Formal Board Meeting 5/10/21

001[Music] good evening the cyprus fairbanks independent school district board of trustees are now convened in the regular board meeting on monday may 10 2021 in the boardroom of the cyprus fairbanks independent school district instructional support center located at 300 jones road houston texas at 6 pm i want to welcome the members of our audience and our television viewers to this meeting of the board of trustees as a cypress fairbanks board of trustees we are here to set goals listen to reports from the superintendent approve budgets contracts personnel appointments and make policy for the district it is not the role of the board to make day-to-day operational decisions the management and day-to-day operations of the district are the responsibility of the superintendent we have policies and procedures in place to resolve concerns and issues this is

002a public meeting of the board of trustees not a meeting of the public prior to this meeting board members received information related to items on tonight's agenda agenda items will not necessarily be handled in the order listed on the notice the meeting is open to all who wish to attend and hear the matters discussed during the course of this meeting the boardwalk may determine that a closed session is necessary in that event the board will meet in closed session to consider matters duly posted for this meeting as permitted by sections 551.071 through 551.084 of the texas government code these proceedings are airing live on comcast channel 16 and the district website they will be available as video on demand on the district website following tonight's meeting for the video to video to adequately reflect the

003proceedings i respectfully ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking and that cell phones are turned off are in silent mode please do that with your phone i just did thank you for taking the time to join us this evening and for your interest in the cypress fairbanks independent school district at this time we usually recognize our community leadership committee we have one person mr ryan irving ryan appreciate you being here tonight the community leadership committee meets once a month and they learn more and more about the district and how it works i would also like at this time to recognize boy scouts but i don't believe we have any here with us tonight the invocation for tonight's board meeting will be given by brian offit senior pastor of west houston church

004of christ since 2014. brian has been in ministry for 30 years and married to his wife melanie for 29 years melanie has taught art at psy ranch high school since 2014. brian and melanie have three children nathan noah and hannah noah and hannah are graduates of psy ranch high school west houston church of christ works closely with burke's elementary school to support and encourage their role in our community brian we definitely appreciate your ongoing commitment to our district and thank you for being here tonight before the invocation i would like to introduce the cypress falls high school af jrotc cadets who will be presenting the colors this evening on u.s flag cadet jessica valiquez on texas flag cadet george moussa on us guard and cadet ivan coronado and texas guard cadet charisma achievings these cadets

005present the colors to you under the direction of hermann j broussard jr master sergeant retired united states air force before they present the colors please stand for the invitation let's pray our father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven father we praise you and glorify you as creator of heaven and earth and you are the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end and lord you hold all things together and we honor you here tonight god we thank you for the sapphire isd and the families represented in this great district lord god we're especially grateful for all of the teachers and coaches and administrators and all of the support staff that serve our campuses lord god we pray that you would

006continue to bless them and strengthen them as they have all worked so hard and tirelessly to serve our children so well in this difficult season father god we are mindful of all of the police officers and their staff the men and women who serve and protect and who work to protect the safety of our students and the staff on all of our campuses lord we ask that you would bless them and we're just so thankful for them and their service to this district god we're also thankful for all of our school nurses and the way that they have loved and nurtured and cared for all of our children lord god may you continue to bless them in their work they are such a blessing to our children and our families god we say a special

007prayer tonight for all of those seniors those that are getting ready to graduate from this district lord god we ask that you would bless them and their endeavors that will follow upon their graduation keep them safe god and help them to make wise choices in this season of celebration and finally lord we're thankful for the men and women who serve as the board of trustees for our district god thank you for their service we continue to lift up dr henry we're so thankful for him and his leadership during this last year lord god we pray that you would give all of these men and women wisdom and discernment as they continue to lead in this important role in our community god we love you lord and we offer this prayer in the name of the

008jesus christ our lord and savior amen amen carry color forward or left face present arms i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and history for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all order arms right right forward you may be seated board member gilbert sarabia will read the district's vision and mission statement for the benefit of the audience mr zorabia yes our vision at cfisd is formed from the acronym lead to learn empower achieve dream lead our mission is to maximize every student's potential through rigorous and relevant learning experiences preparing students to be 21st century global leaders thank you mr arabia will now proceed with the recognition portion of the agenda superintendent will make remarks and announcements including honors and achievements earned by staff

009and students in recent weeks dr henry thank you mr covey and we'll we'll have a lot more in june we've had a really busy past couple of weeks and we don't have all of these in my comments today and then of course we've got several teams still in the baseball softball playoffs the jersey village high school boys soccer team concluded a history making season on april 13th in the state semifinals losing narrowly to the eventual state champion san antonio lee the falcons were the first cfisd soccer representatives to ever advance to the state tournament cfisd hosted a successful state wrestling tournament april 23rd and 24th at the berry center finishing with three female wrestlers in the top two in the state cypress ranch's jaden bazemore was the state champion in the 128-pound bracket langham creek's

010uh timothyo sanusi was runner up in the 148 pound bracket and cypress ridge's melanie orvidis was runner-up in the 215-pound bracket cfisd athletes completed their season in the uil track and field meet on may 8th in austin congratulations to sai ridge's side ridge high school's 800 meter relay team of aaron moore mark benjamin j jalien madden and robert griffin which placed second and set a new school and district record with a time of 124.27 congratulations to the cypress woods high school uil state academics team which placed second in the state and class 6a with 97 points just for a little aside they were the defending state champion so in the past two academic meets they finished with a gold and a silver which is really amazing they were just 14 points out of first place

011the wildcats earned first place awards in the computer science and current events team events and senior ezekiel gerbouz placed first in computer science among individual contestants congratulations to all of our students mr president thank you we will now proceed to the public comments portion of the agenda patrons who have duly registered for policy bed local may address the board and make comments on an agenda item during or before the board's consideration of the item the board may allow public comment or agenda items at all meetings the board will continue with the remaining agenda after the registered patrons have had an opportunity to speak we do have some people signed up and we will start with danielle cockrell danielle when you come up here um the uh to the podium there is a light and it's

012like come on up i'm sorry i'm sorry miss blackshear will turn it on uh you will have two minutes total and 30 seconds before the end you will see the yellow light come on and then when the red light comes on please don't sum up okay okay thank you it's all yours all right thank you for the board for giving me the opportunity to speak tonight i have taught inside fair for 10 years with 16 years overall education this has been the most stressful year i was eager to get back in the classroom with very little instruction on how this year was to run but we went to work teaching online excuse me and zoom at the s at the same time so just to let you know after teaching the bell rings you jump

013up you turn off one zoom you spray down the desk open the door and you let other students in zoom and it's just extremely stressful never forgetting to allow students in that come in late to class interrupting instruction you do this regularly students would switch from in-person to online due to covet related issues so i began to ask what about me i received my covet vaccine through a part-time job that i hold to supplement my income long before my coworkers so what about me does south fair care about me we just celebrated teacher appreciation we were presented with the video as a thank you we deserve to be compensated for going above and beyond during this stressful time health has suffered education we've tried time and time again to get students to be present and

014zoom online to get work and we do it we get up every morning and we go in we put our smile on and we just ask the district to recognize what we are doing and compensate us under the covet to retain teachers because this is the first year i've ever seen so many teachers retiring and leaving education that is not what i want to do i would like to stay here and continue teaching thank you thank you edward mcintosh you can come up to this one over here that's fine whatever hi my name is edward mcintosh i'm a sci-fare employee i'd like to talk to you about pay raises a little history i've had two great uncles sit on the board uh tom holmsley and jack emmett jackie is the one i know the best

015and uncle jack told me when 21 years on the board he spent time making sure teacher raises was it a priority i teach in the kate department and i'm proud that sci-fair is pouring so much energy into the cake department we are trying to get students out the door and into the industry scifir is doing a great job keeping up with the preparation of these students as we move as we advance them into the industry but when they when these students graduate with certifications that i give them and they go into the industry they are earning more money on their first year than than i do and it makes me wonder why am i in the teaching and not just going to the industry we need to attract people from the industry to teach our

016kids so they can be at the same level but with the pay raise different it's hard to get adequate teachers i would also like to address the insurance part if you have a medium insurance our policies are eight hundred to a thousand dollars that's a house note for some people first year teachers in this district earn fifty five thousand if they pay the deductible and the premiums they're at thirty four thousand take home the district is added additional days this year and a lot more responsibilities 43 000 is just not enough for a first year teacher um is that my time no you got 30 seconds 30 seconds i just want to add that we are only as good as our teachers and our facilities no matter how nice they are and the technology we

017give out we need to have dedicated and high quality teachers to make sure we have success in the classroom and i'll go ahead and thank you thank you [Applause] last one is nikki cowart nikki you want to yeah come up to that one i lucked out and went to the right spot this time good evening dr henry and trusted cypher isd school board members so much has happened since the board met in april many good things more in our community have been able to get a vaccine if they so choose to or chose to due largely in part to you all making that a convenient possibility families have been able to celebrate college graduations and mother's day gatherings and last week we collectively celebrated teacher nurse and public employee appreciation week scifir aft union kicked

018off a project in our efforts to show our appreciation for our experienced teachers administrators and staff we've also been advocating for a four percent pay raise and a retention stipend of one thousand dollars i said it last month and i'll repeat it this month again we believe we must respect recognize reinvest and retain our hard-working educators teachers and school staff are still heroes remember remember how they were all referred to as heroes this time last year and yet so many do feel used and exhausted and simply unheard now but educators shape the future in this country they are certainly not morally corrupt or cowards frankly it was appalling to hear one of our very own cypher area lawmakers make those remarks during the senate education committee hearing last week i stopped down in my tracks

019and i looked up the very definition of coward a person who lacks the courage to do or to endure dangerous or unpleasant things there's not a single bus driver food service worker administrator or classroom teacher that would fall into that category that i know i know it and you all know it we ask that the board do all that they can to give a real pay raise to our scifir heroes thank you miss cowart we will now proceed with the board comments portion of the agenda miss heidemann would you like to lead us off um usually i write out my comments and read them to help keep me focused but i did not do that for tonight like many parents in the district i am literally crawling to the finish line with my student and

020i am grateful i'm sure parents share my gratitude for the teachers who have helped us push our students to finish this year or pull them if as needed to get them to finish through the the school year i am very grateful for the teachers who have loved on my student and supported her with grace and patience because this has been a very difficult year for teachers and for students and for families also mentor at-risk students at a couple of our high schools and i see how their teachers have also loved and supported them with grace and patience as hard as it is as it has been on us as adults it has been incredibly difficult for our students for our kids this year so we work so hard to keep them safe and to address

021their physical and mental health and i'm grateful for the resources that we share with our students and our families and look for us to continue to do that moving forward as we go into the summer into summer with summer school and then prepare for next school year in terms of the legislative session i remember when it started in january and as most of you know our state legislature only meets every other year and only for 140 days so it's a very short window and we felt at the beginning of this session that it was a do no harm session that there was going to be not a lot of focus on public education because of so much that was going on in texas with the power grid and with the state budget with the recession

022and sadly we were wrong they there is a lot of damage that is currently possibly being done to public education i encourage everyone to stay informed to understand that public education is non-partisan kids don't care if you have an r d behind your name we have seen through this session champions for public education some are ours and some are these and we have seen people who have hurt public education and who cut down our teachers and cut down our school districts and try to take our local control and to concentrate power at the state level in a bureaucratic position instead in a locally elected position and some of those folks have rs and d's after their names as well so it's not about the party it's about how they vote and their values and it's

023not about promises made when they're running for office it's how they act when they're in austin representing us so i encourage everyone to be informed ask questions and to reach out to your elected officials thank you thank you dr ogletree thank you mr president i've had the privilege of being at three of our outstanding elementary schools since our last meeting pope elementary led by principal elizabeth bradley wales elementary led by principals sheryl fitcher and duriere led by principal tamika williams all three of these schools are quite impressive they're led by some very impressive leaders the students are engaged learning is taking place and missed a very difficult school year leadership has been challenged on every campus but also commitment has been challenged and overall each principal shares the great testimony that their teachers have met

024the challenge that they've poured out their hearts they've given their time their resources their skills to make sure that our students learn how tragic it is that in this day and time when our teachers have had such a traumatic year a tough year a year that tested their commitment their skills that someone would dare to call them cowards or morally corrupt the teachers that i've seen and interface with most of them are men and women of faith who are members of our churches parishes synagogues and mosques men and women who surely had to pray to make it through this school year and to reach deep within their hearts to demonstrate a love that we wish we could see from politicians they've loved on our children and our children have experienced that love so i i

025salute them and as someone mentioned earlier our nurses have been stellar and i think our community should do whatever they can to support public education we've got a good thing here and we've made it and done our best and the teachers and administrators should be applauded uh they should be thanked they should be prayed for um it was great to attend our national marriage scholars also and uh i just thank god for uh us being able to approach a season of graduations that not even not even the pandemic could stop that and um i just applaud our district and thank god for also our parents who have really uh stood by and helped their children and i am glad that our numbers have uh increased now with more and more of our kids back in

026the classroom so god bless you to every teacher every administrator of our public schools we should be thankful thank you dr o mr ryan i'm not going to be as eloquent as john obviously but it got me thinking about when the year started with so much uncertainty and then this last month we got to recognize our spotlight teachers which which was amazing uh and really all of our teachers have gone and everybody on the campuses has gone above and beyond but what what really stands out to me this year is that when we start out with all that uncertainty and then if you look at our extracurricular activities our bands our our athletics uh those the leadership in those departments has has just been over the top uh we had students that actually got to

027participate in the programs that they love and a lot of those programs generate scholarship dollars big scholarship dollars uh that they can continue their education so i'm extremely proud mark of your leadership number one i think you've been amazing uh and just the the campus leadership across the district has been phenomenal so i am very grateful for for all those that have gone above and beyond thank you thank you mr ryan mrs arabia yes i'm going to start off with um happy belated mother's day to all the mothers here and all the ladies here they very well deserve a mother's day gratitude from um this tough year and every year so i want to start with that um i got a chance to go out to a few games this past time since our last

028meeting i was fortunate enough to see cyridge upset a highly ranked lamar high school team in advance to go play katie which will they will beat katie so that would be good um also i saw many fans in the stands it was great the evening was spectacular at side ridge the field was outstanding the play on both sides was good it was very refreshing to see that i myself had a playoff game in san antonio the week before but it was 97 degrees at 3 o'clock in the afternoon so it was a little bit different than sai ridge's nice evening last friday so that was that was very nice to see the crowds out there and i want to shout out to the principals i'm not sure if they get paid or not for going

