Northwest ISD School Board Meeting - December 8, 2025

001Good evening. I call this meeting of the Northwest Independent School District to order at 5:00 p.m. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of the meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meeting A Meetings Act, Texas Government Code 551. The board will convene in close session pursuant to Texas Government Code Chapter 551, including sections 551.071, consultation with the board's attorney, and 551.072, real estate matters, and 551.074, personnel matters. Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call this meeting back into order. Um, after close session at 6:38 p.m., we will now move on to the invocation and pledge of allegiance. >> I'm going to invite you guys to please stand. I'm going to offer a word of prayer to

002open our meeting tonight and invite you to join me if you'd like to. Uh, please join me while bowing your head. Heavenly Father, we come to you humbly, Lord. We thank you so much for the many blessings that you've showered upon the students and the staff and the families of Northwest ISD. Lord, as we enter this holiday season, we ask for your continued protection, that hedge of protection that you offer us this evening. Lord, we we pray for godly wisdom uh as the board makes decisions in in public. Lord, we ask you to bring all of our kids and our families back to us safely as we finish out this uh semester and get ready to start a new beginning in January. These things we pray in the Lord's name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Please

003remain standing. I'm going to introduce a couple of folks that help us with the pledges this evening. This is the best meeting of the year because we have a full house. We've got adults and community members and staff and kids most importantly. And so, um, it's going to be a fun, uh, recognitions. And then it's okay if you guys all run out of here after the recognitions are over. We're used to that, too. But, um, to help us with the pledges this evening, uh, we have Justin Elementary, two fifth grade students. Arya Molina is here with us. Her parent, her mom, Elizabeth, is with us. And to tell you a little bit about Arya, she loves science because she likes to do all the fun experiments and learn new things, which is awesome. She likes

004to play softball, uh, and go to Spring Creek and get fried okra. I'm assuming it's fried ochre. That's good stuff. Good on you. Uh, her proud principal, uh, Dr. Garrettson, said that Arya is a model Jaguar student. She loves to learn and to sing. She's a member of the Jaguar Choir. Is also a member of the fifth grade leadership team. Currently, she helps support one of our kindergarten teachers and is also also helps out in the office. She maintains high academic standards for herself and she brings a smile uh and joy to everyone around her. Uh also we have with us another fifth grade student uh Michael Dunlap. Uh thank you Andrea and uh Jay, her parents and grandpa is with us as well. Thank you for being here to support. Um Micah loves math

005because it makes most sense. So, as a former English teacher, I need you to coach me up on that because uh if you love math, that's awesome. He also likes to go to DBAT uh and hit baseballs. Uh his proud principal says he's an exceptional student and leader uh on campus. He's always polite and courteous even when others around him may not be. Michael is also part of the fifth grade leadership team and plays support role to one of our fourth grade teachers. Maintain maintains high academic standards as well as um the the principal want to say super proud of both of these kids. So, will you guys lead us in the pledges of allegiance? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

006stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. >> And if you guys will stay there for just one second, our board president, Miss Murphy, is going to come down and give you a small token of our appreciation. Everybody else, you may be seated. Thank you guys for being here. Can we give them a warm round of applause, by the way, one other brief uh unscheduled recognition uh while Miss Murphy is doing that, uh Dr. Garrettson, our principal of Justin Elementary, proud principal, is in his 32nd year in public education. He is retiring at the end of this month. And so, we want to tell him congratulations. Thank you for your service to our

007kids and kids in public education in Texas. And we wish you well in your next uh chapter, your your next set of adventures. Can we give him a round of applause? Good evening, President Murphy, Dr. Fast, members of the board. Tonight, we'll begin our recognitions with our student recognitions, and we have many tonight. So, for this first recognition, we're doing our holiday art card contest. For this one, if you are an honore, please come to the front. If your principal or art teacher is here as well, we'd also like to take a photo with them. So each year we do our annual holiday art card contest. Uh district administrators and visiting staff, teachers, uh pair of professionals, administrators, we vote on the holiday art. And every student at a grade level has the opportunity to

008submit their artwork. So we rotate by elementary, middle, high school, and this year we did high school. So tonight we're recognizing the top five winners. And the fifth place winner is Alyssa Lei. And if I can show you her artwork right there. She's an 11th grader at Byron Nelson High School. Her art teacher is Holly Smothers. From Northwest High School, unable to be with us tonight, but finishing in fourth place is Sierra Delgney. Her art teacher is Adrienne Leverne, and there is her art on the screen right there. Oops. So, third place from Byron Nelson High School is a freshman, Leila Uka. I may have said that wrong. I apologize. Her art teacher is Holly Smothers. And there is her art on the screen right there. And the next one is interesting because she won

009both second and first place. So, Skyler uh Seri Sergi, sorry, a senior from Byron Nelson High School. Her art teacher is April Heffley. So, here is one of the pieces. And here is the winning piece right here. And as our winner, she'll receive a check from the district for the right for us to use her art on the front of the holiday art card. And we'll continue with our student recognitions with Joel Johnson recognizing the state and national and everything. But Byron Nelson volleyball team, >> they're going to be a little loud coming up here, which is a good thing. Stop right there, Savannah. Perfect. Good evening, Dr. FA. Members of the board, I'm going to jump right in with this crew so we can uh get this thing moving. So, we'll just start with

010introductions. Uh, Savannah Sterna, Kylie Klener, Emerson Brown, Caitlyn Francis, Hayden Ross, Mattie Johnson, Ellery Brooks, Carrington Chennis, Jersey Foot, Sophie Peterson, Mallerie McMahan, Ashlin C. Payton Vogle, Lexi Proctor, Sasha Lannis, Morgan Gardner, Coach Growth, our head coach, Coach Garcia, assistant coach, and Coach England, assistant coach. So, simply put, the best volleyball team that's ever played the game in high school. Um, back-to-back Annvitational champions in Hawaii. Also the first team to ever from Texas to ever win that and they won it twice in a row. Back-to-back NISD Classic Tournament Champions. Back-to-back 46A district champions. Back-to-back state champions this year division one. last year, division two. I know that hadn't been around long, but the only team that's ever done that in any classification. Uh, back-to-back Max Prep's national champions, back-to back Sports Illustrated National Champions, and

011then this year, Prep Volleyball National Champions, and this year, AVCA National Champions, record of 42-0. This year, they lost four sets all year. Last year, record of 41-1. and um on currently on a 78game match win streak. So those of you that are coming back, that's still going. You know, high expectations here, but currently 78 uh match win streak. Um this is about the team award, but a couple accolades that I think are worth mentioning. Uh Sophie max prep national player of the year. Ashlin first team Max Preps. K uh Kleenner first team Max Preps um and the awards are going to continue to come for many of you individually. So, um, unbelievable two years, unbelievable season this year, obviously, but like I said last year, the most impressive thing about you guys or you

012ladies is the way you conduct yourself, the way you carry yourself on the court and off the court and the compliments that we get from just your character and the model at Byron Nelson High School. So, the best high school volleyball team ever in the country right here in front of you. All right, next up we're going to recognize our November volunteer of the month. Volunteers of the month are individuals who give their time and energy to support our campuses for many hours each week. And today's recipient is no different. So, Principal Carrie Pierce of Parin Elementary School said Sophia Ashby, the November volunteer of the month, is someone who truly cares about kids and goes above and beyond to support the needs of the campus. In addition to her volunteer involvement in the school,

013she's heavily involved and invested in in the parent PTA. She's also a current member of our leadership NISTD program. She's always helping in the office, Principal Pierce said, in the classroom, wherever she's needed, and she does so with the heart of gold. So, we'll recognize Sophia Ashby. Our Northwest ISD Education Foundation Volunteers of the Month couldn't be with us this evening, but we'll recognize them in their absence. Nef wanted to thank Melanie and Mike Art for being a huge part of why the resource store is hugely successful. They've also been uh involved across the street over at McCur multi-purpose facility with the Angel Tree program uh and with our other various volunteer programs. Uh the AR said Northwest ISD helped to lay the foundation for our children's education. They each went on to receive not

014only an undergraduate degree but also a master's degree. They both now have positions to continue to pass on their valuable valuable core values as one in is one is in education and the other is in law enforcement. Next, I'll turn it over to Linda Lee for the guest educators of the semester. Good evening. It's truly an honor to recognize some of our extraordinary guest educators tonight. Each campus had the opportunity to nominate one guest educator who went above and beyond in serving our staff and students this semester. These remarkable individuals embody the dedication and heart of all of our guest educators. Their flexibility, their willingness to step in at a moment's notice, and their commitment to ensuring our students learning continues make an incredible difference. Much of what they do happens quietly and without fanfare.

015Yet, the impact they leave on our students, our campuses, and our district is immeasurable. Many of these guest educators show up for kids every single day. They serve with compassion, resilience, and a deep sense of purpose. Truly embodying our core belief that kids come first. You all truly are MVPs at Northwest ISD, and we're deeply grateful for your dedication and continued service to our students and staff. It's my absolute privilege to introduce some of our exceptional guest educators tonight. from Beck Elementary. Dne Schoffner from Birkshshire Elementary. Angela England, Carter Elementary. Lorie Glassy, Clara Love Elementary. Stephanie Berscie, Cox Elementary, Colleen Reynolds, Curtis Elementary. Melinda Gunter, Daniel Elementary. Lauren Griger, Hllett Elementary, Leavana Marram, Hatfield Elementary. April Hernandez, JC Thompson Elementary, Sasha Chapman, Justin Elementary, Sabrina Gold, Granger Elementary, Maren Bowman, Lance Thompson Elementary, Courtney Guest,

016Nance Elementary, Alexandria Foot, Parin Elementary, Beverly Smith, Prairie View Elementary, Anushia Akadaserie, Rowan Oak Elementary, Jenny Carneahan, Cindera Ranch Elementary. Devony Carbone, Seven Hills Elementary. Amber McKielle, Adams Middle School. Jose Nunees, Chisum Trail Middle School. Alexander Tuttle, Jean Pike Middle School. Jessica Smith, >> Tidwell Middle School, Melissa Woodley, Wilson Middle School. Jessica Petraelli, Byron Nelson High School. Jim Ruse, Northwest High School, Terry States, our special program center, Jennifer Wayright and Steel Early College High School, Teresa Embry. Thank you so much for all you do every day. We appreciate you so much. It's okay to All right. Right over here first. Ready? One. One, two, three. Can Can I get you to squeeze in? There we go. Perfect. One, two, three. Now, this one one picture. >> Thank you. I'm so sorry. Good evening board. Our

017next group that we are honoring tonight um is an incredible group of educators from our leadership pathways graduates. This is our third cohort to complete the leadership pathways program. they have dedicated three semesters um in this journey. And so the first semester they spend um as a large group in um in the boardroom actually with me in what we call foundations of effective leadership. So we meet um five months in a row once a month for two hours and then after that they select the pathway that they want to dig deeper into learning about leadership and what that department or those departments um really do and what leadership looks like in those departments. And so those um pathways are um campus leadership and those are facilitated by Kim Beacon and Chris Hill. So if the

018facilitators when I call your name if you'll come up so you can recognize them that would be fabulous. Also um our another pathway is our curriculum and coaching pathway. That's a joint partnership between our teaching and learning department curriculum CTE and instructional technology. So that's led by Dr. Stephanie Espinosa, Kelly Henderson, Cara Carter and Dr. Sunny Johnson. And then we have a student support services pathway and that is led by Micah Gerky, Chris Kelly, Michelle Hancock, and Melissa Weber. And then our fourth pathway is our counseling pathway led by Dr. Jamie Farber. So when our um pathway participants get into these pathways, they spend 10 months digging into and learning um from these fabulous leaders about um that particular pathway. And so they have dedicated so much time and energy to um really grow themselves

019and it's exciting that this these are our future leaders in the district. So they already have their certificates. So I will just um call them out. Starting with our curriculum and coaching group, Amanda Allen, Holly Blackmore, Tamisha Canantic. Sorry I did not say your name right. Tamisha, I apologize. Sean Finny, Karen Groves, Tiffany How, Emily King, Brittany Roachcha, Jamsia Steel, our campus leadership pathway, Christina Clark, sorry, highlighted Sarah Aldridge, Stephanie Austin, Christy Barnes, Sabrina Dowel Enriquita Espri Jessica Flamagetti Megan Gilland Lily Horac Nema House James Maples Marine Nagi Katia Raone Pino, Jordan Ricks, Khalis Webb, and our student services group, Patrice Dryer, Stephanie Malcon, Elaine Osborne, and our counseling pathway, Nicole Cruz, Kimberly Hendris, Shaya Jenkins, and Barbie Long Break. Some of these uh folks have chose to go through a second round of pathways,

