6/15/26 BCISD School Board Meeting

001We do have a quorum of four members present. If y'all please stand for the invocation. Do you mind saying the invocation this evening? Thank you. Look, Father, God, we come tonight to give thanks to your holy name. Father, we thank you for every blessing that you've given us. We pray tonight for our school board, we pray for all those who have grown old, we pray for all those who are present tonight. Oh, God, I pray that you give us the wisdom and the knowledge conducted this evening that it may be pleasing to your sight. Dear Lord, we thank you for everything you do for us. We have to get in the power of the name we know. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Right now for the pledges. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

002United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I pledge allegiance to the United States of Texas, one state, under God, one indivisible. Thank you all for being here. We are gonna take things a little out of order, so we're gonna kind of bounce for a second. We're gonna go down into reports before we do good news or anything else to allow the BCISD Strategic Claim Committee, recommendation committee to come forward and share with us. So I'll pass it to you, Mr. Councilman. So I just want to let everybody know that we've got quite a few people that were on the committee. It took all their time to spend learning about the district's finances and school finance in general. They invested

003a lot of time starting in, it was in March or in April, over a series of four meetings. They did a tremendous job. They worked through all the information, had really great questions that helped me personally learn how to better express and explain what the district is experiencing. So I really appreciate the feedback that you guys gave in that process and your time. And so the committee did come to a recommendation and it was a unanimous decision on the committee's part on what to recommend to the board. Part of their charter was the BCISD Strategic Planning Committee will collaborate to review the current state of the district, specifically focused on financial status and predicted outcomes for future years. The committee will provide guidance and input to the Bay City administration and board of trustees regarding

004future necessary elections. The committee understands that all future decisions rest with the board of trustees, but that their input is greatly needed and appreciated. So we have two representatives of the committee here tonight to present that recommendation and to give an overview of what their key takeaways were from the process. And the first one is Ms. Donnie Stone, the fabulous Donnie Stone. And then we've got Noe Cano and they're going to take turns presenting this to us. And so Ms. Stone, I will hand it over to you. Good evening to all. I am so delighted to be chosen and I consider this and him to be a part of this special view. We were a group of people that was on the same team with different walks of life, with different ideas, direction, and even

005different opinions. But as going through our training, we intertwined together for the same purpose and that's for the betterment of our district. Now, Mr. Towson has already read our purpose, so I'm not gonna read that again. So I would like, this is our team, most of them, I would like for anyone that's here from our planning committee to please stand and be staffed. That intensely collaborated. We had four meetings and there were almost over 400 man hours through those meetings. So I, was those they giving around our cause? Was it wrong? Well, you guys are. So our journey began, it began. The Bay City ISD has struggled with raising costs that are not fully addressed by the legislator after and has caused the need for an efficient budget. Now we have not in our district

006had any schools closed, but our enrollment has dropped similarly across the state. Hard to believe it has been 10 years, 10 years since we had a bond, which was in 2016, but we have never, we have never ever had a Bay. In 2015, we had a series of loans to occur for maintenance, for air handlers, renovations, HVACs, control and other things. These loans were lured to call it a bond election because some of the work at that time we needed immediately. So there was a multitude of unpaid mandates issued to public schools, such as safety, seat belts, armed guards, staff pay, mandatory training. If anyone knows me, they know me personally. They know that I like the local girls and I love the water. So Pishon did Sicily 2016. We were on a boat and

007all of a sudden, something happened. We realized that our boat was sinking. We don't know what to do. So the crew put their heads together and they started working immediately. And they got together with the rest of us, the committee and the planning. And we started taking things off the boat that was hidden to try to get the boat from sinking, to make the boat lighter. But we still realized that our boat was sinking. You know, we don't want to die. Basically, I ask you, you don't want to die. So what we did as believers, we prayed. We prayed and pacing up and down that boat for a long time. Mr. Townsend and his team, Fulman, they got together and they went into a meeting. And Mr. Townsend looked out into the waters and he

008realized, out in the water, there were objects floating around. And he realized, where do we go from here? So Mr. Townsend and his administration team decided, we have a plan. And you all, as a committee, need to get together and build water in this plan. And what we need to do is get this plan together and decide, we're not gonna stay where we are. We have to do something to save our district, to save ourselves. And all those objects that were floating in the water, we can either jump off the boat and save ourselves, or we can stay where we are and we can die. So he said, what you all have to do as a committee, you have to get with the captains. And you know who the captains are. The captains are the

009voter trustees, and you guys. And we have to get with them to ask them to make a decision and demand the people to get off the boat. And demand the people to get off the boat. There can be something to do and something to die. So we decide, we wanna get off the boat and we wanna do something about the situation. But it's up to you captains to make the decision because base AISD life is in your hands. So I remember me and that you made a solid decision to save base AISD. All right, so we looked at where we are. And I wish I had known you there. I'm sorry I said I didn't need to share that at the end. But it's important to pay attention to where we've been, looking at the

010reality of where we are, and then make a good strategic move going forward. So when we look at all of these components, where we've been, where we are now, tax rate is currently $1 per $100 value, the lowest it's been in over 20 years. So we see that there's this deficit, there's this decline, and the state's not coming to a rescue, right? So one thing that we can do, we can look at our city, we can look at it as our community, like our family, right, we can just say, well, it doesn't matter. It always matters when you make it personal. And we've either had kids or we have kids or we have a vested interest in our community to make sure not just that we're comfortable, but that our children and their children's children

011are comfortable. I wanna start by saying let's not take what we've had in the past for granted, and let's build something better than we've ever had even up to this point. But where we are now, when we look at all of these things, we learned a lot of things about the current status of the school, the school district's tax rates, they've actually dropped dramatically over the years. And there's been some things that have been done on the school's behalf to try to offset this deficit. But the loan balance as of December of 2026 was 6.8 million. So we know that there's debt there, we know that there's things that we're needing to take care of. The interest from the loans is being paid out of maintenance and operations, causing major constraints to our operational budget.

012So we need to come, we need to make sure that we can take that and move it to the interest and sinking part of the budget. So one thing we don't wanna just tell you the problem, the thing that the community and we need to understand in order to make that happen, approving the bond allows that to happen. Make this as simple as possible. We realize there's a lot more to it than we realize, and I'm hoping the school board is informed, and we're just coming alongside, making sure we're all on the same page. So knowing where we're at now, we also know that they've done a lot of things to cut to work on doing things on their part, okay? Because we could just say, hey, you're asking a lot of us what have

013you done? The beauty of this equation is they've done a lot. So when we look over the last three years, there's been three years of salary freezes, there's been 10% total department budget cuts between 2024 and 2025, 20% total department cuts. So when we look at this, and I'm not gonna read all of them, you can take a picture of it if you want, but there's been continual strategic moves to try to be accountable for where they're at, for what they have control of, okay? So what we realized is, looking at all of these numbers, looking at what they've done, when we come to the determination that, guess what, it's still not enough, okay? I don't know if you've ever got to the end of the month and you're like, your Lord Jesus. How do

014we do it? Well, we can take that along, which is kind of the idea, kind of the strategic plan of what we're looking at. So as we continue to look at this, we realize that what we're doing now is we're continuing to see a decrease in the funds provided, but we must find immediate and long-term increases in revenue. We must remove debt from the maintenance and operation budget, okay? So the school is really doing all they can by cutting what they can, but they're trying also, which you have to know the school is doing all that they can do without cutting programs for students and without cutting more positions. It may not matter to you unless that's your job, okay? So let that sink in when we start thinking about these things. It's not just

015what we're offering our students, but it's careers, it's counties, it's all of those things. So if you live in this community, if you are here, if you're part of this, you need to have a vested personal interest and make it a little bit more personal, and we'll talk about this in just a minute, but some of the decisions of the past, we can learn from the past rather than using the past to prevent us from creating this great future that I think I'm past, and we have in mind for Bay City, okay? So we don't wanna just say, hey, where we've been, what we're doing now, but we wanna look at recommendations going forward. So when we look at these recommendations, we can sit back and do nothing, and that is an option. It's not

016recommended, but that is an option. So it's gonna be important to encourage people to do something. Like as Donnie said, we do nothing, the boat sinks. Thank you very much. Close doors, game over, okay? No do over. So as a committee, we explored a bond and a voter approved tax rate, which is a VADER. I'll let you take pictures of these also, just also for the sake of time. I think it's gonna be important to give some definition to what in the world is a bond and what is a VADER. I had never heard of a VADER until I got part of this committee. But by definition, it's gonna help the school get to where it is. So what we learned and what we realized that actually we have four basic options. If you wanna