029to all these events because when i go to these events they're always there they're always there representing their kiddos and they're there at the at every event you can probably imagine they are there supporting their kids and that is simply outstanding uh of our principles and all our educators in in fact so kudos to them on that i also want to thank all our teachers and employees um for going through this tough year and um and handling it with uh um [Music] superb leadership i want to thank our clc committee led by tommy ballas and francis romero they are out and about in the trenches fighting for public school rights and stuff and they are a great group and need to be recognized and we're very blessed as having them here in our community the

030clc also uh i like like julie had said earlier we ran on a non-partisanship platform you know right left middle and i'm glad to see that some of our representatives did vote for the public education bills and i'm very sad that some of them made excuses on why they didn't and why some others simply said that they were cowards they have no idea what goes on um i have a son that teaches and don't be calling my kid a coward i tell you that right now i won't be pleasant with the words minced by mr bettencourt how dare he say that to any educator or employee here in the district that is just irresponsible and we have no room for that votes matter so your votes matter when it goes to the poll with that

031thank you everybody for showing up and there's nothing wrong for you guys to be asking for more whatever you think you may need that's fine we'll hear all that and everything else we appreciate that but please no one should call our employees or educators cowards they have no idea what they're talking about thank you thank you mrs arabian mr jackson at the may 2014 board meeting i spoke against austin politically advocation of outcome-based teacher evaluation and outcome-based funding i will always remember that it was harshly implied that the air i breathed was more important than the words i spoke my position and words remain unchanged outcome-based funding is ill-advised and doesn't produce sustainable results with integrity no matter the arena look at the kentucky derby i'm nearing 90 days without a bedroom and i'm reminded

032that there are teachers families and students who face the same travail student attainment can be it impacted and outcome-based funding does not address these difficulties because of the pandemic my jotc visits were greatly reduced but i still made five stops spread among four districts i firmly believe that these programs are a critical piece of the puzzle for enhancing student attainment both within and without we say goodbye this week to assassi who personified all that is right and good and brave with the teaching profession and the program that she represented during the june 2014 graduation season when my life and skin both bore a gray tent she gently offered me words to persevere and so tonight i tipped my hat to major wanda ewing and her colleagues and senator i dare say you never met any

033of these fine people as a small way of saying thank you to our teachers and staff i was privileged once again to be a table sponsor for salute to the stars and attended my 11th consecutive national merit recognition my heart thrills to see the continued emergence of excellence despite the pandemic as exemplified by our honorees beth wade and the berry staff marie holmes and her staff and volunteers and of course our communications department well done to all thank you mr president thank you mr covey um you know it really feels like we're finally beginning to reach some sense of normalcy and in one week we were able to celebrate our teachers we had our picnic under the stars at the berry center in the arena celebrating our spot well we call them now teacher of

034the year used to be spotlight teachers from each school in our district from and this event was postponed and rescheduled no less than three or four times before we were able to carry it out but the scifire educational foundation was determined that we would celebrate this great group of teachers and it was truly a wonderful night uh then that same i think it was the next night we celebrated the national merit scholarship finalist and so exciting to uh to see these uh bright young men and women from our school district that uh we're being honored and to hear of their future plans and where they plan to attend college and and hear their hopes and another celebration and last week we enjoyed so many different appreciations of teacher appreciation nurse appreciation of our nurses really

035of all our staffs i know i am a member of good shepherd united methodist church and uh some years ago we adopted danish elementary and i was so excited to be a part of a group of women who serve carl's barbecue furnished carl's barbecue and served it to the entire staff at danish and had a chance to show our appreciation and our love to them for all they have done this year and in a couple of weeks we'll be doing the same thing at alc east but there have been so many opportunities to show our love and appreciation and visit with our teachers and what i'm reminded of when i visit with teachers is i i think i said back maybe in january that my word for this year was going to be resilient because

036i have seen the spirit of resilience of determination of not going to give up not going to give in by this by the entire staff of this school district and i have so much admiration and love for all of our educators and all of the different departments that support them there's your bus drivers your cafeteria workers your custodians your people behind the scenes your the people housed in this building that help to ensure that each school has what they need but it has truly been a work of love and a work of hope that we have given to our to our students and as julie said earlier the grace shown by our teachers for our students because not only has it not been an easy year for our educators and our support staff it has

037not been an easy year for us our students as well and my hat goes off to to each one of you and my my deepest gratitude for all you have done and now as we roll into may i am so excited about graduation i think i i say this every year but that is just one of my most favorite events to attend because i love seeing all of our high school students celebrate graduation and see the culmination of the work that they have put forth and know that we have equipped them to go out into the world for this next step in life whether it be trade school a job or college i feel like we have done the best job possible to equip our students and finally i just want to say um i

038guess you say some words of condolences for the family of clay smith if you don't know clay smith i have known him probably for 34 35 years back to my credit union days and he unfortunately lost his battle with cancer last week he was a great educator coach assistant principal but more importantly he was a great mentor to many young men and women whom he coached and he worked with in the various schools where he served and uh clay was one of those people that just had love in his heart for each individual he made and uh he made a difference in the lives of his students every day and that i think that's what we all strive for is to make a difference so here's to you clay thank you miss blackshear mine's going

039to be pretty short uh teachers i know last week was appreciation week uh but i just must tell you right now that this board and i know the administration appreciate y'all all the time it doesn't have to be the week that we're celebrating you but you are people that we respect and it's not just the teachers it's the bus drivers and the cafeteria workers and janitorial staff it's everybody it is the administration it's a superintendent everything that puts this school district on a level of excellence is just beyond belief and i can tell you that this school district is looked at all over the state of texas and certainly many parts of the country as being a leader in the educational excellence that we do practice i will also tell you that we are fighting

040with the legislatures and just like ms heineman said we thought this was going to be a good year for us because obviously you teachers stood up to the track to the challenge and you did well maybe we didn't do as well as we've done in the past but when you look at what we've had to deal with it was amazing and here we are having to fight with the legislature and having charter schools become the prima donnas of education as if they do better than public school and i can tell you there are research and reports that tell us that is not true some of them may be equal to but very few are even at that point majority of them are not and i am completely mystified that the legislature feels it's important to

041run two different educational situations paying more to charter schools than they do to public education and that that is something i just don't understand i don't get the reasoning and also i know the commissioner of education as all of us on this board do as a person i like him but one of the things i don't like is one of our senators from this area is trying to push a bill through which will give him imminent power over districts and it will take away some of the power of the state board of education and they are our elected officials he is an appointee of the governor he is not an elected official he does not have to answer to us all he has to answer to is the governor and i don't appreciate some of

042the things that are being done and i am really appalled at the statement that was made about teachers i salute you i have so much respect for you i'm married to one and if you're married to one like dr ogletree and i are you know the work that goes in on a regular a regular year nothing like what they've had to face now so i just want you to know we do hear you we do listen we also have to look at the entire district and we have to make sure that our finances are in good shape and so i know what you're asking for it's something that we are not being oblivious to so thank you for being here tonight and now i'll turn it over to citizen participation patrons who have duly registered

043for policy bed local may address the board regarding matters of concern or interest to the district other than the character of any student staff or board member the board may not act upon any matter that is not listed under the action item portion of the agenda tonight we have seven people we'll start out with donna lord donna okay um good evening i'm coming to you tonight regarding the crucial work of planning for the arp esser funds scifire is projected to receive a little over 189 million dollars the department of education requires districts to create a publicly available plan for the use of these funds which is reached through meaningful consultation with stakeholders including educators school staff and their unions collaboration with educators who serve our students day in and day out is essential to the

044effective planning as was reflected in the department's guidance to state commissioners stating educators and their unions should be an essential component of the process to ensure meaningful consultation we request that scifir tsta have seats on any committees formed and to be able to participate in any discussions where these funding decisions are being made we also request opportunities for advanced review and comment on draft plans for any planning or funding decisions made with these funds it is crucial that we use these funds to meet the long-held needs of our chil of our students especially now that we have seen these needs exacerbated by the coven 19 pandemic we need more counseling staff and we need them to be able to provide primarily counseling services we need more nurses social workers and special education staff we need

045to be able to address the traumas our students have experienced and that happens through social and health services we also need to be able to retain high quality teachers it's imperative that we make a human investment in these funds to provide the best outcomes for our students we look forward to working with you to ensure prudent effective allocation of these funds to provide safe and equitable schools for all students thank you thank you miss lord aisa in the maid and i'm probably totally mispronounced that come on up and would you tell us your name when you get here so we get it correct hello everybody my name is ishay indimayo and thank you for your time i'm a concerned parent of three and my purpose for speaking is threefold first i want to make i

046want to add my name to the list of parents calling for the removal of a video titled implicit biased secondly to let the board know i support texas senate bill 2202 because it bans these types of videos and lessons from public schools in texas lastly i came to ask the board to provide more transparency on who was involved in the decision to air the video i found out about the video when i did an internet search for critical race theory in cypher isd and i came across a website called what are theylearning.com it had an email from bridgeland high school telling parents there would be a video followed by a teacher-led discussion the video proclaims that one test proves a particular race gender combo unconsciously thinks that people that don't look like them are not

047as smart or capable that's quite a statement backed by our district with the authority to shape our children's innocent minds the district is telling them that it agrees with this proclamation by attempting to air it and support it in schools the video refutes critics by saying while the test can predict any one person's thoughts it can predict the entire group of people that is a false premise in my opinion this video tells innocent children that their unconscious thoughts are known based on the color of their skin none of this is reality predicting the unconscious i don't believe in it and very ironically it was going to take place on no hate date finally i asked for transparency i'd like a walkthrough of the process of who provided the video to bridgeton high school in white

048i was told it was the district what votes or discussions went into the directive to promote this and was this a pilot program for bridgeton high school or are there other critical race theory lessons all over cypher isd schools i'd like any teacher packets to be sent out as well also i believe this discussion should be student-led and not teacher-led thank you thank you [Applause] melma walker good evening i'll just take this off i am a teacher i've been a teacher for over uh 18 years now previously i was in medical records in corporate america and we see the dynamics but i went into education because i enjoy seeing the growth of my students a statement by cydney hook says everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers not methods or techniques the teacher is

049the heart of the educational system you've heard a lot of people speaking today and we're all speaking the same thing from our hearts think about the educator i appreciate the board giving us accolades i appreciate the video of words and the five paragraph letter it was very inspiring but we would like to see some monetary resources to back those words this is an awesome and an interesting year we have had to deal with the spraying down of the desk not with the problem because i want my students to be safe my child is in scifire i tell her the same thing but i did something different today as an educator we know we are evaluated throughout the year i had my students evaluate me because i know as an educator i'm a lifelong learner and

050of myself and to better myself my students gave me great feedback thank you mrs walker for being there thank you for getting me through this time and i want to continue to do that with the help of the board and my colleagues we can do this thank you ms walker feast earthens anna ginger joshua cassie maddie and judy hello we are the earthians a group of concerned students from feast elementary we are requesting compost bins and recycling services if you are wondering why it's because the earth needs help together we can save it there's lots of things we can do to help our planet our school needs compost bins so a lot of food does not go to waste if we get the compost bins it could create more jobs we could have a team

051of people who help with the compost bins we could put our leftover food in the compost bins and the tray the recycling bin this will reduce trash and the compost can can be used in gardens this will help our environment will you help us comp compost bins help the environment and save animals slowly but surely we can save the earth all we need to do is compost and recycle compost and recycle and it can be green again we can we could make a huge difference in the world we could be a part of it if you could get us compost bin fins it would help us a lot we would need wood and nails to make them or they can be ordered already made we also wanted to ask recycling bins for all of cfisd

052schools that way we can have more people recycling along with that we would need we would need a recycling company to take the materials and recycle it this would reduce waste which helps save the school district money and could help cover the cost of letting schools have recycling service for paper metal plastic and glass more recycling means less trash you can put so many things in a compost bin that's why we made a list you can put shredded paper wood chips wood shavings dry leaves and straw hay thank you thank thank you [Applause] thank you feast earthens riley shadell hi there uh i'm riley shotel i'm in 11th grade i attend jersey village high school i'm here to talk about the uh my battle to find the right regiment uh in my healthcare i was

053diagnosed with crohn's disease about seven years ago with that i've missed school constantly um with that though i when i was in the hospital i was always studying doing my work as i should and i made sure to keep my grades up um the only issue i had was um with attendance um the uh i wanted to do something about it so i was able to get in contact with the aft union they connected to me to my local state uh representative mr john rosenthal um with him we were able to create a bill for students just like me house bill 699 also titled riley's rule it was born and introduced last month it aims to change the way absences are counted for students with chronic illnesses and it um and i have traveled to

054testify in person to the capital with journey of pandemic pandemic which is super nerve-wracking but it's so worth it for the kids who are just like me who are struggling i also wanted to thank um the senators for listing me and uh believing me and me and representative john rosenthal thank you todd lecompte my name is todd lecompte i have two boys at the attend sci fair school district i wanted to talk today about the mask policy again um cdc is reported for the for those who completely have trust in the cdc that 480 deaths nationwide for 2000 occurred in 2018-2019 flu season that's for ages 0 to 17. now listen to this as of may 5th 2021 the cdc has reported 352 deaths for children aged 0-18. i appreciate the board listening to me

055and write writing a detailed letter to me mailed to me based on why you guys are doing the mask but what it doesn't discuss and hear from memorial hermann is the psychological effects that negative psychological effects is having on our kids all right it's not discussing you know the increase in mental health issues it's not discussing the increase in suicide let me give you some numbers on suicide ages 5 through 11 years old suicides have increased by 24 percent ages 12 through 17 suicides have increased by 31 percent you guys have a responsibility to make decisions based on for our kids i understand this is for the prevention of covert 19 but you have to take in all the information and make it a tough decision sometimes all right we don't want to lose one

056kid i understand that we don't want to lose one person right but you have to take all the information and then make the best decision possible for our children you're about to ask little kids that are in elementary school to go outside in 90 degree weather and wear a mask why you don't think this is harming them psychologically i have a fifth grader and i'm telling you it does and i've heard more people like this and the reason why i'm here again today is because i had teachers calling me up coaches calling me up administrators calling me up and asking me to keep fighting because guess what they're afraid to lose their jobs when you think about that let me let me let me read this my wife bought this for me at costco just

057a couple hours ago these masks are not personal protective equipment and are not intended as replacements or substitute for personal protective equipment these products are not intended for medical use or to prevent any disease or illness i i'm going to ask the board please use discernment take in all the information and make the best decision for our children candace bryant uh first thank you for having me i just want to say thank you guys for all you've done uh from the school board's decision to offer inline person to the teachers coaches faculty and staff i can only imagine the challenges you have faced daily i truly do appreciate your efforts and hard work with that being said i do have a few issues of concern last week parents of high school students one of which

