Board Work Session | January 13, 2025

001[Music] good evening the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District Board of Trustees is now convened in a board work session on Monday January 13th at 6 p.m. in the boardroom of the Cy Banks Independent School District Mark Henry administration building for the purpose of reviewing the portion of to Thursday January 16th regular board meeting agenda designated as action items and to hear designate reports and recognition posted in the meeting as required by Texas law like to welcome our members of the audience and those who are online and the board of our trustees we are here to set goals listen to reports approve budgets contracts personal appointments and make policy for the district it's not the role of the board to make DayDay operation decisions the management data operations of the district are responsibility of the superintendent

002we have policies and procedures in place to resolve concerns and issues this is a mean of the Board of Trustees held in the public this is not a mean of the public and audience members may not participate in the mean outside of the designed agenda items for assisten pation or agenda comment the meeting will be conducted in orderly and efficient manner in accordance with the law and local policy to achieve this goal parants are asked in the audience expect to abide by the rules outlining board polic policies prior of this meeting board members received information related tonight's items agenda items may not be necessarily handled in the order as in the notice during the meeting the board May adjourn to close session in the event the board meets in close session to consider matters duly

003posted for this meeting as per amended in sections 551.071 through 55108 of the Texas government code these procedings are live on the district website they're also available on the district website F tonight meeting for the video to actively reflect the proceedings I respectfully ask you refrain from talking while others are speaking and that cell phones are turned off or in silent mode thank you for your time tonight and your interest in cyber Fairbanks Independent School District the invocation Pledge of Allegiance vision and mission statement remarks announcements recognitions board comments and syation will be presented in the regular board meeting on Thursday January 16th patrons who have registered to speak this evening on theend items may see their names up listed on the screen behind me for before your name is called please move forward and

004sit down in one of the reserved seats on the front row when you approach the podium you'll see a m on each side of the podium when as your time begin speaking the digital presentation monitor be sled on top of the monitor when you see the 30 second and 15sec warning light to wrap up your comments the timer may be set in accordance with the number of speakers register this evening we will now proceed with reports portion of the agenda 5A Administration provid report on the formative assessment data Dr gory welcome your first presentation good luck thank you good evening today we are sharing data related to strategic plan goal one as shared in the November CFI as shared in November cfis provides districtwide formative assessments my presentation's up yes formative assessments um with the

005purpose of monitoring student learning providing feedback to enhance teaching and learning identify gaps and tailor instruction after each formative assessment District data is reviewed at both the campus level and the district Le level to celebrate um achievements and to identify areas of concern today we are looking at goal one which addresses an increas in performance on star and the EOC by 2029 scores at the approaches level will increase from 80% to 90% from 56% to 71% at the meats level and from 26% to 41% at the Master's level the yearly performance objective to meet the 2029 goal is 2% growth at the approaches level and 3% at the meets and Master's level this table shows the data progress monitoring two progress monitoring number two in Reading language arts for students in grades six 7 and

0068 the First Column is a list of student groups in the report all African-American hispanic white asian economically disadvantaged sped and ESL the second column shows the total number of students tested in each reporting group the next column shows the number of students and the percentage of students who did not meet expectations next to that column students who scored at the approaches or higher level the number and the percentage continuing to move to the right the number of students who scored in the percentage at the meets or higher level and finally the last column displays the percentage of students who achieved at the Master's level each subsequent table will present data in the same format for reading language Arts please go back if you look at reading language arts bringing your attention to the all

007student group there were 24,26 students tested in the all group at did not meets we have 9% approaches are higher 91% meets are higher 78% Masters are higher 52% and you can continue to see how the the groups below performed the next table shows Science fifth grade and eighth grade in the all student category 10% did not meet 90% are at approaches are higher 74% at meets are higher and 52% at Masters are higher and again you can see the subsequent populations below the next table is social studies grade eight and this is dpm1 for grade 8 in the all category 19% of the students did not meet expectations 81% or higher are at the approaches level 63% at meets are higher and 45% at Masters this table shows English English one dpm2 scores for

008English one all students 7% did not meet 93% at approaches are higher 89 % at meets are higher and 43% at Masters are higher and again the subsequent populations are below next we have English 2 11% did not meet 89% at approaches are higher 83% at meets are higher and 30% at the Master's level and our last table US history this is also a dpm1 score these are also dpm1 scores 1% of our student body population did not meet 99% at approaches are higher 91% at meets are higher and 70% at Masters are higher many of our data reflect progress demonstrating growth and achievement in key areas however we recognize that some areas and subpopulations continue to require targeted support to close the performance gaps to address these needs we are implementing a strategic approach

009that includes but is not limited to providing professional development focused on delivering highquality firsttime instruction that meets the needs of all of our individual Learners utilizing video coaching to re refin teaching practices and enhance instructional Effectiveness equipping our Educators with tools to increase student engagement and promote deeper learning reinforcing foundational skills and Concepts through strategic spiraling to build Mastery over time and continuing the consistent use of progress monitoring to assess student growth identify areas of need and adjust instructional strategies accordingly at this time I'll take any questions that you may have thank you very much any questions from the board Dr gory when I look at the total tested I see a pretty broad range of the number of students tested across the groups can you give us some guidance on how students from all

010the different groups were chosen so the Ted sure the testing Mrs scand is based on the students enrolled in those courses so in fifth grade um science and eth grade science it's a combined number of students who take fifth who are in fifth grade science all of our fifth graders are in science but in eighth grade students who are in eighth grade science when you get to the courses like English one and US History it's the number of students enrolled in those courses and that varies based on student selection okay thank you you're welcome now go ahead uh first of all welcome um you've done some really strong work in helping our campuses across the district and um really excited to see um you in this role um an opportunity to look at it from

011a broader perspective and bring your expertise and Your Excellence and your eye and your ideas so very excited about working towards these goals goal one to all the the thousands and we always said Linda had all those things under her um so thank you um glad to have you I wanted to point out a few positive things I feel like um and then I had a couple of questions on us uh actually yeah we'll start we'll go backwards forwards on US History uh that's the one subject where we don't see a gap between African-American Hispanic and white and Asian students and there still is of course that es uh even ESL look at that and special education down to 6% that's phenomenal um I know this has been a strong um area for us in

012the system and for me it really goes along with a lot of the legislation to make teach kids the pride in our country um uh to understand our history and um so this is exceptional work and I also want to point out an English one um English one has been a tough test um for a lot of years and to see that our ESL populations um although is 19% I feel like that is something that um is uh Improvement and so I'm not sure if this is a trend we've been seeing or how far that is off from the last year without being able to compare it here um but I'm intrigued to see that number even though it's not greated looks good you know what I mean and even the Gap here is just

013um actually uh I'll move into some of the others but just this there's still a seven-point gap here between African-American Hispanic and white and Asian kids but um to see a 9% do not meets an English one as long as the rigor was there in this DPM I'm assuming it's kind of a tested and true one yeah that's amazing that's very very good um to see because English one you know we've had 30 40% failure rates at some point um so then a question I have looking at the reading language arts grades 6 through eight and I will point this out because like I just said there there was still a gap even though this was a smaller Gap and the only subject that doesn't have that Gap is really is that US History um

014but this U looking at our reading language arts in grades 6 through eight um again pointing out you have 4% and 3% and then 12% for African-American and Hispanic students and so I am eager to see this Gap in fact I've studied the data actively since 2015 I'm not sure we've ever not had a gap in performance between African-American and Hispanic students and white and Asian students that was at least 10 points so maybe in some ways I'd really like to see the dat with Trends over time maybe this is actually coming down because we're at like 87 now and that would be amazing and wonderful to see um and then I'll ask a question around ESL um this has actually been a a a it's been kind of a burning or heavy question on

015me for a lot of years and I've never really maybe it's the moment now um where it's actually kind of time to ask the right questions or look at the right action within our programs so I would be intrigued to understand and there was some data that Linda had done with the new statistician about a year ago that started to dig into which kids had been with us longterm and had not had success ever in the time we had them and they were long-term students and ESL students stood out like a a big sore thumb on that data um I'm sure y'all poured over that data and did all these things so this number right here I'm I'm intrigued because I'm not sure that what the research says is best practice for native language use

016and how long we allow students support in their native language and like a bilingual program I feel like our practice is completely opposite of what the research says and I'm intrigued to see if these kids these 22% of ESL students were with us through Elementary School um you know what do we know about their reading level in Spanish and when did they transition to English reading and do they have both do they have access to that Iceberg theory of native language support earlier on where they could show up long term I've been afraid that we would see this data it probably was always there but now is the most like the most recent evidence with this like how about these 22% which of these kids were with us um and we didn't give them either

017basically we rushed them to English maybe didn't give them enough native language support and now they're going to struggle when they get to the cognitive demand of middle school so I'd really like us to Deep dive into that and see what we know about their programming they had the amount of language native language support and then how that added up to this 22% because obviously that group continues into um you know different areas science is a little bit better as far as compared to special ed but I do see that that ESL group obviously is a is a something we're going to struggle with even if if you get to English one um it's good right but still at 19% and then my next question gets to that ESL group now in English 2 so

018now we're talking 16 year olds 10th grade maybe 11th maybe 12th how many of these kids are long-term ESL students like they can't get out of the cycle of the lpac and the LEP process the ESL label or the Ed or EB or all the names we have changed it to over the years are they stuck and will never because of the requirements of the writing um and now that we're more focused on writing and the other grade levels is this going to be something that maybe we'll see a trend over time it's going to be a little better for English language Learners or not so there are a group I've had on my heart probably since 2015 and I just really would like us to to take dig and understand if they're not making

019it in our system over time why and then really dig into the science of it and um and do it well I know that it's hard with Staffing um I know it's hard with managing program I know it's a lot of Faith to let a kid be a native language for a while and then switch I mean like to know that they're going to score in English I think we've played games with numbers as a system not un I mean it's natural because we're judged upon our test scores but we've averaged the ESL kids in very nicely to where our total passing rate right here for example we have you know at approaches or higher 89% so we can look at a nice total 89% but when we disaggregate that 12% of African-American kids 14%

020of Hispanic kids and 3 % of ESL kids and 34% of special ed kids are still not meeting so this is how we became the largest a-rated school district but still had 13353 kids who weren't reading even at the approaches level because the average the law of averages kicks in by the numbers and so I'm super excited I think you're a brilliant brain in education and I I would really um want I know that you you're over there even your eyeballs you're like y yep yep um so I'm excited to see as we work as a team together what can we do to look and make that change and and I will say this I'm super proud of this board um work done through these ladies on the esvp committee to set the reading goal

021because I also know as soon as you pay attention to every kid who left the grade level before not reading and you pay attention to the fact that we're all work together as a whole Community to make sure kids can read guesss what's going to happen all of it comes together because reading is clearly the key to um the math test the science test the social science test English one two and read rla that's obvious um so um thank you for letting me ask those tough questions they big ones for your day at the dis but um what I know about this team in this district is we figure it out and so I'm excited to um to see and get these constant reports and I want to thank Teresa um and Dr Killian for

022and the whole committee everyone Christina everyone who's there um um at our asvp and our other committees for um your incredible work again structuring the goals structuring these reports bringing it to us um it's so good thank you thank you other questions see then we'll move on to 5B thank you very much Administration will provide update on the progress of strategic plan guardwell 3 community relations we have several presenters I'm not sure you can start right Teresa okay good evening we're excited uh to bring this report to you um guardrail 3 focuses on the district's efforts to continually improve our community relations through enhanced communication measures increasing the engagement of our stakeholders and providing opportunities for input and feedback additionally this area of the Strategic plan includes strategies for generating additional revenue for the district

023you see the individual performance objectives listed on this slide but I'll point out that we'll not cover these in the order that they are listed uh just to minimize the transition between our different presenters and this will be a comprehensive and somewhat lengthy report but it does provide uh and include uh I think valuable information uh for you and for our community so now I'll turn over the first uh performance objective to Don Tron our director of community engagement good evening um I am thrilled to share uh the community engagements role in guardrail 3 tonight I'll start with performance objective 3.1 Implement a comprehensive marketing plan to increase Elementary enrollment and to recruit teachers we all know the current challenges of securing and retaining teachers and our marketing campaigns are a iCal component in attracting

024quality teachers uh our department uh was formed over 10 years ago and it was had two main goals when we created the department and one was to make Revenue through advertising with our business partners and the second was to create a marketing plan for the school district and so we use the dollars that the revenue that we bring in from our business partners and advertising to pay for a marketing plan to Market our district to support our marketing plan I meet monthly with freed our marketing firm to discuss the district goals timelines budgets strategies and metrics to measure campaign efforts our fall enrollment campaign aims to encourage parents to enroll their children in cfd at an early age and inform new movein of the benefits that cfis schools offer our goal is to increase student