017know one of the most strategic tools that we have at our disposal is this chart. So it gives people four options. We can do nothing, and if we do nothing, we'll realize no VADER, no bond, continuing budget deficits through 26, 27 and beyond. So we're gonna have to begin to reduce people programs beginning 20, 27, 20, 28. That does not get better. That sinkhole gets bigger, causing more problems, and eventually no more basic ISD if we continue down that path. The bond only, take a picture of this. I'm gonna continue to save you some time, okay? The bond only, the VADER only, there's momentary positives, but they still run out of gas. It doesn't get the vehicle where it needs to go to put it in certain simple lagging terms. The secret sauce to what

018we need is both the VADER and the bond need to be passed. What that does, if we look at that, I do want you to pay attention to that one. The deficit immediately is eradicated. The fund balance immediately goes to 1.5 million. Above the required, optimum 10% or 10 million level, and it continues to grow over time when we look at charts. They got a lot of fancy stuff, which they'll get us pending. You guys approve this thing, and we work together. What we did to get to the census of the group is, in the committee, we divided into five groups, aka tables, and we discussed what our options were and what our recommendations were. So it wasn't a one-person bias. It was really a lot of community leaders, moms, dads, business workers, all throughout

019all the community. And here's what we did. We had two propositions that we talked about. The 3.6 million VADER. And if you look at the statistics of what we did, every table was a strong yes. So when we look at this chart, there's two things. The vote and the average conviction. How confident are we in that this is the right move? So five and a five of 5.5. It doesn't get any VADER than this. The whole committee decided that the proposition A, 3.6 million VADER, is a must-do, strong recommendation for that. So when we look at the, which really gave us the super majority. So the second one, the 6.1, 6.16 million VADER. Same thing, five across the average conviction was a 4.8 of 5.0. So even still there, if you're a gambling person, you're

020making a bet, you're doing it, great odds, and it's favorable across the board. So when we look at all of the time, all of the skill sets, all of the interest and time put into it, it's with a strong conviction that we say, pass the VADER, pass the bond, get it to vote, and let us come alongside and help you educate and communicate to the community. Because we know this is not just you guys, it's part of us being well educated. One thing that we're doing, we're not just recommending it, but we're making sure that you are aware that this is gonna be a requirement. Okay, I think it's important for people to really realize that. We need to pass the bond, we need to pass the VADER. We need to learn from our past

021mistakes, and we can take this opportunity to learn and move the district forward. So just a few thoughts. Mistakes were made. Has anybody in here ever made a mistake? Absolutely. Did you make that mistake again? I hope not. If you did, at some point, you learned your lesson. Well, us as a district, us as a community, I hope that we're at this place where we have learned our lesson, we're paying attention, we're committing to do better, and we're gonna learn from those mistakes to move the organization, move the district forward. And to do that, we have to give Bay City ISD the funds necessary to continue to make Bay City schools great. So one of the things that I was thinking about is if we don't continue to move forward, we know our motto, what

022is our motto? That Black can't fight, never dies. If this don't pass, all of a sudden, it is Black can't fight, dies. So if that doesn't get, I mean, you gotta pay, this is a big deal. There's a high risk to not doing anything. So just encourage you to tell everybody you can, you do as legal as you can, and if you gotta say it now rather than later, whatever you need to do, just encourage the people to get out and vote and we'll educate the best we can. The future of the school, it's up to what you decide as the board. So we feel like we've really done our due diligence where if I'm a voting member, I'm voting yes and yes, okay? Our heart, I think as a committee and as a community,

023is to build something great together. I wanna thank you for giving us time to just share this evening. One of my favorite books has a passage, it says, plans fail because of a lack of counseling. But it says, with many advisors, they succeed. So we have to realize that there has been a lot of advising here and I think as long as there's advising, one thing that my wife and I had learned along the way, it's more important to get it right than to be right, okay? So sometimes your plan is not the best plan, sometimes your strategy is not the best strategy, but at the end of the day, we wanna make sure that we get it right but we don't walk away with something to prove. To just say, well, I'm just worried

024about here and now because the decisions we make today are gonna affect the future, not just for us, for the community, for the leaders, for the district, for the teachers, for everybody. So it's with our strong recommendations that we both pass the Vader and the Vaughan and thank you for your time because we wanna know that Black Cat Body never fails. You know that word she was talking about. Thank you all so much. I know that that was a big time commitment for lots of people in our community and really truly do appreciate you taking the time to learn from our district's top staff and from all of the employees that were here just to know where we are and what is possible moving forward but to have the community behind us and that I

025think is a huge, huge piece of the puzzle. So thank you to everyone, people that are here and that are not here from that committee for doing that, for taking your time. We won't let you down if you don't let us down. We'll work together on it. That's great. Well, thank you all so much for being here. We appreciate it and thank you for the reports. All right, we're gonna quickly just go back to good news. Is there any good news that has been seen? I know that school's out. I've been in pain from the end of the school year up until now, but it's been happening. Yeah, I spent the day serving chicken fries, steak, mac, potatoes, and green beans for the Robert's Elementary. So that was fun. Yeah. Thank you, teacher appreciation. Yes,

026teacher appreciation. Thank you to the Education Foundation for doing that. That's a huge blessing. I know our staff and it's always fun to get to go on campus to serve them and to see them in a different light than the boardroom where we typically see them. I know that there are a lot happening still at all the schools, lots of summer school, lots of learning is still happening. Gearing kids up to retake tests and to take tests for the first time, moving into different areas. So thank you all for all the work. The end of the school year is exhausting for everyone, but we truly appreciate just everything that was put into it. And hopefully you get some rest this summer as we continue to move into the next school year before we know it.

027Anything else anybody wants to share? Yeah, I spent the day with this planning committee and thoroughly enjoyed it. There's a lot of passion in the room. It reminded me of the last teacher planning thing we did with the students and a lot of teachers and we came out of that with a lot of direction for the school district. So anytime you get that many stakeholders together from all walks of life and we have former graduates and grandpas and future business owners and everybody has a unique individual viewpoint. Everybody is a unique individual. And so to hear that you all came together to make this recommendation when I personally was struggling with Vader only or Vader and Bond, I certainly learned a lot. I hear the passion in your voices. At some point you already know

028that some people are now allowed to be on the public stage in certain things and others are, but it's not gonna do anything unless the community stands up and screams at the community, this is what we need to do and I will be right there with you or step away if I can. Thank you so much for your work. All right, anything else? All right, moving into Bay City government. Government, it's not government, sorry. We're gonna talk about CCR this evening, our preliminary star scores and then some superintendent constraints. So you're welcome to stay here. All of the other fun stuff that I also have to say that y'all have things happening too. So thank you for your time. Thank you all so many. Thank you. It was a great experience. Good, great experience. So

029we're gonna cover CCMR first and Ms. Lopez and Ms. Griffin are going to present that information to you. All right. Now remember this one in the diverse is that our data is limited and the directions are really bad and we're just gonna forget about it. This is part of my, while we're doing this, the high school enjoys checking, trying to stay to match potatoes and green beans as well. So I don't want you to feel like we only can do that. I could only make one day and that was the day that we were gonna have. Just wanna say, we appreciate that a lot. I enjoyed it so much, I was out there starving and went down to downtown and bought, you wanna have lunch that day? Chicken and fries day. That's right. That's right.

030Have a good time. Have a good chicken and fries day. Nice. Have a good time. Get hungry. That's right. All right, Liz Griffin is the principal, Lorraine Lopez, our college career liaison. Oh, it's been a long time. Super awesome liaison. I was doing what I wanted to say. What it presents are CCMR numbers. TDA often changes the goals. A little bit like the carnival park game, right? Factors are forwards, it's smaller and bigger. But through all of that, we still, and really honestly through the tireless and undeniable work of Lorraine, we are able to meet and have the success that we do. So, go ahead and share some of those all together. So we had the class of 2025, we graduated last year, but that was our benchmark. That's always a benchmark the year before.

