standpoint, we were running out of space in 2030 at Legacy, um but if we consider a rezone of a section of the district that has no housing, no development, then we actually could get to the 2034 time frame before we're seeing a potential capacity issue at Canyon over here at the Argyle High School campus over here at 2251. And And so that's would get

085us almost you know, about 8 years out before we would see an issue there. Um and then 35-36 beginning to hit that at at the Legacy campus. So it give it buys us some more time there and lets us see really what First Ranch going to do um before we have to consider whether we're looking at Middle School 3, High School 3 capacity at campuses, current high schools, those kinds of things, having to bring a committee back for that. So when we analyzed it, obviously we had numbers, but we needed to look at what are the benefits and then what are those operational factors have of doing a reconfiguration and a rezone. Um what works well is it eliminates the need to rezone in '27, which is good for families. Um we know that rezoning

086is hard on families, especially a neighborhood family, and we know that Harvest I mean reality is if if Mockingbird opens as an elementary, Harvest is there's going to be parts of Harvest that are have to rezone over to Mockingbird. I mean, it's just the the way it's going to be would have to be. And so that would keep them from having to be broken up. Um it frees up 24 classrooms across the four current elementaries, which we talked about should show the numbers of the of the range there, which is about four keeps us from having 400 empty seats essentially in the next 10 years. Um we know Miss Van Noy can attest to this. We continue to have traffic concerns at 800 Eagle Drive with that being a a campus long term with our

087town. And so that would be great for that'd be one less transition and drop-off location for lot multiple students cuz it's not just a one year deal. We also would have space for the future administration operations overflow. Um, it pairs a fifth fifth and sixth grade with the seventh and eighth, so it's consistent across the district. We have the same configurations. And then gives us the efficiency for sharing staff um in that feeder pattern fluidity. Obviously, there's going to be some challenges and some operational factors. Um, McAuliffe Hall is in current design right now. So, you know, this is pretty time sensitive, if you will, for working with the architects to make minimal adjustments to the current design. We know that we can do some things that are pretty minimal. It won't won't be a

088a significant hit to the budget by any means. And then, um, obviously, just paying attention to work capacity issues might happen. The sixth grade teachers, you know, we're very cognizant of what they've gone through or what they are going through in moving. Um, and so it would create some temporary moves and challenging for staff there, but we would get everybody settled eventually and have everybody by the for sure by the 20, you know, the the 2029 school year, everybody be settled at the Harpool site and then by the 27, the west zone will be settled at the McAuliffe Hall Scott Gibson site. So, there's some temporary challenges there for staff that we have we do recognize that we would, um, want to be able to make sure we alleviated as much stress as possible. And

089then from a from a legacy uh Aragon Middle School legacy standpoint, very similar um, benefits as far as what's on the left-hand side there. Um, operational factors is you're just your fifth grade teachers out of Hilltop um are coming over to the intermediate, if you convert it back to that, for a couple of years with the sixth grade teachers and then they go over to their permanent home, um, at the middle school in Harpool. So, there's just, you know, there's some there's some obviously, there's challenges with anything, but we certainly felt like we could see a lot of long-term benefits with more shorter-term challenges. So, in summary, you know, it's the 400 available seats in 9 to 10 years. We've got 350 seats available 9 to 10 if we operate still still have seats if

090we operate five. Um and so, it just kind of goes through that. Just a recap of what we saw in those slides. A rezone could shift students to a closer balance. And it would also be done with um a section of the district that's not developed yet. Not impacting families right now. And so, when we show when we went through all of that, it really only leaves us about 150 students in 10 years that we may have to make some of decisions for. And so, that's not very many students to try to say, "Oh, we need another building right now." Or we may need another building and you know, start talking like that in 2 years, but 150 students gives us a chance to get closer to that to see really what happens. So, our

