001All right. Good evening. It's 5:00 p.m. It's November 17th, 2025. This is a regularly scheduled meeting of the Argal ISTD Board of Trustees. At this time, we will determine if a quorum is present. >> Leona McDade, present. >> Josh Western, present. >> Rich McDall, present. Learn present. >> Matt Slayton present. Craig Hawksworth present. >> I Sam Slayton present. We do have a quorum established. >> And under the authority of the Texas Government Code 551 subchapter D, the board will now go into close session at 501 p.m. to discuss 551.074 personnel matters and public officers. 551.071 consultation with attorney. 551.082 student and employee disciplinary matter and complaint and 551.072 deliberation regarding real property. All right. Good evening. Time is 6:10 p.m. We have return from executive session. >> Okay. You want to play this? >> Yep.
002>> So, it's uh November obviously and last week we all uh honored Veterans Day across campuses across the district. So, we have invited some of our veterans in our community to lead our pledges tonight. Um, we actually were going to have Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans and her husband, retired um, Navy Chaplain Bob Evans, but they had a family emergency this weekend and had to leave the state. So, um, we are going to be led by Trustee veteran Rich McDow. And if we have any other veterans in our staff here tonight with us, we would ask you join us um, in leading us in the pledges, please. >> [clears throat] >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,
003indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to the Texas one state and indivisible. >> Thank you, Mr. Mau. He took off. >> He took off. >> Well, thank you to all the veterans in our community and and you, Mr. McDow, for leading us in our pledges. We appreciate your service. Mr. Hawksworth, if you'll lead us in prayer, please. >> Dear Lord, we come to you tonight um and ask for you to be involved in the decisions that we make. uh please uh share our gratefulness and appreciation with the stu the staff and the administrative staff uh the community members and all that goes into making this such a wonderful district. We ask this in your name. Amen. >> Amen. >> We do have a special recognition tonight.
004So we have the Argal South Elementary Executive Board here of their PTA. So if you guys could if y'all would all please stand. and we're going to have a few words for you and want to share some celebrations. Um we have with us tonight President Casey Tidwell and executive board members uh Jamie um let's see we have we have Jamie Margiotti, Lauren McN, Jennifer Punzalan, Ashley Dulan, Stephanie Reese, Lauren Staley, Melissa de De Rosario, Lacy Arthur, and Andrea Spinolo with us this evening. And so we found out not too long ago, well they found out and shared the great news with us that uh the Texas PTA recognized them being for the highest year-over-year membership growth percentage in the entire state of Texas. Uh we have nearly 700 members for the South PTA. And I
005think our enrollment, what's your enrollment, Miss Miss Haynes? >> About seven. >> Just a little over seven, right? And so we have almost that is incredible. Uh this accomplishment reflects the dedication obviously and the outstanding PTA partnership from this board but also the u the families that serve that are served by South. Um they're creative. They have engaging ideas. They do incredible things like pie your principal. I think that's Have you been part of that? I believe um grandparents lunchon, coffee chats with principles, trunk or treat, you name it, they have have done it and inspired a lot of people for that. So, thank you for fostering all of the collaboration and volunteerism in our community. And we just want to especially recognize you, Miss Tidwell, and your board and everyone else that's a part
006of that. It's it's a it's a great honor, and we're proud of proud to have you in our district. Thank you. [applause] >> No. There we go. >> Perfect. Thank you all so much. Some people were engaged. >> Been there. Act like you've been there, man. Act like you been there. [laughter] Just disappointed. Here we go again. >> Don't play here. Don't play here. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. So, every year school districts required to hold a public hearing for their school first ratings. Um, school first ratings were finalized recently. Um, and so we're having our public hearing tonight. I am going to go through some of these slides and summarize some of them. Um the information is out there if you want to read word for word what everything is happy for any of
007you to do that at any point and you can stop me if you want to go over something a little more detailed. Uh first though is the financial integrity rating system of Texas. It was developed in 99. Um our ratings for the 2425 year which is what we're talking about tonight is based on data from the 23 24 year. So as you know as school districts send in their data it's the year is already closed. It's after the fact. It's after data has been audited. So, we're actually looking and talking about data that is two years old at this point. Um, we are at 23 years. So, for every year that this has been out there, um, our school district has been rated at the highest rating. Um, as you can see, they're they're graded
008similar to grades in school, right? You've got A, B, C, and then F. Uh, so for the superior achievement, we've got to stay between the 90 and 100 rating. Uh there's 21 total indicators. Um over the past several years, some of those indicators haven't been graded due to some things that came out of COVID and some different some different things. Um we have one indicator that's still like that where every district scored a 10. I'll point that out when we get through there, but there's four critical, six ceiling, and then 11 that are indicated um on a measured point scale. So we have indicators one through four are pass fail. They are all critical. So basically it's did you uh submit your audit on time? Um was your audit opinion um unmodified? Were you compliant
009with um all of your debt payment terms? And were you making timely payments to all of governmental entities like TRS and IRS? [clears throat] So we passed all of those. Then we move on to five and six which are ceiling indicators. um basically looking at your statement of net position on your um balance sheet and looking at the change in fund balance. Um and we pass both of those. Um when you get to seven, that's looking at our cash on hand. Um can it fund for the school district sufficiently to cover operating expenses? And of course, you get to exclude facilities acquisition and construction in those calculations. Um we looked at current assets to current liabilities. You also look at your cash on hand. Is it greater than 60 days? So that's a big indicator
010for the state. We scored um full points on all of those. So number 10, this is the one that all ISDs received a 10 on. Um so of course you did the school district average less than 10% variance when comparing budget revenues to actual revenues for the last three fiscal years. And that's been a continued thing since COVID that everybody's received a 10 on. It's either been no score or a 10. Um, okay. 11 through 13, you're looking at long-term solveny, uh, with an exception for growth. On this one, on number 11, you're looking at your debt payments compared to your TAV. Um, on this one, if you'll notice, we had a six. This is the only indicator that we uh, scored down on. It's actually higher than we scored the year before. The year
011before was a four. Uh, we moved up to a six. this will go up and down in that score um as our enrollment uh and property values go up compared to how much debt we have issued. Uh so when we get to the year, you know, we just had a large issue this past year. When we get to that year, we'll come down a couple of points. Um then you'll move back up the next couple of years. It'll be a a continuing cycle. Um and then um sorry, 12 was administrative cost ratios. Are we within a range that state uh funds for administrative cost? All right. 14 talks about declining enrollment which we are not. Uh 15 talks about ADA. Are we with are we within the comparison range? So every bienium uh the state
012puts out what they think our ADA should be for the next two years. We have a chance to go in there and say no, we think it's it going to be this or you know higher or lower. And we have we are graded on on the range of that and how how tight we stay to that range. So 16 and 17 are both ceiling indicators. You have PE's data. Is it close to your um actual audited data? Is it within a 3% range? Is your audit free of material weaknesses? So we pass both of those. Um starting with 18, you've got is your audit free of material non-compliance? Then they're going to look at did we post everything that we required to on our website. Continuing on to 20, it talks about the um did
013we within 120 days before we adopted the budget at did the administration discuss with the board certain changes in funding whether it was at the state, federal, local level. So if you remember in when we talk about our budget workshops or we have a budget update and I point out remember this is required discussion even if we talked about it over and over again we're going to still continue to talk about it and u make sure that we hit that 120 mark [clears throat] 21 is a ceiling um basically making sure that you haven't had to add an adjustment for a repayment schedule which we do not. So we passed and we're at 96. So that indicator 12 was the only one that we were marked down on. Um again it was better than it
014had been the year before and it will continue to fluctuate. There are some required disclosures for the superintendent and for board members that you must make and it's based on um payments for school business. So did you have to travel or go to training for school business or go to a school event? Um and there's different um categories there that are required to be listed. Um continuing uh required disclosure. we didn't have any on outside compensation and fees for the superintendent. We also have required disclosures that for the next two that we don't have anything for. Um and these are common that we don't have anything for on any of those for every year. Um and then the last required disclosure is that superintendent's contract be on the website which it is and has been.
015So that is a quick recap of that financial first rating. Um, do you have questions about anything? And it is public hearing, so any questions from anybody? All right. If not, then we'll close the public hearing. Thank you all very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. >> All right, we're going to move into the public forum section of tonight's meeting. We have seven people signed up. Um, we're gonna do changing it up because do four minutes. Okay, I'm going to set that. Awesome. All right, here's my reading. All right, we'll now move into public forum portion of tonight's meeting. Please note that board policy requires speakers to sign up in person before the meeting is called to order. During this portion of the meeting, board members will listen to comments, but
016as the designated spokesperson, only the president may respond to the speaker if needed and refer concerns to the appropriate administrator. Speakers can comment on agenda items, but trustees will not be able to discuss the items until they are before the board during the meeting. Board policy beed 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 uh shall not exceed five minutes. The presiding officer may reduce the allotted time for each individual to speak to no less than one minute for effective meeting management. Speakers are not allowed to receive time from other individuals. Tonight, each speaker will receive four minutes. Specific complaints about individual district personnel are to be processed through the district's grievance
017policies as set out in district policies DBA, FNG, and or GF. Speakers are not permitted to refer to individual students or employees by name during the public comment period. Additionally, if you have a pending grievance that may come before the board in a level three hearing, please refrain from addressing the topic of your grievance except through the grievance process per BED board or per per board policy. beed and this board's operating procedures. The 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, their person will be removed from the meeting. All right. All right. Mrs. Devy, >> good evening. >> You know the drill. >> I know the drill, but I I'm
018going to talk really fast. No, >> it's fine. You have four minutes and you'll be notified when you have 1 minute left. >> Great. You all know who I am and um I'm Sarah De. I've lived in Argal for over 20 years. I've had three boys who started kindergarten here and have all graduated and of course all loved being Eagles. Um congrats to these PTA and PTO members. Um you guys have put yourself on the team and you're really truly appreciated. Um and thank you Liz for all your hard work. There's no questions obviously. Um, so our youngest is in seventh grade and we are looking forward to exciting new and old opportunities at the 377 high school. No matter what, we are convict confident it's going to be a great experience. I do not
019envy you this choice that you have to make regarding our name, mascot, and colors. As you know, we all get really excited about these sorts of things. And I even sent in a Google response recommendation to be the Golden Eagles. Um, let's see. Let me find my spot. Um, I think there's a lot of us who would love to hold on to that eagle mascot, but as time has gone on and as I've talked to more people, it seems like, especially if we're going to have a third high school perhaps, that it could just get too confusing to have the same mascot. Plus, no one is too keen on the idea of gold unless you mix it with blue and white. As far as feedback that I've gotten in the community, we've got a big
020group of middle school boys and girls who want a total new identity and they've talked about falcons, hawks, and even the red hawks along with a red, black, and silver color scheme. After talking to the StuCo sponsor at Hilltop, she said that her kids love the idea of staying eagles, and if they couldn't be that, then they want to be the pink flamingos. [laughter] So, kudos to them for originality, for sure. The other feedback that I've gotten was from Kyle Kerry who posted on the Proud Parents Facebook group that has over 1300 followers. A particular post on this topic which garnered over aundred comments. Overwhelmingly the feedback was leaning towards hawks especially red hawks paired with the name Argal Legacy High School with some stating red black and silver or light blue and red. Think
021old miss or Liberty University colors. And there were there's some great comments on that post and um I'm happy to send that guys send that to you guys in an email. Um also the most common hawks in Texas are the redtailed and red shouldered hawk and those are the ones that we see around here diving for prey. Um and just the ones that are just the most common. And lastly and most importantly, I appreciate your service and your time. And no matter what you choose, you'll have my full support and I believe the support of those in our community as well. I just want to encourage you that throughout this whole process to continue to make sure that the kids have input, not just from the student council, but from the sports teams and other
022groups as well, and how they want to build our culture at our schools through traditions, events, and activities. They are the ones that matter the most, as you know. Thank you again for your time. >> Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Moore. >> It's [clears throat] a weird side for you to be on. >> Do we only get four minutes? I thought I got >> You need two. >> For those who don't know, Mr. Mr. Moore uh served this Argal [clears throat] SD board of trustees for 19 years. >> I forgot. >> Okay. But anyway, >> thank you for taking my place. [laughter] >> Yes, sir. All right, Mr. Moore, the floor is yours. I don't have much to say, but I do want to say thank you for y'all, the staff, these people that
023I do not know, but y'all are carrying on what being an Eagle means, and it's a great day to be an Eagle. Uh, I don't keep up with social media like Sarah does. I've known Sarah a good while, but uh my comments are about the campus at 377 and the naming and I just feel like I need to come and say what I feel and I thank you for that time. Uh that campus is in Argal. That was the Argal High School. That was the Argal Eagles. And my input is that's what it needs to be. It's in within the city limits. Uh the third school, if there is a third school, y'all's decision. What city limits will that be in? I'm not sure. Y'all may not be sure. This one's not in Argo City
024Limits. So, as we look down the road when I'm gone and a lot of these other people are gone. Argyle High School is in a different town than actually Argyle and then we have a different school in Argal. It sounds pretty confusing to me. Uh, I just figured out that it was a good good time to come and speak tonight. So, I didn't have much to look at about other schools around the state that are have a city or town's name that's actually outside of that city or town. I do realize that changing your mascot, your colors, and all that is a big financial undertaking. I do understand that. And uh I just wanted to come and uh I wanted to see this place full of people. I haven't seen it. It's very nice. >>