020so have spent or plan to spend another 10 months. And we even have some that are starting on their third round of pathways. So that will total 30 months of um being in Pathways. So um we're really really proud of all of you. Thank you all so much. Come on over this way for a great big picture. All right, here we go. Ready? Right. Right over here. One, two, three. Perfect. Thank you. Just so we will end our recognitions with the way the meeting began with Justin Elementary School. So with Dr. G retiring. We are moving a veteran principal over to take the helm at Justin Elementary School. So, Dr. Sarah Thornell will be leading the campus beginning in January. She's been at Sundere Ranch Elementary School since 2023 and has an additional three years

021of experience as a principal in White Settlement ISD and was an assistant principal in Northwest ISD for three years before that. And now she'll talk to you about herself. All right. Good evening, Dr. Faustst and members of the board. I am excited and humbled to have the opportunity to serve as the next principal of Justin Elementary. This is a campus with a rich history, a strong community, and deeply rooted traditions. Justin is known for an amazing staff, wonderful families, and I look forward to working alongside this incredible team to support our teachers, strengthen relationships, and to ensure that every child is engaged, supported, and inspired to grow. So, I am honored to join the Justin family and carry on its legacy of excellence. Thank you. Okay, that will wrap up our recognitions. We will move

022to public testimony comment on agenda and non-aggenda items. And tonight there is none. So we will move to the consent agenda. >> Madame President, >> Mr. Schlutoter, >> uh, is there any board member that would like an item pulled off the consent agenda for discussion? Seeing none, I move to approve the consent agenda as submitted. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Schlutoter and a second by Dr. Roush to approve the consent agenda as submitted. All in favor? It's 70. Thank you board. Um we move to consider any item removed from the consent agenda and there were none. We will now move to the discussion action but we're actually we're going to make a change to the do that first. Okay. For we're going to go ahead and move on with the the

023first item in the discussion action agenda and that's the naming facility naming of high school number four. Mr. Tossy. All right. I'll go through this pretty fast because I think there's someone more important than me that you'll hear from after you all vote. Uh so just a reminder of our policy for school naming. We really have four criteria. It can be named after someone who served the district or community. Uh that's probably our most popular. Uh when you look at the names of our schools, uh it could be named after the memory of someone who has made a significant impact to society or education. We really don't have many school any schools actually named in that criteria. Could be after a local residential or geographic area. We do have some of those. Or a district

024property donor. uh if someone donates property to the district, we will consider naming the school in their honor as long as it upholds the the values of Northwest ISD. And importantly, uh we only name schools after individuals who have already passed away. So really the comm the committee preference, excuse me, uh is after we go up for the nominations, we always look at what the community says would be a good name to to name a school after someone, whether it's an area, geographic location, or an individual. Uh really our focus has been people who have made an impact on the district. We have a book that not exaggerating it is about that thick of nominations that community members have given us of great names of people who have made an impact on Northwest ISD. Positive

025impact on children those could be teachers, board members, community leaders, uh politicians, mayors, things like that. So, that's something we've looked at because if people are telling us the names of individuals who have made a positive impact on Northwest ISD, we want to do our research and make sure that we're honoring those individuals. So, here is what we're naming tonight. High School 4. It's definitely a very nice looking facility. So, we're going to be excited. If you drive by uh the service road of I35, you can definitely see it. I see it every morning coming home from the gym and it or coming to work from the gym. It's looking great. Uh so this will open in 2027. And here's some more reminders. It's off North Riverside Drive. Uh so between uh I35 and North

026Riverside Drive and Interstate or State Highway 170 is right there. The opening, as I mentioned before, is August 2027. It will open with freshman and sophomores, and then we'll add a grade level each year after that. The colors will be maroon, black, and white. And the mascot, we're going to get the student help on that as we do for all our secondary campuses. So they'll be involved in that process. So now we're going to talk about the individual that we are proposing to name the school after. He's someone who definitely made a positive impact in Northwest ISD and that's J. Fred Davis Jr. He served on the Northwest ISD board of trustees for 12 years. He was instrumental in planning for the tremendous growth that we see here. uh along with CW Warthington and Sunny

027Nance, they came up with this this plan using their people connections, their resources to buy all the land that we are currently on uh to where near where the the high school used to be and then we expanded from there to prepare for that growth. He was a definitely an icon when you think of dairy farming as well doing all the research after we got this nomination. There were so many things that I didn't know. I went through Facebook. I went through news records. I went through uh community nomination forms, things like that. But he resided or he and his family operated a 1,150 acre farm. It was split between two locations. One of those locations, interestingly enough, the primary location was right down the road from high school 4, which is really what we

028were looking at. uh that proximity to the land. Uh someone who made an impact on the area, but he received profiles from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, from Craft Foods just for his great involvement. Uh he was named from the governor at the time to the the state dairy board. So he's definitely someone who made an impact on not only Northwest ISD but the state as a whole and he gave back to Texas A&M University. So he was definitely heavily involved in education overall. So that is the name that we're presenting. And here's one of the submission excerpts. Jay Fred Davis Jr. along with fellow board members used their land and people connection to begin saving back funds and convince other board members that additional land around the on uh the original remote northwest campus

029should be secured and bought for the benefit of future students of this district. So the foresight that they had uh going into that planning process was pretty great. I'll take any questions and then allow you all to vote and then I believe we have some people that you'd probably enjoy hearing from. Um before we make that nomination, I just want to say that I know uh Jay Fred Davis uh his father and two two great board members that we had and Davis Simpson and Danny Simpson over there and their families are here too. And you can see from top to bottom from that family, they're just outstanding and very contributing people. So, we're we're so happy to honor them and vote on that before I say congratulations. But I'm happy to have them here and

030happy to have this name submitted. >> Madame President, Dr. Roush, >> I would like to motion um to name high school number four, J. Fred Davis Junior High School as recommended by the administration. Second. >> I have a motion by Dr. Roush and a second by Mrs. Cop to name the high school number four J. Fred Davis Jr. High School as recommended by the administration. All in favor a 70. >> And Mr. Schlutoter got a little bit ahead of me. Uh, obviously J. Fred Davis Jr. and his family made an impact. So, I'd like to turn it over to Dr. Simpson and Danny Simpson if they would like to say a few words. They both served on the Northwest ISD Board of Trustees. >> Good evening and thank you so very much. We are deeply

031honored. On behalf of the Davis, Simpson, and Dodd families, we are so excited to celebrate the future of high school number four. dad would have been jumping up and down. He absolutely loves this area. And uh as a as a dairy farmer, it's um sometimes unusual to have a master's degree in agricultural economics, but dad believed in the power of education. He believed in how it can lift people up and take them forward. Um, dad was an eternal optimist and when we moved here in 1962, the area was rich in agriculture. Dad joined the board to advance the academic programs and today you have so many academic programs that make us so proud. We have three generations and they're sitting back here and over here. You guys can stand up. Stand up. We have so

032many graduates of Northwest High School and current students enrolled and we just are so excited about all of the vision that you all have set forth becoming a reality in currently and in the future through this opening of the new high school. And we are very humbled and we thank you greatly. Thank you. Would anyone else like to say a word? Well, I just want to say thank you. Thank you all for being here tonight and it's a it's it's a absolute pleasure for us to vote on this this evening. So, thank you very much. Any other board members like to say a word? Okay. All right. We will move to the next item on our agenda. We're going to go a little bit out of order and we're going to ask Mr. Templeton to

033come up and go ahead and give our demographics report this evening. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Dr. FA, it is very good to be with you tonight. And I'll start by touching on some of the economic conditions that we're seeing across the DFW region. We are still experiencing job growth. In fact, over the last 12 months, we've added about 33,882 jobs. The unemployment rate has moved up slightly. It's gone from about 4.2% 2% to about 4.4%. So, a little bit of an an increase in the unemployment rate, but these are still very healthy unemployment rates. And we're seeing this rise in the unemployment rate across the country. So, definitely a little bit of a concern there, but not a great concern. In fact, that's likely what led the Fed to reduce the

034interest rates. We've seen a couple of drops in the interest rates. They're still relatively high, but we do expect we could see some additional rates in the upcoming year. When we look at the overall housing market, the first slide that we're looking at is the national graph for housing across the country. This is new home construction. And you'll notice that over the last couple of years, new housing has kind of held its own, but it is dropped slightly. It's the pressure of the high cost. It's the pressure of the interest rate still being in that 6% range. We're also seeing very low consumer confidence. So consumer confidence is relatively low, which is causing a lot of buyers to sit on the sidelines and kind of wait and see what happens, hoping that those interest rates

035could come down a little bit more. But overall, the new housing market is holding its own pretty well, but it has dropped slightly. When we look at the new housing for the DFW region, that top line graph, the dark purple line, represents the annualized to start rate. And you can see how it's been a bit of a roller coaster over the last couple of years where we had the dramatic surge back in 2020 and in 2021 and then the impacts of the rising interest rates cause the start rates to drop down. You'll notice over the last quarter we did see a drop across the DFW region in the annual start rate number. We're seeing this slowdown happening across the major regions in Texas. When we look at those interest rates, this graph is showing the

036interest rates over the last couple of years. You'll notice back in October that interest rate was about 6.17%. We'd really like that interest rate to get down in the 5% ranges. That would really help those younger buyers, the firsttime home buyers. So, we're hopeful that we'll see that improvement in the interest rates in the upcoming year. When we look specifically at the Northwest School District starts and closings, that table on the left side of the screen, highlighted by the purple, is the start rate. We had 758 starts in the third quarter. And through the first three quarters, we actually saw about 2,300 starts through three quarters. That's pretty close to what we saw in 2024. So, the numbers are holding pretty good to where they were in 24, but you'll notice it is a little

037bit less than what it was in 2023. In 23, we're at about 3,200 starts. So, it has softened slightly. The closings are keeping a nice pace. So, we are closing the homes as they're getting started. And when we look at the activity spread out by the attendant zones, this table is showing the new home start rate by your elementary attendant zones. We have seven elementaryaries that are building more than 200 homes per year. So strong activity spread across the district and we have five elementary zones that are building more than 300 homes per year. So again, very healthy growth spread across the district. The most active zone is the Justin Elementary zone with over 640 starts over the last 12 months. The second most active is the Parin zone with 439 and third is the

038Daniel zone with 396. So strong activity spread across the district. This map really highlights that. This is your activity map. The green shaded areas are the active subdivisions that are building single family homes. The yellow shaded areas are the future subdivisions that are in the planning stages. We have 70 actively building subdivisions. We have about 1,245 homes that are under construction. We have about 5,700 lots available for builders to build on. The developers are still working very diligently to bring on new projects. The areas that you see a red outline, those are the areas where we are seeing development activity taking place. We have 30 potential future subdivisions that represent nearly 40,650 future lots. So, the development activity is still very strong. We have groundwork underway on approximately 7,900 lots that will be delivered over

039the next few months. I'll touch on some of the highlights of the subdivision activity pretty quickly here, but here's one of those big futures. The Alpha Ranch is almost 4,000 total lots. The groundwork is underway. You can see the satellite image which is taken from November. Massive amounts of dirt work underway. This is Centurion America. This is one of the bigger developers in the DFW region. And so the first phase has about 1,300 lots that will be, you know, delivered in in the first phase. Likely see this really moving along over the spring and the summer. So there won't be any families moving in here in the next few months, but when we get to the next school year, there will definitely be activity with new housing in Alpha Ranch in the upcoming school year.

