001The time >> the time is 7:09. [Applause] One more. Okay, we're going to go back into uh open session. Uh first thing under uh open session uh is a consideration to approve the employment of new sectional staff. Uh the uh recommendation is that the board of trustees consider to approve the employment of new professional staff as discussed in closed >> and we have how many >> professionals. We have two recommendation. >> That is my recommendation. Sir, >> we have a motion. Motion by Mr. Second. >> Second. >> Uh questions, concerns? Um, Miss Bonus, can the budget sustain these hires? >> Yes, sir. >> Question. Not on favor. Sam >> 5. Okay. Be uh consideration to approve the employments of uh new will staff. We have some. >> Yes sir. The recommendation is that the board
002of trustees approve the employment of new and outwell staff for the 2526 school year as discussed and closed. I have a motion second. >> I'll second it. >> Yeah, the substitutes. Okay. >> Have a second. >> A second. Was he a second? >> Yeah, he second. >> Uh, questions, concerns. Not in favor. >> Okay. Zero. That's all we have on. >> Correct. >> Okay. We're moving uh on to item seven. uh consent action items. Consider the uh to approve the minutes of the uh board meetings held on uh on page 13. >> Okay. to approve the minutes of June 4th, June 9th, June 20th, and June 20 uh 3rd. Uh allow them for uh chapter one for special meetings. November 9th was a regular meeting. Uh you want us to hold all together or one?
003>> I was absent on one so I came. >> I was I was not here on the 20th. So I was going to questions. Were you here Mr. M on that those meetings? Okay. Okay. Do I have Do I do I have a motion? >> I was absent one day. >> A motion. >> Motion by uh Mr. Martinez second. I'll second it. Uh, all in favor pass. >> Vote it. >> Cruis. I can't vote cuz I didn't vote. >> Vote on me. You read them at home. >> Monday. >> You read them at home. >> 41 >> 4 01 >> I mean one obstension. >> Okay, we're going to go to consider the uh the um the minutes. >> You did the minutes. Someone read this. bills on page 23. >> Okay. Uh, next thing
004on the agenda is consider to approve the monthly bills for uh, June 2025. [Applause] We're just approving those on. >> Okay. Um, do I have a motion to approve? Uh, >> I motion it. >> Motion by Mr. Second. >> Second by Mr. Houston. Questions, concerns? All in favor? Five zero. [Applause] Okay. An item uh discussion action to award the main depository. So move. Okay. Uh Wisconsin in consideration to approve the resolution regarding extracurricular uh status of 4 organizations and junction faculty agreement for the 2005 2006 school year. Uh beginning on page 52, you have uh the uh notice from the extension center and the resolution. The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the resolution regarding extracurricular status of Crystal City 4 age organization and approve the adjunct uh faculty agreement. >> Faculty agreement
005is an annual. >> Do we have a motion? I motion >> with the members second. >> I second >> second by Mr. Martinez concerns in favor. >> Yes, I have a question miss. >> Yes, sir. >> Miss, does the district provide any funding for these extracurricular? I mean to support them in any way. >> Not on favor. [Applause] Um discussion and consideration to approve resolution >> for Crystal City ISD to join and participate. >> I might join them together. >> I join them together. They're joined together in the uh >> the other one >> on page 52. I mean you can take them separate if you want. >> Which one will be next? See, >> that's the uh the vote. >> They're paired together. The resolution at the the adjunct faculty request are paired together
006in the same section. So, we can just take a vote on it as well. >> On page 56, >> we need another motion for that. >> Yes. >> Can you make a recommendation? The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the uh the status of Crystal City Forge organization and so this is the second part and approve the adjunct faculty agreement which you did that's what I'm saying is you did both >> in one item >> but we still need to have a motion because it's listed as two separate ones. All right. >> Second questions, concerns. >> Mrs. As adjunct faculty, um, how do the campuses include them into different programs throughout? >> They'll uh, it it depends. Uh, Mr. Martinez, sometimes they'll come and they'll join their faculty meetings or their staff meetings
007to present and recruit. >> Um, does a life um, do any do they have any existing programs that they do with the with the district? I know that they will provide I mean you know TICSS related um programs you know presentations they haven't they have programs that can assist with uh science classes they'll they'll pay for gardens they'll pay for raised box top gardens to place in the campuses and assist the students to take care of them. Does the district right now utilize those services from them? So as soon as the board approves the agreement then we they present to us and then present to the principles and then we start having that conversation. So uh I need a vote 5. Uh consider to approve the agreement of the uh the agreement with the board
008of county. >> Uh D >> page 60. Uh discussion consideration to approve resolution Crystal City ISD to join participate in the uh Texas 20 emergency emergency cooperative education service center region 20 and authorize the superintendent to execute uh such 10 matters. refer to recommendation >> the the um typically this would be an annual renewal but this uh this uh recommendation is specifically for the child nutrition program uh as we are taking it on uh ourselves districtwide. So, the recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the resolution for Crystal City ISD to join and participate in the Texas 20 purchasing cooperative uh through the education center and authorizing the superintendent to execute such documents and and matters there too. Again, this is for our uh child nutrition program and this is an ongoing uh and
009annual renewal. >> A motion to approve motion. >> Motion, Mr. be also second. >> Second by Mr. Eastston. Uh questions, concerns. Not all in favor. Motion passes. >> We're on 65 now. >> Yes, sir. >> Approve the agreement with the Juno board of SA County for the services of the campus juvenile probation officer. Again, this is an annual renewal. The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the agreement between Crystal City ISD and the juvenile board of Zavala County for the services of campus juvenile probation officer for the 2526 school year. >> And our charges how much? >> I believe we paid uh 10,000. >> Don't pay to >> I believe >> 990. >> I'm sorry. Say that again. is a nine. It's on page uh 66. So it says 9 9,500. >> Yeah.
010>> And and they come to the the school district facing somebody or >> We do have chief uh an officer uh assigned to the district. I know that as per uh Miss Garos's conversation with the juvenile probation officers, we'll have new representation possibly this year. uh their presence at the campuses. >> Yeah, they do go. Um it's a hit and miss to be really honest with you. Uh but they do go uh and they're they're a real good resource when they're present, but they are a good resource for us. They're a good resource for the students. They are present. They are they're you know, so it it does it does work out for us. >> How many days out of the week do they go? >> They go maybe Like I said, hit and miss
011two days out of the week. >> Do they need them if the school district needs something? >> But if we need them, if we need them, we call them. They're going to be right there. >> If we need them, they're I mean, the majority of the times they spend it on port and doing other paperwork and transporting and stuff like that. So good. >> And I mean any recommendation was to uh >> the recommendation is a board of trustees agreement for campus juvenile probation officer for the fiscal year 2526. >> A motion motion. I'll >> second Houston second its concerns. Is this a state or federal requirement or anything that we have? >> I'm sorry. >> Is it Is there a state requirement or you know education? >> It's not a requirement. It's just a
012recommendation. >> What is this part where as required by the education code 37-013 >> that we work in conjunction? Yes. That we hire them 100%? No. So we we pay just a fraction of them so that they can so that we can enter into a memo of understanding. The requirement is the working in collaboration with >> I have a motion to approve it. >> Yes. Gabriel and Sammy second. >> Uh [Applause] Act item to uh discussion. Next item to adopt the addition delision for replacement of local uh policy accord be localized update on 125 instruction uh I'm not going to go over them uh where uh the recommendation >> correct so you've had these policies already for uh a little bit of time these policies are being presented to you On second and final reading,
013the recommendation is that the board of trustees adopt and resend policy statements according to the instructional sheet for TASBY policy update 125 affecting local policies. BDAA local, BDB local, BDF local, EI local, FD local, and FEC local motion. A motion >> Second members Martinez. Questions, concerns? Not all in favor? Let me get some more. [Applause] uh discussion to uh discussion action to I guess the federal grant policies and administrative procedural manual. >> Uh you should have received uh the manual that Sammy has. Uh it's a it's a thick spiral. You should have received it as part as of your board packet. The recommendation, and this is a requirement uh that we have from USDE, is that the board of trustees approve the Crystal City ISD federal grant policies and administrative procedures manuals. For questions, I
014will ask Mrs. Sarah Garcia to come up. Um even good evening, sir. The federal grant policies and administrative procedures manual uh needs to be um approved tonight. Um it is a mandate by the code title 2 uh code of federal regulations. Um there have been a couple of changes that the federal government made. And if you'll turn to page 152 um of that manual, you'll see the changes that are that are in box. One of the changes um is the equipment threshold raised to 10K uh 10,000. Review equipment threshold and determine if your district wants to increase from 5,000 to 10,000. um which is our my my our recommendation. Um for federally funded equipment. Another another one that you'll see the other ones that you'll see are in are highlighted in red. >> I don't
015think we have 152. >> Yeah. >> Unless it's the employee standards of conduct. >> Is there goes up to 149. Then it goes to the append to the to the next. [Applause] It should it should follow that section. It should follow the the policies that are in there. >> There you go. Yeah, >> maybe >> the appendices had to be inserted and um there was it was kind of tricky to put page numbers. So on page 152 you will see C uh 2 CFR 2 uh 200.32A 2 I uh it gives us flexibility for determining the number of adequate quotes. Um the revisions include the recipient or subreient may exercise judgment in determining what number is adequate. That's highlighted in red. Um the next one, revisions to sealed bids. Changes include in the red font.
