001All right, good evening. It is still May 19th, 2025. The time is 5:07 p.m. and this is a regularly scheduled meeting of the Argal ISD board of trustees. At this time, we will determine if a quorum is present. Leona McDeade, present. Josh Western, present. Rich McDow, present. Leon Artho, present. Matt Sllayton, present. Craig Hawksworth present. I Sam Slayton present. We do have a quorum established. The time remains 5:07 p.m. and we will adjourn to executive session. [Music] All right. Good evening. It's 6:27 p.m. We have returned from executive session. This time it looks like we have some special guests here. Just tell us who would you like to introduce. Yes. Good evening everyone. We have got the student council from Jane Russman Elementary here to say a few words and do the pledges. Awesome. I
002can't see. Hi, my name is Olivia and I'm a fifth grade student at JRE. One thing I love about JRE is how all the teachers and staff are kind and caring. One thing I learned as a member of student council this year was to learn to be responsible and be a leader. Very nice to meet you. [Applause] Hi, my name is um Kaylee and one thing I love about Jerry is that the school is new, so the cafeteria doesn't smell bad and um the teachers and staff and how kind they are to students. Um thing I've learned um is how to be more responsible. [Applause] Um hi, I'm Chloe and I'm a fifth grade student at JRE and one thing I love about JRE is all of the staffs and the colors. And one thing
003I've learned as a student council member is to keep my grades up. [Applause] Um, hi everyone. My name is Sadi Sha and I'm a fifth grade student at JRE. One thing I love about JRE is how kind and amazing our teachers are. This year, um, I what I learned in student council was, um, how to be a leader and take responsibility. Thank you. [Applause] My name is Cadence and what one thing I love about JRE is everyone is so welcoming and kind and um what I've learned in student council is how to become more of a leader. Hi, my name is Liam and one thing I love about JRE is how nice and caring my teachers are to me and my friends. One thing I've learned as a member of student council is how to
004help the community and be a leader. [Applause] Good evening board. Good evening. Good evening. Uh, one thing I love about J I'm Ash. I'm a fifth grade student here at JRE. One thing I love about JRE is all the amazing programs like safety patrol, student council, news reading, choir, etc. And I was part of these uh those programs. And one thing I've learned as a student council member, I've learned how to like brainstorm and plan events, become more responsible, and gain confidence to overcome the stage fear like here, and um become a better person. Excellent. [Applause] All right. Thanks, Lord. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I
005aliance to thee, Texas. One state under God. indivisible. Turn and face. Take five steps back. Everybody smile. [Applause] You are welcome. [Music] What you got? Oh, thank you so much. Hang on. Smile, Rich. [Music] Thank y'all for being here. He bought it. Thank you, Miss Tolas. Thank you, Miss Ford. I said, "You want to cash? You want to let it ride?" So, she's letting her ride kind of girl. Let her ride. Let that stock ride. Bless your heart. All right. Awesome pledges by our Jerry Student Council. Okay. At this uh time, we'll have our opening prayer. Dear Father God, um we we thank you for so many celebrations that we got to have uh yesterday with our seniors graduating. Lord, we pray that you just watch over them, guide them um and be ever present
006in their hearts and their minds. Lord, we pray for our students in this district and our faculty as we close out this amazing school year. Lord, we pray that um all the families have a safe and restful summer. Lord, again, we thank you for the opportunity to serve this district. I pray that um it be on our hearts continually that that we just uh focus on um our intent to do your will in this district, Lord, and to serve this community and students and faculty um well. Lord, we thank you. It's in your son's name we pray. Amen. All right. We did not have anyone sign up for public comment. We do not have any action to take from close session. So now um we will install some old faces to their new term as
007trustees. I believe in place six we have Mr. Matthew Sllayton going first. Yes. All right. [Applause] I can see the family showed up. barely showed up in the first I will faithfully execute I will faithfully execute the duties of the office board of trustees board of trustees of the state of Texas state of Texas and will and will to the best of my ability liability preserve, protect and defend preserve and defend constitution and laws the constitution of laws of the United States of the United States and of this state of this state almost like you never left good job I'll clap for you Mr. West You want to rethink this? One last chance. This is your last chance. Josh, where's Gar? He's working. Board of Trustes of the United States of America. United States of
008America and I will to the best of my ability to preserve, protect and defend the best preserve, protect, defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Constitution and the laws of the United States and of this state and of this state. So help me. So help me. I wasn't perfect. Do we need a group photo? Photo. front. All right. Dr. George is happy. Three more years of penning. We're going to start flipping the stakes. All right. At this time, we have organization of the board. So I will uh entertain a motion slashnomination for uh the president of the board. I nominate Sam Slayton as president. Mr. Hawksworth with a nomination for Sam Slayton as president. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. McD. Second. I'm not even going to ask. All in
009favor say I. I. Any opposed? Opposed. Okay. Is that official? It's official. Okay. 61. Golly. He's Josh. That's terrible. Awesome. All right. I will now entertain a nomination or motion for vice president of the board. I nominate Craig Hawksworth, Mrs. Artho. Nomination for Mr. Hawksworth for vice president. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Matthew Sllayton with a second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? And that hurts. All right. 70. To everybody. I I thought he was going everyone. This is He just needs worse. He just needs fodder right here. All right. And uh now I'll entertain a nomination for secretary of the board. Nominate Matthew Sllayton. Mr. Westerm with the nomination for Matthew Sllayton as board secretary. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. McDow with a second. Any further discussion? All in
010favor say I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you, man. I can't wait to hear about this. It's going to be it's going to be a year long worth of fodder. Vote for it. I told you. Yep. I told everyone. All right. Good deal. All right. Consent agenda. Does not look like we have any donations. Do we? Yeah. Missed them. Oh, there there. There they are. All right. April 2025 donations. JRE PTA $250 for Garden Club. Denton Farmers Bureau, $250 for Garden Club. JRE PTA, $1,500 for patrol stories guest speaker. Hilltop Elementary School PTA, $220 for Kinder Field Trip. Town of Argal Police Department, $1,500 for Red Ribbon Week. That's $375 to each elementary campus. and ABC fiscal year 2025 donation number 17 $2,87243 for baseball field lettering total April donations $6,59243. Awesome. Does anyone have
011any questions on any of the consent items? I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent items as presented. So moved. Dr. McDade. Motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Uh Mr. Westerm would second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Okay, we've got our spring demographers report. Is Hudson in here yet? He's next door. Yeah, he's he's okay. So, we'll move on to construction. Okay, let's go. Mr. H will be here in a little while. Mr. Cohen. So, uh I got Poke here tonight for their quarterly delivery of the reports. But before uh they get started uh just wanted to clarify. I know we talked uh some elementary school five at the workshop earlier today. The architectural fees are the same on four and five.