025enrollment with a more proactive approach and to maintain consistent messaging to prevent enrollment declines and to demonstrate cfd superiority over Charter and private schools by effectively communicating cfd the path to amazing for every student through compelling creative messaging our strategy was to engage both the total market and Hispanic market through targeted initiatives designed to reach parents of Elementary age children living in cfd our marketing tactics included Pandora ads digital video campaigns Community impact print ads Cypress lifestyle print ads eblasts and social media posts now I will share some data from the various marketing mediums our Pandora ads were non-skippable and always included a display companion Banner as you see on the screen you can also see that the ad reached more than 150,000 listeners with nearly 30,000 of those being in the Hispanic market that

026it intended to reach let's listen to our Pandora ad now considering a prek program for your little one we hope you'll consider cfd prek you'll be amazed by how much your child will grow in just one year our loving teachers help them become more independent and self-confident our curriculum is designed to spark their curiosity and creativity and in prek they'll develop a love for learning that will impact their entire educational journey to enroll visit cfisd.net cfd prek the path to amazing our email blast deployments were sent to prospective parents within the cfd district as reinforcement to encourage enroll and pre-registration we targeted 42 zip codes featuring a high presence of children amounting to 297,000 followers the creative content was a slideshow on Facebook and Instagram and you can see the impression impressive results from this

027campaign targeting was limited to those living within the boundaries and outside the bound boundaries of cfd Ages 25 to 65 plus and then anytime they had a search engine that related to primary education School homeschool private school early childhood related searches clothing children's clothing children's toys that captured um that person and they received our ad we are currently working on our spring campaign initiatives tuition-based prek will launch on January 21st we're excited about that followed by our teacher recruitment campaign we all know the importance of hiring the best of the best so we can ensure good quality first instruction internally our staff also markets our district in order to promote consistent district-wide messaging strategy 3 provides resources to campus staff to enhance the path to amazing theme to support this strategy the communication department has

028assisted our marketing efforts by building a path to amazing toolkit on the employee internet where campuses can access photo frames email and social media headers to promote the path to amazing additionally our campuses with digital Marques do an incredible job of advertising ongoing District level initiatives like monthly character traits Transportation hiring and free meals this semester we plan to roll out some personalized and animated path to amazing and you can see um in the slide Farney has a head start on that already the engagement of cfd stakeholders is critical to effectively spread our messaging also performance objective 3.2 promotes the buyin and engagement from our parents business partners and our community members cfd continually strives to build meaningful relationships and opportunities to engage students and staff with our most valued with our most valued stakeholders

029parents business partners volunteers mentors and community members now I will share a few ways our department engages the community our district hosts an annual business expo in August providing face-to-face networking with numerous business partners who have joined in our commitment to improving our district and our community in addition we host an annual fundraising vendor fair to provide campus administrators PTO chairs and booster clubs with the opportunity to meet approve vendors who support campus fundraising efforts additionally our monthly business partners have increased in attendance attendance which has increased our Revenue campuses encourage parents to engage with fellow parents and School staff through involvement with our PTO groups our VIPs boards and our booster clubs to enhance the culture and climate of campuses also we welcome community members to our quarterly Community connect meetings where we uh

030where pertinent Topics in education and Community topics are shared and provide attendees with the opportunity for discussion and feedback to demonstrate the district's willingness to involve our stakeholders and on the screen you can see our next meeting is uh tomorrow January 14th hope you can attend um our business partner meetings have led to some successful adopted School Partnerships you can see some of the growth in our Partnerships from Fall of last year to current of our 96 campuses 87 have now been adopted by a business partner so we are moving on up there our goal of course is 100% we love the opportunity to welcome parents and volunteers on campus at all levels to support the needs and goals of each campus at the elementary level we have pto's and VIP boards our middle schools

031have VIPs boards and our high schools have booster clubs and VIPs boards we currently have 78 booster clubs across the 12 high schools in addition to VIP boards in order to host staff appreciation and other events and you can see the revenue brought in from the booster club's over $10 million last year our business partners are amazing is what that means that's incredible a partnership that not only benefits campuses but impacts students lives is our mentoring program we ramped up our monthly mentoring training by advertising trainings on social media here you can see the increase in Mentor hours from Fall of last year to fall of this year and each year we count on our volunteers to commit time on the first two days of school to serve as a bus buddy helping our youngest

032Riders reach their dropof points you can see we've consistently secured 200 plus volunteers each of the past two years and it has become a positive PR event for our community and a huge Community event lace up your running shoes we are thrilled to host the 11th superintendent fundr run on March 29th proceeds from the fundr Run have steadily increased year after year benefit benefiting the cyer Educational Foundation and graduating seniors from our 12 high schools and you can see when we started this event in 14 we had 3500 attendees and raised $28,000 and two years ago we had close to 12,000 attendees and raised $237,000 so it's a fabulous Community event um we also host the cfd fundraising V vendor fair which is a premier opportunity for district approved fundraising vendors and businesses to connect

033directly with the decision makers who drive fundraising efforts for our campuses PTO and booster clubs cfd presently has over 250 vendors represented on the approved fundraising vendor list and finally I will share the details for performance objective 3.4 where we were tasked to secure additional Revenue options to support the current budget so with a district our size that features extraordinary facilities who wouldn't want their name on one of our facilities with a desire to provide naming right opportunities for our Lo loyal business partners we created an RFP facilitated the interview process and selected a consulting firm to support our efforts to maximize our Revenue opportunities the super perative group was awarded the bid and provided us phase one the asset inventory and valuation report last week we just received the draft of this report and

034we will provide the results to you as soon as we have it compiled and on this the next slide you'll see the different facilities cffcu contract ends in 2026 so we'll be renaming the uh field at the Barry Center uh we will have naming rights set for the vpac for the field at pigon Stadium the natatorium and the conference center in the barry Center so great opportunities there to come we also developed three additional options for advertising in order to increase the revenue from our department these include the athletic sports complex Banners at all all 12 high schools Natatorium ads are on the electronic scoreboards in the natatorium and then we also added ads to the electronic tickets for football season and for all of the graduations this spring this fall our existing advertising options

035generated $415,500 of communication good evening uh strategy two of performance objective 2 or 3.1 is to integrate campaign elements and dates in the communication calendar here is a glimpse of our uh communication calendar with project types that we color code for reference um integrating marketing elements throughout our everyday communication strategies brings intentionality to key messaging so some of this messaging uh takes place on our district Facebook page where we share video features uh like destination District or photo posts that will drive engagement and buyin for cfis tying into that effort is performance objective 3.3 implementing a comprehensive plan to increase stakeholder input and feedback strategy six is tailor made for communication identify opportunities to share positive stories and facts with cfis staff and the community and encourage positive community outreach so one of our initiatives

036has been to recognize path to amazing ambassadors at the elementary secondary and Department levels during each monthly District leadership team meeting this helps incentivize positive promotion of the district on social media by staff we also um have regularly featured program highlights every week to help bring more attention to the positive things happening on campus the bite-size video content helps illuminate classrooms like this Spotlight on high school theater [Music] if you look at our uh Facebook page uh social media metrics reveal a yearly boost in total Impressions engagements engagement rate and our total audience the midweek messages from Dr Killian to staff helped draw attention to student and staff achievements while less frequent messages from the superintendent to the whole Community share important information to that audience I will now turn it over to lesie Francis

037assistant superintendent of communication and community relations for strategy 1 good evening you may recall that last school year we began incorporating a districtwide committee application as a standard part of our process for for selecting committee membership in order to improve transparency in the process while every membership application is not exactly the same many of the fields such as ZIP code or High School gender ethnicity in current role seek information that can be used to select diverse and geographic representation on the committee we are also able to determine a breakdown of our applicants before making selections for example this pie chart shows the distribution of current parents of students versus community members and another example this question asked which industry the applicant worked in if employed an additional effort to improve transparency included posting all district

038committee information on the website this included the goals and mission of each committee committee contact information the application link Andor deadline for applying the list of members meeting dates agendas and presentations I will now turn it over to Teresa Hall chief of staff strategy 3 focused on the work that we have done uh around the teacher Time study you will recall that the 2324 board monitoring system included a Target objective to conduct a teacher Time study we initiated this work in December of 2023 and contracted with Handover research to assist us in an effort to define the scope of the study we ask Handover to assist us in identifying the task outside of providing Direct instruction instruction to students that contribute to the teacher workload and what challenges and areas need support we also thought

039it was important to look at this by Level Elementary versus secondary and core content versus electives a district-wide survey to all teachers and the opportunity to participate in focus groups was the methodology Handover research utilized GA the feedback on these areas I just mentioned this a work this work occurred in January of 201 24 based on the survey results and feedback from the focus groups hover shared its Capstone report of the study in April of 2024 the report identified recommendations around two primary themes administrative workload and instructional planning and support a common concern centered around compliance documentation for special programs such as 54 special education bilingual and behavior incident reporting protecting Che teacher time with planning periods and teacher work days and streamlining platforms and systems that teachers are required to use to document instructional

040content and plans was consist consistently expressed here you will see a brief timeline of our work on this project to date it is important to note that the work is ongoing and will require continued focus and attention after receiving the Capstone report we convened an advisory committee of principles and teachers from all levels to assist Us in reviewing the results and prioritizing our action steps based on the Capstone report and feedback from the committee we started by focusing on the compliance documentation and lesson plans we reviewed and updated our regulation on lesson plans to ensure no additional requirements were included and reviewed the updates with principles for any modifications or changes needed at the campus level in the area of compliance documentation we began by reminding principles before the school SCH year began to review

041the master schedule to ensure no one class Andor teacher was unintentionally carrying a higher number of students enrolled in special programs that require compliance documentation additionally we compil data by campus on the special education case loads and did an extensive review of our compliance docum documentation including documents that are required by law who receives the documents and who is responsible for documenting this spring we plan to review and evaluate the various platforms utilized by teachers to address any inefficiencies and duplications of efforts additionally we plan to conduct a follow-up survey to evaluate our progress and again this is work that will continue and be ongoing strategy four focuses on the new leadership cfd program leadership cfd is a unique year-long opportunity for parents and community members to gain insights into our school district connect with

042fellow Community leaders and contribute to the success of our students in schools we utilize the district application process to solicit potential candidates we received approximately 360 applications and selected 76 participants the year-long program is designed for participants to develop knowledge and understanding of the district and the complexity of operations our goals for the participant to gain our goals for the participants included to gain New Perspectives develop lasting relationships with District leaders other parents and community members and become ambassadors for cfis the participants meet monthly from 9:00 am to 2: pm. to learn about different topics and areas of the district when appropriate for that month's topic we schedule buses to take the group to the designated locations to experience and see the Department's operation ations firsthand the program will conclude with a graduation ceremony and

043presentation at the May board meeting strategy five with a focus on continued Improvement we want to ensure Dr Killian and the leadership team receive input and feedback from our stakeholders the list you see on the screen is not an exhaustive list but highlight some of the key opportunities that occurred at the district level during the fall semester or scheduled throughout this year again this will be a continuous and ongoing process strategy two we began discussions about offering tuition based prek last spring during the budget reduction process we determined a fall implementation was unrealistic as we needed more time to research all the different facets involved in offering the program although tuition based prek was discussed during the budget reduction processes a potential Revenue generating measure it will not generate significant revenue for the district as

044tea limits what districts May charge for tuition the law states that a district may not adopt a rate that is higher than necessary to cover the programs cost and is required to submit a proposed rate to tea for approval however with the district our size we will see some efficiencies in offering the program it is also important to note that we do not generate any Ada for tuition free prek students tuition free prek students um generate half day Ada but that is not true for tuition-based prek students we see this program as having a long-term impact we hope that it captures students as early as prek and that cfd will become the education option parents choose through graduation and we will see an increase in our enrollment through those years especially at the elementary level

045we're seeing declines in our elementary enrollment that will in the long term impact the entire District additionally with declines and Elementary enrollment this program provides the opportunity to maximize the capacity at underutilized campuses and finally we believe that tuition-based preate is a great Recruitment and Retention strategy I will now turn the presentation to Dr gory Chief academic officer tuition prek is a is an approved program it's not an approved program by tea but we are allowing it for our students we do have eligibility criteria for pre students the eligibility for a pre- student is you must be four years old by September 1 and meet the Criterion listed on the screen limited English proficient economically disadvantaged homeless your parent in active duty or injured or killed in service parents eligible of for star of Texas

046award those are First Responders who have been injured or killed in the line of duty as well and if you have a Department of Family and public services case opened or closed you eligible for free prek in the state of Texas for our students who qualify by language a home language survey is provided to these students if if it is determined that a language other than English is part is spoken at home the students are provided with a home language survey to indicate if they qualify for prek based on home language survey the eligibility is good for one year if a student qualifies the elpac committee meets to determine the students identification as EB emerging bilingual or ESL if a student qualifies parent permission must be obtained to accept or deny the program we will