040Next, we're looking at Aendelle, another future development that's 892 lots. The groundwork is well underway on this project as well. We could see some home building starting late spring in Aendelle and um it's in the uh Hasslet Elementary attendant zone. Next, we're looking at Lapella, which is 793 total lots, 285 vacant develop lots. The developer appears to be on track after being temporarily stalled and it is in the HLlet Elementary zone as well. So Hasslet's got a lot of future activity taking place. It's going to see a real surge in the next couple of years. Lonear Liberty Trail has 162 total lots. They've got 500 vacant developed lots with 64 homes under construction. So you can see the satellite image from November. That southern part of this area really well underway with those 64 homes

041under construction. Madero. Of course, you're very familiar with Madero. It's about 4,771 lots. There are 166 homes under construction. There is some finished vacant inventory of new homes, 33 of those. There's 696 occupied homes. The student yield is 376. I do expect that yield will go up pretty significantly over the next uh couple of years. Olive Oliver Creek Ranch is another future that's well underway. It's 1,031 total lots. Taylor Morrison is the developer. So, the pricing is yet to be determined that we've seen, but it'll likely become very active this summer. Next fall is when we'll see some activity in Olive Oliver Creek Ranch. Pan Square, of course, a Hillwood development's been going on for a while now. It's 3,71 total lots, 117 homes under construction. That student yield is 469 students per home in

042Pan Square. The preserve is 634 total lots, 47 homes under construction. Student yield is 328 students per home in the preserve. TerraLa, a future development that is 1,461 total lots. It's got 161 vacant developed lots. 116 homes are under construction with 26 finished vacant homes in Tavlla. Of course, Treeeline, another Hillwood project, is 2558 total lots. They've got 80 homes under construction with 59 finished vacant homes. That yield is.265 265 students per home. Wellington, um, 1615 total lots, 79 homes under construction. And this yield, you'll notice, is a little higher, sitting at about 696 students per home in Wellington. Wildflower Ranch, 3,232 total lots with 205 homes under construction, 70 finished vacant homes. They've got a student yield of 0.423 students per home in Wildflower Ranch. Now, that was just the highlights of the single

043family activity. We've got multif family to talk about as well. The purple shaded circles are the multif family projects that are under construction. The turquoise shaded circles are the planned multifamily. We've got approximately 3,340 multif family units that are under construction and about 750 of those are single family rental home communities. Now, we've got a couple of those already on the ground. We are seeing that that type of multif family is continuing to grow. It is gaining in popularity. We do see that those yields stay below about 0.2. I think about 0.2 to 0.25 25 is the highest that we're seeing that those single family rental communities are yielding. We've got about 5,200 future multif family units that are in the planning stages and there's an additional 200 single family rental units that are in

044the planned phase. I'll touch on a couple of highlights here. Freestone at Oliver Creek is 300 apartment units. The construction is well underway. Leasing expected to begin late 2026. So maybe this time next year is when they could begin leasing the apartments in Freestone Oliver Creek. The HPI Bonds Ranch is 193 apartment units. Groundwork is just really getting started. There are room for additional units. So additional phases could include at least 600 units down the road. The leasing could begin in 2027. The trails at Champion Circle squeezing another apartment complex in right there next to the uh the golf um facility there. It's 341 total units. The groundwork is well underway. Leasing anticipated to begin in 27 as well. Now, this is the district's multifamily yield analysis. So, each fall we geocode your students. We

045compare them to their addresses. So this is a thematic map showing the yields of the multifamily complexes across the district. The green shaded apartments are yielding less than 0.25 students per home. The yellow are yielding between 0.25 and 0.5. The orange are yielding between 0.5 and 75. And the red yielding greater than 75. I'll point out that that little red spot that's in the Rowan Oak Elementary zone is actually a mobile home community. So the mobile homes, we treat them like a multif family because they don't own the property. They don't own the land and there's multiple mobile homes per parcel. But that is the highest type of multif family that we see across all of our clients. But you'll notice a majority of your apartments are yielding less than 0.25. 25. Now, the enrollment

046data, as I mentioned, we geocode your students each fall. And one of the things that we do with that geocoded data is we compare it to the previous year. So, that blue bar or the purple bar, the dark purple bar, represents new student IDs to the district. This year, we don't include the kindergarteners. So, we're only looking at new student IDs for grades 1st through 12th. So, when we see a new student ID, that's what gets put into that category. That's the 3,436 number. The turquoise bar kind of does the opposite. It's looking at the missing student IDs compared to the previous year. So, those are the levers. So, you'll notice we did see an increase in the number of levers this year. it went up to about 3,16. Our new to the district number

047is pretty consistent with what we saw last year. So, the housing is continuing to generate an appropriate amount of new families, but the increase in the levers is what then did impact the district's enrollment being down from what we forecasted and it's down about 300 students, which is just about what the difference in the projection to the enrollment will end up being. Now, let me back up on this. We're seeing this kind of trend with virtually all of our clients. So, this is not something specific to Northwest ISD. We're seeing lower enrollment growth in our fast growth districts. We've actually got a number of districts that are building significant numbers of houses that have seen no enrollment growth. So, this is a new trend that we're seeing. I believe the choice mindset even though the

048vouchers haven't gone into effect yet the choice mindset for some families has already started. So we are seeing a slower yields and a slowdown in a lot of our clients. Now this is looking at your enrollment history by grade level. So those uh the table at the top is your enrollment history and you'll notice this fall's enrollment. So that's roughly the end of October's enrollment number when the district's enrollment was 32,839. So you did see about 800 students of growth, 2.6% increase in the growth rate. That table in the middle, those numbers that are outlined in kind of that um light pink color, that was what we forecasted for this year. So we forecasted 33,196. That's so the enrollment came in about 357 students less than we forecasted. We like for our forecast variance to

049be less than 1% and you came in just a tad over. But you'll notice the biggest variances are at those elementary grade levels. Specifically kindergarten and first, third, fourth, those were the grade levels that saw the biggest variance. We are seeing this homeschool trend have the most uh pull at elementary grade levels. So we are seeing that across a majority of our clients. Now the table on the bottom is showing the cohort change. That's the growth per grade. You'll notice your elementaryaries growing anywhere from you know four to 5% which is what we saw in first and in third. We had good growth at fifth at uh 4% growth. But across our elementary grade levels, we grew about 3.4%. Last year, we grew about 5.7%. Our middle school grade levels grew about 2.8% and your

050high school is basically flat. Most of our clients, the high school numbers are down about 3 to 4%. So, the fact that you're right at that 0.99 is really good because most high schools don't do that. Now, here's a look at our projections. You'll notice we are taking a little bit more of a conservative approach for next year. So, because of the um impending uh voucher implementation for the next school year, we felt it prudent to be somewhat conservative. So, next year's enrollment is showing a 1.2% growth growth of about 400 students next year. You'll notice the subsequent years it starts to pick back up. There's a couple of reasons why I'm forecasting that bump back up. At some point, the interest rates will likely soften some more. We'll see some uh growth in the

051housing market. We could see those housing numbers pop back up. So, I felt it prudent then to not hold that conservative position too long because you do have lots of activity coming. The housing market is in a position with the futures and with the new projects coming along to see that housing potentially come back up. This is what it looks like at the campus level. You'll notice we do still have pressure points. We've got Carter Elementary, which will be over capacity next year. We've got the Daniel Elementary, Justin Elementary, Prairie Vista Elementary, that will be approaching capacity in about two years. And so, you are still seeing elementary growth across multiple areas of the district. Those are the areas that are seeing the strongest amount of new housing activity. At the secondary level, of course,

052you're going to be opening a middle school, which will help alleviate the overcrowding that's happening at some of the elementaryaries, but you've got the uh Pike exceeding capacity next year, and you've got Worthington exceeding capacity. And then at the high school level, we've got Eaton that's above capacity, and we've got Byron Nelson in close to capacity. We did prepare three sets of forecasts going forward. We've got a low forecast, a mid-range forecast, and a high forecast. I do think it's prudent to think through the low forecast for next year, but then down the road, I think the reality is going to be we will have a year where it could be at the mid, we could have a year where it's at the high. It's going to be a a bounce between what happens with

053the housing market in terms of interest rates and the velocity of housing and then what happens with future choice decisions. So key takeaways, the Northwest ISD's enrollment over the last 5 years grew about 5,000 kids and so this year the district's enrollment grew about 817 kids. Still very healthy growth. The housing market conditions, the 25 housing numbers are in line with what we saw in 2024. The spring start rate will be critical to see how it adjust and then what happens in terms of what happens in the fall of 2026. So, we're going to want to watch the first and the second quarter's housing numbers very closely. The district currently has about 1730 homes in active inventory. Active inventory means they're under construction and finished vacant. So that's that active inventory. And we've got about

0545,700 lots available to build on, more than 40,000 futures. So the outlook still remains very positive for growth. It's just it's slowing because of what's happening with some of the economic conditions around affordability and also with this upcoming choice expansion. We do believe that the Northwest ISD's enrollment forecast to be between 33249,000 to 33,500 students and in 10 years that number could be at about 35,000 to 38,000 kids. I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> Yes, sir. um on the on the levers. >> So, I know through AI advances and such, there's a way to look at this. I don't know if y'all can, but um is there a way to look at if their home ownership has changed? >> Yes. Um, >> and I be curious if are they are they moving or

055are they going back to the home school that you're talking about just to get more information of what the why the levers are leaving. >> Yes, that's a great question and we are exploring some data that we will be providing later this spring where we can look to see how many of the levers have physically moved. So, they have done just exactly what you said. They've sold their homes and they've moved. That definitely makes up a majority of the levers. So majority of the levers are simply that and then there is the uh component of the levers where they may have gone homeschool or they may have chosen to transfer to a charter or to a neighboring district. And so we'll look to be able to provide clarity on those levers. I know we can

056also look at it through your data. So there is lever codes that are associated with the levers as well. So there's two ways that we can look at that. We will be looking at using some new data to help illustrate what's happening with the levers. >> Okay. And then just one more on the interest rate. You talked about 5% or whatever, but what do you think that mark is that the the market will pick back up again? Well, uh, and I'll I'll provide a response to give you some real specifics about what it what it means to go from 6.17 to 5.5, but it basically allows for more homeowners to to have more affordability. So, it like saves them $500 a month. So, when that interest rate drops to 5.5%, it could lower a mortgage

057payment on a $400,000 house by $500 a month. And for some of the market, that's enough to get them back into the game. And so it really is about what it does to the to the payment. >> Your your opinion is you think that's kind of the >> I think getting it to the mid5s is would be very helpful to the firsttime younger home buyers. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Because what's interesting is that's what the builders have been doing. the builders have been buying down those interest rates to get them down into that range to help stimulate that as well. >> Anyone else have questions for Mr. Steve? >> Hey Bob, how you doing? The couple questions for you going back to the single family yields that you discussed. I know when we first

058uh met almost nine years ago, it's it was around the the 6 point or.5 point. 6 and now we're seeing the 3.4 with the one Wellington being almost 7. So two questions with that is why why are the are the yields going down if it's still new house developments? You know, what are your thoughts on that? And then what makes Wellington different that it's 7? I think the timing of when Wellington and also the proximity to the schools in that area will help what may have helped Wellington and two they may be targeting their buyers. You know they're targeting a certain demographic. The builders do target a certain type of buyer. Um now what's happening with the lower yields that we're seeing there's there's multiple reasons. One of them is the lower birth rate. So

059the lower birth rate is playing into this to some degree. The uh other thing is the choice expansion of homeschooling, microchooling. So there's more options that are causing that yield to come down slightly as well. And so those are really the the kind of two things that jump out to me are we lower birth rate than what we saw 10 years ago and this expansion of choice is already impacting through homeschooling. Even though homeschooling, you know, is will be a participant or could be a participant in the vouchers. Um, but right now I think it's it's homeschooling that's seeing the biggest slip in the yields. >> Okay. And then going to the multifamily specifically that the the the page where you showed the map that showed the different colors the lesson 025 with the green,

060>> orange and red. Obviously, the most of them were in the green, but there was a couple that were in the orange. So, and I think in the in the past, we've talked about the apartments or the multifamilies were being built for non-family type renters. Is that Are you still seeing that as a case for the traditional multif family? the traditional multif family a majority of the traditional multif family I would describe it as lifestyle and so it is hitting a it also has to do with the design and the numbers of twos and threebedroom units within those apartments and so majority of them are ones and twos so therefore because they have a limited number of threes then they will naturally have a lower yield now there was one orange I I want to

061say back in up in the um was it the Hasslet Zone. >> Yeah, that's uh the one off Cinder Ranch is what got me curious about the green and the orange. >> The orange one there, I believe, is a subsidized apartment complex. >> It it there is a subsidy that lowers the rent and makes it more affordable. I'm I'll double check that to make sure that I'm stating that correctly, but I believe that's the reason because it's a relatively new apartment complex as well. that one there. And that's just to the lower left of the Cinder Ranch label. >> It's actually in the Carter Elementary zone. >> Okay. And then the last question with the multif family with the the single I the single family multif family, the standalone multif family. What what's a typical

062family makeup? Is it just young couples that don't have kids yet or is it retired couples? What is it that the yields point to? the yields are less than 0.25. >> Yeah. >> And um I'll look to see what we have on the demographic makeup of that. So I'll have to I'll have to respond later on. >> Okay. Yeah. No, just just more curiosity. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> I think we're good. Thank you very much for being here this evening. >> Well, thank you. >> I love the applause. this evening. >> Um, okay. We will move to discussion action item B, which is the annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025. >> Good evening, Dr. Fston board. Um, tonight we will present the annual comprehensive financial report

063for our fiscal year ending in June of 2025. And you should have a copy of that report in front of you. A nice thick book that'll put you to sleep at night if you can't go to sleep. Um, Texas Education Code requires that we uh file this set of financials within 150 days of the year end. However, that has been extended this year till February due to the federal government shutdown. I bet Mr. Carl Deon will explain that when he speaks. These statements must be presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and audited by a firm of licensed CPAs. And this report has four major sections. The first one's introductory. The second is financial. The third is statistical and the fourth one is our federal awards. So the firm of Henkins, Esup, Deon, Ton

