Crystal City ISD Board Meeting

001Recording in progress 54. Okay, we're back in open section. Uh A, consider the approval of employments of uh new professionals. I don't think we have anybody, right? >> No action. Yeah, >> no action for that. B uh consideration to approve the employment of at wills. >> Recommendation is that we uh approve the employment of the new atill personnel as discussed and closed. I'll move. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a a motion and a second. Questions, concerns? If not, one in favor? Motion carries. >> What happened to Desmond? I mean to >> I mean Oh, okay. Yes. Yes. Let me see. Was I was going to move something around. Are you ready? I'm going to move uh I'm going to move uh G uh collection items seven. That way you can make your presentation. Uh

002tell us uh a little about uh Fernando's bat and uh we're going to be discussing a G and uh we were trying to get him to come to Crystal City but uh football and so uh >> I'm here in behalf of my cousin Roland Ramirez. He's the director of sports medicine and head trainer for the Houston Texans. Um he's the son of Fernando Ramirez. Uh in Luda Flowers on his passing, we asked for donations and we did some fundraisers and we decided to say let's give it back to the school district. We love being here working as a cross guard and a shing gang. So I said it's only good for us to say you know we want flowers. He decided to give back to the school. He loved it working here. He like part

003of the school district. So he said um I did talk to uh Desmond B. See if we can push it to athletics or whatever you guys want. Any case it's 2,500 is what we got and I would like to donate that to the school. Any questions, comment for uh just uh I mean Babon we have a a Fernando's uh son family or whatever >> we appreciate. I mean uh what uh uh Fernando got very involved with the schools also as a cross guard and I think helping you come in and uh >> he help you and the other guys sport show. He was a a normal critic in the stands and he liked to shout and stuff >> very very friendly too. >> He was also part of the chain gang. >> So >> this

004one Mr. They were the partners at the crossard and chain guy. >> So it's crazy how that happened and you know God bless them both and but we just wanted to give back and and I asked they told me they had to be approved by the board. So >> I'm asking you guys want to take my money >> comment. First of all, I want to recognize uh I just cons my friend uh Fernando Ramirez. He's he's my classmate. He's my friend, very close friend. Um uh he his his havina goes way back when we were kids. uh played junior high sports, high school sports together. Uh I know he was deeply involved in baseball. I know that our senior year uh uh our team were West champions and he was a vital member of that

005Hina baseball team. Uh he's always when we get together and you always talk about having a sports 100% 120% u uh it's unfortunate that God took him right now but u I know that we're going to miss him every day. I miss him every day. >> Yeah. And what I was going to tell uh Miss Garcia, let uh tell Mr. if she's when she's back to uh send him a letter of thanking him for uh donation on behalf of the school board and the administration. He really wanted to be here, but >> yeah, he wanted to be here, but he he is in in the with a Houston Texans, so he is already fullblown with his >> profession. So, >> I'll just say something real quick. I was very amazed at how he was very

006helpful. He helped a lot of people >> volunteering, taking them. They would ask me, "I'm not." And he he did a great job. >> He he called me every day. He said, "Bobby played today. Where is he at? Let's go." And let's go baseball. Let's go to football. >> But I'm talking helping other I mean he would >> other skills. >> He would not say no to anybody. It was an Uber for a lot of people and he enjoyed it and my mom misses him a lot. >> We're going to miss him the sidelines. >> I just want to express thanks as well to the for the donation. He did mention that he kind of expressed that he wanted to go to the athletic department or is that what he expressed or >> Yeah. Well,

007when when I I think I spoke to Mr. He said there's any specific. So I I called Roland and said, "Well, you know, it was part of the Shing gang and athletics, but we we really didn't like like he said, if there has to be specific, I'd rather it go to athletics, right?" So I did talk to coach Battle and told him about it and I don't know if there's anything else you need. I'm willing to fund raise more. If we need something else in behalf of Fabando >> and in this case, Mr. Gonzalez, as well, >> thank you, Mr. >> Thank you very much. We appreciate it. >> Let me know if it's approved. >> I mean, >> we're putting on everything right now. >> You think we're turn a motion to >> I

008by Mr. O'Ne uh uh in the memory of Fernando Ramirez by his son. That was second. Can I amend the motion? >> He second. Can I amend the motion, sir? Mo make a motion to accept the donation by on behalf of Fernando Ramirez to be used by the athletic department. Um, that's how I wanted to amend the motion, you know, give it a direct use instead of just to the school district since he expressed that he would like to. >> Okay, we have an alternate motion. Uh is it okay or you want to withdraw your motion or >> I can we uh specify how the money is going to be used? Uh I wish we hadn't as much >> I think in uh in other times that we've had donations. It's kind of been worded

009$100 for the NHS, $1,000 for X amount. And this is just to the district, but after talking with Mr. Castillo kind of expressed that it would be used. >> I'm going to withdraw my motion so that his motion will will proceed. >> Okay. So then we have a motion by Mr. Martinez. Uh so withdrawing his motion. So uh do I have a second on that motion? >> Second. Vincent >> it just second. >> Okay any concerns uh questions? If not everybody in favor? Motion carries. Thank you sir. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Much needed. >> Okay, we're going back to action item. Uh a discussion action to approve the Crystal City ISD student dress code for school year. Let's see. The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the CCISD student dress code

010for the 2025 2026 school year. uh on that I I had talked to uh my uh in the one from last year I mean we included tattoos and this one I don't see tattoos uh or we going to allow to return tattoos based on order >> the item number three indecent inappropriate patches writing or drawings are prohibited on clothing purses bags backpacks personal on belongings and on body. Uh when we met when I met with the principles um that was the that that was the that covered tattoos the on body >> and then >> cannot be visible. >> They cannot >> Is that what you're saying? Okay. >> Would like I would like for the word tattoo to be included somewhere because you know how kids are where is it? I mean maybe they're antud

011unless I mean I don't have a problem with the kids who are in tattoos but that's been the uh >> as critical as attendance is I don't either so let's just set that if anybody have a motion with the addition >> I guess I have a question on um 15 on item 15 shoes flipflop shoes metal cleats that specific like with Crocs and all of that as well or what is the It says they're It says they're prohibited. >> Um house shoes, flip-flops, shoes with metal cleats or tabs, shoes with shoes with wheels and steel or hard plastic toe boots are prohibited unless required for CTE courses. Um no, it does not specify Crocs. >> So, do Crocs fall on your flipflops or house shoes? No. >> Are they just shoes? >> They will be

012allow >> the Crocs. The principles didn't um have an issue with Crocs. >> We're going to include it or >> I was just having a question. I was just having a question whether the principles don't have an issue with it or anybody doesn't have an issue with it. It's fine. [Applause] >> Uh I move, if I may, are you asking for a motion, sir? >> Yes, sir. >> Uh I move that uh we uh accept the dress code uh with the u modification that it should say the word tattoos uh parenthesis of the word drawings. Uh so there'll be no question about what is what it is meant. >> Okay. Do we have a second? >> I'll second it. >> Second by Miss Young. Questions, concerns? Not all in favor? Motion carries. Semi there. Uh,

013next thing on the agenda is the uh discussion action to approve the resolution regarding Senate Bill 12 and parents rights. >> The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the resolution regarding Senate Bill 12 and parents rights as presented. Basically, that's what we're what are we approving as far as rights or >> what's the first one? >> It's a new Senate bill that has to be um it has to be approved. No. >> And the state of Texas that I that think uh House Bill 12, the state legislature passed this thing to prevent the uh providing of DEI, you know, what diversity, equity, and and um uh basically that's what I'm saying. And the district has to approve it. that one. >> Just an approval from from the board >> as presented. >> Do

014I have a motion? >> To approve. >> So move by Mia. Second. >> Second by Mr. Espinosa. Questions, concerns. >> Yes, I have a comment. Um uh I have a I had a hard time making the motion and I'm going to go with it. But uh it's kind of hard to uh to uh deal with this especially in a community like Crystal City where the percentage of of uh minorities are very high uh all kinds. So, it's kind of hard not to get involved in diversity, not get involved in inclusion and and equity uh because of the fact that we're mainly Hispanic or canos that I use. We have some kids that are non-Hispanic. uh uh we have kids that are of various uh sexual orientations and uh it's hard not to think as a