025And thank y'all for the job y'all are doing. Y'all have had a lot on your plate for the last six years and it will continue. And uh let's just keep being Eagles and then when we become something else, we'll just carry that to the other campus, whatever name it is. But I appreciate it and uh things are going pretty good right now. Mr. bird and >> and Mr. Rogers and I don't know the volleyball coach, but I think they're doing pretty good themselves. >> And I just appreciate the time and I give you a minute and 35. [laughter] >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Moore. [clears throat] >> All right. Uh Jerry Haferly. All right. Good evening. Whenever you'd like to begin, the floor is yours and then when you have one minute left, you'll
026be notified. >> Okay, that's fine. >> Uh, my name is Terry Hayley. I live at 117. Apologize. >> I'm sorry. >> Terry. 117 Shadowwood Drive. Um, the reason I wanted to come tonight was just to ask you to think long and hard about acquisition of White Rock Farms for a middle school. Our little neighborhood, um, which has been there longer than any of the schools have been, is already unendated with trash, noise, excessive lighting, traffic, um, water erosion. We're already hit with a lot of things. And if you build a middle school over there, that means that our little neighborhood is surrounded by schools. We will never have a moment's peace from noise, traffic. The traffic's already so bad. I I I cringe every time I have to get out on Harpole and get down
027to 377 and the buses are coming. My neighbor's wife has been hit twice by a bus pulling onto Harpole because the road isn't wide enough to accommodate the traffic of the buses, which it was never supposed to do to begin with. and neighbors uh to just to the east of me have had serious erosion caused by water, the drainage. Uh everything that has been changed in the area is causing her her her her farmland to to flood, to erode. Um she's had horses fall and ditches that have been created. And I just think since the growth is going to be limited on the east side of 377, um there's got to be a better option for a middle school or do we even need another middle school if we've got one already planned down in
028First Ranch area? So, we don't want to see increased traffic, noise, and everything else that comes with it. And I just hope you'll reconsider that. putting two clo two schools that close together and basically just caging us into an area. We already have a lot of traffic that comes down 470 407 going west toward Harvest that it at rush hour they cut back off Har Gibbs at Gibbons and Harpole and back even through our neighborhood to go to the light there at 377 and Harpole to avoid the traffic at the light at 407 and 377. So it's it's already more traffic than I guess Harpole Harpole is considered a secondary feeder. It it it can't handle this kind of traffic and it's going to just get worse. When you end up with a high school
029with teens driving and then you end up middle school with all the drop offs there, sports going on, it's going to be a nightmare and I hope [snorts] you'll reconsider that. Thank you. >> Thank you. Right. Uh, Sunil Patel. >> Good evening. >> Hello. Good evening. Thank you. >> The floor is yours and when you have one minute left, you'll be notified. >> Terrific. Thank you. So, board members, again, thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Sunil Patel. I have been a resident with my family for at least a decade here in Argyle, and we love it. And so I'm here to talk about agenda item 2B1, the proposed purchase of approximately 50 acres of block A of White Rock Farm edition. First, I'm not against at all planning for the growth
030or buying of land when it's needed. Strong schools require the foresight and the planning, which I believe the planning it is important, and you are doing it right now. So, what concerns me here though is how this is being done. In what I've read online is in the whether it be the minutes or the documentation that is laid out on the board site, it was effectively stated that the that this would be an executive session item with very little public explanation of about what this land will actually become and how it will affect the people who live around it. For my family, it's across the street from White Rock Farm Edition. Under the Texas Government Code 551072, you may you may go into close session to protect your negotiating position on price, but may does
031not mean must on this. And it doesn't require that the whole policy conversation, why this location, why 50 acres, what will be used for, and how it fits in your long range plan happens behind closed doors. As I've mentioned, I live on a street that will likely carry much of the traffic for this site. That said, we've already seen in Argyle how road projects tied to growth can lead to eminent domain. I don't know exactly what that might mean for my home or my neighbors. And that uncertainty is exactly why we need more transparency before you commit to this purchase. This will be a major school which means heavy car and bus traffic twice a day. Cars stacking in front of driveways, more cut through traffic, years of construction, and possible drainage changes. Those are
032reasonable foreseeable foreseeable impacts. and families on these streets deserve to see the plan and respond to it before the land and deal is finalized. So, I'm asking you to do three things. First, explain in open session the intended use and timeline for this property and how it fits into your long range facilities and enrollment plans. Two, describe the road and traffic implications in plain language. >> One minute. what changes you anticipate to our streets and right ofway. And three, table this resolution tonight and schedule a public workshop so you can walk the community and the town through your land and traffic strategy before you finalize the purchase. You can negotiate in price in private that permanent decisions about future should be made with the community, not around it. I urge you to slow this down
033and move as much of this discussion as possible into the open. Thank you very much for the work you're doing. >> Thank you. >> Okay, so I don't mess up another name. I apologize. I can't read the last name. Linda >> True. >> Truco Adu. I got you. >> Right. >> Come on. >> All right. >> Thank you very much for letting us speak here today. Um, I also am here to speak on the White Rock Farm off of Harpole Road and 377 corridor. Uh my husband Vic and I uh have lived here a long time and uh we've put five kids through the school that is directly behind our house um which is now of course no longer high school but going back that direction soon we hear and we hope we love having
034that school uh right behind our house. We love the energy, the excitement, uh the atmosphere, but with that and the access going into the school and out of the school, the growth with the CVS pharmacy, all the commercial properties off of 407 that are now new, coming all the way down to our street on Harpole. Um, you're talking about the northern boundary of the existing school behind our house right next to Sil and Betsy. By the way, um, we are also on Shadowwood Drive in Shadowwood Estates. There are 40 beautiful homes that have been there a long time. Um, you're talking about the northern boundary of that school, existing school being less than 75 ft from the proposed southern boundary of the new property or the property that the school is interested in purchasing. I
035can't really understand or believe that there are not better options that don't encumber uh a neighborhood and an area and such a short small corridor from the commercial properties from the corner of 407 all the way down to the township buildings. uh the the traffic I it you have to literally wait the clock down or go very early in in order to try to even have access to 377. Um I understand that the school has made some purchases of some properties that are not surrounded by existing neighborhoods. To me, those would be by far better options. I would encourage you, just as my neighbors Jerry Haye and Sunnil and Betsy Patel, I would encourage you to strongly consider alternatives and make this your the last option. Um, >> one minute. >> Anyway, thank you so
036much and I appreciate this opportunity to speak. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Um Steve Siggins. >> Good evening. >> How are you >> doing? Well, thank you. >> Thanks for letting me come up and speak. I too want to address the uh the uh option of buying the White Rock Farms. I live right directly across from it on Harpole and my driveway actually exits to Harpole and it is uh difficult to get out of the driveway in the mornings or in the afternoons with the traffic that's going through there. Now I have a daughter that's in or I shouldn't say daughter, I have a granddaughter that lives with me that's in Arval High School and uh I watch her every morning as she pulls out of the driveway and twice I've seen her almost
037get hit. new driver, inexperienced, but the traffic just goes way beyond the 30 mph speed limit up there. Our worst offender that I like to jokingly talk about is the mailman. He does 50 miles an hour up that street every day. And uh it's only going to get worse if we put another school in that area. I agree with what Linda said that with the properties that are out along Robson Ranch Road, you know, it's much more open. Our area is very, very congested. I don't mind the junior high school being there now. It's kind of fun to hear the football games from a distance, but I certainly don't want two of them coming at me from both sides. And I wonder, and I I don't know the answer to this. I haven't researched it.
038I just found out about this project late this afternoon. I wonder what it's going to do to our property values, too. Uh my daughter lives in Highland Park and if you've ever been down in Highland Park around any of the football games, it is just a nightmare. Granted, those streets are smaller, the lots are smaller. It's one of the reasons I moved out here 25 years ago is I wanted a large lot. I wanted to get away from all of that city. So, I hope that you just consider some of these other properties before you look at White Rock Farms. I know Stan would love to sell that. Uh I consider him a personal friend. uh he's like me. He's not a spring chicken, but uh you know, there's got to be other options that
039you guys could explore that would be better for the community. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You Tom Dangelo. >> Hello. Um and thank you all. Um I know a few of you up there. This is my first endeavor into this space. So, um, please have patience on the way I I handle this. Um, I also just learned about what was going on through our local community um, outreach and that was today. So, I didn't do homework. Uh, Mr. Patel did. I really appreciate that. Um, he clearly had a little more insight into this. But, yeah, I'm I'm about growth. Um you you guys who know me uh I'm definitely into growth. I'm definitely into supporting um what Argyle needs to do, but there is no way to get a good flow of traffic out
040of that new property. You've got to come on Harpool. I mean, you can come out to 377 the way the current school does, but we see what that's like. It's it's a it's a problem. So, I think addressing the current school for the growth of of more traffic and and and the the senior high, the the high school needs to be addressed with either widening Harpool or making better in access off of 377. But adding a whole another school, I don't see a a resolution with the traffic flow. Not to mention what my neighbors talked about just erosion land um values and and just bringing more and more traffic to an area that wasn't designed for that. So again, I'd like to thank you for everything, all your efforts, all your work that you're putting
041in. Um but please consider looking at other options um for this school. And then finally, I would really like to echo um Mr. Patel's ask that we bring this into open form. We bring this into um a little more light. We slow down um any decisions until we can talk about this a little further, have a little more discussion, um data, shared data, um plans, um would be welcome, um by your neighbors. So, thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> All right, that concludes uh public forum comments for this evening. 8A. >> That's B. >> It's okay. [clears throat] Yeah, you don't have anything for that one. Yeah, you don't have anything for that one. >> So, 8 days up first. >> A first land. >> Yes. >> Does anyone have
042any questions? Are we on a >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Which is the resolution to authorize the purchase of real property? >> Yes. >> Which we just heard about. Yes, I do have comments on that. Um, and I guess I'm not I can't or not supposed to direct any comments directly at any public speakers, but I appreciate everybody showing up and speaking um and sharing perspective on uh what a potential purchase like that and how it may impact them. Um I I I I think I want to some I just want to shed some light on the different maybe challenges that we face here and uh give you maybe a little bit of history of where we've been. In 22 when I got on the board we had uh one track of land that was
043donated to the district and harvest. It was 23 acres and that's the only land the school district had in 2022. And uh through the blessings of voters and the bonds, we've been pretty transparent about this. We need to go get more land. And I think everybody's uh agreed that that's a priority for the district as the growth comes and and the voters have blessed us with the the resources to go acquire that land and that's what we've been doing. So, you know, we bought uh 50 acres on 407 that's actively under development. We we bought 35 acres in First Ranch with another 15 acre donation, so 50 there. And we just closed a few weeks ago on 128 acres out in North Lake by Ropes and Ranch. And just to give you a little bit
044of my feelings on it is with the exception of First Ranch because nobody lives there, we didn't hear anything. But when we closed on 407, we heard a lot. It was a lot of people similar uh like they didn't really want us there. Um and when we closed on 128 acres out in North Lake, we've heard that we're not wanted there either. Um I want the community to know that there's a lot of time spent on looking at where to buy land and where to situate schools. And it's not there's [clears throat] a lot of considerations that go into that. You know, when you're looking at schools, you you need um you need a willing seller primarily. Now, we can go in and I can I guess the school district could exercise this awesome power
045that it has, which is condemnation or imminent domain. And we can sue land owners that are unwilling to sell. and we can take that risk, that delay and that expense unknown in litigation and pursue those. Um or we can search for willing sellers. And so you typically start there and then you look at locations. And when you look at locations, you look at, okay, well, um, transportation, roads, access, sewer, water, topography, shape, land use, zoning. You look at all those things. And so, you can go look at a map and you can go, this is a nice big track of land over here on 1830. It's a good road. It's got no sewer and water. It's not even anywhere close. And you can't build schools without sewer and water. You can go look over here
046and you can see another track of land that may be large, which what we need, and you go, um, that looks good, but it's a big it may be zoned for high density residential that some developers already got approved for highdensity residential. Well, guess what? They're not a willing seller. or if they're going to if you're going to force them to sell it to you in limited domain, they're going to make you buy it by the lot. So, there's a price consideration involved in that. You may find another piece of land on a nice two roads and they'll say, "Well, that's commercial retail." And so, there's a price factor. If you go out and buy schools that are zoned for commercial retail, there's a big price you pay for that. And they're usually not willing
047sellers. And so, you know, I I want people to understand that, you know, when you're looking at the what's available out there, where to situate schools and and one when it comes to commercial land and you go, hey, go situate this on 35. Well, we don't we don't really want to take that 50 acres or 100 acres off the commercial tax roles because once you put a school on a big old commercial track, you lose that commercial tax revenue for not only the town but for the district forever. And so you have to factor that in. [snorts] And so I want everybody to know in this community and in this room that there's just so many different considerations and balancing act that goes into sight selection. There is no perfect site out there. I may
048have good roads, no utilities. I may have utilities, I may have bad roads. Um, and so it did inevitably and even when I find a good site or y'all find a good site or somebody finds a good site, you get people that go, "Well, we don't we don't want you may have local opposition. You may have people that say, "We don't want we don't want to be near a school," which is understandable. Some people don't want to live near schools. And so, you can have all those things and you're going to meet with that resist resistance. People bring up zoning a lot and they say, you know, I want everybody understand there's a reason schools aren't can't aren't subject to zoning. There's a good reason for that. I mean, the the government has said that