064and C have audited the financial statements statements and Mr. Carl Deon is here to present those to you at this time. But before I turn it over to Mr. Deon, I would like to give the board some information that will be shown in tonight's audit presentation. Mr. Deon will show that Northwest ISD ended the fiscal year for 2025 with a positive increase in our fund balance of $4.7 million. We're extremely fortunate to end the year in such a positive fashion. And let me explain how this occurred. If you remember, we did adopt a deficit budget last year. During that year, we had a number of one-time scenarios or things that occurred that were for the good that we can't budget on, if that makes sense, or continue to to bet on. The first one is

065new instructional facilities aotment. That is money that the state gives sometimes when you build a new facility, and sometimes it's prrated as well. It depends on how much money is into the market for that year in new instructional facilities and how many school districts actually go out and apply and get it. It happened that this year we received all of it. That doesn't always happen. and we received $5 million. So, that wasn't all anticipated that we would receive. The next one, Deian will probably laugh at this because she'll remember these days. When we did the audit, we have to look at what the state says they owe us. Last year, the state said they overpaid us. Then, when we do our audit, we get done with it. Later on, come to find out, they change

066that. It's about a year and a half delay. They call it near final, near final, near final. Then you get a final, final, final. And you never know when the real final is. Well, in this scenario, we ended up actually the state turned around and said, "Nope, we lied. That was a $7 million swing. We owe you $4 million." So, that was something that we um benefited from that year. The next one was additional student increase from the original budget. You just heard the demographers report about this year under well, last year we had more than we originally budgeted. as well as if you remember when we did the budget, we weren't sure about all the certified values, the homestead exemptions, some of those things in the effect and we actually brought you a a

067budget amendment in the middle of the year with that in the student increase that was an additional $6 million in revenue. And then of course we know all the budget cuts that we did during the middle of the year after we do after we knew the uh VAT did not pass last year. So that with some vacancies that was about another $4.9 million. So, I just kind of want to give you a heads up on what that big changes were and how that was a blessing for last year that we were able to to get there. So, I'll turn it over to Mr. Deon unless you have questions for me first. Thank you, Jonathan, Dr. FA, members of the board. Uh, yes, my name is Carl Deon. I'm with Ferman Denton who conducted the annual

068audit of the financial statements that you have in front of you. Uh the two of the four sections that Jonathan mentioned I want to hit the highlights for uh are on for you are the financial section and the single audit section. So the financial section begins on page 28 with the independent auditor's report. Uh the report is what's called an unmodified opinion this year, which means what you might think of as a clean opinion. And it states that these financial statements we're going to look at uh in our opinion present fairly the financial position, the results of operations of the school district for this last fiscal year ending June 30. So, if you'll turn to page 46, you'll see the results, the revenue and expenditures of what are called the three major funds of the

069district. They're called they're major funds because of their size. The left column on page 46 is the general fund uh that Jonathan was um giving you some um detail on. Basically, the general fund accounts for all dollars that aren't required to be accounted for through another separate fund. And at the bottom of that left column, you see the $4.7 million increase that Jonathan referenced in the general fund fund balance last year from a beginning balance of $110 million to an ending fund balance of 115 million. You divide that 115 million into the $332 million of expenditures in the general fund last year, that gives you a little over four months worth of last year's spending as a fund balance reserve, 120 something days, which which is excellent. Uh there are districts falling below the recommended

070three months these days just because of budget pressures. So you are still at a relatively good position in our opinion. The middle column, the debt service fund collects the interest of syncing portion of your property taxes makes the debt uh service payments on your bonded debt. You see a bottom line increase in its fund balance of 6.8 million. That $98.7 million ending fund balance is over six months worth of uh last year's debt service annual debt service payments. The third major fund, the capital projects fund, is the fund that receives the proceeds from bond sales, which you tend to have one or more of each year because of all the construction in the district. Toward the bottom of that column, you see the $370 million of bonds sold. the uh in this last year. Above

071that in expenditures, you see almost a half a billion dollars dispersed on construction contract activity last year. Bottom line fund balance still $420 million$29 million of unspent bond proceeds and interest earnings. As you see at the very top of this column, you were able to earn $35 million of uh of investment earnings on the temporary investments. until those bond proceeds are spent. Those are the three major funds of the district. If you turn back to page 108, you'll see about 20 additional funds of the district spread out on four pages that are called special revenue funds. Special revenue funds account for various federal, state, and local dollars that the minute they come into the district, they are earmarked for a particular purpose. And in order to track the spending of that on those particular purposes

072for compliance reasons and other reasons, a separate fund is set up for them. So this is where you'll see the majority of the federal awards that come into the district for the various uh ESA programs, the title programs. You'll also see on this page on page 10 on page 109, the uh third fund you're required to adopt the budget and an annual budget for besides debt service in general, and that's a child nutrition program. Uh bottom line, you see a $1.1 million decrease in its fund balance, but the child nutrition spent uh fund spent over a million dollars last year on capital equipment, capital asset purchases because if you recall a year ago, uh the rule was that this fund could not have more than three months worth of reserves or three months of operating

073expenses in its reserve. and it was approaching and above that point and so it was required to spend submit a plan to the state and show how it was going to spend that as fund balance. That threemonth reserve requirement has been increased now to six months. And so while that spending was done last year on various equipment and other capital needs, uh that did bring the fund balance down to where it's comfortably below 6 months worth of reserve. That ending balance of 2.8 8 is still a healthy fund balance. The $16 million that was spent last year, six months of that would be $8 million. So, they are comfortably below $8 million, the maximum that they're required to have. And really, if you back out the capital spending they did last year, they about they

074about broke even on their operating uh activity. These special revenue funds go all the way through page 111. There's really none others none other of those that are out of the ordinary. Um but they all count for various dollars of the district. On page 11 in the total column, you'll see that this is an additional $33 million of funds that flowed through the district this last year for various specific purposes. There are still some additional funds on pages 116 and 117. These are called internal service funds because these are activities the district is involved in that either serve the district internally or serve students or employees of the district. And you see the student devices, the marketing, uh the insurance fund that that fund uh has is going away as as of this audit. That

075was for the uh self- insurance activity of the district when you were self-insured for health insurance activity for employees. But you also see the workers compensation and the unemployment uh insurance activity accounted for through internal service funds. So those are basically the various funds of the district. If uh if you turn to page 124, uh I always like to point out to you the the fact that you can see on this page the required reporting to the TEA of the summary of your tax collection and uh tax assessment and collection activity this last year. Page 125 will show you the amount of delinquent taxes owed to the district at the beginning of the year, what was levied for the year, collected for the year, various adjustments that came through the Teran appraisal district and uh

076the ending balance. Uh you'll you'll note some odd collection some negative collection act activity numbers in the 24 and 23 lines. Basically, those are various adjustments and refunds that TAD had to do based on protest and other activity that the appraisal district dealt with this last year. Beginning on page 12 uh uh no that was 124 165 is the one of those other four sections in this report. the single audit section. This is the section of the audit that uh held up the audit and why we were not in the November board meeting like we normally were. The uh the government was the very slow this year in issuing the federal guidelines that we have to follow in performing compliance work on some of the federal programs that you receive funds under. And it wasn't

077until just two weeks ago that the final uh guidelines were issued. And that's why the TEA uh postponed the deadline for all school districts to submit their auto report until February 27th. They did that a couple months ago when we still had no idea when those guidelines were going to come out. And fortunately, they came out fairly quickly after the government uh shutdown ended. But in this section of the report, you'll find two more additional independent auditors reports. Both of these are what you would call clean reports in that uh if we had run across any non-compliance in the programs we looked at or if we had uh discovered what we thought were any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in your interal control system. they would have been disclosed in these reports and these reports

078modified but they were not uh fortunately did not have to be modified at all. And this section leads up to page 173. Pages 173 and 174 give you the detail of the federal programs the district received funds or spent funds under this last year. the amount that was spent and the total on page 174. This was an additional $13 million of federal awards that the district was able to obtain. Page 175 is new in the report this year. Uh in fact, this is the first time I've ever had to put a schedule of expenditure of state awards in a school district audit report. And I've been doing audits for over 40 years now. The uh Texas Health and Human Services required this schedule this year uh because of the Texas home visiting grant that the

079district was able to obtain that uh through which the district received both st federal and state funds this last year. But this page lists the entire $85 million of state awards or state funds that the district received this last year. and uh as required by the health uh the Texas Health and Human Services. So, interesting information here. Little little bitty funds you received less than $10,000 this last year had to be disclosed. It's just part of reconciling back to the total the uh the rest of the report. Uh the other two sections that Jonathan referred to, the statistical section are many pages of 10-year historical type schedules. Uh most about half those schedules are prepared by us, the auditor. The other half deal with employment, population, uh top 10 taxpayers, top 10 employers of the

080district. That's the sort of information the district accumulates and uh are included in this report. And then the first section of the report, the statistical section is what had the um the introductory section is what has the uh very lengthy letter of transmitt that talks more about the economy of the district's uh boundaries uh in this area. The middle p the report I skipped over the middle 30 to 40 pages of the report. Those are various note disclosures. That's if you looked at those, that will give you additional detail about many of the account balances that were on the financial statements. It'll give you the detail of your long-term debt, every bond issue that you uh that you owe funds or that you owe um still amounts on. Uh it will disclose in one of

081those schedules that I mentioned the $35 million of interest earnings the district received just on its capital projects uh bond proceeds. There was another $11 million that was earned on other various funds uh through the district's investment in uh various um vehicles this last year. Total of $46 million. And there's a new footnote this year in the notes about the bell taxdrawn tax abatement that as that uh that process gets further down the road with them that footnote will simply continue to expand and start reporting numbers when there are numbers to report. And then then the last thing I want to point out as always at the beginning of the report on page 40 the very first financial statement in the financial section is what we call in the standards call the governmentwide financial statement.

082This is a page 40 is a consolidated asset and liability statement for the district that combines all of those funds we just looked at. Combines the capital assets that are being tracked and depreciated. Uh includes the general long-term debt, all the bond liabilities of the district. And if you recall, also includes the uh district's proportionate share of the unfunded uh teacher retirement pension. and OPED liabilities. Bottom line on page 40, uh, all those assets minus those liabilities are a positive $22 million. And that's even after this statement has been weighted down by about $160 million of those pension and oped liabilities. So without that, you'd be up in the $360 million range, which is very healthy. Page 41 is the consolidated activity statement, revenues and expenses in a different type of format. But bottom line

083on that page, you'll see that 202 million increased $46 million this last year. a very healthy increase. But that's a combination or a function of uh your various fund balances, but also how quickly you pay off your debt versus how quickly we are having to depreciate capital assets. That that ratio or that combination as well. Okay, I think uh I think that's all I wanted to mention. If you got any questions, be happy to try to answer them. One question just so I understand the state award that we received on the uh um what' you say in-house visits. Did that run through the federal program? I noticed it had like a fund 289. So like a federal >> there are both federal funds and state funds that flow through the Texas Health and Human Services

084for that grant. And so you're right, fund 289 is accounting for the um for the federal portion of that and that portion goes on the schedule of expenditure federal awards. the uh the state portion is going through fund 429 which is the the catchall fund for other state grants because the TA doesn't have a separate number for for that grant uh for us to use. >> I appreciate that thorough report. My question is, can you give me a simplified version of how many taxes that we collect as a district compared to how much the state gives us back? Is does that happen on page 41? >> Okay. How much taxes you collect? Correct. Okay. If you uh is that the 248 plus the 156? Okay. Yeah. Well, yes. This is You're right. That is one

085place that it shows uh on page 41. You're right. the the the 248 million are the maintenance and operation taxes collected last year that went into the general fund. The 1656 million are the interest and seeking taxes went into the debt service fund. Those two numbers would include all the current year taxes, delinquent year taxes, and penalty and interest as well. The the tax schedule we looked at in the back, the summary of the year doesn't include any penalty and interest. those numbers would include penalty and interest. So yes, I mean those two total are 400 almost $45 million collected uh by Denton County for you in taxes. >> So where does it show where the state gave us money besides of course the state aid the formula grants? Is that is that what we

086get back from them? The 48 >> the the 48 is what you got from the state, correct? In per capita and foundation funding. >> So that's not not much return on the dollar. Is that what you're saying? >> Well, yeah. Obviously, you know, the it used to be real clear that almost for every extra dollar you collected from the from uh taxpayers in taxes, the state would reduce your state funding a dollar. Now, the ratio has changed some, and there's it's too convoluted for me to understand how what the ratio is, but you're right. As a rule, as you collect more on your own, the state's going to give you less. The the the poorer districts who collect less taxes are receiving more in state funding to make up for that. And that seems to