015retired teacher it's hard not to work with those kind of issues. >> I guess I had some questions. I guess there's there's a lot of things within Senate bill that that were required right as for the district. Um and it wasn't just DI incentives or anything. It also it also spoke about sexual, you know, sexuality and things. Um you know, how's the district going to be? How's the district going to address all of this outside there? Does the resolution itself hold any or have any worded or verbiage that is part or included in part of the Senate as SP12 or does it paraphrase it in any way? I know that um we're expecting more guidance from TASPY in October um and for now we have to approve this resolution as is and then once we

016get the guidance that's where we are able to I guess it >> that's just one side of it too. There's also things in there that talk about the syllabus and everything having to be posted for the district, you know, the district to provide to provide the syllabus and have it posted for all classes offered. How's the district going to approach that or do we currently do that? >> Most teachers have something in place already. It's just a matter of getting a bit more specific. Um, our teachers do have a pacing calendar and they do have a year at a glance where they already have it planned. They already have planned out what they are going to be teaching for the year and by six weeks um and by unit. So, it's just a matter of

017getting just a bit more specific. >> So, this just a generic uh resolution created by the by the state. It's issued to all the open created by TEA for all districts to sign >> is I I'm not sure honestly where this came from if it came from our attorneys or if it came from the state. Miss Carlos, do you know where this document came from? >> Yeah, from the lawyers. >> The lawyers. Okay. Our attorneys, >> no more comments or questions? But I guess the only thing I would like to see is is actual wording or, you know, referencing the the actual SB12 or education code. Um, you know, it just it just references a text education code chapter 26A, but I think there's a lot of additional um sightings that could be added to

018the resolution. Um, and also there's also item four. I guess it talks about this is to the DEI. It talks it's an employee or contractor who intentionally or knowingly engages in or assigns to other persons diversity, equity, inclusion duties or engages in prohibited instruction will be disciplined up to and including termination. My questions to that is is it going to be like a stepped um term of of of um discipline or is it going to go straight to being let go? And who decides those different um levels of discipline? You know, is there going to be strike one, strike two, strike three, and a lot of additional? And I can I can take that before Miss Bjon when she gets back and we can discuss that with um our attorneys with Mr. Cruz and Mr.

019Perez. Um but again, we're still waiting for more >> more information, >> more guidance, more >> more clarification from TASBY >> and and the state's require I guess the requirement is to have it approved by a certain date. >> Yes. >> Right. Which is >> I believe it's for September 1st. I don't think unless he wants September 1st. >> You want us to approve it tonight and then bring anything new to the table later? >> We have to approve it. Yeah. And then I mean once we approve it uh when the uh Zen Tasby have been calling, they're working on it. >> I don't have an issue. >> They're they're they're telling us we're still in limbo. I mean, we got all this thing and so >> because I know there's updates to the grievance

020process and everything as well. And that's another big one that doesn't it's not clearly >> I don't know if the district has policies in place yet or we're >> or the grievance process the um that particular we received training from our attorneys already um several of us have attended trainings twice um and we're waiting for documents from our attorneys >> and will the district be providing professional development training to the employees of how to move forward with the DEI with a different type of um I guess sexuality um requirements and all this or is it just going to be a >> once we get the guidance from TASPY? >> Do I have a motion to approve? >> It's been done, sir. Uh I make the motion seconded by Peggy. >> Okay. You have a motion

021second. Any more discussion, concerns? If not, sorry. All >> in favor? Okay. Motion >> against. >> Okay. One against. >> Okay. Okay. See uh discuss an action to open a new at will position a speech language pathology assistance. Garcia. that the board of trustees approve the addition of a district-wide speech language pathologist assistant SLPA for the 20 2025 2026 year and we have Miss Mendula here. >> Good evening board. So um the what we're proposing to the table is to open a new level position for college. Um as you can recall last week we did ask about how many students that we serve. this currently serve about a little bit over 150 students [Applause] 21 and they're just identified as um speech students. Um and afterwards I think after that meeting we were able to

022receive our summary of finance which kind of gives us an idea of our budget for this upcoming school year. Um and working with our business office and of course our superintendent of schools um we found that we had a goal in common this year. We do want to reduce the amount of contractor costs. Um, and one of the ways to do that is to have in-house people. Um, so in looking at the budget, um, you know, this also provides us by having someone in house long-term savings, we keep the person in house, we're able to provide, you know, you know, consistent and quality therapy services to our students. Um, because a contractor is only available when they're available. So, um I did also look at our current because we do have we just approved a

023contract for um a therapist assistant. Um and looking at a contract, it does say, you know, we can alter the agreement or terminate it as long as it's a mutual um agreement and we can do it within writing. So, we wouldn't be violating any contract that we're currently in as school hasn't started yet. Um, so I'm hoping that this position because that way we have someone in house and ultimately reduce the amount of >> Let me ask you a question. Uh, when we have uh students uh in uh PCI programs, uh, migrant programs that turn three or so the school district has to take them now, right? >> Yes. So if they qualify so we do and that's what we used to work on. So we are in partnership with um ECI so it's early

024childhood intervention. So those students because they are like in the vicinity of our district they're through the child finding process at ECI intervention. So those students um they get referred to the school district before they turn three years old and then the school district then assesses them and then determines and makes recommendations based if they qualify or not. So, >> but our pathologists have >> and they do have to serve them. So, it's either you know now that there's isn't an appreciation program but you know we still we still have a breakin service. So, we have children coming in you know at certain times during the instructional day to receive therapy services you know but the end happens as soon as their third birthday occurs. So we have to assess them you know have our

025AR before the third birthday and once their third birthday occurs that's when we have to start providing services um because they are so little you know most of the time it is you know parents are joining them and so we can't necessarily always provide group settings for those because we don't want to violate any students privacy or their rights so usually those sessions are individual so that also takes up time from our current speech um u SLPA schedule um and then like I mentioned you know working with contractors are only available at their schedule when they're available. Um, so having a open is going to give us more flexibility as a legal student. Um, and also like I said, keeping our numbers um intervention at a good ratio where they can quality or the therapists

026can provide quality services for the students. >> Yes. When you say fund 123, is that your sped fund? >> Yes, ma'am. That is city code for that is the local fund. So 123 is our new local fund. It used to be a 199, but now it's 123 because our PIS code is 23. So, it's an easy way to identify the account that's funding the the position. >> Okay. And would an assistant um uh language pathologist assistant? I'm assuming that would be somebody that's certified in the field or >> Yes, ma'am. So, um they would have to have their cert so they have to have their bachelors, they have to have their license um through Texas licensing department, which it says that they're licensed. I know it's good every I think every two years it has

027to be updated um and that they do have to you know maintain their license so every year they have to kind of get their CEUs um which would be monitored you know on once they come on board and then um like I said once um we do have uh Miss Raina who can add them to their license unless she already has them on their license and then we can um once that shift transitions into January then I can put that assistant under my license. So that would eliminate like supervision fees and an easier co monitoring to make sure that that person is is up to date with their license. >> And you're going to pay for this. Are you anticipating more money from the state? >> Um I know at least for right now I

028know how much that we are going to be getting for this this academic year with our summary of finance. I do know because of that bill there are some changes coming. Um but even without that extra money coming in or we I know we can fund this position with the budget that we've um we're creating for this year. >> So you're certain you can fund it out of your spit? >> Yes. >> What was the total spent on contract services last year? For this position? >> For this position this position it was about 20,000. 20,000. I'm discussing what I don't mean with the invoices. >> That was only I mean she was doing uh >> it was only one >> uh we have one full time but then this lady was contracted and she was

