Regular Board Meeting, 12-18-2025, 6:00 PM

001I call this Medina Valley ISD regular board meeting to order at 6.01 p.m. on December 18th, 2025. We have a quorum of board members present. Everyone is here. We'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence. First on the agenda tonight is student and staff recognition. We'll start with star students from La Costa Elementary and Principal Vega. Good evening. Ms. Lee, gentlemen, board president, where are my La Costa parents at? La Costa parents, raise your hand. Y'all are here to support La Costa teachers. So I'm going to speak very little because I can't take credit for this. So I'm going to have Ms. DeOyos, who actually sponsors and volunteers and has been putting all the work behind the scenes, along with Ms. Smiley, kind of speak to this club. This is

002our foreclosical club, and she deserves to be recognized for all her hard work and everything she's been doing with working with 35 ladies and gentlemen with our foreclosical club. Ms. DeOyos? Good evening. I'm Ms. Smiley. Ms. DeOyos is the one that started the club. I'm a first-year teacher here at La Costa, and when I found out they started the club, I asked to help. I danced for more than 20 years under the direction of Dorsey Severa and Corpus Christi, and so this is part of a passion of mine that I had. And it's wonderful to see the response we've received. We have a wait list for next year. There's so many kids that wanted to join. We had to turn them in. We had to turn them in. We had to turn them in. We

003had to turn them away this year. We had a lot of help from a lot of our parents. We want to recognize one of them especially, Ms. Hall, who helped us with a lot of donating, letting us borrow a lot of the costumes that we see. And we're slowly raising money so that we can try to buy our own and have our own costumes and build it up and keep it continuing on. Our dances, every dance comes from a different region of Mexico. We're here to represent the culture of Mexico and teach. I think it's very important. We have so much representation of that here in our district and it's growing. Every state has their own dance. Every dance has their own story. Every costume has its own story. And so we hope to get

004more and more of those dances incorporated into our troops and continue this because I think it's great and I'm enjoying it. Thank you. And Ms. De Hoyos needs to be really, really celebrated because she does so much for this. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Ms. De Hoyos. I am Ms. De Hoyos and I'm the one who started the club at La Costa Elementary School. This is my first year at La Costa as well. And when I saw a need for the students to be able to be involved in culture and to have that knowledge, the language, I spoke with Mr. Vega and I told him about it and he gave me the courage to start this new club from the start. So at the beginning, I saw a need at La Costa to start

005our folkloric club. And I love it because it's a way to involve culture, language, and community in our school. And I think that's very important to start to have that community, to hone that language, and to share with all matters of students in our elementary school. So here are our fifth grade girls. They're going to be showing you one of our dances that we have danced. At one of our family nights at La Costa. So we have been putting a lot of work into practice. I hope you enjoy it. Ms. De Hoyos. No, do they want to take a picture? I'll take a picture together. I'll take a picture together. Yeah. At this time, can I get my La Costa fourth grade teachers up here, please? It's on. I'm sorry. I had to get close

006to it. All right. So ladies and gentlemen, are we missing? We're missing one person, right? Oh. At this time, I'm going to introduce Ms. Frank, who's been very instrumental. And I want her to introduce Ms. Frank. And I want her to introduce the group in coaching and leading this PLC for fourth grade, which is one of our outstanding PLC teams. So you deserve the recognition. All right. I'm Ms. Frank. I'm one of the instructional coaches at La Costa. We have our fourth grade team here that we do every other week. We do what we call a PLC, which is a professional learning community where the teachers get together and we look at students' performance. And what we should be teaching and as far as like the TEKS or the standards and making sure that we

007are doing best instructional practices to make sure that every student is showing growth and meeting where they're expected to be. So it's just a collaboration where all the teachers get to collaborate and look at data and talk about the kids to ensure that they are successful. And we have, let me just introduce them. I'm sorry. We have Ms. Rico Barrios. She teaches math. She teaches math and science. And then we have Ms. Katie Boatwright who teaches math and science. And then we have Ms. Bennett who teaches ELAR reading. And Ms. Teague who teaches one of our bilingual reading. And I guess we're going to be presenting a short video that we have presented for you guys. We can like really show you how to use your brain. I really like to add and multiply numbers.

008Sometimes it can be hard but I always like to push through it. My favorite teacher is Ms. Boatwright. When I think about PLCs, at first it was really daunting but I found that I enjoy my time in there. It helps bring the team kind of like collectively together. And this is an opportunity for us to sit down and not worry about interruptions and share those ideas. And we can talk about different strategies and what worked and what didn't work and obviously what didn't work and what didn't work and what didn't work and what didn't work and aha moments. I think this year they've been really great. They push each other's thinking and they have you know those conversations where they bounce ideas off each other and they're not always in agreement with one another. However,

009they do push their thinking and the growth that they've demonstrated from the very beginning of the year has been tremendous. I do feel like it's one of those things that you can kind of get what you put into it. I feel like our team does a really good job of coming in with the mindset of we're here to work. We're here to do what's best for kids. We really want to use that focused time that we get to do what we can to really improve our instructional practice and see the growth in our students. They collaborate during their conference period, throughout the week. The consistency in their collaboration continues aside from the POC. I know there's been a couple of times that I've kind of gone I don't know if I'm getting to these kids

010or if they're getting it or if they're learning it or if they're catching it. But my team's always there to go no you're great. We're just here. We're doing it. So. I feel like our team does a really good job of coming in with the mindset of we're here to work. We're here to do what's best for kids. We really want to do what we can to really improve our instructional practice and see the growth in our students. I think they want to take a picture. Right? Give me those. Give me those Ms. Frank. Is that how you can take a picture? Ms. Pruner is here I believe tonight. One of our teachers at the high school? Or she's a. Dr. Pruner. I'm sorry. She's our coordinator. Come on in. I'm the coordinator. Come on

011up. Come on up. We can just introduce them and they'll take over. Fantastic. So here at Medina Valley ISD we have the opportunity to participate in a national scholarship competition that's sponsored through our local VFW post here in La Crosse. And we have wonderful Commander Green who I worked with as well as our Mike McGrath. So sorry. And our high school students and our middle school students as well as teachers had the opportunity to participate. Thank you. So we're going to participate in a Teacher of the Year Award at the teacher level, a Patriots Pen Essay Competition for our sixth through eighth grade students, and our Voices of Democracy Speech Essay Competition at the high school level. So I'm going to let these wonderful gentlemen speak a little bit more about that to you. Please

012welcome. Okay. Well, thank you for the kind introduction. Again, I'm Tim Green, Commander of Texas VFW District 13 and I'm the Quartermaster at the Medina Valley post 8134 in La Crosse. Accompanying me tonight in presenting the awards is the Medina Valley VFW post 8134 Commander Mike McGrath. For those of you not sure what the VFW is, a lot of people think it's like some old dingy place where a bunch of old guys sit around and drink. I think Dr. Prunier will vouch for us. It's not a dimly lit. We don't have a bar and we do other things. So we're different than other veteran organizations. They're all honorable and have their place, but the key distinction is in our name, Veterans of Foreign Wars, meaning our members must have served honorably in a war, campaign,