087make sense. question on uh page four page 46 when you were talking about the capital projects Colin there I I understand what that was for but I think you said that up at the top that 35 million is for interest earnings correct >> interest earnings on the bond proceeds while they're being invested before they're spent >> right so and I this might be more of a question for Jonathan but because I think Jonathan is expl explained this to me before, but what what do we use that money for? The the interest specifically. So that 35 million, what is it? How do we spend it? >> All the interest generated goes back into those projects. So it's used either either if there's overruns on projects or for things like I use the example of a certain

088campus has an extra it grew faster than we expected. So they need a whole new the classroom of furniture and all that. We can use that money for those kind of things. So it's for growth of the district that's part of the bond program. So anything that we generate in interest with the INS money must go back to the bonds and bond projects >> and it just hangs out it just hangs out in that column. Correct. >> It hangs out in that fund. Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I might also point out among all those footnotes I didn't go over on page 84, note 16 that talks about contingent liabilities. If you've ever heard the term arbitrage, there is a potential for you to have to repay some

089of that interest that you've earned back to the Internal Revenue Service. They have their rules as far as what you can earn geared to basically for the most part how fast you spend your bond proceeds. Those rules are in place for you not for you to not so you won't just sell bonds, hang on to the money, earn interest on it greater than the interest you're having to pay to the bond holders and make money that way. And on page 84, as of June 30, there was a potential estimated rebate liability of about $15 million. Uh odds are that won't have to be paid because it's only at every five-year increments after the sale of the bonds that you have to actually pay a liability if there is a liability. These potential rebates tend to

090grow in year one, year two, year three after you sell a bond before because you haven't had a chance to spend the funds yet. But if you spend the funds within a certain time period, then those potential rebate liabilities go away. So there there is nothing acred in this statement. There are there are no liabilities you owe now, but you have a firm that runs these numbers for you every year as far as what the potential rebate liability is, and we're required to disclose it in the report. So, that's one reason some of that interest is held on to is because potentially uh it needed to be it might have to be paid back to the IRS. >> Any other questions? I think we're set. Thank you, sir, for being here. >> Steve, also tell

091you that we spend our bond money so fast that usually we don't get the the five-year deal. We usually what we sell we spend within eight two or three years. So we usually get to avoid arbitrage most of the time. So >> okay we will move to discussion action item C which is the the TASBY local policy update 125. >> Yeah. And I just want to publicly say thank you to our wellness ambassadors. You guys are hanging in. >> Yeah. We we scheduled you to come present on reports when we had uh demographics and budget and all kinds of stuff. So, thank you guys for hanging with us. We have a couple of quick items, but there's still about five more things before we get to you. So, hang with us a little more, please.

092Um the really this is a second reading. We haven't had any questions on update 125. We pres u Miss Hops presented last meeting and so we just bring this to the board for consideration. Madam President, >> Mr. Schlutoter, >> I move to approve the TASBY local policy update 125 as recommended by the Texas Association of School Boards and Northwest ISD Administration. >> Second. Second. >> I have a motion by Mr. Schlutoter and a second by Mrs. Hatfield to approve TASBY local policy update 125 as recommended by Texas Association of School Boards and Northwest ISD Administration. All in favor? 70. Thank you board. We will now move to item D which is contract extension for Mark Faust Ed D superintendent of schools. >> Madam President, >> Mr. Schlutoter, >> it's my pleasure to move to approve

093the contract extension for Dr. Mark Ba, superintendent of schools through January 9th, 2029. >> Second. I have a motion by Mr. Schlutoter and a second by Mrs. Cop to approve the contract extension for Mark Fast EDDD, superintendent of schools through January 9, 2029. All in favor? >> That's 70. Thank you, board. >> Can I make a statement? Yes, you can. >> I really appreciate Dr. FA. We've gone through some difficult times this school year and uh just like a trooper. He's taken us through good financial shape as we just heard, a great leader and I really appreciate what he's done for our district and appreciate him a great deal for being here. >> Thank you. >> Yes, more applause. >> The wellness committee is invited to every meeting from here on out >> 100%. Okay,

094we will move to item E, which is attendance boundary recommendations. Good evening board, Dr. FA. Tonight, I'd like to bring to you guys a recommendation from the boundary meeting um team that we um discussed last week and went through all the boundaries that with the three schools opening and just come to a um with you guys with a recommendation and we are going to go through just the process of how this process is since we didn't do this last year. Just to give you guys a reminder, um we look at overcrowding campuses. We have we like to maintain teacher student ratios uh minimize future boundary changes and then um improve efficiency in our schools and then of course opening new campuses. Here is a list of our boundary team uh attendance boundary team that um

095we like to and bring everybody in. So we make sure that we see everything. Something that I might see that um somebody else might not see or vice versa. And then here's our process. We like to review and look at the projections with um our demographer. We like to look at all of all of our campuses and see where they are with their um capacity. Then we go to the boundary strategic uh strategies and then um which is we go through and look at what could possibly be um boundaries for any overcrowded campuses or um with us bringing in new campuses is what we were looking at this year. Then we get our district input which is our district leadership and principles of schools that could be impacted by this change. Then tonight we come

096with our consider uh consider a recommendation. And then after tonight, we will meet again with our team if needed. And then we'll go out to the commuting starting community starting this week to to let everybody know what the changes could be and get their recommendation and get some of their concerns um with what we are planning to do. And then we'll come back in January um for approval. So this is just the just an outline timeline of just pretty much what I just stated. Um we have tonight December 8th. We've met with the committee or the team and we might meet on the 15th depending on tonight's uh how tonight goes. Then we will start by tomorrow we'll start engaging the community and reach out to everybody go to the campuses um that are affected

097by this change and then we will um come back in January with um the recommendation after meeting with the team if needed. So, we have three different areas that we're going to be looking at. ROR, Barksdale, and we're actually going to look at Birkshshire with the Adams and Worthington attendance. So, first we're going to look at Dr. Leanne Romer attendance. It looks like a little dinosaur, purple dinosaur. If you guys remember the little purple dinosaur on uh channel 13. Um, and we'll just look at it a little closer. We're using 287 and 114 as our boundaries. our major boundaries. Um, bringing it down close into Cindera Ranch, giving us a little relief of Cinderea Ranch Elementary School, but not JCT. It'll also give relief from Carter and Prairie View. So, if you look at the

098numbers, our current elementary schools, Carter, Cindera, Hatfield, and Prairie View with our numbers of where we stand today and the projections for the next seven years. Below that is our recommendation when we bring on ROR and what um the boundaries will look like and their projections for the next seven years. We just like we were spreading it out and making sure we even those campuses out when it comes to uh the students um attending those campuses. >> Sarah, can I interject one thing? I just want to make sure the board um knew the difference. We heard from the demographer earlier. You saw projections and you saw a little more um heavy population a couple years out for the elementarymentaries, but that was without ROR being included. So, um, when we get a Q4 report from

099the demographer, you'll see Barksdale will be in there. You'll see ROR, which some of those numbers you'll see tonight, but it really will change the the complexion a bit of the next demographers report. We'll see that I think in February. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. >> So, next we'll look at Floyd Barksdale Middle School, which is going to open up in North Lake. Um, as you can see on this picture, it's a big big spread, but a lot of that is still rural and we're planning on for the growth and hopefully this boundary stays until a next middle school relieves them. We are using some of 407 South Carolina Road. Um, but it's going to cross from the far west to the to the east where um it'll help with Medlin and Pike um relief

100and just a tad bit of Chisum. The last recommendation that we are bringing to you is Burkshshire Elementary. It is currently split between two middle schools, Adams Middle School and Worthington Middle School. And if you saw if in just a second you'll see the numbers of Warthingington, they are at capacity. And if we make this change of the students to Adams, it levels out both campuses um and brings them under capacity um for a little bit. Warthington will be growing just a tad, but you still keep them everybody under capacity and then that elementary will all be going to the same uh middle school. Just again uh just to remind you guys, fifth grade, the the fifth graders that will start at the elementary schools that they're at, they can stay at those elementary schools.

101They can be grandfathered in. Eighth graders can stay at their middle school and then um if they choose to remain at their current campus, they will not get bus services and younger siblings will not be eligible for uh transfers. And then I just wanted to bring you back the timeline just to give you guys an overview of the process of this uh of the boundaries. Um and then with that I will take any questions, any concerns. One more thing I was going to add before the questions came in is um we will have those dates finalized. I think we we have them finalized, but we'll share those dates for the community meetings with the board >> because we have two this week and one next week. >> We have one this week. We have Carter

102this week and Birkshshire and Bark Stills next week. >> We'll send those dates out uh ASAP. >> Any questions, Mr. Slutter? >> So, I have a nerd question to ask you. >> Yes, sir. Did you guys use uh artificial intelligence at all to put your variables in to come up with or just to verify what you came with? >> I did not. I just use plannedware um that is provided by a demographer. >> Okay. I see how you are. Just get >> I have a question about Barkstdale. So it looks like it's splitting part of Justin. is the southern part um I guess taking the the parin basically ex attendance zone. >> Um I don't believe it goes to parin um so on the west side of 156 that lower that line right there is

103where um Alups is. >> So you'll split right there um and it'll go up um is it range >> range? Boss range. Mhm. >> But it looks like it splits 407. So it's sort of half of Justin and the other half is Okay. >> Any other questions? Steve. >> Hey Sarah, Dr. FA, a few months ago I was asked when we started talking knowing that tennis boundaries were coming up. I was uh asking about Granger because you know a few years ago when Granger was over 900 students we took a couple of subdivisions south of 170 and moved them over to >> Hughes >> but now the Granger's population is 600 and declining. What are the what are the thoughts? Have there been discussions on moving those subdivisions back to Granger? >> We we have

104another report that'll probably address that. So hold that question. >> Okay. Okay, I think we're good. Thank you. All right, so we'll move to the next item, which is item F, which is limited open enrollment. This is a project we've been working on as a team. So for some of these questions, I may defer to Dr. Fost or Michael or anyone, but Steve's question, Mr. Schol's press question really leads into this. So this is something we're looking at uh limited open enrollment. So what is that? If we move forward with this program, which we are currently planning to, it would set a number of uh seats per select campus. So not every single campus, but several campuses throughout our district do have capacity available. So if we have capacity available, what can we do to

105make sure that we're utilizing those campuses in the best manner possible? Uh there would be a cap on the number. Uh we would also always reserve a certain amount of space for students who would move into that campus. So we're always prioritizing our students who live in the district. But even with that, some of our campuses, uh I think Trophy Club area is probably the poster child of this. They're at at the elementary level, I should say. They're they're a great example of we're still going to have capacity available. So what do we do uh when you have additional capacity? So there's some things we could do that we would prefer definitely not to do. uh we could reszone families from further away and move them to those campuses. But if you're going further away

106from a campus that's closer to you, which sometimes we do have to do, but if you're doing that, is that really what's best for kids if we put them on a bus and make them go to a campus much further away from them? In the extreme scenario, we could look at consolidating campuses. Uh there's definitely districts across the region who have done that uh to save millions of dollars as the state has not kept up with school funding. Uh when I've looked at districts that have done that, I look at their social media feeds. I look at their board meeting reports uh or public uh testimony I should say, there are families who are literally begging them, please consider open enrollment so that we can keep our campuses open. So this is us trying to

107get ahead of the curve and think of creative ways that we can help our areas where we do have declining enrollment because even though we are fast growth overall as Northwest ISD, there's definitely areas that are either declining or stagnant. So, here are some districts that are open enrollment in some capacity. I'm not saying that you can just go to any of these districts and enroll in whatever campus you want. That wouldn't be our plan. That's not the plan for many of these districts. Some of them though, they are fully open enrollment. So, if you live outside of this district, uh, and I I don't want to give any examples and get it wrong. Uh, you could enroll in any campus. Most of them, however, are in some capacity. They're limited. They will set the

108schools that you can attend. They will have caps and things like that. Some get down really granular and that they will only allow certain neighborhoods to open enroll. That's not really as granular as we're looking. We're looking at which campuses do we have capacity at and and things like that and the set number of seats on that campus. So, here are some proposed requirements that we've been looking over. Uh we we refine these as much as we think we can currently. There may be a few tweaks here and there, but these are the broad areas. academics, so passing grades for the two most recent school years, and we would require them to upload documentation for that. Attendance, same thing there. Looking at tardies, looking at absences. Behavior, it would be up to our discretion, making