029coming to do it. So >> it's like four days. No, sorry. She was only coming two full days. So, it's two full days, one like half day, which is like on Monday she'll come one half day, two full days, and then I'm sorry, I'm going to make a correction. She'll come two full days, which was Tuesdays and Thursdays, Mondays in the A.M., and then Fridays every other every other Friday, every other Monday in the A.M. >> And and did that meet the needs of the district or that met the all the needs? >> It did, but then at the same time, we're looking at case loads. So, we're looking at case loads. So, of course, our in-house therapists have to take a majority of that case load. And when you look at an average case

030loads around, you know, districts or or anywhere around for any one assistant, you have about anywhere from like 70 to 70 to 80 kids. We're at about 150 160. And so, the contractor can only pick up so many. That leaves a brunt of the case load to our current SOP. And she did it. I mean, she's amazing. The SLPA we have is amazing. and our service our students got all the services they need, but at the same time it's, you know, um we're burning a lot of the case load. So, it's collaborations and things like that. They're occurring. Um but we also don't want to wear our staff as well. >> So, if you divided the case load in half and gave half to the assistant and the contract worker, how much would it increase

031from the 20,000? >> About another like 17. Yeah. because the position of a SLPA per our plan maximum is about $65,000 for the year, right? And 192,000 I mean 192 days. So I mean that's a lot more than >> and it just depends on the highest of the years of experience. So the years of experience are really going to kind of matter because if you have someone with less year of experience, you know, the t the higher end of the income is for someone who has about 20 25 plus years experience. Um I know SLP is around the area and they're all around my age for um and then but it matters with the experience. So we go with experience. So they wouldn't be starting at that higher end. I believe if we had anybody

032around here applying we would be more in the like early to mid-range. Um and even with that it would still we would still be able to cover it because I mean overall contracted phase we did spend a lot of money. So, if we're can save it, even if we have to invest a little bit more to have a position, like I said, it's a long-term savings because we have someone in house and that position is already open. So in years to come if one of my SLPs decides to retire or decides to you know move that position is already here and we can fill it within you know we can have another opening or apply for it because that position has already been established and already >> uh and your recommendation was what >> recommendation

033is that the board of trustees approve the addition of a district-wide speech language pathologist assistant SLPA for the 2025 2026 school I >> have a motion. >> Motion done by Mr. Spinosa. Second. >> I'll second. >> Second uh by Sami Houston. Questions, concerns? Not all in favor. Motion carries. 6. Thank you, ma'am. >> Uh now we have the uh E. That's a long one. Consider each. [Applause] >> Do you want me to read the whole thing? Right. The >> Well, does or do I read it after? >> You have to. >> We have to >> after. Right. >> Oh, you have to read the >> for the 2025 2026 school year. We delegated contractual authority to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code uh section 11.151 subsection C subsection 4 to the superintendent solely

034for the purpose of obligating the district under uh Texas Education Code section 48.257 257 and Texas Education Code Chapter 49 subchapters A and D and the rules adopted by the Commissioner of Education as authorized under Texas Education Code for uh 49.006. This included approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit, the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit, netting chapter 48 funding, or the agreement for purchase of attendance credit, and netting chapter 48 funding. Does >> she have to read the rationale, Miss or does she have to read the rationale or >> No, not the rational. recommendation that needs to be >> word for word. So your recommendation is >> recommendation is for the 2025 2026 school year we delegated contractual authority to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code section 11.1511

035subsection C subsection 4 to the superintendent solely for the purpose of obligating the district under Texas Education Code 38.257 and Texas Education Code Chapter 49 subchapters A and D and the rules adopted by the Commissioner of Education as authorized under Texas Education Code uh 49.006. This included approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit, the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit netting chapter 48 funding or the agreement for purchase of attendance credit and netting chapter 48 funding. >> We have a motion. >> Right. Could I ask >> Let me just uh make a motion second and then you can uh you motion, sir. >> Yes. >> I'll second it. Peggy, >> can I ask Robert a question about this? >> If I don't understand this, >> if the district happens to generate

036excess revenue or further revenue than is projected right now at this time because the tax office changes the value more money, then we have more money per children per child. We have to charge returns on that to continue. This happened something like around 200 oh it's 2009 2010 when we were in that position and the district the board elected to pay it off the top. The district had revenues but they just asked TA to reduce it off the payment and that settled it from then we did not have that any further after that because the values adjusted. >> This has to do with the recapture right sir? >> Yes. Um, has TA had any inclinations that we're going to be in a recapture district? I don't think we've been in a recapture district for a

037while, right? So, >> our values dropped from the the preliminary values to the certified values. They dropped some. So, it doesn't look that >> and they don't release the numbers until about February. Correct. >> Yes. because the appraisal decision will provide them in January to the controller after they set. >> So this would be a plus. >> Well, it just simply says that if we do gain the district is obligated to >> but the way this motion is worded is it's giving the superintendent the authority to enter this agreement now. >> Right. Um >> Okay. We have a a motion and a second >> like to enter an alternate motion. Um I move that the board of trustees authorized superintendent to prepare an agreement for the purchase of attendance credit for the 2025 2026 school

038year only if the Texas Education Agency certifies the Crystal City ISD is subject to recapture under chapter 48 of the Texas Education Code. Execution of the agreement shall not occur until the board of trustees reviews the TA certification and grants final approval at a subsequent board meeting. This authorization is intended to ensure the district's readiness to comply with state requirements while maintaining full board oversight of the decision to obligate district funds. Okay. So, we have an alter motion. We have a second for that ultimate motion. Not dies. Uh vote on the first motion. All in favor against >> one. >> Okay. Uh discussion to approve a resolution regarding participation of homeschool students uh participation in UIL activities. Uh the recommendation was >> the recommendation is that the board of trustees approve a resolution regarding the

039participation of non-enrolies in UIO activities for the 2025 2026 year to decline uh opt out of the participation for non-enrolled students in UIO activities. And we have Mr. uh Coach Battle here for any questions. >> Thank you for having me board. Thank you for your donation. >> So, um, basically what this is saying, I talked to I pulled the ads around the district, around the area. This bill came out, a lot of ads in the area is saying they do not do not recommend homeschool kids u participate in athletics. And the reason for that is um when we do our strength training or when we do our practice in the school day, those kids are going to not show up to that and just show up to game and we just don't want nobody getting

040hurt uh because of the not preparation for it. So that's just my regret. >> But you have a kid uh 300 lb, 250 lb. >> Those kids for those kids, if that was to happen, they'll get enrolled. >> You would drag them into >> I got a three-bedroom house. >> So you're saying you don't want >> it's not beneficial. Um and we don't have any kids currently that it's um that that we can kind of see and learn from, but it's from talking to other ads. Hondo, Jordan. Um, everybody in the district and the surrounding areas are saying no to this. No to this sub. >> No. >> Do we have any data of homeschool students that are in our area? >> No. Once they declare homeschool, it the education falls on the parents. >>

041So, this will only be will this be voted on every year? >> Yes, >> I believe so. >> You never know. We might get some transfers and >> this one only. >> No, this is about >> keeping them at school. Home school. You don't send them to school at all. >> I understand that. But if we pass it right now, I don't want it lingering on next year. Can we vote on it every year? >> It says uh for 256. >> I think it's supposed to be voted on every year by a certain date of the year. >> 24 this year. I mean, we get based on like that. I don't think you're going to keep your home, right? >> You're going to get three L that come >> your lips. >> I'm not one

042big one. >> Peggy, >> I'm not going to say any names, but I got phone calls last year from some very hefty taxpayers that call me because their boys couldn't play basketball. So, it's always been my understanding it was up to the superintendent, so I told them it was out of my hands, but I mean, they paid big taxes in the district in Zabali County. But, I mean, >> I think up to y'all. >> Yeah. As far as boys not playing basketball, um, you can't just walk onto a team and expect to play. Um, there's rules and protocols you have to follow. attending practice regularly, um, passing your classes regularly, following directions of what is asked of you, will get you on the court faster than a taxpayers's dollars. In my opinion, >> I think