013or expedition on foreign soil, in hostile waters or airspace to be eligible for membership. VFW is a congressional charter organization comprised of approximately 1.4 million U.S. war veterans. The VFW's purpose is to speed rehabilitation of the nation's disabled and needy veterans, assist veterans, widows, and orphans, as well as promote Americanism by means of education, patriotism, and by constructive service in our local community. Each VFW post operates as an independent nonprofit and we receive absolutely zero federal funding. Every member of our local post is a volunteer and each post must raise funds to sustain the operation of their post, provide community service, aid and support to local veterans. Post 8134 in Lacoste consists of 89 members, of which less than 20 still actively participate. Our members range from 1 to 2 million U.S. veterans. We have

014a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. We have a total of about 1,000 veterans. And we represent service in Korea, Vietnam, Beirut, Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia, Panama, Kosovo, Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Today we gladly serve our community and greatly appreciate the support the community gives us. Tonight we have the honor to recognize a few of the outstanding students within Medina Valley ISD, something we continue to do annually. But before we recognize our successors,

015we are going to ask the question, do we necessarily make sure that we have a guardrail that can be extended to the rest of our members? our scholarship award winners. We want to thank Dr. Kalos and Dr. Prunier for their superb commitment, cooperation, and hard work to make these awards possible. We also want to thank the teachers and the parents of these outstanding young Americans. We know your job isn't easy and we appreciate all that you do. So what are these awards? Each year the VFW recognizes middle school students through the Patriots Penn essay competition and high school students through the Voice of Democracy essay and audio competition and our teachers who are in the trenches every day with the National Citizenship Education Teacher of the Year. This year I'm happy to announce that our

016local VFW post received 31 Patriots Penn submissions from Medina Valley ISD. Two of the top three Patriots Penn participants will each receive a certificate and a check tonight. The remaining participants will be recognized with certificates. The award winners are Sophia Olmos, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and Auxiliary, Youth Essay Certificate of Merit presented to Sophia Louise Olmos, Medina Valley VFW post 8134-2025-2026 Patriots Penn, 3rd place in recognition. The award winners are Sophia Olmos, Veterans of Foreign Wars, United States and auxiliary, Youth Essay Certificate of Merit presented to Sophia Louise Olmos, Medina Valley VFW post 8134-2025-2026, Patriots Penn, 3rd place in recognition. In recognition of excellence in Patriot's Pen Youth Essay Competition, you have been designated an outstanding young spokesperson of the future. And with that comes a check for $50. Next, we

017have Jamal Stratter. I read his certificate as well. Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and Auxiliary Youth Essay Certificate of Merit. Presented to Jamal Rashad Stratter. Medina Valley VFW Post 8134. 2025-2026 Patriot's Pen First Place. In recognition of excellence in the Patriot's Pen Youth Essay Competition, you have been designated an outstanding young spokesperson of the future. And with that comes a $100 check. Congratulations to our Patriot's Pen participants. Next, we recognize our Voice of Democracy First Place winner, Connor Habe. I'll read his certificate as well. Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and Auxiliary Voice of Democracy Certificate of Merit. Presented to Connor Habe. Medina Valley VFW Post 8134. 2025-2026. Voice of Democracy First Place. In recognition of excellence in the Voice of Democracy Audio Essay Competition, you have been designated an

018outstanding spokesperson for freedom. Don't run away. Connor also placed first at the district level, so he receives an additional check and certificate. I won't read it because it's the same thing. And we'll move on to the state Voice of Democracy Competition. So for the Post Award, he won $200. And for the district, he got $5. So $700 if anybody needs a loan for Christmas. Well done, Connor, and congratulations for being such a strong contender. And good luck at the state level. By the way, if you go to National and you win, the student that wins National gets $35,000. So if you never wanted to do an essay, that's a little motivation to do it. Next, we want to recognize our Teacher of the Year from Medina Valley Middle School, Allison Habe. I'll read her certificate

019as well. Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States National Citizenship Education Teacher Post Recognition Award presented to Allison Habe. Medina Valley VFW Post 8134-2025-2026 Middle School Teacher of the Year in recognition for promoting citizenship education in your classroom and school. With that one comes $100. And she also won first place at the district level. And it's the same certificate except for the district. Okay. Another $100. So it's good to be a Habe this week. She will also move on to the state competition. And congratulations to you as well at the state level. To put this in perspective, there are 10 posts in our district, stretching from Mason to Pearsall and from here to Del Rio and Eagle Pass. And there are 23 districts and 288 posts in the state of Texas. So there's a

020lot of competition out there. Winners will be invited to our midwinter conference in Corpus Christi in mid-January. We don't know who those are yet. But if you two make it to the top in the state, we'll be seeing you in midwinter. Once those winners are announced, their applications will be forwarded to national headquarters to compete against the rest of the country. Win there and you get an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. where you will be presented with more goodies and a check. Allison and Connor, good luck to you. For those that you receive checks tonight, please cash those promptly. Like I said, I'm the quartermaster. And be sure to check out the website. And be sure to check out the website. And be sure to check out the website. I'm a champion, a

021non-profit. IRS watches us like a hawk. So if those things float out there more than 60 days, we kill them. And there's people that didn't pass that probably learned the hard way. But we always tell you, make sure you get out there and cash those things. That concludes our VFW awards for the year. Thank you all and congratulations. You represented yourselves, your school, and your district in an exceptional manner and should be very proud of your accomplishments. Again, congratulations. Thank you for this opportunity. Good night. Happy holidays. And we'll see you all next week. See you all next year. Uh-oh. Here to honor our ag students. They have been, again, incredibly successful. So successful that we brought half the high school. So we're going to explain. So I'll have Ms. Williamson, if you want to

022bring our students just forward, we'll announce them. I know it's hard to hear. Just bring everybody up and we'll just go through it. Ms. Williamson just shared that Mr. Haby is also on our milk judging team, milk tasting team. And he's incredibly good at it. I know he's multi-talented. He leaves. He leaves. He may have left. He may have left. Yes. It's a big secret, but he's really good at milk tasting. All right. We are incredibly proud of our FFA teams. And Ms. Williamson reminds me over and over, it's not just about animals. And it's clear that this is about leadership and their ability to communicate in all kinds of different ways. And so we are excited to honor our students. We want to take that moment to also honor our students who went to

023the national level in October. And so Ms. Williamson's going to co-present with me. But she's going to give a little bit of context around what they earned and how they competed and then how significant that is with our past history. So you're looking at your 2025 state champions in agronomy and food science who had this unique opportunity to go to the National FFA Convention this past October. And so , So there's a lot of organization. Thank you. the National FFA convention we had a really great opportunity to meet with kids that love agriculture not just in Texas but agriculture all across the country it was a great experience the agronomy team placed fifth in the nation with Connor Prucotte placing third as an individual scoring high enough to possibly take the agronomist exam be a

024true crop consultant so congratulations to the agronomy team and then the food science team they develop a food product and this year was a beverage kind of boring that we made beverages fun again and Shark Tank style developed a beverage and they actually placed second in the nation with Felicity Agee placing fourth as an individual call you guys up all right Alanya Frank and Felicity Agee Juliana Herrera is at college probably taking her exams Emma Albee college okay Emma Beck Connor Prucotte Javier Lopez I'm gonna make you Russian as well now stuck and Sarah Martin some congratulations do you want to take a picture with this group yes Juliana Herrera and Emma Albee are actually freshman nutrition majors at Texas A&M so kind of cool that their food science and went on to college and