012Those were bond budgets we're looking at on that report. Okay. So I did go back and look at their contracts and they are the same cost. The line item that we used from the bond budget from the bond budget. That's what we had. No other line item line. All the rest were right. No, everything was bond budget. trying to keep comparison um across the board. I didn't want to have actual dollars on one and budgets on the other. Do we know what the actual fee is compared to what was given to us? Well, one's a budget number. I understand. No, the one he gave us was budget. It's a bond budget because I don't have dollars for all those categories. So, if I start putting in actual contract dollars on some line items but not
013on the other, it would skew it. So, I went bond budgets. Okay. The architectural contract was a million 308 on both. Thank you. And if there are any other questions, we can address those now. Or if not, then I've got Pog here to deliver some reports. Okay. Thank you, Joe. Thank you. Thank you. Long time no see. It has been, hasn't it? I'll start right here with the stadium. Um, this is a really good picture that that you guys could probably see if we stepped out of the parking lot, but that shows that all of our uh all of our peers are in for our grandstand and we are working our way up that uh to the mezzanine level there in our in our grandstand. Got our shaft for our elevator in. Um, they're moving.
014And then in the background there, you can kind of see that practice field's already been uh solded and we've got Uh we we've got grass being established in the out there by the by the street as well. There's a closeup with u one of the concession stands that's being completed. There's a picture of IA foundations. Um moving right along there as well. There's another concession building. That yellow square there is another concession building that'll be built. The visitor stands are already we've see those this week, right? Yeah. Yes, ma'am. That they they've started uh the installation of those and as soon as they're done there, they'll move to the home site. Okay. Anything that with the kids being out of school that's going to allow you to work longer, faster, hard, what? More people? We're
015trying. Okay. Um One thing is is that inside our jurisdictions, we have some very limited work hours. So, we're we're towing the line with those now and seeing flower mound like flower mount ordinances. Yes, sir. That makes sense. So, um I think we're we're moving as such and then we'll uh we'll see what the outcome is. Is it ever a possibility to get a variance on that during the summer when we don't have school and work hours? I think the noise variance is more related to the houses and the in the close proximity of of those homes. I think we can ask I I don't know that they'll say yes or no, but they've been really strict in regards to some things that we have asked for to this point. Um I hate saying that
016right now, but we're kind of uh moving forward as such. I'll ask for forgiveness or you are you on schedule? Uh we're with the weather and all that. I mean we are not on schedule. No, sir. We we we have encountered some delays with with with rain. Those have those have been uh those have been sent to to the district currently. I think one of the other challenges that is is so not understood in this setting is so much of this work is done off of a lift. And if you guys can imagine being in a boom lift 120 foot in the air like what our winds were today, you just don't get a lot done. And so it's really hard to quantify what you're going to get done in a week's time when you
017get outside and you can barely stand up. I mean, I had a hard time keeping my truck door shut this morning, you know, open and you're 120 foot in the air and a boom lift's moving six or eight feet at times. So, it's been very hard to quantify. Um, we are accelerating in every way that we possibly can and trying to pick up as much steam as we can. Um, but yes, we have we have encountered some some weather delays to this point. to some degree you have certain amount of days built in. We do. Correct. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And and you know, once again, the the the uniqueness to this type of project is you're never in the dry, you know, and and one other thing that makes it really difficult to accelerate
018in a situation like this is, you know, in a middle school or an elementary school or something like that, I've got so much square footage that I can spread guys out. I can throw an army at it. The challenging thing that we have here is 85% of the work is in a 6,000 square foot space, 120 foot elevated in the air, and there's only so many men that you can put in that space and do it in a safe manner. So, we're we're looking into every avenue that we can to to accelerate, but we're also very cautious of the fact that we need to do it in a very safe way as well. We're trying. We prioritize that safety. Yeah. Uh right here's a picture on on the visitor side there. Um well, like Courtney
019had spoke to, we we've already started installing our grand stands there. So, this picture is a couple of days old. It's just another angle of our uh our home side. You can see our parking lots and everything are in and both concession stands on the home side are are moving well, so we should be okay. more established grass in our in our parking lots. That's what was our lay down area there. We've got uh temporary irrigation in there and we've hydro mulched those areas already. One trick to us being able to get our inspections when we get done is once again another city ordinance is we have to have 80% of our ground covering established before they'll entertain a inspection. So we are making steps to get as much of that done as possible as
020early as possible. So this is established when the time comes for us to go and ask for that inspection. We hope to move that trailer out in the next 60 days or so and get that area over there completely wrapped up and done. Move our fences in more more toward the parking lot over there. So, as our as we look ahead, we're going to continue pouring our fire lanes, uh continue erecting our steel and our press box. Once we get that done, then then you know our structures built and we can look at accelerating even more uh continue masonry on the concession stands and begin our visitor side grandstand installation. So um we are we're trying to take advantage of every hour we got currently. Uh we've got crews starting at 6:00 in the morning
021and when the weather allows they are working until we run out of daylight. Um here is the milestones that we have. Uh town permit we got on September 5th, 2024. Field event locations were turned over January 1st of 2025. Press box erection started March of 25. IA starts spring of 2025. That is in the coming weeks. Uh it's starting to be delivered now. Visitor grandstand started this week. home grandstand. We're hoping to start that in the last the end of June. Start start getting it installed the end of June. Uh substantial completion contractually is November 23rd. That date does not encompass the 29 days of weather that we've encountered to this point. We put them on here as a discussion topic just to speak to where we're at currently. Any questions for the stadium before