043that I think that's been kind of the argument or from the research that I've done there. That's the argument where taxpayers, you know, we're paying for the part of the district and they want to be able to reap the benefits of the district, right? But the argument from the district side is the argument has a lot the district has a lot more stringent um activities or um you know things set in place for kids to meet the standards right whether it's academics you know they have to pass whether the they're in ISS and they can't play that day there's a lot of additional things that people that are enrolled have to go through right and if a homeschool student doesn't doesn't fall into those same type of of rigor right >> yeah that's that's the

044argument >> and it starts to become if you know hopefully a parent doesn't change the grades or alter the grades for the kids at home school right and then they're passing and you know vice versa or what we're saying right >> I get it >> I totally get >> commendation >> that the board of trustees approve a resolution regarding the participation of non-enroles in UIL activities for the 2025 20226 school year to decline uh the participation for non-enrolled students in UIL activities Yes. >> A motion move. >> Yeah. Second. Second. Second by Mr. Martinez. Uh questions, concerns? Not. All in favor? >> Favor. >> Motion carries. 6. Uh >> thank you, coach. >> Okay. >> Have discussion action to approve the uh 2005 uh 2006 city compensation plan. And I think on that there's a

045recommendation to table it till next week. >> Table it till next week. >> Till Monday at the Monday meeting. >> Yes. That >> video on Monday. I failed Wednesday. >> Monday. Today's Wednesday. >> No. >> The other one was set. >> I put it on the wrong date. >> Hold up. Hold up. >> When is the next board? >> I thought it was Wednesday, too. >> Monday. >> I thought it was Wednesday. They're going to schedule an Monday >> for the final approval. >> So we have one we have one on the 25th. >> Yes. >> And then one on the 27th. >> Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> 27th is for the public hearing on the tax budget. >> What's the 25th for? >> Budget work. >> Oh, okay. All right. >> And the

04627 the tax the and the tax >> grade and and approving the budget. >> That's a 5:30. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh so on this I mean uh we're going to uh table it. Do we have to do a motion or bull? >> Do we have a motion to to table? >> A motion >> by Mr. Martinez. Second. >> Second. Mr. Espinoa. Questions, concern? Not all in favor. >> You're asking us to table the compensation >> for Monday. >> Aren't we pushing it kind of close to the deadline? >> On the compensation, I mean, it's it's it's a couple of things were at it that they want us to review most of it should be >> the the second. Okay. So, >> I agree. I think we are pushing a little bit close, but since

047I guess Miss Bjonas is not here right now and I don't know if Miss Garcia has all the answers if through the questions that we might have it may be. >> Will she be here Monday? >> Probably. You said >> more than likely, but there's still that. >> I know. Is there any way you can make this print bigger? It's the other >> um we will work on on getting it to >> that's one of my questions like is this is different than what was given in our board packet. >> Yes. Uh I believe u a couple of things were added um as per discussion. Um that might I I don't know where it was discussed but I know that um they were discussed and it's not a lot of major changes. I think some

048of the things that were put there were uh the thing on the uh paraces. >> Yes, >> that was one thing that was added uh that we haven't. The other thing that that was added uh on the uh $50,000 that that we have that some are saying we'll give it to the uh paras give it to the uh vice principles because my understanding is that now some teachers with the $8,000 raise are going to be making more money than some so you want to give them things like that. I mean, but and uh the rest I would say about 90% of it is is the same thing. >> Teachers, I mean, we can't do anything about that. They already got the raise. Uh so uh Okay. So, did we vote on the uh >> No,

049we haven't voted. >> Okay. All in favor of Okay. >> And on G, we already uh did that one. Informational items, presentation, employee health insurance benefit package 526. >> What was the for the table? >> 61. >> I didn't want to table it. I'm a No. >> Okay. 51. >> 51. informationational items. Uh health insurance uh person and their benefits. >> How y'all doing? >> Good. How are you? >> Well, I'm hoping some of this is small print, too. I know you want you want it to print a little bigger, but I tried to get it as big as I can. Um, I know this is a big these are big forms, but >> Thank you. >> No problem. I was right in the printer before I got over here. And >> you have a

050presentation that they can share. >> I I don't have the digital copy with me right now. I do have a copy. I just don't have it with me. >> We're going to bounce around a little bit because again, um, what we're doing this year is a little different from what we do historically here. Um, my understanding. Are you from the same company that >> Hig Botham? Yes. So, Higen Botham is the brokerage firm. Uh, we took over y'all's business. So, this is going to be our second year as as a married couple, right? Trying to do our best job for you guys as our client. And in that, the reason why I say this is a different year, you're going to see information on there on your agenda because that's kind of what it is

051today. Just to kind of give you a state of the union, this is where we're at and then kind of our suggestions, right? So my understanding is that the district right now is is in a financial situation where insurance premiums are a little backed up. And so when that happens, we've got to find solutions to see how can we come to the table with low or minimal impact to the employees from a benefit standpoint, meaning deductibles. Okay? And then from a client standpoint, how can we do that with seat and then at the end of the day less be a little cheaper. So when we do that, we call it going to the market. So we go to the market to see what other insurance companies are offering from a cost and a benefits perspective.

052And in that we put it in this little presentation. We deliver it to you. And we think we found a little bit of a solution. So I'm going to bounce around a little bit because I'm going to tell you all the story. And remember, the numbers that you're going to see are annual numbers. Our next step here is to drill it down to start talking about how it's going to impact your employees from a per pay period standpoint. And I have some general numbers. >> When you jump around, tell us which page you're going. >> Yes, sir. So, right now, what I'm going to do is go ahead and start on page five. Go on page five. Basically, what we're doing here is showing what your current benefits are, current plans. >> How pretty. >>

053I'll let you guys. So, again, on page five, the here in the top kind of in the meat of the presentation, these are the current benefits. So, the numbers I'm going to talk about, your low plan is a $3,200 deductible. Plan is a $500 deductible. And then y'all's buyup option to the employees is a $300 deductible. So if anybody knows anything about insurance, that is super cheap and low in terms of a deductible. So deductible means if you end up in a hospital, as soon as you meet that $500, the district's paying the rest of the claims. So I can sprain my ankle. After I sprain my ankle and I walk out of that emergency room, cost me $650. the district from any any treatments I have for the rest of the year are coming

054out of pocket on the district. So when you just that that little bit of that tidbit in and of itself if I have a cancer I can end up with a $100 $200,000 claim I'm only paying $500 of that and the district's starting to pay the rest. So, as you can imagine, it starts hitting the pockets, right? Because to the on the district side of the house with So, most of your population, I would say about 70% of them are on that middle plan with a $500 deductible. So, I I'm going to talk a lot about that plan because that's where most of the population is at. I know it's small print, but if you look down here, we've got the enrollment counts where it says plan two and it starts 766 2221. That's where

055most of the people are and plan two is that middle option. So when I say plan two, just know I'm talking about where most of your folks are enrolled. Now, currently where it says current, these are the current monthly premiums that the district has for these plans. These monthly premiums have been in place as far as our records go to 2019. Because remember, we took over in 2023. I've had to do some research and digging to get historical information and it's been a little bit of a challenge, but I've been able to to to definitely confirm that these have been the same rates. Has y'all's car insurance rates been the same? >> Nope. >> No. So, if you think about 2019 to now, we're looking at almost 6 years where those rates have not changed.