091next steps, um I mentioned time sensitivity because we are in design um at the Mockingbird campus. Um so, for the for the board, the considerations are going to have to be a potential rezone of the undeveloped and vacant Fireman's First Ranch portion. What to do for exceeding capacity in 32-33 if we don't rezone. Um you know, pulling the bond committee together and when we do that, um the 35 acres at First Ranch, the obviously 15 is for an elementary six campus. What to do for exceeding capacity at Legacy in 2030 um if we don't rezone or at the high school here in 2032 if we do. Um and when that bond committee or when that decision would have to be made. So, those are just some considerations. Some long-term, some short-term. Um but wanted to

092bring this to you tonight for information and then we are recommending um an April 8th decision, consider action on April 8th if possible because we are trying to move forward with architects over at the Mockingbird campus. And then, if needed, on the 20th, we could obviously bring it back. But that really is kind of our drop-dead time frame for that. It's a lot, I know. Sorry. >> a lot. That's a lot. I thought I talked a lot. >> You don't get to talk Don't give me a microphone. >> Maybe so I I'm I hate to go after you. >> No, you're not going. >> Okay, I just If you want me to give me any more time, I'm about to start. >> Listen, I'm about to start. >> Can I change my >> I don't

093um Um I first of all wow, is all is where I would start. Is that the level of detailed analysis and looking at this from 25 different ways just wow. So, thank you to your team, all everybody that played a role um putting this together and considering this is uh is just off the charts. The you know, can you go Wait, was this the one or go back one more, I think. Yeah, I mean the fact that that the rezoning you know, I've been on the board long enough to go through multiple rezones specifically elementaries, and they're never fun. Um you never get to make everybody happy. You never It just never works out that way. So, anytime we can make a wise choice um with regard to utilizing dollars, spent campuses built short and

094long term that result in a fewer rezones It's hard It's hard to understand why you wouldn't consider that. Um And the And the fact that those rezone If you did a rezone here to achieve the best outcome, you're talking about rezoning areas that are undeveloped. So, I'm struggling to find What What am I missing? Is there another slide you're going to show me with a big problem? >> No, I'm waiting for y'all to figure it out. Figure out what what what we what we've missed here cuz we can't find it. >> this irresponsible and as least disruptive >> want to rezone and displace as many elementary families as you can. >> No. >> Then you don't do this. >> It obviously this as you said like this is on some teachers and there's it's going

095to be rough >> Yes. >> for some teachers for a couple years. Um we acknowledge that if this were to go through. Um I don't know what to say other than >> Sorry. >> We're going to make it as seamless as possible if this were to go through and and support our educators best we could to not be disruptive to students and families. Um I mean that I just don't see how like like Mr. Hawksworth said we can do this more cost effectively short-term long-term uh staffing-wise um and be not at least intrusive to to our elementary families and we're addressing the the the concerns that we've heard from parents of going back to our original model of of having uh you know 6 through 12 in one school not that it would get to

096that but but having middle schoolers and high schoolers together. >> Specifically sixth grade so we've the feedback we've gotten. >> So. >> And I think we've in principals we've had several conversations and I don't know if any if any of y'all would like to come to the mic I would >> See that I was going to >> most I would Ms. Knowles I know you love a microphone. You can see her shaking her head. She's like don't call me. But we've had a lot of conversations cuz they needed to they needed to hear this process it and understand and look see if there you know shoot holes in it if there are any. I mean we've we've just and from them from an athletics and fine arts standpoint which y'all agree I mean it's everybody

097feels like it just makes sense and from a staffing standpoint I know that they've been really you know that's where they see it so. >> I think the best part about it is starting from a point of seeing what's going on around us in various communities where you have campuses >> Mhm. >> empty or almost empty or sitting vacant being efficient with our dollars forward thinking Yeah I'm I I'm waiting for something to drop. >> Well I think that's you know and being in that superintendent group you know some of them saying you know we never should have opened this in 2017 or we never should have opened this in 2019 and I just we are struggling with leaving you know letting that be the the thought process in 10 years. Why did they even