016One, bids are publicly solicited through an invitation. Two, two or more responsible biders have been identified. And then three, for sealed bids only that distribute document and provide a justification for all bids that are rejected. And then the next one is a geographic preferences are no longer prohibited under procurement procurement rules. Changes include in red font should to the greatest extent practicable and consistent with purchase, acquire and or use products and services that can be reused, refurbished or recycled, contain recycled content, are biiobased or are energy and water efficient and are sustainable. And in the back pages you'll see on conflict of interest now includes board members. We had to add board members too. A conflict of interest arises when any of the following has a financial or other interest in the firm selected for
017award. Uh we did have to add board member in there. And then on the next one adds veteranowned businesses uh to small minority womenowned businesses priority for federal contracts. The revision includes when possible should consider small businesses, minority businesses, women's businesses, veteranowned businesses, and labor surplus area uh firms. And then the next change that you will see is on page 154, mandatory disclosures required to report when there is credible evidence. As revised, the equipment now reads that an applicant of a federal award must promptly disclose wherever whenever it has credible evidence of a commission of a violation of federal criminal law involving fraud, conflict of interest, bribery, or gratuitity violations under the False Claims Act. And then on the last page, you'll see at the bottom of page 154, grantees can now use federal funds
018to support dependent care services cost at a conference. Um the one is temporary dependent cost uh care cost above and beyond regular dependent care are uh allowable if travel is a direct result of the individual's travel to a conference for the federal award. travel is consistent with the district's established written policy for all travel and only temporary during the travel period. And the last provision that was made uh is under required certifications. It adds the requirements for districts to certify to the funding agency whenever applying for federal grant funds, requesting payment and submitting reports. Uh the following quote, I certify to the best of my knowledge and believe that the information provided herein is true. complete and accurate. I am aware that the provisions of false and or fraud fraudulent information or the omission of
019any material fact may subject me to criminal civil or administrative consequences including but not limited to violations of the US code title 18 sections 21 1343 and title 31 sections 3729-3730 and 3801-3812 12. Those are the new revisions to this federal um grant policies and administrative procedures procedures manual. >> Is there something new we have to read every year? >> It's uh it's been in place since 2015. Um and it has to be it it's supposed to be revised and in October there were revisions made. Um so we have to take it before the our school board to have it approved. And this is for all federal grants like title one, title two, all those. >> Correct. >> And is it Oh, I'm sorry. >> No. >> Is it approved annually or only as federal
020changes are made? >> I think only as federal changes are made. Every year we should be revising it. Um just bringing it before the board just for uh information, just for updates. Um but it has to be approved anytime there are federal changes made to the man. Guess um there's a section here that speaks to supplement not supplant um section 10. How much funding does the district I guess budget for federal for the federal programs per year of our funds? >> As far as the federal grants, it's whatever the federal government is going to give us or potentially award us. um we apply for the grant and they award us the money and it's all based on how what we put in the grant as far as what we're going to put in payroll, what
021we're going to put in um contracted services uh and then uh supplies and materials and um miscellaneous. So the district isn't required to budget a certain amount of general fund dollars to to fund those programs versus >> not general fund >> or any I mean outside of the federal funds cuz the way I understand supplement not sub it's to support these programs not fully fund and not >> um you know >> because the federal federal grants are supposed to supplement we we we're not we are we cannot legally we We cannot pay for anything that is legally mandated by the state or federal government or local government. All we can do is we come in when we need the extra. >> Okay? So let's say Vince for example fifth grade we have two reading teachers
022but we have u a year where we have more students enrolled in a class than we typically have and the enrollment requires that we hire an extra teacher when we're required to have the two by numbers but under title or under federal grants we can pick up a supplemental teacher and yes we can full we can fully fund that position at 100% because we're already meeting the requirement down Is that the report? >> Excuse me. >> Is that all on your report? >> More questions? Uh, if not, I need a motion to >> motion. Motion by Mr. Second. >> Second by concern questions. Not all in favor. 5 Z motion passes. >> Thank you ma'am. >> Thank you sir. Thank you. >> Next thing on the uh agenda discussion action to approve the uh appraisers
023>> and timelines under PS uh evaluation system for the 256 year. On page 101, you see the uh uh upon approval, the T test district appraisal calendar that will go uh that will be forwarded to teachers. This is an annual renewal. Uh on page 101 in that middle section of the memo, you see those dates in red. Those are all dates that we are prohibited from uh conducting observations. So that's just that's just an ongoing notice. Uh on page 103 at the bottom of the page, if you recall from last year's and the years prior, we uh typically tier teachers as tier one, tier two, tier three. We are currently participating with lead forward on a data series uh conference uh workshop. Um and so they are referring to campuses um as data archetypes. We
024have sat through the initial meeting. We have one coming up. And so what I did for TAS purposes is that I'm using their language so that we can have alignment in in our work. And so for campuses that are that have performance and this is on star uh where performance and growth are on target or they have an A or B rating, we are requiring only a minimum of five documented test walkthroughs and a formal observation. And of course, everything has to be uploaded into DMAC. For campuses that uh whose star performance is on target, but growth need support, but they still have an error b rating, uh the requirement is still the same. The requirement hasn't changed. A minimum of seven documented test walkthroughs, a formal observation must be conducted, and of course, everything
025into DMAC. For campuses that are rated a C, a D or an F, uh, whose performance needs support, but their growth is on target, we are requiring a minimum of 10 documented test walkthroughs per teacher. Uh, HR and campus administrators will conduct 50% of their walkthroughs uh, in collaboration until a calibration is achieved. And we typically uh, the first marking period is typically when we work on this. For campuses that are rated a C, D or F rating, we the recommendation is um that obviously star performance need support but growth also need support. Then the requirement continues to be the same. A minimum of a minimum of 15 documented T test walkthroughs per teacher. Uh however, I'm I am adding an informal evaluation in the fall of 2025 and a formal evaluation in the spring
026of 20 2026. Uh all of which has to be conducted uh as appropriate. Uh on page 104, you will see that uh I have also added that the DCSI the uh district coordinator of school improvement conduct will conduct the beginning of the year t test orientation during the August professional development and the DCSI along with the campus administrators will also conduct 50% of all the walkthroughs uh throughout the duration of the first marking period in collaboration until calibration is achieved. Uh the DCSI will also be conducting bimonthly data debriefs to monitor both performance and progress and the CNI will conduct month monthly PC's ensuring the alignment and effective implementation of the school's curriculum and instructional practices. Then on page 105 again this is a this is a just a renewal of the uh calendar of
027what needs to happen in terms of TESS for the 2526 school year. And then on page one 109 you will find the uh the uh administrators that are certified to conduct uh t test uh evaluations. Uh you have we have campus administrators and assistant uh principles or academic deans. on the top chart. I will ask you that uh we add the uh assistant principal that you all considered earlier so that I can update this uh charge. >> There's two there's two uh assistant principles that need to >> Yes. the the >> move in the in the new assignment. >> Correct. Uh >> so that we can approve it with with those that >> reassign. So let me see. So, uh, Erica Morales, assistant principal at LDZ at DTRLDZ. Uh, and then Juan Mendulsa at He's