025think Alanya here might do nutrition well thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much thank you okay congrats guys so that was October and then December we had some state leadership teams qualify for the state competition walking away with a state championship in agricultural advocacy the team talked to the FDA about needing to improve our inspections and the government shutdown and there were actually 428 teams across the state of Texas and you're looking at first place so we want to thank you so much again for being here and having us go out and

026given an opportunity to come and talk to you about the state by being a successful members of a state we know we can't do it but we're in this together so we can do it one at a time I guess so okay okay so I we have Reese Marshall Campbell barren Adalyn sheer heart Jillian Mame and Jolie burger miss Williamson is this a team that can't they can't compete anymore right okay so much well represented Medina Valley okay up next and up next we have our AG issues team out of 228 teams in the state they placed second for reserve state champions last year they also placed second so they were they were really gunning for it this year they they made us all so so so proud and they talked about foreign funding in

027the domestic dollar to be honest their topic goes over my head quite a bit a whole lot of discussions about China and buying land and they also present to public forums so over ten different groups in the public they presented to you so placed second in the state all right Riley Davis and Sarah Martin Felicity AG Hayden PG's I messed that up didn't I oh and Jada Bonfant okay the the next two teams are called quiz and we had a freshman level quiz team and a senior level quiz team and to my knowledge we haven't ever qualified for state in this event and so incredibly proud of their coach miss wattle and to these students for for putting us on the map and this competition it's a study competition on how much and they can

028retain with with farm facts and parliamentary procedure and the green hand quiz team out of 678 teams finished 18 18th and the senior quiz team out of 1478 teams finished fourth so incredibly proud of miss wattle and the quiz team all right let's see Connor Pruke up Emma Beck Felicity AG Sophia Rubio or on the senior quiz Connor you are fourth yes on the end of it so I'm going to have to take a look at the individual congratulations and on the junior quiz we have Whitney heitzfelter Alyssa Rakowitz Britt Biedegger and Laura Denham and I got coaching on your last names and still not sure I got that right something about pressure about here I know sorry they never asked me to announce names at graduation ever ever ever I can't say enough also

029about our And so Miss Waddles is in the back with her beautiful baby. So she's managed to have a baby and coach these teams. And certainly Miss Williamson, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Pouncey work with our students in a way that gets them to this level. So congratulations to all of you. So proud of you. Okay, moving along. Next on the agenda is public comment. We have one person signed up to speak. So Crystal Woods, please come forward. Hi, do I just begin or? Okay. Dear members of the Medina Valley ISD School Board, thank you for allowing me to voice my concerns this evening. As a community member and a veteran, I would like to express my concerns on transfer students' significant decline in GPA due to the current transcribing policy. This district policy affects all

030transfer students but also includes a very large number of military families. I am requesting the board members to reconsider the 95A-85B-75C policy as it's truly hurting our transfer kids where previous schools do not give them a percentage grade. And only gives them a letter grade. My child lost points from both previous high schools due to this policy. This policy needs to be revised in a fair manner to ensure our kids' GPA is very close to the GPA they had when arriving into the Medina Valley District as our kids are being denied graduating with honors, lower rankings, declined National Honor Society, denied college admissions, losing merit in scholarships, denied college honors programs, automatic enrollments, and even declined in their specific major at schools they have been accepted. I would like to ask the board members to

031please stand by for the next session. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Can I explain why we're standing here today? Let me explain what I'm saying. On the first part, we will be taking questions from our panelists. This will be handled throughutruthc kst. blahblahblah, blahblahblahblah, laser, no averages. physicist that we're submitted to her colleges with the correction letter that caused our daughter a lot of issues during the college process. This is unacceptable and their carelessness has been proven over and over. We have talked to admission counselors at ten different

032colleges to explain the Medina Valley'd receive automatic enrollment she will also have to attend program a program attending coaching sessions completing career readiness interviews and attend meetings again my child had a 355 and a 3.8 gpa your staff a staff member also called to school to see if our child had been accepted as if we would lie about something like this and they found out before us this was illegal and against purple laws in closing our military kids have been through enough moving school every two to three years as we as parents are on orders from the department of defense this district continues to take military impact funds for our military kids but the district is not taking care of our children nor being fair i will say this again if i have been told

033twice the local kids parents will be upset if other kids transfer and drop their kids ranking so leadership is saying our transfer kids ranking doesn't matter this is absurd and unethical and i'm still in disbelief and shocked that your district believes this is what fair looks like the texas education agency can assist your team when it comes to the transfer of kids to the district but the district is not able to help their children get the training they need and i'm not able to support you with all the resources that is available so we're going to try to make sure that your priority is the student students and our staff will stay with the children and we're going to try to serve our children more as a way to ensure we create some good education

034and ensure correct averaging of our kids grades our kids are applying for colleges now this is a critical matter matter and cannot wait it is long overdue thank you for your time and consideration thank you very much for bringing that to us okay next on the agenda is announcements communications and presentations we'll move on to board committee report first is the finance committee when mr nash good evening the finance committee met on a wednesday december 10th which consists of myself nathan fillinger and suzanne lee the finance committee met on wednesday december 10th which consists of myself nathan fillinger and suzanne lee The following items were discussed during that committee meeting. We got an update on where we stand on some potential land purposes or land purchases. Sorry. We got an update on Senate Bill 546

035report from transportation, basically just regarding the need for seatbelts on buses and kind of where we stand and what the time frame looks like retrofitting all those buses. Construction updates on all of the current construction projects and some of the purchases, which I think are in the agenda this evening. We had a preliminary update on the financial audit from last school year, a budget amendment, which is on the agenda this evening, what the budget calendar looks like for starting in the spring, for starting to look at the budget for next school year, next fiscal year, a board policy update, and the potential for construction. So, we're grandfathering individual sports for Creekview, not just the team sports. And that was it. Any questions? Okay. Then we'll move on to construction committee with Mr. Beter. Good evening.

036The construction committee met on December 10th. Members consisted of myself, Matt Castelloni, and Ben Juarez. We discussed the following items around construction projects. First was around Creekview High School and where they stand with the schedule there on schedule. Next was with Creekview. Creekview High School was around the purchases of furniture for classrooms, the cafeteria, and band instruments. Next item around Creekview, well, sorry, for Medina Valley High School was around batting cages and the scoreboards. Both projects are currently under works. Next item was around elementary school number seven and where we stand in that process of starting that school. Next item around construction was Medina Valley High School HVAC. We're also working on building HVAC systems and getting that work put together and hopefully starting that here in the near future. Next item, we discussed finance

037updates that Mr. Nash discussed earlier. Next item was around board policy update 126. Next item was Senate Bill 546 report presented by transportation around seat belts. And last as well was the grandfathering clause, including individual sports. As well as the team sports that are already grandfathered. And that was what we discussed. Any questions? If not, we'll move on to safety and security with Mr. Wattitz. Good evening. The safety committee met December 11th, 2025. It consisted of myself and Blaine Nash who were in attendance. The following items were discussed regarding the police department updates, calls for service that the police department was going to at the schools in the area. We also talked regarding the Texas Commission on law enforcement. We also talked regarding the Texas Commission on law enforcement. We also talked regarding the Texas