047provide the same we will provide the same high quality curriculum that we currently provide to our prek students for tuition-based students as well the state requires progress monitoring um for our preate program which we use the circle assessment and we have the same student teacher ratio one teacher and one pair in every classroom and we will continue to evaluate the program based on student data I will now turn the pro turn the presentation over to Scott Tucker director of General Administration for our paid prek program starting in the 25 26 school year students must be four years old honored before September 1st to be eligible the program will be offered at all cfis elementary campuses depending on Space availability if a student's home campus is full we will offer space at an alternate campus within

048the district again on space available basis parents of paid prek students will be required to complete a parental agreement outlining the important details of the program including attendance expectations hours of operation late pickup requirements payment requirements and other specific guidelines for the program tuition rates for the paid pre-ap program were carefully set after evaluating the limits established by the Texas Education Agency and considering the efficiencies we have in offering the program in cfd the monthly tuition will be $650 for both resident and non-residents in the community and 600 for cfis employees a $50 registration fee will be required for all interested applicants the community programs Department led by Nadia stoval will manage the payment system and for families who fall behind on payments the principal of each campus will be notified so individualized discussions can

049take place to address these instances of non-payment to ensure that we're prepared to facilitate both the new sorry both the transfers and registration process that will underpin this new offering information services and student services are working collaboratively to revise our current registration platform the use of an existing platform offers efficiency and familiarity to our community and District employees with the redesign will continue to focus on a convenient quality experience for both our internal and external customers in a process that can be completed without having to visit a campus and is accessible fully online 24 hours a day 7 days a week this also allows our campuses and departments to provide relevant updates to families throughout the process the hiring process will remain consistent across cfis our boundaries projections and planning team will release enrollment projections

050earlier than in Prior years ensuring principles have ample time to hire the most qualified candidates once our enrollment projections are shared Dr Stewart and her team receive these and they'll release initial staff allocations to our campus principles for pre- teachers and Par professionals any additional prek positions that are required due to increases in our paid prek enrollment will be allocated on a timeline similar to title one special education and comped positions certification requirements for our prek teachers will remain consistent with those already in place for our District prek staff and our district pair professionals will also have an opportunity to earn extra compensation through Club rewind and the new club rewind Sprouts program paid prek students that attend their Zone campus will also be eligible for transportation services if they meet the guidelines established in

051the district's Transportation plan students attending a pre- campus different than their home campus will not be eligible for transportation services I will now turn the presentation over to Nadia stoval our director of community programs good evening Community programs is excited to support the the district's tuition-based pre initiative by introducing a new before and after school care program especially designed for pre students clevy wine Sprouts this slide provides highlights and key features of this new program our opening operating hours beginning with morning care will start at 7:15 a.m. and our after care will operate until 5:30 p.m. M clever one Sprouts will be offered at all elementary campuses with full day pre students will be hosted in designated art rooms or enclosed spaces within the cafeteria line of sight these spaces will be separate from the

052older clever one groups providing a creative focused and structured environment tailored to pre needs rate for clovery wine Sprouts will be tiered based on the status of the applicant the curriculum will include developmentally appropriate activities aligned with the needs of four-year-olds fostering growth social emotional and cognitive domains a low ratio of 1 to 15 will ensure personalized attention in a safe environment with clevy wine Sprouts we strive to support the growth of our pre- students while making quality Care accessible and affordable for families now I will turn it over to Leslie Francis assistant superintendent for communication and community relations as Miss Trion metion mentioned earlier in the presentation the marketing campaign for tuition-based prek will kick off on January 21st the campaign will include a dedicated web page with a friendly URL our robust District

053communication channels such as social media School mares school and District newsletters press releases and we will also add some paid advertising such as targeted and boosted ads on social media and Pandora audio commercials once the Reg ation date has been finalized the ads will be modified to include registration links and dates I will now turn it back over to Scott Tucker strategy three of performance objective 3.4 is to expand outside use of facilities starting in July 2024 cfis expanded its facilities availability for outside use adding new options that were previously unavailable these updates allowed us to offer access to more spaces enhancing our ability to compete with other local venues while creating greater opportunities for our community to utilize our state-of-the-art facilities year-over-year comparisons for outside facility use from July to November 2023 and July

054to November 2024 do show a decrease in the total number of hours our facilities were used however this decline can be attributed to several factors changes in availability due to revised school start dates shifted many of our events into June which was at the end of fiscal year 2023 additionally facility closures caused by natural disasters such as hurricane Barrel facility upgrades by the district also impacted rentals during this period it's important to emphasize that while the total hours are down overall rentals have not been lost they are simply occurring in different months of the fiscal year which will be captured throughout the 2425 school year despite the reduction in hours that you see our facility use Department achieved a 40% increase in revenue from July to November 2024 compared to the same period from 2023

055this increase is attributed to the implementation of a new pricing model introduced in July of 2024 that was aligned more closely with current market conditions furthermore we welcomed 18 first firsttime users during this time frame was several of these utilizing spaces which were not previously available to our communities for outside facility use I will now turn the presentation over to Nicole Williamson director of the Visual and Performing Arts Center good evening strategy five of performance objective 3.4 is to maximize Community rentals of the vpac and Barry Center the vpack is used by a variety of groups from District events like performances and presentations to celebrate the artistic achievements of students and bring families teachers and the community together vpac also extends beyond the school district including performances from local churches ballets graduations and even comedy

056shows District events are hosted by schools and groups within the district the vpac plays a crucial role in supporting the educational and cultural activities of the district based on client type IND District events represent 30% of the bpac reservations however based on room usage District events utilize more space in more hours the remaining 70% of the vpac reservations is allocated to outside events while the vpac has more outside clients these outside clients use fewer rooms and less time outside events come from a variet IET y of external sources including professional and performance groups local churches Community organizations from outside the district the vpac offers a stateof art venue that attracts a wide range of performances here is our current Revenue to date with a breakdown of District district support groups outside for profit and outside

057nonprofit for our projected revenue for the remainder of the year it's based on current events with have booked in one year of fully opening we are able to double our revenue and we are still continuing to get requests for events so there is still potential for more our strategies to increase Revenue are to maintain and update a userfriendly website and active social media platform with the social media platforms we can advertise our current and future events we will evaluate our current pricing and make sure that we are maximizing Revenue while researching other venues to stay competitive we will also consider light concessions to guest before and during shows to help generate Revenue to provide a better guest experience here are a few photos from some of the past events we have had a local comedian

058chinu the Navy Band and the Nutcracker which Drew in over 6,000 people in two days we also had over Christmas Eve a local Church s life that brought in 3,600 people in one day some of our future events is the Shinu Shinu February 16 15th and 16th Shinu is now the world's Premier classical Chinese Dance Company some people fly from other countries to drive and drive hundreds of miles to see it others see the same performance five and six times many say there are no words to describe it you have to see it with your own eyes to find out I will now turn it over to Devin Perry director of Barry Center sorry about that um here's an overview of the main types of events hosted at the Barry Center by both cfd and

059non-district clients the district uses include graduations homecomings proms Banquets student performances competitions athletic events district meetings staff development events and student award shows it is important to note that the student events that we host benefits students in a wide range of school student groups including career and Technology Fine Arts FFA jrc in addition to athletic events the most common non-district events are concerts cheer and athletic events vendor shows graduations theater performances conferences meetings and banquets this chart depicts the percentages of the 35 total 3500 total room uses throughout the year um from 23 or 2023 24 school year for both nonprofit and for-profit um uses as well as the district uses even though there were 87.5% District use of the Berry Center many of these District uses included Revenue generating opportunities through concession sales catering

060and rentals to student social events the main ways Barry Center generates revenue is through building and equipment rentals parking fees on ticketed events labor for setup striking and working the event as well as food and beverage needs for catering and Concession events um here are the revenue figures from the 2023 24 school year um at the Barry Center our current revenue for this year is $1.5 million and we're projected to surpass $3 million in Revenue again this year the bar Center will continue to evaluate pricing structure and Ral opportunities to maximize our Revenue we'll also work with the uh Communications Department to increase our social media presence to Market uh the use of the various Center to new clientele we are in the process of selecting a vendor for alcohol sales for future non cfis

061events and we'll continue to work with local business business partners with our concessions to offer a wider variety of options and increase Revenue sales I'll now turn it over to Nadia stoval director of community programs I'm back um performance objective 3.4 strategy 6 maximize Staffing and enrollment for clovery wine and the five Early Learning Centers thank you for the opportunity to provide you with a brief overview of our department and its contributions to cfis the community programs Department was established in 2010 with a dual purpose to provide essential services to our community and to support the economic well-being of for ISD over the years we have grown to Ser serve a vital role in our district by offering highquality programs that benefit students employees and families alike under our umbrella we currently operate two Key

062Programs clevy wine our before and after school care program available at all 59 Elementary campuses and the Early Learning Centers these centers provide care for the children and grandchildren of cypherz employees from 6 weeks old to 4 years old ensuring a supportive environment for our staff and families our department is proud to employ approximately 371 dedicated staff members since our establishment we have contributed approximately $16.8 million to the district reflecting both the impact in the sustainability of our programs this slide provides a comprehensive look at our enrollment data from fisal years 2021 to 2025 as a graph illustrates enrollment in both of our PR programs has shown consistent year-over-year growth despite challenges related to Staffing and operational constraints a notable achievement is a 37% reduction in the clovery one weight list since the start of

063the school year reflecting our ongoing efforts to address demand and streamline access to the program Additionally the growth of our Early Learning Centers has been remarkable over the past four years highlights include the opening of Andre ELC at Andre Elementary which has expanded our reach and recently the significant expansion of teli ELC which nearly doubled its capacity from 90 students to 177 students allowing us to serve even more families to ensure we maximize enrollment in our programs our HR department actively focuses on advertising and recruiting qualified applicants through a variety of strategies our job postings remain active year round and are refreshed each semester to maintain visibility on the district's career page we partner with the Communications Department to promote our job openings through multiple channels including social media platforms School Marquees and even advertisement

064on buses we participate in job fairs and conferences to showcase our programs and highlight the career opportunities available within Community programs these efforts are designed to attract talented individuals who are committed to supporting the success of our students and Families we deeply value the feedback from our cfis the community and use it as a tool to continuously improve our programs and services each year we distribute a survey to gather insights and data that guide our efforts this slide highlights key findings from last year's parent survey in the overall satisfaction category the majority of parents rated our services as good or excellent in the staff performance category parents overwhelmingly rated our staff as good or excellent in the registration system feedback on our registration system also showed strong good or excellent ratings in a communication category

065the majority of parents rated our communication as good or excellent in the customer service category our customer service received High marks with most ratings in the good or excellent categories parents were largely satisfied with the activities we provide with feedback predom predom predom ently F falling into the good or excellent categories these results reflect our ongoing commitment to Excellence and highlight areas where we are succeeding while also identifying opportunities for growth strategy seven explore new programming options for clever wind this year our team has focused on identifying opportunities to boost Revenue by introducing additional programs in after school enrichment activities this slide highlights two of our exciting new initiatives we've partnered with soccer stars to offer Sports enrichment programming at bird and hemway elementary schools this pilot program is scheduled to begin next month if

066successful we plan to expand the program to additional campuses in the future prek before and after school care program with clevy wine Sprouts this program is set to launch in the 2526 school year and will be available at all elementary campuses thank you this concludes our presentation and we are happy to answer any questions you may have I know it be a lot of questions but um before we begin I just want to say thank you very much for all yall do yall are the tip of the spear for our community for our staff and for our students especially like with our Learning Center hear so much about that so thank you so much I have a bunch of questions but I'll refer first to my right Justin goe thank you again everybody and I

067Echo president Henry's comments thank you for the you know very very thorough in-depth and uh very helpful information I I know a lot of these uh topics are on the Forefront of a lot of folks mind so we appreciate all your time and effort and rehearsal that went into this and so we really appreciate it I know there's a lot there I know plenty of us have lots of questions I'm going to limit mine to just one or two questions for this evening uh don I have a question about the firm that we've procured for the um the advertising so we procured a firm for fundraising can you can you go back and again repeat you know what are they currently reviewing right now and what are the deliver deliverables we're asking from them so

068our firm freed marketing we put out an RFP and they were selected as our marketing and advertising firm and right now they're currently working on our prek campaign and then they're also working on our teacher recruitment uh and retention campaign and so they're um sending drafts um of the prek um campaign the graphics the theme hoay for prek um and we are also looking at our ads in the Cypress lifestyle magazine and our community impact and then of course our Pandora ads so we're in the planning stages of two very important campaigns did you mention they were in the process of of evaluation as well did I hear that correctly like they were there were evaluating uh overall Revenue generation Revenue potential did I did I did I infer that from some of your comments