049we're we're obligated to educate children within the boundaries of our district. And they and therefore they don't let cities just zone you out of building schools. And so you may say, "Hey, that's rural residential." Most of the land we bought is rural residential. The land in First Ranch is in rural residential. The land on 407 was rural residential. The land on in North Lake was rural residential. And I think this land in Harpool is kind of rural residential. And that goes back to what I'll tell you. The reason it's because developers don't sell high density. if they got the zoning, they're not going to sell it to you. They're not willing. Um, and so they're more inclined to sell their rural residential land than they are their high density. Um, when you look at roads
050and the Harpool site, yeah, I I travel. I I've sat at the Harpool intersection with the buses on the other side going, I'm never going to get through this intersection at drop off. And it isn't lost on us. Um, people think the 407 site's a bad location because it's too congested. It's that's not lost on us. But then they think roads like Sam Davis and Harpool are not suitable for schools because they're too rural and underdeveloped. So I have FM roads like 407 that people don't want you to build on. And then you go, well then I got rural roads like San Davis and Harpool people don't want you to build on. And you're just going, guys, there's really the only two types of roads we have. We got to build to something. And and
051so I want people to understand that perspective is that um those roads are congested because there's lots of kids in those cars. And if you think, you know, those roads are congested, you know, you should probably naturally think that our hallways are are likewise congested. So, all of those things I want you to know about site selection are not lost on us. I'm not afraid to talk about um you know what goes into land considerations or planning but school I mean we don't hire engineers in advance and architects to go design these sites in advance of owning them. So when you ask well what what is the school planning for that site? Well, we hadn't got there because we hadn't approved an architect. We haven't approved an engineer yet. That's down the road after you
052close on the land. So, in terms of like, well, what do you plan to do? Well, the next thing after you buy it is you hire an architect and then you see a site plan and that's when the community has a lot of opportunity to have feedback on what that may look like. That's when you go you you file you can file those site plans with this the town and there's back and forth that goes in on that. That's when you'll understand I believe what the plan would be for Hartpool a road like Harpool um is in the site planning process and there the site planning just doesn't occur before um you you you you close on the land. I suppose it probably could, but you could end up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars
053on site planning and then go buy and realize, well, we're not going to close on that and close on something else. So, um, so I don't know that the district could really sit here and say, "Well, here's the plan. Here's what Hardpool is going to look like." Because the town's going to have a lot of say on that. >> I mean, they're they're that's a city street. Um, I would like to think it's going to be improved. Uh, when you talk about traffic studies, you want to know that that's another process that occurs in the site planning development phase long after closing. But there will be a traffic study done if I'm not I mean Jeff, our construction manager, but I believe we do a traffic study on every site. >> Pretty much on every
054site. Yes. And there would be a traffic study done on this that would be is it filed with the town? >> It goes to the town. Yes. They review it. >> You're going to keep asking questions. >> He's got to come up there. >> Okay. And so, you know, some of these things that that you would like, and I understand it, is stuff that will be um done before that site ever develops that will allow for a lot of communication and input about how it's done and what needs to be done. So, I I I hope I I don't sound insensitive. I mean in terms of like what what the concerns are um I just wanted to share some like hey there's a lot of considerations and balancing act that goes into it and um
055you know we're we're all I think the district has been looking for land with really good roads with sewer and water that have no traffic on them and they're just not out there. And um and so that that's kind of my comments on the on the on the resolution and why um I think moving forward with acquiring this property um would be the right >> pains pains me to say that that was a very good explanation. You did a great job I think of >> of uh drawing light to all the things that we look at that [clears throat] we're you know we have to look at. Um, I think you also made the point that once a property is acquired is when all the work and the planning begins. That's a little different than
056the commercial world where they'll go in like you mentioned and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to do that on the front end. We don't have that. We don't have that luxury uh in a school district. Um, it seems odd. There's a lot of things I will tell you in my 11 plus years of sitting in this chair that there's a lot of things about the way school districts forced to do things that seem odd to me. I would never personally do it that way, but we're bound by certain rules and things that we have to do. Um, so I think once the property is acquired, that's when all that discussions and all that those meetings c can take place. Uh you mentioned the town, you mentioned traffic studies community as well input into what
057that might look like or what that might not look like. Um I did [clears throat] want to address the transparency piece um about um talking about it could be looked at in executive session, but it doesn't have to be. Again, having sit in this chair for a while and to your point um Mr. for Western when you came on the board in 2022 we had one piece of land it wasn't for lack of effort I can assure you we tried to buy land and every time we tried to buy a large enough parcel of land in Argal and and we were completely open and hey that's the piece we're going to buy and we're going to do this guess what Mr. developer comes along, knocks on the door, and says, "I'll give you 20% more
058than they want." So, we had Liz may be the only one that was here today, but we had two or three properties pulled right out from underneath this um because of that. So, it's not a it's not a [clears throat] a thing, a personal step or a intentional step to to hide something from the community. That's not the case. It's really to protect our ability to find the the right piece of property or the one with the fewest limitations uh as Mr. Western was mentioning uh and get it because there just aren't there aren't those pieces of property anymore that aren't already cited for developments or neighborhoods or so when we find one man we have to be very targeted very specific and be ready to move. Um, so >> and tonight is an example.
059>> This is the first step in the the public. >> Yeah, this is just and this is an an approval if some things get worked out to to move to that step. We're not there. And um I I just as Mr. Wester said, I I want to assure you that we don't make these decisions overnight. We these we've been talking about this for a long time. Um and so I I just wanted to to say that and to let you know that um there we've learned from past mistakes and how to do it or how not to do it. We've learned and every time this this group changes, somebody else has got to learn. So, [clears throat] um >> I appreciate your concerns and I understand them. I do. Uh but that's that's kind of
060what we're faced with. I I don't want to leave anybody to leave here or anybody that's listening to think that the conversation about what happens on this site ends because this resolution may be approved. >> It's just starting. >> The conversation about what may happen out here and when and how and what it looks like is just I mean this would be an asset if it were to close. It would be an asset on the the district's books. And there's just a there is a I want to hear the feedback. We I think our construction management and administration would love to hear the feedback. the concerns and I do think that as you hear as you have that open communication I think confidence and trust will build about you know what the vision may be
061and what the plan may be as it comes to fruition. So, >> I was I was going to say too, I mean, this is like my ninth year on the board and um been involved in a lot of executive session, if you will, land land discussions. Um, and they have to be that way for for the very reasons that you both stated. Um because if you you make those public, you know, somebody can just come in and out bid you or, you know, try to, you know, raise the price up or things like that. But the other piece, too, is when you when you think big picture for land, I mean, we've all talked about this, but when you think big picture for land and you think about um uh residential or what's the word
062I'm looking for? That's true. >> Uh attendance boundaries amongst or between schools between campuses. You can't buy land here and right here and say, "Well, these two are going to be two elementary schools because then then trying to build a a uh you know, a boundary for attendance and who's going to go where?" Well, I want to go there because that school's right across from my house. But no, you have to go to the one over here or on the other side. So, you you almost have to look at it. I always say I fly at 30,000 ft. Um, you know, and you just kind of look at at an overview of the entire district and there are so many factors like both of these gentlemen have said that um you guys that that go
063that come into play and there is no perfect piece of land anywhere and it's getting scarcer and scarcer um as as we move on. And um you just you try and make the best decision you can with what what you know with what's available all the time. Um and uh I and I mean that's that's just part of this and this resolution gives um gives Dr. Carpenter if we approve it would give Dr. Carpenter the ability to to sign off on that um on behalf of the district. And so um you know that may not necessarily be happening tomorrow but it just it just is what it is. We have to move things in steps. So anyway, that's what I have to say. >> And long range plan, again, we don't we don't know we
064we know what growth is projected to be. >> Um, and that's ever changing, but it's minutely changing. Um, and so looking at the future of this district could be [clears throat and cough] nine elementaryaries, three middle schools, three high schools. um we look at the amount of land that's available in our area and it is rapidly depleting. So you one of the the charges that we heard from the community was to have forethought to have a long range plan to be able to look ahead and not be behind the curve where you're beholden to the highest dollar price because it's the only thing that's there and it's what you have. but to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and look at growth. Um, and so thankfully through the passage of of bonds, we as a
065district have um funds to be able to to fiscally and responsibly buy land um and plan for future growth for um boards that will be represented by completely different people uh on land potentially in the future that that we're purchasing today. So um so with today's dollars, not specifically this track, but just land that we're purchasing. So um definitely sensitive to all discussions on land and and acquisition of land and building schools and and traffic and infrastructure and safety. Um, I've, you know, lived in in Argyle for going on 18 years and, um, to say that that growth is not happening, it is. Uh, way way back in the day, I I did driver's ed out here because this is where you drove to because there was nothing out here. It was safe to drive
066out here. Um, you know, working with my youngest right now who's a a sophomore here at the high school, teaching her how to drive. She's my last one going through dad driving school. And, uh, it's been a different experience with each girl. Um so um and and safety and that's a huge concern and um definitely something that that goes into everything that we do but specifically around you know traffic and safety for our kids and for our community. So just [clears throat] don't want that to fall uh don't want that not to be said. So but appreciate again everyone coming up here and speaking tonight and echo what u Mr. Westerm said in in any process that we do whether it be about land or curriculum or um colors um mascots anything [cough] one of
067the things we want to pride ourselves on is as a board in its current state is is transparency and want to be available and want to talk and want to hear feedback. So definitely welcome that and appreciate everyone taking their time to um be here tonight and for those that are that are watching on the live stream. So >> any further questions, discussion? [snorts] >> I mean, the one thing I'm just going to say, the other thing I'm going to say is that there is this that as it relates to our schools and resident residential compatibility. Now, one thing I want our community to recognize is that most schools are situated in residential areas. Um, I would, and I've thought about this and I went, you know, the schools that I kind of know off
068the top of my head that are not, I think, are pretty ill situated and they would probably do it over like Northwest High School on 114, Highway 114. I don't I don't think they would build that there right now. >> Brazwell, >> I don't think they'd build they shouldn't have built Brazwell on 380 in the corner of uh commercial land. I mean, that's a tough place for a high school to be. And so I think most of the time you residential land and where we're sitting today is in a large residential community with a high school and an elementary school in it and and it's existed well where we're where our middle school sits on 377. It's got low density behind it. It's got low density to the north of it. And since then, the
069Oaks came in and it's been a largely [snorts] successful high higher density community right next to that school. And I I I understand the concern because I'm a homeowner, but I I haven't seen those property values suffer because of their proximity to that 377 campus. Um and so you know we have two elementary schools sitting in Harvest pretty pretty close to each other and it you know it it we did things and it been we worked and made accommodations to make the traffic but work better and I just want the community to know that yeah the challenge with this site is the access no doubt about it and there will have to be lots of consideration about how to improve that should this property develop because I would agree I don't think it can develop
070with another school with the current road infrastructure like it is and I would expect that to change >> Mr. Lady, do you want to short read the resolution, please? >> I will indeed. All right. Whereas the board of trustees of the Argal Independent School District is authorized by Texas Education Code 11.151 to govern and oversee the management of public schools in the district. And whereas under Texas Education Code 11.151C, all rights and titles to the real property of the district are vested in the board and their successors in office. And whereas the district desires to purchase real property for future planned development to accommodate the district's growth and alleviate crowding. And whereas the real property shall be used by the district for a public purpose, including but not limited to providing access to educational programs
071to public school students. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of trustees of the Argyle Independent School District, resolve that the board of trustees of Argyle Independent School District determines a public necessity exists for and that the public welfare and convenience will be served by the acquisition of approximately 50 acres, more particularly illustrated in exhibit A. Resolved. It is the intent of the board to acquire the property illustrated in exhibit A and made a part of this resolution for public use for future construction of public school buildings or related facilities or any other purpose which may be deemed necessary by the district to carry out its purposes. resolved that the board of trustees hereby authorizes and empowers the superintendent to take such actions and to sign and deliver such agreements and other documents as