038Commission on law enforcement. We also talked regarding the Texas Commission on law enforcement audit staffing projections, the safety project updates regarding the cell towers and window film on the schools, campus security upgrades regarding the access control project, the LDARRA updates. We also went over financial advisor presentation, proposed calendar for the next year, and the board policy update 126. Also regarding the student handbook and code of conduct corrections. Any questions? Any questions? Okay, then we'll move on to Curriculum and Instruction Committee with Ms. Lee. The Curriculum Committee met on December 11th. In attendance was myself and Joe Biedeger. The following items were discussed. The first was proposed calendar. DWAC met and created two calendar options for 26-27 school year. A survey was sent to teachers, staff, and parents. The option that generated the most votes will

039be presented at a board meeting for approval. Board policy update for 126. Local policies related to 126 were reviewed and will be presented to be updated to align with SB 12, HB 2, and SB 571. Student Handbook and Code of Conduct. A policy for personal communication devices is updated. 26-27 student handbook will be updated and corrections made for the new school year. Grading Guidelines. Guidelines for grading will be developed for teachers to follow. To determine grades for students. A committee will begin developing the guidelines in January. And will be included in the student handbook in 26-27 school year. Instructional Leadership Redesign. District Instructional Leadership Team's purpose will be to evaluate and review purposes and responsibilities. And align implementation of district academic priorities. District Administrative Team's purpose is to align campus operations. And collective ownership of

040district goals. Creekview High School Library. Follett Content Solutions will be the primary library collection supplier. Follett has provided three options which the districts can choose for the library. Any questions? Okay, then we'll move on to the construction briefing with Mr. Barajas. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Kalos. I have here with me Mr. Mark Seas that's going to assist with the construction briefing. So we'll start with the construction briefing. Our Creekview High School presentation. Currently we're at 89% complete based on the projection of the end of this month in December. Which includes the 37% complete on the stadium portion of it. So again, what that's made up, as you can see the south end of our site. Tennis courts are getting surfaced as of today. Six out of the eight courts have

041now been surfaced. The both baseball and basketball courts are now being surfaced. Both baseball and softball turf has been installed as well as the infield within it. The grandstands have been placed as well as the press box on both baseball and softball. When it comes to the visitor concession building and restrooms, that one is dried in. As you can see with the scaffold, the brick phasing has already started. On the multi-purpose spaces, also dried in. Overhead mechanical, electrical, rough ins and interior CME blocking is ongoing. On the home side of the stadium, the slab was poured as of today for the home side concession building and restrooms. When it comes to the interior of the building, again this is a lot of what we see now on the academic wings. The area has been almost

042completed throughout. Moving on to the library, the tectum panels have been installed. There is still work overhead, some fire suppression that is getting installed. First coat of paint, so finishes are getting underway on the library. Moving over to the main entrance, the ceiling panels have been completed. All trim work is done. Paint, first and second coat of paint, is being installed. All trim work is done. Paint, first and second coat of paint, has been completed as well. On the cafeteria space, tectum panels, paint is on the works. The latest milestone on this one was the polished concrete on the cafeteria floor. Railings have been started on the lower portion and are going to begin on the second landing of the cafeteria stairs. When it comes to the gyms, this is the auxiliary gym. Finished floors,

043painted and striped. As you can see on the competition gym also, the delivery of the retractable bleachers started today. They are being stored on site and are going to start being placed here shortly. Sorry. Then I'll let Mark talk a little bit about where we are at on punch list. We've started punch list in the B area, which is the academic. We've done all three levels of B and C. We've done all three levels of B and C. C only has two levels. And we're starting on the first floor throughout the rest of the building. So we're moving along on the punch list. And we've also started the text dot work at Petrenko and 381. And it's moving along great. All right. Any questions on Creekview? For our AG JROTC construction briefing, on this one

044we're at 36% complete. Again, this is a projection as of December. And I'll let Mark give us the update on it. All right. So here's the, we've got the roof deck on. We've started work on the metal studs and working around the mechanical. They've started installing sheeting as of yesterday. It's looking good. The mechanical has started hanging all their ducts. And they're about 80% complete. And we're going to be working on the roof deck. And the electrical contractor is starting their rough ends. The plumber has started their top out. We've got fire suppression. And the roofer starts in two weeks. So we're moving along great. A lot of work this week. Any questions on AG JROTC? All right. And our last construction briefing is for Middle School 3. Again, 17% complete as of the projection

045for December. All right. So we're going to be working on the construction for the next section for December. This is aerial view taken a couple weeks ago. Again, you can see the striping on the road. It had started a couple of weeks ago. As of today, it's all been completed. And then I'll go on to a drone video. Again, props to Mark for taking that drone video. Culverts are being formed. That will be the bus and staff entry. And then I'll go on to the construction of the bus. These are these are the bus and staff entry off of the main road. As we pan forward, area A was all poured and steel erection has started. So we're a little bit over a third on on main steel members on area A, which will be

046a lot of the classroom wings, some science labs as well. The retainer blocks are being weatherproofed or waterproofed all the backfill here shortly. As we circle over, you see area B there on the center. Half of it's been poured. This is going to house our cafeteria and our kitchen. This originally was scheduled to be poured. The second part was scheduled to be poured this week on Wednesday. However, because of weather, that got postponed to Saturday. So they'll be pouring this second section on Saturday. Moving further out to area C, that will start the gymnasiums and the fine arts on area D. Piers have been completed. The vapor barrier has been installed in preparation for the mud slab to be poured. And then we're moving over to area D that will house the competition gym and

047the fine arts areas. That one will start on Piers here shortly. So far, we've drilled 280 piers out of 353. So they're hitting between six and eight piers every day. But panning over to area E, you can see the suspended floor formwork has started. That will be the next area that gets poured. And this is the second major wing for classroom science labs and CTE classrooms. As we pan, towards the end of the video, you'll see the other culvert that will be the main parent entrance for drop-off and pickup. Any questions on middle school number three? All right. Thank you. Next, we have the financial briefing with Ms. Hermusch. Good evening, Mr. President, Board of Trustees, Dr. Kalos. So we'll start a little bit with the November financial statement. So you can see in front

048of you that we have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. We are about 33% collected in budgeted revenue so far this year and 24% spent in budgeted expenses. And this compares to about 26% collected in revenue last year at this time and 24% in budgeted expenses. So we were a little out of line this month, and we're back in line moving into November. So looking right on target, as we've said, as we're about three months through the year, we would expect to be about 24% of the budget. And so

049pretty much right where we would expect to be. We are receiving a little bit more revenue up front this year than what we did last year. But if you recall, we had about an $8 million settle-up payment from TEA that we didn't get until like this last September. And so I would expect that we're a little more on target with where we're supposed to be and would get a little less on the settle-up side at the end of the year. And so we'll keep monitoring that as we go through. With actual student attendance numbers and things like that. But it is kind of nice to have it a little more up front. Obviously, we're able to invest those funds and use them appropriately when we get them a little earlier. All of the fund balance

050numbers on here have now been updated to match the audit report that we're going to talk about here this evening. And so you see accurate fund balance numbers across all of our three funds. And then we're also tracking our budget amendments. And as you know, most of that. Is due to the retention stipend that you all approved last month. And a few rolled POs that we had at the beginning of the school year. So then going into just the $199 fund statement. Like I said before, we this year were at about 23.91% spent versus last year we were at 24.33%. So we're a little under where we were last year. But again, right on target. Child nutrition is right. So we're a little under where they would anticipate being. They're a little under where they