058i have were sent a text and an email stating the covet vaccine would be available to a limited number of students on wednesday may 5th for ages 16 and up with parental consent and literally my head exploded as of now i'm not aware of any parental involvement in making this decision to offer the vaccine to these students the only advanced notice we received was one or day prior this is completely unacceptable we as parents must take our children to the doctor the school district doesn't even offer mandatory vaccines why are you offering an experimental vaccine to our children this is may 2021 not may 2020 and if there's one thing we've learned over the past year that is children are the least likely to get coveted of any age and if they do get coveted

059they are typically asymptomatic and do and are not carriers of this disease we have no idea the long range or the long-term possibility or side effects of this vaccine and to give this vaccine to this least at-risk population is irresponsible and yes i understand they needed a note from their parent to receive the vaccine or the parent would have to be in attendance but for the students who brought a note how could you be sure this that was signed by the parent everyone agrees keeping our children safe is a top priority but we also must use logical risk asset assessment when making these policies motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among children under 18. however we all still drive every single day yes we wear seat belts and and make sure our

060kids are in a car seat or booster seat and obey traffic laws we take reasonable keyword reasonable actions to prevent accidents but we cannot stop driving or only drive when there is no traffic or only or not go over 20 miles per hour or only drive a huge hummer these are not reasonable actions to stop or avoid a car accident just as many of the policies are not reasonable to prevent covet please summarize so basically what we're asking is that any mat any protocol that you did not make in 2019 at the beginning of this 2019 school year do not make in 2021 no social distancing no signs on the floor no thank you ma'am thank you thank you [Applause] we're now going to take about a five minute break and we'll be back to

061go into the reports okay we're going to begin again 7a the reports the administration will present an oral report on the preliminary budget for 2021 through 2022 school year karen smith thank you president covey and dr henry today i'll be presenting the preliminary general operating budget for 2021-2022 i thought it would be useful to start out by discussing the cost incurred to date associated with covid19 what you see here is the cost that we've incurred in 2020 um uh 21 and it's as of april 30th so this it's it's not through the end of the year uh the payroll cost up here that you see is primarily associated with the lead safely stipend which was 8.3 million that the district paid out in december of 2020. in addition it includes 650 000 that we anticipate

062that we will be paying out towards uh stipends for substitutes and temporary workers it also includes supplemental pay and overtime for some of our staff during this year as well as additional substitutes the ais substitutes which were the permanent substitutes that were on the campus as well as covid leave the non-payroll costs were for our one-to-one devices that was the biggest expense we had that was out of bond funds and then in addition to that in the general fund it was primarily for things like plexiglas hot spots ppe as or i should say hot spot service ppe and sanitation method methods that we had to maintain also included here are lost revenues that the district has incurred and primarily that in the general fund that has been interest income loss of facilities use fees athletics

063and gate receipts as well as concessions catering and private music lessons then you'll see here a loss of 7.6 million in food service to date and what this reflects is a decline in the a la carte sales as well as just participation in general uh with food service because of either kids not participating or the kids learning at home also we've had a decline associated with community programs of the number of kids enrolled in the community programs as of march 30th 21 22 i mean 2021 the general fund deficit is approximately 72.1 million dollars and what that reflects is these cost here as well as the deficit that was presented to the board that was adopted at the beginning of the school year uh although the ada hold harmless was supposed to hold districts completely

064harmless in 2021 it didn't completely hold the district hold harmless basically it was about 18 million less than we had budgeted for and about 10 million less than the prior year however the deficit could be reduced considerably by using some of the stimulus funding that we will talk about later and applying that towards this school year because it will be allowed to capture some of the cost incurred during this school year in addition the district is waiting to see if we will be reimbursed from some of the cares act funding that we have applied for we've been waiting to hear back on that so maybe some of that cares act funding will come in so later in the presentation i will cover some of the federal funding available to the district the factors that were

065influencing this budget process this year for 2122 are the decline in student enrollment addressing student learning loss as well as the coven 19 pandemic additional expenditures and then the outcome of the legislative session for example and at this time it's allowable for districts after a year a disaster is declared to add an additional pennies additional pennies as it sees fit to address the cost associated with the disaster and recovering from that disaster however the if the legislature has proposed both of the house side and the senate side that a pandemic will not qualify as a disaster so we might not be able to access those pennies so that's just an example of some of the things that we're waiting to find out in the legislative session also an increase in property values not only does

066the increase in property values mean that we will have more tax receipts but also as property values increase because of house bill 3 the tax rate is further compressed on the m o side the budget was built on four primary goals which is to preserve the quality of instruction and services retain and recruit quality staff prioritize student and staff safety and to protect the district's operational infrastructure this slide reflects the pr taxable property values for the last five years these are the values that are that we receive from the harris county appraisal district the 2021 tax year values are the harris county appraisal district's preliminary values that they gave us as of april the 30th which is 61.4 billion the budget was built on a six percent increase in property values residential property increase about

067eight to ten percent is what we're hearing but uh it was offset by commercial property that didn't show the same increases because of vacancies also uh inventory was down which we receive property taxes on the next slide shows student enrollment over the last five years for 2017 2018 you'll see that we went from enrollment of a hundred and sixty thousand three sixty eight to now you know it went up and then now we're back to about 116 105 estimated enrollment for next year for 20 2021 this amount that you'll see here that you see the enrollment change of 1689 this reflects compared to the prior year's actual enrollment so if you're looking at it and saying oh i thought we lost about 3 000 students the reason you see a difference here is the 3

068000 students is compared to what we projected for 20 20 21 and here we're comparing to the prior year actual so for 2021 we're uh estimating 116 000 105 and that is a conservative estimate at this time as far as enrollment for next year because we just don't know how many of those pre-k and k kids will be returning to the district the next slide we like to we always like to show you an example of a comparison of teacher salaries with our competition so you will see here uh salaries for the zero year five year 10-year 15-year and 20-year salaries so for for the zero year there are four three districts that are higher than cyprus fairbanks isd where you'll see tomball at i mean i'm sorry spring branch at 58 000 and then

069klein and spring at 56.5 however for the 5 10 and 15 year the district is second compared to the other districts just behind spring branch and then for the 20-year salary we're first compared to the other districts in the area that we've compared to um number i also want to stress that this does not include what you're seeing here does not include the see the teach the 8.3 million where we actually provided the lease safely stipend the uh some of the considerations that are included in the budget this year is uh the hot spot wi-fi and amazon web services uh for four four million this is an item that we might could recode and pull out of the budget it through some of the esser funding that we'll have available that i'll discuss with you

070in a little bit also so increases in software licenses of 1.4 million and then speech therapist contracted services of 1.3 million it also includes some overtime and supplemental pay associated with our counselors as well as increases in trs on behalf as well as the district contribution towards trs and it also includes insurance increases in insurance and cyber security insurance as well as increased cost with the election because we'll be having having an election this next year and then consultants and the consultant area is associated with uh the long-range equity audit that we will be having as well as new mandated social and emotional learning programs and then lastly some miscellaneous general supplies and upper other operating costs the preliminary budget was based on the cost that i just discussed in the previous slide and it

071reflects an estimated deficit of 41.3 million prior to considering raises the deficit assumes as usual all positions will be filled all budgeted funds will be spent and we have a very conservative estimate for student enrollment the deficit could be reduced by moving some of the allowable costs that are allowed through the federal funding that we will be receiving to allow for freeing up some of that general fund money for raises for teachers just clarification a raise raised for employees yeah i'm sorry i met all employees and i said teachers apologize thank you some of the other budget considerations that we took in uh in the part of this budget i already mentioned the compression of the tax rate and according to house bill three school districts uh will uh they are will actually the tax

072rate we can adopt is the lower of the state compressed rate and the local compressed rate and at this point in time based on the information that we have we believe that our property values will grow at a greater rate than the states what they are predicting statewide therefore we will be probably having the local compressed rate so any just to refresh your memory anytime property values increase more than two and a half percent that's when tax rate compression happens with the m o tax rate the district will report their property values to tea in july and we should find out sometime the first week of august what that compressed tax rate will be us also included on this slide is a letting you know the cost of a salary increase of one percent a

073salary increase of one percent cost the district 8.2 million dollars although a salary increase would add to the estimated deficit the district does have a healthy fund balance and will have options due to the federal funding available to reduce both the 20 21 20 20 21 and the 21 22 deficits furthermore as i mentioned earlier the deficit assumes that all positions will be filled and all budgeted funds will be spent now i'd like to review some of the federal funding available that was created through various stimulus packages the elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds or esser as it's been referred to have been created under three different stimulus packages the first was in march of 2020 the second was in december of 2020 and the third was in march of 2021. the esser funding

074can be used for preventing and preparing for and responding to covid19 addressing learning loss preparing schools for reopening improving air quality in buildings as well as evidence-based interventions that respond to students academic social and emotional needs and then also addressing disproportionate impact of cova 19 on various student populations next you will see the coronavirus relief fund or crf and that was part of the cares act and it was passed part of the money that we received in march 2020. and that can be used for reimbursing school districts for cova 19 expenses also there was a state program for bulk purchase of e-learning devices and internet solutions that's something that we could have participated in but we did not this is where we would have actually bought the devices through the state of texas and we

075chose not to because the devices that they were offering would not really meet our standards for the classroom and uh also there was a local match reimbursement that was a possibility but you cannot have the local match unless you participated in this bulk purchase program so the what's what we're actually eligible for as a district is the prior purchase reimbursement program that will help reimburse us for some of our costs associated with devices the next item is the corona it's through the cares act and it is the provider relief fund and this actually allowed the school district to recover two percent of its school health and related services uh gross revenue that we had we had in that we had received and it can be utilized for health care related expenses or lost revenues associated

076with coven 19. and then lastly fema at this time only fema funding available is category b emergency preparedness which really does not provide much funding to the school district the only eligible funding we have is to be reimbursed for one cleaning that was done in the spring of 2020. the remainder of it they're saying uh basically is more for cities and counties and we're not eligible for the remainder of any fema funding so let's go over some of those federal funding options that i've been talking about the chart reflects federal funding options for cypress fairbanks isd as well as the spending timeline the eligible amount the district could receive as well as the amount the district has received to date the esther uh one funds that you see here first uh that those it was

07717.7 million and just to refresh your memory this is the money that the state used to supplant state aid in 2020 2019-20 so what we did is we requested about a little over uh two two million that we drew down in 2019-2020 and the remaining about 15.4 million we saved to draw down in 2020 2021 to help offset the deficit and we were able to do that because we were fairly close to balancing the budget if you recall in 2019 2020. uh we've heard very little for quite a while about the sr2 and s3 money we've been waiting well recently there was information announced related to the sr-3 funding but at this time we're really unsure on the sr2 funding when we're really going to hear more information about that and how much of the

07876.1 million we will actually receive there is actually a bill out there right now that has to do with creating a grant it tells you uh the type of items you can spend the money on and it gives quite a bit of authority to the commissioner of education to make decisions related to this funding the next is the sr-3 funding that we recently heard about this funding is available and it goes back to allowing districts to recover what both all these actually uh pre-award cost and what that means is any costs that the district incurred from march 13th till we get the notice of grant award on the sr3 money we can go back and claim any of those eligible costs so that's what i've been referring to that we might have the opportunity to

079basically move some money from the general fund into sr-3 funds so that we can maybe have give raises to to all of our employees so it gives us an opportunity here it is 189.2 million however although that was released up to this date is two-thirds which is 126.1 million and so the district will be actually um having to apply for this funding and submit an application so at this time the state is actually seeking clarity related to the remaining one-third so we're not sure exactly when the remaining one-third will be available for us to apply for but districts must set aside 20 percent of the sr-3 funds for evidence-based interventions and to respond to students academic social emotional needs as well as addressing the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on various student populations the district

080was able on the next line of the crf money uh that was availa we were able to apply for 10.1 of the eligible amount that we were eligible for we were actually eligible for 15.9 million but you will see here it has a very short timeline it was from march 1st 2020 to may 20th 2020. well most of our costs were incurred as you probably know after that date therefore we were only eligible to are able to apply for 10.1 million and then of that we can only receive 75 of what they approve uh this is administered through the texas department of emergency management and you know unfortunately to to date what we're finding is a lot of questioning uh from the texas department of emergency management and indicating that some of the costs will

081not be eligible for reimbursement so at this time we're really unsure how much of the um it's approximately over 7 million if you look at the 75 amount that we turned in that we will actually receive we're hoping we will get at least uh five million of that money and hopefully more but we're waiting to find out about that so you'll see up to this point the every item that i've discussed so far we really have not received any funding to date except for maybe what they supplanted in state aid but that was no new money also the crf the other item is the prior purchase reimbursement program this is the one where i mentioned that we submitted for reimbursement towards our devices the district was eligible to claim up to 19.1 million dollars this

082was particular one we will get 84.6 of whatever cost we've turned in so this one we were actually eligible able to turn in more than the 19.1 million in cost hoping to get the full 19.1 million however a majority of that is going to go back into bond funds because that's where we paid for our one-to-one devices but it will help us by about 2.7 million of reimbursing our wi-fi services that were in the general fund the next one is the cares um and this relates to funding associated with that i mentioned that we might could get reimbursed the provider relief fund towards our shares funding at two percent and you'll see this is the only money that we have received to date from all the federal stimulus money and we receive 742 thousand hundred

083474 dollars and then i've already discussed with you fema that we expect to receive very little from fema so just just uh just to summarize that you want to know why we need a fund balance because the state has 300 million dollars that were intended for us and we've received 742 thousand dollars so what are they doing with the monies what i want to know exactly i'm glad you brought that up dr henry um so some of the considerations uh as far as use of this sr3 funding that we've discussed that is available to us now that we can apply for first it's one-time funding and it's non-reoccurring dollars so we have to remember that it's one-time funding uh the deadline for use of the funds we're allowed to utilize it as i mentioned pre-award

084cost but we can also spread it out through september 30th 2024. also as i mentioned we can consider pre-award costs that we could recode but something else to remember is that the hold harmless is no longer available after the 20 20 21 school year we also may be allowed to supplant some of our existing spending that will incur next year after that notice of grant award is is given to us and allow that also there's a requirement called maintenance of equity requirements um this is something that we're really there ta is seeking clarification on but um part of what that is is it relates to not cutting funding at campuses because you're getting this federal funding especially at our title one campuses so we're waiting for a little clarification because it could limit what we're