072become necessary and advisable to acquire title to the property. Thank you. Any further questions or comments? I'll entertain a motion to approve item 8A resolution. >> Y'all going to make me do it. Motion to approve. >> Mr. Westerm with a motion to approve. I have a second. >> Second. >> Mr. Rich McDow with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> All right. Thank you. We'll move on to AB. Mr. Mr. Sllayton, if you'd like to read the resolution. >> May I? >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Whereas the Argal Independent School District is a member of the Denton Central Appraisal District and is entitled to cast 44 votes in the election of the board of directors in accordance with 6.03 of the Texas Property Tax Code. And now
073therefore, be it resolved by independent Argyle Independent School District as follows. All 44 votes cast are for Mike Hener. Okay. Any questions or comments? All right. I'll entertain a motion to approve item 8B as presented. So moved. >> Mr. Matthew Sllayton with a motion to approve. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Dr. Leona McDade with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you, Mr. Sllayton. All right. Donations. You want to keep reading, Mr. Sllayton, or you want me to handle it? >> Oh, you do great at this. >> Okay. All right. November 2025 donations ABC fiscal year 2026 number one, $4,500 for golf, balls, and range access. ABC fiscal year 2026 number three, $329 for tennis team banners. JRE PTA, $1,500 for patrol stories,
074Red Ribbon Week. JRE PTA $1,500 for Dennis Lee presentation. AYSA $5,000 for elementary campuses, chairs, rack and tables. Lions Club, $300 for Argal West Elementary, Red Ribbon Week. Lions Club, $300 for Hilltop Elementary, Red Ribbon Week. Lions Club, $300 for JRE, Red Ribbon Week. Lions Club, $300 for Argal South Red Ribbon Week. Jennifer Padet, $600 for Argal South Elementary snack cart. Robes and Ranch Women's Club, $400 for the choir trip. Empower Chiropractic, $415 for Sped Family Movie Night, copyright license fee. And Margiotti, $250 for Snack Cart. Total November donations, $15,694. Does any have any anyone have any questions about the consent items? >> A raise for all of the teachers. >> All right. I will uh entertain a motion to presume u approve the consent items as presented. >> So moved. >> Mr. Hawksworth motion
075to approved. I have a second. >> Second. >> All right. Mrs. Artho with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? All right. Thank you. >> Construction report. >> Mr. Cohen. >> Good evening. Uh we've got PO with us tonight for their uh three month update that they'll give you on projects. Uh before he gets started, I just wanted to give [clears throat] you update on a few things that we've been working on for a while. Uh over at the uh the middle school elementary school site on port FM47, uh we have now gotten plans approved for the shoulder improvements we've got to do approved by Texot and we've also gotten signal plans approved by Techcott and the town. So we're in the bidding phase on both of those
076to get pricing back so that we can get the contractor started on those. the goal of which is to be open before school or have it complete rather before school so they'll be ready. Uh in addition, we've been working on a traffic signal there at one of the drives uh that aligns with Woods Drive. Uh that has also been approved. Um oh, excuse me, wrong thing. Got three things. Text dot school zone. That's what I need to tell you about. School zone. Uh we've been working with them to determine what uh the process is. uh text has finally responded that that is essentially a process that they and the town together [clears throat] will handle. Um so that is now finally in the works. They've got some leg work to do. They'll submit some information
077to the town. Town passes a resolution. Then we establish a school zone there and uh right now it looks like all the cost is uh handled by text dot. So they put up all the signage, the flashers should not cost the district. So, that is another thing we've been working on for a while and took quite a while to figure out what the process looked like. Uh, and the last thing I've got for you is just to let you know in December we'll have a update for you on all of our 25 bond projects. Uh, we've got a lot of them in in the works now. I think five separate projects are all in different stages of design right now getting ready to go out. Um, we'll probably soon be adding a couple more. So,
078we'll give you a overview of those at the next uh board meeting so you kind of know what we're doing behind the scenes before we get to the construction reports where you see the actual activity on the ground. So, if there are any questions, I'll answer them. But if not, we've got Pog here to update you on our middle school stadium, indoor elementary school. >> Okay. >> Thanks. Good evening. >> Good evening. Guess we'll jump right into our stadium which you guys get a beautiful view of every day. Thing is gorgeous. It's really coming together. I think our seats will be wrapped up. I would like to mention that a lot of the pictures you guys are seeing are probably six to six to eight days old um when this report was put together. But
079a lot of the seats are being completed now. Uh that thing's massive guys. It's a it's a beautiful project. There's a front view. Some of those front areas uh are starting to to to come together now. Uh metal panels were were of a little bit of a delay. We've worked through some challenges there and I think we're we're headed in the right direction now. Um a lot of those seats uh are wrapped up and I think probably middle of next week a lot of the seats will actually be in place and and finished. They'll start working on detailing and finishing your grand stand. Here's the inside of this press box area, press box areas. Um, a lot of this has been finished. I think they're going to be starting ceilings later this week. So, uh,
080this is moving right along as well. Um, tile layers are up there working and and we're uh we're progressing really really well. There's a view uh of the field from the press box. glass areas in just more interior finish out work that is being done. Some of the canopies outside scoreboard. I think you guys have probably uh seen that over the last couple of days. The logos are are on the the sides of the scoreboard now and we're we're wrapping that up. I would expect by the end of the week if weather allows we don't get a lot of rain at the end of the week. That's projected. I think they should be able to wrap that thing up. >> The logo panels look great. It's all on there. So, >> yes, ma'am. >> It
081It's uh It's definitely got a presence. >> Here's the IA building. Uh like I said, these these these pictures are a little dated. There's a lot more work there and they're going to be starting on the the interior fields uh early next week. So, uh it's progressing really well. All glasses on. a lot of the that you're looking at there. There's been a lot of progress on the exterior of that building in the last 10 days. [clears throat] Just another angle. Here's the inside. You're looking at there is is all that paint is has now been completed on the ceiling and uh a lot of your sheeting on the interior walls has also been completed. So, we're we're ready for our field contractor to get started on the inside. As we look ahead, we're going
082to be uh doing some testing on the stadium and the production system. Uh as Jeff requested, we're probably going to be doing a video of that so that way you guys can reference it at a later date. We'll be completing our our grand stands press box interior finishes and like I already mentioned, we're going to get started on the indoor activity center of the turf. Any questions regarding the stadium? >> So, just one small question. as you went through everything, you know, it sounded like, you know, by the dates things are moving >> as they should. Um, but the one thing you mentioned were those the metal panels? >> Yes. >> Um, is that some was that a supply chain issue or or if everything's moving, you know, smoothly, what happened with that one? >>
083Uh, supply chain issue. I I think supply chain issue was a part of it. I think our subcontractor had a little bit of a misunderstanding on on requirements. I think there was a um I think we there could have been some some better communication um from from the from the actual sub to the manufacturer of the man of the wall panels and then there was some metal wall panels that when they delivered them came off the truck and they were damaged and we sent them back. >> You mentioned that. Yeah. So, uh, just in the world we live in, it took us a little bit longer to get some of those materials after they showed up damaged, but when we took it off the truck, it wasn't usable. There was nothing we could do with
084it. >> Okay. And you'd mentioned that in a previous board meeting, >> the damage panel. So, >> Yes, sir. >> So, those Okay. And Jason, I'm sorry if this date was already set in the IA, but on the west side wall where the parking is blocked off in the high school parking lot, >> that side's almost complete with the masonry. >> Yes. >> And is still anticipated to open that to traffic prior to full completion? >> Yes, sir. I I'm I think that that's probably going to be near the end of the month. Okay. >> We can turn that over. >> Okay. Here's key milestone dates with the stadium. I didn't realize this page was here, but uh we've got a substantial completion date right at the end of the year. Yeah, just one more
085thing I'd like to add here is uh with that substantial completion happening that late uh probably about as we're going on break, we're already making plans to uh begin training on all of our technology, the video board, the sound, the lights, all of those pieces uh very early January. Uh, so planning to use that time in January to do the training, get people out there to practice with it, make sure they understand how it works, any bugs that we need to address early on. Uh, so the goal is right now that sometime in February, we uh are planning to have some soccer games over there, but we need that month of January as much as we can to make sure that that we can operate the systems and that they all function properly. >> Thank
086you. So, I guess we'll go into the middle school now. It's one of my favorite sites ever, guys. This job's gone really, really well. I'm really proud of the way this site looks. Lots of progress being made. Um, that view right there shows as you guys look into it, the crew's done a really, really good job. We we've got landscaping established on most of the site right now. Usually when you're looking at a building in this phase, the rest of the site doesn't look that developed. And we're really out in front of the game there to where to lessen the impact on our neighbors as much as possible. As you look there in the courtyard, all of the sheeting on the inside of that courtyard right there is also been completed. We're working on getting
087the windows around. If you're looking at that from the aerial view there, you can see all the the rooftop units already placed. Um the masonry is working its way around the building as well. And we're uh we're moving really really well out there. There's just another angle of the building um that shows the the sports fields that are completed. Our tennis courts are are at about 90% currently. There's a better picture of those tennis courts as we get deeper into the presentation here. Just an up upfront view of the the main entrance. Almost every bit of the masonry on those two walls is complete now. Like I said, these pictures are a little bit dated. So, as we uh as we get the masonry cleaned up there, we'll start cleaning up that that dirt work
088and and getting prepared for landscaping on the on the perimeter of the building as well. Sheathing is done in this area as well. So all of our yellow exterior board has already been placed in these areas. Most of your interior looks just like this still. You can see all your MEPs are installed. We're ready to start uh coating block and moving forward. There's a picture of the tennis courts eight days ago. Uh they're multicolored now. That was a base coat of paint that you're looking at there. The multiolors are put on it. Um lights are in the canopies and the seating areas in the middle have been placed. You're just looking at some striping that's needed done out there. But as you can see, landscaping all the way around it is is pretty close to
089being complete as well. Um, as we discussed, we'll get exterior finishes in the classroom rings, interior finishes in the gyms and the fine arts area, permanent power connection is something that we continue to work on. Jeff's partner in working on that every single day. Uh, bleacher install the sports fields and then we have uh our milestone dates here. So, our entire the important one I think that comes up next for us is we'll be dried in at the end of the year. So, we'll be working on interior finishes and we'll be driving at the end of the year and we have a substantial completion as expected there in July 26. Any questions before we move forward middle school? Last one I got for you is [snorts] same site. We're moving forward on elementary school number
090five. Very minimal pictures, but we're moving already pretty well. Moisture conditioning is uh is done. Our grade work will be finished as of tomorrow afternoon is if all things go well and we will start working on site utilities very quickly. Our goal here is to get most of our structure built before we turn over the middle school so we can impact traffic in the least amount the least way possible. look ahead, start working on peers in the near future near the end of the year. There's our key milestone dates for the elementary school. February 27 is when we're expected to finish. >> Any questions? >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it. Thank you, Jason. [clears throat] >> Thank you. Safe travels home. >> Yes, sir. >> Oh, my turn. >> It's your turn. >>
091Thank you. [clears throat] >> All right. I think y'all have heard some of the celebrations already, but we are going to talk about a few more. So, uh, a lot of pictures up here. It's a lot happened since the last time we met. Um just a few things that I really want to note here is we had um football by district champions last Friday night. Uh congratulations coach Rogers and your staff with a 56 to0 score over Lovejoy. So we will be playing Abene Cooper this Friday at in Godley at 7 p.m. So Godley has a new stadium and we're going to be traveling there. And then um obviously the following day we're going to be playing for the state championship in volleyball as the girls won the semi-final match last Saturday versus uh Frisco
092Liberty. And so they will be playing Cedar Park in Garland at 1:00 on Saturday um for the state championship in 582. So we're very very proud of Coach Johnson, her staff, all of all the girls and everyone involved in that program. It was it was a great match and I hope everybody can come out and see that. If you haven't seen a intense volleyball match, you need to experience that. So, we're excited about that. And we'll have it is so emotional because it's a high and a low. Just >> very >> rally scoring is something else. >> Sometimes you got to stay right there. You can't get too high. You can't get too low. You got to stay there. >> You're the perfect person to explain that. [laughter] >> Um and then so we'll have
093some sort of a community sendoff. I know we're working on some things there on their timing that they depart. Um but lot going on on Friday over here. We also had band that just recently uh had um Mr. Birds here this evening as well and then his staff. Um so many people involved in that process and got to go down to they were at BOA for let's see two or three days and then turned around and in San Antonio and had UIL state. Um so they were there for like five days straight with the entire band. Um it's such a such an organized with all the parents and everything that they do. It's incredible. So kudos to the band. They were outstanding bands of America finished in San Antonio. Outstanding music performance, outstanding visual performance,
094outstanding general effect, and first place in that division. Went on to Monday to place to make the finals in UI state band in 5A and ended fifth. And last year we ended seventh. So moving on up in that top the top six there. Um so congratulations to all of our students and staff and parents in the community on that. uh Majestics just that same week before they were division one rating advanced to the finals at TDA and brought home a bronze medal. Um middle school if you if you didn't get a chance to see Spongebob uh Aaron and Travis Turk do an amazing job with our middle school fine arts program. Miss Lson, I know you were proud, but um I got to see the Saturday night the Saturday night um performance and it's just
095amazing what our middle school students are capable of doing and what the Turks and everyone else involved in that organization bring out best in our kids. And then we had Veterans Day across the district. Um all seven campuses had some sort of a a program to honor uh veterans in this community. So just a big thank you to everyone. We had incredible showing. Every campus was full of veterans and every campus led in some different format. Um, lots of music by our elementary friends as they sang. And I know we had the high school and the middle school and sixth grade center all have uh some sort of a recognition. Last Wednesday night we had multicultural night. So I just want to thank Laura Risby, assistant principal at the middle school. Uh Ma Matthew Woody,