051were at this time last year, both in revenue and expenses. But I think our budget is just a little bit more in line with where we expect to be. And probably the most exciting news that I had today is on the debt service side. On December 12th, we received our ASAHI payment or our estate aid that we get for the hold harmless. That for the homestead exemption piece. And at the end of last year, we received our ASAHI payment. And that's where we're going to be spending the rest of the year. So we're going to be spending that for the next year. So we're going to be spending that for the next year. So last year, as we were budgeting at the end of the legislative session, we were told to be pretty conservative with

052what that might look like going into next year. And so as you can see on there, we had about 6.6 million budgeted. And the revenue we received was a little over 7.7 million. So we hit where we budgeted with a little bit extra. And so that was pretty exciting when we saw that hit the bank the last couple days. So excited about that because that will help us out on the revenue side of that as well. And then you have your bond 23 statements. Again, most of our projects have been encumbered. And we're just working through kind of finishing the construction projects. Obviously, with high school number two being the main project left in bond 23. And we spent about $12 million this last month. So we are rocking and rolling on that high school

053project. And we're still earning about a half a million dollars in interest a month in the remaining funds that are in there. And then on bond. 24. We are the first project listed in there is the Creekview Stadium project. And so that is obviously been been under construction. And we are rocking and rolling with that one as well. With the additional bonds that we sold in August, we are starting to bring in almost a half a million dollars in interest in bond 24 as well. And arbitrage on that. Are we just taking a percentage or who's calculating? So we're investing it. We're investing it in the loan star, the financial pool. In fact, I'm going to pull up our first quarter investment report right now, too. And so just sitting in there right now, we're

054still earning a little over four, almost four and a half percent interest. And so we want to that still is better than a lot of the short term rates if we went out and invested it elsewhere. And so that does bring me to the investment report. And so this is just a copy of our first quarter investment report. And so we're going to go ahead and take a look at the first quarter. So in the prior quarter, we were receiving about four point four four percent interest. As you all know, interest rates have started to go down a little bit. And so for this quarter, we averaged the four point two seven that you see kind of on the on the right hand or the left hand side of the sheet. And then just scrolling

055down a tiny bit. Our total interest for the quarter that we earned was was just over three point seven million. Obviously. Most of that is going into those bond and capital project funds. And so we have that. And then the last thing was just to present to you all again the budget calendar. We try to give us a snap of it in December. And then when we come back from Christmas break, we start working with the staff on on doing a midyear review and seeing where we are and what additional needs we might have for the remainder of the year. We start doing budget workshops with you all. We start in February, May and August. And then we'll have a few items that will come up for board approval as we work through that process.

056A lot of it is contingent on the property value timelines of when we get information. The first being our state values here in January. And then we'll receive preliminary values from the CAD in April with certified in July. And so as we move through that, we're able to to refine decisions as we go through the process. But with that, I'll take any questions. Thank you. And I'll take any questions that you all may have. Yep. Next, we have the superintendent briefing with Dr. Kittles. We'll start with some really positive news. We do have our teachers of the years, teachers of the year name for each campus. Right. So you can see each campus and who received that award here recently. We also named our secondary and elementary teacher of the year. So you can see

057Riley Jones from Loma Alta was our secondary teacher of the year. And then Pamela Flores from Petunia. And then Trento Elementary was our elementary teacher of the year. I tell these teachers all the time. This is a tremendous accomplishment in any school district. I think even more so in our school district because of the number of outstanding teachers that we have in our school district. So congratulations to all these teachers and very proud of them. And we're very thankful for all that they do for our students in this school district. Recently, we had some of our Medina Valley High School and Loma Alta Middle School. Student groups perform at a Spurs game. And so they did an outstanding job and we're very proud of them and how they represented our school district. And I'm sure

058they probably got a pretty exciting game this year, too. Spurs are doing a little bit better this year. So that was exciting as well. So last month, if you recall, we had a couple of our students here that were holiday art contest winners. Right. One from elementary and one from secondary. And so. Brooke Woodberry, who was our middle school winner, secondary winner. We entered her in the Region 20 Holiday Art Contest. And she won that contest as well. So I'm sure you all remember her card from last month. It was outstanding. So congratulations to that young lady as well. And then we have Coach Britt. Coach Britt, you know, obviously our football team had a pretty good year. And so Coach Britt was just recently named the District 20. And so we're very proud of

059him. He's the 26th coach of the year. So congratulations to him. We're very proud of all that he's done for our not only our football program, but our athletic program here at Medina Valley High School. And we had a couple of our campuses, counselors on those campuses, silos in Lacoste Elementary. They received what's called the Crest Award and Crest Downs for counselors reinforcing, reinforcing excellence for students in Texas. And so obviously they are doing some outstanding work. And so. And so. I have our students right now, you know, we've had really outstanding things with our students. Counselors are very important, right, especially these days. And so very fortunate to have those ladies and what they do for our kids on those campuses. So congratulations to them. We've recognized our employees of the month. So you

060see the list of employees for each campus and department. And then we also have some gold card recipients as well. And so very thankful for all these employees and and what they do for our kids in our school district. and then next is our enrollment so you can see where we're at we've hit the 10,500 mark right and so enrollment has climbed a little bit over the last two or three weeks and we anticipate a little bit more as we return from from the holiday break and that is it for the briefing any questions for me any questions good okay then we'll move on announcement of district integrated pest management coordinator dr. Kalos so anytime we have a change as far as who is our pest management coordinator we must inform the board so the

061person that was our pest coordinator pest management coordinator left and so Ken Gallegos who is currently in our facilities and maintenance department has gone through the training and is now qualified to be our pest control coordinator and so just announcing that to y'all and you know that that's that's who it is now okay any questions okay next we have first reading of board policy update 126 dr. Kalos policy update 126 is a fairly large update a lot of this stems from the changes in laws in the last legislative session and so we have presented some of these updates to y'all in our committee meetings this month we plan to do some more updates in next month's committee meetings and then bring it back I'm just gonna bring that up to you again at the next

062board meeting to consider moving forward with approving those policy changes so we'll continue to update you if y'all have any questions don't hesitate to reach out there's a good summary in the board update I mean the board book for each legal and local policy that kind of summarizes the changes in that policy and so that's a good reference as well any questions all right next on the agenda is teacher incentive allotment presentation miss Hendricks so we have region 20 here to do an overview on teacher incentive allotment this is one of the requirements that they like to help support us in this so we have Christine Perez and Maggie boozer here to do a presentation and remember if you don't mind I'm gonna use my teacher voice instead of the the mic I think you

063can hear me a little bit better with that good evening dr. k loss and board members I'm Maggie boozer I am the teacher incentive allotment leadership consultant one of the ones at region 20 and I am joined today by my co-worker Christine Perez she is the teacher incentive allotment stakeholder engagement hub lead focusing on stakeholder engagement and we're here today to talk to give you a good foundation knowledge of what teacher incentive allotment is and then what's what the district is going to start with and move toward their application for that so the foundation idea the the mission and vision of teacher incentive allotment is the three hours recruitment retention and reward the idea is to recruit teachers high designated teachers to the district to retain them as they move up in their designations and