069not from freed naming rights that's the naming rights that's that's the one I was referring to earlier and in which they we were expecting from them right about now that's the The Firm I was referring to oh I'm sorry I thought you were talking about free we have a couple firms yes the superlative group they have completed the initial um evaluation provided that and now they're we are at a stopping point until we get back with them okay and so at the deliverables are are have we asked them to give us a revenue projection is that one of the deliver deliverables we've asked from them yes and so what's our timeline when do we expect to hear from them and when do we expect to have some of that information for the public soon as

070soon as our committee meets we had a committee that's been through this process we started back in May um and so now we are ready to meet to go over that data we were provided that data last Monday um and we have not met yet as a committee to kind of analyze it and go over the data ourselves and once we do that we'll be able to communicate that information with you great well yeah we're all really excited to hear about that and we just really appreciate all your efforts on that and Nicole I have a question about the vpac as well I mean for many of us the vpac is just a jewel of the district and we see that there's so much opportunity with it one of things so when we looked at

071the revenue breakdown I think I wrote down that about 6.9% is outside sources do we have a Target percent that we would like to hit for the vpac from outside Revenue sources and do we foresee a cap uh that for we get to the point where we start interfering with our our district needs for the vpac currently we haven't had an issue with that we have all we get a calendar from Fine Arts and so we pre-book their things and block their dat out and so we hold those dates and then we fill in any open gaps so anything that's that's not utilized for them then we fill it with anything else and some of that is still District things as well um it just may not be an all district thing it could be

072a oneoff for a school like we had sards so it just depends on the event do we have a Target percentage that we'd like to hit for outside Revenue sources or outside groups for the vpac because currently if I it we're at 6.9 but is that something we've looked into yet now we really did not establish a a target for that um I think as we go through this first year we'll start to establish some Benchmark data and understand the balance of how much utilization is needed uh for district events and campus events and then what we can open it up to um and it was just kind of like the Berry Center it just took us time that to get in a Groove and a pattern to understand what the usage would look like

073and I think once we really are able to fully launch um all of the marketing material about the um opportunities at the vpac for outside groups I think we'll see our usage increase with outside groups tremendously makes perfect sense well again thank you very much for the presentation it was very thorough and very helpful and thank you for all your efforts anyone else on this end now I just want to tell everyone thank you for the outstanding presentation and also for the hard work each uh for this year um you guys have done a tremendous job we're so we're on Pace to uh double what we what we took in last year establishing benchmarks and what I'd like to ask is uh for future years are we going to uh kind of get a get

074a breakdown on this um by anually I guess uh where it be July through July through December and then maybe January through June is that what we're we're maybe targeting we have it listed in the Strategic plan to report twice a year okay correct outstanding where I know I've talked to Scott Tucker um on personally on on some of the uh uh events and and obviously facility rental so Scott great job so far and uh looking looking for for growth in the future future Year my left questions I just want to say um thank you again for your professionalism for your expertise um we are so blessed in Cypher SD to have such incredible um staff that provide Community programming Comm engagement opportunities our exceptional Communications and and marketing uh groups um as well as

075exceptional child care for our families um parents and and for our staff um for before school and and for our Litt so thank you for for all you do I I Echo a lot of the sentiments that you've heard already outstanding job by every area for the work that you're doing um and promoting sciare to the community to the district to our staff uh to our students and I'm excited to see that the revenue has increased and that I believe that will continue um and I do believe that has been a collaborative effort between the board and the cabinet and the the ground work that y'all have done it has been um exciting to see that we were hoping Revenue would increase and it looks like we're on track for that and that's with everybody

076touching their area with their expertise and so I want to thank youall for that and uh look forward um going to shenyun and uh doing some uh other activities in the district as well to Showcase everything and to also offer a solution to our families in the district with prek well done similar truly outstanding group of professionals um very well presented great summary um and I have a few areas of positive reinforcement a few questions um uh the um I wanted to mention um congratulations to get 87 of the 96 schools adopted I know that's been um a real goal uh that we have the campus will feel that way I know as campus visits talking with principals that's something that U makes them feel appreciated and supported um so great work and I Look

077to this last one's closing and a plead to the community anyone out there who wants to adopt a school um so great job I had critical questions about the PTO and VIPs boards and that changed because one of the things that's been critical to me is just exactly what was part to be presented how do we really make sure that we're engaging and involving and giving all parents and Community stakeholders an opportunity to be involved so I think I understood I thank you um trian for answering some of the questions about those places and having been served on title one campus as I understand the the structure so I really am um um hope to see that all even if it's a PTO or it's a VIPs board whichever it is that there's a continue

078to increase in the number of parents who able are participating actively with the campus understanding that the and and also appreciation to the campus secretaries who take on the financial role um to that's extra work I know how hard that job is to and then to manage the the finances for that parent group so that they can do things to serve their school um so thank you though for answering that in such a way um I do have a question about the booster clubs I I'm impressed they're 78 I wonder how many parents that encompasses because I do always have that concern at middle school and high school that there aren't for the students who maybe aren't the most engaged in some of the activities and stuff at campus how do we how do we

079hook those parents yeah so as you mentioned we do have 78 booster clubs across our 12 high schools and those booster clubs are a broad spectrum not just athletic booster clubs but in the Fine Arts we have cheer we have uh drill team uh we even have a robotics booster club at one of the schools in terms of a numerical value we do have a rough estimate on how many people are involved but since it changes over each year there's a challenge there in trying to make sure we document one thing that we do know is each of those booster clubs does require a executive board you have to have the president the treasur and the secretary and then the the staff sponsor serves as liaison with that booster club in the campus to kind

080of facilitate that one of the things that the booster club does do through Outreach measures is um obviously our middle schools use VIPs boards but as students transition from middle school to high school those booster club parents will go and try to capture those students that are coming in to be a freshman volleyball player or a ban individual or somebody jumping in theater to introduce them to the booster club to try to connect them early on so that when they come to that next level they already have that segue there in that regard and we're always looking for new opportunities to have booster clubs so that groups can raise funds those groups that don't have a booster club they still are not they're still in a position to where they can raise money for their

081campus it just goes by way of the campus activity account so anybody who links like that um a senior women organization or something like that they still have the opportunity to raise funds just as a booster club does it just goes through the campus similar to like our VIPs groups do yeah I guess I still have that gnawing um thought about the parents of the kids who are not engaged in an activity at school we hope all could be I'd really love us to count that I know to Tom Jackson comes in my head when I think about that really quantifying how many kids are engaged in in extracurricular and co- curricular and you know clubs activities um anyway I just challenge us to Think Through the families because I do I will say I

082now I started High School in covid so everything was a little bit of a mess but um this place for Collective voice for parents to um think about the actual educational experience not just the activity for to come together around um supporting the campus goals um to have a a chance for input and feedback that's not just around their students activities I think we're missing something and I was not it was we actually lost last year of Middle School SCH was Co so we didn't finish that but I loved being a VIPs volunteer running the Color Run and being in charge of all those things but I can tell you again I it wasn't a collective hole of parents being able to support and think about the campus and what's best for it and I've

083seen PTO operate or ptas whichever it was in different places where they really thought about every kid at that campus and the PTA I remember it had the tagline which was when um the parents you can think about all the kids basically it wasn't ex it was way more eloquent than that but the idea was you had these advocating active parents who were able to give the time and do the things and they were there to make sure the campus got better for all kids so I feel like in elementary we channel that but in middle school and high school do I know for a principal it's another thing to manage I do um but I just feel like we're there's still more we could do to capture and engage all families in their school

084whether they're a volleyball player or not um so I think that would be and for the point not of making money we have to think about Revenue so much these days and and that'll be another question in a minute but I do uh for the point of Engagement voice and values and choice and engaging everyone especially in an an environment of choice I'm looking for each family to understand how they connect to their campus and feel like it's them and they they're represented there and it's a and it's part of their culture in their neighborhood or their you know where their kid goes to school so that they are feel connected to it to where there's not another choice that that is good so anyway I challenge us to really look at that how are

085we engaging all parents what is that number I would I would love to know what you think what's your guess that the percentage of parents who are actually involved in a booster club compared to the total number of parents and let's say say let's say Langham Creek High School and Aragon Middle School um so I can give you a pretty specific number probably at Langham Creek I I know from being there as an administrator for a number of years we had on average about 35% of our students that participated in in an extracurricular program meaning like Athletic Cheer band booster um normally for those parent involvement is about 50% on average of that so you have roughly a situation where you've got over a thousand students that are part of that so you've got probably

0865 100 parents easily that are connected to that um one of the other things as you mentioned other elements to connect students and and parents to the community as you know again on that campus we had over 90 other student groups that were outside of just the Athletics and Fine Art so you had different clubs and organizations Anime Club robotics clubs all of those things that help connect kids and one cool thing about those clubs is they also do host events that are for the community to come into the schools to see what's going on and that's where our campus leadership does an excellent job I feel like of trying to put events together that really open the doors for our schools to serve as community centers so that we do bring in those parents

087to let them see what's going on um and then concerted advertising efforts not just at the district level but also at the campus level with mares and social media and really a ambassador program of sorts at the campus levels to help promote what's going on so so just uh as an example and I could not love langum Creek High School more it was the most amazing High School the teachers there are maybe the very sorry other places but so incredible and how they teach and how they build relationship with students um so I have zero complaints but I'll say I I was struck when I went to a counseling session night um and they were talking about college you know credits and going to college and and I left and there were about seven or

088eight parents on the sidewalk our kids knew each other one was dance one was theater mine was volleyball someone else was they all had their thing and guess what we were it was like the first time we were having a conversation it was about well college going process we all had questions we didn't know what to do and so I feel like there's there's something about parents being able to be together talking about setting goals for the kids and sending them to the next level that has power in it so I'm not sure exactly it probably is to the superintendent more than anything but how do we make sure CU you just said that's not if 35% of the kids are engaged in activity and only have 50% of the parents we're missing so many

089parents that could be um taed and and and understood better how and then even looking at that for the um you know the populations at our campuses and families that are those families so I just feel like we have so much place we can grow there and I remember you mentioned this at at another board meeting and I did survey the Middle School principles that was your focus right and so they had great things to say about all the things that they host on their campus and you'd be surprised as principles how many times we invite parents on campus for meet the teacher or curriculum night or um College evening and lots of parents do come but many parents have dual jobs with a district of over 60% economically disadvantaged a lot of parents simply

090can't can't like and when you're at a title one campus you offer Pizza you offer food you want them to bring the babies and the siblings and Grandma if she can come we just want them on campus so our our administrative staff is incredible uh uh coffee with the principal donuts with the principal like we want parents to come in so I just want you to know that we are always inviting parents and we need committees and we love our VIPs board and our pto's and and parents love to serve and and as a working mom I appreciated that stay home stay-at-home mom that was the president of the PTO while my kid cuz I couldn't do any of that but I sure sent the money or I contributed but so I think you would

091be surprised at the engagement with our families and other families that just can't because of their work schedule or because of a language barrier or that kind of thing I I think it's amazing I just want us to push for more and more everyone who can every family that can be engaged up for their we all know that's why you do all the work partn ABS what happens okay thank you so much on that I do have another question around um uh facility use and funds um um actually when I was meeting a family that had a bus concern and a terrible walk to school we thank you to U Matt's team and transportation team and they that was able to be addressed um down Sopris North Houston we walked all the way there we

092could not walk back she called her niece her niece picked us up in a car and um the niece said why do we have to pay to use the vpack she's on the dance team at cciir high school and so I thought oh that is a tricky one hearing you and you answered this question the other day so I'd like to see if you could share like what is that charge to student groups so this is a dance team at a high school how do we differentiate that and how could we because I another person another citiz said it's like the Beltway we were told the Beltway as soon as we paid for the Beltway we' all be a to use for free and I never did and a foreign company owns it right so

093just how does that look to where ultimately student groups don't have to spend the money um or what kind of cost or how does that work so currently we have all district events and so those they don't pay rent like it's everything's included so if it's a oneoff so like we had sards they paid to have their choir so they only pay for the labor which is just for the setup for if for that it was just the risers and things like that so they don't pay rent so they're just paying it's a minimal fee so excellent answer thank you because I do think people worry about that and that's I mean we have to pay the cover the expenses of what something and I do know and I also want to say to the

094Barry Center um they've done such a fantastic job Proms and homecomings I can't believe I'm the kids enjoy it like lots of kids go say how first year I was like how's this going to go loved it they love their proms there they love everything you guys do to create the Ambiance and so I know there's some cost expense is that true at the Berry Center as well as far as the cost model for our student groups and our student our schools uh so there's a few different there's two different things that student groups can fit into uh if it's a social event such as a prom a homecoming a banquet or a dance they get a 50% discount on the rent and they get discounted uh rent rental on equipment um they also pay