096teacher at the high school and all of our staff and parents. We had a huge turnout. It was at the middle school this year and it was shoulder-to-shoulder, standing room, excuse me, standing room only. So just another huge success on that. Um we've had state debate also qualify last week. Um we had two two young ladies there. We had Adishra Dakar and Leah Chaw. Both qualified for the state debate meet and so we're excited about them as they prepare to go down to Austin to um to be a part of that meet. And then we have a new UIL robotics team that just started this year and they went to their very first meet and won three of their five matches first rattle out of the bag. So congratulations to um that team. team. They
097are the zero point robotics and so we're looking forward to Miss Steel leading that group and doing great things um as another UIL competition team. We also had girls basketball uh they're 8 and0 right now and we we fully expect them to be playing a state championship in March, but they won the Mass Fall Classic this past weekend and Landry Murphy, Lexi Airheart, and Kinsley Best um were all all tournament and Kinsley was MVP. So just a lot of exciting things going on in the district and want to make sure everyone gets the proper shoutouts. um as we move forward. So, exciting time. Uh just a few other things, announcements, uh enrollment and class size updates. This goes in my newsletter each month, but I always like to share a monthly board meeting. We are
098currently, as of Friday, um just 10 students off of the demographers report for snapshot, which was October 31st. So, we are right there. Um you'll see from a district standpoint, we're very close. We're off a little bit in the high school. Um and then a couple [clears throat] in the in the elementary zoning area there. But as far as enrollment in the district standpoint, right on right on. And as far as our class sizes, they may they continue to look really good. Um I know that was a commitment from this board with the priorities and feedback from teachers. They wanted to reduce class sizes and we had the capability of doing so this year. And so um you can see our class sizes. We filled every classroom in every elementary campus. and uh we're maintaining
099kind of that 1819 range there um across the district as far as an average and class sizes. So wanted to share that. Um also we will have our demographer update coming in December. So UIL snapshot day it was October 31st. I mentioned that was a big day across the state. We turned in 1,736 for the ARL high school enrollment number. And so we're we're waiting on right now the the UIL cut offs. They'll give those uh sometime in December as far as classifications and then we will get the new alignment in February. Um just from a historical standpoint, you know, you're looking at about a 1 to 2% difference. That's excellent accuracy. Um 3 to four is good accuracy. So this year you can see where we are as far as a difference. We are
100um very very close on a district accuracy. And then we had the high school we're under a little bit as well as south and we're over uh there at JRE and just a little bit over there at West. So most of those are either good or excellent and we've continue to have a challenge with really getting that elementary zoning especially in the northwest portion of the district. Um we talked about that since I've been here and that yield it continues to change. Um it's very very high yield anyway out in the harvest area and it's even higher in the ridge. Um but that's where we are this year. And then from a really from an eight-year historical standpoint, you can kind of see um all but one year we were within that two and a
101half essentially difference of projections. So as we prepare to hear Zonda's report in February, I mean sorry, excuse me, in December, I wanted to share that historical information as far as accuracy and and projections. All right. Uh community updates. So we mentioned elementary 5. We have the groundbreaking tomorrow at 4:30. And so we'll be doing that over at the site on u FM 407 that's open to the community. So hopefully we can um have our community out there to celebrate. I've had uh 14 invitations to sidebysides this month. And so that's since the last October board meeting. Been in lots of classrooms. It's been great. We did purchase, we talked about that land purchase earlier. It came up um November boardwalks. We had trustees Matt Sllayton and Miss Artho. Do you have anything you would
102like to share about your boardwalk experience last week? >> They were awesome. >> They were always awesome. >> Always. >> So, no, I I I like that this was added a couple of years ago when you came on board and it really, you know, it helps open our eyes to what's going on at the various campuses. So, it's great to be able to visit with campus administrators. It's great to go in and see a couple of classes and and see all those those kidd Well, I say kiddos. Some are very small and some are very large. Um, but it's just it's it's very enjoyable. So, I enjoy I I love my two boardwalks a year. >> I just think it's great that the administrators really open up for us and they like to tell us
103different things about what's going on on their campuses, any struggles they're having. Um, the good news, too. >> And just the teachers being getting to see them in action is great. I really loved seeing the kindergarten at South. It was a very fun day. It's a good day. >> Uh Thanksgiving food drive. You can see a little bit back here, but if we open that wall, it is wallto-wall Thanksgiving food um drive for our families. Uh we had high school students over here all day today packing uh the family meals. And so we had enough to support 85 families plus the hundred boxes donated from Milestone Church. Um so essentially about 420 people will be um served for Thanksgiving next week. So thank you to everyone. I know parents and community across the district were
104donating and so that's those are the statistics there for that. Um and next week is Thanksgiving break for the district. We will have our fall student recognition uh special board meeting on December 10th. So that's coming up before our next regular meeting. And then the angel tree has kicked off and we're serving 61 families with Angel Tree this year. with 143 students being served. And uh December 11th is the last time to sign up. So if you're interested in Angel Tree, please make sure and be a part of that. And then we have our sped family movie night this Thursday night. They're showing Elf, I guess, pending the weather depending on the rain. But um that's the first event that's going to be happening out at the front porch in Harvest. And we have lots
105of concerts coming up. And then Friday, we'll have some sort of a sendoff, I believe, for the state championship for volleyball. So, a lot of things going on. Everybody's probably gonna enjoy the rest next week. Some people some people still be practicing, right? Coach Rogers [clears throat] >> and Coach West Morland and Y Perkins. Everybody else will be doing things, but um lots of fun things going on. So, >> all right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Hello. Hello. Um, sorry, Dr. Daniel could not be here with us tonight, but he has an item here for information tonight for you for substitute pay. Um, there's some information about trying to uh keep our pool up. Um, it's very important to be able to fill all of our requests for subs. You don't want a classroom going
106uncovered. It's very difficult. um you know, campus administration has to work very hard uh if substitutes have not signed up and we don't have a large enough pool um in order to cover all of those classes. So um he has looked at surrounding um pay rates for um competitive pay and is suggesting that we go up $10 a day for each category. Um I do believe that he's uh looked at about how much that how many subs we would use in a year, looked at that $10 and what it would cost and it's about 70,000 um more into our budget. Um you do have an item in a little bit uh that's later on this agenda that's a budget amendment and we do have that built in. Um but this is for information. If you've
107got any questions I'd be happy to answer and if I can't uh Dr. Daniel will next month. All right. Thank you very much. I am also Dr. Daniel tonight. So, this is proactively asking for five special education aid positions. Our enrollment in five over the last five years has grown about 62% but our that's all students. Our special ed population has grown 82%. So that has increased our need for staffing in that area. So these five positions are not currently allocated, but they'll be there waiting for us as we continue to grow with special education. Any questions? Thank you. I was looking for you. I can see you you moved from the side back over there. I was hiding. >> So, I wanted to give you a little bit of update before we get get
108started here. So, after last month, we approved uh the incentive for bus drivers. So far, right now, Brady has interviewed 12 and he's he's got three new hires. So, we're moving in the right direction for sure. Just wanted to let you know that um just like the buses we bought to you last last month, now we're talking about suburbans, we did a lot of study this this earlier in the year and and actually hired a consultant to come in and kind of help us with our bus purchases and our our suburbans and and make sure that that we wanted to get this right. Um, so going into next year, we're looking at getting six additional suburbans to adequate adequately support our our academic and athletic teams. They're used a crazy amount in our spring, especially
109when you got baseball and you still got soccer going on and um tennis and I mean there there's hardly we don't have enough right now. We have 10 that are available for use and um so the six additional will definitely be able to help our middle school program once we uh get that estate. [cough] Uh the cost of these suburbans will be 382,924.50. The funding will come from uh the transportation portion of the 2025 fund. Does that cost include uh the recording that's required now or is that additional cost like the audio or video recording in the in the school suburbans? >> It is additional. >> It's additional. Okay. Um and are there any suburbans that are being retired or moved to local only with the addition of this fleet? We have 11 and current
110one is currently not in use and we're thinking about putting it on the auction in the spring. >> Okay. >> It's it's not even worth keeping. It's I think a 99 I believe it's really old. >> Okay. Are these um are these third co-ops? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. We've got two different companies that that we purchase from a lot that are government purchasing cooperatives and drastically cheaper than I mean just like we've talked about before when we when we purchased those four pickups. I mean you can't you can't find one for as cheap as we can get it through the good on the cooperative. Sure. Okay. >> Thank you. We missed one. >> Yeah, >> APSM. So, [cough] this is another purchase that's over our threshold, our local um approval threshold of $100,000.
111Um technically, this is just a pass through. Um, we've done this for many, many years where students pay for the AP exam. Um, and we we collect the money, it goes into the high school activity account, and then we turn around pay for the exams out of it. It's our first year. It's actually exceeding $100,000 and we're estimating um it will be uh under 120. So, that's our max to not to exceed on there, but technically it does take board action since it's over 100,000. This would come back for approval next month. Do you have any questions on that? >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> This next one um is our res resurfacing of our our turf and our athletic fields at 377 and uh our track as well. So,
112we've got two different things that we did here. We we first kind of got an initial quote from each of our uh vendors and after looking at the quotes, we we kind of regrouped and and figured that we wanted to split it into two different sections and have our our baseball and softball as one section and then our indoor ourh football field and our track service as another section. because after looking at the bids, we figured we could probably save a little bit money by having it bid this way. So, um, [clears throat] most of the turf usually lasts when before you replace it, it's about 8 to 10 years. That's about the life expectancy of artificial turf. U, we've let this one go um 10 years and and it's it's definitely due for an
113upgrade for sure. football field is I know coach Rogers is um definitely letting me know that it's due because it is getting harder. We do get a concussion test done on it on a yearly but uh it's it's definitely [cough] it is due for sure. So splitting those into two different section we were able to get a really good deal on on and save a little bit of money. Um, our football field IC and track reservicing project is an amount not to exceed 1,347 or three 1,347 $320. And uh the total cost of the baseball and softball field and batty cage project, we're going to use the part of the existing baseball field to replace the batting barn turf, too. So, we'll still get some use out of that for sure. Um, >> so there's
114so there is no new turf going into the batting cages. >> It's going to be what? It's >> pulled what whatever's pulled off? >> Yes. It's new to the cages. >> The outfield turf. I feel like we can still >> the best possible sections getting put. >> Exactly. Okay. >> Right. >> It'll be new to the batting line. >> Uh that price is not to exceed 1,448,545. The total estimated budget included in the 2025 bond program was 4.1 million. Uh this project the total cost is only just a little less than 2.4. So we feel really good about that price. We usually don't come in below. So it's good. >> I assume this is summer. >> Yes. Yes. And and that's another good thing too that we're having two companies. We've got Paragon that uh
115is doing the baseball and softball and then we've got field turf that is doing the football and the indoor. So we we've coach Rogers and I have talked it over about making sure that we've got one always available for use in the summer because they've got summer conditioning there. So when the indoor is being done, they'll be able to have the the stadium field and when the stadium is being done, the one of them will always be useful. So >> Okay. How long does that take for the for the football field for >> four to six weeks? >> Okay. From that's with the the turf. Now the track is another probably I'd say three to five weeks maybe. >> Okay. And >> I just want to say I think it's great that y'all are able
116to get 10 years out of this last round of turf given the amount of use >> for sure >> that those fields get. I think they may get an inordinate amount of use compared to other towns and districts when you see the amount of youth activity that I'm that I'm proud that they they they use and that we make it available to them. And um you know this is a substantial investment, but it it when I look at it, I go it doesn't necessarily just invest in those kids that are in the school and invest in those those youth organizations that are getting to use it that are students in our school, but even after school hours and stuff like that. So, you know, >> well, Coach Rogers and I have had a lot of
117conversations about how many people use it and and he's he's always pushing for never lock the gates. You want as much of the community to be able to use our our fields as we possibly can. That's that's that's part of the perk of being our guy Eagle. So, uh he he is a big time advocate for letting as many people use that as we possibly can. Any questions? >> Thank you. Okay. This next one is your first budget amendment for fiscal year 26. Um, this one is focused on expenses. Um, typically we look at our revenue based on our ADA. um after we've seen the first semester. So, we'll bring that back to you if there needs to be an adjustment uh sometime in the January, February, March timeline timeline depending on if we need
118to wait on the four, six weeks or not to look at that. Um but again, this this looks at uh particularly two funds, the general fund 199 and then we're creating asking you to create a um subset of 199 similar to our 1:1 fund. This will be the student badge fund fund 197 um in order to track that separately and retain it in that fund each year. Um this you know some of the large items included in this are substitute uh pay increases that we talked about just a minute ago. Um the aid contingency that Dr. Jordan mentioned some departmental changes and purchase of the K9 for the police department. So originally we had the K9 budgeted um last fiscal year. That purchase has not occurred yet. So, we're asking to move those funds to
119this current year, it had not been used. So, uh technically when you look at the um financials for last year, that money rolled into fund balance. So, we're asking to bring that forward. Um and this is still going to keep us in a surplus budget. Scrolling down on that one. Okay. Um and go to the next page. There you go. So, here it's broken down by function. So, um, to give you an idea, the subpay increases, the aid contingency are both in function 11. Um, there's some adjustments for some special ed services in function 11. Um, there's a reduction out of function 11 for JJAP and it's moving it down into a function 95, which is technically where it has to be coded. That's a correction on our um, end that we need to make.