064then reward teachers teachers who are showing data of students' growth as well as their own teacher growth as well. Those are what the, that's the idea of TIA. This is the foundation of how TIA works. It's the, it's the Fab Five. Okay, there are three levels of designation, recognized, exemplary, and master. These three designations have a funding scale between 3,000 and 32,000. These allotments are, prioritize those hard to staff positions, high needs campuses, rural campuses, and it does focus on campus, not district, because a campus could look very different in a big district. Where in one side of town it is, it would be high needs, and the other side of town it would not. So it is by campus, not necessarily district. What makes TIA different than some of the other merit pay that

065has been done in the past is that this is completely teacher focused. 90% of the allotment has to go directly back to the teacher, and all the payments that are made out to teachers and to TIA need to be paid out by allotment. So that is not money that rolls over. It goes directly to the teachers, and that 10% that a district can choose to keep goes to what I call the keep the lights on for TIA. You pay for student growth measures for PD. That money can make sure that the TIA continues to be successful. Teacher's designation can last for five years. Depending on when they get it and how long it lasts. I'm going to give you a couple of scenarios. I'm not sure if you have a good idea of what that

066looks like. So say Christine Perez has good enough data to show that she is a recognized teacher. Congratulations to Ms. Perez because now her designation shows up on her certification that she is a designated teacher, and she has that designation for five years. Next year, because we gather data on our eligible teachers every year, the data that we get next year shows she didn't quite get high enough student growth to be recognized again. That's okay. You can't go down. Once she is recognized, she gets to keep her recognition. Then the next year, her data shows that she had enough student growth and personal growth to be an exemplary teacher. So now she gets redesignated as an exemplary teacher, and her five years starts over again. So now her new designation, she goes up and it

067goes over in five years. So the next year, she's got enough data to show that she is a master teacher. This is as high as she can go. Her five years, she gets redesignated and her five years starts over. Now she can't get any higher, so her five years is going to stay there. In her fifth year is when the data will be used to redetermine her designation. So that's how the designations work. The teachers can't go down. They can go up, and in their fifth year, that data will be used for redesignation. What's also really great about the allotments that they get. It goes towards their TRS top five. So it goes towards their retirement. This shows a little bit about how the funding works between the three designations, three to nine, six to

06818, and 12 to 32. We are working with a district where a master teacher in that district gets $32,000 in May every year. So some of these teachers can walk away with some great allocations. So that's the first thing. Next slide. So at its core, the local designation system is comprised of three components. So your TIA lead and your stakeholder engagement committee are going to be looking at three things. Who's going to be eligible, meaning what eligible teaching categories and what campuses are going to be eligible. We look at things like who's already got a valid and reliable student growth measure. If you were thinking about that at the top of your head, start. We're already gathering that information. So most districts will start with subjects and grade levels that already have those valid and

069reliable student growth measures. Then they build a phase-in plan so that we phase in all the teachers. And I'll go over that in just a little bit. The other thing that they'll have to determine is the teacher performance data. 95% of the state uses t-tests. If you're already using t-tests, we recommend to stick with t-tests. Next slide. So the teacher is the one that's going to be using the t-tests. And the teacher, whereas the student needs to show growth, so does the teacher. The idea is with t-tests, the administrators are also honing their craft and helping the teachers, not just to give them ratings and scores, but to coach them in the rubric so that they can work towards designation. The third thing that will need to be decided on is a compensation plan. There

070are some pretty specific rules that the state has. The state has a compensation plan. It's a very specific plan. It's a very specific plan. It has, for compensation, like 90% of the, 90% of the allotment has to go directly to the teacher. There's also things you'll need to think, the committee and the district will need to think about, as in if a teacher leaves the district, do they get to keep their allocation or do you keep it? Those are things that you'll be thinking about when you're coming up with your designation system, as well as how and when are we going to pay the teachers that get allocations. So these are all decisions that are going to be made. Every teacher has the potential to be designated, meaning in the past, some of those merit

071monies just went to star or tax or toss teachers, right? And with TIA, every teacher has the potential. It really is about making sure you have a reliable and valid student growth measure, because TIA is based on student growth. And so when I was talking to you about the TIA, I was thinking about the TIA, and I was thinking about the TIA. And it's very helpful to be in the TIA with the staff. We're talking a little bit about phasing in teachers. This is a very common model of how districts, especially one the size of Medina Valley, tries to look at. Because when you're thinking about doing 100% of your teachers, which is possible, if that's something they want to do, we can help them do that. And with that, we would have to have

072already in place some valid and reliable student growth measures. What really helps is when a district has thought about each stage okay that at this first this first time go around we're going to add these teachers and then the next year we're making a commitment to add these teachers and then so on um you know the the most teachers are most districts i'm going to say 90 percent choose a phase-in plan um the ones that don't are usually smaller they have we're working with a district that went 100 in and they have 35 teachers in the district okay so um so those 35 is is makes more sense although it's still a little difficult but it can be done most districts have this phase-in plan um we see anything from phase two we very rarely

073see phase four most will stick to one two and three but this kind of shows you a little bit how it would work as we phase in um as we phase in um teaching categories um appraisal if we're using t tests there are no more appraisal waivers um everybody that is an eligible teaching category must get observed um and they must be proficient or better so the idea this is this is a merit allotment for for teachers that are getting above and beyond student growth and their own personal growth and so everything the data that gets sent must be proficient or better and for tia we will be using domains two and three which is instruction and classroom environment that's the data we'll be pulling and sending to tea is those two now t-test still

074has all four but for tia purposes we'll be looking at instruction and classroom management and again at the core of this this is what i think we both love so much about tia is this is about student growth not about the school and the classroom and so this is a merit allotment for tia and tia for the kids of a five-year old and tia is that it's not all about success not about achievement okay we all know those fifth graders right who have never passed a star test and that's okay because even those fifth graders can make growth i also think about our high schoolers maybe who haven't passed algebra one yet you know for graduation purposes but they can make growth whether or not they pass that star and on the other on the

075other end of that we have our advanced academic students who are already achieving which which is excellent, but are they making growth? Are we moving their thinking to a different level? So this goes with both ends of the spectrum, and although that achievement is important, that growth is what's gonna drive your district achievement. And as the teachers get that growth, the district accountability and achievement also grows. TIA recognizes four different student growth measures. The one that's used most commonly is pre-test, post-test. This is when there's different third parties, assessment star is also pre and post, where you have a test as your pre-test, then you have your test as your post-test, and you have growth targets for those pre and post-tests. The others that are available are student learning objectives. This is where we see

076some of those subjects or grade levels that may not necessarily have a pre-test and post-test available to them. Some of the common ones we see, sped teachers, life skills. Even some of our CTE teachers have done student learning objectives, because it's based on a skill profile, where our students are making growth in a skill. Maybe not necessarily a test, but, we build a skill. The same kind of goes for portfolios as well. We've seen fine arts, CTE also using portfolios, where you build a rubric of growth, where you're placing the student work on that rubric of growth. Then a value added model. This is where you've got the predictive analytics for things like STAR, that have that historical data that's pulling based on the past of the student and the teacher. Really, it's meant for

077STAR, because the VAM does that predictive analytics when it comes to STAR scores. Again, 90% of all TIA funds must go to teacher compensation. A district can choose to keep the 10%, and it's used for very specific things, and it's all TIA. Allotment funding may differ per campus. The three things that, they keep in mind is the base allotment. Any district, whether they are participating with TIA yet or not, already has an allotment. So if Medina Valley is not participating yet, if you were to get a designated teacher, you still have, they are now at the mercy of your allotment, and you would be paying out that teacher, even though you're not participating yet, at that allotment. So all campuses in the state of Texas have an allotment. And then that allotment goes up based

078on socioeconomic level and campus rural status. There is a district in our region that have two elementary schools about a mile from each other. One is rural, the other one is not. And so their allotment shows that. I think it's, I mean, I don't make that rule, it's TIA, right, but the campus is only a couple miles apart, and yet one is rural and one isn't. So it is truly based on the campus itself. I wanted to give you a little highlight. This is an average of what a Medina Valley ISD teacher payout would look like for the three designations. Now remember, I did say it's per campus, so it will be specific based on the campus that the teacher is on, but this gives you an idea of what the payout is. Absolutely, yes.