056Not only from a monthly standpoint, but not even for the employees. So, if I've been with the district for six years, I haven't paid a dollar more. but insurance claims and all that keep going up. So, there's a deficiency there. That's why the district in in my analysis is struggling a little bit to make payments because we're having to pay claims and after I meet a $500 deductible, I can have 10 employees that have cancer and I'm paying the rest of it. So, recommended is what it really should be as of today with inflation trend. This is where our financial team at Higinbotton went and did an assessment for me and they said, "Angel, had they have step therapied step increased those rates almost in a step therapy type type thing over the last 6

057years, this is where the these are where the rates should have landed. Notice the difference up here. So, if you just look at this first one, 473 versus where they say it should be at 891, it's almost half. So, the rates haven't changed. And so in speaking with the team here and I once I really drilled down, I started saying, "Okay, there definitely is a problem. There's an imbalance here." And now that I've given y'all the bad news, now I'm going to bring a little bit more bad news into it, but start talking about how we can trend in the right direction from an insurance standpoint. >> Now I uh I have a question on >> Yes, sir. >> Page five. Yeah. Uh the first column at the very bottom. >> Yes sir. >> They

058said we have uh employees only 44. >> Yeah. >> Uh so those automatically they don't pay anything any pre >> right. Those don't pay a premium. The district covers that. >> And who's responsible to let them know that that's available? The district >> district. We do that at open enrollment every year. So at every every year in August, last year I came in personally, I went to all the schools. We did what we call open enrollment. It's a big announcement. Hey guys, now's the time to make your elections to enroll. And that's how we do the the >> Well, if somebody say, "Hey, well, I never heard of it." It's it's not true cuz you guys go around doing it. >> Well, the HR team would definitely quarterback that like they did like normally like

059it normally would be the HR team. That's kind of one of their primary job duties. make sure I let them know that it's free and >> yes, so usually that's a hiring tool. Like if I'm hiring, if I'm a recruiter, I'm saying, "Hey, if you come to work for me, we've got a medical option where you don't pay a dollar." Right? That's usually what we we see it used as as a hiring mechanism that you have a free plan. Good, good question. Now, I'm going to skip six for a second. Um, I'm going to go straight over to page seven and I'll come back to six to to continue to tell my story. But here on seven, what we did, again, guys, we went out to the market. Normally, we don't do that. Normally, last

060year anyway, I can't speak for normally because last year was the first year we really I hunker down on this plan, on this group, and we're like, hey, we were able to save 10% overall cost annually. We came in here, it made sense. We got the the the hands raised for the whole team here and we moved on. Last year there was a little bit of savings when we first looked at what the options were. This year because we're struggling to get premiums in and and there's an imbalance. All the things I've already referenced, the deductibles are ridiculously low. They're not even what the market should be. We went out and said, "Okay, if we're going to save money, a lot of times the way to do that is to change your funding, which right

061now y'all are what's called self-funded, meaning the district pays is responsible for paying everything, insurance, claims, and in the prescription uh coverage as well. So, y'all are y'all are responsible for paying all of that." And a lot of times that works. If your if your group's healthy and you've done the step therapy where you've increased me, my premium as an employee over the years, the monthly premiums have increased over the years, then it kind of makes sense. But that hasn't happened. So, the district has been paying a lot more in claims because the claims costs get more. Why do claims costs get more? Because the doctors charge you more. Where you used to get an X-ray for 50 bucks, now it's 125 bucks. So then the district has to pay those types of things. So

062with that being said, and I know it's small print, but there's a number down here. It's 3.1 million. So with the current plan setup, the overall cost for for the plan right now, y'all stay with it, is $3.1 million with the same co-pays, same deductibles. We don't change the cost to the employees. Everything stays exactly the same. That it's an estimated cost. Obviously, we haven't gone into the whole next year yet. So, remember 3.1 million. When we went to Blue Cross, we said if we stopped the fully the self-funded option where you guys are paying everything. So, claims when you're self-funded, you can pay 20,000 one month and then suddenly everybody goes to the doctor, it's 100,000 the next month and then s it's it's peaks and valleys. If you go to fully insured, and

063I wrote it out here, it's a fixed cost. So the insurance company says these are the premiums where we're at the insurance company going to take all the risk. We're going to pay everything. So 94287 1160 1214 those are the rates. That's a big difference compared to the left side where I put the rates just side by side. You all could see it. This is what it is now. This is what the market says it should be with the same uh deductibles. we go fully insured. So when we do that, if we were to go fully insured, it would be a 1.79% annual increase. That's just this is illustrative. I want y'all just to see if we go fully insured where you're going to pay the exact same premium every month. It's not going to

064be peaks and valleys because the claims were higher one month or the other. It's only a 1.79% increase. So that's just a quick story. Our recommendation is we go to page eight. I still got that 3.1 million over here on the left because I want to keep it there through all these pages. So you can see if we go still go to the fully insured uh platform, the premiums are still a little bit more. But notice on the bottom where I had 1.7%, it's now minus 26%. Do you see that? So, if you were to go to a fully insured platform where the insurance company is p telling you, we're charging you all these premiums, fixed premium, no up, no down, the only reason why you're going to see a change is because somebody got

065hired and enrolled for the first time or somebody got cancelled. The reason why it's so much cheaper right here is that is that estimated annual cost is 2.7. So, I want y'all to put your eyes on that 2.743 million. That's what it would be annually compared to 3.1 million. Okay, you're probably like, why? How the heck does that make sense? It's because the 3.1 million includes all those claims, the stop-loss insurance, the prescription insurance, all those things y'all have to pay. It's all bundled together at $3.1 million at the end of the day. And you're only charging $473. I mean, you're only charging that $473 should really be $800 and something to the employees, right? Monthly, it should have increased. So, the district is paying the difference in premium. The district is paying all those

066claims I just talked about that can be different every month. And they're playing the insurance costs. So, y'all are paying all that stuff. And it changes monthto month. If you go to fully insured, it's a lower cost because you're not paying anything extra. You're not paying the extra insurance costs. You're not paying the extra claims. It's just one premium every every month and you're done. >> That's also including that's also increasing the uh the deductibles and things to the employees. Right. >> That was my next Yes. So, in order to also do that to bring the premium down, we had to increase the deductibles. Good call out. And so it goes from on the low plan from 3200 to $5,000 on the mid plan from 500 to $1,500 and on the low plan 300 to

067750. That's still below the market. I have insurance. I work for an insurance company. I'm on the mid plan and I have a $3,500 deductible. I'm in insurance. That's the market. So the the district just hasn't grown with what the market has is basically the story I'm trying to say. And again, even though these monthly premiums look more expensive, the annual cost is cheaper because you don't pay anything extra than that than these amounts where currently you're paying extra because you're paying excess claims. You're paying excess on the stop lo on the insurance that you guys have to pay for so that if an employee has $75,000 more or more in claims, you don't have to worry about it as a district. That's what that's stop-loss. I know I've said that. I'm not even sure

068I know how that works, but stop-loss insurance keeps you capped so that each individual employee doesn't go over 75 grand. So, if you had that cancer and it was 200,000, you're really only going to pay 75 for me for the year and then you're done. That's what the insurance does. It protects you guys for those catastrophic worst case scenarios. So that in a nutshell why we're recommending going from self-funded where it might have made sense when the district was 350 400 employees but now that we've gone down to about 240 with 188 employees enrolled you guys have come down market and now kind of fit back into that old fully insured platform and again if just above that minus 26% you're saving up 417 grand by doing annually. >> That's a big savings. >> Mhm.