095the school district rate for catering um which is basically at cost so any of those social events they're getting a far far reduction so they're able to get more for their money at the Berry Center so that's why they can afford all of those additional um you know AV Equipment and things like that here versus if they go to a hotel downtown they're probably just getting a DJ and you know limited snacks versus here that you can eat you know dinner and have your desserts um whenever it comes to the award shows schools are allowed to have one free event at the Barry Center for a schoolwide event such as an award show um so a lot of our schools do utilize that at the end of the season we have very limited dates because

096we have a large large uh District but then some of those schools find times to use it throughout the year such as I believe it's Woodard or another school use it in December for their um choir program um and that's they get that one time free after that though schools do have to use it um but then any other things such as like a school districtwide thing they get it for free so whenever we do things like uh Middle School one act play high school one act play things like that that Encompass the entire District they're not paying for those because they're not selling tickets or generating Revenue so we give it to them for free excellent thank you you guys do such a high quality job with that appreciate it um I do have

097um I did want to give positive reinforcement to the Early Childhood team with the parent survey you went out it and and I think we've listed a lot of ways I I love the focus throughout the presentation on input and feedback that's been something that I've been really um eager to really see that we continue to get input and feedback so your parents survey straight to them how do we teach how you do you feel safe are you I mean it was so direct and you got beautiful congratulations on the outcomes but also really on the process of asking the tough questions getting the feedback and continuing to build it so that's excellent and that's why you have to open up more and more space and then the challenge to that group um would be

098that we could how can we as a board make the conditions such that every single teacher being chair of the teacher Recruitment and Retention committee if a teacher wants child care in our system how could we make sure there's no weight list that you can know if you want to come teach in scair first of all we have the best salaries we're the best place to work and yes you can get child care here um so I just push that challenge out to the team how can we do it so that everyone who works here could have an opportunity for child care that needs it and um I think course got um don't you hate waiting till the end Scott um but I would also say the input and feedback opportunities you said it like

099this Teresa I think you said something like to Dr keilan and the administration and so I actually challenge us as a board and maybe we can do it at the committee level but we should be getting input and feedback our feedback is different this input is on the programming and all the stuff that sits under the job of the superintendent but we as a board our job is to listen to the voice of the community what do people want and as we enter into what looks increasingly like a choice environment is coming coming we have to be talking to people understanding what people want what could we offer that we don't offer how do we give it to them how do we do it better than anyone else cuz I think we can do it

100better than anyone else so I challenge us as a board to get input and feedback and find out all the ways we can and I ask the administration to help that's part of how it looks but we the board should be asking for input and feedback directly to us from the community in our role as described in you know Texas code um so I look forward to hear more and more and from our community because that way we will be able to provide what everyone wants and be everyone's best choice and so anyway again thank you to everyone incredible I'll make more comments to um the teacher Time study in the My Board teacher ad hoc teacher Recruitment and Retention a hoc committee report um but exceptional work and the fact that they've already taken

101action Theresa your team to relieve workload administrative workload from teachers now during like already I can't wait to see the feedback on that because that's huge and so congratulations and thank you we'll talk with more detail later uh thank you scottt part two go ahead Lucas uh so I'll keep my comments brief um and did have a chance to ask questions in our subcommittee prior of this so team great job as I said before um outstanding we covered a lot of material here I think anybody would be hard pressed to go to a different district and see the level of scope of services that the district provides and how thoughtful and purposeful that we're being on reaching out to the community so it really when we use the word staff that doesn't quite describe the

102dedication of the team members that we have in the roles that they're in uh so I was with Devin yesterday actually um my daughter's in cheer he had a cheer competition it was a revenue generating opportunity I wanted to come see and you know I asked a question well what time did you arrive so he gave me the hour and I know that it's the the time that his team arrived and the dedication that his team has and just like at the vpac I was with I think I went to every single one of those things uh that you listed and the Navy Band conductor right before he kind of he did his last piece said you know folks I want to make a comment the community you don't know what you have here in

103the vpac he said I tour and I perform in hundreds of Halls Across the Nation and he said this facility by far exceeds all of them and performance major I've performed in many Halls myself um I see the dedication that goes into it so thank you to you and your team to our ELC group wow that's very important and I I know how critical it is and I agree with the strategy to get our families into prek to try to increase enrollment and get them introduced to sfair I believe in the mission and I look forward to seeing what we can do uh a couple of real quick questions um from a Business Partnership standpoint I'm very curious what level of retention we have because I suspect the profile is a business partner comes into

104the district because they want to be here and they stay with the district correct we have um an existing business partner contact base and then we go out on the community invite new business partners to our monthly meetings so we're a part of the Chamber of Commerce and we attend all the ribbon cuttings that these new businesses are opening in our community and we attend those and then we engage and we invite them to our meetings and we try to get them plugged in and connected to our district to support a campus and so we are our numbers keep ticking up but the growth I think just keeps you know and so we we we were at a period where we didn't have a lot of of um business partners coming to our meetings but

105I think with the new growth and with the additional um expansion of bridgelin and we have been pleasantly surprised with our U monthly meetings and our attendance so our business partners stay they want to support the the school district and for them when they invest and they advertise with us it's very minimal dollars considering but every patient every client every customer um is in this community for them and so um they want to give back and they want to support yep and and what comes to mind are things such as uh business partners contributing to facilities at schools so there's one of our elementary schools in the back of Fairfield uh wonderful school and it's actually one of our very first playgrounds that was accessible for handicapped kids and that was donated by a business

106partner who came in through your program if I'm not mistaken correct we can't do the things we do without our business partners they are phenomenal and you talk about booster clubs with Scott Tucker and our PTO that generate Revenue um a lot of that of course is parents but a lot of that is our own community and our our business partners in our backyard that support all of our children churches are phenomenal I mean amazing provide amazing support for our campuses and so we we are so grateful to our partners you know we had a presentation this evening from all of your team and it's such a bro you guys are all the first line responders to our community and you're the face of our community in so many ways uh so thank you very

107much for the time and effort and the dedication that you guys put forth thank you no for the comments I just quick Don I'm in a similar business to you uh so getting new customers getting new business out there I just want to tell you great job this this year so far I also want to uh send a call out to the community for to really recognize the business partners the people that are advertising with us that are spending their advertising dollars with us to really consider um doing business with these people because I I can't think of a better better way for the community to help the community so thank you so much hey Don real quick while you're up there uh quick question on mentors how many mentors you talked about hours I

108saw that how many mentors do we currently have about right now 600 okay and you still want more right every month we train so we just train 19 last and how how do people become a mentor they register so if they come to the campus and they want to serve or Mentor or a counselor engages a parent and they want a mentor they guide them to the web page and they register um as a mentor it prompts a background check and then they sit in a a holding pattern in our Raptor system and we check the holding pattern and we invite all of them to the mentor training each month we train them which is required and then we go back to Raptor take the hold off and then we email the mentor liaison on

109each campus saying Don is just trained she's eager to get started with a student and so we do that monthly so that we can constantly get new mentors a lot of times when we have adoptions those companies or churches want to become mentors as well so there might be a big influx of mentors because a church adopted or a restaurant or um something of that nature and so we want to make sure that we're training monthly to get them through those doors thank you very much you're welcome and just a shout out to Joel and lesi as well thank you for bringing in the high school group to do a lot of your stuff I know your team is very stretched and they do a great job on a lot of your videos if you

110don't mind let if you can send this PowerPoint to the board I don't think I got it in my email but did a great job on that I really do appreciate you one more go ahead I I meant to actually uh I had so many positive notes and one was to I the social media um those program highlights that you're doing are truly didn't want to leave you out that was they're really engaging and I think they just to Spotlight so much of the choices that are here for our kids so thank you so much for that and I just to Todd's question about the frequency of reporting on the revenue we actually had a discussion in committee about um these reports and it's so um informative to hear from the people doing the job

111and we had a discussion about getting Safety and Security which is guard rail two or four two right yeah safety is always job number one to do the main job right um so um I just to the same I idea we discussed of having a frequent update just like this so informative so good letting us know the different aspects of the Safety and Security and then having the community also have the opportunity as we're being updated so I look forward to um I had said during the committee that I'd advocate for that but I just see this the power in being able to get the information with data and facts and to know all the aspects of what's going on uh so I put that request out formally and I guess it can be taken

112to committee or to uh the president maybe to the president I I'll have that with Scott just to see if we can get um um on our reporting calendar what does it currently say on guard rail 2 as far as how often we'll have updates to the board on Safety and Security I think that one is twice a year also um I need to confirm that I I yeah you you've done wonderful work I think it's twice a year though I think I'd like to meet with the president and maybe maybe the officers I'm not sure and we can see if that couldn't be a little bit more frequent at four times at least um this was incredible information I appreciate you guys and your team fantastic job all right moving on thank you very

113much the board will now review the following consent agenda items during a review of the following items any board member May remove these items in which that time these items will be addressed on vote on individually if any board member has a question please ask to be recognized and I'll recognize you 6A the board of consenter approving minutes for December 5th 20124 6B the board consider approving minutes of December 9th 20 24 special call board meeting 6C the board consider approving uh the uh afjr CC agreement between Department of Air Force and cfd 6D the board consider authorizing renewal of the clinici affiliation agreement with Texas Women's University 6E the Border will consider giving uh granting a temporary construction easement to Harris County 6f the board consider approving Construction proposals contracts paid from bond funds

114to the recommended contractors and authorize their superintendent to execute all the necessary documents related to such contracts 6 F1 s Lakes High School renovation 6 F2 S Ranch High School renovation 6G the board consider approving and authorizing superintendent entered and miscellaneous Professional Services contracts related the following projects 6 G1 cakes High School renovation HVAC test and balancing Services 6h the board consider awarding bids contracts and authorizing purchase orders as recommended the post an item 6 H1 broker services for employee benefits 6 H2 commodity processed food nutrition services and 6 H3 steamer and oven forri Services we'll now proceed to non-consent agenda items 7A see we have a couple of speakers let's begin our speakers uh we consider approving on first readings additions revisions or dations of District policies 7 A1 dce local Employment Practices 782

115dce compensation and benefits leave and absences 7 A3 D GBA personnel management relations employeer complaints grievances Revis in 7 A4 fa parents rights and responsibilities add following speakers if you please move forward we have uh seven first speaker is Serena probably mispronounced as arzu you know I have two minutes to speak Serena you here next speaker is Mo Hatfield Follow by Mark hello my name is Mo Hatfield and I'm a recent graduate from cfis I also happen to be nonbinary cfd was my home for four years and I plan a return to teach here once I get my degree the first adult I ever told about my gender identity was my high school theater teacher and a close second was one of my English teachers they helped me get to a point where I felt

116comfortable enough to come out to my parents and I knew I had someone to go to if it went badly many trans and non-binary students also look to their school to be a supportive environment according to a 2024 survey from the Trevor Project a queer youth Mental Health Resource organization that was formerly included on the cfis SD's website resource page found that 46% of trans youth seriously considered suicide in the past year and 14% attempted suicide 65% of trans youth have felt discriminated against due to their gender identity in the past year 16% of trans students found their school to be more supportive than their home in the past year and trans students who found their school to be gender affirming had significantly lower rates of suicide attempts and suicidal ideation this policy revision would

117remove the existence of a huge group of people from all school materials including completely optional library books how does not letting students know about other people prepare them to be 21st century global leaders this policy will hurt students physically and emotionally do you want to be responsible for something that will harm students if you're not here in the best interest of students then why are you here thank you Mark thornby Mark Morgan Lee Brett Robinson I don't think anything I could say today could be put as well as Mo just did uh Mo I do thank you for your courage in speaking today um all I will say is I read the policy plan and I saw that um under it it said that accepting cases of suspected abuse District staff will notify parents I

118took this and this is could be found at the bottom of page two when I read that it almost felt like an admittance that we knew that abuse would could be a problem in Parental notification I think that if you as a parent do not know that your own child is struggling with their identity I I trust the child more than I trust the parent at that point I trust them with their own privacy with their own life with their own identity and the questions that they might have and who they go to with those questions so this policy for me is not a question of whether the district should involve the parent is a question of whether the student should be forced by the district to involve the parent so this policy claims to

119be about parental rights but my question is what about the child's personal right to privacy many of these children also happen to be members of the lgbtq community just as they are not forced to tell anyone that they might be gay straight or otherwise that is their private business and no one should be forced to compel them to share that information with anyone I don't know what else to add I wasn't expecting to have two minutes that was it and I had preparation but I really just want everyone to kind of take a moment and think back to when you were a kid and if you kept any secrets from your parents I know I didn't really keep any I just had happened to have a great relationship with my parents I knew I could