079So thank you for reminding me. Next year, so house bill, what is it, two? In the legislature, house bill two has now added, so they've added lots of money as well, it's like $2.2 billion into TIA. The money is there, it's not going anywhere. And the state has added a fourth recognition, and it's called acknowledged. And it will be before recognized. So it will be acknowledged, recognized, exemplary, and master, and all of the payment, are going to go up about $2,500. So acknowledged will now be at your 3,800, and then your recognized will go up exemplary and master. So a master teacher may be making 18 by the time the new rolls out. So there is going to be a fourth, but the data isn't out yet and isn't clear just yet. So, but this

080data and stuff is out there for you. So we want to show you that. Also, I want to say that, I think we're getting to the end, but I want to say that we're going to be getting to the end, so I want to say that we're getting to the end, and I think that we're going to be getting to the end, and that's going to be the end of the year. So I just want to say that we're going to be getting to the end, there's a TIA funding map link there for you. You can go to that map, that link it takes you directly to the map and you can actually look at individual campuses. You can actually put in districts if you have a competing district down the road and you want

081to see what they're paying out you can see all of that. Okay and that link brings you directly to that so you have to go looking. And the idea of TIA when we're building your designation system we're gonna build it to enhance your district systems and goals, your mission and vision, your strategic plan. In fact I think one of the first things on your strategic plan is bringing in and keeping good teachers. I want to say I think that's number one on your plan. TIA does that. It goes right in line with one of your first one of the first things on your strategic plan. And the idea of this is not to make it something else but to weave it in to your our already established mission, vision and strategic plan. These are some

082of the highlights. There's some of the highlights of TIA. One of the things I want to bring up that I'm not gonna read them all but I think that's most important. One of the biggest concerns that comes up from teachers is well well I don't want to have to compete with my teacher friend for this money. There is no cap on the money and there's no cap on the designation. There's no competition. It's about I think about it, is a not football game, it's a swim meet right I'm going in and my times I'm trying to improve my skill. I'm trying to improve my teaching I'm trying to help my students improve their learning. Then the better I do, the better I place in swimming, but then my my my score goes towards my team

083score. Right so this is not a football game but but a swim meet. The teachers. One of the things I will do as the teacher is that message to ten fans and the coach is is they need to be competitive. davos does спасибо baby Ovato but a swim meet. The teachers can improve themselves. They can improve their students. And then once they're designated, they can turn to a teacher and help them get designated. One of the things up there is encourage professional collaboration. That's what this really is about. We're working with a district where in an elementary school, there's five fourth grade teachers, and one of them got designated. And they were so excited for her, what they decided to do was add a TIA component in their PLC. So that teacher could talk with

084them, and they were going to do things, learn the rubric, really get down to that. And their goal is to have their whole fourth grade team designated because that's what they're there to do. They're to collaborate so that they can all get that designation because there is no cap on the designation or the money. This is your district timeline. It is a little bit of a slow, but it's a little bit of a long process. And the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to be doing a little bit of a payout. And we're going to be doing a payout for the first time in the entire state of Auburn, the first time we're working to pay out. But once we get to that first payout, the payout happens every year. But

085this gives you a little idea of what we're working towards. Right now we're working on the system application, which we plan to submit before April 15th, 2026, which is next semester. Then in August, we're going to be submitting our data. We're excited to say that our application acceptance is at 100% with the districts we work with. And the next school year, you'll move into your first time data capture. That's where we're going to take that first phase of teachers, collect their data, really focus on any skew, how is the data looking. Then in October of the next school year, 2027, 2028, you'll submit your data for the first time. And the teachers, they're going to say get designated, because we already know the data before we submit it in October. A teacher needs to be

086with the district for two years, because you've got to collect the data, and then you've got to get the data validated. Once the data is validated, the TEA will let you know, and you guys can decide how you let the teachers know, because about a month and a half after that, TEA sends them an email that says, congratulations, designated teacher. And then that money needs to get paid out to the teachers, before October, 2027. So that's for August 31st, 2028. And remember, TEA works on a September 1st school year. So this takes about two school years. The first time, the first payout, you'll in front the money for those teachers. And then two weeks later in the settle up, TEA will give you the money. Once you've paid out teachers for the first time, the

087money automatically comes to you, except for any new designation. So that's the first time. But the money will be there. So that's kind of how that works. And so before I talk a little bit about looking ahead, I wanted to make sure that I used my time wisely. That was a lot of information. Do you have any questions? Okay, please. No, great question. Thank you for asking. So the data that we collect based on, so the state standard, let's say for a recognized teacher, is a 3.7 and T-test, which is proficient. with a little bit of accomplished and 55% growth of students. Okay, so that's recognized. But let's say right out of the gate, I've got 65% growth in my students and I'm a fully accomplished teacher. I can go right to exemplary. So, yes,

088you do not have to step. You can go directly to where the data shows. Okay, so if I'm a master teacher right out of the gate, the data shows that, then that's where I go. Thank you. That's a great question. Any other questions? You answered mine. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have student handbook presentation with Mr. Lange. Good evening, members of the board. I would like to offer clarification with the student code of conduct, the student handbook, and cell phones. So TASB gives us a model code of conduct, and that's what you'll see on the screen there. They give us two choices, and we chose the choice that says students shall not use personal communication devices while on school property during the school day. And shall store the device in accordance with the

089method of storage established by the district. The handbook is next, and the handbook matches the student code of conduct, in that it says the district prohibits the use of personal communication device on school property, and shall store the device in accordance with the method of storage established by the district. In the handbook, though, we are able to add administrative regulations. And so, as an admin team, we worked on those administrative regulations, and now we have updated those administrative regulations. And so, as an admin team, we worked on those administrative regulations. And so, as an admin team, we worked on those administrative regulations. to match what was put on our website, and that we sent out to parents via ParentSquare. Any questions? Any questions? This was follow-up from last board meeting. Yep, appreciate it. Thank you.

090Moving on to discussion and possible action items. First on the agenda is consider approval of consent agenda items. Dr. Kalos. Consent items are listed in your agenda. All items have either been presented to the board through committee meetings, or through board updates. And so, I open up to any questions, if you have any. Questions? Anybody want anything pulled? Now I'll look for a motion. I'm Matt Caslione, moved to approve the consent agenda items as presented. I have a motion. I have a second. I, Joe Beter, your second in the motion. I have a motion, a second. Any further discussion? Not all those in favor, raise your hand. All board members voted for, and the motion carries. Next, we have consider approval of independent financial audit report for the fiscal year ending August 31st, 2025. Ms.