028not here because, uh, you all just, uh, picked him up today. Uh, Juan Mendula at Fly Junior High >> and Benito Huarees. >> And at Benito Huarees, we have a reassignment of Mr. Robert Alvarado. that did not make this chart because we had already sent out the uh >> the notice of >> correct you'll approve it as as discussed >> and then on that same chart you'll see second appraisers and so for second appraisers uh purposes we only have Sarah Garcia so I'll update the chart and send you the updated version of this [Applause] we have a motion to approve motion Okay, second by Martinez questions, concerns. >> Miss these uh performance and growth these these um I guess the walkthroughs and everything do they they're based off of or off of the like 23
029year 22 23 23 24 25 year the ratings >> they're based on 24 year. Okay. Um now the minimum number of docu of the walkthroughs does it coincide with if we're going to apply for TIA for the TIA does it meet those same requirements? >> These walkthroughs are different in relative to TIA TIA uh has five five minimum of five walkthroughs. These are these are for uh contract consideration for 2627. Yeah, I just want to make a comment. Um, as far as going on, I don't fully agree with the reassignment. I just want to make that public. >> Noted for the record. >> Okay. Uh, we make Yeah. >> Yes. Do you have a >> I need a vote uh on approving uh >> the recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the T
030test appraiser and appraisal calendar for 2526. You have the first, you have a second >> in favor. >> Which one was this one? Letter. What letter is it? >> H. Okay. >> Yes. He said yes. He said yes. >> Oh 5 Z. Next one is the uh discussion action to approve the uh superintendent's constraints. >> Uh so the con the superintendent constraints uh are part of the uh lonear governance process. uh Miss McCelli and I and along with uh the support from uh service center and including TA have gone back and forth on these constraints. So uh just like the board has had their board constraints approved. Uh if you recall from the last time that we met with Miss Meccani, we I had to develop superintendent constraints. So uh what we have are five
031constraints uh on page 111 and 112. So superintendent constraint number one, the superintendent shall not allow administrators and/or educators to be without content or pedigogy focused professional development as aligned to their professional position. That is that is the first constraint. And then we have uh progress measures. We have two. The number of teachers completing 60 hours of content or pedigogy professional development will increase from 80% in May 2025 to 100% in 2030. And so you see that our baseline is 75% and then I have established uh um a five-year uh time frame for the completion of that CPM. For CPM number 1.2, two the number of teachers and the two lowest requiring uh and the two lowest that should have performance levels in in TTIS requiring a personalized professional development plan will decrease from 30%
032in May 2025 to zero in May 2030 again our baseline is 40% and you see the breakdown of the five years leading up to May 2029 2030 to 0%. Then we have superintendent constraint number two. The superintendent shall not allow teachers in the bottom two performance levels of tests to serve in low performing campuses. So if teachers are uh after the evaluation process, if they are rated as uh developing or needs improvement, they cannot uh this is what I'm proposing to the board. Uh they cannot work at a campus that is rated a D or an F. So our first progress measure reading lesson plans with a 90% uh reading lesson plans with a 90% focus on phonics instruction and targeted vocabulary as evidenced by teach plans a as as evidenced by lesson plan audits
033increase from 50% in May 2025 to 90% uh by May 2030. And you see the breakdown of the five years CPM number 2.2 Two, implementation of math lessons with 80% of diff differentiated instruction as evidenced by curriculum based assessments will increase from 40% in May 2025 to 100% by May 2030. And you see the breakdown as well. CPM 2.3 general and special education teachers co-eing or co-planning uh to promote inclusion in the mainstream classroom as measured by TESS will increase from 0% in May 2025 to 70% by May 2030. Uh and you see our baseline and where we plan to be at the end of every academic school year. For superintendent constraint number three, the superintendent shall allow administrators in the bottom two performance levels of TESS to serve in low performing campuses rated D
034or F. Uh our first progress measure, the number of administrators performing at proficient level or above on TESS will increase from 80% on May 2025 to 100% by May 2030. And you see our timeline. Uh we only have one progress measure for that constraint. Superintendent constraint number four. The superintendent shall not allow the frequency of classroom walkthroughs and the coaching feedback cycles to to decrease. Uh we have our first CPM 4.1 appraisers engaged in the coaching feedback cycle according to district appraisal calendar will increase from 30% in May 2025 to 100% in May 2030 as measured by the post oper observation conference. And you see our baseline uh and our breakdown throughout the years for superintendent constraint number five. The superintendent shall not allow an unacceptable financial standsting. According to first rating, we have three
035CPMs. CPM number 5.1. The superintendent will reduce the cost of a maintenance tax note from 1.4 million in July 2025 to zero in August of 2030. Our baseline is 1.4. And you see the breakdown of our note up to May 29 uh 2030. For CPM number 5.2, the superintendent will reduce the amount uh the amount due to debt service from 2.7 million in June 2025 to zero by May 2030. You see our baseline is a 2.7 and our pay out or pay in to debt service uh throughout the breakdown of the years for CPM 5.3. The superintendent will increase the amount due to the general fund balance from zero in June 2025 to 2 point uh to 2 million by May 2030. We see our baseline and the breakdown of the years. So uh before
036we take any discussion uh Linda do you have any um any uh any discussion points for the superintendent constraints? Can you unmute her? Can you microind? You're muted, Linda. >> Yeah, you're Yes, ma'am. >> Questions? That's >> okay. >> I have some questions, sir. when it comes to the I guess CPM1 the super the constraint number one >> how do you intend to get the teachers or administrators for um to professional development? Is it do we localize professional development or do you intend to be able to send them to to conferences to higher performing districts to learn from other teachers to learn from other administrators or are we just going to bring individuals to the county? >> It depends. It depends. So we have to we have to we offer local PD and then obviously
037we bring uh PD to the district. It's it's uh more cost effective if we bring consultants to the district to train here. Uh we should meet the 60 hour requirement by the time that we're done with the school year. uh if there's a specific need that a campus has, especially if it's a campus that is a D or an F where we need to send groups of teachers or content area teachers to a state conference or a you know regional conference then obviously we can do that as well but yes it's a combination >> and um to the constraint number five having to do with the financials um we know that the CPM 5.1 is going to be paid back the this original loans and be paid back in March. This is implying that we're
038going to have to take continuous loans for the next 5 years. >> No, sir. So, we we went back and forth. Linda and I went back and forth on this CPM. The agency would not allow us not to because I had originally submitted, you know, we're going to our baseline is 2025 and we're going to pay it off by 2026. So, I had only done the first two. I had only filled the first two cells. agency wants us to to design it as a five-year plan because your board uh your board goals are over a five-year period. My superintendent goals are also over a 5-year period and so they want to see the five years planned out. However, if we obviously our intention is to pay off the loan by February of 2026. Once that
039is met, we're done with the CPM. We don't we don't no it does not mean that we have a perpetual loan going forward. As far as the debt service, the same thing. I know we haven't addressed the debt service through the budget items yet. Um but that's going to continuously drop throughout the years. >> Okay. Uh your recommendation, >> the recommendation is that the board of trustees uh consider taking action to approve the superintendent constraints and constraint progress measures or CPMs for the 25 uh for the 2526 school year to the 2029 2030 school year. >> We have a motion second >> second by Mr. Eastston. Uh questions, concerns? All in favor? 5 Z. Hey. Uh next action item just discuss and approve discuss an action to approve opening a new uh professional position for
040a chief financial officer. to put one in. >> Oh, J. Do you have J? >> There's J. >> I have J on the agenda, but there isn't anything. >> No, but we still it says agenda, so we have to address that. >> It's not in the packet. So, we're going to No action. Move it to the 28th. So, if you want me to just number >> J The recommendation for the recommendation for item J is that the board take no action on this one as we're going to move it to uh July 28th when the board considers um board operating procedures and the self-evaluation. >> That's when she's going to be here. >> Miss Mcinelli will be here in person. Yes, sir. So, no action on J. That is the recommendation. >> July what? 20th