120come to them no matter what I had on my mind but unfortunately not every child has that luxury and so please reconsider this one thank you Mandy Giles my name is Mandy Giles and I'm speaking on agenda item 7 A4 I'm the founder of the resource parents of trans youth which serves families in the Greater Houston area including in ciir ISD this proposed policy blatantly discriminates against your transgender students the UCLA Williams Institute estimates that 1.4% % of Texas youth identify as transgender multiply that by all the students in cyfair ISD and that's more than 1,600 trans and non-binary students in your school district that's a pretty big number to exclude from feeling safe and welcome at school alerting parents that their child might be transgender without the child's permission has dangerous potential the University

121of Chicago found that lgbtq youth are 12 % more likely to experience homelessness the non-lgbtq youth and 64% of those lgbtq homeless kids were rejected by their families so mandate by mandating that parents be notified that their student wants to use a different name and pronouns you are outing that child to their parents and there is a very real risk of imminent rejection and harm for that child within their family just statistically I'm also concerned about excluding gender identity from instructional materials censoring educational material related to gender identity tells transgender kids that who they are is not appropriate and that sciare ISD thinks they don't belong and that is a painful message for any kid tonight I am here for parents of trans kids in your District who are afraid to speak out against this

122policy they're afraid of retaliation just for supporting their kids and that is a a pitiful statement please do not adopt this harmful policy thank you Jeremy [Applause] Eugene hi everyone my name is uh Jeremy Eugene I'm a teacher at s Park I teach English reading and special education and I have a cold so forgive me but um I'm here to talk about uh what this looks like from a teacher's point of view um in our training material um we have access to a curriculum or materials from the association for supervision and curriculum development um they publish a magazine called uh educational leadership and the if you search gender identity and ascd um in Google you'll see that there are dozens of Articles explaining the proper ways that if parents want more uh more access and

123more rights if you are are struggling with developing policies for gender identity they have uh options they have guidelines this is something that the district already has access to right um and the most recent thing that is published on this is an article called balancing latitude and limitations it's by Ashley woo and Elizabeth Steiner it has three evidence-based approaches for Teacher autonomy the first one says guide teachers toward evidence-based approaches and build the capacity to adapt these approaches to students what this means is look up the best ways that you can do uh what you want to do uh number two solicit teachers perspectives and attend to their concerns when crafting school policies um speaking for myself I did not get notification that y'all were considering this policy nobody surveyed us about the the best

124ways that we that you could do this um that's something that you should consider and the third thing support teachers use of evidence B based approaches even in the face of conflict on this one there is a specific guideline that leaders might support teachers by creating and communicating clear protocols on school leaders and teachers roles when responding to fam's concerns and conveying to teachers the types of instructional materials and practices that are grounded in research thank [Applause] you discussion any questions thanel okay thank you um I do have um several questions um my first question is what prompted the need for this new policy well I'll speak for myself I met with several teachers and uh one of one of there was there was different components to this policy um one of some of the

125teachers had asked me there there was they weren't clear exactly on what the policy was in our in our school district for when you know as far as address addressing uh you know proper pronouns usage and uh things like that they they had uh yeah they had genuine concerns that they they didn't agree with um you know the use of of a biolog maybe a biological boy uh being you know using pronouns for a female and uh it was couple of people that actually told me it was religious there was also a few people that told me they just didn't believe in it um it was it it was just against their personal belief system so um there was these are these are teachers I'm just going to clarify teachers teachers so um so that's

126that's kind of what prompted the the the one one portion of the policy um but as far as parents rights I think this is something that we've been kind of discussing on and off uh for probably the last several months um just giving giving the parents an um more of an opportunity to understand what's going on with their children and giving them that giving them those rights I mean I think that's a again I don't I don't believe there I mean Marty I'm going to lean on you on on this but is there a law that specifically requires that that we we can have teachers discuss sexuality with students is are we in compliance with the state of Texas there um yes we're in compliance with this policy there's nothing illegal in this policy um

127okay thank you um oh go ahead uh I actually did put a request into the policy committee so uh not knowing everything that the policy committee was working on um I can tell you that um at a parent night at the Barry Center hosted by counseling on a safety topic this topic came up among parents asking questions about conversations with counselers and others about these types of subjects and whether they would have the right to know about those conversations and they didn't get an answer that was yes it was kind of a great area and much to Mr Eugene's Point um being having been an educator parents others people need to know what is yes and what is no they need to know what are the what is black and what is white what they

128can do what they can't do um I think that for um parents seering peace I think for teachers it's good to know I don't have to love it but at least I know when I'm in compliance when I'm not in compliance and um so that's parents and teachers and um um this is also an area where um the uh for students I feel like the um Miss Giles did I say it right uh I think this is incredible that they're organizing ations that are there to support because um my I've had every kind of friend and my kid has every kind of friend um but that's the that's an organization professional able to do that expert in that set up for that purpose they're the better people to handle it than a few teachers trained

129in how to give pedagogy in English um they are beautiful they are about relationships but I think that this is something that um can be handled better by people who are there and the parents choose and I will always say it's Parents Choice um parents rights parents children they deserve the opportunity to parent their children not everyone I mean God bless us who had better parents who we could be honest with but that is still not the role of the school to parents and so I requested policy and I appreciate the work that was done um through the committee um to bring this to us in this form um okay thank you I'll continue my questions um that did answer one of my questions about who brought the policy forward um I will ask also

130um are you aware that cfd already has a policy that's extensive regarding parent rights fa legal as well as we follow and are in compliance with chapter 26 of Texas Education Code which is parents rights so this new policy really just mostly repeats parts of the Texas Education Code with a few new things I guess I'm questioning why do we need to add another policy when most of it is redundant which just adds additional bureaucracy and my another question is how does this new policy support our district goals uh having made a request for it people couldn't answer these questions so clearly policy wasn't doing what it was needed to do it had to be more specific and more precise so that people could know safely what is able to be done and not be

131done I think people deserve that in a profession students deserve that parents deserve that um and so it wasn't I couldn't find the answers and I looked if I looked for the answers they were not there so to me that is the need for a policy to give answers to make it clear and I can expand on that teachers that I spoke with just wanted a a clear Direction there was no they that these things that weren't weren't addressed in clear policy before and so we're giving clear guidance to our to our students uh for our teachers and staff now um I guess I guess my question is I feel like uh the material that in following chapter 26 of the Texas Education Code and Fa legal that those concerns are already addressed without the

132need for another policy um I still don't feel comfortable or I have a clear understanding of how this policy supports our district goals or support students um I am somewhat skeptical um of um bringing another new policy that simply copies um what's been done in a neighboring School District um versus uh I know you said that you heard from some teachers in my experience I've not heard one person at a campus a teacher a parent a Community member Express a concern about this topic again that I feel like this may be a solution in search of a problem um when a problem does not actually exist in our district um I also uh uh based upon my understanding of the materials that were shared with the policy committee uh in in an effort to push

133this new policy it does appear that um it's pushing a suggested board policy that was developed and promoted by an outside organization the Texas public policy Foundation tppf which has publicly and aggressively advocated against public education and for defunding public schools I know this because I received the same materials via an email from this organization that Natalie shared with your committee I got those same materials I deleted it because and disregarded it because I don't take policy direction from tppf when a neighboring School District did pass this policy tppf did send out a a press release applauding it and crowing about it I received this email and I think some of you probably did too so my question is will there be a press release about cfd sent out by tppf if this policy is

134passed I'm asking Todd right nowley thank you I have absolutely no no idea about tppf I mean that's not you don't know that that's the source of this policy materal that was sent there a l there was a lot of materials that Miss blasting game sent over to us we sh we Shar with with general counsel we crafted a policy that was that was again in compliance with state law we're we we're following state law Julie ta there's not inst state law it the state law in that policy is correct there's references to Texas Education Code there's references to the Texas Attorney General the parts in there that are do not have references to state law are the parts I'm questioning you saying that you received materials from Natalie and you didn't ask her where

135where she got it well I'm telling you where she got it tppf um okay um I will just say that I have zero connections with tppf I have no idea what tppf will do I know the chronicle always writes articles I'm sure they will and I will also tell you that the material that I researched came from many different places some of the push back was that it wasn't from the state of Texas and I think that may be why some things were directed that way because they weren't sure that law from other states would apply I pushed back on the committee and I said it does apply that's the whole point of case law and pre and how law Works law works unprecedent and so I can tell you if you want to um

136sit through and go through how many states and places there is a lot of research just done to see what can be done in the best interest to make sure everyone's very clear on what can be done so everyone is safe and everyone is clear and everyone can then proceed to educate our children every everyone is safe and make sure that we can also all have a you know a safe community so this was not just based on tppf and I can um speak with 100% of um I can make a 100% statement that there's no connection to any of those people I've spoken with no one there but they did provide some material that I think was quite high quality I received the same material and again I disregarded it because I do not

137take policy direction from tppf are you aware that the other school district in in our area that adopted this policy is under federal investigation Todd are you aware of that I am not aware of current current federal investigation through KD for are you referring to KD ISD yes I am I I was not aware of that but again we have general counsel that we lean on to make sure that we're in full compliance with the laws of the State of Texas and so we are in full compliance uh Miss Miss Sims are we is that correct when I say we're in full compliance of the law with this with this policy there's nothing in the policy to my knowledge that violates state law right that question's been asked three times and answered and I do

138understand the answer but I'm telling I'm asking you do you want us do you want scair to go down on that same path and have a federal investigation filed against us Julie i g say one more time we are in compliance with the state of Texas with the laws of the State of Texas we we lean on our general counsel Miss Marty Sims to give us the advice when we when we can create policy we are leaning on that advice she's the professional she's the expert we are in compliance in full with state law I understand this board of seven does not include Miss Marne Colin Sims she is an adviser this board is going to be the one voting on this policy I have one other uh concern well I have a couple other

139concerns um about this policy and one is the process uh it's been um clarified that Natalie did bring this uh tppf packet to the policy committee and has pushed this policy I've noticed in the notes that uh Todd you met with Natalie before one of your committee meetings to discuss the materials and then you met in the committee and discussed meeting with Natalie afterwards that is not a a correct statement uh we had uh Miss Miss SS asked me to to reach out to Natalie based on what what is what is it actually that she wanted and she Natalie basically have that conversation uh I just said to send her send over what she what she wanted because we didn't want to violate to the Toma uh Texas open meetings act so that I I

140went off the guidance of our general counsel our general counsil gave me gave me that guidance we walking a very fine line uh I have a question uh specific part of the the uh policy under accommodations plans uh I have a question about what hr's role is in on this um and how that would be applied um again under combinations plans where it says the uh HR will become involved well the teachers is this the intent of involving HR that the teachers will be assigned uh reassigned or put on leave can you help clarify that Miss Miss Hinman I would direct those questions to admin that's a good that's a good Marty um question actually because we had talked about uh the the process and the evaluation process if if the policy is passed prior

141to Second reading I did let um um Miss Franklin know that I would talk with human resources but it would be a similar interactive dialogue like under for instance title 7 if a uh employee is requesting an accommodation for instance have a sincerely held religious belief and um you know this otherwise neutral rule you know in b um you know may unduly burden my free exercise and so HR has a role where they will have what's called an interactive dialogue where we talk about what would be a reasonable accommodation how can we still you know implement the rule while um trying to accommodate your sincerely held religious belief and so it's it's an interactive dialogue and it's and it's individualized but that's the intent behind that piece so if a employee wants to request um

142an accommodation themselves and that uh is triggered by them not wanting to follow the accommodation plan then that would be handled through human resources not on the campus but it would be handled through human resources like other requests for accommodation so I hope that answers the question no it does thank you um it's interesting that that we have such a a uh intentional process for accommodating the concern of the teacher but I'm concerned about the process of accommodating the needs of the students we have an intentional process for that as well so and you can go into detail about that because I don't think we're actually changing how we go through that process either you're talking about regulations with with students yeah yes yes so I guess that might that would lead my question then

143why is this policy needed if we already have um accommodations and plans in regulation Mar do we currently have this set in policy exactly by verbatim What what we discussed and also adding the uh the pral consent for surveys as well well the first part of the question the um accommod ation plan um that is not currently in local policy that is part of our as Miss Hinman said regulatory practice so that's been our administrative practice and how we consider any type of request for accommodation under any any number of um situations from 504 idea Title 9 and so we do have that operationally but it is not currently in a local policy oh and then um we have in um again more administrative regulation operating guideline on surveys I think it's in the employee

144handbook Teresa I can cannot remember so we do have some guidance on surveys but again um as you asked we don't have that in a local policy I guess again that just reinforces my why do we need this when the the intentions and the content and the actions are already covered uh I don't know the needs for another new policy additional bureaucracy when when that it's already being addressed um at at the level that needs to be addressed which is operationally that actually brings me to a question maybe for Council uh definitely for Council um what is actually it uh regulations are not policy not enforcable by the school board and I think I've been doing some different trainings in different places and I'm starting to understand that even legal policy is not actually policy