109sure there's no behavioral issues. They would have to denote on a form that anything that they are submitting is true to the best of their knowledge. And if they are untruthful, we could revoke that enrollment if we find out that, hey, this is a kid that's had multiple disciplinary placements or multiple ISS uh situations during a school year. So, that's something we'll look at. And then the last one is location. We didn't want to go too far out, but we looked at the maps and we think 30 miles is a is a good geographic location to where they could come to the campus and they would have uh space of uh to to come to the campus and it wouldn't be too far away. So, it could be that they they're coming through the community

110for work or something like that. But really, when you think of these four criteria, think of we want to maintain high academic standards. We don't want to just let uh a kid in who's going to disrupt the educational environment. That's not great for the kids who come here. So, we want to make sure that anything we're doing, we're upholding the educational standards that we have for Northwest ISD. Here are some additional aspects that we're currently working through. We looked at uh this is going to cost money. It's going to be more work for people initially there. Obviously, we get more revenue for students coming in, but there's more workload. So, we looked at do we charge an application fee or do we charge an enrollment fee. When looking at that, we think an application fee

111could really upset some people if they apply and they don't get in. So, realistically, yes, we're doing more work, but we think it it's better to make that an enrollment fee. $100 is what we're currently looking at. And then we're looking at, do we cap it at a certain number of students? So, if you have a family and you submit four students, is that $100 per child? So, yes, up to a point. So, we're looking at the number we would cap that at. Maybe it's three for 300. So, that fourth child, you don't pay another $100. We're also looking at an annual fee after that because we're going to have to keep processing that paperwork each year. Just to be clear, transportation would not be provided. That does include sped students. So, by law, your

112your home district would have to serve you for that transportation. So, that's not not something that we would have to provide because it's something you can already receive from your home district. And then lastly, uh one of the the major areas is that we are not looking at adding staffing as part of this. So if we have uh many children who many students whose families submit them and it would require us to significantly increase our staffing, that's not something we're looking at. We're looking at what do we do for the staffing we currently have in Northwest ISD. So not adding specialized programs or anything like that using the staffing that we do have in the district. Here is the proposed application window. Everything here is flexible. We're still working through this, but if we move

113forward with this timeline, we would open in February 1st. We would close on March 1st, so they have a month to submit their application. Then we would let them know within a month and then within two weeks, they would have to let us know, hey, I am going to enroll. And that would be the timeline. Something we're still working through. It's not 100% solidified. I don't want to mislead you, but we've looked at the dates, and we think having it on the front end uh would definitely help us plan uh as we move forward for the school year. Here are some of the campuses being considered. This is the current list, subject to change. So, there's currently 10 elementary schools on there. When we looked at this, every single campus on this list definitely has

114capacity available, especially after resoning. And just a reminder, we're not uh looking at campuses that don't have capacity. So only the campuses that have uh capacity within them. And we would set the specific number per that campus. So it's going to vary from campus to campus. It could be 20 here. It could be 50 here. Just depends on what's available on that campus. Some things that we're still working through are the asterisks there. So currently, and this is probably the the area that we're working through the most, is we're looking at do we allow the students to metriculate through the feeder pattern. So if you're look going to Beck, do you metriculate to Medlin to uh Byron Nelson? What we're currently proposing is that you go to the campus that you do feed into with

115the most capacity available. So if you are a split feeder, you go to the campus with the most capacity available. You would also be subject to resoning. So if a kid who is on that elementary campus is reszoned, your child is going to be subject to the same reszoning and then you would go to the campus with the most capacity. The other area that we're not doing at least this first year or at least we don't plan to based on current conversations. We'll still keep talking about it ismies. If we domies those will be considered basically like a school. So if a academy doesn't have capacity there's no way we can open it up to that side. It just wouldn't be feasible. Here are some of the next steps that we're looking at. Uh additional

116feedback. We've solicited feedback from our principles. I've talked to two on the phone today. Uh we've definitely presented it to them via meetings. Just making sure that we're listening to what what are their concerns. What do they think we're going to hear from the community? Finalizing the requirements. That's obviously the big thing before we open the program. We have to make sure that the requirements are good. Julie Meek and her team in data services working on a form creation so that we can collect all this information whether that's uh documents they have to upload making sure that we ask all the right questions and then uh Christy Hobbs is working on a regulation update to make sure that everything we say in the program is uh something that we abide by in our regs and

117then promoting the program obviously if we're going to open this up we do want to promote it make sure people are aware uh it's not something we're going to spend tens of thousands of dollars on but we'll we'll do a Facebook ad here and there and make sure that families in the area are aware of it. Here are two final considerations. We are not looking at changing the way the existing transfers currently work. So, if you are a staff member and you bring your kid, you live outside of the district and you bring your kid to your campus or the closest campus with capacity. We're not saying you now have to pay us $100 or anything like that. You're going to go through the existing process. That's how it's going to work. Same thing with

118kids who already live in the district. We'll make sure that those are separate processes because if we're just letting anyone go to any campus, that's not helping with our enrollment balance. That's not something that would benefit the district as a whole. We're looking at how do we best utilize our capacity. And then, like I mentioned before, capacity reservations. We will always make sure that we have space available. If we don't have space available for a campus and that includes projecting for even just a little bit of growth, we're going to have that padding in there to where if a family moves in or a few family moves in, even if it's a declining enrollment school, we want to make sure that we have padding for the campus so that kids who live in Northwest ISD

119always get priority. So, that was a pretty quick rundown, but what questions do you have for us? And it won't just be me answering hopefully. Yeah. So I guess my question got pushed to this part. Um, so I guess so with the Granger and Hughes thing that I was talking about earlier, obviously with the open enrollment, they were both on the suggested list, but I guess my question is more uh kind of going back to the boundary discussion as well is transportation because to get from say I'm talking Vista Green subdivision, which is just right there south of uh 170 on Alta Vista. to get to Granger, they have to go through two dangerous uh or pretty dangerous intersection there at Champions and uh North Beach. So, I was just kind of curious. I know

120the open enrollments there, but would like to see discussion on that boundary change with uh th those subdivisions that used to go to Granger years ago now going to Hughes because there's space for them. Now, they were moved out because in the past there wasn't space for them. That's when Granger was over 900 students and now it's 600 and going lower. So that that's just that that's always kind of curious. If we're going to discuss boundary changes, I'd just like to have that in the equation as well. Does that make sense? You're you're making funny faces. >> I am. I'm sorry. I hear you. Um I need some time to process. there. It just I guess I'm think Vista Green specifically and there's a little bit of um over there the the subdivisions on Riverside

121right across from Davis High School uh that have to go across 170 to get to Hughes. They have an easier shot to get to Hughes, but to Vista Greens, it's a little difficult to get where Granger is just right down the road. It's it's an easier shot for the families. >> Yeah. Let let me familiarize myself with those boundaries and neighborhoods and have a conversation. >> Okay. All right. Thanks. I have a question. So, if a child is approved and they've started the lower elementary grade and over the years, if there's not enough padding and they've been attending for several years, do they what happens to them? >> That's something we've talked about extensively. So, we've talked about do we make this uh this change specifically the metriculation for this first year and then see

122how it works because we don't want to yank students around whether they're they're transferring in or anything like that. We we want them to have a good experience. So, it may be something where just this first class we promise them that and we're still working through this. This is not final, but maybe just that first class we promise and then the next class it's hey wherever we have capacity is where we're going to have to look at placing you. But that's that's definitely a question that we've been asking ourselves. >> And it's an annual process. They would have to reapply each year. >> They would. So we the way we're currently planning it is that we would look at them still being accepted as long as they're in good standing, but they would still have

123to reapply and they would be granted as long as they're in good standing. Uh again, that's something that could change uh depending on what the numbers look like as we go forward, but for this first class, that's the current plan. And last question, is this only for someone that lives out of the district or are you allowing this for someone that's in our district that wants to move from one elementary to another? >> Currently, just for families out of the district and that will be the question that we get the most. The challenge with that is is like I mentioned earlier, if we have say a handful of families who just decide this campus, let's all make the decision to move to this campus over here, then we're just shifting the problem and it doesn't

124actually help our our enrollment across the district and balancing that capacity. So, we become even more inefficient if we do that. So, that is going to be the question that we do get though. I I do see where that's going to come into play. And I do want to be very demonstrative that we have no intent to become an open enrollment choose your school district. Uh there'll be a bunch of other conditions that have to change before we go that way. We're still bound by attendance zones and boundaries. Uh and and so we we're not this is not a school choice. Choose where where all you want to pile up and whoever gets there first. We don't want to create pandemonium. What we really want to do is um keep pace with the fast growth

125enrollment trend. We have no way really to know what how what the demand will be. Um but if we were to if we say fell 400 short this cycle in our enrollment from our projection but we added hypothetically um you know I don't 10 or 15 students at every campus and we're not opening every campus but you get the idea of the impact. you can add two, three, 400 kids in a heartbeat and that just uses available capacity in our schools, makes us more efficient. So that that's the in intent there. Um the intent is not to as Anthony I think well articulated put us in a position where we have to put portables at a school because we've taken on too many folks from outside of the district. So, we want to be very

126very thoughtful and careful and wait in rather than cannonball in uh to this new approach. Mr. Toi, I have a question about the $100 registration fee. Uh it seems like a disincentive to me. I mean, it's not much to somebody, but a hundred bucks uh could mean more to others. So, if we have potentially getting thousands in return, then why the $100? We want to make sure that they don't tell us one thing and do another thing. So to to put it in a phrasing that we've been using in our conversations, we want to make sure they have skin in the game. They that they actually put their $100 down, they make that commitment, they're coming. So we feel like when we looked at the numbers that $100 isn't too much, but it's also enough

127to make sure that they have an incentive to follow through on their commitment, that they don't just use Northwest ISD as a fallback because we're a high quality district. We don't want them to enroll in their home district and use us as a backup or anything like that. We want them to view that as they're coming to Northwest ISD from here on out. >> Could that be refundable then? Maybe in the future. >> That's something we'll have to look into. Sure. >> Okay. >> How does that look from an athletics standpoint? >> So, by UIL rules, if they want to compete on varsity, they're probably going to have to sit out a year. Uh, so that would be where they stand. they could still compete on JV to the best of my understanding. Uh but

128they would have to wait a year for varsity and that's pretty typical of the districts. I I've been looking through the guidelines of all the districts that I've had on that slide earlier. Colin County is really delving in head first into open enrollment and they have that listed on all their documentation that you'll likely have to sit out a year, especially varsity level. Any other questions? I think we're good. Thank you. Okay. Item G is the 2026, 2027, and 2027, 2028 instructional calendars. It's another discussion item that will come back to us in January. All right. Good evening. my favorite favorite thing to do in my job. All right. So, um as you know when we develop the instructional calendar, we always um consider the district priorities, goals, beliefs as we develop this because that

129is always what we we want to keep at the forefront as we develop our instructional calendar. But there's always a lot of input that we want to gather as we um take those things into consideration. The last time we actually brought a committee together to develop the calendar was in 2019. And this year when we um brought this committee together, you can see the representation there listed. We had staff representation from each campus. We had administration from each level of the campus. We had parent representation from each feeder pattern and then we also had district representation. Here is just a quick overview of the timeline. So the committee met several times. We also had stakeholder feedback um and then we did a thought exchange and then as as you know I'm bringing this to you

130um now for final approval in January and then DEIC approval also in January. So what I asked the committee, this was our overarching goal was to provide input for a calendar that maximizes student learning but also balances instructional time breaks and professional learning and that we gather input, review guiding parameters and then generate recommendations that align with our district goals and student needs. We have state requirements that we have to look at and adhere to, but we also want to look at some other considerations that I listed there. Probably the two or the three most important things. Uh semester breakdown. Um ever since 2019, we made sure that our semester ended at the Christmas break. That was always really important. I remember when that wasn't the case. And as a mom, when it wasn't the

131case, I remember, you know, reallyounding my son at the time to make sure he was studying over Christmas break and making sure that happened. And so once we made that adjustment, that has made some pretty um that's been a an important part for our families and our teachers. The other thing that has been pretty important um is our state testing days. We want to make sure that we don't have breaks at important times of state testing days. And then also adhering closely to surrounding district calendars. We have parents that might teach in our district but have kids that attend other districts and then vice versa. So we try to be closely aligned to surrounding districts. So we started with the thought exchange and the thought exchange question is listed there. So, how does the structure

132of the academic calendar best support the learning needs of our students in NISD? And I think you all know, but a thought exchange allows for the um people that respond to give us their own thoughts, but also to um rate other people's thoughts. And so that's what they did. And you can see here I just pulled out the highest rated thoughts from the thought exchange. So we could see what people both what they thought and then also what they believed were the the most important thoughts from that. And overwhelmingly you can see that people really appreciated the breaks throughout the year for both students and teachers to rejuvenate, have time to just kind of collect themselves and then um get back to it. They also a couple other things that you'll see. I think this