041>> At 5:00 pm. Okay. Uh we're not going to take any action on that. So we don't have to roll on that one. Then we go again to uh discuss an action to approve opening a new uh professional position for the uh chief financial officer. Mr. The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve opening a new professional position for a chief financial officer which we have not had in a very in a significant period of time. So we are asking that we open the position uh for consideration [Applause] motion for motion motion members wait second I'll second it. Did you second? Okay. Uh, okay. We have a a motion and a second. Uh, questions, concerns. So, my question go ahead, sir. >> Sorry, but what is Miss Mina's title here? >> He's our business
042manager. So at this moment because uh now we're moving into resolving the the financial constraints that we've that we've had it we need a broader lens to look at how are we going to maintain financial discipline as we go through these uh go through the financial as we close out the financial constraints. So right now >> interesting >> because we have Mirna we have Mr. for Alaska. Then we have Tearina. We have like three different >> Tarina is a financial advisor. It's a it's a different >> have to pay the financial people already. >> Mhm. >> And now we're getting a financial officer. >> We're trying to we're trying to get away from consultings from consultants because consultants are very expensive. So if we have a full-time position, it is more cost-effective for the district.
043So we'll re we'll remove or release consultings consultants from our payroll so that we can have the position. >> I remember said that we will not pay anything unless I mean we're going to do like a bond or this or that. >> So we don't have to be paying money to improve that. >> I guess so. My only question is in the start of all the financial issues that we've been facing. I mean, I've asked asked you if we have the team in in place. I I asked you per I've asked you personally in meetings that if we've had the team in place to move forward through all these financial issues and your answer was always yes. You know what's changed now that >> nothing has changed. We've always maintained a CFO. So we at
044the beginning of this year we had Mr. Solomon as a CFO. Right now we have Mr. Velasquez as the CFO. So nothing is going to change. The only thing that changes is how the district operates under the CFO. So, do we want to have a consulting CFO or do we want to have a full-time CFO? For the district, it's more cost effective to have a full-time CFO. >> Can the district support the CFO in the budget? >> Yes, Mr. Mr. Velasquez and I met earlier today to see if if we could and and yes, we can. the consultants that we were hiring uh when we started doing this, they were costing us a lot more. I mean, then we would if we would hire a loan for this year and I think we would be
045saving some money than having to be dealing with them. And the other thing is the consultants that we had in the past really I mean they didn't do anything for the district and they got good money and the person that the might recommend is a person that really has helped us in all this versus the consultants that we were hiring. >> Yes. >> Miss are you going through any like hiring services? Are you using Tazby or anything? their executive services search. >> Well, for for this position for this specific position, uh we'll have to go all we we'll have to go through region 20. We'll have to go to to Tasby to make sure that we find the right fit for the district. >> And if if um barely open the position and Mr. Sosa
046already expressed that you have somebody in mind, then how does that >> have we have 10 days to advertise? >> I didn't express that. I said the person that was helping us did a lot better. I'm not saying that's a person that was hired. >> Okay. So, we have 10 days if the board grants us a position. We have 10 days to post. We have to advertise. We have to interview. We have to find the right fit for the district because we're the district is in a very specific situation and we need to make sure that the skill set of the CFO that we do hire should you grant us a position will match the demand that the district has right now >> and the other consultants either want to apply they can apply to
047do I have a motion and >> you have a first you have a second it Yes. >> Questions, concerns? Not on your vote. 1 2 3 4 against one against motion passes. One consideration to approve the MOU for a dual credit academic agreement with CISD and S Ross State University Mission. >> Uh uh Mr. GarcA at this moment I will ask you to come to the podium and thank you for uh for your patience uh as we go through the agenda uh this is Mr. Garcia Colorado State University and he will be uh presenting a memo of understanding for dual credit academic agreement uh for the board's consideration Mr. >> Thank you uh Mr. Mr. President, thank you the board. Thank you uh uh Superintendent Miss Briones uh for allowing us to be here. I
048appreciate your time. You do have the memo in front of you and I don't want to bore you with the memo itself. I want to tell you what why Salt Ross is important for this district as it is for the region. Um like she uh said I am the vice president of S Ross University International here in Pass. I work with Alpine. We are one university. We are just the instructional site for Saul Ross. Uh I'm a proud alumni of S Rossi University in Alpine and I am a proud alumni of S Rossi University International and I did get my doctorate at University of Texas San Antonio and I do see a colleague here that is also at University of Texas San Antonio. Um, thank you for allowing us to be here. Uh, there's great
049things that are happening with Salt Ross University. This past legislature session, there was a motion and a and a bill passed HB 20 uh 122 that allow allow S Ross University International to actually teach freshman and sophomores. We did not have that before. We would only teach a higher level juniors and seniors and of course graduate work. But this downward expansion has allowed us to open up a lot of more things that uh we can offer the community. It is extremely important for this community to understand that starting fall of 2026, none of your students that want to go to SOS University have to go anywhere else. They can be here with us and they can take classes with us at all university because we are a four university four-year university that allows students to
050actually get a bachelor's degree which is extremely extremely important. Now after co we have so many ways to deliver instruction of course we have face toface we have hybrid we have uh online for graduate programs. So if the student continues with us at Southwest University, they can actually be at home here in Crystal City taking classes with us that they don't actually have to travel to Alpine. They don't have to travel to Eagle Pass. there there is different venues and different instructional abilities for our students to take classes which is extremely important for this community because the next thing that I'm going to say um most of the students that go to our university 95% of the students that go to your university have financial aid and I'm sure your counselors if there's any high
051school counselors here understand what I'm going to say next if there's a household that has less than 80,000 student $80,000 combined to actually as income for that household. These students qualify for $14,000 financial aid. We only charge $7,000 for a fulltime student, which is fantastic. That's about $7,000 the student can actually take in their pocket and take home >> per semester or >> per No, for the whole year, sir. >> Whole year. >> The whole year a full-time student is 7,000 views. $7,000. Oh my goodness. $7,000. But most of our students get $14,000 financial aid if they qualify for everything. And I believe that a lot of high schools in this region do not get more than $80,000. I'm telling you right now that 95% of the students that go to Salt Was qualify for
05214,000 students. >> Those numbers 80,000. If they make less, if the household makes less than 80,000, they qualify for about $14,000, which is fantastic. And I'm sure your counselors know this because when they apply to FASA, they will tell the students exactly what I just said. The reason I'm bringing that up is because we Yes, sir. >> You're talking grants versus loans. >> Grants, it's all grants. It's free money. It's not loans. Thank you for bringing that up, sir. Um, the reason I'm bringing that up is because we're here to approve a dual credit program, right? Um, we have an excellent dual credit program that's already started in Eagle Pass. We also have it in Gabriel Springs and we have it in different campus at different districts throughout the U Alpine area. But one of