098open this? They didn't they knew they weren't going to need it and we just don't want that to be >> Can we go back to the slide that has all the open seats if we were staying the configuration where currently uh mapped out for? >> That's just elementary. >> Oh I'm sorry. >> Um but hold on. I I just go back I don't know what the uh >> Open seats is the elementary. We weren't saying that was wrong we're just saying >> Yes okay yeah. >> Like to look at that and say okay well we're we're being responsible with taxpayer dollars and and long-term planning and when you've got over a thousand seats available um and also that that's pretty volatile with staffing as well um because one year you may need classrooms and the

099next year you don't. >> Mhm. >> Um and that's not a culture that that's a culture killer. If if we're looking at a position where we have so many open seats, we're going to have to let some people go because we can't afford to to keep them and that that's No one wants to do that. >> Are the two lame ducks done? >> Sure. >> Okay. >> I mean, I'm still filibustering right now. >> You're just you're dying to go. I know. Right. I know I I can sense it. I can sense it. >> All right. Let's get So, I I need to First of all, I wanted to say a couple things that I appreciate you taking this on and just the way you go through it, the numbers and projections and you obviously

100have got a good handle on it. So, I could look at these numbers for the next month and still not be able to communicate it accurately. Uh so, I know what a challenge that is. But what I what I guess I need to what I what I kind of summarize in my mind what what the recommendation is or the consideration being put forth is is that to make Michael Ball an intermediate 5-6 campus instead of a K-3 5. >> Correct. >> So, that's one. >> That's one. >> The second thing is to rezone a portion of First Ranch, which you're calling the Flower Mound portion, meaning the it's inside the Flower Mound city limits. >> Yes, and not develop not living there yet. >> Because there's a there's another portion of First Ranch for the

101community's sake that is that is not in Flower Mound that's actively being developed right now. >> Yes. >> That has a projected 1,200 or 1,400 >> Mhm. >> homes in it that are >> And that's not in the reason that >> That's not in the reason. >> Correct. Waiting that cuz those houses there's houses already going. >> So, Okay, so that's two is the rezone. So, Michael Ball First Ranch. And then the third thing is is your you're projecting out that maybe this plan would allow for the um converting the current sixth-grade center into some type of administrative space and not being used for uh educational space. >> Right. It'd be 5-6 for a couple of years until 2029 when the new the second the next big middle school opens. Which would go with from

102that Harp Pole site would be right there across from and then that would leave the 35 acres in First Ranch for the third middle school and or whatever else may need to be depending >> Okay. >> that's too far out to be able to exactly predict right now. >> So, I wasn't listening to you. >> Appreciate that. >> I know, I was taking I was looking at my notes. That's what I'm admitting to. >> Way too transparent. >> When did you When did you say this may allow us to reconfigure the sixth-grade center? >> In 29-30. So, when fifth and sixth graders went officially over to their new campus on Harp Pole then we would repurpose sixth-grade center into administrative operational spaces. And potentially, I mean there's there's other things we can be creative with

103some non-duplicated CTE courses that they we could use that campus culinary. I mean there's some things we can do instructionally, but we would a big portion of it would be for administration operation. >> So, and so you're talking the Harp Pole middle school not named that, but it's on Harp Pole um to be a 5-8 campus. >> Yes. >> Okay, just to clarity for everybody. >> And that it's a middle school, 1,200, nothing changes with that, but in the design process with the architects um we've seen campuses and visited campuses that have a kind of 5-6-7-8 and then the cafeteria, library maybe in the middle, and they you know, they share common spaces. They're not in there at the same time, but they share those common spaces. So, it keeps you from building two two

104gyms or you know, two cafeterias and two libraries and those kind of things. >> Okay. >> So, what I like about and I I just, you know, I I just I'm going to be welcoming feedback on this because this is this is going to impact particularly as it relates to the Michael Ball reconfiguration. It's going to impact significant number of families. Um but what I like about the Michael Ball idea of making it an intermediate campus is that it it does prevent a rezoning. >> and one of the things that I've thought about as it relates to that campus ever since we've identified it is the last few elementary school campuses we've constructed have all been community in a neighborhood, walkable, bikeable, and this was just not going to be unless we built all these