031They ended at 96% that they started at 8%. So, we're not going backwards. So they ended at 96%. So the class of 2026 came in. We started at 32%, and yes, we had the iCabinics, we ended with 95%. That is our anticipated CCMR for this graduating class. Class of 2027, they will start at 42% next year. So actually higher than this current class. Class of 2028, 13%, and class of 2029 will be eight. So our 8%, that's our freshman, but they are still doing TSI testing. So TSI testing will be our last day. Tomorrow, we plan to have some in August. Our AP Spanish language, our students do fantastic on it. So we're just getting more CCMR points from that test with the scores coming in in July. And our IVC and cosmetology students still

032have their second part of the test. So we will get those scores in late July. So, and also, do you need to say, we do have several students. We had 71 freshmen, 35 sophomores, and 20 juniors that earned their IVC this school year. And it's not showing in the data because they have to be CTE completers, which means they have to finish their level three course that gets them the four hours of CTE. So those students, they will start showing in our data when they start completing those courses. So those juniors, some of those will show as seniors. So we did have a lot of our freshmen that passed their NC, CER, so 71 freshmen. So 71 potential CCMR points, but they won't show probably until in a sophomore or their junior year. What's it

033in? National Certification. It's like their core, something they need when they're gonna go. Part of what they can get for their industry-based certification. It's the, I've never heard of it. It's the, or the rest of the body, like the, yeah. So that would be like our intro to, Welling. Welling. Oh, okay. So for those that don't know, CCMR is career, college, and military training. And then your CTE is your career technology. Right. So those are the classes and kind of the sure-end. Yes. So, and the IBC is the industry-based certification that everybody can earn in their courses. Yes. So just for those that don't know, those multiple ways to earn a CCMR point, yes. And again, things changing, qualifications, programs that are accepted, right? And through all of those challenges. So we're still starting off

034our next year's, our incoming seniors, starting off in a better spot. And this year's group did. And the ability to just continue to keep growing and meet that percentage rate that we had in the last couple years. So just a quick question. Yes. Between your class of 28 and 27. So that's your last year's juniors that are gonna be seniors and your sophomores are gonna be juniors. Yes, correct. The numbers are lower and you think there aren't enough burs. So, yes. Or take that third class most of the time, is that correct? Yes, a lot of them. That's what's new. So, okay. That implements it this year, so we're gonna start seeing it later. So they have to have three classes in the strand city class. Okay. So that was new this year for our

035this very graduating class, so we'll start seeing it later, which now requires more manual tracking. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you. 96% or no, 95% 26. That's pretty amazing. So we're so proud of them. And I know we always hear from Regent Drew and everyone in the room that we have by far the highest in the region and always are tracking up at the top of that. So, great job. Great job. We do have a short video of our seniors. The just highlights of our current, like our graduating class of 26. And thank you, high school, for all that you do. I know it's just not the same view of their life, all things, but thanks to all the staff and teachers and other administrators. Good evening. How are you? Good. Welcome to your first official

036class. So this is Michelle Roberts. She is our new director of curriculum and instruction and accountability. She has been thrown into the river. She joined us about two weeks ago, and she is presenting Star Sports tonight. We are so proud and happy to have her as a member of our team. She is a 1990. 1990. Bay City High School graduate. We happen to be in band together. And she also is a distinguished alumni of Bay City ISD. And she was Florida Teacher of the Year, and she was a finalist for National Teacher of the Year. And so the list goes on, but we are so excited. She's just melded into the team really, really fast, and she's out of place. Thank you guys. So welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you, such a nice

037introduction. So I'm Cheryl Roberts. It's wonderful to be here. Thank you guys for all being here. So, board members, I just want to take a minute to walk you through our preliminary Star scores. So at the end of May, TEA released our preliminary scores. Those scores can still change, so I just kind of want to keep that in the front of all of your minds. We have students that will be pushed in, that moved into the school during the school year, and some students that may be pulled out. Maybe they were here at Stanshot and left, so some of those numbers may change. We've got high schoolers, as you just heard, that are in summer school, getting remediation for their EOC exams. And so those EOC exams will happen throughout the end of the summer.

038And in early August, mid-August, TEA will release the final results. And so I'm gonna be back in August to talk to you about those final numbers, but right now I want to talk to you about the preliminary numbers. Because just because they're preliminary doesn't mean they aren't useful. They're extremely useful. So immediately when we get these, the principals start dividing them, delving deep into them, and looking at the numbers, and coming up with a plan. They start sharing them with their team members, and working on what can they do to better support their campus. So I want to go through each of the campuses with you, and I have some highlights that I want to talk about. And I also have some plans for the future, because just like the principals, the district team sits

039and we go through them as well, and we come up with some action plans. So the first school that I want to look at is Teenie Holmes, and I went on and made you guys a copy. I know it's kind of hard to see in board books, so I just want to take a minute. So looking at this first one with Teenie Holmes, one of the areas I definitely want to highlight is our fourth grade math, tremendous learning going on there at fourth grade math, as well as fifth grade reading. Fifth grade reading numbers are tremendous. There's some great growth. If you notice fifth grade reading, for example, on the approaches level, went from a 53 percentage points to 72, and they did that without losing any of those students that were at meets and

040masters as well. So that's pretty awesome to see those kinds of numbers. Fourth grade math did amazingly well as well. I do want to take a minute and let you see on that next page. Fifth grade science, right now we do not have the cut scores. It was a different test over different teaks. So TEA basically has given us a zone of proximity for all of the students. Potentially they met, potentially they mastered, but right now we don't have the definite cut scores. They're gonna come out with those soon, so I will be able to update that chart when we get there. Looking back at teeny homes, there is an area that we talked about, going into and looking at it in depth of what we can do, what can we plan for the future.

041And one of the things that we notice is that little bit of regression there in third grade. And so one of the things to remember, as a third grader, these are our babies taking their first ever test. And so they are sitting in front of a computer taking that test. We want to focus on how can we better support teeny homes with that third grade reading and math. We've made a few calls, we've reached out to region three and we are gonna work with them to see how we can better support the school. Also, one of the things to keep in mind, third grade implemented blue line reading. And anytime you've had an implementation of a high quality instructional material, often the numbers go down. It's called an implementation dip. And that happens for two

042main reasons. The number one reason is that teachers just aren't familiar with that curriculum. It's a high quality curriculum, they haven't seen it before, they need necessary training and they need time with the curriculum in order to get better with the platform of how it's delivered, the best practices that go with that curriculum. And the second reason it happens is that often students aren't used to having that rigorous of a curriculum in front of them. Those rigorous testing questions and things like that. And so often there's that implementation dip as the teachers and students learn that curriculum and then move forward. So that's our plan looking at Teeny Homes. So then for Teeny Homes on that next page down, I believe it's your third page, we look at Bay City Junior High. So looking at

043Bay City Junior High, there are some areas that I do wanna highlight. The overall highlight for Bay City Junior High is that sixth grade math. Sixth grade math showed growth in all four categories. And we also see great, great continued success with eighth grade algebra. That's our mathematicians eighth grade, they're a year ahead. And that I remember is an EOC, a high school EOC that they are taking. And again, we have 100% at the approaches or above level. That's pretty amazing. It's hard enough to do it once, but to maintain that is very, very difficult. And the junior high has been able to do that. And again, notice that eighth grade science, that's those same cut scores that have not been released. So you're not gonna see a finalized number there yet. Overall, looking at

044Bay City Junior High, we did see a regression in many of the areas. And so in order to tackle that regression, we are working very closely with the principal. We've talked with her. She did spend a lot of time going in and modeling. They had a brand new academic dean that is coming on board and getting started. And one of the things, the middle school was at seven classes per day. Then they went last year to eight classes per day. And that actually cut some of that instructional time by adding that additional class of this next year. The plan is to move forward with seven class periods per day. So it's gonna give those instructional minutes back into those classrooms. We have also reached out to region three for how we can give a fully

045encompassing implementation support. Because they are gonna be doing amplify reading. So we want to better support our teachers who are going to training right now. We wanna support the junior high in all the ways that we can. And we wanna do some very in-depth work with our teachers, our PLCs, and our administration team there at the junior high. So that's our plan there. Then moving forward two more pages. Here's our page for Basie High School. You heard already some of the successes that we're seeing with the CCMR scores and the numbers. There are definite areas that I absolutely have to spend a couple minutes to focus on. That English one score, you're seeing growth in all four areas. Same with biology. When you look at the numbers, it's very, very exciting to see. It's great

046to see, particularly in biology. When you're looking at the Meats and Masters area, the Masters level went from 14 to 25 percentage points. That's amazing to go that high, especially in that highest level. Meats also went up as well, and that's very difficult to do when you're growing those high achieving kids to keep filling up, backfilling if you will. And they did that in all four areas. US history has some great growth there to highlight. But that doesn't mean that they don't have a plan. But they are working with the students for those EOCs, those remediation and things like that. When you look at those English two numbers, often you're seeing students that are having to take some of those remediation classes, or take the EOCs for a second time. So we're super, super happy