022we move into middle school? What can I ask? Do we know how many football games or we will have home games after November 23rd? Our senior game is October 31st. The PL that's November 23rd is already two weeks, three weeks into the playoffs. Yeah. So, I mean, to me, senior night, October 31st, the season, I mean, there's not going to be likely any games played next year in that stadium and therefore take the time you need to do a good safe job. Yes, sir. That would be my suggestion. Yeah, that's two weeks after the first round of playoffs. Yeah. As is. middle school update. Look at that pretty football field. Um, that thing's already uh installed, ready to go. Like we discussed, we've got Don't tell the youth organization. Oh, they've already asked. Have they
023construction site? It is a construction site. Draw out from the road. That does not surprise me. Yeah, but it's not ready. It's a green space. It's a green space. They want not ready. Keep the gates lock the school and see what that does. They're they're searching for every spot because they've got they've got, you know, so many students that want to play and participate. They need every green space that we can give them. There's our moisture conditioning for our tennis courts. I'll slow play those so you don't get that phone call next week. We continue to pour slabs. Um all of our slabs will be poured uh by the end of the month. And as you can see over there, uh our storm shelter and a lot of our CMU is already up and moving
024over there in the in those areas. We expect to be uh getting those dried in early next month as well. Liz and I had the opportunity to tour. Was that Thursday of last week when we were out there? And so they had just poured literally that morning and they did compliment the fact the town of Argal is allowed 3:00 a.m. pores. And so they had just poured that section that you you can tell they're prepping right there. They had poured that um and so it's all concrete now. And then the band holes on the back side. So we got to see that. But we I I would speak to the fact that we do have a couple of uh um neighbors right there that has been somewhat accommodating to to our needs. So that was
025that was the other compliment is that yeah, they've been very accommodating to this point. There's there's our uh our storm shelter and our and our gyms operation. Your outdoor ed. We talked about it. Stock it. We're just doing some steel work there. And then we're uh be pouring that that floor as well. And then as you can see over there in the upper part of that, we've got all of our undergrounds in in that area. Hoping to get that slab board here in the next couple of weeks. Every time we get some traction out there, we just get a couple inches of rain and that site does uh that soils, it holds on to it. All of our paving is down currently. So, um, you know, the the site over there. Let's see if I
026can find a better picture up there to the north of the site north where those cars are parked. That' be elementary school. All slabs are poured. Waterproofing frame and NP will begin. Still erection. continue finish the field events in the tennis courts. Um we'll start our brick veneer and we'll begin irrigation and landscaping. Once again, what we're trying to do there is get our irrigation and and sod established early on um in the areas that we will no longer be working in just to control that way there's no extra cost in regards to regrading things or anything of that nature at a later date. Here's our our milestones for the middle school. Uh town of Argal permit was received December 20th drying buildings and set RTUs will be uh September of 2025. We'll get our
027elevator installed in spring of 26 and our substantial completion is July 2026 which I believe is in alignment with Jeff's plans to install furniture. That's all I have. You guys have any questions for middle school? So the permit that you got in December. Was that all-encompassing on the plans you submitted? That that was the building permit and that goes back to what we talked about in the workshop is that they excluded those other areas at that time. Yes, at that time. So, that that was a building permit. We actually got a grading permit back uh around the end of August, I believe. Right. But this would have been our building permit date. And was there a reason given why they were pulled? No, no reason was given. Okay. And again, in your industry, you've never
028seen the permitting requirements that we're having to go through right now with the town of Argo. No, Sarin. In my history, I've worked up and down the coast of California, Miami date county, and some of the things that we encounter here are just not of the norm. So, I've been all over the country and they're just not up the Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Hudson. Hudson, since you just showed up, we've actually pushed you to the very end. So, but All right, go ahead and come on up. Yeah, you're good. How are you doing? Great. Good. How are y'all? We're good. Good. All right. Well, thank you all very much. I I I certainly appreciate it, Dr. Carpenter. Thanks for allowing me to multitask a little bit this evening. So, uh happy to be
029here with you physically and not having to do any Zoom presentations on anything crazy. So, uh, with that said, uh, again, thank you for the opportunity to be with you here tonight, and I'll get things kind of cranked up, uh, with the with the, uh, spring report. All right, there we go. All right, we got it. I got control. All right. So, you know, we are kind of looking at what's happening uh with with the economic picture right now and what that potentially may mean related to evaluating what's happening with the housing act uh industry. Um overall, we've seen a slight uptick uh in unemployment when you look at some of the numbers at the local level as well as the state level. Um we are also continuing to moni monitor trade and tariffs as
030we know that's been uh that can create some challenges and some impact industry. Uh so u we've seen quite a quite a few changes in the last probably six to seven weeks from where we thought things were in early April to even where they're at today have shifted a little bit related to the overall market conditions. Uh so we'll continue to kind of evaluate that. We see that businesses are also kind of evaluating things related to tariffs and trade and what that potentially is going to mean for their outlooks. Uh so again, we'll we'll we'll continue to monitor that and see what kind of impacts there will be in the next several months and what that potentially could mean for the housing uh housing industry. Overall, when we think about things at the local level,
031uh we continue to see very positive uh developments that are taking place in the overall area. Again, with the heritage development, uh we know that there's a a master plan development within the area that uh we know is going to bring in significant tax revenue as well as additional jobs. Uh so with with what's being referenced currently right now, that could potentially be as many as 3,200 jobs that could be coming into the region. Um again very uh solid jobs when you think about potentially what's happening uh with uh Baylor Scott and White and a potential medical campus there in the region. Uh so again several phases of that will kick in in the next uh next few years but again this just points to more positive development uh that's going to be taking place.