120Um there's a small um adjustment out of function 11 for a campus budget that's moving into function 13. Um function 12 under library services that is um um subscription that helps us review our books. Um the remaining items in function 13 under staff development are some um online trainings. Uh function 41 for general administration um is a departmental change to include um information and services for a pay data review that would happen in the spring. Um function 51 um if you remember under the donations a minute ago there was an item there AYSA donated $5,000 for some items that's actually putting the money into the function 51 so that expenditure can be made associated with that donation. Um, and then function 52 all pertains to the K9. Um, training, purchasing the K9 and everything that
121needs to happen in order to get that up and running. Um, >> we're going to keep shoestrings away from this dog. >> We are going to try to I believe there's an officer that we can talk to out in the foyer that will make sure that that he has that information. >> It's going to be awesome. >> It will. Um, if you notice at the end of that though, it um it adds a little over 300,000 to our total budget. It keeps in a surplus of 742,000. And then the last page there is just establishment of the student badge fund. Again, this is just for tracking purposes um so that we can keep up with all of the fees that have been paid into student badge and set up an account to actually turn around
122and buy more supplies for those uh badge supplies. So, this will come back for action next month. Have any questions on that? >> And I just want to you talked about it in a lot of ways and different functions, but basically what you're saying is is we have over a million dollars in surplus this year. >> That's correct. >> And you based on some things we've approved that would um to increase aid positions, K9, substitute teacher pay, >> bus drivers. [clears throat] You're saying use 305,000 of that surplus, put it in play this year, and we're still going to be operating at a surplus of about threequarters of a million. >> That is correct. >> Okay, I'm good at >> this point. >> And the reason you're starting the 197 is that's just specifically for
123students. >> It's specifically to track that student badge fee. So, um, we have a similar item that we've used for years, fund 196 that you see every year. It's a small amount for technology 1:1. It just helps us track it. It all is reported under the general fund technically. So when you're approving this, you're actually approving it as part as a subset of the general fund. It's just it helps us track it separately internally. >> Okay. >> So all right. Any other questions? >> Thank you. Thank you. [clears throat] >> Thank you. All right, >> we are going to talk about the naming considerations first before we get into mascot and colors. Um, they kind of go together, but we're going to talk a little bit about the naming considerations. This, uh, process actually goes
124along with board policy CW local. And so that uh, policy, we talked about that back in September. We opened up the naming nomination process, left it open through November 7th, which was Friday, a couple Fridays ago, and we had 89 submiss about 89 submissions I think over two months is what it ended up being. And then we took those submissions and we re reviewed them for the CW local criteria um any documentation, written documentation, rationale for the recommendation. And then we're bringing you a list of qualifying considerations tonight for information only. Uh just as a reminder for the community and those watching, this is the list of guidelines and criteria for a naming consideration. There's a list of 10 there um that you can go through and we've opened that in September again and the
125deadline was November, but ultimately the responsibility for the final decision and any naming rests with the board. So this will be uh the board's decision at the end of the day. All right. So from an elementary naming considerations, we're going to go through elementary, middle, and high school because we have lots of things right now to look at naming. We broke this into categories of persons who have served AISD in service to children. We've looked at it in terms of those that were nominated from um heroic fig, state, national, local, or significant contribution to society andor education. And then just local, residential, geographic areas um or some other significant meaning. So, we have in the first round, um, as far as elementary, you're going to see as we go through the different grade spans, you're
126going to see some duplicated names. Um, and you'll kind of understand why as you hear me describe them. Uh, we have on here Alex Bet Holtz Elementary School. You'll see Alex's name come up again. Um, Alex is a seventh grader uh at the middle school in 2012 who unexpectedly passed away. His family has been remained very involved in this community. Um, done an incredible job keeping his story alive. they have had the um shoot for the stars every May if you haven't haven't been a part of that. Um it's a really awesome um program that they do and Alex was very involved in lots of things on campus and so um just as a way to honor that family and Alex's um that that was a nomination we had and again you're going to see
127his name again along with um Mary's his mother's name in just a moment. We also have uh Gina Sutton Elementary School. Gina was a longtime teacher at AHS that retired in 2023, 2024 actually. She um you know Miss Sutton, she's been all over the place. You still see her at lots of activities, extremely active and supportive in this community, sponsored PALS, taught reading and language arts. Um I think she started out over at the 377 campus, ended up here here at AHS when she retired. Um Joy Irwin Elementary. Um Joy u from what I understand taught for 32 years in the district. Began in 1980 and started first grade herself in this district. Graduated from Denton High School in 1967 because that was before Argal had a high school. And then Michael Ball Elementary. Michael,
128Mr. Ball um was a beloved counselor and I think the king of all chess clubs from what I understand in this district and he retired as an elementary school counselor in 2024. Um he was was Yes. And he was at Hilltop um for those years. So, those are the four persons who served in the district as far as elementary. Then we have Beverly Bass Elementary was nominated. Um, she's actually a local resident, first female captain American Airlines. She's a children's author, has a Broadway musical made about uh her story, which she was part one of the 28 planes um after 911 that was diverted to Newfoundland uh when the airspace was closed. And so, she has quite a story and a kind of a local aviation story. Uh we have command sergeant major Gretchen Evans
129Elementary. Gretchen's also resident, purple heart award winner. Um or and then decorated combat veteran over 27 years in the US Army has um as a silver eagle has been heavily involved in our community the last few years. James Pinkney Henderson Elementary, that's Texas's first governor and US senator. And Ross Perau Jr. elementary community developer um created uh all the part of the Hillwood um orientation with big connections to buildings building homes for heroes which they build mortgage free homes for veterans and have actually done that twice in our harvest community out here. So those are the um kind of the national heroic state local national heroic figures and then you'll see here Argal central elementary based on location um as that as the number five will be over on 407 and then Horizon Elementary um
130was given as an idea of looking forward um and then honoring continued growth in the district. So those are the elementary names that have been brought forward from a middle school perspective. You'll see Alex's name there again. Um um he was like I said um wasn't actually was actually a middle school student when he passed. We had Dr. Quinton Bernett Middle School. I had Dr. Bernett I believe was a superintendent Argyle from 1998 2002 and he led the opening of the first high school um there on 377. We also had G this Gina Sutton's name again on the middle school. And then we also have um Mr. Scott Gibson started in Argal ISD in 2006 as assistant principal and served as principal at Argyle Middle School since 2009 until his unexpected passing in 2024. Um
131beloved principal and friend many so um Mr. Gibson's name is on there as well. And then you'll see James Pikney Henderson again which I re um mentioned earlier and then there was a com recommendation to retain Argyle Middle School on one of the middle schools. Argyle Central Middle School as location Champion Middle School from encompassing everything Argyle stands for home of champions heritage middle school and Summit Middle School. And then from a high school perspective again we have Dr. Quinton Bernett was a uh superintendent when the new original high school opened. Gina Sutton High School, Mary Bets Halt, that is Alex's mom. And Miss Bets Holt was also um a longtime math teacher in the district and she continues to this day to serve. Um she is the reason really we started our mentoring program
132at the high school. Um she's kind of a founding member of that. And then we also had Sawyer Familio. Uh she was Sawyer was a 2012 graduate of Argal High School and a very talented athlete. Um was a volleyball that her parents actually have a volleyball tournament every year have really kept her story alive. Um they're at every volleyball game you'll see them uh cheering on the Eagles. She tragically passed during her college tenure uh playing volleyball at the University of Louisiana where she uh was on that team. And so Sawers Saw Camille's name is also um recognized as a potential high school name. Lieutenant Eric Ellington High School that is another aviation um recommendation that came in. And then we have several kind of from a local geographic and significant meetings. We had Argyle
133Texas High School recognizing the location is in the town of Argyle. I think that was even mentioned earlier during public comment um to go by Texas High. Argal High School as it was the original high school name. Central as being a location. Uh Champion High School as I mentioned before um many championships were won at that campus. Freedom High School, Heritage High School recognizing service as original for the first 20 years of its um traditions over there. and then Legacy High School from a school history standpoint, bridging the old and the new and honoring the past and recognizing the future. So, a lot of really good input from our community on those names for you to have to consider. So essentially your next steps will be to um as a board to research, review and
134consider the qualifying recommendations. Um talk about with your community constituents and then come back in December to consider action for naming of elementary 5 potentially future elementaryaries if you should so desire with the recommendations we have. the middle school at 407, the middle school that's at 377 that will move to its new location in 2029, and high school number two at 377. And I think considering the mascot and colors, which you'll hear about in a little bit from a compatibility standpoint. [snorts] >> Okay. >> A lot to think about. >> That is a lot to think about. >> You're welcome to discuss some things now. Yes. But you're not making a decision today. >> Okay. So that's the first I guess the first thing I want to communicate to anybody listening is that this is
135something that we're going to decide most likely in next meeting. >> Correct. In December. >> And so, you know, as as the community gets the opportunity to review, you [clears throat] know, the nominations for elementary, middle, and high school as it relates to me, I I just invite the feedback, >> you know. I mean, that's what this month's for. And if you have a real passion about it, um a particular name for an elementary school, middle school, or high school, I' I'd love to hear about it. Um if I don't hear about it, then I'm going to just assume that you think um my opinion is the only one that matters. [laughter] >> Um and and so and then just overall, I just I liked I mean, I just I like the a lot of
136the the nominations that were that were in there. Um as it as it relates to elementary school uh five out there on 407. I I think you know I don't know maybe I maybe I should say this because I want the community to kind of know maybe where I'm kind of leaning okay >> so that if they think hey man you're off or I want you to consider something else. >> Um I'm I'm obviously familiar with um Mr. ball and and and you know what his commitment was to this district and his service and his wife's continued service to the the district. Um you know the Bets family and Alex Betsold and his mom Mary who's a teacher in the district. I mean they have just done so much for the district to keep his
137legacy and name alive. And anybody that's come across Gina Sutton or Tim Sutton I mean you can't help but be um just influenced by them and she stood for a lot of what I think you would want every teacher to to stand for which is she just cares about kids. She just loves on the kids and she's just an advocate for children and she's a teacher of the year and and did amazing things. Um so I mean those are just thoughts that I would have. I think Central Elementary makes sense from a standpoint of location. We have schools that are named based on their location. Southwest Um, and you know, this this particular campus is kind of in the central. So, those are names that stick out to me >> and I can continue to
138go. I mean, I >> slid >> middle school is interesting because we have it's kind of like do we name one or do we name two? >> Um, and you know, I guess you know, the one that jumps out is Scott Gibson, um, middle school. uh in his lengthy service to our district and I think it was was it 17 >> 20 years I don't I can't remember how many years he was the principal and he tragically passed away a few years ago. So obviously jumps out as worthy of a middle school name being named after him. And then the decision becomes do you in my mind do you keep one Argal middle Argal central or maybe another teacher that's lengthy has a lengthy history with the district. So I get to do I'll talk
139about high school. >> You're not done yet. >> Yeah, this is the one. I don't know if I want to say anything. Um, >> you know, I I I guess I've the one that kind of sticks out is that that I've I've heard and is is Legacy High School as or like an Argal Legacy High School. I mean, I've heard the people speak about retaining Argyle High School in [cough] I mean, I [clears throat] think we had that uh comment today. I've heard other people say that. I there's logic behind that, but there's also complications behind doing that, too, because now you're kind of renaming two high schools and re-imaging two. So, you got to be factor that in. Um, but those are those are two that I mean legacy and heritage are kind of
140probably the ones that I give the most weight to, I think. >> So, anybody else want to go out? [clears throat] Are y'all just going to keep the community guessing where you're at? We're going to let them reach out. >> Yeah, let them reach out without me >> with their mind without >> Okay. Well, I'm on record. camera. >> Yes, you are. [clears throat] Okay. >> All right. Well, that leads us to the next one, which I know y'all are anxiously awaiting. So, as by the mics, as Mr. Sailor approaches the podium, uh, we have Christopher Sailor here. And I mean, we bring props when we do things. We I mean, we bring props, but I just [clears throat] want to say a couple things about Mr. Mr. Sailor before he gets started. You know,
141Mr. Sailor is our digital content uh specialist in the district, but we actually challenged him with something pretty big and that was to take this student experience transition team through the mascot and color process. We gave him a set of data which was the feedback form and he ran with it and did an incredible job. So, without further ado, Mr. Sailor, take it from here. >> Thank you, Dr. Carpenter. Thank you for your support. has been absolutely critical. Uh thank you to the board of trustees and Mr. Sllayton for letting me come up and speak tonight. I'm honored to be here. Um and especially a great thanks to the committee, to the team. Uh they're probably wondering why oh why did he ask me to be here at 5:30 today? Um they >> because there
142was so much to listen to. [laughter] >> I really enjoyed working. >> We've always heard them say why are we here? >> We don't make them come every time. Right. Um, of course, like Dr. Carpenter said, uh, my name is Chris Sailor. I work for Rick Herren of the communications department. I've been in the district for 10 years. I've been in the communications department now. This is my fourth year. Uh, I don't live in Argyle. My student or my children don't go to Argyle schools. We're Denton residents. Uh but Argyle is my second family and I feel uniquely positioned in this committee to speak in a neutral tone, a way that uh maybe I could help facilitate this team um to make the recommendations or not recommendations, I'm sorry, the considerations. And I'll get to
143why I shouldn't say that word recommendation here in a minute. Um tonight I would like to take us through this process. We're going to summarize the feedback that came through the feedback form that was designed by Dr. Carpenter and our communications team. We're going to uh try to communicate what came through in that feedback form and then to uh elaborate on some of the considerations that came out of that. So when we actually stopped and looked at it, looked at what people said and ran it through the team and their expert and uh expert opinions and their perspectives, what we came up with as things that we thought that you might want to know as you were considering this rather momentous decision going forward, which I don't envy you. Um our team's primary work is