047with everything that's going on. Ultimately, what I want you to take away from this is these are preliminary numbers. Our principals are delving deep into them right now. In August, we're gonna come back to you with our finalized numbers. Our principals will be here with their one page action plans for each of their campuses. They're gonna share those action plans in depth with you. And it's gonna give you a little bit more background of where we, kind of a lens looking forward, if you will, of where we plan to go. So those will be our next steps. And ultimately, we're working really closely with Region 3, and we're excited about that partnership to keep working with them and supporting our campuses. So now I'm just gonna kind of see if anybody has any questions. You

048mentioned a couple things going back to Tinney Hums. I noticed right off the bat, fourth grade math. Absolutely. They're doing amazing things. What are they doing in fourth grade that can translate to third grade and fifth grade? Is there something that they're, some strategy or something, is that being looked at for, okay, why did this group of teachers and this group of students hit that level? So what do we need to do to help the other two, third grade and fifth grade, kind of get on board? Absolutely. Absolutely, and as a campus, that's exactly the questions that they're asking. They're looking at their PLC model, they're going back and studying. They have such a strong instructional coach there at Tinney Hums, and so she works with those grade-level teams. She's able to better support. We're

049gonna get into the classrooms. I just talked with Ms. Flores today and shared a tracker for when she goes into classrooms monitoring on what she's seeing, and then going back in and seeing it again the next time I go, what areas am I looking at? That's absolutely what we're looking at right now, is what are those high-yield strategies, is what we call them in teaching. What are those instructional strategies that we need to keep in place? Yes. And then as far as those low performing, I know there were spots on each campus. Is that something that we will be filling in with instructional coaches or small group instruction to try to fill in those gaps? So if you're missing, if you have so many students at third grade do not meet, they're going on to

050fourth grade, I'm assuming, so how are we back filling all of those skills? Is that through pull-outs? Is that through, what does that look like? Sure, many of those students right now are in summer school. Okay. So they use this in order to get, that's why some of our summer school numbers are higher than they've ever been. So they really are honing in on those individualized students and getting them that support now. They will then start getting that individualized support as they are in fourth grade. The teachers will know their scores and be able to focus with and work off of those as well. And remember, some of it, when I delved deep into some of them, some of it was staffing kinds of issues where particularly in that third grade we had two long-term

051subs in the math area. So we know that that's not the same as having a fully certified teacher in the classroom. I think middle school as well and social studies had some moving around with some of the staff members. And so that really does play a part. But those are all great questions. Does anyone have any other? Third grade reading, I mean, that's a huge job. It's huge. So the new high-quality instructional materials that are, is this new, like, they had an old model in the second grade and they switched it to something different that then went to the third grade? Yeah. So remember, part of the long-range plan was to invent high-quality instructional materials. So this was the first year, K through five, that they implemented LUMOND, which was the high-quality instructional materials approved

052by the state. And it's much higher rigor. And so you do normally see a dip and they warned us of that. I was not necessarily surprised, but I was very happy that we did not see a dip in the other grade levels. But when we have the current, second graders that are going into third grade, already had a full year of LUMOND, and so it's gonna be such a big shock to their system to have that rigorous curriculum on top of the Star Test and the other things. And we're gonna couple that with specific support in class for those teachers in those grade levels. And remember also that next year is the second round of implementation, which will be fourth through three. So the high-quality instructional material, math will be happening. So there's gonna be

053a lot of intense working with teachers and support throughout the time here and just those two things, but we're gonna beef up the others too. Great question. You said you're gonna increase a lot of the support. I guess I'm hearing like our plan was, well, we're not gonna have that implementation until next year. Like that's not a plan, that's just a little bit. That we've got to actually have a plan. This is what we're doing to make sure that we're going up. So that's just adding more people to the classroom. Is that region three people? Is that our plan? So what we're trying to work with them right now is is that we've done this in the past where they have individual coaches that will come in and be in class with those teachers on

054a regular basis, not every day. But are those regional coaches though or are those region three? Region three instructional coaches in addition to what they're already going to receive with the implementation and our own kids. Was this third grade reading or was this one of our like no words or whatever teachers that are all younger or was there something specific that they had to approve? My understanding is that the teachers in fourth and fifth grade were more seasoned. Okay, so they were a little fresher too. Mr. Godden, if I may. Yesterday they had more experience in that fourth and fifth grade. But now we're actually getting more vertical alignment with the high quality instructions. So you see some adjustments, but particularly that one, there were, as I said, two long term subs in every year

055all year long. And the reading for third grade? I think it was on the math. The math, oh I'm sorry, math. So even when you're making a transition that it still can make it a little more difficult to have a cognitive improvement. Are these trends with BlueBot where you see a dip the first year you implement it, is that common? I mean, has that been seen in other districts? Yes, and in fact when we went to go adopt it, the commissioner and the, so I think it was J. Trejo, she said you're likely to see a dip. Most districts do see a dip in the first year, prepare for it. And it's just simply because it's such a more rigorous curriculum. And the teachers have to spend a lot of time internalizing those lessons. So

056it says a lot for the fourth and fifth grade that they didn't experience it, but yet even grew phenomenally. But yeah, no it's common. When we went to go, before we decided to implement it, we did site visits at different campuses that were implementing it, and all of them had experience in it as well. One other question that I had, skipping to, thank you for that, skipping to eighth grade, looking, I mean not eighth grade, junior high, skipping, looking at some consecutive years, what are we doing in the sixth and seventh grade to ensure we're shoring up social studies for eighth grade? Because there is, I mean it's just a continual kind of, when you look back at scores, continual decrease over time. And so I think that is, there's something that's not being shored

057up to launch those kids into eighth grade. So that's not just on an eighth grade teacher. That's one, that they're being tested in eighth grade. So what are the strategies and the things being implemented in sixth, seventh, even fifth grade, moving up to make sure that they're understood. I have a different post-study teacher. Yeah, three or four. Okay, so there's the answer. The biggest issue has been consistency in personnel. I had personnel issues during that time for some reason in the social studies department. Those years, yeah, and of course you know that that's the first thing. So, and because of that, because they didn't do it, they've been, most of them have not had a lot of experience that they were in there at that time. A lot of turnover. And the team as we

058went in did modeling for them. Rosie did a lot of modeling this year for all the social studies. That was the focus for her. So the personnel and staffing has been the biggest issue for social studies. Okay, and then there's a discrepancy between English one and English two. What's the dip in English two? So remember that English two, they bring us the points. So if you get a master's or a good one, the cut points are higher than they are in English one. So when you go in, it's harder to get these poor master's or approaches. So when did that change? When did that cut point get cut? They change almost every year, but it's normally higher than English one. And how much of that English, is there a difference? Because I know there's a

059reading component and a writing component. And are they equal? Is 150 and 150, or is 160 and 140? Does that change in English one and English two? Or is it the same? Are they both just, do you have a question? It's a little more integrated. Okay, I'm gonna read four stories, answer questions, and write one essay. It's more integrated now. So there are short answer responses to particular stories. They're embedded, so I might read a passage and answer multiple choice questions. Then I'm gonna read a passage and do some fill in the blank, multiple answer, multiple choice questions, plus a short answer response kind of thing. And then also have a constructive response or two, depending on maybe the version of the test or something like that. But then again, changing of targets that happens

060sometimes with TA. Just trying to figure out, is there something that's not happening in English one that set them up for English two? Or is it really just the score changes and for them to get the next level? Or does it remain even the same sometimes? Expectation, yeah. And two, the other thing is remember that you see a lot of the retesters in English two because they're in those same retesters that are still retesting for English one. They're now in English two. They're still struggling with English one. So you see that show up in the scores where you wouldn't necessarily see as much of it. Are there any models that can predict the movement or overall accurate achievement or is this way too preliminary? Talking about the accountability. We don't have the ball of data

061yet to exercise. We get the science in. The science in the exact same as the last year. Can you see what the trend is for the rest of the movement? Yeah, as to trends. Because you see a lot of good. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, pretty much red. There's a tremendous amount of growth in some of the campuses. So yeah. And 8% of the red is a 1% drop, but it's red. Right, right. If you sway your eyes and get real close, you can see it used to say 40, now it says 40. I looked at it on my computer earlier. So I can pull it up and look at it. I said you get very confident. That's part of it. And you get up there. CCLR is a huge part of the accountability for this. And