053the things that I feel that is extremely important for this community is academics. early college academics and one of them is going to be the teacher certification and we have a here let me just show you an example of what I'm talking about here this So when a student enrolls in the teacher certification then I this is the site that I would like for you guys to look at which is the courses. Okay, this is a plan that we have for Eagle Pass. But this is what is so exciting about this region, about this district because if a cohort joins us, the student can go through two years or five year sorry, four years at high school. When they graduate, they will have 60 credit hours leading towards a teacher certification. if they stay with
054us or they go anywhere else, they will only lack two more years to actually get fully certified as a teacher in elementary. So, if the if the student joins us in this academy, the teacher student academy, they will have an opportunity to actually get their certification by the time they're 20 years old. We already have it in Andrews uh school district and we have it in equal pass and we're trying our best to actually get some cohorts from Crystal City to be in this kind of program. That's one. We also have the business academy which is the same exact thing that's four years they take 60 credit hours and they continue good getting the certifications that we have for business. Uh now if the student does not want to graduate with a bachelor's degree, we
055are going to encourage them strongly to make sure that they continue their bachelor's degree because it's extremely important for them to get a bachelor's degree. But if they don't want to, we have the ability to actually offer this these students an associates degree. Once they complete 60 credit hours, which is this plan right here, we can always come back and offer them an associates degree. Okay. Um, the last academy that is extremely important is we are so excited. I know Eagle Pass is so excited about this new academy that we're talking about. It's the nursing academy. We have a bachelor's of science and nursing that we're going to start in Eagle Pass this year. And that is extremely important because this community, all this region needs uh nurses. And it's not an RN, it's not
056a B, a CNA, it's not an LVN. It's a bachelor's of science in nursing, which is extremely important. A lot of the hospitals around this area do want nurses, RNs to have their BSN because they are at that administrative level. So, it's extremely important. Um, what can we offer um this district? Well, I have already mentioned we can offer bachelor's degrees. We offer a high quality education. Um, we offer courses for your students that are relevant to their degree. They're not going to take any elective courses that mean nothing. Everything that the students are taking, for example, in this plan, you'll see in 11th grade and 12th grade, they're taking courses edua 233 and 2301. There's four classes here that are connected to the degree. They're electives, but they're connected to the professional degree that
057the student's going to get. All the electives that they're taking are actually uh meaningful to the degree. Now, if the student, for example, wants to go to UTSA or wants to go to UT, well, they'll have the core already. They don't have to stay with us. What to stay with us? but they don't have to stay with us because that student will be eligible to go to any other university because they're taking courses that university level. Um, now I do bring my staff here. This is part of my staff that's here. They are the student services. >> Just curious, what does PAP mean? >> Um, which one? What are you looking? >> You're all over the PAP English. >> Oh, yes. The PAP those courses in red are actually the courses for the district. those
058preap classes, it's called preap. Those courses depends on the district. The ones in black are our courses. Those are the ones that are actually dual credit. But I uh when I was speaking to your superintendent, Super Morones, I these courses are depending on what the district is offering. This is Eagle Pass and Cafe Springs. It's up to the district to decide what courses the student needs to take. The ones that are important are the dual credit courses that connect to the actual courses that the student needs to take in high school, connect with us, and they don't have to take the high school course. Did I answer that question? >> Yes, sir. >> Well, based on this thing, I mean, >> thank you. >> Oh, sorry. Except uh what is the question again sir >>
059any statistics any statistics go okay I understand what you're saying this is the first year that we actually have courses of dual credit with eco pass so we have a lot of students that are passing the courses I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're talking about but this is one year that we've had with them it's not like uh we've had we have not been there several years. It's only been one year that we've had the the actual dual credit program in Eagle Pass. Now, let me let me uh say one more thing. You're right. Uh Southwest Texas College, Southwest Texas has an agreement with the university that you just mentioned. You also have an agreement with Sal State University and it's a two plus two that actually come to us. It's the same
060thing. the uh what we offer is a bachelor's degree. That's the process that we have for your students that are in dual credit. Once they graduate, they have the ability to go and stay with us that will actually get them a bachelor's degree. Now, you're right, sir. Financial aid is all over. I mean, it's not just Salt Ross. You're right. Southwest Texas has the same thing. You offer the same thing. It's the same amount of money that you can get. is no different than us. I'm just saying that because it's extremely important for this committee to understand what I just said about financial aid >> questions. Mr. How much would this cost us? >> I had a quick question. >> So, I had a quick question. Cruz, >> I had asked a question. >> How
061much would this cost us? >> If you get a partnership with us, it would cost the district nothing. You will not be charged in any way. Nothing. There is no cost for you to partner with us for any student to take any classes with us. Is zero cost. >> We right. No, you're right. We You're right. CTE is not part of the SRO State University, but we do we have the ability to actually give the student an associates degree. Yes, sir. But CTE is completely separate. That's not We don't have that ability. Yes, sir. We will. We are not here now, but of course, we will be supportive to all the things that need to happen here at at Crystal City like we're doing it in Eagle Pass. And you're right, uh, 50 credit hours,
062I'm not sure what that meant, sir, but we, the only reason I said we're connecting any course that the students takes in dual credit in accordance to the degree that they're taking because I was a deputy superintendent in Del Rio, Texas, and I remember students taking all these courses that meant nothing. We are not going to do that. This university will connect a degree plan for the student either in business, teaching or nursing BSN that all the electives that they take are in conjunction with the degree that they're taking. I disagree. with that, sir. I disagree with several things that you said. We also offer the lobal promise exactly what he just mentioned. If the student doesn't qualify for financial aid, we offer scholarships for them. If the student completes their degree at high school
063and they moved on to our university, we offer the local promise plus a financial aid. So, we offer an assortment of scholarships that the student will not pay any funds. We will not take any of the Crystal City tax money. He asked me a question. We do not charge anything for you guys to take courses with us. But that's not the reason. The reason is that we have quality professors teaching your students. Uh yes, he can say things about Eagle Pass. I'm not sure exactly where he got that information. There is always uh things that we need to fix. I'm not going to say that there's not, but we have our staff that will go to the campuses, work with Mr. Kamario work with the superintendent, work with Mr. Cox, the deputy superintendent. You all
064don't know those names, but those are the people that we work with all the time. I'm not sure what he's talking about with confusion. >> Ask the questions or uh I mean like here in Crystal City, we have some uh junior college uh buildings. Where would your program I mean have >> the kids have to travel a little? >> No sir. No sir. If the student actually completes their uh four years here in academy >> high school >> the delivery of instruction I told you is a little bit different than what it was before we have hybrid we have where the student can take the class at home they don't have to travel to Eagle Pass now the professors the professors that we will provide for you if there is not a qualified professor at
065your high school is adjunct professors is what Southwest Texas does the same thing. We will provide those uh professors. >> H how sure are you that we're going to get grants because from what I keep hearing from this administration in Washington, grants are going to go >> and it's going to be harder for students. I mean, I know you're putting a smile on your face, but I want to make sure that you read what's coming. Make sure our students get the grants. I don't want him to go one year and then he's all there and then because of the administrator in Washington all of a sudden there's no grants. How is he going to continue? I just want to make it's guaranteed to have a grant every year. >> That's a bit of a government