032maybe a little bit of additional traffic uh but hopefully there'll be some infrastructure and some things that take place in in the next uh several years that will help accommodate all of that additional development. When we think about what's happening with the overall housing uh picture again uh I would point to that fourth quarter of 2024 u when we look at the data the data is very positive when you look at what's happened within the DFW area. Uh the overall number of uh annual starts is at that 47,421 number. Um that is the highest in the country. again in overall when you look at the overall state of Texas uh picture you're looking at uh really four out of the or three out of the top four uh and four out of the top six
033markets in the entire country. So again, continued to see uh significant housing activity, not only looking at that 13% increase when you look at year-over-year comparison u but also just even looking at that preandemic level of that 2019 where we show that it's about a 36% increase from where it was uh basically about five years ago. Now, when we look at the enrollment picture for the state of Texas, uh we are seeing uh we know we have population increases um but we're also kind of evaluating what that means for uh enrollment when we look at TEA and the overall state uh enrollment increases. And so you can see much like what we reported with the 2324 number uh somewhere in that 13,000 student increase range. So when you look at the overall population increases that
034we've seen the last several years, you would think that's a little bit larger. Um we do think that again similar to what we reported in the fall, that's partly tied to what we're seeing with homeschool numbers. Uh so when you look at kind of that difference of where the numbers used to be when you look at the 17 1819 um that 40,000 32,000 number um that difference that we're seeing in 23 24 most likely should be in that general range when you look at the number of students but we think that that that difference in that 20 to potentially 30,000 range is related to what we're seeing with uh with our homeschool numbers in the state of Texas. Okay. Can I can we go back to that for a second? Certainly. Um, we now know
035I guess this is next year. You don't obviously you know I guess you don't think vouchers and school choice is going to have any impact I guess now that it's passed because that starts in 20 26 27 27 and are you now building that into your modeling in any ways? Is it statistically significant? We're we we're starting to do that analysis. So, right now it's it will be um in the initial in the initial stages of tracking for all intents and purposes because one of the things we we really don't have any hard data yet. So, what we will be referencing is kind of speculative related to where those trends are. What we're beginning to do is evaluate uh the the the numbers that we've seen in Florida, Ohio, and Indiana and kind of track
036what those percentages are over the last several years and with kind of the stages that they've gone through um what potential those percentages have been and what that could be in the next several years. So that that hasn't been rolled into our models yet. uh but we will be moving into that uh stage of modeling as we can. As I understand the first roll out of the school choice bill is has a lot of caps in it in terms of it's 100,000 students roughly. Correct. Probably not statistically significant. When you average that out across the state, it's the several things that we want to make sure we factor in when we analyze that information is one, you're going to have existing families that have um students that are already in private schools that will be
037u proposing to stay and and get some relief in that. Florida and Ohio and and where they seen these programs be rolled out. But the vast majority of the money that was allotted for school choice actually went to existing private school students because the reality of it is that that $10,000 voucher is not going to help people go to Liberty because they still got to come up with another five, six, eight, 10,000. Correct. And so what's going to happen? they're not going to apply and so the pot's going to be full for the existing students. We we anticipate that there will be some some adjustments to some numbers, some of participations percentages that will change. Um but again, uh we anticipate that a lot of existing families will get the initial benefit and relief. They're
038going to pursue those applications like even new new students potentially would. Um and so we know that's a factor. We also kind of know that some of those existing private schools have limited capacity. So, it's not like it's not like we would anticipate significant expansion um from from many of those churches and institutions. So, um at least currently right now, nothing's fasttracked to expand in any significant numbers related to that. And then we also know that there'll be some challenges related to transportation when someone evaluates uh you know where they're potentially going to go. So all those do factor in to keep the overall impact minimal. Um but we are anticipating somewhere in that range of anywhere from um one and a half to 3% that could potentially you know impact um many many districts.