062I will say, I do want to backtrack a little bit. They have changed, yet another thing. And it's really a key component at the high school. One of the reasons that our CCLR has been so high is the head-to-head. Remember that they have to take, if they don't pass the TSI, they have to be in college, right? Or else when they go to college, they're gonna have to take a remedial math or do a little English before they can take the record. So before head-ready, which is a program that they used to say, okay, if you don't pass TSI, if you successfully complete the head-ready program, then we will count you as college ready. And you won't have to take that remedial. But they took head-ready away. Remember, it has to be commissioner approved. So

063that is gone. And so lots of people in the state are scrambling on what you need to do. But they didn't replace it with a model where you can, okay, yeah, you can't have head-ready, but this is what you can do now in lieu of that. You have to seek out your own partnerships with higher education institutions and develop that plan to get them to be deemed college ready if they don't pass TSI. So that is, you see where they're at, like kind of when they enter, like 43% or whatever, some of the IVCs will help with that. But our true success has been continuing to test them TSI. But those that didn't pass TSI, we got them through with that ready. And that's where the rest of that percentage came. So the high schools

064were really hard right now to figure out how they're going to, and they've got some things in place. But so we will, again, see just like you're seeing a dip in the score a little bit because IVC doesn't count until they finish their capstone course. You're gonna probably see a dip now because they had taken the biggest percent of what we achieved away from the state. So I just wanted to throw that out there. Any other questions about the program? I just have one, that too. Yeah. We did a whole, for, to note the blue line stuff. We did a whole bunch of work like a year or two ago like having our star teachers go in and create lesson plans and their link is mapped out and you can use all this stuff. We're

065changing to this blue line as there are all those lessons plans out the window. Like they're all based on T-SYSTEMS, I'm sure the T-SYSTEMS are still the same, right? But how does this deal with that? So when we developed the curriculum maps, we developed it based off of the T-SYSTEMS and the state scope and sequence for instruction of curriculum in the state. Not every district uses, some people have a whole staff of people that write the curriculum themselves. But so it is tied to the scope and sequence that was laid out in that T-SYSTEMS. If it's blue bonnet or any H-U-I-M, it does not line up with the scope and sequence of what that text resources is. And so they have their own curriculum map that comes with that that they follow. And so that,

066yes, so yes, it was like, but what I don't want us, I don't want us to feel like it wasn't something that was of value because all of the other subjects still use that. But for math and for reading, when math comes on K through five, they'll have their own blue line. That'll be the next thing. So K through five. They don't have to redo it. They just don't use what they had made before because it doesn't follow the sequence of what the new blue line is. So basically it's a curriculum box that they're getting when we do the H-U-M-I. So not that what they all work. It still is there for them if they need it, but the H-U-I-M is coming in a box and you open it up and it's, and y'all are

067comfortable with what you said you had on it? So there's a number of things that have to take place with, you know, you have to have vertical alignment. You have to be able to achieve greater, all of these things, high quality instruction. And what we did first before we even entertained doing H-U-I-M is we did a literacy framework. It was a grant from TEA. And we had teachers from each grade level in the district in English, RLA, develop this framework on what good literacy instructions should look like for the district. What does that look like? And when they frame that out and then they start looking at what do we need to be able to carry that out to achieve it, the H-U-I-M met those needs. And so it was through that process. And then

068we went to go site visit. So it was a very long process that, and here's the other thing I'm gonna tell you too. Honestly, whether or not the staff had decided that that was the best route, what the state has done is used to they give you an allotment for your instructional materials, right? Now they're shifting that allotment to where they will fully fund it if you do H-U-I-M. But if you don't, you're gonna have to locally fund it. So. All right, any other questions from the board? I talked to Chris earlier about the blue arm stuff. And he also said some things that I don't very watch. They might not have scored as high or as good on the star testing and stuff, but if you actually go to the classes and hear the

069kids reading at the local levels and stuff like that, they're reading, I think you said that like before Christmas, better than they were in the year. I'm going for it, one of them like it. Yeah. I remember when Mrs. Wendell was here presenting her data and it didn't turn out where they wanted, but she was saying the things that they're doing in the classroom are at a much more rarest point. And they're starting to see the kids towards that point in the year. I don't remember when that was. I thought it was sometime in the spring, last couple months. But I do, I think it's just gonna take time. And it is a different way. But what I told them coming, I was a reading specialist, that's what I did with my small groups. The

070things that they're doing in their whole group classes, in their classrooms, it's happening, the education and the way that that's happening. That's what I was doing with three to five kids. And so it does work. It just takes time. And so it's training those kids. But I do think that the dip is probably very natural. But I think making sure that we're ensuring that we're shoring it up. And we're not just counting on, oh, it was just a dip, just like you said. But no, we really are shoring up that piece of the educational curriculum to ensure that those gaps or whatever was missing are being filled in next year early so they can keep moving. Is next year when we're doing them up? Yes. That will start, well, I guess next year. They're gonna

071be training this summer. Absolutely. Perfect. Great, are there any other questions? Last one. Yes. So the junior high is going from back to the seven periods. Is that seven period gonna give them a longer planning period also? It'll give them a little bit longer planning time. Planing time, but the more important part is gonna give them common PLC time. So those teachers will be able to plan together. So we're super excited about that. Yes, sir. Yeah, I had a question back to, that also took away their Panthers, that's what it's called. That's their fancy intervention piece. Yes, their intervention piece during the day. That's coming back online this next year. So we're excited about those changes. We think we've got some great plans in place and so I look forward to coming back in front

072of you guys in August and let you kind of hear about it from all of the principals. Great, thank you. And they'll always ball-market you. No, it was great. You did a great job for your first year. Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you so much, I appreciate it. All right, moving along to June, Superintendent Constraints. All right, so if you look at Superintendent Constraints, Superintendent Constraint number one is attendance. The Constraints says not to let the attendance grade fall below 93.5, which is what we achieved last year for the first time since COVID, really pre-COVID numbers. Just a couple of things to point out. All of the areas except for October, November, December were increased over the last year. If we had not experienced that sickness that we did that was pretty much

073countywide and we had maintained what we had the year before, we would have hit the 94.5, which was my goal for the district, even though that wasn't the lesser of the constraint. We did end up with 93.7, it's the highest since pre-COVID numbers. So we have seen an increase, but we hadn't had that sickness and we really would have got there at 94.5. But I will tell you that the campuses came up some really ingenuitive ways of getting kids there, in competitions, the kids and the teachers bought in, the educational foundation kicked in bids and all kinds of things to help promote that. It was a conservative effort, so I'm really proud of that. On the second constraint, Super Tidum allowed a total number of student out of school suspension days to go above 924,

074which was what we had twice last year, 924 days of out of school suspension. We decreased by 54.9%, which is a good thing. A lot of times you look at things, okay, does that mean that we're just not taking care of business with the kids? But you don't necessarily have to suspend a kid, and send them home. A lot of what we did see before is, is if we had an EAP hearing or something like that, there would be a blanket three day suspension, where maybe there was only one day that was needed to complete the investigation, and then turn around and have the hearing for the EAP replacement. So those cut downs made a huge difference as well. The benefits of not being out of school all the time, obviously the attendance rate will

075improve, but the academics will improve, because they're gonna be there to get, whether they're in a high assess, or some type of detention, they're gonna get the information, so that they can complete the work that they need to. And then on the last constraint, physically aggressive behaviors, we see that since this began to be measured, we've seen a steady uptick in the numbers, but I don't want that to be misunderstood for a rise in physical oppression. Each year we improve how we code, and how we monitor and are able to record these physically aggressive behaviors. This year we added a separate code that was simply physical oppression. And so they were able to use that, didn't necessarily mean they got in a full blown fight, their behavior was physically aggressive, we need to track that

076as well. Whether they slapped somebody, or pushed somebody or something, it's not full on mutual combat, but it still needs to be recorded as physical oppression. And so, whereas it would have been coded as a school disruption before, to not show up as physical aggression, now they have that specific code, and they're using that, and so you see a rise in being able to say, okay, this is truly how many physical aggressive behaviors we've experienced. Any question about any of those? Is there a specific age group or something where we're seeing uptick in, like I said, when the sixth graders, is it the first time they go into junior high, or is it the freshman or the high school, or is it the eighth graders or the seniors? Like, is there a group that maybe

077needs more attention than the others? Yeah, what I've seen in the trend in the data over the last couple of years is, as they move up in grade level, the physical aggression improves. So even in first and second, when they go to second grade, and then when they go into junior high, and then it seems to drop a little bit when they go into high school. Like, they've kind of gone through that whole, I'm gonna touch him and mess with you and do all that kind of stuff. But so, you would think that it would only be junior high, but you do see it in first and second grade, too. And we have seen an uptick in physically aggressive behaviors in younger students in the last three years, and some people attribute that to those