066issue, isn't it? >> I wish I could answer that question, sir. And if I could if I could predict the future, I would not be here. I would be >> Well, see, you're not sure about it. You're you're saying >> that they're going to get a grant every year. And I'm saying be very careful and read what you're saying because I love to read and I'm noticing pelgrants and everything are going to be hurt by the administration that is in current place. So my thing is we get a freshman student from Crystal City. we offer him a grant and then that guy finishes what he has to do and all of a sudden that student is sophomore year does not have a grant >> and you'll keep him hanging without any money >> but can
067I just answer we do provide something called global scholarships which means that we offer some scholarship with student if you read thatou there is a sentence there that's actually telling this district why you don't have to pay us any money which is a scholarship that's offered to the district so that or the students so that they don't have to pay. >> I wouldn't be comfortable until Mr. Washington said this. >> Mr. Martinez >> is that 80,000 u you know the income ceiling is it kind of like I've seen that other district or other universities they say if the the local or the home income is 150,000 they automatically get free um tuition and fees right I think UTSA has it I've seen that Rice has the same thing I think it goes up to 150,000
068at Rice some of the other districts is it kind of the same thing like that or is it an actual grant other than >> he's he's right. It's a financial aid grant that comes from the federal government, but it also has a Texas grant, Texas grant that's involved with this money that I'm talking about 14,000 students. If the student qualify for qualifies for everything I will be honest, sir, >> Mr. Mr. I >> I don't exactly know the $150,000 that you're talking about, sir. I apologize. No, there's just some other some other universities that that have that income ceiling to and then offer free tuition and offer um different things. Not room and board, I don't think it's included, but I think those are funded by other outside sources. >> Endowments probably endowments. We do
069have some uh we're starting endowments and we're not there yet, but we are starting endowments with Sar State University International. Will we offer the same thing? >> Can I just that? >> Well, let let him comment on on >> Well, mine's a separate comment. Mine was a separate question. >> Go ahead. >> I'm just going to say we offer the same thing. I know I've said it again, but I'm going to repeat it. We offer a global promise that the student can qualify for and we will pay for their tuition. >> Um, you said that there would be no cost to the district, right? And on this plan here, you're stating that the red are classes taken at the school district, right? So I guess if we would to do something like this, we would
070be required to pay stipens to dual credit teachers or what would be the requirements for the district to meet these as dual credit or >> Well, I don't have that. >> Yeah, that's that's a question for us. So So yes, Mr. Martinez, you are correct. So as we expand the dual program then and if the board approves the stipen then yes it it increases uh the potential for the st >> and for the teachers to be qualified would it be the same as just having a master as what the the you're currently have. >> So any teacher that has a master's degree would be able to teach >> masters with 18 credit hours. Yes sir. And it would be an adjunct professor. Um yes. >> Would the would S Ross be able to supplement any
071of those funds to the district >> for the professors? I I'll be completely honest, that would probably not happen >> because we are not charging any tuition at all. >> Uh are you ready? How much is it? And I'll respond to that. Once again, we do not charge the district any money. >> Sounds good. >> Mr. Mr. What are some of the what are some of I I know that um as you began your presentation, you mentioned that this was your first year and that you did not have statistics or data to support whether or not this implementation is successful or has been successful, but what are some of the what are some of the operational concerns that you all have have because it's it's first year so you go through the bumps and the
072bruises. So what are some of the common uh implications that this has? >> One of the things that I did forgot to tell you, we have some statistics from Andrew's ISD which is above Odessa. There have been some teachers, there have been some students that have graduated with a certification in education. We do have that data. Yes. One of the biggest things that happened to us was the professors that were at the high school wanted to more input in creating the curriculum that the university was creating. So we came back together and we had this meeting with the curriculum um deputy superintendent and we discussed the actual conversations that to make sure that the professors of the high school adjunct professors had input in creating the class because sometimes when you go to university higher
073education some professors are very very um limited in changing whatever course they have created. So that was one of the biggest ones, but I can assure you that that's not going to happen anymore. You will have all our deans for math, for science, nursing, even our provos come and meet with your staff to make sure that we create whatever is necessary to deliver that instruction. Yes, I that's one thing I missed. uh we will come as a team to actually meet with your parents, meet with your staff and I'm not just talking me because if uh when this happens when thisou is approved the next step is our provos which is the the one in charge of academics. >> I have a question besides uh Eagle Pass uh which other school district are you working
074with? Cariso Springs. >> Cariso Springs. We have it right now. We have a uh high school in Del Rio. It's called the Heritage Charter School. We have that. I'm working with Bracket also to try to connect them. And I Well, I can't mention the other one because we're not there yet, but it's another bigger dis a big district that's around this area. Yes sir. It's the same thing that you have over there. And let me tell you one thing that we do provide. We do provide boot camps but we also provide something called college connect. Let me give an example of that. What happens is that if a student is taking a course and and uh TSI is only for English and math. Okay. If the student is taking a English class and they have
075not passed TSI, we come in and offer the course on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. But on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we offer this prep class. If the student passes the class, they are not they are already TSI certified. In other words, TSI qualified. They don't have to come back and take TSI anymore. But it's a prep class that they take on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's called College Connect. But we also provide boot camps for your students. Right now we're helping uh Eagle Path with that same problem. I was going to ask Okay, this point uh we been discussing so uh >> just one I promise >> one one minute. >> No, no, because it's about our students. Are we going to have a way that we keep track to make sure >> No, this is for
076Miss Gonz. We're going to have a way to keep track that we don't that our students are not misguided or confused in that program that we're looking at. I know it's a lot of hassle now because Crystal City is going to have to do more, but I don't want our students to go in and don't have anybody to turn to if they're confused. Like R said, the first year it was I just don't want them to be confused, left out in the open, misguided that we are making sure they're on the right track because there are students. >> Correct. So if the board should enter into understanding with Solus, yes, we would have to develop protocols and procedures so that there is no confusion so that >> we know the issue that Mr. Mati is
077presenting, are we taking the class for this, are we taking the class for that, that that is alleviated. Yes. Can I come up? >> One comment. One minute. >> One, not not a minute. Will come in and provide services for you, sir. This staff here is the student services department. They are the ones that create a culture of care. But then we have the academics that they will come and talk to your professor, your teachers. We will come and talk to your parents. We will come and talk to your students. We will have support from Saw State University. >> Thank you, sir. Means are you may ready to make a recommendation >> uh based on and in lie of some of the issues that Mr. Mata has presented. Uh at this moment uh Mr. Espinosa
078I am not prepared to make a recommendation to approve theou for dual credit academic agreement between Crystal City ISD and Solo State University. uh I would like uh more time to look into uh what potential discrep discrepancies exist between either the college or the university. So >> recommendation >> my recommendation is no action sir. >> Okay. Uh recommendation no action. Uh do I have a motion? Motion by uh Mr. Espinosa. Second. Uh that's >> Yeah, it's a conflict of interest. >> I think you can uh I'll second it. Uh questions concerns. >> Yes, miss. Um does the district have any since you already offer, you know, South Texas Junior College, are there any non-competes or anything that the district has to not be able to enter into something like this? >> No, there is no