039That's going to that that will be different for each individual district. But we're we're going through and starting to evaluate what that model potentially will look like uh as we go through the next year year and a half. So um again with anticipation of of none of those numbers changing drastically until we get into that 26 27 year and most likely it would be a few years out before we see significant numbers changes in in relation to that. So question um the ISD enrollment annual change so this doesn't include homeschoolers or private schools or charter schools. I I would say right now with what we've got projected out and what we have anticipated. Oh, as far as as as this existing numbers, these exist existing numbers reference public ed as well as the charters. Those
040do those numbers do not reflect anything related to specific homeschool um enrollment or uh private school. Okay. So what do you if anything attribute that significant drop between 2223 and 2324? I mean I would think that that would have come earlier especially after co we we do see that that you know that number that we saw in 2223 did increase and we've referenced that in previous presentations where we talked about that COVID return. So there were family a lot of a number of families that didn't come back in 2122 that did come come back and return in 22 23. So that did increase that that to a little bit larger number than what we would have seen just as a as a shift from the 2122 to 223 year. Um but again when you start
041to look at what would the what the norm potentially was related to anywhere from probably 40 to 60,000 um what we can see is we see significant increases um when we look at virtual schools and even public schools that are virtual schools. We've seen a significant increase almost 30,000 students that have just increased their percentages over the last three years in going to that option. Well, and those virtual school I mean the tea doesn't allow you to just get those approved every year. So that was a big year for the I think it was the one in the basin down there that opened that had all those students that enrolled. So that was just a big year for virtual and then they haven't approved anymore since then. So yes, and so we just see that
042we do see some trends where some of it's been lifestyle, some of it's going been tied to parents being able to do things remotely and and be in different different situations. Uh so that's why we do believe that that differential really ties to what we're seeing with homeschooling. Not anticipating a significant increase with private. So the only thing that's a number that we really truly don't know quite yet is is related to to that home school. So we when we look at kind of what we see with the population increases and what we know those numbers have been um we we that's that's the that's the only piece of data that we haven't been able to truly analyze because that information isn't readily available. Just seems like such a significant drop those last two years.
043Okay. All right. Thanks. Just not as many entering in because that was a big virtual year that one year. Yeah. Um when we look at just the overall five-year view of what we've seen not only in the district but also within the region, it's it is a stark contrast. So you can see the significant increase of 77% enrollment. Uh when you look at what's happened in Argal ISD when you look at the larger uh region uh related to region 11, you'll see what's happened uh in in those districts. Um, again, kind of in that uh uh Arlington region, Fort Worth, um some of those larger districts that have matured and and been built out, you've seen the the conversations that happened about uh enrollment loss and uh campus closures at those specific campuses. So, again,
044just kind of showing kind of what what patterns exist. Again, this is partly tied to seeing those areas that have been matured and and uh uh are aging out and then those outer areas of the metroplex, but not not only in region 11 on the forward side, but also on the uh region 10 Dallas side, we see similar uh similar trends. When we look at the the h the home starts, again, just referencing kind of that pattern that we see here. Um the the one thing that I would point out is we're we're looking at kind of what's happened over the last several years. Uh you've you've seen kind of a a significant surge in starts uh early on in that 2021 time frame. It started to come back down when those interest rates increased.
045Uh and so those there there's been a a fairly significant separation and crossing a couple of times. But what we are seeing right now is that builders are really starting to analyze um how critical it is to evaluate where they're at with their inventory, where they're at with closings, and then monitoring how many home starts they'll start back up um based off of the amount of activity that's taking place with those closings. Um when we look at the price point, so we look at home sales over the last several years, we have seen uh significant increases. When you look at both new home starts as well as ex existing, again referencing that 43% increase over the last six years, that $189,000 amount um and existing house uh houses having a pretty significant uh increase above
046that at that $280,000 range. What we will see uh when you look at the overall uh information from the total home sales in 24 versus 23 is we are seeing some some home price uh softening u from from what we saw in the uh 23 uh year. What what do you think that's due to? Was it interest rates originally? I do think that ties to some interest rates and some softening in the market. Uh again, even with a a market that is as attractive as what we have uh in the district, um you're seeing builders that are having to create incentives uh to help um families be able to potentially close the gap on some of those uh uh home sales prices that they're dealing with and those interest rates that they're out there. So,
047they're creating more and more incentives um to be able to help those families. A lot of families in the last several years were moving into the area from out of state uh and were selling homes at a higher price and being able to uh afford a price that was viewed as much more affordable in the area. But that was also driving those those costs higher. So uh we're seeing a little bit of a softening not only specifically here but in uh various different regions within the overall area. Well, and you're also seeing the fact that construction cost in the housing market is probably going down and they can sell them for less. And so that seems to be the anomaly out here seems to be schools. Don't take the page. Yeah. So it's it's it