078that, you know, with COVID, but, and it goes hand in hand with the disabilities and the special education and some of the things that we're seeing with our students with higher needs, and it's all around behavior and emotional. So we do see a lot of that. And so that has risen, and it's risen at the lower grade levels. Any other questions in that? Moving on to reports, we're gonna go down to item B, which is the preliminary report on our certified values. You guys, how are y'all? Good, you cut your hair. I did. That's very cute. I'm like, you did. That's why I put this back in. I was like, okay. So in front of you, I don't know if you saw that there is a blue folder or everything that I've got to talk

079to you today about in reports, and then in that, in the next section are gonna be in this folder for you, kind of laid out here next to me. So the very first thing that we're gonna talk about is the estimated appraisal rule, which you will find on the third page of the folder. So this came in from the Matalord County Appraisal District. They put these out around this time of year. We will get certified values a little bit later, but these are the estimated appraisal rules. So I just wanted to share these with you. Again, when these came in, I did notice there was a mistake. And so I called Catherine McGee over at the appraisal district, and I asked her to double check the rules and to ensure that everything was correct. So

080that's why you're gonna see a red strikeout through there with a 2.65 billion on the MNO side, and that was changed to $1.88 billion. That was a decrease of about $766 million. I'm assuming, because I don't know exactly what goes into it, but I'm assuming it's the wrong falling off part of that. That doesn't account for all of it, so there were probably a few other changes that she found through there. But these are our estimated appraisal rules presented to you. On the second sheet through there, I just kind of gave you a little bit of background on our historical property value. So these values came in from the comptroller's office through there. I pulled it all the way back to 2016. Looking at our property values in 2025, we're at $2.4 billion. And a

081change of about 36.25% in 2025, we're looking at about 1.88 billion again on that end, which from last year to this year, is looking at about a $588 million drop. That is more in the system for that particular number through there. So this is just for historical purposes, for you to see kind of where our property values were. They did, did she do it often? Like, that's a huge drop. Yeah. I guess some might check certain numbers, right? Yes, somebody checks certain numbers. Yes, the state actually comes through and they do a property value study on that, and we hope she has the codes. And that's kind of our argument. So, yes, she does. All right, any questions on the certified values report? All right, I can see 12.5, which is sugar. Okay, so this

082is actually something called a maintenance tax note validation suit that we're going to go ahead and have to potentially enact, depending on the board's decision if you want to go ahead and call for a bond in August, potentially. So what this is is this will facilitate refining certain outstanding maintenance tax notes. We're going to be required to initiate Chapter 1205 validation suit. It's also called an EBGA, to obtain judicial confirmation that the obligations that we took out are valid in our lawfully issued. This is not necessarily uncommon for districts that need to move MNO debt over to the INS. It is something that does have to happen quite a bit whenever those districts start looking at that. So this is something that we will have to pursue. The validation suit will include most outstanding maintenance

083tax notes. However, it probably will not include the 2020 and 2022 maintenance tax notes. They're not anticipated to be in that. The timeline for this, the summers are between September 2026 to December 2026. They're going to file a suit and then within 20 days later, possibly 20 days later, we'll have to go ahead and go into a trial basically. That trial will likely occur in Travis County. It could occur here in Matagorda County, but we've been then advised against that because Travis County has a longer track record of dealing with these particular suits and they kind of know what's going on with those and so they're more apt to judge those. That's a more predictable venue is what they say. The total anticipated timeline on this is about 50 days, including any required post-judgment waiting

084periods and completion should occur before or shortly after the November election if you do choose to call for that to maintain the planned bond financing schedule. As far as district participation goes, we'll be required to assist with document preparation and case support. I will need to be there for the trial day. They're thinking maybe only one day. If the attorney general goes and actually contests this, then they potentially need to bring in other district support, like for example Mr. Townsend over to kind of help us out with that particular thing, but they're not anticipating that that's gonna happen. They're anticipating it's gonna be pretty straightforward. Now when I say they, Bart Fowler with McCall, Parkhurst and Horton, who's our bond counsel and Jay Forums, who's our finance advisor, they're the ones that are kind of

085getting this information through there. And if the attorney general remains neutral, they're seeing it expected to be just very cut and dry and very easy. They're really not anticipating any problems with that. And in fact, the attorney general has actually reached out to bond counsel to relocate it so they can even put this at, toward this doesn't happen before, they may just go ahead and validate them without the suit. We don't anticipate that happening, though we do anticipate having to go over with this. Once that happens, it's a permanent validation. So once it's validated, it's validated from this point forward. That means that if we as a board and as a school decide to call for that bond, and that bond so fails in the August, so that November timeframe, we don't have to go

086through this again. If you choose to call for this again, once it's validated, it is done. The financial impact for this, it's the suit could potentially run up to $100,000. They're expecting maybe 15 to 60K that can be rolled into the bond. Though once it's approved, it can, all the financing part of that can go into that. If the bond doesn't pass either in the August and if the board chooses to call for it again, potentially in that May, we could still roll that in. If that doesn't happen, then the suit will have to be funded at a fee and no cost. Yes. Why can't we wait until the suit, the bond passes to validate it? Because you need to validate it so that way we know that we can refund it. We have a

087very limited timeframe on doing that. If we don't get it passed around that November timeframe through there, then we're looking at potentially waiting for that bond financing because they want to roll on that bond financing very quickly so we can get that debt pay off as quickly as possible so that way we don't incur all those extra payments that we have to potentially pay off. So it doesn't have to be completed by the time of the election? It just has to be started? It has to be started around that timeframe. Like that September to November timeframe is what we've been advised is the best course of action for us in this one. It just seems like if there were something going on during the election that that might cast a negative, I mean somebody's gonna

088misinterpret this. It says lawsuit and validation at the fund for it. You know what I mean? I can see that and immediately think, crap. We're trying to hide money and shit things but that's why I was just wondering. Maybe it's better to do it way earlier so then it's just a formal process and it's done and they're validated and we move on. We can ask that of bond counsel and we can see exactly what it is. This is just the timeframe that they told we would be most beneficial to us but I'm sure that they would act on whatever judgment that we give them or any advice that they give them and we can see about potentially doing it sooner. I think they're going to definitely advise us probably not to wait until after it

089works. Sooner rather than later. One of the things I did ask is we may not do it during that end of July, August timeframe so that way as we are setting those tax rates and as I'm gonna have to be in that very, very quick turnaround for setting those tax rates, my only concern is that trial happening around that time and then maybe being pulled away while I need her is what we're kind of concentrating on. But what will happen from this point on is the board will be asked to authorize legal counsel to proceed with that validation suit. We're gonna approve the engagement of associated legal expenditures with that and then allow administration of bond counsel to proceed with the validation timeline necessary to support future refunding of bond financing efforts. But I will

090get on the phone with them tomorrow and see exactly if we can potentially move that up. Or if that's a good idea. It seems like it would be. Yeah, absolutely. We will ask those questions. All right, any other questions? All right, item D, report on the airfield for one replacement for bridges in Key Ingram. Thank you. I know you'll be whacked at this in one second. I'll be back. Good evening, how are you all? Good, how are you? Good and well. I wanted to bring you up to speed. I wanted to thank you also for approving the de-propagation proposal over the last month's meeting. With that move forward and getting that completed for the end of the year, we're starting to analyze how do we make that 100% efficient. That leads us to an area

091where one that serves the bridges area in that monitoring building. That unit was not replaced or upgraded during the 2019 bond that did the rest of the air hangers. So we're working with Hunton to figure out can we replace that unit? Can we find a unit to sit there to be able to perform the dehumidification? And if not, then we would steer toward refurbishment and basically replace coils at a heating element and a reheating element to be able to dehumidify the space. So we're going through all those options, trying to figure out what's the best course of action going forward and seeing what we can do to be as efficient as we can with the dehumidification. So hopefully by next month, we'll have a proposal for you to either replace or refurbish that area. Does

092anyone have any questions? All right, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. All right, onto our items of business. We are going to skip over A and table that. Item B is consider a protocol of CHERI HVAC AC proposal. Sorry. We have a proposal from the Inboard Book. This is a necessary step to improve efficiency and enable air quality at CHERI. This apples some deferred maintenance over the years. Very strongly recommended that we take care to help improve the health and safety of our students and staff at that point. Perfect. Are there any questions? Hearing none. Oh. So I can close with Huntman as well. They were actually about 15,000 to 20,000 on time. This was formed out and asked by a couple different people to look at it and bid on it. This was the