085allowed to recode but we're we believe we can still definitely recode some funds because we'll have increased cost and we'll still maintain equity so um some of these items like i said is what we were need to consider as we uh decide how to spend that sr3 money but as you know as dr henry indicated it's important to maintain a healthy fund balance for us to respond to disasters also it affects our bond underlying rating and it costs more to borrow money if our rating isn't it's good and it cost taxpayers dollars as a result of that but the district does have the opportunity to draw down the deficit both in 2021 as well as next year in 2021 2022 with some of these federal dollars and provide arrays for all our employees and still

086address student learning we'll be no more more further after we get additional clarification both on the federal side as well as the state side and let me let me interject right here and y'all y'all may have questions to karen she's only a couple pages from being through but our our goal is still to come as close as we can to balancing the budget so probably what we're going to give you like most years is the worst case scenario and we expect it to be better than that so and so what are our next steps uh first of all we will be presenting to the board at the june 21st board meeting the esser3 plan as well as the budget the proposed budget then on june 24th we'll be asking the board to consider approving the

087sr-3 plan as well as the 2021-2022 budget and then after approval of the sr-3 plan the district will submit that uh grant application it is due to tea by july 27 2021. so now i'll open it up to any questions that you might have over the presentation thank you karen that's a great great report appreciate it i'm looking around deb debbie ms black's here okay i'm looking for my note here karen uh back to um we were discussing the different um okay the different federal funding options and you'd made the comment that uh we can only receive 75 of what we are eligible for well where does the other 25 go then yes the 75 percent is related to the crf funds okay just the crf not the yes or the biggest right and the

088other 25 is it doesn't come to us it's basically kept at the state level that other 25 percent is kept and it's not does not come to us so why do they get to keep it it's the way i mean this makes this is just absolute insanity and it underscores why everyone should vote in statewide elections it's unbelievable to me that we have these funds that have been sent to us yet we have received 742 thousand dollars where is our state's legislators concerned for our students and our districts instead they're trying to give money away to charter schools vote people i'm sorry i didn't mean to get on a tirade but it just really upsets me that the funds should be available to us but they are deciding what to do with it it's crazy

089it is would you like a water doctor okay yes thank you for the report karen now uh did we understand you to say on the sir one uh that you made application or requests for the funds there no sir well we did have to do an application but we got we did an application just to be able to supplant state aid so we didn't get any new money uh but we did have to get it do prepare an application just to request to get the money in the first place and on sr2 that esser2 is the one that we have not really heard anything about yet and we're waiting to hear um related to that that's the one where there's a bill out there hb 4465 that um talks about how this federal funds will

090flow we believe it relates to sr2 but they've been the state has been holding back esser2 and then the sr3 is the one that we will be doing an application for in july okay so all of these monies uh are in the depository of the state at this time is that correct yes i mean it's uh the s or two uh yeah all the money that they are they have the yes they have it and they have not released it to us except for the third associated with sr3 the state has to complete an application to the federal government to get that additional third and they actually have to submit a plan so they have not gotten the third but they should be getting the third later on once that plan submitted okay so all

091the uh rally and talk about the state needing to release the funds from from that the federal government has already sent to the state for the local public schools that has to deal with due with esser 2 at this present time is that right you're talking about the part that we haven't gotten yet yes i want to be sure i'm understanding the talk uh across the state release the funds that you've received release them to the public schools it's not esser iii it well it was actually it had been both dr ogletree and just recently they released the sr3 so you know more than about a little over a week ago it was related sr2 and sr-3 okay so both yes okay uh so are you seeing that what we do for our staff our

092educators is it tied into what we are able to receive from the the state from these federal funds i would say that the federal funds are allowing us to free up fund balance maybe would reduce the deficit so to speak it's going to allow us to do that so that we can provide raises to staff what we're going to ask you to do before july 1st when we approve a budget is we're going to ask you to approve a budget based on the faith that we're going to receive these funds to help us offset so we're we're i guess we're taking a probably going to ask you to take a little bit of a chance we don't think it's a big chance but what makes that possible is we do have a healthy fund balance

093so that we can we can go ahead and propose a raise for our employees and propose a a budget before we're going to receive these funds because you can see as karen said uh we we wouldn't receive those before july 27th isn't that the right day well that's when our application is due okay so we won't get it probably till well into august or september i believe so because it may take them a while to review that application and our budget here just as a reminder to the viewing audience is july 1st okay mr ryan so just because we're talking about the state and we have a cfisd eligible amount there's a a pretty good potential of us not getting our eligible amount um i would say that is the case with the possibly with

094the crf and with the pprp uh which is the um reimbursement program for our one-to-one devices we feel better about the one-to-one but with the hopefully with the sr3 we will get our eligible amount uh mr ryan is because they said it is supplemental and on top of sr2 we still don't know one of the things that we've heard and actually it's in one of the tea faqs related to federal funding and how they're going to fund the hold harmless that they are that we got this year they're saying that they may use some federal funding for that and so we're feeling there's a chance it's the s or two money um so i would say on the s or two you're correct we don't know how much we'll get from that because right now

095we've got a lot of zeros we do that's a lot i mean it looked like my transcripts [Laughter] so we're relying on a group of individuals that have been sitting on a rainy day fund for a while too yes sir and so mark just based on history i would hope with what y'all would bring to us would uh i guess have some leeway in it uh verse just in our eligible numbers because that's it's a little scary when we're relying on austin it really is from our perspective as a local board that scares me i i would say this i'd yes or two money they're trying every way they can to supplant um funding school districts so i'm not counting a whole lot on that i'm i'm holding out that s or three we will

096receive that 126 million and and then the the second third i don't know don they're they're they're literally keeping our money away from us and i the only the only reason they are is because they can that's all i can say and i will say i'm glad you brought up the rainy day fund um just to make it clear our fund balance is not the same as the state's rainy day fund the rainy day fund no we use ours yeah we exactly we use ours but the rainy day fund is true available and leftover money our fund balance at the end of the year that includes we have not received all our state funding that's due us it includes the fact that we have accrued salaries that are fixing to go out the next that

097that's part of that it also includes the fact that we have to pay for whether it be coronavirus pandemic you know hurricane harvey the freeze all that comes out of our money ahead of time before we ever get reimbursed and yes sir and then federal money i mean uh the federal funds uh the way the federal fund reimbursement works whether it be for title one idea b or whatever we um we get to draw down the money after we've spent it so you see why we need a fund balance and it's totally different than the state's rainy day fund and i think and i'm speaking for me as a board member what's frustrating is that when you have this many people come out for citizen participation uh and we keep saying hey we value teachers

098we've got and we do uh but we can't necessarily show a monetary value when someone else is holding our cash that makes it extremely difficult because collectively as a board we want to be good stewards of the tax taxpayers money and so that for me is personally frustrating because we we do hear what they say we see what they've done to go over over and above this year and then what we're planning to do is tied into austin holding our money and that's extremely frustrating it really is and mark you all do it you all do a fantastic job but i don't know if the public for the most part really grasp the where our hands are tied on some of this stuff because we're waiting for elected officials to do something on our behalf

099so that's all i got i'm off my soapbox mr jackson thank you karen for your presentation and also thank you for not speaking in a monotone voice the entire time as your predecessor was want to do for over 20 years there was a radio personality who has passed who routinely said financially starve your opposition and i have an unfair question and don't have to answer it do you think that's what austin is doing to us if we're called cowards because we're in the same boat as our staff and morally corrupt is it austin's intent to financially starve us you know um i don't know if i can 100 reply to that in in that aspect but what i will say um is the fact that there was a bill out there to make districts spend

100their fund balance and not have more than three months in fund balance makes me question things it didn't happen thank goodness to this point but um you know it makes me question uh what they're thinking you know you mentioned on the hold harmless that we did not receive the amount of funds that we anticipated and i think my inference if we anticipated them then at least in your opinion as a cpa and cfo that we deserve to receive those i know in past hold harmlesses because we did not have the political clout exercised on our behalf as other districts that we were disadvantaged to a far greater extent than other districts so once again another unfair question but i guess that's my trademark were we disadvantaged more on this whole harmless shortfall or were were

101all districts treated equally um or do we know well and i would say that's that i have to say that's hard to say only because the way house bill 3 works but i will say quite a few districts were harmed by the hold harmless because when you think hold harmless you think you're held harmless but way it was calculated it is taking the um 17 18 18 19 and 19 20 school years and doing an average and when it does that the 17-18 school year in the 18-19 school year are pre-house bill 3. so uh when they take that and it dilutes the average and so we got where we lost funding is in career and technology because house bill 3 extended funding to students that are take career and technology eligible courses in 7th

102and 8th grade and then it was also in the special education arena because we are there's more identification of students uh since then so we have lost out because of that where it makes it difficult is there some districts that are receiving whether it be a fast gross allotment whether they were able to receive there's a form of a hold harmless i guess if you will associated with hb3 and if you didn't get enough if your loss was enough of a certain amount then you got some funding that would kind of run out depending on the situation over three years or over five years so we didn't get any of that money we weren't eligible for any of that money so it i would say if you're looking just at the base everybody was kind

103of the same but you have to take in consideration some of these other nuances thank you 11 years ago christine hartley and i ran on a platform that included a key component of trying to return salaries to what we described as being the golden years for scifir where sci scifir led the county in salaries and then we had some sub points one of the sub points was to increase or decrease the counselor load on a per student basis and so i went to one of dr henry's favorite organizations houston a plus that featured counselor heads from around harris county everybody talked about the counselor load and lo and behold our counselor load was the highest of any of the districts represented in subsequent years we have reduced that and in fact a couple of years

104ago dr macias noted that our counselor load is comparable to other districts but that's not what i would describe as being in the golden years in january of last year i posited that we needed additional counselors and i know that we have from my perspective as a trustee a bit of an arbitrary requirement as to what schools get an extra council or allotment and which ones don't i'm not talking about the efficacy of that but in january before the pandemic i saw a need and i'm not saying i was prescient but it's been something that i've talked about really for a decade now when you come back to us with the budget and this is really on on your side of the ledger mark i would like to see an enhancement of our counselor services

105particularly because i think if i saw a need farm in january i see more of a need for them this year and that was january pre-pandemic and and i think just just like my uh my lack of a bedroom is going to continue i think the impact of the pandemic will impact our students as well if you would let's let's talk about how big is big and how small it's small for our fund balance what is the size of our fund balance minus our current projected deficit our fund balance if you take away the projected deficit i guess you could say as of now worst case scenario of 72 million our fund balance would be 445 million 0.7 and um we we're uh currently june 30th um 2020 we had about six and a half

106months in fund balance so for the 445 how many months is that um that would take us down i believe a head down here to about 5.6 months i believe let's see um i think it was uh well i'd have to let me look at that real quick i can look at that and get back to you it's it's roughly five months because we have a billion dollar budget five months about five yeah a little over five fairly so here is the next back of the envelope question for you um how how much of that if we gave a three percent raise for five years how much of that fund balance would we consume well each year well just uh you know it a three percent raise this year and so i would have to

107look at it based on increasing it after that but if we did a three percent race this year it would cost us 24.6 million so let's say 25 million so five years worth is 125 let's round it up for inflation so let's say 140 million and that's out of 445 minus 140 that would leave us roughly 300 which would still leave us somewhat better than three months barely yeah barely because expenditures would be increasing um so that gives us an idea that we have a little bit of leeway here yes we do talk to me and educate me a little bit about the sr3 plan so so sketch out the big picture for me what's going to go in that plan okay so we have um we have a certain number of items that it's

10815 items that are eligible um that we can spend the funding on and so what will be done is as i indicated 20 percent of that has to be spent on certain certain items such as addressing the learning loss in some of the disproportionate uh maybe effects on certain student populations and then after that then we kind of look at those other 15 items let me stop you right there so is that and to put it into uh terminology i can anticipate so let's say mark and linda come up with a new camp can it pay for that new camp for two years or three years or does it just pay for that new camp one year it'll depend on the cost of that camp because basically um the part that we're required to set

109aside to address learning loss that comes out to about 25.2 million that we have to set aside out of that 126 million and then we once we receive the third if we receive the third which hopefully we will then we'd have to set aside more just towards that and then we'd have discretion with the remainder of how the rest of it would be spent so that so that means let me put words in your mouth but so that i can understand them if they had a new program they wanted to come to us with and let's say that the cost of it was 8 million a year and roughly we had 24 then we could see we could fund that for three years because i've heard from both mark as well as linda that it

110could take at least two years maybe as much as four years to make up the deficit which says that any special programs that we have we have to provide funding for that time period so so is my understanding you're correct and that funding can go through september 30th of 2024. so you are correct we can spread it out over that period of time we don't have to draw it all down this year see the you do have to spend the money though by september 30th of 24th yes so we've got the money basically for three years or we've got to use the money in three years if we get it and it's it's one-time funding that that hits the highlights of my questions i obviously have many more but this is an evolving process and

111what you presented was more of a a high-level look-see so those are my questions once again thank you thank you and we should have more clarity on that funding by the next board meeting because there will be we begin to get different information from tea as well as the federal government well and just just to add to karen's comment there it won't be necessarily just the next board meeting we'll be providing you updates every friday as we receive additional information so that you'll be able to make a an informed and good decision when we get to that point in june miss heinemann karen thank you for the uh in-depth report and explanation it's um it's complex it's not as simple as it may seem you think the federal government sent money to public schools and

112we got the check and we took a picture and deposited in the bank and that's not how it's working i did have a concern about it being one-time funding and us making long-term budget decisions particularly when it comes to payroll and salaries um on one-time fund one-time funding so i'm a little bit concerned about that but what i hear you say is we would use the one-time funding to offset our deficit and our fund balance but you still feel that we could maintain these long-term uh payroll decisions if we are able to um decrease our deficit that we have this year or maybe completely offset it for 2020 2021 with those funds and we get some of the other federal funds we're hoping to get and we're able to do some of that into the

113next years with this money then it would allow us to not tax i guess you could say the the general fund so much and give us more flexibility in future years for a while um associated with what tom jackson shared is that how far can you go with that three percent raise and we can go hopefully for you know we can go for a while with that if we did like a three percent that he gave the example of okay um that's a lot of ands and maybes and if this and that um i uh i just wanna make sure i clarify a couple questions too one um the funding that the federal government sent to the state of texas and to dr ogletree's point it's sitting in an account somewhere in austin collecting interest

114i'm assuming that i don't know the answer to but i know we haven't received right um the s or two or the yes or three so someone is gaining the interest as well as taking skimming a percentage off the top well and now they're holding it all um and then i just want to clarify we have to apply or apply for a grant to receive the money that was sent to our school district we have to well we haven't gotten the money well which money are you talking about to make sure about any of it the like i'm just i'm like if the federal government sent money to cypher isd why do we have to apply we don't get it until we apply for the grant so we haven't gotten the money yet your question