145enforcement directly by the school board local policy is what is enforcable by the school board and so for us to just have a regulation or a local practice does not put it in policy and it's not enforcable by the school district is that correct I mean by the board sorry and so you say enforcable by the board so the the board is at a governance level they're at an oversight level and so the board doesn't actually enforce anything so you hire a superintendent you hire a general counsel and you tell us to enforce it so I don't know in there the measures exactly what needs to be done what is held the superintendent's held accountable for respon and exactly what kind of um uh what would you call it uh what are the um the

146results should it not be followed in in the district and that's what I mean by enforceable is that true right so we lay out the policy for the superintendent to execute and what makes it um and that makes it actually have to be it is then policy and has to be enforced as written when it's put into policy correct um well so legal policy and I want to make sure I'm answering the question that you asked so legal policy is the law we all have to follow it and so it it is a policy that's enforcable there are things in legal policy that if you know a teacher doesn't follow it they may have you know employment ramifications they may have certification ramifications and it may not be in local policy it's only a legal

147policy but it is you know it's enforcable and so um local policy is where then the governing body says okay we know what the law says here's how I want you to do it um at the local level and then and you say that effectively to the superintendent um to your employee and you say this is my expectation for where the district's going you know here's we want to go north I expect you to generally go up I45 and so then the superintendent he looks to his cabinet he looks to directors all the F down to you know the classroom staff and says okay we we're going we're going to Dallas we're taking I45 North but the first thing we're going to do is get on the Beltway and then we're going to and so

148it's more like the turn BYT directions and so that would be um regulation uh operating guidelines and so if those things are not followed there is consequence but it in that there may be consequence from a performance standpoint um a variety of things but it wouldn't be like it would be consequence natural consequences but it would be consequences as through the superintendent so you would hold the superintendent accountable and the superintendent would hold um his staff accountable so we do policy in order to hold the superintendent accountable and hold the staff accountable we create the policy that gives that road map and we are a local Schoolboard and this is the most um primary example of citizen-based local elected bodies because each Community has its personality each Community has its voters each Community has its

149students each as its parents and so this is why there's legal and then local policy happens so that the local the people elected by the people in the local site put that road map down for the superintendent according to local values and local um beliefs or local expectations right yes that's exactly right thank you I'll I'll conclude um my last qu questions will be uh again what problem is this policy trying to solve um if individual teachers have questions they have people that they can go to they have their supervisors they can talk to the principal they can talk to HR they can talk to Student Services if they have questions I don't see the need to create a whole new policy um one that Reg is re uh just repeats um current law or

150policy that's already in place but adds a few different uh elements um that are not necessarily based in law um those definitions that are included if you look up those terms uh using any reliable source like a dictionary those are not the definitions it's clear where those those definitions come from uh I question how this policy actually helps cfd meet the goals we've set focusing on literacy ensuring students are College and Career military ready um as a trustee have not had one person reach out to me expressing a concern about this issue I feel like this policy is not a priority that we have more important issues to deal with thank you I have a question Council um did we just say that if a teacher had a question they're not sure how to deal

151with one of these issues they would need to go to they know who to go to to answer it but there are not answers currently on the books for how to handle such a situation because there's not policy that exists at the local level yet about how to tell the teacher the answer that they n Cano is safe and follows the law of the State of Texas because many of these topics are not addressed in policy they were just some regulations is that accurate it's not previously in policy that's correct thank you see any more questions move on to 7B the Border consider approving the Sha's recommendation to remove Health as required course for graduation we' have a presentation Dr gory Christine Cole good evening we have one speaker first I'm sorry sorry about that

152Eugene Jeremy jeene want your time is two minutes hello once again I'm I'm jery Eugene I am a teacher at C Park I teach uh special education English and reading I'm here because um I listened to the uh the the recording of the Sha meeting for December and um it was clear that uh that it was contentious uh that things were discussed for a half an hour or more um but it was not clear what anyone was saying during that meeting um you could not hear what people were saying on the recording um for most of the discussion you could make out like one or two words but you canot make out full sentences you canot make out um people's thoughts and their uh Arguments for why the uh the the course should or should

153not be removed um the meeting minutes do say um that Linda missus explained the topics covered including decision- making goal setting mental health tobacco and alcohol prevention treatment body systems physical activity CPR um but and and you can make out that uh she says that the same topics will be covered in other classes but you can't make out any of the discussion around the consequences of removing those um from the requirement of the the instruction that would happen in a health class um so if there was any discussion around something like for instance decreasing the instruction time on a crucial topic like alcohol prevention uh we don't know what was said in that meeting um so due to this I'm wondering if there's an alternate approach that could be taken instead of accepting the Sha's

154recommendations um such as reconvening to properly re-record and retake the vote um or perhaps getting a written statement um and submitting it along with the meeting minutes from each Shack member explaining their statements to the discussion um and I also want to say that I hope that yall uh do whatever you must to ensure that all recordings are fully and clearly audible going forward thank you I'd like to bring up Miss Castro she's our co-chair for the Sha and so she's going to begin our presentation good evening um my name is Ence Castro I and I serve as a co-chair for the school health advisory committee alongside Miss Cole um who is our other co-chair the school health advisory committee was tasked with providing a recommendation to the Board of Trustees regarding whether Health should

155remain a local graduation requirement currently health is required course for graduation in sciare ISD to inform this this decision committee members reviewed the information about health one course as well as the results of parent and student surveys on December 3rd a vote was conducted and the committee recommended eliminating Health as a graduation requirement while continuing to offer it as a as a elective um so I will turn it over to Mrs Cole and Miss gory will now provide more um details thank you Miss Castro we're going to provide a little bit more information the school oops one second there we go the school health advisory Council has provided recommendation tonight because Texas Education Code mandates that a school district consider the recommendation of the local school health advisory Council before making changes to the district's

156health education instruction the Tex Education Code indicates that Shaq is responsible for recommending to the school board if the school district requires health education for high school graduation on November 14th the Sha convened and was tasked with providing a recommendation to the Board of Trustees about whether or not Health should be removed as a graduation requirement currently health is a local graduation requirement in cfd former Chief academic officer Dr msas provided an overview of the task and shared keyy information about the health course this included details on the tis covered timing of the course and its benefits Dr msas also noted that some of the teaks currently addressed in the health course would still need to be incorporated into other content content areas if removed Additionally the shack reviewed survey questions and distributed to CFI

157parents and students students only participate in the survey with parental consent Dr has answered questions from members on December 3rd the Sha reconvened to review the survey results seek clarification on any outstanding questions and finalize its recommendation to the Board of Trustees after extensive discussion a vote was conducted Dr garee will provide you with the survey results the survey captured data from both students and parents looking first at the parent responses here's the first question do you support cfis keeping high school health as a graduation requirement there were 6,595 respondents 75% of them voted yes 25% voted no continuing with all parent with the parent responses do you support cfis offering high school health as an elected 6590 respondents 77% said yes 23% said no now looking at student data do you support cfd keeping

158high school health as a graduation requirement same question 33,6 186 students responded 59% said yes 41% no again students answered this question do you support cfis offering high school health as an elected 75 79% said yes 21% said no there were two main discussion points regarding the interpretation of the survey results which centered around parent choice some members felt that the survey results indicated that parents had expressed their preference by completing the survey supporting theide a that Health should remain as a graduation require requirement others believe that parents could exercise choice for their child by having Health offered as an elective instead after the vote 55.5% of the members recommended eliminating Health as a graduation requirement while continuing to offer as an elective although there wasn't consensus the majority um the majority voted to forward

159the recommendation to the Board of Trustees this concludes our presid presentation we will now answer any questions you may have any questions Lucas I have one from a survey standpoint one survey asked a question of parents do you want to keep it as a graduation requirement 74% almost 75% said yes and then almost just slightly less than that said they would like to keep it as they would accept it as an elective can you help me understand the tease out the differences is there because it seems are those the same group of parents it's the same number of respondents and so it's one is saying yes keep it as a requirement and the other seems to be that they're saying yeah let's we're good with it being an elective in the initial meeting on November

16014 there were some questions about the wording of the survey um at that point the survey had already been um presented or given to to parents and students is there anything else you that should be added about that okay yeah just from my own experience in building surveys this one indicates that the wording may have led to a little bit of confusion because those are should be flip sides of the same coin well um you could do go three ways you could completely eliminate Health from our curriculum completely right um you could obviously have it as an elective or you can have it as a requirement so yeah I just for future feedback and writing surveys I don't and I'm not sure it was very clear because the numbers to me tell me it's slightly

161more said let's keep it as an elective which is you know that's good feedback but I'm surprised in seeing those numbers pan out the way that they did it's even more telling when you look at the students yep because there's a stark difference between them wanting it as a mandate and versus elected I have a a question how were the surveys administered to the students was it in health class or other classes as well Dr clayber can you provide Insight the surveys were administered through English class all students have an specific English class in high school as well as in Middle School okay thank you okay um uh thank you for the information um you know uh the district first solicited information from parents students teachers and community members about this question of should Health

162remain as a requirement for graduation and at that time the survey results were very similar 75% of parents said yes to keep it as a graduation requirement 77% of students said yes 85% of teachers and 90% of community members said yes to keep Health as a graduation requirement um the board when we we received those results uh some folks weren't satisfied in question the validity due to sample size although the results were accepted for the other four topics that were included in that initial survey so the the district did another survey which is the survey results we're we're seeing today uh and uh to the credit of doing a second survey much better participation uh so much more reliable and valid uh in the second survey what we've seen uh as been presented is that

163parents want to keep Health as a graduation requirement 75% that includes 74% of high school parents that were surveyed and even 75% of Middle School parents that were surveyed so their students haven't even taken it yet but they see value in uh keeping Health as a graduation requirement and 74% of high school parents did um I think the the survey I agree uh with Lucas said it was somewhat confusing in my many conversations that I had with folks that reached out to me because they were confused the way that it was interpreted was yes I want it as a graduation requirement but if you're going to not do that at least keep it as a as a an elective it's like the backup but their first preference was to keep it as a graduation requirement

164incredibly our students came out in force to answer these questions 33,600 students responded 59% of students said they wanted to keep Health as a graduation requirement that includes 60% of high school students who responded that said they wanted to keep these are students who have taken the class and see value in it when uh the superintendent student leadership advisory Council was asked these are the top students at our all 12 of our high schools 75% of our highest achieving students said they wanted to keep Health as a graduation requirement according to both of these input opportunities it's very clear that parents and students want to maintain Health as a graduation requirement so I question why would we make a change that very few people want but parents and students want to keep um I would

165um I'm just going to make comments I'm not answering question um I um actually as a parent U my daughter thought it was a very useful class I have Shar sh the curriculum up here from the Das I think there's some incredibly important information that students can learn in health um and if I was choosing for my daughter today I would say yes to health I would make that decision now listen health is this is not a new conversation I was a high school principal in 2010 when this came up for discussion and from the state the first time that you could choose to have it be a health requirement I mean have it be removed as a graduation requirement and in Spring bran I we did remove it it was interesting to see those

166who chose and didn't choose the class I think the fact that the students are responding like this is the biggest compliment there can be to our health teachers and our curriculum um writers in this District because kids do think the class is relevant and they are getting useful information and so I think that's amazing but since 2010 we've also lost the community's Trust on issues we have administrative procedures we do on things and kind of do things but there's things that people care about you have a strong if you think 77% of parents of 100 let's just say even if it was one parent per 119,000 kids right 77% is an impressive number but so is the 23% that said no and the 25% that said no those people don't trust us to do this

167curriculum exactly how they want to present it to their children for the same reason that I spend considerable amount of time researching a parents rights policy parents deserve the right to decide for their child the content they want them to have my right for my daughter or my children would be to take health I like the class I think it offers them that but that should be my choice so to me this is very the datart screams at us and tells us exactly what to do it says for the 75% that say yes they want it as a class give it to them and for the 23% that say no of parents don't let them they don't have to take it it's easy I feel like our changing um we have used it very conveniently

168with pace and ironically my own feedback from my own child and friends that hang out still at our house all winter break from college um Pace was less useful even than health they would all say keep Health not pace and so I'm just going to say that the um to me this is simple cuz you can take you can honor every single last person in this data by choosing option two which is that we would um remove it as a graduation requirement and keep it as an elective then you've answered everyone's need and that's how I feel like the Sha voted and I appreciate those who serve there um but to me this is a no-brainer um every parent can choose for their child will we have a challenge of creating a uh electives choices

169do we have to look at um GPA games that people play in order to because this was a great equalizer we will have to because that's actually talk about who Moved My Cheese that's access to the University of Texas right that's access to A&M that's access to uh things for students so I do think we have a bit of a challenge in our hands let's get creative let's CL let's choose electives that people want to take that are also at the same GPA weight um but to me we can answer everyone's desire from the survey by choosing option two so one of the things that I noticed is I cannot draw a conclusion that there is an overwhelming pref preference for health to stay as a requirement simply from the surveys we we in essence