069>> That's a savings to the district, correct? >> Well, that's an overall savings, but to the district, it's uh roughly 590,000 at the end of the day. >> Wow. >> Yeah. >> Now, the difference in price here currently have is about $500, right? 3 to 500. >> So, that's another good call out. And that's what theformational piece, like I said, it's just as annual. But if we drill down to the employees, let me give you an example. If the if we say, "Hey, district, y'all are going to pay 779 uh76. You're going to still contribute that employee only amount." Um, right now, so the employees right now, their portion is 810,000. The district's portion is roughly 2.3 million right now to date. If we if we move to the option that we're talking about, the

070district portion goes from 2.3 to 1.7 million. That's the $590,000 difference. Do the math. 2.3US 1.7 about 590. And then the employees portion goes from $810 up to 9.84. So their portion is going to increase, which it should, but this is I'm going to give you just a quick number because I didn't crunch them all. So for example, that mid plan, remember I said that's where most of your people are enrolled right now. If you're an employee only, you're paying $97.50 a paycheck. If we were to do where the district contributes $779, it goes from 97.50 to 10916 a paycheck. That's $9. So, and and the impact again, I'm talking about that mid plan, that $500 deductible, because that's where most everybody's at. And I know y'all employees know how to use the benefits because

071when I was here last year for the first year, I had a bunch of people sit with me. They know about it. They know how to use it. They know how the benefits work. I've had so many people say, "Hey, I came back to the district just because of the insurance." And I was meeting people for the first time, you know, and so I know they know how to use it and they are educated on it. So when they see if we go to this platform and they see the increase in deductibles, they're going to they're going to say something. They're going to hear about it. I can guarantee that. There's no secrets here. >> Do you have a ballpark number with person and spouse and a kid? >> Uh like who's enrolled? No, just

072a an amount of what the deductible or what the the cost for the employee is going to increase. >> If you have a kid, I I do have a >> a spouse and a kid. Yeah. What's the cost? >> So, if you have a family, if you're on that mid plan, you're going uh let me So, this is where it gets significant because I'm going to preface my my response to you with this. When you offer insurance, we're offering insurance to our keyword here, employees. When we put, you know, put the ad that we're hiring somebody, you're hiring me as the employee. I love all the families. And I know this is a small town. Everybody knows everybody. You know, we all want to take care of our employees families, but at the end of

073the day, ultimately, you're bringing in the employee to work for you. So, you're going to incentivize the employee. So, I'm prefacing it with that. When you if we change and the district only contributes to 779, the premium goes right now it's 442 for family coverage, it would go to 744. That's a big difference to have your whole family on the plan on still that mid plan. But again, that's not out of the norm of insurance and business just in general because your goal is to hire the employee. And if you're profitable, then you can contribute more to your family. and or to the to the to the families, you know what I mean? So, it will there's going to be some impact 100%. You just that was just one example. My goal next is to

074break it all down so you see every tier level employee, employee and spouse, employee and children, employee and family, all the plans. But that's why I prefaced it with it really, this charge is really led to the employees. I'm going to just we're just going to be straight because right now if we continue at 3.1 million and the way we're we're interars on some of these uh insurance premiums, it's not sustainable and I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't come at y'all come home with you guys and hit you with numbers and and facts. So fully insured, it's our recommendation. If you go to the other pages, you're going to see that we just went to the market with other insurance companies, United Healthcare, which is the next uh comparable insurance company, and

075then there's a new company in the market called Furative, and you'll see they were all more expensive. So, my reason for showing you guys that is just so you so you can see that we did go and try to get what we could and find the best options. and Blue Cross because you're already with them, they gave you a pretty sweet deal considering the situation minus 26%. Again, that's an overall change, but that going in the negative is just rare in insurance these days. And that the fact that we were able to do it, we presented it to the team uh last week, you know, we hedged up first, but I was going to come up here and talk about it. You know, they're doing what we're doing. We're not like, man, he some of

076these costs, man, they're a lot. you know, I I I just can't believe this is where it's at, Angel. What can we do? We've got to have options. And that's what I did. And so I again, this is kind of the lay of the land, State of the Union. Um I know it saidformational and I've given you all a ton of information, but if you're going to earmark this booklet, and I'll get a digital copy out. It's going to be page eight. That really is is the recommendation from Higen Botham that we have to the district to go from self-funded to fully insured. Um there's going to be a savings this year and I don't know what next year is going to look like, but hopefully we're healthy as a group. Hopefully the employees are

077getting their preventative care, everybody's getting their checkups and next year there's nothing crazy or catastrophic that impacts the district from a claim standpoint. You can't plan for that or project that, right? We just never know. >> But as it stands today, based off of dollars and cents and savings, this is the option that we came to the table. Brought it brought it over to Rob and me and the team. So, again, I know that was a lot. Um, we can go I told y'all we're going to I was going to uh table page five for a second, but if we go to page I'm sorry, it wasn't page five. It was page six. This is your medical history. This is the homework I was a I had to do to kind of find what's happened

078with the district year over year going back to 2122. So if you wanted if you wanted to say Angel, what do I need to look at here, brother? It's this dark piece uh the bolded area, I'm sorry, where it says total plan cost. That's what the costs have changed year after year. So 3.1 million, 3.2, 2 3.1 again then this last year 3.7 it it jumped up so much because it was claims honestly remember the district pays claims after 500 bucks the deductible I sprain an ankle my wife and my kid sprains an ankle you guys are paying >> for the rest of the year and anything I go get treated for so notice that big jump from 3.1 to 3.7 and then it came down back to 3.1 which that's the number I'm using

079on all my proposals. If you look at all the number, that's the one I started with. There is a decrease, but that's because your population went down. Where it says enroll here at the top, it went from 232 enroll down to 188 cuz I know there's been some layoffs and all that type of thing. So that's why the cost went down. If you still had 232, we'd still be about 3.7ish million, right around there, but it only went down because our participation went down. And what would you say would have led to having the insurance premium premiums being low in 2019 to now? Is it just a I mean is it the district's fault that we did not increase the the the premium percentage wise or could it have been that we had an account

080that was funded excessively that could have paid? >> I think that's what it was. I think there was money to offset any any increases that happened throughout the year. I don't know if it was reserves or what it was exactly, but I think that was probably the message. And so, if we don't have to hurt our employees, let's not do it. Let's keep it the same. We've got some extra funds here. Let's roll. That's my guesstimate. That's just I I don't have anything to support that. But in my experience, that's got to be the only way it worked cuz anybody else it would have it would have graduated and we would have done like I say, I use the analogy step therapy. We would have done that therapy and increased my portion as an employee

081and your portion as a district overall monthto month over the last course of six months and we still might have been in this situation but we would have been prepared for it because then I could have said hey last year y'all premium was 750 we're recommending 800 now and then kind of that that that trend it's a little easier to swallow a $50 difference than a almost half right. So again, um I I'm not sure it's anybody's fault. I just think that there was other solutions that, you know, year over year to cover some of those costs and those solutions aren't here today. So now we've got to do uh make a it's kind of a drastic change because we're increasing deductibles on our people. The premiums are increasing a little bit, but again, because

082you're not paying that excess in claims, it it at the end of the day is going to save the district. So, you know, my again my next step, Mr. gave me homework, but is to try to put those numbers together just so we have the numbers in front of us. What's the employee going to pay? Employee, spouse, children, all the things that that that I think that Ben asked me about, Mr. Martinez, to put that in front and then because the annual difference is already there. It's on that page I told y'all to kind of earmarked. Um, that's going to show you it's 417 grand in total savings. I I was happy that I was even able to do that cuz I didn't I thought we weren't going to get in. >> And it's not

083just the deductibles that are increasing, right? There's >> increasing the the um in and out or I guess the in network out of network's probably going to increase. >> Um the retail copay is increasing. >> It it's an overall >> everything, right? And this is just the health benefits, right? This has not dental vision, >> right? Well, the all that's handled through First Financial. I think First Financial is another firm that handles y'all's benefits on that in that regard. This is just medical insurance. Some quotes in the back, but you don't already have First Financial, so ignore the quotes for the dental and and things like that. >> Is there a possibility of savings if we include dental and vision? >> Not anything significant. y'all have the way you're bucketed and situated with First Financial

084that you can't take a plan out or you're going to lose the savings here on all the other plans y'all have. It's it's an insurance strategy when it's packaged and it's packaged already. So, this is strictly medical the conversation we're having today. Um, and again, you know, it's it's it's it started with talking about money and how to save. And then as we started meeting and conversing and and collaborating, then I started getting recommendations. Well, yeah, we can save you money, but we're going to have to almost rob Peter to pay Paul, increase deductibles, increase co-pays, um, change some out of network stuff. The good thing other than saving money, but another good thing is if we stay with Blue Cross Blue Shield, the doctors don't change. So that was another thing that I know

085is important down here is I I used to um y'all know Castry Real City of Hondo. I used to work those municipalities and that was important. You're in a rural town. So making sure that you have a an insurance that has at least one or two or three doctors in the network in their town. That was important. So Blue Cross Blue Shield strategically unlike we got to try to stay there. That way it doesn't impact anybody from that standpoint. You can still go wherever if you're on the insurance. You can go wherever you've gone before. That is going to change, but benefits and the cost will change, especially the cost on the families. >> Was there an option of going to um state on the TRS? >> The TRS. >> Yeah, >> there there is