115is why do we have to ask and explain our own money money intended for us that's a million-dollar question it'd be a great question to ask the commissioner your senators your statements incredibly frustrating no sense and some of that is in you know the federal government also that they are asking for accountability association because they took our money the first time yeah that's why they're wanting to put strings on it you're exactly right because they're wanting to be sure it's spent properly julie my issue with it is i've been in a superintendent in big and very small school districts and the needs in a small school district are different than in a big school district so there should be much a lot of flexibility available to districts um one final question um obviously the the

116stimulus funds were not just for public education there were four other you are correct public services or other services are there any other public service agencies or uh just services that are experiencing the same thing where the state is holding their money and not distributing it my guess would be yes if i mean i would guess at that since we are i would assume the same thing i've heard that from cities and counties um that that has been the case but i you know without digging into it i couldn't tell you for sure but i have heard that the cities and counties have been asking for their money okay could i could i sum it up one just a little what not sum it up i'm not saying no more questions but what this really

117does the yes or money if we receive it it gets us to where we were pre-coveted and if it fills in that gap so that we can get back to normal then we feel like we can get back on those balanced budgets you know we talked about this last august we were going to run deficit budgets for a couple of years even with federal aid but this if we get the money this will get us back on track to keep our fund balance healthy to offer a a significant raise to our employees this year and then hope by 22-23 we've got 119 000 students back in school we hope we have them this fall but so it's it's kind of a the money should get us back to normal if that makes sense pre-cove it

118does it does it won't make a difference if we don't get it but i'm i'm hoping that someone will stop holding it hostage and actually send it where it needs to be so thank you gilbert you okay great you're crazy or this is crazy okay just one question for you karen i mean i'm sitting here and i'm looking that scifire is eligible for over 300 million dollars that's one of 1100 school districts just exactly how much money does the state holding right now do you know oh gosh i would have to pull that uh let's see i think i have it here i've got that they um because they have what's been allocated and i'm just giving you out of the sr1 2 and 3 to texas so far is one point i'm going to

119round it 3 billion in sr1 5.5 billion in sr2 and 12.4 billion in esser 3 money that has been allocated to the state of texas so far that's almost 20 billion dollars and they're just sitting on it i would encourage anybody that has inclined to want to talk to your legislator i would give them a call and ask them what they're doing with that money because that's a lot of money i'm sorry gilbert you're clear i'm sorry yes uh great job i just said something like that though so great job is just by all my mentors here they're they're asking all the questions where i'm learning little by little from all of them and stuff from debbie's frustrations to tom's questions to don's saying i'm going to tell you exactly what it is doctors though

120passion and julie's you know stating the obvious you know what it's crazy so and i appreciate your answers to all the questions above and that binding folder you got there has a lot of answers to this thank you very much ken mr jackson has one more question yes and once again like some other questions this one doesn't have to be answered tonight but we will have to answer this at some point in time and i was hoping somebody else would ask this but has not been asked yet if you take a look at our population for five years it says our population is at an equilibrium point we're going to be asked to approve contracts today that are very significant that suggest that we have if not robust population growth at least population growth at

121some point in time we have to address the disparity of of the two different concepts so so i bring it up it doesn't have to be answered tonight but i do think that at some point in time we have to address that thank you bob okay thank you ms smith that was wonderful appreciate it did you have a statement you wanted to make or something no um all i would say is i appreciate all y'all's support um and of course um the other thing i would just like to say is thank my staff because they have worked very very hard on trying to get every ounce of federal funding and if without their hard work and constant looking at it we wouldn't be where we are so i have to thank my staff melissa mcaneer

122and amanda bowles they've worked very very hard on that and i didn't state this in the board comments but i see paulus out there and between you and paula bringing all of our kids to one to one ratio that's something we've been working on since i've been on the board and that was in my 16th year so thank you all very much for doing it i know we just finished the last one and that's not part of this discussion but it is awesome that we got there we're excited and the fabulous karen fuller is out there also i see her and she's awesome she helped make it happen thank you karen thank you 7b the administration will provide our oral report on teacher incentive allotment presenters are theresa hull and the core advisory committee ms

123hull i think i think before teresa starts this just just a little comment you know i'm i'm concerned about the teacher incentive allotment not because i'm do not want our teachers to receive more funding but unfortunately i'm old enough to have gone through career ladder and what what happens when you um when you start down this this path is all the cooperation and all the camaraderie uh can go out the window when you're fighting over an increase in pay and it it's been my contention all along that the money that's intended for this teacher incentive allotment ought to just be equally distributed across the state to our teachers again who deserve that but having said that the teacher incentive allotment is there and we are going to need to participate because we don't want to

124get behind our neighbors and certainly we don't want to deny at least a few of our teachers the opportunity to earn this my my problem with the whole system is is if everybody could earn it it would be great but the way it's set up is just like it was set up 30 years ago not everybody's going to get the money so if everybody can't get the money it's not fair in my book so having said that theresa go no i appreciate dr henry uh sharing that because i i think it's important for all of our teachers and the sport to know that really our philosophy and position on tying compensation to teacher student performance has not changed however we do think that this is something we need to pursue and see what kind of

125input and feedback we receive from all of our stakeholders in the development of a possible teacher designation program so the teacher incentive allotment you may recall was a part of house bill 3 and as karen pointed out during her budget presentation there were a number of funding allotments that were included in hb3 and the teacher incentive allotment was one of those allotments that was made available to school districts to develop compensation systems that would recruit and retain highly effective teachers and most importantly at our most hard to staff campuses you want to go so really our purpose tonight is to really just give you a brief overview of the teacher incentive allotment kind of share with you what the requirements are for a school district to have a teacher incentive allotment program and then kind

126of the road map that we have uh developed to kind of go through this process now i do want to go back because we've had received some questions we've started the process of sharing the same presentation with all of our campuses teachers are starting to get all the details and so we're starting to receive questions that we're responding to and everybody's saying why are we just now hearing about this because it passed in 2019 i do think it's important for you to know this past obviously um going into the 1920 school year we spent the entire fall semester attending um sessions i think even mr ryan may have attended one with me even at tassa tasby that fall of 2019 we went to region 4 meetings we pulled together we started the process of learning

127about this and finding out what would be involved to develop a program and we were prepared to provide this presentation to you in the spring of 2020 and obviously that just never happened because we were ready where we are now was where we wanted to be last year in starting this process so it is a year delay and understandably we were focused on getting our campuses reopened and trying to get health and safety protocols in place so now that we feel like we're kind of at a good place with uh kovid we wanted to pull this back out and begin this process so again the goal with the teacher incentive allotment that the state has established was to recruit and retain highly effective teachers at traditional hard to staff schools and it would provide funding

128to eligible teachers who earn designations and that's what's important the teacher does not earn the money or the money does not come directly to them teachers generate an allotment for the district and what the statute says is that allotment then the compensation that that teacher generates must be spent on compensation at the campus where the teacher teaches right it doesn't say miss smith generated 32 thousand dollars so ms smith gets 32 000 it requires the district to develop a compensation plan on how we would spend that money that the teacher generated at the campus where the teacher teaches so it gets pretty complex so there are two pathways that teachers can generate an allotment they can generate an allotment through earning a national board certification which is my mind is probably the most objective process

129for a teacher to earn a designation they can do that through going through a pretty it's a national standard it's a national program uh there are i think over 16 different content areas that are pretty generic at all the different levels so really every teacher every content area would be able to earn a national board certification and then uh as a district it's a pretty expensive process i mean it's not cheap it's uh i think 1900 but if a teacher goes through that process earns that designation then they would be eligible for reimbursement through the program the second pathway for a teacher to generate an allotment for the district would be if we decide and notice that term optional up there that's key if the district decides to develop an optional local teacher designation system

130so that would require us to take a whole look at our teacher appraisal process it would require us then to learn we're required in that local designation system to also have student growth measures in place and we would have to develop all of that we would have to submit our plan to the state they would have to approve it then we have to spend a year capturing data from teacher observations student performance data send that to texas tech and make certain that the results are reliable and valid that regardless of who evaluates that teacher regardless of where that teacher teaches you would get the same results uh in your in your program and in your plan so that's a very very lengthy process there are three levels of designation the lowest level would be recognized

131and that would be a national board certification national board certificate certification teachers or designations can only earn the recognized level the second level is exemplary and then the top level is masters in order to earn the master's and exemplary level you must have a local designation system so i know that's a lot linda's going to go into or dr macias i apologize is going to go in and give you a little more details on the national board certification program program the teacher is working uh for that her certification she's not depending on anybody else's the teacher working towards that certification it is known as a gold standard uh in teacher certifications and there's actually 25 certificate areas so there's many areas that that teachers can can work towards a certification all candidates are these teachers

132have to have at least three years of or more of successful teacher experience to be able to apply for the certification and there's four components to the certification three of them are portfolio based uh where they collect information and submit it and one of them is uh is actually computer-based assessment so i'm just going to walk you quickly through through these uh three components so the first one is a content knowledge uh computer-based assessment the teacher takes this goes to a testing site and and uh and takes that test and so that's she'll get an answer whether she comes she was successful with this or not component two is about differentiation um of instruction and this is a portfolio based entry with uh where the teacher analyzes the differentiation that she's providing in in the

133classroom she gathers analyzes students strengths and and and their needs and then uses this information to be able to advance the instruction and the learning for the student and then she has to uh complete a portfolio but there's a huge writing component that goes with it where the teacher would have to uh document everything the whole process and that's part of the submission process component three is teaching and practice and learning environment this one is also a portfolio-based but this one requires a video recording of the interaction between the teacher and the students and uh so then this one the teacher submits a video plus also a written analysis with commentaries about how he or she analyzes and reflects on the teaching with his or her students and the component four is effective and reflective

134practitioner this one is also portfolio based with a written commentary and this one is all about the teacher's content knowledge with assessments and how he or she uses assessments to be able to improve instruction but it also it also uh refers to the teachers being a collaborative team player a learner collaboration with families in the community and how he or she contributes to the students growth and development and as you're here as you heard some of these things you probably heard some of the standards that are just standard for sci fare such as collaborative planning assessments that are collaborative assessments and dpms and so some of these areas that we're talking about it's standard it's a standard practice for us and we think we think we can help the teachers through this we actually are

135working on establishing a cohort where teachers who want to pursue the certification can go through the cohort we'll guide them we'll assist them and then they can apply for each part of the of the assessment so we hope to be ready with that uh in august as teresa alluded to earlier if we as a district determine that we want to move forward with the district designation system that is optional and if we want to be approved for a local teacher's designation system we will need as a district to ensure that our teacher observation system and system for measuring student growth are both valid and reliable a key component in determining a district designation system is the teacher observation process in cfisd during data collection years cf test observations will be required for all teachers in

136order for us to ensure that our appraisal system is valid and reliable we must implement a system for calibration within and among campuses as part of the teacher incentive allotment application process as a district we must also analyze the correlation between teacher observation scores and student growth based on the data captured principals and district leaders must also look at trends across campuses and identify the potential disparities in observation ratings coaching and supplemental supports must also be provided to appraisers to ensure inter-rater reliability measures for all readers the second component of the district designation system focuses on student growth specifically looking at how much progress a student makes academically during a specific amount of time considering initial skill level the focus is on the progress a student makes between the beginning of the year and the

137end of the year not necessarily on whether a student meets a predetermined benchmark student growth may be measured using valid and reliable models such as pre-test post-test value-added student learning objectives and or portfolios regardless of the student growth measure used the texas education agency requires that the following standards must be met for a teacher to earn a distinction to be recognized 55 percent of students must meet or exceed expected growth to be exemplary 60 of students must meet or exceed expected growth and to reach the master status 70 of students must meet or exceed expected growth in addition to teacher observation and student growth which must be included in the designation system districts may also include other factors in determining the teachers eligible to receive a designation such as a student survey teacher leadership responsibilities

138teacher mentorship responsibilities family surveys and contributions to the broader school community there are three types of designations as ms hall indicated a teacher can earn master exemplary and recognized depending on the type of designation districts can receive an additional 3 000 to 32 000 annually per designated teacher once the designation is earned by a teacher it is valid for five years and will travel with the teacher therefore if they left the district it would travel with the teacher or if somebody comes to our district it would come with the teacher at least 90 percent of the allotment the district receives must be spent on compensation of teachers employed at the campus where the designated teacher works districts may choose to request that also can choose to request a fee reimbursement that was uh indicated about

139the national board certification and we can actually request that through the teacher incentive allotment and request reimbursement for that beginning in uh if somebody had taken their test in 2019 or later the district will be reimbursed by the state and then the district will then reimburse the teacher the recognized designation can earn up to three thousand to nine thousand the exemplary designation can earn six to eighteen and then the recognized can i mean or then the masters can receive twelve to thirty two thousand the allotment amount is determined by the texas education agency and is dependent on the campuses socioeconomic need and rural status and since some of cfisd's campuses are considered rural a teacher will not be able to earn the highest funding level in each of these designations however high needs campuses will

140generate a larger allotment as mentioned on a previous slide the designation will last for five years and travels with the teacher currently the district has a small number of designated teachers that meet the criteria for the teacher incentive allotment the district has we have two uh one teacher that has the national board certification and then we have three teachers that i'm sorry we have three with the national board certification and one teacher with a local designation this one teacher with the local designation actually came to us from another district so remember how i said the local designation follows them and so that teacher came to our district with that designation these teachers will receive the allotted funds by august 31st in order to pay these eligible teachers the board will be asked to consider approving

141the superintendent's recommendation to adjust the staff compensation plan as necessary to utilize funds available under the teacher incentive allotment later on in the board meeting in order for a designated teacher to be eligible for the teacher incentive allotment the teacher must be compensated for a credible year of service as a as a teacher teas defines a credible year of service as 90 days at 100 of a day or four and a half months or of a semester in addition they also could be 180 days at 50 to 99 of the day and compensated for employment the teacher must also have a current aspect teacher certification and be recorded as the teacher of record in the peems winter roster submission which is normally submitted in february of each year as we move toward closing out our

142time for this agenda item we point the direction toward two councils one that's established and one that we're in the process of establishing various district representatives from the superintendent's cabinet along with various department leads from business and finance human resources and professional learning make up the cfisd tia core advisory the core advisory council is charged with engaging various stakeholders for the purpose of soliciting gathering and utilizing feedback to make best decisions regarding tiaa the core advisory council is in the process of assembling a full of advisory council the makeup of the full advisory council will include both campus and district level reps with the district's practice in mind of assigning principles to specific cluster groups as determined by a campuses social economic status cluster groups will be the basis for campus representation this will ensure