133page was all about breaks. And then on this page, you can see um that they also liked the built-in professional learning days for teachers after long breaks to allow them to prepare for students returns or for student returns. Um and basically those are the two big overarching comments that we saw in the thought exchange. So when we looked at all the comments for everything from the committee, from feedback, from our principles, from the thought exchange, everything that we got, the biggest um things that we heard I wanted to pull out here. So like you saw in the thought exchange, strategic time after breaks was very important. They felt like planning and professional learning time is important and appreciated. We wanted to continue to end the semester at Christmas. Nine weeks grading that also came out

134in the 2019 committee and we really do not want to go back to six weeks grading. So we um that came out in a lot of the committee work especially frequent breaks um are important. Getting out before June that also came out in 2019 and continues to be an important important um topic. And then half days this one was mixed reviews. Our elementary teachers do not appreciate half days and our secondary teachers do appreciate half days. They need them for a lot of extended grading that they have to do often and things like that. So we tried to find some middle ground. So you can see here this is our proposed calendar for the 2627 school year. The things I want to highlight for you is this calendar is most similar to what we have

135had in the previous years really since 2019, we kept the professional learning days after our big break. So you can see after the winter holiday, you can see the two days in January and then after spring break, we actually only have one right after. That is because um Good Friday is in March this year on March 26th. So it kind of makes our calendar a little bit um wonky as my word is for this one in March. So it kind of makes it a little bit um crazy in March. So we actually had our first professional learning our district professional learning day in March is going to be on the 5th. And this day is what we use to help our teachers really um look at final end of the year data to support for

136any spiraling that they may need to do of concepts before STAR, before AP exams, before TSI, anything um that they might have that's leading up to those final end ofear assessments. And then on the 23rd um of or the 22nd of March would be a teacher planning day. The other thing that we did this year because our teachers um have continuously told us how important they planning is for them and we know that planning is important. If you want to have strong lessons, you need to have strong planning time. So, we built in two additional strictly planning days for our teachers this year. Those are October 12th and February 15th. So, they have two additional planning days for our teachers. Um, and so those are in the calendar as well. And then we reduced our

137half days from four to two. So our only half days are going to be at the end of each semester, uh, December 18th and then on May 21st. So that is the proposed calendar for the 26 27 school year. And then, as you know, we like to adopt our calendar two years at a time. It's always subject to change in case TEA throws a curveball at us, in case uh TCC decides to change their calendar because we do align our spring break with them for students that are in dual uh dual enrollment classes. And so that calendar is here for the 2728 school year. It looks extremely um similar to what 2627 looks like with a couple differences. one, um, August starts on a Sunday, so that allows us actually to push the whole month

138of August down a week. So, our teachers are going to love having a little bit longer of a summer um this in the summer of 2027. So, we won't start until the 18th. And then, um, spring break goes back to having the two days together. And then you'll notice here um according to TEA with the changes in STAR, the end of year star actually will not be until May instead of April. So we'll be watching that very closely to see if that stays true. Um but this is what the calendar looks like and the proposed calendar for 2728. There also will be a star the end of August into September for beginning of the year and then in January and into part of February for middle of the year. But stay tuned. We'll we'll talk

139about that later. So all right, any questions? Any questions? Steve, >> Dr. Espencer, could you put the the first calendar back up? 2627. >> Yes. >> The first one I was just curious on the March 27th down in the notes. You have March 29th as a student holiday teacher professional learning, but there's no color code with it in the the box. >> Oh, that's probably just a mistake. >> Okay. Just want to double check. >> Yep. We'll find them all year. >> Okay. >> No, I did have uh we have several people looking over them for mistakes. Yeah, that one should just be Yeah, we'll fix that. >> Okay. And then the next one. >> Thanks for finding it. >> Yeah. Well, I missed it the first time I went there, so u then also

140the the teacher planning days. Is that really No kidding. Teachers will be left alone. No meetings. They can do what they want if they show up to the school. They have to still have to show up to the school, but they >> they can't do what they can't do what they want. They have to plan. >> Okay. But yeah, I'm just kidding. Yes. We we we've already spoken to principles about it. It will be strictly a planning day. We want them to plan. They may reach out to um for support from coaches or instru, you know, things like that, but it is strictly for them to plan. Yes. >> Okay. >> There's one teacher I hear from a lot. She tells me, she goes, "I just want to plan." If I wish they would leave

141me alone so I >> That's what we want it We want it to be for them to plan. >> Okay. I'll let her know. She'll be excited. If I could just add some color commentating to that, you know, we first not first heard about, we we hear about that full day of planning. So, placing those in between uh the the two grading periods at the end or beginning, however you want to look at it. We we really do need to build a model of what it is and what it isn't. It's not an hour and a half at lunch down at, you know, Roadhouse, whatever, where Northwest ISD piles out there. But it's also not half a day of PD where you don't have any time to plan. So, we're going to be very specific

142on here's some deliverables. Here are things that you want to accomplish and and principles will kind of have that outlined, but we're putting parameters on campuses and and what they can't take away from teachers. We really again coming from the listening sessions they said the most precious resource we need is more time. How can we get more time in in the school year and more time to prep for the next set and building it into the calendar for you know additional full days we think will be super helpful. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> All right. All right, we'll move to item H was just possible casting of votes for the Tarant appraisal district board of directors. >> Madam President, >> Mr. Sprouls, >> I move to approve the resolution

143to cast 61 votes for the Terran Appraisal District Board of Directors as follows. 34 I'm sorry, 31 votes, that's 31 votes for Eric Cryle, 30 votes for Wendy Burgess. >> Second I have a motion by Mr. Sprouls and a second by Dr. Roush to approve the resolution to cast 61 votes for the Tarant appraisal district board of directors as follows. 31 votes for Eric Kryle, 30 votes for Wendy Burgess. All in favor? 70. Thank you. We'll move to item I, which is consider and possibly nominate a candidate to the Tarant appraisal district board of directors to fill a vacancy. >> Wait, wait, wait, wait. Do we have a name? >> I have a name. >> Oh, >> okay. Go. Yeah, the the name the names I had have already been nominated by other entities, so

144I was wasn't going to bring up any names, but >> if you have one, go ahead. >> Did you get that that um email? >> The email? Yeah, she's already been nominated. So >> Oh, she already has. >> Yes. >> So, I guess uh so >> how do we know that? >> So, President Murphy, can I uh just explain the process real quick? Just the the the the over broad overview. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So how this works with filling the vacancy is each entity can nominate a person and then that list of nominees goes to the the TAD board and then they pick from the list. So where this first resolution we >> put a certain amount of votes to individuals, >> we just pick an individual for them to choose from >> at

145a later date. So there may be a meeting in December, it may be in January. That's still to be determined. So, um, if if if you're going to I think say if you're going to nominate, she's already been nominated. >> Okay. I didn't know that. >> So, there's we don't we I mean, we can we can still do it. No big deal. But her name's already on the list. So, >> thank you. >> Is it stronger that if she gets nominated >> more than more than once? >> No, it doesn't matter. >> Her name just needs to be on the list. >> So, all the names have been So, are we deciding not to take action on this tonight? >> Yes. unless you want to call it. >> Well, it's the same name that if

146you're saying she's already on there. >> Okay. We're not going to take action on this item tonight. Okay. All right. Well, that wraps up the discussion action agenda and we will move on to the reports. Guess what's first? >> The wellness ambassadors. >> Yay. Good evening, Superintendent FA board members. My name is Gabrielle Carthin. I'm a senior at Steel Early College High School. And on behalf of all the wellness ambassadors, we are so thankful to be here tonight to present what we've been doing around our district and all the fun things we have going on. >> Hi, my name is Desire Montero. I also attend James M. Steel Early College High School. I am a junior and this is my first year as a wellness ambassador. So, we're going to go down the list and

147introduce all the wellness ambassadors we have around the district and then we will get into our presentation. >> Hi, I'm Meritt Mac. I'm a junior at Northwest High School and this is my first year as a wellness ambassador. >> Hi, my name is Austin English. I'm a sophomore and this is my first year as a wellness ambassador. >> Hi, I'm Naima Dennis. I'm a senior. This is my third year as a wellness ambassador. >> Good evening. My name isQara Cunningham. I'm also a senior at Eaton High School and this is my third year. >> Hello, my name is Ava Medalli. I'm a senior at Byron Nelson. This is my third year as a excuse me as a wellness ambassador. >> Good evening. My name is Rehma Addin. I'm also a sophomore at Byron Nelson and

148this is my first year as a wellness ambassador. I was trying to make sure that clicker worked. What is a wellness ambassador? Wellness ambassadors have been insinuated and put into action in 2023. Uh most of us have ser served for either one year, two years or three years. And basically our job is to work with our counselors on campus just to help our student community and help our environment. Truly, it is our job really to just show students that physical health and mental health is important and that it can be accomplished throughout our high school campuses and going onto our middle schools and elementary schools. So it's us working with our counselors just to come up with task or just show that hey our mental health matters our physical health matters and from the students

149we want to help support that with the help of our counselors. Here are some pictures from our previous years. This is this is from our um summit. Uh these this is where we come together and come and get some ideas. We collaborate together and it's also a fantastic way to make new connections and friends. Everfi is an application mall ambassadors across the district are using to educate themselves in the dangers of alcohol, drugs, and vaping as well as knowing the importance in mental health. These courses are important for wellness ambassadors to complete as it gives them experience in these dangers and helps educate um those on their campus about these challenges that they might be facing. Through these lessons, they can earn certifications that they can put on resumeumés and future portfolios. Overall, this application

150allows students to learn in-depth knowledge about the the drug the excuse me, the dangers of drugs, vaping, and different prescription drugs, as well as knowing the importance of mental health. All right, so each year all of our It's really loud, sorry. Each year, all of our wellness ambassadors complete teen mental health first aid. It's a three-part course that teaches us how to recognize when a friend might be struggling and how we can reach out and help them. We meet for three early morning sessions and by the end, we each earn a certificate of national completion. The goal of Teen Mental Health First Aid is to not only teach our wellness ambassadors about how to recognize these signs, but to empower them to reach out to people in their at their school and their community and

151make sure that we're doing okay, that no one is falling under the radar and that we're all seen and just providing initial support before sending them to a trusted adult or a professional source. I took this course my sophomore year and it really changed how not only I saw mental health but also how I could reach past my immediate circle of friends and speak to people that I may not have spoken to before and not only make more connections but be able to help someone that may not have had that support system in place and not only gave them a friend but a real professional source that can get them the help they need. So, one of the core values of our wellness ambassador program is curating respect through community building. As wellness ambassadors, we've

152done many things to do this. And we believe that strong relationships and positive cultures in school allow for more things to take place. Some activities that will be done as wellness ambassadors include, but aren't limited to, helping to create guidance lessons for the students, helping to lead Red Ribbon Week activities, and posting positive messages around the school to encourage connection. And these projects not only bring the students together, but they also remind us of the little things, a note, a smile, a simple act of service that allow our school communities to come together even better. Thank you. One of our biggest focuses this year in high school was to increase mental health awareness. We this past September for our signs of suicide um lesson. We organized a studentled video to promote me the mental health

153stigma towards specifically males and we had gathered male athletes around our campus to promote mental health awareness and just showed that mental health can affect anyone. Northwest High School, we had our first project. We had the thankful cards for Thanksgiving. Um, this was a helpful way to write card like nice notes to family, friends, and staff members. It's a nice way to spread kindness, respect, and joy around campus. And overall, like made the student environment very much more happy. All right, so one of our favorite wellness ambassador projects at Byron Nelson is the positivity. This is our second year doing it, and we just set it up. a few days ago in our student union and the idea is pretty simple, but I think it reaches a lot more people than you may think. We

154put up a Christmas tree and invite our students to decorate ornaments and other fun holiday decorations during their lunches and hang them up. But the only rule for those decorations that they all have to have some kind of positive saying or encouraging statement that can help our students. Within a few days, the tree is covered with all kinds of fun ornaments and decorations with things like, "You've got this, keep going, and we're proud of you." Those are some of the big ones that we've seen. And it's just a fun and creative way we can spread holiday each year cheer throughout our school. But it also helps to remind students to focus on gratitude and kindness towards not only their fellow students, but also on themselves. And it's just a small project that makes a really

155big difference in how appreciated our student body feels during a stressful time with the holidays and exams. This past July, I was accepted to be one of the nine um students chosen as a part of the Texas School Safety Teen Ambassadors Program. Our program is designed to what we do is we take we gather the nine of us at our annual orientation this past October. That was my first year going and I had I had a lot of fun. I learned a lot of insight that I would not have been able to learn on my own at my own campus. Um we mainly focus on teen mental health um substance abuse awareness and prevention as well as violence abuse and prevention. Um I I worked at my orientation. I learned a lot to be able