144to support you. Uh I think that was the clearest part of our mandate. You know, obviously we were not choosing anything. So we were just here to make sure that you have the best information possible about what the community feels and also the expert opinions of our team. Our team members are nine people uh in an alphabetical order here. It was Mr. Bird. He's the director of bands musical arts. Um Mr. Heron, chief communications officer. Mrs. Hillary Leair, who's uh the assistant principal now. I always want to call her a gift and talented teacher, but now she's up. She's the assistant principal at Hilltop. Donna Lumston, principal Argo Middle School. Mrs. Nolles is a principal Argyle High School. Todd Rogers, athletic director. He's not here right now. >> He's [laughter] on you. Uh Heather Ser
145who's a teacher at Jane Russman. She couldn't be here tonight. And Mr. West Mor Chance Coach West Morland uh is at a basketball game with boys basketball team. So he couldn't be here. He's assisted the assistant athletic director. And of course, Miss Holly Williams, the principal at Hilltop Elementary. It's an illustrious and esteemed team whose pay grade is far above mine. And I really would like to once again extend my appreciation for them working with me. Um it was definitely slightly intimidating. [laughter] >> Did a great job. >> So our timeline uh was it began with the calling of the transition teams that Dr. Carpenter had uh instituted. She had her um feedback form go out in late September and it ran through the 3rd of October and that was kind of the baseline. So
146we had to have that information to even start. But I don't know what the community thought um what their sort of gut reaction their feelings were to new mascot and new colors. And uh once we had the information I Walene uh Dr. Carpenters's assistant, Dr. Carpenter, Mr. Herren and myself went through the data, collated it and sort of tried to get it into a usable form. Then we took it to the committee and had a lively and interesting discussion about all the different aspects about each one of the different kind of groups of suggestions. And then uh as part of that and we'll discuss this a little bit more detail later uh we thought maybe some additional feedback directly from the students was warranted. So the committee asked me to go to uh our four
147east zone campuses and speak to the students there in person. At which point uh once we were completed once that process was mostly completed uh we actually had our second meeting which was to begin outlining this presentation and then between that that time and this board meeting we did presentation design which led us to tonight. Our role as we saw it was not select a mascot or color scheme obviously but to review the stakeholder input, summarize the data and consider the ramifications of some of those uh some of that data and then to present it to you. We like to say that there are four options here. Um they're fairly self-explanatory. It's either to remain with one mascot and the same colors, the same mascot, same colors, and as you can see on the board,
148so on and so forth. But really, you have two choices. Continuity or change. And that's a tough choice. Uh the district is obviously growing. Uh the is split of the high schools is inevitable. So, as you're making this decision, it's all going to be through that intersection. Uh, my nifty little graph lines there show that you're going to fall somewhere on that line. Um, depending on whether you want to keep the mascot, change the mascot, keep the colors, or change the colors. So, with our community and student feedback, um, we sent out that feedback form. And when we sent it out, I just want to make it clear that this was not a survey. It was not scientific. Uh but really we'd like to think of it as an opportunity for community input. It was
149designed to encourage people to express their opinions and was um uh written in such a way as to do that. And I'll show you in a little bit more specifically what I'm speaking about, not to shape the sentiment. So we didn't sort of construct it to get a specific outcome. And when we were done because it was a very open-ended feedback form, the data was very uh qualitative. It required some consolidation, putting terms into buckets and parsing through the data. And I'll show you guys a little bit about that as we go forward. We got the feedback from the east feeder zone. We emailed about 1100 east zone stakeholders. This would be their families. So the way that our messaging system works is we can point them at 1100 different uh student ID numbers and
150it will send out to parents, community members, um and anyone like basically to those four main groups, community members, parents, staff members, um parents and students. We had parameters in that form and this is where we were trying to make sure that this form that they were reading to submit their feedback was designed in such a way that it was allowing the maximum expression. We did you did put the requirement that the mascot must be a vertebrae that the school colors must include argyle red as the base color. So that was a precondition and in it we had the verbiage that specifically said that for reference Argal High School number one mascot the current high school is an eagle which is a bird of prey the color red, black and white. So it was in
151that way that we did want to mention that eagle is a bird of prey without sort of swaying people one way or the other. Flamingo is a feeder bird, [laughter] not a bird of prey. >> Uh, and then in there, obviously, the same as the naming committee, >> it's a feeder. >> I know, but they're they're young. >> They just like [clears throat] they just like it. Come on. >> Not one to disappoint anyone. >> Obviously, the board to trustees is the final arbiter of what this decision will be. So, additionally, um, I just wanted to give you a quick rundown of the four basic questions, the four main questions that were in there. It was, "What is your connection to Argal ISD?" And that would be whether you're a parent, a student, community member,
152or staff in that East Federer zone. What mascot do you nominate? And it was like a short form answer, so they could really put it quite a few words in there. It wasn't like a multiple choice question. and it must be a bird of prey. What color do you dominate? And it must include argyle red. And then an open-ended question which I'll discuss here later. Uh some notes on grouping. So if we just plugged it into Google charts, that's what we would get in terms of just the mascot suggestions. Okay? There's obviously tons of variation what people wrote and we have to group things together. So for example, when people write hawks, they could put a whole variety of different things. They could say red hawks, war hawks. They could put a space between war
153and hawks. There could be typos for hawk. When they write colors, I'm going to assume that glaude meant gold >> and that cup was purple, you know. So we had to combine them into usable things. So that does mean that in the later parts of this as I show you some of the color combinations and we think about the mascots that this doesn't make say that you have to choose only hawks. It's just that generally speaking hawks was this bucket with this many people using that term. There were 512 responses to our survey. uh the majority 75% of which were either future students or the parents of future students of the Argal High School uh that is on going to be on 377 and then the remainders were obviously staff and community. The results uh
154as we sort of tabulated them and put them into buckets were that there were 144 people who put some form of gold or yellow in there.6 167 people chose some kind of blue. Now, these this breakdown of 86, 58, and 23 doesn't mean that 23 people chose that specific color of light blue. That just means that when I was going through the data and I saw something that was uh on the lighter shade, I would put it towards that. If it was more towards the darker shades, I'd put it towards navy. So that we would have sort of big classifications to put things in. There were 79 people who chose a silver color and 73 who that's not red that's actually they're retaining the current color scheme. And the reason it's just red is because
155there were a lot of uh people who put essentially red, white, and black in some order and then maybe occasionally would throw in they would say uh and if I had to choose one purple and so we counted them towards this group uh just because it seemed like they would fit more into that bucket. And then the ones that didn't fit into that bucket that we either were questioning whether they would choose one or the other or were just completely in a different direction like purple, green or yellow or orange I mean and didn't necessarily uh get more than one or two votes for that went into this last category which is a catchall at 49. For the mascots the main groupings were Hawks, Falcons, and Eagles. they dominated the run. Now, like we said
156before, those individual categories could be broken down into a variety of subcategories, right? But generally speaking, those three are the the main ones. And we had some really fun ones that as we went down, we had raptors, owls, phoenixes, we had buzzards. My favorite's the dodo. [laughter] And uh as after the um questions of mascot and color, there was one final long form answer that they could uh choose to answer in there, which was to briefly explain why they chose that mascot and color combination and what it meant to them and the future of AR, the new Argal High School. And with that data, um, we went through and we did a word analysis of it and tried to find by weeding out things like and and for and the, uh, we tried to figure
157out what common terms people were using that were meaningful terms. So strength, community, unity, and legacy took top. That was like what most people were writing in there. Followed by pride, tradition, excellence, and heritage, honor, and growth. and it's just came up time and time again particularly strengthening community and uh we had so once we had all of that sort of collated and put into buckets we took it to the committee and we sort of talked about what that actually meant. They evaluated the feedback that this basically the same presentation in a earlier form and they considered each of those buckets of responses through their lens of expertise. So the for instance the athletic uh director and the assistant athletic director might have an opinion about what that actually looks like to choose a specific
158color. And we'll have later we'll have um Liz Stewart who is very generous to fill in for M coach M West Morland come up and talk about that. Um and like I said before that they had felt that more feedback was warranted. One of the reasons was because the feeling on the ground, the pulse on the ground uh was very much sort of uh up in the air in terms of compared to what the survey said versus what they were hearing. It was just a lot of noise. So, they really wanted to hear from the students. So we got with the principles and we made uh class actual visits to the school where we engaged the students directly in a small group sort of a focus group type of setting and it was with fifth
159through 8th graders in the east zone at Hilltop South SGC and AMS. The students that were selected were primarily selected uh or were were they tried to select them from a variety of different backgrounds, athletic, fine arts, um gender and from the grades were all set because you know be like the sixth grade center. The fifth graders were the ones we got from the elementary school and we had them work through a school spirit workshop. Now, they filled this out, but we didn't really collect any kind of data from it other than just to kind of read through them and get a feeling uh to put our finger on the pulse of it. It was really designed to stimulate a conversation and discuss with them and kind of get an idea of what the students
160were saying. And we took them through several different worksheets. We had them sort of choose what we were saying, continuity and change. We are having them put their opinions on u not their opinions but fill in on that little graph sort of where they fall there. Choose which kind of mascot ranking they liked and so on. And we got I had a lot of fun with it. It was really entertaining for me. Um they had a lot they had a lot of really interesting things to say and I was frankly very surprised by the high level of engagement. Um they just did great. Uh there was absolute full participation and the students feedback was extremely strong and it be got me thinking that really at the end of the day the more people you ask
161about this question the more opinions we're going to get. You know everybody at their friends have different opinions from each other age groups have [cough] different opinions and they're all strong and Dr. Dr. Carpenter then had me go in one final presentation myself which was at the student uh superintendent's student advisory council and then she presented the information at the teacher advisory council. I believe she wanted to say a little something about that student advisory council meeting and feedback from that. >> Yeah. So the students it was interesting we had a chance to meet with we have sixth through 12th graders and so obviously their students some of them won't be impacted at all and some of them will be. Um I think the thing that we just kind of opened up the floor and
162and asked them you know what's your feedback of this presentation and this process and they were very high level. Um they talked about they felt like it was very much direct engagement very transparent process that it was not a leading type of activity where we were trying to get people to choose a certain thing. um they felt like it was very clearly represented and uh and that if they really at the end of the day, you know, we're all Argal ISD and so um they felt like that the process gave gave that kind of scenario and that story. Um they felt that we felt they felt like we needed to change at least something. There's needed to be some sort of identity at the new campus. And um they felt which I thought was interesting
163the very last one which was very very good comment was that the name of the school really should impact the mascot because how it sounds matters the way it flows. So thought those were all very important [cough] things from our students. >> Yes. Very extremely critical and that's kind of the name of the game is considerations right. It's like just like the land purchases just like the naming component. It's 10 trillion details that you have to think about when you're making a monumental decision like that. So, good luck with that. >> When we went and evaluated sort of all the feedback together, um we did come up with the same sort of uh vibe that Dr. Carpenter was alluding to, which is that we have many perspectives, but we certainly have a shared vision and
164the students themselves showed that. Um I think that they were extremely positive about the change. There was no bickering, there was no negativity about one decision over the other. Only a preference that we keep a sort of a school spirit. >> Uh our last page of the student workshop was for them to sort of circle a um words that they felt like represented Argyle. And almost always school spirit was one of them. Argyle vibes was also one of them. And so that was just really good. It was really positive to hear. And so once we had all that, we came together again. We made those uh made our had our discussions about things. We made this the presentation. And we are now coming to you with the considerations of our committee member. So and to
165do the practical considerations, I'd like to ask Liz Stewart to come. Oh, she's right here. Lost her. There she is. standing in for coach Wes Morland as he's over there hopefully winning a basketball game. >> Oh, excellent. >> Oh, you know what? He could get over here just in time. Hey, we could skip this slide and let him get here if you want to. [laughter] Um, just some practical considerations. Um, he had uh talked to some vendors about their input on color availability. Um, what's a stock color versus a custom color. Um, some of the feedback was gold is a little more challenging. Um, it's not always what would be considered a stock color. It's more of a custom color. Uh, so the tone of the gold tends to change a little bit, what's available
166from year to year and what you can get on your uniforms and and um different things. Silver gray is very close to our current colors. Uh, you see a lot of that in our accents a lot around of our our buildings. Um, and then the other feedback was that blues were a little easier match. those were considered stock colors um and not as much custom colors and they stay tended to stay the same year over year as far as availability. Um so that was some feedback from from vendors. Um some other practical considerations. Um this is not an exhaustive list. This is just a list of some schools in the area um that may have one of the um you know Falcons or Hawks or Eagles or they may have one of the colors. So,
167you know, Lake Dallas, all they see, they're green and white, but they're falcons. They're close by. Uh Birdville, green and gold, but they're hawks. Again, close by. There's Hein Hawks. They're royal blue and black. I'm not going to read them all to you, but you can kind of catch the theme. Again, it's not an exhaustive list. It's just some other things to think about um of what's in the area and what's already out there and the different combinations. >> One you didn't include on there was Aubrey. Aren't they made? Aren't they this? I this this jacket that's that is looking right at looks like an >> jacket. Yes, they are a red and a blue. I'm not sure if they're royal or navy. >> Looks like that jacket right there. >> There you go. [cough]