105schools right on top of each other. They could all be that. So, you were going to have to rezone some families out of Harvest that currently walk and bike to one of the two elementary schools there, and some of them would have to commute to 407. And this will prevent that. >> with their littles. >> With littles. So, I I I kind of I kind of like that. The other challenge that we've all recognized in our district is the high school capacity that's coming down the the you know, and and it's like this rezoning may extend that a little bit so that you're solving that challenge potentially by about And the third thing is the sixth-grade center. What I've never really liked about the sixth-grade center long-term, I mean, we're certainly not in the business

106in our growth cycle of closing educational space. >> Right. >> But what I didn't like about that campus long-term was is that half of one grade is going to be >> Right. >> zoned to a campus. And that that requires a lot. That requires police officers, principals, vice principals, nurses. And you you have to provide all of that for half >> Right. >> of one grade. And so, this plan phasing that out of the district's long-range planning seems like a good idea. So, I mean, I wanted to I don't I don't know. I I welcome the feedback. Um And and and want to hear in the in the time before we make a decision like this what what we're not seeing. >> Right. >> You know, what uh what other families may think. >> I

107I don't know if any of them want to speak or have anything to say. I don't want to make you have to come up to microphone, but you've obviously discussed it, thought about it, and I mean, is there anything just in hearing this that just kind of sparks >> Come on, Ms. Vanoy. I see I see you just I see you pushing that chair back. Come on. >> I just I want to >> Cuz you you're you were there with sixth graders. >> there every day. >> So was Ms. Lamston, so. >> Right now with them. >> First, I want to say I love that building. So, I know Dr. Jordan feels the same way. It's a special building. >> Yes, it is. >> Um I know it has its challenges. I shouldn't have. Um

108I will tell you when Dr. Carpenter came and brought this idea to me, I needed a lot of time to process. She needed knew I needed a couple weeks to think through things. Um I think that I I can't find a hole in it. I can't find where this isn't a great situation for our teachers, for our students, for our community because of the rezoning. Um it will impact some sixth grade teachers that will leave and come back. Um I will say that it's very few. Um I think less than Well, I'm considering athletics, too, but probably five. So, um it's not a a lot of teachers that will be severely impacted by a move this year and then cut to come back. So, but I mean, that's really all I got. Do you have

109any questions? >> Yeah, appreciate you sharing that. >> I do have a couple of questions. The Demar before audit, when is that expected? >> Probably middle middle of April towards middle end of April, but everything's leaning towards being pretty similar, I think, but you know, I mean, especially after we just got the the winter report, and it's the winter reports I think was it about 150 students less, I think, down about 150 students kind of overall, so >> don't want it to be a >> Oh, yeah, no, I yeah, for sure, for sure. >> And then looking like just using JRE as an example since you've been over capacity forever, looking at the Michael Ball Intermediate being in its design phase, when you look at the 850 capacity, what is the classroom size based on?

110Is that based on like you have 22 kids in a classroom, 25 kids in a >> TEA puts us puts a standards together, right? So much square footage per grade. It's by grade level. >> Okay. >> Mhm. It's by grade level. >> So, is there a way to possibly add classrooms to it knowing we're going into it with the expectation of having almost a thousand kids. >> Well, we but see that's that was would know in the sense that with the um let me go back to this one and I'll show you too. Cuz the square footage is what sets the budget. Okay. So, um the on here even though it shows almost a thousand, you still have room next, you know, or 910 like that, you still have room at GMS. So, there may

111be where some of them are still sixth grade classes over there. You'll be able to utilize that space that's under over there. Mhm. >> Okay. I just didn't know if they were going to keep them totally separate. >> Now, you can Now, you could use So, you could put some sixth grade classes over there. I mean, cuz sixth and eighth a lot of times are together and and that's not as big Of course, you wouldn't put fifth grade, but you may have some sixth grade electives over there or some things like that. >> didn't want to design and plan a building that's going to run out of capacity >> And that's what we we've discussed um what that would look like, but we know the budget's the square footage is what sets it. So, as