048really ties to concrete's more expensive when you're building the school, but it's, you know, we see when you're building a house. What we do see is uh a compression of margins. Let me just reference that. I think that's really what we're what we're seeing. builders uh are are having to uh to work through some challenging times with material costs and those kind of things, but also knowing um what what they have to accomplish um with what they've got in front of them. So, uh when you look at the overall quarterly uh numbers, you'll ultimately see that we are really solid when you think about home starts um from that 2024 total of 8.85. Uh again, when you look at the overall picture, the the only time we were stronger related overall numbers really was in
04921. So, uh that continues to be very very good. Um again, what I would continue to monitor is to see where we're at with closings. That's extremely important. Uh and we're staying fairly consistent with where we were when in 2023. So, a little bit lower than where we were in 2022, looking at kind of what that uh those bigger numbers were in 21 tying into 2022. Uh but again, I would still say these are extremely positive and consistent numbers uh related to starts and closings. Overall, looking at the amount of development that's uh within the overall district, you can see 27 active building subdivisions with 17 uh futures still out there. Uh 820 lots that are within about eight subdivisions out there. again highlighted in that uh outlined red subdivision um graphic that we have
050currently right there. Again, I'll kind of go on the north side and and and go a little further south as we go through this. Glennwood Meadows um showing 145 total lots there. Six de vacant developed lots, a few about five homes currently under construction in that one right now. Um you can see they do have another phase that's out there. um that's currently in in the process of being developed. Um and again, this is Bloomfield Homes with a price point of about 57,000. Uh Vintage Village, just to the south of that is one that we've highlighted several times. They show about 14 homes currently under construction. They've got 39 of those that are occupied. There's still quite a few vacant develop lots left to be uh built with that. That's MI Homes that's building that
051development. Again, price points at that 424,000. Last time you gave us a report on Vintage Village, it had 10 houses and yielded 12 kids at a 1.2 rate. Do you know what these 40 homes are now yielding? I won't have that that specific because I don't have the spring I don't have that spring geo code here, but uh we will definitely keep track of that and identify that in the fall report so that you know kind of what the that that carryover is. I again I I would expect that to come back a little closer to the norm even even though that what I would call the Argal norm is not necessarily what I would refer to as a norm. Um that is still a much higher yield than what we see in a lot
052of places. But again I would being at that anywhere from 7.8 that we see in in many of the developments. I would I would anticipate we would be somewhere in that range. Uh when we look at the overall, you know, the the the large one that's been out there that we continue to track is is Harvest. We've got uh that uh divided up between Rusman uh Elementary and uh and really the Argyle West campus. Again, you're going to see that we've got quite a few homes that are being finished up that are identified uh as is um finish out or homes under construction. So that's quite a few of those that were in this uh uh fourth quarter. um fall time frame of of many of those being developed. Uh again, at that in those
053price points of anywhere from 400,000 plus. So, still quite a bit of activity, but getting very very close to being built out in that in that area. What what's your ratio on those? You know, when we looked at the the the yields that we that we referenced uh in this region, we were um at that 0.85 to 0.9 range. So, it was very very high. Again, I would anticipate over the next year or two that that coming down just a little bit. Again, a part of that would be a few students aging out and just about being built out. So, not a lot of new new families moving into the area. So, um but again, that's still going to be a very high yield um area, very attractive for families u uh within that area.
054So, didn't we turn out to be higher than that for Russ? Yes, we did. We did. So, we're we're we're closer to uh at least in the fall when we looked at the numbers, we were we were we were right almost right at one. So, it was uh a number that we seldom see. I'll just reference that. I don't want to say we never see, but we we seldom see that that high of a yield those planning. Are you coming off that one? I would still long term I would still ultimately still say I think that the we'll still those numbers will still come down a little bit from where they would. I certainly wouldn't anticipate that that one would be the norm. Um again I I would still consistently say that we're going to
055be closer to long-term with full buildout. Um we're going to look at percentages that still should come down. Most districts were at somewhere between 4.4 and point 6. Um, right now with our numbers, we're higher than that. And so we we have to look at somewhere in that 7 to 0.8 range when we're talking about the numbers that that we we we see based off a trend. But I would still anticipate that those numbers should should come down a little bit as we go through the next next couple of years. Have you studied Lantana elementary schools? Uh, I I I couldn't tell you that I've I've specifically said one of the things I'd be curious about is because I I see Lant it's a it's a different master plan community with golf courses and country
056clubs, but I think they have maybe three elementary schools that serve. Do Do you do Denton ISD? We do have Denton. Yes. And I'm just kind of curious because this this this typical tent trend that you see in other communities where they have declining or they peak and they decline. Most of those communities like Richardson and Plano, they didn't have master planned front yard, high HOA fees, designed for children, you know, type communities. So those those homeowners stayed in Richardson. Yes. Here I see the the whole financing structure incentivizing empty nesters to leave and get out of this high HOA, high tax area. And I'm wondering Lantana started in the '9s. Sure. It's a good 15 20 years ahead. Is are their elementary schools declining or are they staying about the same because it's regentifying?