086an option and I want to say their best benefit. Well, number one, their benefits are HMO uh number one and HMO network is super small. um number one there, but I think it was 3.14 million. If you were on their best, if we put everybody on their best plan option that wasn't an HMO, it would have been 3.14 million, I believe. I crunched the number, but I didn't bring it. If everybody was on that plan, that's pretty close to where it's at now. >> Little insurance just >> Yeah, I I've heard of a lot of different things there. And you've got to kind of strategize and plan ahead. You've got to apply almost a year in advance. So again, I told Robert and the team, I care about you guys. I've been working with Ivonne,

087we've me, everybody. And my goal here was to help. And that's what what we think we're trying what we're doing here by trying to get this long 20 30 minutes that I've been up here. I've spent a lot of time as much as I can. It's because I know they're they're we're going to pinch. So um any questions? Any any anything? >> Any questions? >> Is there anything you need to add or anything? Let me just mention something real quick. In the plan that Mr. just mentioned on page eight, I pointed that out. The district classes $472 per month employee. That normally would have been a cost of about 1.7 million 1 mill 1,759,000. It is actually paid about 1.7 million above that because of the claims because of the low rate. um going up

088it would actually increase only for the district about $692,000 from what we were scheduled to pay on the normal partition. [Applause] So that that that's my story guys. Again, I'm here for you guys 100%. Um I'm I've got homework. I'm going to try to crunch a little bit more numbers just to really dial dial in on the dollars that it will impact everybody employee and spouse, children, family, and what the differences. But I promise you, Mr. Martin, employee only, they're going to be it's not going to be big, very much of a shift when you get to the spouse, child, and family coverage, two $300 differences. But that's that's the business. You guys can Google search all of that. >> Challenge you. >> And that's monthly, right? >> Yes, sir. No, that's per pay. Per

089pay. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. So, um I appreciate y'all's time. Yes, sir. >> Thank you. >> These annuals are per annuals cuz all my annuals die. >> Well, I I don't have a green thumb, so I can promise you I didn't. >> But they look like peranials, right? >> Oh, never mind. >> I can grow blue bonnets. >> I don't know what they are. I think it's our standard >> leg and that number. >> Appreciate it, Robert. >> Thank you, sir. >> Next time. >> Yes. Is it next Wednesday? I don't know. >> They might have to approve it next uh Monday or Wednesday. >> Monday or Wednesday. >> But again, that that page eight, that's the annual savings. That's the recommendation. I'm not sure there's any other options. If I may, I have

090a question. Those figures that you quote down there where it says monthly premium premium, it's not monthly. It's Bim monthly. Wait, what? The employees get paid twice a month. Is that correct? >> These are the monthly costs because we're I did it. That's what I got to do homework on to show the employee cost. So, this is just giving you just an idea of what the overall monthly cost of the plan is. >> Um the district or the employee >> al together it doesn't it's not broken out by district or employee on on my uh illustrations. >> Um a care for fully assured for employee only is 99.98 total. total >> that includes the the district 473 and the difference the employees got to pay. >> So the if you're going to do the math

091it would be that if the district covers a 779 that you would subtract from here and subtract from here that would be the monthly >> looking at this >> this one is for current what it is today. This is if you moved over then the recommendation would be to cover that amount the 779. >> Okay. And it that's why I was saying it seems like a bigger number, but because the district's not just covering 473 right now. You're covering 473 and all The claims cost and that's what's making it so expensive. If if you move to what we're saying to move to, you're only paying 779, no extra, nothing more. And that is still cheaper. 590,000 cheaper annually. >> But for a for a family, it's 2268. And the district will only be paying $779

092of that. >> So the other 12 $1,300 is going to come >> 12ided by 24 and that's your paper. >> That's going to be per >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. >> Any more questions? No. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you guys. I appreciate your time. >> Thank you. >> Underformational items. aou for family services association. It's the fest program. It's the best program and it's just an annual. It's uh the annualou with family services and the uh services that they provide for the district >> and we had them for >> correct >> the uh the best program >> and they assist us quite a bit. um a young lady that comes in and she'll provide uh educational courses on substance abuse at our DAP and AC. Um they they do try to work with families.

093Um they work with our students. They also provide outside counseling if needed for our students. >> Questions on that? Okay. on Crystal City ISD employee dress code, 5,000. >> Any changes? >> I see a change uh on the uh on the tattoos for the employees. I mean, last year, uh, last year was tattoos must be covered at all times, but on this one, it's like it's only going to pertain to some items. >> Either way, it says visible tattoos must be covered at all times. It's uh, >> is it tattoos that are attracting or sexual? >> Those are those fall under not acceptable. If an employee shows up as what something like that, the employee be sent home they >> find the student population. >> Yeah. They have to be covered up at all times.

094>> I think number the I guess the item above that section it says visible tattoos must be covered. >> Oh yeah. >> Covers all. >> Covers the whole the tattoo. >> Okay. I didn't get to >> Okay. Uh >> I have a question. >> Yes sir. only only because of ask let's get under the student conduct uh I was asked to find out about what what do we mean by knee by knee is it the middle of the knee at the top of the knee the bottom of the knee what do we mean by knee length of the >> cuz like I know that students it's 2 inches above the knee. >> Yes. >> Okay. Unfortunately, I'm I'm picking on the girls, right? Um or maybe even the guys and the shorts that they're wearing.

095I don't know. But is it the middle of the knee? Two inches above the middle of the knee or the top of the knee. You know how the knee slopes? >> The top of the knee. >> So, it be two inches above that. >> Two inches above the top of the knee. >> Yeah. So we need maybe we need to >> we need to clarify on that because >> like on the employee dress code it goes to >> where does it go to get approved >> when is the the the administrative team feedback from teachers or >> administrative team anytime there's a question about dress uh regarding dress that is handled by our assistant principal or principal. >> The late member have recommended to wear jeans. >> They reviewed the dress code just uh last

096week. Yes. >> What the jeans? the administrators >> the what >> the principles reviewed the employee dress code last week with the >> they didn't mention anything about >> my my way of thinking is because I mean it does say here I mean uh you were jeans on Friday spirit or as as uh the principal accept it or whatever. >> But then you you you see it. I mean, well, we're going to do uh this thing so jeans are allowed. We're going to reward you. So, jeans are allowed. So, to me, I mean, half of the year, I mean, Sav wearing jeans, so why not let them wear jeans? Uh, but if uh that's what they want, it's so it's okay. But I see a lot in different activities. Uh but they're allowed by the

097principles. >> I think they're I mean it >> I think they use it as an incentive. That's >> about the incentive to be >> we take away the incentive with another incentive. >> I just >> What about you have questions? I just wanted to add on the tattoos like if you guys were for it, but me tattoos are not really a distraction nowadays. Everybody has tattoos. I mean, of course, uh like you all say the what is it? What is it when they're uh improper or unproper or whatever, but tattoos nowadays it's and everybody has them. So, I mean, I don't even think they could be on there, but that's a that's just my opinion. Just wanted to say that. See what you guys thought. Anything else on Driscoll? Uh D the uh daily schedule

098the students the staff and everything. I think it just needs to get updated on this sheet or is this 7:45 and is that the new time, right? >> It's it's supposed to be 7:45 for secondary. I'm sorry, that's a misprint. >> And 7:45 for the >> elementary. >> So, it's both 7:45. >> Yeah, >> this this was decided by >> Principles, >> administrators. So you don't see like a commotion with everybody >> confusion, traffic, >> the whole district coming out, high school kids, middle country kids. I mean this is when I go pick up my grandkids. I mean the third toa I mean it's chaos. So now I mean high school is going to be getting out. Uh black junior high is getting out. So it to me I mean it's going to be chaos.