143a balance of title 1 and non-title 1 campuses additionally district department representatives one from each of the list on the right will ensure that departments central to the teacher incentive allotment process will be included in the makeup of the full advisory council the charge of the full council is to support the district by serving to provide input and feedback throughout the process of designing the potential local option designation system that aligns with and is responsive to the parameters set out by the teacher incentive allotment that was created by the texas legislature as part of house bill 3 while maintaining the district's commitment to attract and retain highly effective teachers at traditionally hard to staff schools the work of the full council is to inform the development or the potential development of the structure and to

144provide feedback concerning the process throughout the 2021-22 school year as the process and unfolds across the district with these critical groups in mind the district's tia road map begins this summer and continues throughout the next school year with planning and stakeholder engagement then the following school year if the district moves toward the optional district designation system would be our data collection year and cf test observations would be required for all teachers the next step is for the district to submit their data to texas tech university for data validation tea will then review the outcome of the data evaluation and the application to determine final approval if approved the district would receive funding beginning with the 2024-25 school year as you have gathered the tiaa roadmap requires a deep commitment and willingness to engage in a

145process of garnering stakeholder engagement throughout the entire process board president covey board of trustees and dr henry as you consider the information that we've shared with you this evening are there any questions regarding the steps that the district is taking with regard to the teacher incentive allotment thank you miss horner julie do you have anything no questions i thank you for the very thorough presentation when this legislation was passed in 2019 it was confusing so i think it took some time for us to digest and figure out how we could uh access these additional funds for our teachers um but as you can see there's so many um hoops and requirements it's very complex and it requires a lot of time by district personnel i'm i'll be surprised if all school districts take advantage or

146use this program because it's so time consuming it requires a lot of people time and hours [Applause] outside of what we normally are doing every day right to educate our kids so just an observation thank you mr simon dr oh do you have anything mr ryan are we teresa you started off there was uh the one path and then the optional path and the optional path is the one that has the most money tied to it with the masters and the correct and so really if we're going to do it you want to do that because that generates uh the most funds but in in going through all those have y'all looked at like what the cost is just to implement this program we've had that conversation um i know our team is just thinking

147how are we going to do all of this but we felt that um you know as we begin this process we first just want to gauge what is the level of interest with our teachers of us developing that kind of system i think it may be interesting to see that they're really they may feel the best pathway and where we need to put all of our time energy and effort is supporting a national board certification program but as to your point it doesn't generate as much of an allotment as you can potentially earn under the local designation system we have um just in doing our research we have reached out to several surrounding districts that have um started this process and a little farther along than we are and they've worked they've hired outside consultants

148people to kind of come in i do think if we get an approved designation system i do think it would require additional staff to manage that and and do all of that to what extent we haven't really gotten that far in the process but even the data capture year and even the process that we're going to have to go through in calibrating our appraisal system um as you may recall um in our current uh teacher appraisal process um there's going to be an added requirement if we go this direction even on our campus administrators and all teachers regardless of their interest in in this this program because we would have to do an evaluation of all teachers in that data capture year so that means all of our campus administrators right now they're on a

149cycle where they don't evaluate every single teacher every single year just depends on the cycle that the teacher's on but during that date of capture year it would require so again there's even some administrative burden in time that you know you can't really put a cost to but that's added to that it's it's a very complex process that i will point out the uh one teacher that we have hired um i think she's new to our district this year that came with a designation you may say how did a district already get that far in the process school districts were allowed to be in what they called cohort a and submit their application if they already had a um kind of a performance pay plan in place so then they could they already had it

150so they just had to take their data and then submit it to texas tech for approval and this is the first year the funds are actually flowing uh to those teachers and the national board certification uh we have a couple of teachers i know one teacher in particular that dr macias and her team have visited with i mean she's had a national board certification for many years we have another teacher that we just realized this week she's from california so there's a lot of opportunity for anyone to earn a national board certification designation longer answer than you asked for no no no no it's a lot to digest actually it's black here okay i'm a little bit confused and maybe a little dense tonight but okay the money that goes with the designation would go

151to the campus where the teacher is and have to be used for compensation correct correct 90 then how do we decide who on that campus gets the money how is it divided up uh does is it going to be based on their um you know how they are rated assessed by the administrators does it go across the board is it dependent upon what that campus decides uh to me it's very confusing that's a great question and that was something we were confused about as well when this first rolled out debbie because i don't know if you recall we had a date grant that provided additional compensation to teachers at some of our title one campuses based on student performance and it was directly tied to um at that time was it tax testing at that

152time i can't even remember the order of the test but it was tied to that and so the way that we set that grant up in providing that compensation was it was a team say uh in that uh tested area it was the fourth grade writing team if that fourth grade if their results reached the level that was established in that grant then the whole team got that allotment and they divided it out so we were really initially thinking that way so we were and again that is the foundation of our district that team planning it's it's our philosophy we work together we support each other we were purposeful when we set it up that way that we did not back to what dr henry was talking about initially we didn't want to set up

153a system that creates uh this um conflict about well sure you you get this designation because you teach all of the the gt students or the honors students and then you know possibly have a teacher that's teaching some of the more challenging students not reach that level so what they say in the way that you set this up again we're just getting started that if you have a true reliable and valid appraisal process and student growth measure it should not matter the population of students that you teach right so that's the part in the the calibration and then the validation of uh all of your data that we have to submit to the state um so back to your question on how do you decide when we go through this process we the stakeholder engagement

154will ask how how what what what is your input on that do you think we should give the full 90 to the teacher that earned that designation do you think we should set up a system like the one i just described that we had with the date grant uh kind of process there's there's lots of flexibility on how we can structure that and then you keep in mind we're talking a lot about teachers teachers generate the allotment for the district but you also have support staff on that campus you have instructional paras in the classroom you have all kinds of people that contribute correct to the success of that campus and those students so um it it becomes a very complex process but when we start this and we go through the stakeholder engagement we'll

155be asking those questions what we're going to present to you tonight when we get to that agenda item for the teachers that we currently have that have a designation we are recommending because it's such a small number we don't have a local designation program that we give the full 90 percent to those individual identified teachers seems only fair yeah now the design the designation goes with the teacher if she changes campuses or school districts correct okay so uh then it and it's good for five years correct correct so then is it only paid out by the state annually yes and it can adjust each year okay because remember it's it's based on the economic status of that campus which could change could change right um or like you said it follows the teacher i go

156from dean to salyards very different student demographics so if the teacher transfers to another campus even with our dis within our district her allotment would be adjusted okay okay okay thank you for clarifying that makes more sense now mr jackson i i will look with excitement toward this uh although i think everybody knows my my prior views on this our board was graced with having a very strong board member who was a strong advocate of this approach and in fact at another school district he helped design and implement it i never identified the efficacy for the dollars expended and there were massive dollars expended this was at one of the very largest if not the largest district here in the state i do know the commissioner when he was a school board member advocated for

157this type of approach as well both of those school board members were convinced this approach worked both of them were convinced the data supported their conclusion i was never able to see that data i did speak to an individual i believe her name was dr mcclendon who took who did a statistical analysis for a very large district as a consultant to determine if advanced degrees and if national certifications could have a positive correlation for student achievement and there was not now granted that research is some 15 years old and i'm confident that it probably has changed we are talking about having a pre and post test we do have a neighboring district and i no longer remember the the number but i think it was double digit millions spent on this pre and post testing

158i'm sure that's going to be part of the information you come back to us with is the additional testing and you know me i'm a a statistical nut i used to teach this at the uh for corporations so i believe in the concept but i don't always believe that that it's a good fit where we might be able to see it so does the current data support that national certifications result in enhanced academic attainment i have to be honest i can't speak to that i guess we could do an analysis and study the the current teachers that have that designation in our district and look at the student performance but linda i don't know if you have any information on the national board certification and that by achieving that you are getting the result of

159improving student outcomes um i'm assuming that that they believe that to be true or the state may you know wouldn't have selected that as an option um but i don't have any data well and i don't know that it makes sense to take a look at our district because our sample size is so small you you can make no conclusions uh when the sample size is uh is that small mark if i understand and read between the lines one reason to do this is to maintain a competitive environment is my understanding correct in that area that's that's exactly correct clearly i think it has to be done with a tremendous amount of finesse i was when i spoke on this years ago i was concerned then and i remain concerned now that it goes against

160the very core of what this district is all about this district is founded upon a team approach and it works and it is sustainable and i i see this as being one person to be elevated among all others i'm confident you all can find a way around this and i'm confident that y'all can turn this into something positive clearly the the pre and post-testing has to be a key component but but on an individual classroom i don't know that that's necessarily meaningful i always go back to what robbie sheridan's daughter taught me she said it's not meaningful and statistically i can prove it to you now granted that was only one principle right i also know that this is supposed to help retain teachers at hard to staff campuses is that correct correct i seem

161to recall your predecessor pam wells making a presentation to us saying that when the date grant was employed that at no campus was there statistical evidence to conclude that it was successful in retaining those teachers i will say that i visited with each and every principal of those hard to staff campuses and of those some had a slightly different view that they believed that additional dollars needed to be allocated to teachers just at that campus to be able to retain them but their observation i thought was very clever they said but if those dollars but if that teacher left and you gave the example let's say leaving um from bain elementary to go to salyards that those enhanced dollars should not follow because it needs to stay at the hard to staff campus so so

162it's not as if this is a new concept for this board or for y'all uh so i know there's a number of pitfalls and y'all are aware of those pitfalls but i will have open ears thank you for introducing the the topic and and mark i hear hear you loud and clear when you say that we need this as to remain competitive particularly going forth being considered to be competitive will be significant for for student attainment absolutely thank you mr rabia do you have anything i agree with uh mr jackson with approaching this with total finesse on this one here it's some good things to get to but we have to be quite careful how we get there and stuff i think mark also spoke at the beginning of this about being a team and

163then top brought up some tom brought up some good um previous discussions on it though there's a lot of good but through a lot of finesse also totally agree with that word thank you sir i just had one question and everybody asked what i was thinking but i know the national board you said costs about nineteen hundred dollars will we we be charging something locally or will that be a free offer i'm sorry repeat that if on the national board certification right that was 1800 you said it's 1900 i think there's a registration fee and then there is a cost for each component and i think it totals up to about 1900 but we have that discussion the state will not reimburse the school district until the teacher actually becomes certified and passes the test

164so it would be cost that the teacher would be responsible for and then once they earned the designation they could be reimbursed for the full cost plus earn the incentive amount but if you go with the local instead of the national will we be charging anything no no i apologize i'm sorry that's all right the local designation no there's no cost okay for the teacher right dr o uh how much input if if any did we get from our teachers on this we haven't started the process yet uh so we will be yes yes we wanted to we've started by providing this same overview presentation to our principals and they are sharing it with their teachers on the campus and then we're sharing it with you and then our next step will be to form

165that full advisory council that dr horner talked about with all those different representatives including teachers and then from there we'll begin the process of going out and soliciting input and feedback with the different stakeholders and groups okay can we pull that slide back up that shows the people that are on the whole committee and not just the core committee just go back uh again okay right there no okay there's the core that's the group that presented to you tonight where we're just the ones trying to set up a structure that we move forward and go to the next slide so our next step is to um form the full advisory council you can see there's going to be 16 16 apsdis associates 18 elementary teachers 14 secondary and then our teacher organization representatives and then

166the district representatives on the other side in those areas were identified because of just feedback we need from them as we're possibly developing a system and how it may impact their different areas and so that advisory council once we go out all stakeholders are really going to have the opportunity to give us some input and feedback through you know different processes and procedures which we've still got to develop but it'll come back to this full advisory council to start kind of hammering out some details um say on student growth measure um that's probably going to be one that's one of the most challenging processes and so in really um identifying and looking at what our student growth measures would be what is the waiting that they have in the system and the process and all

167of the various content areas we're not you know it could be that when we go out to our stakeholders um there is a recommendation that we only focus on identified campuses it could be that there's a recommendation that we focus on all campuses but only state tested content areas some districts have set it up that way we don't have to do all 92 campuses we could do just a pilot school we have that flexibility but what we would have to understand we go through all this work for one campus a pilot campus or a few campuses if you want to expand it you got to start the whole process and resubmit an application and data again so that that's the challenge with this to to answer your question dr oh teachers will be heavily involved

168in creating this system well i think that's going to really help for the buy-in even though this is not a part of our our culture but when everyone has you know participatory capital in it i think it will i think will help now teresa if we this will did i did i understand this is for title one campuses or any campus and could we so designate that we're only going to use this at title 1 campuses we could designate that theresa one final question and you mentioned that there's other districts y'all have talked to that are ahead of us in this uh what what are they seeing are they seeing that this is something of benefit to their districts um we the districts we have talked to have not actually fully implemented it yet we've

169talked with tom ball we've talked to klein we've talked to a leaf and they have just really our conversations with them have been around kind of their stakeholder engagement process and how they're structuring it and so a leaf i believe is in cohort e which is the one we are in so they'll be submitting their application next year next april um klein because klein forest high school was already they had a performance pay structure at a designated high school klein was a part of co-court a for that campus and so we really wanted to talk to them and so now they're in the next phase of setting up for additional campuses and they really are limiting the content areas and campuses that would be eligible for the designation and even the teachers and then uh

170in talking with tom ball i believe are they in d uh dr macias i think they're just ahead of us we've participated i've listened into some statewide sessions this year at midwinter there was one that tea facilitated they were smaller districts dr uh mr covey and it was difficult to really kind of compare them to us and determine they they raved about it but i think they're again a very different environment a very different kind of school district but they were much smaller okay thank you mr president uh teresa where would north side and northeast be in terms of cohorts on this i can look online all of the districts in their designated cohort if they've submitted an application or an intent they call it not an application but a letter of intent that's posted

171online i can look at that and let you know i only bring them up because in terms of social economic demographics and size they're most closely related to us correct thank you okay moving along 7c the administration will provide the status of a virtual academy for the 2021-2022 school year dr linda macias is going to present in person not virtually good evening as you have been hearing and probably reading and talking to legislators you know that there have been several bills this session regarding virtual school and the opportunity for public schools like us to be able to provide a virtual uh program or school for the 2021-22 school year so this evening i will be sharing with you whoops i said i was going to click myself there we go this evening i'll be sharing

172with you our proposed plan to offer a tuition-free full-time virtual school in the 21-22 school year pending action by the texas legislator during this uh during this session and including full funding for virtual education so i just want to make sure that we're clear that this is a proposed plan if full funding is is approved and virtual education for a school like site fair is also approved so you have heard us also talk numerous times and you've heard dr henry share that the best instruction and learning environment for our students is face-to-face instruction with their teachers in the classroom however we do know that there are some students who have performed well in our current online virtual environments connect cfisd and these are the candidates that possibly uh may apply for the cfisd virtual school