057So what what I would want to do is is is uh let me let me go back and do I I can we can we can evaluate that information in that specific area. Uh very well could be. Okay. Because again, when you evaluate kind of where things were related to that master plan, price points being what they are, um there there there could be something that could could tie over to what we're dealing with currently right now. So that could help us being able to kind of identify that and then see how that may relate with what we're dealing with currently right now. And quick question one more time just on Brman again. You had what did we staff on this last year? What was what was the yield that you point8? He used the
058harvest yield the point we we used we used closer to to around a little over point8 I believe is what we we had identified previously and and you think right now that we wound up running at one roughly? Yes. So, I know you're talking about the 085.9 or 7 eventually, but I'm just thinking near-term, you know, until we get another elementary on the ground. Um, are we still reasonable at looking at a one? Yeah, I think I think in those areas, we're not changing those areas right now. That's we we've referenced in our projections we did have to go with higher yields based off of the numbers that we got this year. So, that did shift and change those. Um we and and you'll see in in the uh in our projections that we've got
059for our tenure uh that incorporated the boundary adjustments that we made and we're still going to have every classroom full for the next two years so using a one is realistic at this point. So that's what we're using. Okay. So out there anyway. So your your numbers that we're going to see on the chart reflect that a one. They're going to they they reflect that higher term. Yes. Um again, when you kind of look up in that Rustman area again, Ridge at North Lake, um what I would share is we we show about 374 futures that are there, a few vacant developed lots. We do show again as you look at not necessarily what we see in the spring which is just a lot of finish out but we had a lot of homes being
060finished out uh as we were were uh early in that fall into that into what we refer to as that fourth quarter data that we're analyzing currently right now. One one of the things that we do see right now is you have a few phases that are in this rig at North Lake development um that where they've been putting in utilities and roads preparing for that next phase of things. Uh so we we we don't see a lot of uh foundations being poured quite yet. Um so there there could be a little bit of a pause that we may be seeing in the fall, which wouldn't may not be necessarily bad when you're talking about some of the high numbers we've been dealing with the last several years. So So again, I would still expect
061a significant amount of of activity taking place in those next couple of phases, but again, part of that is tied to preparing those those phases with those utilities and road roads that are going in. Because when you look at this in comparison to what we were looking at in the fall, um there were no roads in. They were just cutting those roads in at the time. So you can see there is significant progress being taken place. Just not a lot of uh foundations or or housing activity currently taking place. Uh again, kind of identified this is uh that uh village town homes uh a little bit further south off of uh Bonnie Bray Street. Um this is going to be 27 futures. Um they do have a little bit of ground work that's that's underway
062in that area currently right now. Um again in the hilltop zone is is uh the Knights uh landing 27 futures u large lots one plus acre lots that are on that again extremely high price points related to these large custom homes uh in that area. Uh High Plains at First Ranch. Uh this has been a development that has had a little bit of activity in the last uh in the last several months uh being changed out from what has been a Hines development um to what is being now developed purchased and now being developed uh by Starwood Capital uh land management. So they're they're taking that over. They're they've been able to they've they've already put plans in place that mirror what what we've seen previously. There could be some some minor adjustments to with
063some numbers that we see. Uh but ultimately it's going to be much in line with what we've seen the last uh in the planning stages that Hines brought uh brought forth. Uh again kind of uh Argyle South area uh Argyle Landing has 43 futures uh that are there. um 1acre lots, but you can also see there's ground work that's that's currently taking place getting those lots ready to go for for that development. And then Enclave at at Hickory Hill. Uh again, looking at kind of where we've got quite a few um developments in that stage of roads and infrastructure. Again, this is a Toll Brothers development. uh fairly high price points for uh for this development as well. Um again quite a bit of activity taking place. And then uh Last Stansia uh develop previous
064development that we had uh is is now being uh amended to be a development called Brook View. Much of the numbers related to the single family or or similar to what we've reported previously. Um what I will say is the uh number of multifamily units is uh a little lower than what we initially uh uh saw in some of the previous information that we had. So again um ultimately 250 town homes with 300 uh multifamily units in the overall master plan development for that for that area. When we we look at kind of the multif family picture again um anticipating quite a few uh units that have been brought on when you look at the larger DFW area of about 36,211 units u and absorption rate related to um those moving in is is significantly
065lower than that. Again significant amount of supply. So we've seen that occupancy rate drop in those units. we're seeing uh a number of of uh incentives and some of those rent rates come down a little bit from from where they've been. Um but again, if you looked at some of those, it's drastically different than what some of us used to used to pay back in the day. But um anyway, I'll leave it at that. Um we we do have uh again referencing a little bit of multif family that is currently under construction. I I'll reference that. and then uh some some multif family units that are in some planning stages there. And then um again highlighting kind of where we're at with uh that heritage development or with with Harvest House that 349 total units
066and they do have some ground work underway on that one. Uh anticipating that uh first units potentially could be about a year year and a half out um from from leasing those units. So big picture when we kind of look at where we're at again we're we're referencing numbers that should be in that approximately about 8% as we go into next year referencing a a projection enrollment increase of about 483 students um with that that potentially um is is again we're we're still being fairly uh consistent with what we've got for our overall numbers. Um we those minor adjustments to to where we're at um u from the fall but again fairly consistent looking at a number that when we think about 10 years out potentially is going to be at that 11,300 total. And
067again when you look at this chart related to the elementary campuses um what I would say or this is a reflection of what we've referenced with the updated uh elementary boundaries that were approved um uh just several months ago. So, uh the uh the amended uh uh adjustments that we made to the elementary. So, uh referencing what that potentially would look like uh uh down the road. Can you go back one slide? Mhm. Over on the far right column, you're you're saying next year we you're projecting 8% growth total growth. Am I? Yes. which is which would be the lowest percentage that we would have experienced in the previous five. I think you I mean is there a reason or you just saying I mean we we do see that that uh we we are
068anticipating one that that uh part of that number that we had that jumped up from from that uh uh 23 24 to 24 25 really tied to uh expansion of prek numbers. So that we don't anticipate another significant increase related to their pre those prek numbers. Uh and then we also anticipate that that the district will be a little bit more conservative with with uh evaluating some of those transfers that we've that were that that have been approved this, you know, this past year. So um those are are a few of the um conditions that we've we've taken into consideration when we're talking about what we think these projections potentially would be. We're at 62.95 today. So that's where we're going to end the year. Okay. Which is higher than the 12.7 that's on here.