099I mean >> I see a traffic issue as well. I think a traffic issue and then just a I guess a confusion and a short I mean it's going to take time to get used to it right for the for the community. The biggest thing is is the traffic issue with all the schools getting out at one time and then parents or teachers that have to drop off their kids as well and not being able to get from one campus to the next or whatever the case is. And if you leave it at um I guess the morning supervision is still staying at 7:30. Last year we started I mean it was still all the time at 7:30 even though the castle were different. But the uh supervision is at 7:30, but also the sign

100in is at 7:30. So going to have people running in to sign in and be late for super. I don't know. I mean, I have a concern with all the campuses. central office and campus administration will iron out the kinks cuz when you have the the staff going at 7:30 and the kids drop off 7:45, you might have some students you might have some personnel late because they they drop their kids off before 7:45. uh they would have to drop them out before 7:30 and then we have to make arrangements if uh or we're going to have people out there before 7:30 to supervise the kids when they are dropped out before 7:30. It's something something to think about. Something we need to think about. >> Yeah. And did uh >> do you have any

101input with this, Mr. Rios? Do you have a problem with it? Well, the the way I see it, um the high school and junior high pickups aren't going to be in the same place, right? So, it's going to be on the other side. And the Sala I I do see a little bit of problem because it's going to be it's going to be packed. There's going to be I mean traffic everywhere because but it's traffic everywhere regardless of junior high, high school because junior high and high school will stay on the on the other side. And then we have Sawala, BJ, and ETR that are going to be released at the same time that they were last year. So, I don't see a lot of problems, which is the same problems we've been talking about.

102The 11 Street, the the the Havalina Drive. Um, but I mean, we're going to be out there. I know administration is going to be out there. We're going to be out there the first couple weeks to see how it goes and and to see what we can do so so that the flow can >> Okay. Now, what about um is there has been has there been discussion with the transportation department? >> We we've uh we're going to talk on Friday. We've already we've already I had a meeting with transportation. So, um we're we're going to we're getting there. We're getting there. We're making a plan. Um so, we're making a plan to to see what's better for everybody. >> But the plan has to be ready by Monday. >> The plan is going to be

103ready by Monday >> for Thursday. >> The plan The plan is going to be ready by Monday. Now, I mean, in talks with the transportation, is there going to be a I guess since everybody's getting dropped off at 7:30, are there enough buses to get the kids to school? >> That would be >> I mean, I'm more than sure. >> Is there any co-mingling of high school students with elementary kids on the buses or does that currently happen already? >> Are they already uh if I may uh transportation's already reassigned some of the bus drivers already to to deal with this issue? Uh so, it's already being taken care of. Yes, sir. Okay. There should be no problems. >> Well, just the main monitor and I mean uh there's corrections or whatever. I mean, it

104can always be changed. I remember last year when we uh some of the teachers were asking for a 45minute lunch period that was requested by Mr. Spino and then all of a sudden no, I mean, doesn't work, whatever. Have you uh have we gotten any uh I know the last couple of years the county was paying for uh cross guards. I mean >> we have uh actually we do u but we do have a crosswalk. I had um like I said I had a meeting with maintenance and we have everybody in place right now. We have everybody in place and we also have a secondary. So if that one that's supposed to be there is not there the secondary is going to kick in. So we we do have everybody all the crowd folks are

105are taken care of. Uh we do have uh thanks to to the board to to the superintendent administration. We do have an extra officer this year. So it's going to be helpful. It's going to be really really helpful. >> But my question was uh I know the county has a lot of money for uh paying people for that specific we had a Fernando. We had a little Fernando Est that were being paid by the county. Has anybody contacted you? >> There's there's one that's going to be assigned to the 7th um that one and then we have another one that's still pending to come in. So we do have two from the county. >> So that's going to help us. >> And so the kids that are driving, they'll still have ample parking space like

106center. >> Not the nutrition center. That's off lip. That'll be at >> We own it. >> That's uh the judge. That's the county. That's >> that's ours. >> That's That's >> not yet >> still less to the to the county. >> So here at one point did have the access and it was uh it was closed off for us. >> So where will students be able to park? >> The students are able to park if they have a driver license and they have insurance. They'll park inside the facility. If not, they have to park over there by where they park is over there by the tennis courts >> and they have to have a parking path. >> Parking permit to park inside the >> Okay. >> the high school built the high school city. >>

107Is um is that parking lot by the tennis courts not school property? >> That's school property. >> So, should they have a parking permit over there as well? >> They um we they've it's never been required. So they know that if they don't have a parking pass, they go park over there. >> Does the district have any liability if anything happens to those cars or in that >> um >> since it's our property? >> Uh that would I'm not too sure if they would I mean any problem. >> Okay. >> Keep an eye and uh keep us posted. Uh it's the e uh revised school calendar for 25. >> I just have one comment, sir. uh that uh I believe the the state's going to have another special session if they haven't already started it

108where they're going to deal with the star and it might happen for this school year where they'll they're going to they will change it to instead of one in the spring they want to change it to three one in September calling the pre whatever and the the mid one and somewhere in December January maybe and the uh the end one sometime time in May or >> to start testing. >> That being the case, we need to be ready to adjust our calendar uh to >> testing. Well, that's something that we're going to have to adjust the mean. >> Yeah. >> Waiting because it didn't pass the last time. So, I don't know. >> I think Matthew will be on top of it if >> he's good. >> And we actually we have the system in

109place. We we >> Thank you, sir. We give uh what those exams. >> Yeah. And we give them anyway. So it's very easy. >> No, I mean it would be much better for the kids because I mean when the kids are testing I mean just that a week and then they're trying to based on that. I mean they're rating the schools, they're rating the students. It's better you teach for a couple of weeks, you test them, see how much goes by the the time that the star cup comes around. I mean, that information might be lost by the kids. The change on the calendar was for what reason? >> I'm trying to Where was Anna? Where was the change in the calendar? >> The the release date was >> okay. were added. >> How many

110were added? >> 10 were added. >> And those are early. [Applause] >> Are the kids still going to meet the minimum minutes? >> Yes, they should. >> These are the ones that I believe they were approved with the waiver that they was submitted to TA. Yes. >> So, the release time is going to be at what time for those kids? >> At 2:00 p.m. >> Oh, >> on the calendar, I think, and just see the the start Oh, the start time 7:45 already. Never mind. Sorry. >> And that we uh I haven't really seen seen the calendar. I mean, the uh spinach festival is going to be uh earlier. We have >> the following Monday. the third. >> And Miss Anna, for our kids taking dual credit, are they having the same spring break as

111us? >> I believe so. Okay, good. >> I believe when we planned out the calendar, it we made sure on that one. >> Okay. I guess >> why why are the early releases always on Wednesday? In prior years, we always had uh PLC Wednesday and that was time for our our principles to conduct data analysis with the staff right now. um they principles really don't have that time for PLC's and with this um with these early releases it gives the principles and the teachers the time after a CBA after any unit assessment they can sit down and actually look at student data look at student artifacts and look at exactly where students might be having the gaps it it'll give them more time So, >> the only reason I ask why it's on Wednesday cuz

112I mean I would think you'd want to start your weekend a little bit earlier and move into Fridays and things. It aligns with games. It aligns with with all extracurricular that need to be I mean it just my personal thoughts on it. >> Wednesdays is right in the middle of the week. Um I know that Tuesdays are always busy. Uh we always have some game. Fridays we always have several type of games. And I I just by from experience um once we get into spring season, Fridays are golf, track, tennis, um baseball, >> softball, >> the early release to me would benefit more since the kids wouldn't be losing out of instructional time or anything. >> But then we would have those teachers missing out if if they're if they teach a core content, especially

113a core content. Um and then even then our our coaches help us out quite a bit. So, Wednesday was that day where there's not a lot of interference. >> Okay, then I need a motion to adjourn. I have a motion. Second, uh questions, concerns, all in favor? Sammy, hope you get better. Favor. >> Byebye, Sammy. >> Thank you. Uh, thank you.