173again i want to stress this is a proposed plan in case this is approved by the legislature so just to share a little bit about what our structure would look like this would be a district campus so it would be an identified campus that we are that we're talking about it would have its own ta id number the grades that would be served in the in the cfisd virtual school would be 4th through 12th grade there would be entry criteria to be able to to qualify for for the virtual school we would have the students would have access to our cfisd core curriculum so they would have they would receive a rigorous high quality curriculum you know that standard that we have in sci fair but there would be limited opportunities for the electives dual

174credit ap ct pathways they would be there for them but they would be limited it would be schedule synchronous instruction and there would be an application process and we would ask parents to commit to one year to or the school year for this virtual school wouldn't be going back and forth back and forth i'll talk a little bit more a little about that as we move forward so our intention is to launch a successful virtual school so this is not connect cfisd connect this is not a virtual program that is at the school like we have right now this is not an opportunity for kids to be able to go virtual for a few days or for a week or for two weeks this is an actual school they would be enrolled in this actual

175school so as i just shared it is a stand alone campus students enrolled in the cfisd virtual school it would have its own separate accountability system students would be required as they are right now to participate in the state assessments just just a clarification it'll have its own rating not system yes i'm sorry did i say system i'm sorry yes i have rating right here written down it would have its own accountability rating again the state assessments would have to be taken it would have its own gpa and class ranking its own graduation class and all virtual and extracurricular activities would happen in that manner in a virtual manner there would be clubs and organizations that they could participate in remember they are in they would be enrolled in an actual school so again fourth

176through twelfth grade we visited with our elementary uh uh cluster and they felt comfortable with fourth and uh twelfth grade nothing lower than that and you know you you all have heard before that that uh you know the primary grades reading and third grade that that is the standard that is that is what what what the research says is setting students up for success so fourth and fifth grade is what they felt comfortable with teachers would be delivering instruction in peer classes you have heard dr henry say now over and over again that that blended is dead so on july 3rd we're going to bury it it is dead and so this would be pure virtual classes um they are they will be scheduled instruction in a two-way real-time with live instruction with that teacher

177delivering that life instruction there would be academic support just like we provide kids who who struggle and then here again as i shared it would be a one-year commitment and so if for any reason our students would have to return to the home campus because we want to make sure they're being successful then they would return back to the campus to finish out the year it wouldn't be it wouldn't be going back and forth and the teacher work site for for the cfisd virtual school would be the broaden center so that's where we would we would have our uh our teachers um housed this is that criteria that i spoke about uh that eligibility criteria so again it's for students in fourth through twelfth grade the class average of 80 or better is going to

178be required in in all the course work and then attendance 90 or higher is important as well so those those are the main eligibility criteria that we would be looking at but then we would be looking at other just input power academic success in the learning environment behavior discipline and then there would also be an opportunity uh for students who are struggling there might be a probation phase or if they are not being successful then they would be exited to the school that they are zoned to so we wouldn't be leaving them there for them to continue struggling and possibly and possibly failing at the elementary levels it's our standard courses that uh that we offer pe it would be would be virtual as well but we would also permit our elementary students to do

179off-campus pe there is a required by law of minutes for pes 135 minutes uh uh every two weeks so that would be a standard and then of course they would have some of the fine arts but it would all be virtual in middle school just quickly i just wanted to show you that the core courses will be there available to our students so both whether it's on level k level or horizons we would have some ct opportunities for them fine arts opportunities and some other electives but notice that they are limited they are limited in nature high school again the core courses are available to them you're gonna see in a little bit that we do have some identified uh uh foundation courses that that certainly that they would that they would pursue an endorsement

180so these courses would allow them to be able to earn these endorsements but you can see again all the different levels are available to our students even some academic electives for them we have load courses we have some fine arts courses and then p and health but again they are limited in what we are able to offer we have two career paths that we're starting with business and management and multi multi arts and the courses that that are provided there also lead to certifications this is also important because remember this will have its own accountability rating these are the endorsements that would be available in in the cfisd virtual school multidisciplinary arts and humanities and business and industry they would have opportunities for advanced placement but there are courses that are events that are ap

181courses that have a corresponding assessment they can take at home those are the ones that would be available in the virtual school and we have the list for 2021. they usually change a little bit so it'll be a little bit different but it's only those that have the corresponding home digital administration of the ap exam dual credit the operators for dual credit but again in a limited fashion as well we have a program with lone star college that's that's a learning support model that we can offer due credit courses or the student could also choose to have early release or come in later and do and and decide to take a course at the actual lone star college facility or on on a saturday and then as i said extracurricular activities will be available to

182our students but it would be through virtual clubs or virtual other virtual organizations so what are our next steps on wednesday parents can go to our cipher website and they will see information about the cypher isd virtual virtual school again everything that they're going to see there is all pending the legislative outcome one of the things that they'll find there is uh is is this itis my student ready for virtual learning it is actually an opportunity for for parents to reflect with their students on their readiness for virtual learning and the opportunity for them to be successful so questions such as my child would be described as someone who has good organizational skills and complete assignments ahead of time rarely sometimes or most of the time or my child is motivated in a self-directed learner

183or when my child encounters a problem during class or or with homework he or she knows how to review directions check his or her work and ask for support students need to have certain skills to be able to be successful in the in the uh in an online environment and so we're providing this for for our parents if if they can answer five or more to most of the time then possibly this this is a possible candidate for uh uh to apply for the for the cfisd virtual school on the website parents will find the cfisd uh virtual school handbook and uh and course catalog uh an faq there as well in the application and the application process will include again enrolled in a cfisd or live within the boundaries of cfisd we have we

184have students who are not attending or enrolled in our schools but live within our boundaries they certainly will be able to apply for the cfisd virtual school the entry criteria will be there student responsibilities and commitment and also parent responsibilities we are opening the window on on may 12th through june 1st for parents to apply for this and this is again we want to we we need to have an idea what we're talking about in students so so we can prepare for this but but it is all pending the outcome of the legislative session if the session ends and we're not allowed to have virtual instruction or the complete funding then we will not be able to provide this uh this opportunity you will also see uh in the next week or two and a

185posting for a cfisd virtual school principal slash dean so this person would be leading the virtual school but also serve as a dean of instruction a di to be able to support students uh and then also advertising for for teachers we have great teachers who've heard dr industry have done a great job with our virtual school so some of them may want to apply for this and then we're going to look to see what other staff that uh that we might need depending on the number of students that actually uh apply for the cfisd virtual school and just to add to that point uh obviously let's just say at bridgeland we have a hundred kids that want to go virtual teachers from bridgeland will they may not come from that school but they'll be fewer

186allocated teachers to that school because of a decrease in the number of students so we're not asking for more teachers at this time uh they just may be uh assigned to virtual but they'll have that option so yes they will have they will have that option so this concludes the presentation for our proposed cfisd virtual school if the legislature approves full funding and the opportunity to do this ms hanuman dr macias um i i know we've heard from some parents that their students did thrive working at home so i appreciate that we're looking to uh provide a solution to those parents who feel that their students did learn well at home although that was a very that was a small number but there were some kids that did do well at school do we have

187an idea of the numbers i mean i know we did a survey uh earlier in the school year but do we feel like it's sustainable is there a break-even point in terms of number of students i don't know the number of students who said do you have that information who said that they would uh i don't have that with me but what we heard from the campuses that um parents really kind of misunderstood those questions in may may not be a really good indicator of whether or not they want virtual for next year and we have so many of our kids that have not come back that uh that we hope that they will continue in that format with us well we'd rather they be they stay with us online versus going to another provider

188right especially one that charges the money or doesn't provide the same level high standards that we have virtual virtual education and i'm not going to talk about scifire but if you look at the statistics of of k-12 and some of these folks that are providing virtual the graduation rate is minuscule right it's not very successful so we're hoping that for our our kiddos our students who participate in the cypher isd virtual school if we have it we would obviously work very hard to make sure they're successful but we're not anticipating that being a large number of students well we we hope not we still think that you know the the statement i always say is we can provide schooling for you virtually but if you want a real education it needs to be in person

189for for most students right right and then remember um assignments i shared that everything is virtual they will complete all coursework in a virtual environment and they will be enrolled in this school so they won't be enrolled at uh at at any of our brick and mortar schools they will actually be enrolled in the school and any activities they do will be associated with that with the virtual school right and there's no special education special education students bilingual esl students can certainly apply to to the virtual school we have to make sure that we're going to be able to meet the needs that that are set out in in in their ieps and then and then the art committee will also uh provide guidance for that okay so we may or may not be able

190to they may or may not be able to participate in the virtual and be a virtual school student they may need to come to a brick and mortar school to get their services that just depends on the needs of the students i think the difference julie between us and maybe some of these virtual schools for profit is we're going to be very discerning and if you cannot be successful we're not going to accept you whereas these for-profit virtual schools they just see a price tag on it on a student's head right my only other concern has to do with the application window because the legislative session doesn't end until the end of may so parents may be applying but it may not even be an option so i'm just a little concerned about that and

191and and we were also concerned about that but the only way for us to know the number of possible teachers uh that we may need is to go ahead and and have the application window open okay and and uh and then if you know as we don't know where to where our teachers are gonna be coming from we don't know how many we will need we don't know where they're gonna be coming from but we also need to have our campuses have the opportunity to uh to rehire some of those positions if they need to be rehired and then we we feel we need to get moving if we're going to be able to start going full force on july 1 if it is approved and be ready by uh by august that makes sense

192thank you miss seremia yes linda what are our numbers right now at the campuses face to face do we do we have that three percentage it's 74 74 still that's the last number i saw was that going up theresa i think i saw that today okay i was just wondering if that was correct dr hendrick [Laughter] i would just wonder if that would give any kind of a revelation to what we might expect um yeah i think um you'll see our elementary numbers are a little higher i think they may be at like 79 percent um secondary is a little lower it went down but that's because of our seniors a lot of the seniors once they kind of finished up their seasons or their activities little senioritis has kicked in and so um i

193think that's the shift not that i don't feel safe or i want to have virtual school right thank you for those numbers and then a nice presentation to a proposed idea thank you so you want to make sure we're clear miss blockchair london just to clarify as i understand it for our viewing audience since it is a standalone campus it will not be like scifire isd connect in that students would not be able to participate in sports i.e football volleyball basketball correct they would only participate in virtual activities virtual organization i just want to make sure that is clear and then i guess my second question is uh have we thought through about there may be some parents who still in august have concerns about the health and well-being of their students say they have

194an asthmatic child and they're concerned still about them returning to the classroom but they may not meet the criteria maybe as far as grades or attendance um i'm going to ask maybe theresa to help me with that one but i will share with you ms blackshire just a reminder that this is not uh an opportunity for kids to come in and out this is a school so it's just like if they were enrolled at samson at samson elementary we would have to provide opportunities to support the student i will also tell you that that with with schoology we didn't just by school to get us through this transition we have been working through schoology and it's going to provide us opportunities to continue supporting our kids to be able to push push information out to

195push resources out when our students uh uh are absent or maybe even even push out somebody so there'll be opportunities but it won't be the virtual environment no i understand that it's not in and out and i totally agree with that mr jackson i understand the the question that debbie asked as well as the answer that you gave her there if i understand the situation correctly there's actually a couple of campus a couple of school districts maybe more than a couple that all already have something like a virtual school going is that is my understanding correct that is correct there were gravitation sometimes some years ago uh for those are there is the participation co or extracurricular activities virtual or do they participate after school as you would ordinarily so so the some of the

196ones that you've been talking about uh heather bergman has taken the lead actually with us to do some some research but what we have found is like like the huntsville one or the what is the truth i was good at ron hollis yes they that that's they they are a a complete virtual school they have students from all over that attend that attend the virtual school so uh they are completely in a virtual manner and when i went through leadership tasby that's what we found out at that time so but is there anything to prevent a district from saying you can be in this virtual school but you can still participate in after-school activities we don't know what's going to be passed yeah that's so that there's been no legislation passed yet so we don't

197know what will be in there and as you know uh just as they said there's been a just a very few schools that are even allowed to do virtual now other than the the uh commissioner allowing us to this year but that that goes out the window june 3rd i i will share with you though mr jackson that that we uh uh visited with our high school uh covet principles committee and uh they support a plan like this versus students being coming coming and going back and forth to the campus very good so it has alternative uses as well thank you dr ogletree my thought was on the extracurricular activities let's say ffa if you have a student who is good virtually but wants to also participate in that um why shouldn't they be allowed

198to i think it's all going to end up being dr goh in dr o in the way the bill if there is a bill that's passed and what it says these students would be enrolled in a school and the school is the virtual school they wouldn't be enrolled at cypher high school where they they they come to campus and and do the the ag program or they wouldn't be enrolled in you know in richland high school they would be enrolled in the virtual school and there are other opportunities for extracurricular activities but not the act that is over that that is at the brick and mortar school anyone else have questions okay thank you dr macias appreciate it 7d the administration will provide a report on cooperative purchasing fees paid by the district for 2019

1992020 physical year questions only from mr bill powell our cleaner of the microphone anybody have any questions for mr powell no okay uh the board will now review and discuss the following consensus action items mr french would you like for us to move you up a little bit i mean you've been here all night i'm sure you're okay can we all right shall we all right let's do the minutes okay the board will consider approving the minutes of the april 8 2021 regular board meeting if any board member wishes to remove this item for further discussion please do so at this time if not i will entertain a motion to approve the consensus item as recommended or amended mr president i move that we approve the consensus item as recommended and or amended thank you

200mr ryan do i have a second second thank you miss blackshear any questions all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous thank you all right we're gonna move to 9k the board will consider approving construction proposals and contracts paid from bond funds to the recommended contractors and authorize a superintendent and designee to execute all necessary documents related to such contracts as follows presenter is matt morgan 9k 1 2019 middle school number 20 9k 2 20 20 leonard bronigan center cte additions 9k 3 2020 transportation center number six detention basin and pump station are there any questions mr jackson mr morgan i have two standard questions so if you would briefly touch on any uh flood plain concerns any retention or detention pond uh concerns and if there are any how are they being addressed

201and then secondly uh as it relates to my my standard virus question what enhancements have we adopted as it relates to quality of air and uh quality of water at the uh facilities that were we're talking about yes sir we don't have any detention or retention concerns as far as middle school 20 bridgeland the bridgeland side is part of the regional detention facility we had no flooding issues during harvey with either ridgeland high school or wells elementary as far as leonard brodigan center again no detention or retention issues and if you remember uh matzky it was matsky at that time was actually the site for moore elementary as far as indoor air quality at middle school 20 we are following ashrae 62.1 ieq fresh air and fresh air changes and for this facility that means