112far as we've already looked at it in terms of how we can make the science labs that we need to we would need to make and that can be done. Um and not having pre- you know, we've already looked at some of those things that just preliminarily before we got too far in it that we could do it with it wasn't going to be a huge a budget uh constraint. >> So, those are the changes for Michael Ball Elementary like >> pre-K. Do you mind >> So, there would be some uh pre-K classroom areas and Jeff is going to help me if I forget some things here. Um get some restrooms in in between kindergarten classrooms and pre-K classrooms that this would address. Changing um a science lab. Uh we're looking at some potentials for

113a uh one or two bigger classrooms for some of the electives that they would have at sixth grade. Um >> With acoustical panels for beginner band that if they need a beginner band and they can also have access to the to the to the middle school, too. >> And a potential change to a room near the um gym where we can create a um not a full-fledged locker room but a changing room where they could change into their their pre-aquatic clothes that we have in sixth grade, so. >> It doesn't change the footprint. The The playground would be um if you don't have pre-K, you don't have the smaller playground, so that would completely eliminate that. Um and then the other playground would be modified a little bit more for the age level rather than

114the full range of K through >> Which is less play scape, it's more of the soccer and swings and the things that they the older kids typically do. >> But it it does not change the square footage footprint. >> Okay. >> So you're basically saying that this kind of takes us to 29-30 before we have to make, especially at the high school level, um some some possible changes or maybe a bond if we need one. >> It's for high school standpoint right now, it takes us to 2034 before we'd have to have something done. >> Okay. >> Um but I said 29-30, 30-31 in deciding what we are going to do. We're going to bring a committee together, that kind of thing. >> Yeah. >> Um as far as middle school, right. As far as

115middle school, it's the same it's the same year essentially. >> Okay. >> Based on what we have right now. I mean, you know, it's the the unknown factor is what what and when First Branch is going to to do their thing, so. >> that's what it all comes down to. It's I mean there's that's there's two things that the demographer says that I'm just not sure about and and one of them is his yield and his projections as to the timing of First Branch. And what's going to go on in the southern part of the district. As I understand there's 6,000 future lots in the southern part of the district. I mean that's somewhat of a game changer. How what what the velocity of those lots are, what the yield of those lots are is

116It's hard to predict. Now, the other thing that the demographer is predicting because of just norms as I understand them around other school districts is that as First Branch is coming online the yield in Harvest and Ridge and Canyon Falls is going to drop. And we're going to find out if that's right. If he's wrong on that, we're in trouble. This plan's in trouble. Um we're going to be bonding. >> in trouble no matter what. >> We're in trouble no matter what. So, it's just going to be I'm going to be real curious about that. I've told people in the community I I don't know. And so, when you start looking out 24th 2034 2035, I kind of go, you know, we'll see. >> Mhm. >> You know, they build the best plan you can.

117They're going to >> change the rules on us between now and then about three times or four times in terms of state funding and options. We'll see where vouchers and that stuff are and what the hybrid program looks like. You know, there's a lot of things that could happen. But I the the big variable is is are the yield going to go down in the established communities and is First Branch going to yield less than what traditional communities have yielded in Argyle? >> And what the most recent that we've been given for this undeveloped portion that we're talking about in the rezone is 3,000 total future town home lots, 1,000 senior living, and then the multi-family units with 400,000 square feet of retail commercial, um a grocery store, and then the residential development expected to

118begin in 2029. >> Yeah, a 20-year build-out. >> residential in the Flower Mound portion of First Branch is roughly about 4 or 500 acres >> It's not >> of one house per acre. It's low density. >> Yeah. So, I think two two or >> they have an element of high-density town home senior living, apartments, and then predominantly commercial. >> Right. How many single family units did you say? >> Well, you What are you counting? Townhomes or you counting >> No, just the >> It's going to be like 4 or 500. >> Is that Cross Timbers portion? >> Is Is that what you said when you said it and I just didn't write it down? >> Yeah, the Starwood portion, which is the portion that's still on the Legacy side, that's where the 1,200. >> Yeah.