079limitation. Yes, sir. There is no limitation. But before we engage, since there have been several concerns that have been raised, I would like >> that's it. >> Well, but there but there concerns that we have to look at. >> There's a great opportunity for our kids honestly. >> Sure. >> I mean, no cost to us. I don't understand the hold up honestly. >> But so I would like to make an alternate motion actually. >> Is not a motion made by uh Emmy Cruz. Do we have a Houston. >> San Houston. >> Houston. Do we have a a second? >> Well, what's the second motion? >> My motion is we we go with the Soros. It sounds great. >> He's >> the original the original motion. >> Well, the original motion was no action. >> Well,
080yes. >> For the >> the action. >> Well, there's a motion on the floor, but he's making an ultimate. >> I know, but what's the motion, though? Was it I mean >> take action for the the US written >> I original line. >> I second. >> Okay. So So we have uh motion by by Sammy uh second by all in favor >> is there discussion >> for >> discussion? I think it's a >> I just want to make a comment. I think >> I just want to make a discussion. I mean >> one minute >> one comment. >> It's another opportunity for our students and I think you know at a >> I think we do have to check the cost you know to the district and what it's going to be whether our teachers
081offer it or it is going to be virtual you know virtual teachers that are going to offer these students. Um but it's a it's an opportunity that I don't think we can pass up. It's a next option for our kids >> and that's exactly what >> right and so that's what we're saying. It's no action right now but that doesn't mean no action period. It's just there's something >> I understand, but I'm just saying. >> It doesn't mean we're saying no. We're going to look further into it. >> Well, we're voting on uh so two in favor. >> We're going back to the uh >> Did you four and and >> we're already you're already >> we already have a motion. So now on the >> was it two two against? >> Well, two >>
082in favor. >> Two in favor >> and two stud. >> Okay. >> Now we're going to go to the >> or two >> first motion. >> Uh all in favor study it more. >> Yes. >> Against. >> Oh motion doesn't pass. >> Motion is moved. >> Yeah it's moved. So it does >> I mean we can come back can meet with you uh discuss what was said by all and then we have two board members who are wrapped but and come again and and and >> yes sir of course I'll be glad to come back. Thank you >> and so I'll thank you and we'll ask you uh you know some clarification in some areas but thank you for your time. >> Yes sir. Thank you, Mr. For your time, sir. >> Thank you. >>
083Are you driving back to the alpine? >> I'm actually >> Oh, okay. You pass. >> Okay, we still we still have some things from the agenda. Uh, >> Mr. Matthew uh >> Mr. Mono will present uh an update of the uh summer school 2025. >> Yes, >> Mr. Mono. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Um I'm here to present the summer school. I believe you have a copy of the presentation in your uh board packet. >> Yes. >> Uh so I know when we were talking about summer school, I just kind of wanted to talk about what the summer school program was because there was there seemed to be a little bit of confusion. as we were parents were getting calls over the summer. Uh but the purpose of our summer school
084program was as an acceleration program. So that means that our students were being accelerated to the next grade level and they were being prepared for uh the upcoming school year. So if they were a second grader, they were if they were a second grader last year, then they were in third grade summer school. Uh so that's just kind of how our summer program went. Um, one of the big key factors that I'm sure you'll hear um would be attendance, but attendance cannot be made up during our summer school because our summer school was an acceleration program. It wasn't a remediation program. So, we were getting uh ready for the next grade level, not covering they were covering pre next year's grade levels instead of this year's because we're getting them ready for next year. So,
085if we want to go to the next that one, right? So, um I know one of the questions was uh student counts. Um, we have to remember that while our student counts were lower, we also did have less staff this year. Um, so in kinder through third grade, you can see we had seven students in kinder. Uh, first grade we had eight and in second grade we had 10, but we only had one teacher for those for those grade levels. So, there was only one classroom. Um, it looks like a small group, but it's only one teacher. And we tried to we tried our best to keep it up to 10. Um but with uh attendance issues and at that time the summer uh we had we had to compete with um >> Little league.
086We had to compete with little league. Yeah. Especially at the junior high level we had to compete with little league. And then the >> first grade the the the dance the dance camp we had to compete with dance camp and the cheer camp as well. Those were those were some big things that we had to deal with. Um and then in third grade we had 16, fourth grade we had uh 15 and in fifth grade we had 10. um like those we did have two teachers per grade level um for a total of 74 students at Zavala um for a total of eight actual teachers. So we still averaged about 10 uh 10 students per teachers on a good day. You know, of course there were some days where you have your kids absent. Um
087most of them made it through. I'm I have an attendance sheet that shows me the every single day and I can guarant I can look to see at each of the grade levels and I can see we didn't fall under seven in any of the in any of those grade levels. um any single day. Um and then as we moved to Sterling um we did have sixth grade uh 14 students, seventh grade we had 15 students and eighth grade we had 21 students um which totaled about 50 kids. Um but here we only have four teachers. So we had two math and two reading. So they had to kind of share in multiples. Um we had some teachers teaching seventh and eighth, some teachers teaching six and seven. Uh so we did kind of uh
088again here we averaged about 10 uh 10 students per class. We did have a Zern lab in there um just to kind of help alleviate some of the the classes as well. Um but we did have only four teachers um for there and I mean it worked. I mean the kids were the kids were good and I'm going to go into their actual ice stationation scores in just a little bit so we can kind of look to see what those look were but uh I felt like the students really we didn't have any behavior issue issues or anything like that. Um so for the end of course we had 16 students who showed up for English one English two we had 10. Algebra 1 we had 21, biology we had nine, US history we had
089three and then credit recovery we had 15 and those were one teacher per subject. We did alternate um so for example like the biology was only nine students and US history was only three. Um what we would do is we would send the teacher to US history and then they would come and we would only and then they would cover credit recovery for the second half and then while that teacher was in credit recovery we we'd send the biology teacher. So, it was kind of like an alternating um it's six courses, we had five teachers. So, we were kind of we had to mess with the schedule a little bit there to make sure uh you know we we fit the students. And then we had of course some students that had all five tests,
090we had some students that had four, we had a student that had two. So, we kind of had to mess with their schedules. Those were a little bit more um on the personalized level because we had to look at each of them individually and look to see, okay, this student needs English one and algebra 1 or this student needs English one and US history. Uh, and that's how that went for the end of course and the the counts. Any questions on the counts? >> The the number like on the eighth graders and below the number that you have there is the Lexile number. >> No, that's the counts. That's just the Oh, I'm sorry. You're like >> Yes, those are the Lexile counts. Yes. >> Yes. >> Uh, so on this next slide, uh, here
091here we have the I Stationation Lexile reports. And since our our um summer school program was more of a literacy program, this year we focused a lot on the literacy. Um the teachers were using the amplify material. Um I I provided you with the reading uh ice station scores here because again our focus was the literacy portion of of the summer school program. So for kinder at their pre-EST, they averaged a beginning reader of 395 and by the end they were at a beginning reader of 320. So they did grow about 75 in this house. Again, beginning greeter is the negative. So you kind of subtract those two numbers and that's the difference. We're we're the small the closer we are to zero when beginning greeter, the better they are. Um in first grade we