202that we will have air change in the classrooms every eight minutes or more so we're also doing merv 13 filters as recommended by the cdc very good thank you sir thank you any other questions may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended or amended mr president i move that the board award these construction contracts to the recommended contractors and authorize the superintendent or designee to execute all necessary documents related to such contracts i think mr ryan may have a second second who said oh gilbert thank you all in favor raise your right hand unanimous thank you nine ill the board consider approving and authorizing the superintendent are designated to enter into miscellaneous professional service contracts related to the following project 9 l1 2019 middle school number 20. do we have any

203questions for mr morgan none may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item is recommended or amended mr president i move that the board approve and authorize the superintendent or designee to enter into the miscellaneous professional service contracts for the listed project up to the recommended amounts thank you mr ryan may have a second second thank you dr ogiltry uh may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended or amended oh hey come on man i did that how late is it okay you put our hands up all in favor raise your right hand that is unanimous 9 m the boar will consider approving a change order to the construction contract with ici construction incorporated for additional work at the cfic i cfisd exhibit center are there any questions for mr

204morgan dev do you have some no no okay then may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended or amended i move that the board approve a change order to the construction contract with ici construction inc for the additional work at the cfisd exhibit center and authorize the superintendent or designee to execute all necessary documents to complete the additional work thank you miss blackshear may i have a second second thank you mr jackson all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous thank you gentlemen for being here tonight if y'all want to skip out i'm sure the rest of the evening is going to be titillating so action item 9a the board considered nominations for region 4 position f large district member seat on the tasby board of directors presenter is mr

205ryan i nominate bob covey for reelection to the region 4 position f seat on the tasby board of directors all in favor please raise your right hand give me a say i second my motion go with it somebody seconded it okay thank you good job bob do you want to say anything i mean you're doing great you're doing great you represent us well i think you're amazing i mean you had that snafu a couple of mean agendas ago but other than that you're killing it you're killing it i'm good until about nine o'clock at night okay take your meds all in favor that is unanimous thank you there we go and i appreciate it guys thank you for the support 9b the board will consider approving the budget amendments for the period of january the

2061st 2021 through march 31st 2021 are there any questions anybody have anything for ms smith no may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended are amended mr president that the board approved the budget amendments for the period of january 1 2021 through march 31st 2021. thank you mr ryan may have a second second is that you mr jackson yes thank you all in favor raise your right hand and that's unanimous nine see the board consider approving the superintendent's recommendation to adjust the compensation reflected in the district's compensation plan as necessary to utilize funds available under the teacher incentive allotment were you having a presentation are we just voting on this now well that was your presentation that was it yeah all right may i have are there any questions i'm sorry

207then may i have a motion i move that the board trustees approve the superintendent's recommendation to adjust the compensation reflected in the district's compensation plan is necessary to utilize funds available under the teacher incentive allotment thank you mr jackson may have a second thank you mr gilbert all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous 90 the board will consider approving the request for the texas education agency waiver for the 2021-2022 school year anyone have any questions for dr macias and it's a hearing none may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item is recommended are amended mr president i move the board approve the request for texas education agency waiver to allow the district to train staff on various educational strategies designed to improve student performance in lieu of student instruction for the

2082021-2012 22 school year thank you dr olga tree may have a second second thank you miss heinemann all in favor raise your hand right hand yeah unanimous thank you 9e the board consider approving a resolution to suspend portions of mfmh local for the 2020 2021 and 2021 2022 school years anyone have any questions for dr macias yes sir mr jackson so linda on this i think the intent is for seniors to participate in the ceremonies but briefly describe what services we will offer for those who do not meet all requirements on a look-back basis plus is it true that regardless of their test score re-test opportunities will not be provided or will they so you are correct mr jackson this is providing students who have completed their course requirement for graduation but may have not

209passed all of the oc's to be able to participate in the graduation ceremony there is a process called the igc the individual graduation plan that is in place first for students for for seniors who have not completed all five required end of course exams and if they just need two if they're lacking two of them then a committee can conv may convene and may evaluate the students knowledge of the texas essential knowledge and skills for those areas and then may decide to go ahead and permit them to earn graduation status but this would be done on a look-back basis because as i understand it we won't have all test results in on a timely basis well we won't if there are any re-tests we will not have them in a timely basis for uh for

210graduation purposes but they still to be able to graduate to actually formally earn a a diploma they would either have to have met all their court other coursework and have other intercourse assessments that are required or have other coursework and only be lacking two of the end of course assessments and then the igc can convene and provide that opportunity thank you any other questions hearing none may have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended or amended mr president i move that the board approve a resolution to suspend portions of fmh local for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years thank you mr jackson may have a second second thank you dr ogletree all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous thank you nine if the board will consider approving a resolution to suspend

211portions of e-i-e-local for the 2020-2021 school year only are there any questions for dr macias hearing none may have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended or amended mr president i move that the board approve a resolution to suspend portions of eie local for the 2020-2021 school year only thank you mr ryan may have a second okay thank you miss blackshear all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous the 9g the bill will consider approving the administration's recommendation for the 2021-2022 open slash closed campus designation for student transfers are there any questions for miss hall our mission oh oh it did so it'll be brief too i promise i'm sorry i'm sorry christy i'm sorry about that no hey no problem i just look for the clicker quicker evening what a year

212what a night the um based on enrollment projections and building capacities the office of boundary plannings and boundaries projections and planning would like to share recommendations for the campuses that will be open for the 21 2021-2022 school year remember our goal is to provide as many options as possible with the constraints of capacities and to accommodate student and parent preferences before i show the list i want to talk about a few of the policies that we have regarding open closed and transfer policies just refresh your memory on these each year the board's asked to approve the recommendations for the campuses once identified as an open campus student services uses a tiered process with three different levels without reading these to you tier one is referring to a school that is open to all cfisd residents

213and employees these are called tier one campuses number two is referring to campuses that will be closed to all new transfers but but we will be available to cfisd employees only those are called tier two campuses and number three is referring to campuses that will be closed to all new transfers but will be only available to cfic employees who are assigned to a facility or building located within exact same attendance zone of that school that's requested in summary once approved by the board all schools and campuses will be categorized as a tier one a tier two or a tier three campus if the board approves the list of open campuses student services will be calculating the number of open spots available for each campus based on the tier system uh the timeline provided by student

214services is as follows if the board approves a list student services will advertise the campuses that are open starting tomorrow may 11th tuesday may 11th uh registrars and student services will start accepting applications after tomorrow as well and then tuesday june 1st with a deadline to apply student services will be getting open campus and transfer information out in a variety of ways as you can see the list provided district website school newsletters connections to the community building campus bulletin boards emails distributed to employees without district email addresses employee connection inside cypress cypress fairbanks isd and school messenger the transfer applications are available at the registrar's office on all campuses or on the district website at www.cfic.net a transfer application submitted to the campus registrar to the student center student transfer at cfic.net by tuesday june

2151st okay the 2122 recommendation we have seven high schools 13 middle and 37 elementary that we recommend to be open for the 21 22 school year that's 57 campuses last year was 36 so 21 more options for this year so the campuses for next year are i'll read those to you last year i was told do you want me to read them all no we're good okay good i just just following last year's okay so do you have any questions any questions if not me thanks they like for the transportation's not provided on the transfers it is not i just want to make sure that the there's no there's no elementary exception but that has to do with daycares but that is not is not provided for requests for transfer okay yes going back to

216our last regular school uh calendar i guess 2019 the beginning of the fall right do we have our numbers to see that um of kids actually transferring to a particular school and stuff as far as the 2021 school year i'm not sure how many students transferred 20 20 19 19 15 20. it really varies um there are some campuses that you will see a higher number of requests for transfers i mean we can get you that data and you're wanting to know how many students or how many transfer requests were received at each campus in 2019. i'm new to this process i would kind of like to have a bearing okay oh look at the numbers that we have this year uh our last calendar uh year that we went without the pandemic starting in

217what our numbers look like and what they possibly would look like when we come back in uh august and september stuff just to relate the numbers sure okay we can get those numbers student services will have those for 1920s i will say gilbert that uh i know i don't remember if we opened a school that year but if you open a school then sometimes the kids don't want to go to that school so they asked to transfer back to wherever they are so but i don't remember if there was one in 2019 i think roe was the last one wasn't it yes and i understand i just kind of want to see some numbers to put everything in perspective for myself okay well christy thank you may i have a motion to approve the non-consensus

218item that's recommended all right what oh you had one i'm sorry yes sir you know i think everybody on the board knows this but for our viewers particularly the empty households do we have title one and non-title one opportunities at each level i.e elementary middle and high school yes thank you thank you thank you sir okay now may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item is recommended or amended mr president i move that the board approved the administration's recommendation for the 2021-2022 open closed campus designations for student transfers thank you mr ryan may have a second thank you gilbert all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous 9 8 the board will consider approving the instructional materials allotment antique certification for 2021-2022 questions only do you want to have any questions for

219christy well actually mr president the standard question i have always goes to the superintendent dr henry you can in fact certify to us that the instructional materials allotment has been used only for expenses as as permitted or allowed yes sir thank you sir any other questions hearing none may have a motion to prove the non-consent item is recommended or amended thank you miss blackshear all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous 9i the board will consider approving the cost-sharing agreement for the installation of a signal light questions only for roy sprague or matt morgan any questions hearing none may have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended or amended mr president i move that the board approve a cost sharing agreement for the installation of a single signal light and authorize the

220superintendent or designee to negotiate the final terms of the agreement and execute all necessary documents thank you miss heinemann may have a second second thank you dr elder tree man uh all in favor raise your right hand for getting where i am 9j the border consider or that was unanimous 9j the board consider awarding bids and contracts and are authorizing purchase orders as recommended in the posted agenda item 9j1 ambulance and emt services 9j2 bank depository services requests for proposal 9j3 building materials and general mro supplies 9j4 computer devices components and services 9j5 new adoptions for advanced placement u.s history and dual credit sociology 9j6 property insurance renewal do i have any questions mr jackson this would be on item 9j4 computer devices components and services estimated award 38.9 million if you would paula please

221briefly explain what this as far is it for replacement is it for part of the one-to-one allocation does it involve student technology or teacher technology or both does it pertain to new school technology those sorts of questions to be answered yes mr jackson the purpose of this rfp is to address our standard five-year replacement cycle for a variety of endpoint devices this expenditure is separate from our lte one-to-one program the endpoint devices included in this in this purchase will be for replacements for teacher tool devices administrative devices ruggedized devices for our police went departments a limited number of windows devices for our campuses specialty high-end devices for cte classrooms which include computer science drafting digital art photography and endpoint technology for new sites um mr jackson and president covey you referenced the uh lte one

222to one program i'd like to elaborate a little bit on that right now on april 27 2021 we completed our final elementary campus just campus distribution and now all campuses are fully one-to-one to date we have a hundred and fifteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-four chromebook devices distributed and 14 373 hot spots distributed one item worth noting regarding the 14 hot spots we have siblings numbering 13 838 to that are also using these devices for a total of twenty eight thousand two hundred eleven students using our hot spots although the board approved the purchase of seventy nine thousand five hundred one to one chromebook devices in july this purchase did not accommodate our full student population we plan to seek board approval for the purchase of additional chromebooks for our one-to-one program while introducing a

223five-year replacement cycle for our chromebooks during a future board meeting similar to tonight's proposal for our endpoint devices thank you for a very thorough answer thank you any other questions may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended or amended mr president i move that the board award bids and contracts and authorized purchase orders is recommended in the posted agenda item thank you mr ryan may have a second thank you miss blackshear all in favor raise your right hand that's unanimous now we will before we move on to the superintendent's briefing portion of the agenda we have an addendum to the may 2021 agenda addendum the board will consider approving the granting of a water meter easement to barker cypress municipal utility district for water service to leader elementary school and authorize

224the superintendent are designated to negotiate the final terms and execute all related documents we have any questions for mr morgan hearing none may i have a motion to approve the non-consent item as recommended are amended wake up um [Laughter] all right we got two soul moves so okay thank you all in favor raise your right hand and that's unanimous we will now proceed to the superintendent's briefing portion of the agenda dr henry before i start that mr covey i have a question for mr morgan sure help yourself how do you pronounce our board president's name okay just checking we've been working on that [Laughter] okay uh superintendent's fun run was held on saturday uh may 1st it was our eighth one despite us running together from wherever which was a virtual event we were able

225to raise a hundred and twenty thousand dollars to benefit sci fair educational foundation that's awesome congratulations to our top participating campus cypress ranch high school hamilton middle school woodard elementary school and the carpenter center our top department was curriculum and instruction and accountability uh so we really appreciate all the participation i just can't tell you how much i appreciate the local businesses and the sponsors that stuck have stuck with us the last two years and next year we're going to have an in-person event and it's going to be the biggest and best ever may 3rd through 7th was teacher appreciation week a time to recognize our educators who have gone above and beyond to serve cf isd students additionally on may 12th we will celebrate national school nurse day this year we wanted to pay

226a special tribute to all cfisd staff who made this year this school year possible and we have a special video called opportunity for all because of you and i hope i hope you all had a chance to see that it was really well done by our by our communications department for the second straight year cfisd graduation ceremonies will be held outdoors at scifire fcu stadium which is at the berry center the graduations are scheduled to be between may 27th and june 4th 4th visit the cfisd website for a full graduation schedule and live stream information four years after the program launched the inaugural class of cfisd college academy students will graduate high school along with a two-year associate's degree the 85 cypress lakes high school seniors have earned enough credits to graduate from lone star

227college sci fair on may 14th and from cypress lakes on may 29th and as an added bonus we're going to have the lone star college president at our graduation for psy lakes to congratulate our dual uh graduates uh as a reminder monday may 31st will be a student and staff holiday and observance of memorial day last day of the 20 20 2020 dash 2021 school year is thursday june 3rd the summer break is scheduled for june 4th through august 20th and i hope everyone has a safe and restful vacation cfisd's summer school offerings are expanded for every level high school middle school and elementary in 2021 visit our website for a detailed listing and information on how to register and just a reminder it's free this year for all students so some of you'd like

228to get a little bit ahead or some of you'd like to redo a course or catch up the opportunity will be this summer beginning june 11th through july 30th all district facilities and campuses will be closed on fridays employees will work 10 hour days monday through thursday so we hope that you'll put that on your calendar and we'll be there late every afternoon to help you monday through thursday if you need us so hope everybody has a great evening and i'll turn it over to you mr covey thank everybody for staying y'all are wonderful we are now adjourned thank you [Music] you