168>> Is that an Aubrey jacket? >> Yeah. Okay, I'm good on that then. >> I know where I'm going. Hang on. >> Jack [laughter] from Mr. Justin Ray us. >> That was very nice of him to bring those over. >> A really great to the district in high school and we said, "Do you guys have any props for us to bring to here?" It's interesting from a color perspective. Sorry, I'm really I I prefer to be moving around doing presentations. It is interesting that from what we do in our department, which is a lot of digital design, artwork, that color matching is a really big thing. It's a huge thing to think about. Matching this color and this color would in my professional opinion be much more difficult. Now, obviously other schools do it, but
169it's just something to think about. It's a component to it. Even matching red, you look at the three jackets that are here. The reds are actually all different between them, whether that was intentional or not. >> Okay. So, for the next part of this, I'd like to ask Mrs. Lumston to come up. >> She's on her seventh Dr. Pepper right now. I need the seven. [laughter] >> Um, my first question is I know you all have blinking glasses, so I don't understand where they're at. >> Oh, yeah. We should have brought up. >> Very confused. Very confused. >> Wasn't on the agenda. >> Okay. I apologize for that. Um, I'm not really here to advocate for a certain choice for you guys to make, but just to thank you for taking the time and input
170and Dr. Carpenter for making us so organized and how that we put things together. Chris, the things that he brought to our students were so fantastic. Um, I don't know how many of you spend a lot of time with a thousand middle schoolers, but I do every day. And when you get a few of them in a room and you ask for an opinion, a lot of time they're just going to look at each other and they are all going to say the same thing. >> So, the way that he brought it to them, um, they they filled it out and he talked about each part individually and then he went around the room and said, "What did you pick?" and they went around and it was very rare that this person said what the
171person before them said. Like they all had different answers, different opinions and they were free to give those. Um I had coaches, theater, choir, band, um our math and science coach um help me pick students to make sure that we had students that represented all kinds of students. And then we had in our group what would be the first graduating class too. So I think that their opinion is very important. Um, I do think we need to be careful with subtle because subtle can be confusing. So, um, you know, stay the same, change. I want to make sure kids have an identity that they can grab on to because that's important to the kids and that's what came out in our talk. Um, not only did they all share their opinions, but they supported each
172other. They'd be like, "Oh, yeah, that would look cool." Like they said positive things to each other instead of tearing each other down for not agreeing. But at the end, um, what what really came out is they just want to know. They just want to know what is it gonna be because they are ready to get fired up about it. And that's the way I feel and and I think that's how staff feels too. Whatever you pick, we're going to have pride in it. We're going to own it. We're going to run with it and we're going to love it. But just try to pick something that our kids will be fired up about, which would probably be almost anything except for not a dodo bird. [laughter] And I think next we're gonna put up
173Coach Rogers's eighth grade graduation picture and then he's going to give p some perspective also. [laughter] >> There it is. >> You see my grandchild that I'm the blonde head one on the first row right there. >> Okay, I'll try to stay as neutral as I possibly can. So >> Argal's history is very unique and it's got a great perspective. Uh obviously before I ever got here, they were making all these same decisions. Uh with those decisions, you know, they they took community input as much as they possibly could. I'm sure it migrated towards Eagles uh because of being associated with North Texas to some degree, but they did choose red and white. I added the black. Okay. Um it was trim on the on the uniform, but we said, "Hey, let's put some black
174in it." And uh we went down that road. uh in regards to what we discussed. Uh I think the most important thing is is it has nothing to do with mascot. I think it has to do with finding your identity. Uh connecting to that identity and I think it's uh it's important that you use that. We use a different slogan a lot. Uh it's always something a little unique odd. Uh we're using eyes every you know earn your eagle sunrise and and we do that. We do that but really all means the same. all 23 years you could all put it in a in a basket and it all it all builds pride culture and unity and the culture we have um it it had to have a starting point and I think if we
175we look uh going forward there there's a couple of things that they want me to talk about is is regards to uh let's find something let's connect to it and let's make it their own and uh that's the most important thing that I can share today is giving this new school something of their own. I'm afraid all right that that if we try to parlay it with one big umbrella uh I feel like I'm in the Lewisville school district. It's it was Lewisville Marcus when I worked there and we didn't want that association with that. Right. So so we wanted to be Flower Mount Marcus. We wanted our own identity. Now I I don't know if that's a good correlation. And I I I Googled and chat put in chat GPT what about conglomerate companies
176that had to break up into different names and were they were they able to break up in the different names and still maintain their identity and to the tea they did and so it was the basis it was the underlying structure of the companies so it didn't have anything to do with the name and I think we're right there. I think somebody might describe that as I was born standing on third base. That's somebody that was a little bit ahead. I think we're far down the road with being ahead. I just think we need to choose a good mascot, choose a school name, and then run with it and make sure we're supporting that that that group of kids with that type of culture that we already have and the hiring of the good people
177and the h and the establishment of picking something and then running with it. the slogans, the the the the mascots, the tweaking, the all those all those coach I can just imagine all my coaches looking at that come up with a shirt that's going to support that mascot. That is the energy that we're going to need when we take over that building. I mean, she she wants that. She wants that. All right. She's just living over there. All right. And she's wanting that kind of energy because she wants the identity of it. And I I think I think uh the mascots are going to be important. I just don't want it to I don't want it to um distract. I'm not advocating for two eagles is basically what I'm saying is because I want it
178to be not part of something all right somebody else already has. I want it to be its own and I didn't want to do that but I I failed. All right. I'm sorry. All right. But I have a hard time lying. Okay. Anyway, I I just I I I want this school. All right. They're they already got some really good things in place. We're going to get over there and we're going to get it energized with something that's unique in their own. And I think the mascot is going to play a critical role in that in regards to the school name and that mascot going and picking the colors and then and then riding riding fast. And uh I I think the presentation when I sat in it and I listened to it and I
179listened to all the feedback, I loved all the feedback. The feedback was great. I mean, everybody is the the energy and the feedback uh fired me up >> and I think that we need to use that and go forward with it. Are we going to make everybody happy? No, [snorts] we're not. Are we going to make a lot of people nervous and and anxious going forward? Sure. Are they going to be okay? Yes, they are. Because we're just going to keep going and it's going to be great and they're going to they're going to get behind it and it's going to be unique and it's going to be uh awesome. I'm sure in the late 90s, okay, I know there was a mayor that was against having our high school, right? And it was a
1804 to3 vote if if I if my my sources tell me correctly. Well, it ain't it a 4 to3 vote right now. It's 70 vote. And all right, and we're we're headed down a different path. And I think we have the community support. Okay, look how young Argal South is. And and we got five ladies walking in here talking about bang. I got we got everybody uh that every kid's got a parent that belongs to the PT. It's not PTA. What they call it is >> PTA. Okay. >> There you go. >> Yeah. So, everybody's riding for the brand. You just need to know what the brand is. >> Okay. >> And we're and we're and we're close. We're one month out. You're going to get tons of feedback and you're going to have some
181really good ideas and and it's going to be uh very supportive. Okay. Anything that I missed? >> That's perfect. Thank you. Okay. Raw ra. I've been up 16 hours. We're good. [laughter] >> Thank you to you both. That was exactly perfect and wonderful. Thank you. [clears throat] >> Well, so you've now heard from the committee and we've gone over some of the details of the feedback forum. We've heard the expertise and coach Rogers, please shift it on me again. and we need to talk about what's on the horizon because whatever decision that you make um obviously it does have downstream effects and I don't need to tell you that because you're well aware of it. Uh it's just whatever decision is made today should be taken in the light that we don't know exactly what
182is going to happen in the future. Um, and we just know that we will have future argal future Argyle schools, which means future Argyle students. And we need to consider whether the names and the symbols and colors that we create for this east feeder zone, if they will be appropriate as the district continues to grow, and how those choices reflect the interest of future students. And [snorts] I think that what hopefully has come through during the presentation is that above all, no matter what decision is made, the mission, vision, and core values of Argyle remain at the heart of every decision that we make. And I think Coach Rogers is absolutely correct that we have the support of the community. So that's all that I have for you. Of course, the I'm available for questions
183in the committee as well. Uh, thank you all very much for your time and I hope [snorts] that uh you don't have too much of a hard time making this decision. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Thank you. >> Very well done. >> Lot lot of time spent on that. >> A lot of good work. >> Any questions, thoughts? >> So, current colors right now are red, white, and black. Correct. >> Over here. >> Yes. >> Okay. I just great there's a ton of information that we have to make a decision. So >> thank you for that. Thank you for your time and energy and yeah >> adding to your already daily task of duties. >> So so coach at Marcus their letter jackets were red and gray. >> Um I don't know if they still
184are but but their colors were red, black and white. Correct. >> Yeah. >> Red and silver. I'll stay home. >> Okay. Okay. >> Dude, do kids even wear >> Do kids wear Letterman jackets anymore? >> We certainly bought them. >> I know that I bought them. I bought them. I just never saw them in the closet. I >> see kids wear I mean >> some in some communities some kids wear them more than others. It just depends. But I mean it's still 80 to five degrees right now in November. So >> Okay. Well, >> and they're they're awfully heavy. >> So I always think I just want to give the feedback so I can get feedback. Um again this is just like the names and I think this this process is you know to present
185this information is really for us to make a decision a month and in that month solicit feedback if people have strong opinions about and and passion about it. Um as it relates to me I'm I'm I'm open-minded about where we go with this. If it was just me, we would look like Notre Dame fighting Irish because they I think everybody agrees they have the best uniforms. Navy blue and golden dome helmets. I don't think anybody argue that. >> Um I just don't know how you work red in there. Um >> but so those are >> bald eagles. You want to be a bald eagles? >> Well, fine. I'd go with that. Uh I I couldn't do Hawks because that reminds me of somebody and uh I'm just [laughter] >> Come on. >> You know, I
186just can't. Um but no, I I'm open-minded about it. If if I read some of the stuff on social media, the legacy Golden Eagles was kind of an interesting perspective because it kept the tradition of Eagles. It had kind of rolls off the tongue. Well, I think that was in the the U. presentation. Um, I think people also heard people say, >> "Yeah, >> golden sounds like you're old." And I hear people say, "Golden sounds like it's hard color to make." And I heard other people say gold is offensive. So I I don't know. I If you fall in one of those categories, you think that's terrible. I'd love to hear the feedback. >> Um, >> I told you no to Golden Eagle. >> Oh, >> that was in the presentation. >> I like it.
187Um, [laughter] these letter jackets didn't do you any good because I don't I don't like any of the light blue and red. Um, >> golly. Sorry, Chris. >> Don't worry. You see what we >> And that looks like Aubrey over there. And >> he's going to take a trip to Just and go look. >> I I do. I mean, I like the old miss colors. I thought that was a good argument. So, or a good point. So, I I don't know. I I >> I'm open to hearing what people want to want to do. the puba dos. >> Yeah, not that. But um >> you get a chance to hear from them then. >> And if they don't, if I don't hear from then I just assume you just think I'm going you're good with
188my choice. >> That's it. >> Okay. >> And by the way, I think the kids will be fine. >> Not so sure about parents. >> Kids will be fine. >> Yep. >> Everybody will be fine. It's just going through the change and going, you know, getting that mental >> good stuff. Good conversation, >> please. >> All right. Thank you. >> Appreciate it very much. >> Great job. >> Thank you for getting the samples. They were much appreciated. >> Yeah, they were. >> They really helped me rule some stuff out. >> Looks like USC. >> Yeah, USC. >> I was going to say thank you to the committee, all of you that are here, >> presented, gave some input. It's really very much appreciated. >> Love hearing from the kids. loving loving, you know, coach Rogers,
189the whole idea of the legacy and the past and all that because that is so very important, you know, as a consideration, but I appreciate all of you serving. It's awesome. Thank you. >> All right, here comes this where we get to make He didn't know. >> He did. >> He wasn't very prepared. >> Oh my gosh. bringing back new courses for 2627 school year for action tonight. There's three main reasons. There's a course on the new course list. One of them is student interest. Another one is to finish up CTE pathways. And the last one is because of some sort of change that TEA has ruled out with the name of a course or a new course to be added or replacement. So those are the three main reasons. There's no changes on this
190from what I presented last month. Do you have any questions for me? >> Entertain a motion to approve action item 12A as presented. >> So moved. >> Mr. Matthew Slade motion approve. Motion to approve. I have a second. >> I thought I was going to get the discussion, but >> Dr. Leona McDade with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Thank you. So again, with these uh bus purchases, nothing's changed since last month. Um 16 new buses. [clears throat] Uh cost of these will be $2,548,252. [snorts] The funding will come from the 2022 bond. It's the remainder of the transportation fund, I believe, in that bond. Um, we really recommend [snorts] purchas a motion to approve action item 12B as presented. >> Some moved. >> Mr. Hawksworth, motion to
191approve. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mrs. Arthur with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> Thank you. yellow dogs. >> I think this is the last item tonight. [clears throat] So, >> you you were the first item now the website. >> That's right. So, this is um same as uh last month. There hasn't been any changes. This is the staff device refresh uh for MacBooks and iMacs for staff use. Um, this is part of the annual technology budget for the 2526 year and is included in it. Do I have any questions? >> I'll entertain a motion to approve action item 12C as presented. >> So move. >> Mr. Matthew Sllayton. Motion to approve. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Rich McDow with
192second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> All right. >> Thank you. Thank you. All right. Under the authority of the Texas Government Code 551 subchapter D, the board will now go into close session at 8:52 p.m. for 5551.074 personnel matters and public officers and 551.082 student and employee disciplinary matter or complaint. When the board returns from executive session, there will be no further action taken. Thank you.