092had a beginning reader of 160 and in the post test we had 155. So we did grow about five points there. On their second grade I station we had a pre-EST of 50 uh post test of 55. So we did grow five there as well. Uh pretest 435, post test uh post- test was 445 which is increasing about 10. Um for fourth grade we had pre-est of 455, a post test of 465 which again was an increasing of 10. Fifth grade I station 415, a post test of 463 which is an increase about 48. And one thing I do want to note about the students that did come to summer school, we didn't invite um the top tier students. We we invited those students who were right almost on the verge of passing. So these
093students, that's why you might not see some, you might see some grade levels that increased pretty well, some that increased by five or 10. Um, it's just because that group of students that we did, we did kind of invite our more struggling readers. So that way we can hopefully get them to grade level for the next school year. Uh, sixth grade ice station, uh, we had a pretest of 495. Um, we increase that about by about 20 to 505. 7th grade, we had a pretest about 7:45. We increase it by about 80 to 825. In eighth grade, we had a pretest of 680 lexiles and the post test of 685 which increased it to about five. Um, for high school, >> I have a question. >> Oh, yeah. Go ahead, sir. >> So, the the
094post test are all the students that finish the the summer program. >> Yes, it's the student. Yeah, it's it's the same group of students. Yeah. So, well, unless they got But we didn't kick anybody out. >> I know some >> Yeah. Some that might have shot. What we actually did this year is we used to administer it on the last day, but we know that uh the parents know that they if they they if they save their absence, they don't have to show up the last couple of days. Uh so what we did is we administered it that week before so that way we could try to get as many as we could and I believe I we got a majority I want to say about 95% of the students uh we got them to
095test again. Okay. Um for the EOCC participation of again the goal there is we're giving them the students another opportunity to test. Uh, we had English one, we had 28 students show up to test. Um, English 2, we had 20 students show up to test. Algebra, we had 18. Biology, we had six. And US history, we had the three that uh that didn't pass. Um, there was we we get we got our scores a little while ago. Um, so I'll share those with Miss and then once we get those clear, I will bring them to you so you can see them. Um, on top of for high school, on top of the EOCC, we also uh award credits for credit recovery for students who may have been absent throughout uh may not have been awarded
096uh credits due to absences or they didn't pass the course, things like that. And we were able to uh recover 27 credits. So, it's 27 uh I don't want to say students, it's not students cuz some students acrewed more than one, but a total of 27 credits were recovered um in summer school via um Ingenuity. And then we did have one student uh pass a credit by exam uh without prior instruction. Um so he was awarded um a credit for a course that he hadn't taken and he and he received the credit for that by credit uh by credit by exam. >> Um other than that I mean do we have any questions on summer school or >> uh based on the uh miss based on the amount that we have budgeted did we have
097any leftover money? Um, minimal >> minimum. >> Minimal. >> We're waiting for Mr. Velasquez to give us a We're waiting for Brenda to actually give us the final. >> So, for >> nothing significant >> for the EOC there's about that was about 80 students. We recovered 27. >> Those are those are different students. >> Different students. So the EOCC the the test students those are students who did not pass the test in the spring. Uh the credits by recovery those are students who maybe passed the test. Um for example majority of them actually were physics courses. So physics doesn't have an EOC but um so like they they didn't pass the actual course to get their credit for graduation. >> Of these EOCC participants all these are the ones that passed. >> Those are the
098ones that tested. We haven't got received scores yet. We we barely got the scores literally like an hour ago. >> Okay. So once yeah, once we get those scores, we'll go we'll we can report those to the board. >> Questions questions. >> Are they going to state next year? >> Yes, of course, sir. >> All righty. Thank you. >> Thank you, Matthew. >> Items. >> We're going to go on the app. Yes, we are not uh looking at A because A requires the full bid to be presented to the board. Uh and your packet does not uh include the full bid. So, we're moving on to B. Uh Zavala Central Appraisal District 2526. This is just uh this is their uh their adopted budget and their calendar. You have again this is just for information.
099And for item C, theou between CCISD and Camino Rial. Again, this is an annual renewal uh between Crystal City and Camino Rial for behavioral health support. And then for D, we have theou between Southwest Texas College and Crystal City ISD to provide a welding technology program for adult community members. Um and that'sformational. >> Uh before we adjourn, do we have a on the board uh a delegate or who who represents us in testing? >> No. >> Uh that's the next recommendation for uh for the next meeting. >> The board has to >> I filled it out and we got the >> Yes, I received I received the notice. It has to come before the board. >> Yeah, I filled it out though just to make sure we put it on the agenda for July 28th.
100>> Well, we just I just received a a >> Yeah. The award not >> received of $9,000, >> correct? >> For uh whoever's going to be our delegate to pay for travel. >> Correct. >> And all that. >> So before we accept the funds, we have to put it through board action. The board has to approve the delegate >> and then we can text. Yeah. >> Yes. We know that it's due. Yes. >> Yes. We are aware. Yes, sir. Yes. You're saying that if we don't submit it, we're going to have >> correct. Yes, sir. >> So, >> the business department takes care of that. Yes, sir. >> Guess we're not discussing anything having to do with this memorandum. The South Texas College, >> this is for a welding. No, this is approved already. >>
101Okay. >> This is for It's an adult program. >> It's already approved. It's already approved. >> This can be offered here at the the school. >> Yes, cuz we have the facility. If not then uh uh do I have a motion? >> Uh Mr. Mr. Espinoza before we adjourn can we uh welcome Mr. Monise. Before we adjourn uh since every people are still here. Mr. Monise you want to uh approach yes ma'am >> uh the podium uh board. This is Monise is our newly hired uh band director. Mr. Monise. Yes ma'am. Uh good evening. Thank you very much for having me here. I know it's a late night for everybody. >> Thank you for staying. >> Thank you. >> My name is Mr. Munice, music educator. I've been a music educator for I think this
102would be about my 15th year. Uh I've had the the privilege to work on different stages in music, uh including marching band, the marching arts, uh mariachi, different things. Uh they've all been very exciting. Uh I don't think none nearly as exciting as the opportunity to to work here in this district with this program. Uh this program has a long history of success, uh a long history of pride. Uh my goal here tonight and throughout my time uh with these kids is to bring that pride back and uh get those ratings back. So thank you very much for having >> Yes, sir. >> Were you here two years ago? >> I was. Yes, sir. >> You were here, right? >> Yes. >> Working under which band director? >> As an assistant as an assistant band
103director. Yes, sir. >> Yeah. But who was your >> Mr. Mr. Pava? Mr. Victor Fos. So you already know Crystal City. >> Yes, sir. I do. Only glad to have you. Good to have you here, sir. >> Thank you very much. >> You have uh taken some headway headaches. >> Just a few. >> But I understand I'm here to work for you guys. So hopefully >> we will support you. >> Thank you very much. That's going to be very important. >> Mr. Monise, we just I would like to let you know that we did hire uh an additional assistant director today. We already had hired an existing one. Okay. >> I do believe that based on our conversations, we have a full ban program. Uh as of as of tonight, thanks uh thank you to
104the board for for uh for approving our recommendations. Uh I know you and I had a a conversation earlier today. How soon can we start with practice? Because I know that the school community, the community uh uh is concerned about uh beginning with with with uh practices. I I drove in from San Antonio a couple hours ago. I got a bag full of clothes. So, we can start tomorrow. Uh we can start meeting the kids. We can start doing inventory, meeting the parents, and uh getting the ball rolling. So, >> okay. So, Mr. Moreno, we'll put a notice out. Uh >> I already have it ready. >> I already have it ready. I've been waiting for the picture. >> Okay. Okay. Question. >> He's been with that picture since uh >> Yeah, he's been waiting.
105>> I've been waiting waiting. All right. >> Thanks a lot. >> Thank you, Mr. Monise, for >> Thank you. Thank you very much. [Applause] >> We already closing. >> No, no, we we're making a motion. >> Uh, I need a motion to adjurnn. >> Uh, a second. >> Second. >> Mr. Houston favor. Cruz 57.