093best available option, price class, I believe, to the term. Huntman actually uses Coit for very large valves that they've already out. So Huntman sent me to Coit and I checked other references as well. They've done very good work. Any other questions? If not, is there a motion to be made? We'll make a motion to approve the CHERI HVAC proposal as presented in the board book. Is there a second to the motion? So we have a second. Any further questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Board is zero. Thank you, sir. Have a great day. We'll see you in the meeting. Item C, approval of amendments to the 2526 budget. Hello again. Hi, hey. All right, so if you would go to the end page of your book. All right, so what you have in

094front of you is the amended budget for phase D, if I understand correctly. These are the recommendations. These are what we are recommending as far as the amendments go. Now, as you remember, one of our major findings that we've had in the past couple of years will fall around these amendments. Now, between you and me, if they tell me how to make a hundred, we're gonna make a hundred on this thing. So the goal is to shoot a way above and beyond what the number that they're asking us for. So that was what I did here. So I don't want you to be alarmed with the amended budget, that it's gonna be so large, but that's the goal. Let's go ahead and let's go way above and beyond, so that way they can't knock us

095on anything from there. So these amendments should not be interpreted as actual expenditures. We've actually been very fiscally conservative in our estimations to assure a sufficient budget authority exists to cover any unanticipated expenditures and even monetary moves between functions that the auditors may enforce on it. For example, there are times that an auditor will look at function 51 and say that needs to move into function 81 with the facilities demands. We need to be able to move between those and have money in those sitting there just in case they make some of those moves. So these amounts also cover any additional approvals that may be outstanding. Approvals have caught us in the past. What I did is I've delivered single contracts for the year, what was left remaining and basically did that with the benefits,

096planned that all in, plus added a little bit of extra for that as well. So there's no expectation that these funds will be spent. Whatever we are amending the budget to, there's no expectation that these funds will be spent. It's just basically above and beyond what we actually need to do. So the spending authority for these funds will actually lapse on June 30th. So there's a very short timeframe on this. Actual expenditures reported in the annual financial report, the AFR that the auditor actually has, will not reflect these numbers. So these numbers will only appear before you right here and right now. You won't actually see these in print any other time. So that's always a concern. Is it that happens? That will not happen. And likewise, the budget amendments are used solely for budget

097management purposes, are not reflected on any of the district financial statements on this point on. So in short, this is a tool, so it's not to receive any finance or extending a budget category. One that I have actually used several times before, and I've put this strategy for a lot of experts in the field, and every single one of them have endorsed this as well. By subject matter experts, including CASO, region three finance experts, everything like that. So my suggestion to you is to go ahead and to approve the amended budget as presented. Again, not to be concerned that I am presenting that we have been able to do about $15 million of this sort of requirement. All right, are there any questions? Is there a motion to be made? I think a motion to

098approve the amendments to the 2025-2026 budget. All right, there's a motion on the table. Is there a second to the motion? Second. All right, we have a first and a second. Any further questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes four to zero. All right, item D, approval of adoption of the 25-26 amended budget. So this is just your approval, we just said that. Oh, just to make a motion to adopt the 2025-2026 amended budget as presented. All right, there's a motion on the table. Is there a second to the motion? Second. We have a second. Any further questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes four to zero. All right, we will now move into a public hearing. Item one is public hearing of proposed 2026-2027 budget and proposed tax rate. So the people

099here are allowed to ask questions in a public hearing, right? That's setting a worry where just No, they're not. Show it. Show it, we're showing it. We're showing it, yes. Yes. Yes. So this actually appeared in the paper, so it's the other one with Mo'Casey, and we used Josh Cheney, who's the senior vice president of Mo'Casey. Becky Cook, the tax assessor collector, Rick Johnson actually helped, I think, with some of these calculations as well through here. This is what is presented and proposed. You'll see a couple of different items through there. Remember the 12 pennies that we have through here on the 2618-90. We are proposing that those 12 pennies are currently going away, unless the vator is called and those 12 pennies are. Right now, the vator has a new call, so we are

100sitting at the 2618-90 on the main. So there's a couple of other papers through there. If anybody has any questions, we'll answer those. If there are not, we'll move to that second tab. Actually, tab is the same for you. The second tab is kind of a good overall historical tax rate calculation through here that you can look at. This kind of breaks it down for you, plus gives you just a little bit more information on what those two things are kind of being for. The second tab. It's the actual page that is tabbed. We're not on the timeline? No, it's the page back. I have a timeline. Oh, yeah. There you go. What that? No, the timeline. Well, that's what it is here to put into these little documents. I'm talking blood, it's one of

101the two because I cut myself on a little grass. Go to your... Go to the second tab. And then, what page is it? There you go. All right, so with basic, yeah, I see historical tax rate. This time I wanted to throw this out there so you can see it. I took it back to 2022, 2023, where we had the M&O rate of .87620 and INS .38380, which gives us a total of 1.26000. That previous year after that, we dropped 21 cents, then we dropped three cents, then one cent. So in 2026, 2027, without a potential waiter and bond, we're looking at an M&O rate of .61890 and INS tax rate of .26179 to give us a total tax rate of .88069, which is a 12 cent drop. If we do decide to call for

102a waiter and a bond, basically our 25, 26 stays the same this time either. We've had multiple conversations with various finance people to verify that and everybody has to come across and say that is correct and that is true to the best of their ability. So this will actually be adopted in August and it will require a super majority. So please make sure you are here at that August time. Frankly, so we can get this adopted. Any other questions? Super majority of the board present or is it gonna be five? Super majority of the board. That's a five out of seven. So if five show up, then I'll follow. Yes. Yeah. So we will be talking about that as that happens. So this is your first official, but make sure you're headed. That works, there's

103a rule. Any other questions? Super majority. All right, so any questions for me? That way we'll move back into our regular meeting and item F, approval of adoption of the proposed 26, 27 maintenance. So we're gonna look at G and H kind of all together. So the maintenance, operating, the interest and the needs that are going. In your board book, there's a very colorful kind of calendar sitting there. That is for your information as we start looking at this budget and potential later and potential long timeline. I just kind of wanted to give you an overview of what we're looking at in terms of our dates and everything. So you've got that. If you go to the next page through there, this is going to be our M&O proposed budgets. So with our M&O proposed

104budget, we are currently sitting at a tax rate, notice a 0.6189. As a reminder, we cannot add in the extra VATER money just quite yet because you haven't called for a VATER. So we are still sitting at that 0.6189. We're looking at a revenue of about $41.1 million. Previously, the total revenue was about $34 million. This was before HB2's new influx of cash that happened. You adopted the budget before that was totally adopted by the legislature. So that didn't include some of that new revenue in there. With the expenditures down here below, we're sitting at about $45 million. Now, when you're looking at the proposed budget, there are some increases over the last year that we're looking at. So these expenditures through here, we've added in things like the items that Mr. Bujek had identified

105during his financial, his facilities, thank you, his facilities reports and his facilities needs. We also added in the things like the additional buses through there. So there were some padding in there. And then as a CFO, I like to additionally add in just a little bit more padding. We like to be conservative just to ensure that we've got everything budgeted for correctly. Now, the facilities reports needs, I just wanna highlight that those expenditures are highly likely to be needing to be addressed some of those next year. So we don't wanna leave those out of this particular budget, but we are looking at about $45 million in expenditures. To move on, and I will summarize all of this in just a little bit. So if you have questions, I will answer those. To move on to

106the food service budget, we talked with Mr. Gray, we decided to keep a lot of this the same from year to year. We did make some increases in function 36 in his line item through there. That increase was for some of the excess net cost cash resource spend down requirements for fund balance restrictions. So he is restricted to a certain fund balance that he cannot be above. Once he reaches that, he has to spend that down. He has done a phenomenal job of managing his finances and making sure that he has a very good fund balance. So with that being said, he has a little bit of extra cash that he's going to need to spend down to purchase some items with. So he has to increase that money out of their fund right before

107this meeting. The next one's the INS. Yeah, the INS through there pretty much set in stone. Not much is going to change because we have always, we have these expenditures are kind of set beforehand in terms of all of the bonds that we've already got out. So if you do decide to call for a bond, I do want to point out that any new bond payments would actually start in 27, 28 school year if it was called for and if it didn't actually pass. So this will arrive with our current bond refinancing schedule that we already are not refinancing, the financing schedule that we already have. So to summarize the main one, the M&O portion of it. In 2025, 2026, we adopted $34 million worth of revenue. Some of the key revenue changes this year