156to take back to my own campus and um I'm not sure broaden is the right word for me, but to more fine-tune what I've learned and to bring it back to our campus. Um and for me to be able to work with my fellow wellness ambassadors to be able to implement my personal projects and campaigns to help spread um these goals at our own campuses. Sorry. >> So during the 10 US ambassador summit, we prepared for the eighth grade red week by brainstorming ideas and um well thinking about what messages about um prescription drugs, vaping, alcohol, and fentanyl would be meaningful to these eighth graders. And so we created activities from these ideas talking about the risks and um like the healthy choices that people can make and how they can like know they can

157get support. And so we excited to share the work that we did with the eighth graders. Okay. So during red ribbon week I led this game called ruler fake. And this game we discussed with the middle school students about how many drugs today are actually counterfeits made to look like familiar medications such as Xanax or Adderall. However, they are often laced with harmful substances like fentanyl. And we gave these students pictures of real and fake pills and their job was to decipher which was which. The twist was they could never tell a difference. And that's what made the game so powerful. And while I played this game, I was really shocked by how engaged the students were. And they were shocked by how they couldn't tell any difference. and it really allowed them to understand

158the dangers surrounding counterfeit drugs and how easy it is to make a deadly mistake. Thank you. >> So, I helped with the vaping Jeopardy game and our goal was to make the make the dangers of vaping known with a interactive and engaging game. We had the students uh split into two or three teams and they followed the Jeopardy style format raising their hands to answer questions to gain points clearing one category at a time. Um but yeah, we cover facts about um like vaping like uh the myths um just harmful facts and helpful facts. >> So in Alcohol Scramble, we thought we would help our middle school teachers by helping our students, you know, get a little energy out through the day. Um, and this game is basically teaching students about some of the myths

159and some of the unknown facts about the dangers of alcohol. Many students found that they learned a lot of information about how physically alcohol can damage their bodies, but also mentally. Um, and we allowed students to have a relay race with this game and this really just showed them how in this more digital age, they have a lot more access to what alcohol can do to their bodies and how sometimes they will know what's going on and sometimes they won't. So this game really did help students to be able to ask those questions that although they've seen stuff on social media to be able to ask, hey, is this actually something that's true? Is this something that can actually happen to me? And many of the students were very surprised about the facts that they

160learned and how dangerous it really can be. So this is really a way for the Welsh ambassadors to just kind of help them uh relieve some of their fears of what's being shown to them on social media and also just keep them aware so that as they're getting into these spaces, they can learn to be safe and just prevent being in access of some of these very dangerous substances. I let the Bean Boozled Station, which as I'm hoping that you guys are familiar of the popular game Bean Boozled. Um the eighth graders were to take a jelly bean and they weren't supposed to eat them until everyone got one so that they wouldn't be able to cheat or um be able to tell which one was which. A lot of them tried to smell the

161jelly bean, you know, to see, oh, I got a good one. I got this one tastes like toothpaste. I already know it. But um they were really surprised to find out that their toothpaste to uh jelly bean actually did not taste like toothpaste at all. Um the game the point of the game was to mock a simulation of how you never know what you're really getting when you are thinking that you would know what you're doing with uh different types of drugs, more specifically fentanyl. Um after our debrief, I would go obviously go around I'd ask who got a good one, who got a bad one, and what this lesson was trying to teach. Um a lot of them were kind of spot on. They kind of had already had some sort of experience with

162it. And a lot of them were very shocked to be able to see and listen to all the facts that we had to explain to them that about all the dangers of fentinol, how you never really know what you're getting when you are are um experiencing and messing around with these types of drugs that are out on the streets. um they were able to take this and we were able to, you know, advise them that we're not saying this to scare them, but we are saying this to put them into preparation and to encourage them to um stay drug free. Um thank you. So we are all so very grateful for you guys to listen to us and take time out of your evenings today. Um we would like to wrap it up. If you

163guys have any questions, we are open to answer them. I don't have a question. I just want to say you guys are incredibly awesome and I can't wait to see what your future holds for you because you're so positive and motivating and your smiles are just captivating. So, as Dr. FA said, it's so good to have you. Can you come back at every meeting because you bring light into this uh this dark meeting? >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Of course, you can't get out of a board meeting without the king of questions asking a question. So >> So I see the the wellness ambassador started in 23. Correct. >> Correct. >> And so the the substance abuse, the fentanyl, the vaping and alcohol, that's y'all do that with eighth graders. Correct. >>

164Correct. >> Do you do y'all follow up with any of that in high school or is it do you just focus on the eighth graders and then do more on the mental uh mental health at high school? We do follow that up in high school, especially within our kind of our advisory classes. This is when we spend a lot of time going into those uh character strong lessons when it talks about oh being safe, especially with our high schoolers when there is more access. Like I said before, middle schoolers do have access, but especially going into high school, that access and that availability is a lot stronger. So, especially I think in our freshman uh classes, we tend to uh push for older upper classmen to come down and say, "Hey, uh we've seen you.

165You've made this transition. and we've maybe have talked to you while you were in middle school, but here is the set of examples that we would want to keep and those expectations that we would like to also keep as we go into high school. So, most definitely we are checking in with our middle schools and also keeping that transition out through our high schools. >> Okay, good. So, yeah, uh like Mr. Schlutter down there, just want to commend y'all for the job you're doing and thanks for volunteering and stepping up because one thing being on the board is we get to hear the goods and the bads. Obviously, earlier today, y'all saw the the volleyball team came in. That's one of the goods, but we also hear a lot of the bads that happen. I

166will say the things y'all are talking about, y'all discuss today, we haven't heard anything about that while y'all been doing that. So, thank you very much for the work you do. Appreciate it. And uh y'all keep doing the good work. Thanks y'all. >> Thank you very much. >> Any other questions? >> But thank you for your patience. It is a school night. Y'all had to sit for two and a half hours and important meetings. So, thank y'all for hanging with us and then doing a great job of presenting. Appreciate y'all very much. Dr. Fast. Dr. Fast. >> I would also like to thank our counselors who are here. If y'all will just wave, the counselors who came to support and um Dr. Farber as well with their work with this great group. Thank y'all. >>

167Thanks. You guys are rock stars. Thank you. Okay, we'll move to um item C in the reports which is the October financial report. I do believe y'all are trying to give me a complex. You always put me after the really great performance and follow it up with my lovely numbers. So, uh that's a tough act to follow. talking about the October financial reports. Um, if you look on this first general fund report, I was going to talk about a couple little things. Look at the tax revenue from last year, you'll see prior year was about 248 million. If you look at our budget for this year, our tax revenue is 247 million. Do you remember we had quite a bit of property value growth. So, the question is why? This goes back to the whole

168thing we've talked about with the compression as well as the homestead exemptions. You can see due to the homestead exemptions and compression, all that growth is pretty much gone. So, the state does have to make some of that up, which I think was part of your question in the audit presentation. So, you can look two lines down where it says state program. Last year was 67 million. It will increase to 89 million this year, mainly because some of that revenue that's lost and the additional students that we have. So, I don't know if that kind of goes to that question you had a little bit earlier, but I think that shows where the property tax compression um and the homestead exemption eats up all the property tax value. Um, but you also see we've already

169collected 22% of our revenue, which is higher than we were at this point last year, mainly because we've received a lot more money from the state. Looking at our expenditures, trending very well. You can see last year we had spent about 80 million at this point. We're at 80,597. our budget's higher. So that's why it only looks like we spent about 22.9% of our budget as composed of 24% last year. This next one is food service. Again, food service is trending very similar. 4 million in revenue, 4 million in revenue. About 30% of our revenue has been collected again, but the expenses still look off. And this is where I was telling you it's not going to clear up until the spring. If you remember correctly, last year after the TDA audit, we had to

170do some changes to the way we were doing the financials. So, we didn't have the expenditures in our books until I think January or February of last year, but we are trending at the same pace. There's nothing nothing inconsistent, but you can see we're about 22% of our expenditures at this point. And lastly, debt service. Um, revenue expected is about the same. Um, we're going to increase a little bit in revenue, about $7 billion. And our expenses, we estimate to be 178. We've made our one payment in August and then we won't make another payment in February. So, that won't change much on the expense side, but you'll see the revenue really jump up after December and January. We start receiving tax revenue. Any questions on our October financial report? >> I don't think so.

171Good. Thank you. Okay. Time for the uh last report in the report section which is D facilities planning and construction report. Good evening again. Just want to give you guys our monthly update on construction and planning. Here's our timeline update on where we are with our projects. Um and then we have the Gant chart as well, just to give you guys an idea, a visual of um when we finish projects throughout the year. our annex building next door right now. They're um still continuing framing. MEP um ruffins are ongoing. Just give you some over uh overview. We've got the mezzanine right there. That's for our records and furniture that goes in the former gym of Hatfield. And then there you can see the cutouts in the concrete that we have um for uh plumbing, electrical,

172uh any of uh drainage. Then the NIT stadium renovation that is actually completed and they will be moving out over Christmas break and so we have our restrooms open for baseball and softball season coming up. Barksdale, we are fully enclosed. We have permanent utilities connected. Interior finishes are ongoing. Um we are believed to think that we are going to get our certificate of occupancy around spring break, which that's a first time for one of our any of our facilities to to finish that early, which will be nice because we'll have the summer for Dr. Romer and Dr. Hicks. Just give you some over flyovers. The typical pictures of our interior. That's our end of our one of the academic wings. Um, looks like a science lab to the right. This is our cafeteria from the

173stage. And then the kitchen is on the right hand side. Our gym. The wood's getting acclimated with the air in there. And then they'll install the flooring soon. And we've got lockers already in the locker rooms. And this is our library. Um, on the left is the top of the learning stairs. And on the right is looking up to the uh learning stairs. High school 4 we have steel erecting is ongoing foundation is ongoing and the ICF for the storm shelter is actually 50% um out there um just give you some overview you can start looking at the shape of the building ICF is on the far left those are the competi or the practice gyms that we are um have designated for our storm shelter Dr. Hicks, we've got steel going up. Um, all

174slab has been poured and the exterior sheathing is is ongoing in this facility. So, this is is an older picture, but our slab is all poured for this project. And we got Dr. Ror. Dr. Romer, the steel is completed. First slab has been completed. Storm shelter um casing is completed. And our existing is ongoing. Byron Nelson. This is our stadium and to the left you'll see on the visitor side we have slab going down. Um and on the right hand side they're still doing some grade beams um before they start pouring the concrete over there. But on the front side of that picture you can see some um retaining walls and some ex interior walls going up um for the fieldhouse. And then we have our fine arts. Um the fine arts, the pack balcony

175framing is complete. Exterior walls are um is completed as well. Eaton High School. So our stadium we are rough grading is completed. Site utility is ongoing. North parking lot, you can see in the very top of that um picture is actually completed. And then the bottom right um of that picture is the parking lot that's just south of Adams. that is completed and we'll give it over to um campuses um next semester. This we are hoping that will relieve some um congestion on Eagle Boulevard until we can expand Eagle Boulevard to um to help with the the traffic that is out there. And then for the pack, the lobby steals ongoing, additional steel ongoing for the seating. Um exterior wall framing is next. Any questions? Miss Stewart. Hi. Yes, sir. I >> I noticed that

176the Byron Nelson and the Eaton stadium improvements were like at 28 and 22%. Will those be ready by next fall? I can tell you that uh the stadiums won't be ready um for next football season. So, we're we're clear on that. Um Still not working, sir. >> Okay. Um, it took longer for Eaton to get the stadium to get their permit. Um, we separated it from the rest of the project because of the CFA and with the amount of people that the stadium's going to bring to that campus, we had to do more parking and expand um, Eagle Boulevard. So, the permitting took a lot longer than anticipated, >> but to be clear, neither one of them will be ready for next football season. >> I don't I don't believe so. >> Yeah. >> For

177football season, but we could have um stadiums ready for soccer season. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. Thanks, Sarah. >> Thank you. >> All right. We'll move on to 11, the board president's report. And let's see. Um, just a quick reminder because I forgot and I did it today. If you didn't do your technology training, it is due. >> That is your reminder, Steve. Um, I know I did mine today. Um, March 3rd will be the primary election. Early voting will be February 17th through 27th. And our May 2nd election filing will be open June 13th through February 13th. And that will be three board seats will be up then. Now the president or superintendent's report. >> Yes, ma'am. Just uh reindeer romp is this Saturday. Um Anthony toy has challenged anyone to a race.

178Is that right? >> Uh not accepted. >> Yeah. Uh also um a week from Thursday, our our last day of school is uh next Thursday, December 18th, and then we'll be on holiday. See everybody in the new year. Thank you. Move.