170have two contradictory surveys um I think we could have benefited from a question that said would you support Health as an elective if Health wasn't a requirement I think we could have benefited from that question as well but um I know we devoted a little bit of time to the survey and and the survey was useful uh but there was some contradictory elements that aren't allow us to draw um hard conclusions from the survey alone I would like to ask Miss Castro a few questions as she's available welcome to public service so as our our representative from Shaq uh again we you know we've discussed the survey a little bit let me ask you a question kind of just from the the Shaq's uh Viewpoint how did y'all interpret the survey data and what were

171some of the key factors that led to ultimately to your recommendation um kind of what you just said you know it it's hard to draw um a hard conclusion just because some of the questions were contradictory um we were torn you know um but in the end we kind of just took a vote like we had a open discussion about hey what are your concerns about the survey what are your concerns when we went over through um when we went over the um the curriculum and that's just kind of how we drew our conclusion so you you focused on the survey which was important of course um Can can you talk did y'all pro and con the actual curriculum and did y'all discuss the actual class itself and the benefits that it would provide students

172as a requirement and I'm I'm assuming I'm going to make an assumption that there was a probably a general consensus that health class and the curriculum had some value right but I guess probably the Lynch pin was do we make this a requirement or do we make this an elective and kind of give me a little insight as to what the discussion was on that what ultimately led to the recommendation um with the help of um Dr l msas um we kind of just like asked a lot of questions hey if we do not keep Health as a requirement for cyer ISD where do some of those where does some of that curriculum go where does that fall because there are some um topics in there that still have to be taught and that was

173one of our main concerns like okay does this fall on another subject and you know when it was brought up as keeping it as an elective or you know the recommendation of it was how do I say it like it's not as indepth if it's in an elective as if we keep it for a I'm assuming yearlong class so if if I'm kind of putting it all together the committee looked at it realized there's some there's some valuable aspects of it and therefore it should be offered and it it would basically uh hit those goals of making that curriculum that instruction and that subject matter available to the students yes okay uh well well first of all thank you very much for your service and we appreciate all your efforts and all your committee members

174and I I don't have any more questions for you nor do I have any more for admin but thank you very much thank you and I want to just add I don't know uh Dr blasing G may may have had a have a different choice of words maybe a better choice of words but I I don't know if it's about lost trust I think maybe it could it just G gives parents a little bit more options maybe maybe they don't believe in it as much you know but I I trust maybe you know I've had had difficulty sometimes getting getting the words out uh that I wanted to get out but um I I just think options was was really um and the I was in attendance of that of that particular Shack meeting and

175uh that's what I kept kept hearing from the parents that were were supportive of keeping it as an elective is G giv giving parents more options yeah and and let me jump in I from the data what I see is that the students clearly State give this to us as an elective and we have parents that feel strongly about it both ways fine to your point Dr Blackson game we can give them the option and those that want it can choose it this very clear response thank you um you know uh that uh one of the questions that Justin asked uh brings up um a question that I had uh for Dr gory um the question of uh the materials that still needs to be covered the teaks still need to be covered as well

176as the uh not necessarily tees but content that has to be covered as required by state law what how how will those that be covered if this becomes a an elective instead of a requirement if this becomes an elective we will cover those teaks and requirements through other courses um integrating some in Pace some in biology and PE or the PE related courses okay I guess my concern would be um uh PE that makes sense uh to teach CPR in PE um uh and for those students who are doing band or dance they would take that they would have to do that during their extracurricular I am concerned about adding extra content or taking time away from a uh a core content area like biology uh that those Stu those teachers would lose time with

177their students in the classroom to accommodate lessons on vaping or alcohol drug use or positive body image or you know the need for physical exercise and good nutrition um you know I I do feel that uh you know we've talked the Das about how um safety is so important um and that includes uh issues like vaping drugs mental health issues um and that's why I personally believe and I agree with the parents who answer the surveys that those topics are so important that they should be a requirement for all students um all parents may not choose to uh make that choice for their student but those students may be the ones who most need um time with a trusted adult to talk about drug and alcohol use and nutrition and mental health um back to

178the shack I also want to share um my thank you to the Sha uh committee for their time and effort um I did notice when I was looking at the minutes um the Sha committee has 17 members and at this particular meeting where they were taking the vote only nine members were present um that is barely Quorum that's just they made quum by one um four voted to keep Health as a graduation requirement and five voted to remove health so again just barely five to four did they vote a a group of nine when we have thousands of parents and students saying that they want to keep it as a requirement um my question is of those five that voted to remove it um were they all parents of current students Todd oh you you

179said you were there sorry I believe every one of the every everyone was a parent that that uh voted to keep it as an elective is that correct to keep it as a My question is to keep to that voted they were parents yes yes um I believe one is not a parent that voted for yes that's correct yes so in essence one person's opinion overrides or undermines the wishes of thousands of parents and students I have a concern about that as a as a board member I I I I have a concern that we would let the opinion of one person who's not a current parent override the wishes as clearly expressed from thousands of parents and students trusty hman let me just make a comment on that I don't know this person but

180that person is also a stakeholder in this community they have a vested interest in the education of our students and their opinion is not any less of an opinion than a parents opinion so I think that's a dangerous line to walk and I wouldn't devalue anybody's opinion over anybody else's 100% I 100% agree that that's why the first survey that was done 90% of community members not parents not teachers 90% want to keep Health as a graduation requirement I I value all stakeholders input um I just want to make sure that we are listening to all stakeholders not one or two or five I still challenge that comment uh trusty Hinman severely because what we have in the data in front of us is that we have a clear perspective from both students and parents

181the majority of both said they would like to keep it as an elective I don't see the Gap here I guess I see it uh as in our responsibility to ensure that we are preparing students that we're giving them all the tools and resources that they need including the ones that their parents may not choose this for their own child we have requirements for students to help them prepare them for the future in other courses other classes I think this is one that has value to our community to our parents to our students yep I I just see I see the value in the course clearly parents and students seek value in the course um it does no harm to include it as a graduation requirement it doesn't hurt anyone to keep it as a

182graduation requirement as we have I I think from my perspective trusty heinan I think the issue is the difference in philosophies what I hear at the moment is that my perspective is that if the parents want the choice to be able to make that elective for their kid so be it because I don't want to take that responsibility in this situation of presenting a curriculum that some parents would rather they their students spend time on a different elective there's no harm there um Dr gy can you share with us the other electives that are available as one semester classes for um our freshman students we have five options total professional Communications um photojournalism leadworthy touch systems data and one all of those are onlevel options and then a kleev option World area studies right so

183uh World area studies is only available for 11th and 12th graders according to the course catalog so just an FYI that would not be available to freshmen or sophomores um photojournalism requires you the student has to have their own digital camera it's in the course catalog they can borrow them from the school my child that course okay and they have additional fees for uh material um touch data in systems entry is keyboarding we are now teaching that to kindergarteners so they can take their third grade star test and and key in their key type in their answers I don't see I personally believe that health class that discusses very important topics uh really about safety we talk about safety is a top priority for us these are topics that help keep our students safe has

184a greater uh priority over keyboarding or photojournalism or professional Communications which is actually covered in pace so I'm just sharing my opinion we don't have to agree it's a vote we each get a vote um but I see I I I feel that it's important to listen to our community and to do what's best for our students if I can miss heinan if we make um Health an El an elective we will open world area studies um to 9th graders 9th through 12th grade thank you Dr gory and uh trusty Hein in my comment and uh my thought there is that the analysis that you shared early was based upon historical fact where this was a requirement hence the elective would not have been in place so thank you Dr Gory for clarifying what an

185option may be and I think we're always challenged by creating material as an elective that students find students and parents find helpful in getting them to the their graduation objectives so uh that's my perspective we don't agree that's fine we both get a vote very good I just also wanted to make mention that for one semester of Health really truly is not enough if we're talking about safety and things like that hopefully something that the district will consider is the advisory model with having a a a trusted um uh educator that would be invested in students throughout the course of their High School career and so I think it's uh great that we give parents a choice that there was this was not a unanimous uh survey that showed a high like 90% wanted this

186or whatever and so I think when you're looking at choices you want to give parents the choice for what's best for their students and it sounds like based on what Dr gory shared a lot of students will still be taking Health uh according to the electives maybe that they would not be interested for their students on the other one so it'll still be available for them if that choice was made in the vote and I I would one more Point uh Miss Cole I know we talked about while we were at the Sha meeting that we only had a select number of people that actually respond actually even open the email I think it was like 48% of if if I recall the 48% of the the emails that were sent out were actually opened

187I don't have the I don't I wouldn't have the answer to those questions but Dr um Clayburn can speak to the actual survey 66,67 surveys were sent M of those 6,665 had apparent response to one or more questions 2893 the email was read but the survey was not taken okay and then 29,43 the email was read oh excuse me the email was sent but not read so was not opened yeah and then we had 2,236 that were not delivered yeah well again I think we I touched Bas with Teresa we uh we we spoke on about this briefly if you want to kind of touch base on on my suggestion you moving forward well in this particular uh situation the survey we use two different methods to make parents aware of the survey the school

188messenger that went out via text uh did not include a link to the survey because that had to be sent via email through a separate system because there was a unique link for each parent so the text message that went to parents was just to notify them to check their email for the survey so you may see some differences in the numbers and I know that you expressed that some parents said I got a text message but I didn't get an email well it could be the email that was on file was not accurate or it got blocked or something and then vice versa some of the parents that may have received an email said I didn't get a text message but they may have opted not um opted out or have not opted in

189to receive text messages through school messenger so that's why you saw two different methods being used to make parents aware of this survey opportunity thank you um I um I guess for a lot of years in education there was this concept in locai parenti which basically we would operate in the in the stand or The Stance of the parents instead of the parents or for the parents and I think that has just shifted completely in our culture there's not an inlike parenti anymore it's about parents and their rights and their decisions for their child and so I feel like it's a big philosophical thing but I stand uh I stand on the side of the parents having the the decisions for their child I don't think it's my job to make those decisions for parents

190as a trustee is to set the parameters and the the the setting and the policy and the such that it can be that parents could make good decisions for their children um I'd also say that it looks like to uh the uh trustee comb back's comment I'm if the kids if we look at how the kids voted right that looks about 79% of the kids would be choosing to take Health um so then you have maybe a teacher two units um maybe of teachers that are available and especially with how a master schedule Works in a high school I would 100% want to throw out a challenge to um Administration um and if not even to the same discussion about policy and but I would say an advisory model when we really Pace you know

191we skip that decision for now and that discussion was really robust um and I think there's so much incredible promise also there um but I think that kids need that guidance and input as far as uh making choices for career or employment or college outside of high school and just a ninth grade is not enough frankly so I would say those units I know we're in tight budget times but being able to use if there was let's say that's 20% of the kids didn't take health those units are available then let's put them on building advisory so that we can have more support for students and then finally I would say I also challenge Administration to look at what electives we can offer when we were in the session over here was very well attended

192by parents that Dr masas held there was uh uh I think she was probably a CTE teacher sitting on the front row some of those intro courses that let kids get sooner faster harder better into their Career Tech Ed um course of study anything that we could offer that brings more opportunities for students to take full advantage of the long-term program in the like in a CTE area I would suggest I would like to challenge us to look for more courses that could be semester courses at the high school all right I think we've uh exhausted the discussion on that let's continue on with 7c uh the board will consider approving a request for tea for low attendance day waiver believe we received the information contained in our board packet any questions see none 7D

193the board consider approving the approximately. 26 acres to Chimney Hill Municipal Utility District this item uh could be discussed in Clos session U board members do I have any questions for Matt on this I don't have any questions that will we discuss do you need a close session that's my question I do not need a close session thank you so Matt you're free 7e the board consider making good cause termination not exist by law by for the following individuals listed in the board packet to resign their respective employment contracts this item will be disclosed in closed session 7f the board consider approving the superintendent recommendation to give notice to the individual listed here this proposed employment with the district is under probationary contract will be terminated it's forther recommend the president of the board notify

194the individual proposed action and terminate his employment pursuant to section 21104 the Texan educator code this item will be discussed in Clos session 7 G the board will consider a level uh for a grievance of a level three decision this item will be discussed in Clos session and then continuing on in our discussion portion items of the agenda seven um excuse me 8A the board will discuss evaluation duties employment of legal services this I don't will be Clos in closed session and there was an addendum which will be discussed um on Thursday night 1A the board consider determination good cause non-exist to suspend for the individual listed here pending discharge uh board members we will go into close session briefly discuss the HR items and then come back out for the level four hearing so

195please be brief in your uh wrapup I'd like to thank everyone for being here tonight also like to thank those who are watching from home may have please have a motion to move in closed session so moved second all in favor all right let's move in Clos session please briefly so we can get HR out of here thank you point [Music]