119Okay. >> That's the side that's going right there. >> Mhm. >> Correct. >> So >> And this also includes I'm assuming, I guess it's Brookview or whatever it is. >> This is also got Brookview to the south of us. >> All All the numbers that are in here are >> Yes, Brookview's in there. Brookview's in Brookview's rolling. I mean, it's the Roads are cut in there. Uh 993 total future lots in Brookview. Phase one, which is half of that, ground work's underway. First homes will start in June early June '27. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Mhm. >> And one of the things that I think we should also recognize is, you know, we've had we have bigger elementary schools than what I have seen. When I was studying this a lot, like what's Keller

120doing and what's Lewisville done. I mean, a lot of their elementary schools are five or 600 capacity. >> Yeah, which is probably why they shut them down. >> it pains me to say this and turn the recorder off. >> I I we've we still would have said it, too. >> Cuz I mean, the prior board in terms of building those schools a little bigger, kind of planned for less schools, bigger footprints. And and, you know, long range may may work out okay. >> And we we've had that discussion, too, because the ones that are built for 5, 600 are the ones shutting down. >> And that's it. That's the only comment that y'all are getting the way out. >> you. >> That's it. >> Sorry for the pain you're enduring. >> But >> Thank you.

121They're building small high schools. >> Mhm. >> They're going to end up shutting those down, like Prosper. >> But the idea of having I'm least I'm least persuaded by the idea that we'll have three or four hundred open seats. I mean, I'm like, okay. I mean, these these kids have been packed in there for these schools since 2018 like sardines. To have a little breathing room ain't ain't going to be the worst thing for this district. Um three to four hundred seats when you talk about on a percentage basis of What is that? 10? That's going to be There's 5,000 seats. So 8%? It's not crisis. And if And if And if we're still a destination district and we're doing things that from a curriculum standpoint and the things that makes school districts attractive, you

122know. >> Fine arts. >> What did you say? >> Fine arts. >> That that you know maybe those seats get filled. >> Maybe we re-repopulate. You know, that's the challenge that I think we face. >> So I I For me, this is more fiscally responsible in the in the short term, for sure. Um and it sets it set sets us up in 29-30 to start thinking ahead for you know, by then we'll have more specific information. Things are starting to starting to build in certain places and we'll get an idea about the the older communities, kind of where they're trending and that kind of thing. So >> The other thing we ran or that I ran was just kind of looking at it again, you know, I know that this was this was old discussion,

123but just to look back and see, but even with our high school numbers, we still could not configure between this campus and the legacy campus, there's no way we could still configure that as a 9 and a 10-12 or a 9-10-11-12. Like I We ran them I ran them all by grade level through the 10 years out. And we still can't do that with those two campuses based on our high school numbers. You know, I know that was a consideration before I got here and that was a talk but you can't do that either. >> There's the There's the 218 Monticello. Is that how you Is that how you say Monticello? Montesano. Montesano. Montesano. Those two neighborhoods are still zoned east but are on the south part of the district. And and and I mean

124that and that would be in even after this proposal or this consideration, they would still be in that. >> Right. And we weren't moving them just because we were trying to move something that hasn't established. So, you know. And when we did the zoning originally, the 218 families are the ones that said they used Shula. I mean, they used Shula to go to Bartonville. >> The traffic and stuff like this kind of a back road. And I don't know if other districts do this or if you've been a part of that. I mean, the hard part is is when you have those communities kind of on the outskirts >> In the very corner. >> any district. It's hard to zone >> either. >> Is there ever a like a you know, you can say those