0696295. Correct. And we we would I mean as as we anticipate, we're expecting that as we have we'll continue to grow grow through the year. Um, but what we're what we're trying to hit related to that 6584 number is really that that October snapshot, that fall number that that we'll we'll be looking at because that's that's the true number that we're looking at over the last several years related to what those numbers look like. So again in summary um when we think about big picture again significant activity continues in the DFW area. Um we did show uh an extremely strong year at 24 with that 850 starts 746 closes u and what that looked like in comparison to the previous year. um 500 homes are currently in inventory right now and we do see um
070some of what's happening in the existing home market. We do have more more inventory um for sale than what we've seen the last few years. Not necessarily specific to the district, but we do see that that happening in the overall marketplace. We do see some of that in the district, but but but that's more of a a reference to the overall numbers that we see within the overall area. And again, ground work is underway on on about 820 of those lots within several of the subdivisions. And again, we've we've talked about where we think the numbers are going to be over the next five and 10 years. So, happy to answer any additional questions that you may have. Thank you. All right. Thank you all very much. Thank you. All right, Dr. Yeah, just got
071a few things this evening. Uh, as everyone is aware, we did celebrate our class of 2025 last night at it. It was a great evening. I think we got it all done in between the storms as they came through. But just congratulations to the class. They just they they were amazing. Um, so excited to celebrate them. Thank you to all the families that came out. We had just over 360 graduates. This will be our last class under 400 um if things stay on track. So, uh, UL academics, they are actually in Austin as we speak, competing at state. So, we are anxiously awaiting to hear their results over the next couple days and looking to for them to bring home another state championship. Last week, um, Friday, we had mixed doubles tennis team of Julia
072Lightner and Kaden Everett. They won regionals, but they competed at state last week and ended up finishing third. So, very proud of our mixed doubles team. And then recently, we had 5A state champion Paul Walters, Gator Young, and Payton Barry. So, we won the girls and boys 5A state champion in pole vault. So, congratulations to those students. District news staff that uh will be returning next year signed contracts and letters of assurances will be receiving their retention onetime payment uh this week on the 23rd. So, that'll be nice for them. They'll be either getting their thousand dollars or 500. And uh we will have our next budget workshop on June 5th. And that's where we'll have discussing compensation packages for next year uh for potential approval at the end of June. depending on legislative action.
073Um, obviously we're aware, everyone's aware the House Senate currently has the House's version. Um, what the Senate has put out is um, quite a significantly different and so they're still working through that. Um, on that note, I know we have put out a few things last week uh, to our community for a call to action and with that um, Senator Parker's inbox received nearly 900 emails from this community. Uh so that was a very strong in fact I've had a followup asking for asking for us to follow up with how much difference the Senate and the House side and the impact on that and Miss Stewart's going to get that for me to send off. So um they are still working on that and they have a very short window before this session closes. So
074we are pushing hard um with the end of school to get something done down there so that we can um bring you some good news in June in terms of um legislative action. That's all I have. Right. Thank you. Okay, Dr. Jordan. Bringing this back for this second month, our new curriculum for math. Just going through the process. STEM Scopes was the overall choice for K through five math. 67.3% of teachers chose it as their first choice. In middle school through algebra 2, overwhelmingly 100% chose agile mind as their choice for the math curriculum. Just a little bit from the review process. Both of these receive 25 out of 25 points during the rating process. What's included is here's the list. The thing that is a little bit different than last time is the fluency
075kits and the foundation kits kits. We decided to do a digital access because that's not something that they're they're um have available for the whole class at once. It's small groups. So teachers will have the digital version where they can just print what they need because they were going to have to print it from a hard copy anyway. So that's one small change that saved us a little bit of money. And then the number of professional development hours. We decided to do more of a train the trainer model. It gives us more flexibility of when we provide professional development to our teachers. Agile mind. No change from what was reported to you last month. So, as a reminder, we do have $40 stored from last school year, a total of $80 per student now that
076we have put in our savings account that we can use towards these purchases of approved material. So, our current balance right now is over $411,000. This is a separate account different from our INS and M. So, what's the bottom line is those are costs not to exceed. you'll see at the very bottom the 216,736 will come out of um one account and then that's the $40 per student that we get and then the 29,800 comes out of EMAT which is a separate account because that is that part of the uh materials is not approved by SBOE because it's our advanced math which is a combination of sixth and seventh grade or seventh and eighth grade and they don't make such a thing um for these curriculum so it doesn't qualify for the $40. We expect
077to get get about 1.6 million in our EMAT account when this legislative session is over. So, in July or so, they usually put that into our account. So, of that 29,000 will go towards these purchases and then the other part of it we already have sitting in our account and we get $40 per student every single year as long as we're we can use it as long as we are using it towards SBOE approved materials. Do you have any questions for me on the math adoption? The 986 is paid out annually. Not not it's in four payments or is it all at one time? No, it's not all at one time. Yep. Good. Thank you, Dr. All right. I'll entertain a motion to approve action item 11A as presented. So moved, Mr. Matthew Sllayton. Motion
078to approve. Do I have a second? Doc McDade with a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Hi, Liz. Hello. All right. Last last item, I believe. Um this is our transportation software that we talked about last month. Um still bringing it back with um a cost of $170,843 for the implementation. Do you have any questions that uh we go could go over or anything since last meeting? No, I just appreciate the comprehensive review from several vantage points. Definitely, you know, said a just transportation. Yes, there were quite a few that helped review this. And we do have um Brady Bell and Tommy Leford are here tonight to answer any questions. And then Gregory are also uh for anything from technology. Yeah, I'm good. Think y'all
079did a good job. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion to approve action item 11B as presented. So moved. Mr. Hawksworth motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Mrs. Artho would second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Time is 7:39 p.m. We are going to return to executive session. When we come back, there will be no action taken. Thank you.