108are taxes. We're going to see probably an increase of about $2.1 million. That's an increase in certified values. For with a prior year and other taxes, we're going to decrease that by about $1.2 million. That aligns with historical values. So I've already had that conversation with you about how I'm not too comfortable sitting with about a $2 million rider on that particular piece of it. Investments were increasing by $100,000 gifts and requests. That's a new line item that we're adding in there. 313 agreements, there's a different increase $2 million to improve the loan payment that's going to be made in January. I have a date receipts, a small increase, but we're probably going to see an increase through there. And the state revenue of about $3.6 million. Those are increases due to HB2. As I

109reminded you prior, your adopted budget was before the HB2 approval. We are potentially anticipating another small increase maybe through there due to some SPED formula changes with an intensity of service that they'll be actually working with Ms. Guyton on. Nobody really knows what that's going to look like or how that's going to be funded. We're going to be tracking that very carefully. And I do anticipate that we could see an additional little line item of revenue just for those SPED intensity of service. Watch that, that's good. The proposed revenue then for this particular year is 41 million. Projected increase in revenue is 6.675 million. With adopted expenditures last year, 42 million. Adopted expenditures this year of 45 million. We have a projected change in expenditures of $2.786 million and a projected difference in revenue in

110expenditures of 3.9, a deficit of about 3.9. So some sizable budget impacts. Facility needs. Those are the priorities presented to the board and the facilities needs report by Mr. Ruzek. Potential bus purchase and additional transportation costs such as fuel repair on the aging fleet. We've got some inflationary increases. Everybody is, all the price of everything is going up. Supplies, equipment, software licenses, et cetera. We've got an increase in costs associated with the state mandated SPED intensity of services module. Miss Guiden has already formed to start seeing some of that kind of come through the line. We've got grant expenditures. Best practice on that is to budget those at full anticipated costs just in case something falls through with that grant. So for example, with the buses, we've budgeted the full amount of two buses but

111we won't necessarily spend the full amount. And then also we've got some implementation of the elevated curriculum aligned with campus and district academic goals. Miss Roberts actually discussed that earlier today and with the help of Regent Preview there. And we've got inclusion of very conservative estimates and contingency amounts within the budget. So I know your main concern is well what happens if the fader doesn't hash during then? What do you have to do? You turn the page. Is there a question? No, our speaking is a spatial one. Yeah, yeah. So what happens if we had to pull every single thing out and go to bare bones? We have to go to bare bones. These are the numbers that you're looking at through there. So I do wanna highlight right through here our adopted expenditures. So

112we talked about it going to $45 million. Our adopted expenditures, if we have to pull out would be about $31 million. Projected change in expenditures, we would actually drop about $1.1 million. Projected difference in revenue expenditures to the good $10,000. About 80, 90 color time on your... Is that in our board meeting? What? Is that in our board meeting, so we can say that or that's an extra meeting? Extra meeting. That's an extra meeting. 12 to 12. Yes, it is an extra meeting. That's the top of what our August meeting is which I can tell you. And that's gonna be on the set tax rate. Yes. And if you so choose to call our date or that's gonna be the day. So our August meeting date is the 17th. Yes, our regular meeting date is

113the 17th but we will meet on the Wednesday the 12th which is the week prior. Yeah. And that's a highly calculated out sideline with when our newspaper reverses have to go out and the amount of time that we have to come out with that and when our certified values come in. There's no move forward. Yeah, there's no... If we miss it, we'll be missing. Yeah. Can you just let that do? We're so sorry. You put him in on the day. It's all right. Any questions on the budget? I know we've talked. Have lots of meetings about the budget coming to this point of it being presented in our board meeting to approve. Does it have any comments, questions, thoughts before we put that into? Didn't get down to where if we had... I know that's

114a team right there. It's a campus principals. I've done phenomenal, yeah. Okay. It's one of those things where in like sideline we go like, hey, but then I know we have a lot of... Alex. Yeah, we're in a real stand-alone. We're in a real stand-alone. We're in a real life-ending this. We lost the blood. Excuse me. It's not the stuff. It's just the paper. It's just the paper. It's not what I heard. I heard those gushing. There's a lot of blood on some of my papers. I pulled it all out. I read it all over. It's really good. I need to give you those. Is there eight more meetings in July? No. No, no, no. Those are still she's doing. Those are her eight meetings. Just be fair to me that I'll make the July

115okay. I thought the color matched the budget option. So I was just like, and that's a lot. Each one of those was a stream of blood money. That's a lot of blood money. Yes, sir. But thanks to the mail stuff on July. There's count of the blood money. Yes. Those are banking here to the other guys' will. Yeah. So those are just some things like in July. The CAD notice for the top 20 property owners. That has to be mailed out by the CAD. Board selects efficiency auditor. Or July 13th, it's not required. But I just wanted to put that data in there so that way you knew what that date was. July 13th, I need a reserve add in the paper for tax rate adoption. Some of these things are things for me as

116reminders. Deadline for certified values July 25th. Yeah. This is normal for every year. Absolutely. Yes, sir. Region three. That's when I go to region three. But everything is on here. So that way you're well aware of the process and where we're at in the process. And to make sure, because it's so brutal that we need every single timeline on here. We wanted to make sure we had it all lovely and nice and neat and laid out. Which this is not me. This was sent to the team by the way. This is fantastic. We can't get it from. It's your tools. Yeah. But it's an obvious one. I mean, what was it? The certified values. Whatever. Yeah. The information. Yeah. Yeah. So please, please, please, please, please mark your calendars or whatever color you need to.

117Get your attention. August 12th. Yeah. It's a, if that is the super majority. Sorry. August 12th. August 12th. August 12th. Not October. August 12th. It is a super majority. We have to have five yeses out of the seven. So if we have five people here, then all five have to vote yes. Or it does not move forward. If we have six people here, five still have to vote yes. I said I'm sending it to y'all now. What was that? I said I'm sending it to y'all now. Yeah. So I will probably be annoying, but it's okay. We'll figure it out later. Uh, thanks James. Thanks. I'm kidding. I'm talking to you because you texted me. Like you always remind me I appreciate it. Anyway, gotta make sure we're recording. We have important things to do

118every week. Hey, just real fast. Yes, ma'am. Kind of as an aside, do you want to say another one when we talk about the amended budget? And do you want to say that we are looking at potentially making maybe about two to $2.5 million just step by step, okay? Just to make both of those separate. Yes. All right. So we can now. Adopt. What's the second question? Oh. Okay, so now we can go to the approval of the adoption of the proposed 26, 27 maintenance and operating budget. Does anyone have any questions? Do you have anything else to first think on that? If not, is there a motion to remain? We have a motion to approve the adoption of the proposed 2026, 2027 maintenance and operation budget. All right, is there a motion? I mean,

119is there a second to that motion? Second. All right, we have a first and a second. Any further questions? Aye. Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes four to zero. All right. We approve the adoption of the code 2026, 2027 maintenance and operation budget. All right. There's a motion on the table for the interest of seeking. Is there a second to the motion? Second. All right, we have a second. Any further questions? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes four to zero. All right. Last but not least, the approval of the adoption of the proposed 26, 27 service budget. Is there a motion to be made? We have a motion to approve the adoption of the proposed 2026, 2027 service budget. All right. Is there a second to the motion?

120Second. All right, we have a first and a second. Any further questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes four to zero. Thank you so much for all your work. Thank you. All the blood, sweat, and tears. Blood, blood, this year again. All right, moving on to our consent agenda. Is there anything that anyone wants to pull off of a consent agenda? Hearing none, is there a motion to be made? We have a motion to approve the consent agenda as a percentage of importance. All right, is there a second to the motion? Second. All right, we have a first and a second. Any further questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes four to zero. All right, we will convene in the closed session under personal matters. If necessary, maybe take it to the closed

121session pursuant of Texas Government Code 551.074 to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, resignation, dismissal of a public officer, employee, including contract recommendation for campus and district level, administrators and teachers, and item two, superintendent evaluation, midpoint goal progress update under Texas Government Code 551.074. We will move into closed session 803. Is there a second to the motion? All in favor? Aye. Next item of business is adjournment. Is there a motion to be made? I have a motion that we adjourn. All right, is there a second to the motion? Second. All right, we have a first and a second. Any further comments? Don't forget August 12th. All in favor of adjourning? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes four to zero at 851. We will adjourn this meeting.