125are choice Those are choice neighborhoods. >> When you have a small lower population to Yes, you could you could do that cuz you don't have as many. >> You could say, "Hey, look, I understand you're in south part of district. Canyon Argyle High School's right here. You want to go there?" >> Okay. If that's the direction they come, some families are going the other way. They're going to Bartonville. So, I mean, that was that was the feedback and that's why we originally put them in the eastern side was because of the feedback we cuz we went back and looked at all of our feedback and the only neighborhood we heard from during that whole process was 218. >> Have you seen districts where they just I mean, cuz you can't obviously just I mean, ideally

126everybody can just choose where they want to go. >> But you can shade a certain section especially if it's kind of an outlier like that and and you >> Doesn't move the needle. You can't take a large master plan a and say that's a choice because then you don't they they they that would be >> A low population section you could cuz it's not it's not going to change the needle that much. >> Good talk. >> Thank you Dr. >> Yeah, and I appreciate all the hard work. >> Lots of work. Thank you. Are we done? >> We're going to >> You are. >> I think they're moving on with or without you. >> We're on 11 B now. >> Yeah. All right. >> I'm not going to write notes here. >> All right. 11

127B. Okay. This is the action item purchases over 100,000 for this month. We brought this to you last month for information. Covers our fine arts for our band, our musical instrument purchases for next year out of M&O. That's part of the budget that was included this year in our 25 26 budget. The interactive display refresh at some of our campuses out of the 25 bond technology portion. And then the student Chromebooks, the one-to-one um device program. We have a refresh in cycles for 6th and 9th grade plus Chromebooks for growth and that's out of the 24 technology bond. Um do you all have any questions on those? Okay. >> Good. All right. I will entertain a motion to approve action item 11 B as presented. >> I'll move to approve 11 B as presented. >>

128Mr. Matthews Layton with the motion to approve. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> I'd second over here. >> That was. >> Mr. McDonald >> I'll second. >> The second. >> Any further discussion? All in favor, please raise your hand and say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. All right. >> Ready? >> We're ready. >> Close it out. Okay. Tonight, bringing you for action our recommendation for a general contractor for our first round of capital improvement projects to be done starting this summer. So, we are recommending Integrity Contractors out of the group of six respondents that we had to the CSP. Um the budget impact would be a little over $9 million. Um and if you recall back in January, we we did an update on

129the bond and we had a couple slides in there where we were kind of phasing the capital improvements and the things we're going to do now and things we're going to do at a future date to be determined. So, along the design process, as we fleshed everything out, there were some additional needs identified along the way that we have incorporated into this. We brought some elements from that future work forward because of some of the needs that were identified like fire alarm systems that needed to be replaced. And we had some items like ceiling replacement in that second round. But yet I had Greg over here telling me we need to do a cable replacement. So, we kind of put all that together. So, I'm going to take the ceiling out, that's time to do

130all this cabling. So, we put all this together and come up with this little over $9 million budget even with the additional items. Fire Our at Hilltop was one of those locker room refresh at 377 was one of those additional needs that we didn't necessarily have planned for originally. And we're able to incorporate these items using only funds from the capital improvement projects. We've already started working on turf replacements to be done this summer, which was another item in that bond package. We've got some savings on that from what we had in the bond. Greg had some things on his technology side that I also had in the construction side, so we've looked at all these dollars and found this path where we're not spending more than we have and it is coming all from

131these projects. So, just want you to know that if you go back and look at that slide with the scope from January, this scope is a little bit different. We've packed a little more in there. But, we've managed to find the funds within the project. >> Does anyone have any other questions for Mr. Cohen? All right, I will entertain a motion to approve action item 11C general contractor for Hilltop Elementary and Argyle Middle School 377 campus for renovations and capital improvement projects as presented. >> Am I supposed to make it? >> Someone's got to. >> I move to approve the general contractor for the Hilltop Elementary School and Argyle Middle School 377 campus for renovations and capital improvement projects as presented. >> Dr. Lena McDade with such an awesome appropriate motion to approve. Do you

132have a second? >> Second. >> Mrs. Arthur with the second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right, thank you, Mr. Cohen. >> Thank you. >> The time, Dr. Jordan, 7:59 p.m. We are adjourned.