091Hermes. Good evening again. So, Texas Education Agency requires that the district have an annual financial report performed by an external audit firm every year. The results must be reported back to the board of trustees and submitted to TEA within 150 days of the close of the fiscal year. And so, to accomplish this task, we've had ABIP as our auditors for the last couple of years. We've been. I think you all have a copy of the audit report, the full completed one with you. And we went over a lot of the financial highlights during both the construction and the finance committees, but I have Nick Gutierrez here with us today to go through this with you all and take any questions that you might have. Good evening. Dr. Kalos, board of trustees, and going to kind

092of go through the same presentation you guys have kind of already seen on the committee meetings, you know, open to some questions. I'll be back. We'll get to the questions. So, I'm going to go ahead and start off with a brief and work through it, you know, somewhat fairly quickly. So, kind of just giving another brief example, our brief overview of what's in your annual financial report, you know, your introduction. Tonight, we're asking you to approve the financial statements as presented. So, your certificate of the board will be in there as well. The independent auditor's report is the only thing that belongs to us in this financial statements. Kind of get into that here in a little bit. Your management discussion and analysis, your cliff notes for the readers to really, you know, take advantage

093of. And then, you know, the financial statements. So, you know, if you're a financial statement, you're going to have to go and get some good information about the financial statements without having to dig too deep into the numbers. But if they did want to dig a little deeper into the numbers, the government-wide and the fund financial statements would be where the actual financial statements of the districts would be. The proprietary and fiduciary financial statements, which is your internal service funds and your custodial student activity funds. The notes to the financial statements would give a little bit more detail as to what makes up the financial statements. Your required supplementary information. It's your budget to actual, your pension and OPEB schedules. And then some other supplementary information such as your required TEA schedules within the financial

094statements. And then this year we did have a single audit. I think you guys have had single audits the past couple of years. So the federal awards section will also be at the very back of your report. So getting into the actual financial report, the standards that we're required to follow are the generally accepted auditing standards as well as the government auditing standards because you are a local government. We are required to follow those additional standards. The purpose of the audit was to form an independent opinion on whether the financial statements are presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. We're happy to report that our independent opinion is unmodified. It is the best opinion you can get. It means we did not modify anything within your financial statements. They're presented fairly in accordance with

095GAAP. Again, the management discussion and analysis. Great Cliff notes to kind of give you a little bit of a look at that. Thank you. So this is a pretty quick overview of the financial statements without having to dig too deep into some of those numbers. This is where you will have your financial highlights. You can get a lot of information about your capital assets and debt, budgetary highlights and some economic factors kind of looking forward to 2026. Getting into some of those financial highlights. The assets of the district did exceed its liabilities which is what is considered net position by $67.3 million. Of that $67.3 million you had $59 million of net net assets. 59 million of net invested in capital assets. There was some restricted net position of 9.3 million and you did have

096an unrestricted net position a negative a deficit net position of 964,000. This is mainly due to your pension and your OPEB liabilities that you're required to put on that government-wide financial statements. The net position did increase by 15.1 million from the prior year. This is mainly due to state aid property tax. There was a decrease in investment earnings due to spending some of those capital project funds and your biggest expense during the year was the instruction and school leadership expense. Getting into the governmental funds which is kind of more where the district manages the general fund fund balance at the end of the year was 36 million. This was an increase of 5.1 million from the prior year. You did have unassigned fund balance of 31.9. It's approximately 4.5 months worth of operating reserve that's

097up from last year of 3.6. We like to keep this anywhere between three to six months so it's very healthy unassigned fund balance. The combined fund balance for all the funds was 344 million. This is an increase of about 11.4 million mainly due in that general fund and in the capital projects fund getting some of those bond proceeds during the year. The district's fund balances at August 31st, 2025. You did have about 308 million in restricted fund balance and about 4.5 committed to future construction projects. In your internal service funds, your health insurance, and your workers comp fund, these did have a net position of 35,000. In your fiduciary fund which is your Student Activity Fund there was a net position of about 173,000. You did have a 132.2 million increase in capital assets during

098the year due mainly to construction and project. Cars. These were defined yet. Plansanden engines have. PROGRESS AND SOME LAND PURCHASES AND THE TOTAL OUTSTANDING DEBT AT THE END OF THE YEAR WAS $703 BILLION. SOME BUDGETARY HIGHLIGHTS, YOUR ACTUAL REVENUES WERE 1.1 MILLION MORE THAN YOUR BUDGET AND YOUR ACTUAL SPINATURES WERE 3.2 MILLION LESS THAN BUDGET. AGAIN, ANOTHER GREAT JOB BY THE FINANCE TEAM MANAGING THOSE BUDGETED FUNDS. GETTING INTO THE COMPLIANCE SECTION, WE DID HAVE AN ADDITIONAL REPORT WITHIN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, OUR INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING AND COMPLIANCE AND OTHER MATTERS BASED ON THE AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS. WE'RE HAPPY TO REPORT THERE'S NO INTERNAL CONTROLS, NO INTERNAL CONTROL PROBLEMS TO BE REPORTED. THE DISTRICT IS IN COMPLIANCE. THERE WAS A SINGLE AUDIT

099DURING THE YEAR. YOU DID SPEND OVER THE 750 THRESHOLD. SPENT MORE THAN THE 750 THRESHOLD. YOU SPENT 7.4 MILLION OF FEDERAL FUNDS. SO WE DID SPEND MORE THAN THE 750 THRESHOLD. WE DID SPEND MORE THAN THE 750 THRESHOLD. SO WE DID SPEND MORE THAN THE 750 THRESHOLD. YOU DID HAVE TO AUDIT TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS BUT YOU DID QUALIFY AS A LOW RISK AUDIT E. THOSE TWO PROGRAMS WERE CHILD NUTRITION AND SPECIAL EDUCATION. HAPPY TO REPORT NO FINDINGS OR QUESTION COSTS WITHIN THAT SINGLE AUDIT. YOU ALSO HAVE TONIGHT WITH YOU A MANAGEMENT COMMENT LETTER. THIS IS WHERE WE LET YOU KNOW ANY CHANGES IN YOUR ACCOUNTING POLICIES. THERE WAS A CHANGE. A NEW GASB STANDARD CAME OUT THIS YEAR THAT THE DISTRICT WAS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT. THEY DID IMPLEMENT. CHANGED THE COMPETITED for the district to

100require a little bit more leave liability to be put on the financial statements on the government-wide financial statements the we this is where we tell you the your accounting estimates and your disclosures most of those estimates have to do with your pension and OPEB liabilities if there was any difficulties in performing the audit any misstatements or any disagreements with management this is where we would be required to tell you happy to report that there were none and we did get all the management management representations saying that management takes full responsibility of the everything with that's within these financial statements if you went out and shopped and got a second opinion any consultations with any other independent auditors we'd be required to let you know to our best knowledge that that did not happen and you

101were in compliance with the public funds investment act here's my contact information as well as Janet Pittman she's our audit partner happy to take any questions and if not you have my contact information questions thank you thank you very much I'll look for a motion I'm Matt Castiglione move to approve the independent financial audit report for the fiscal year ending August 31st 2025 as presented I have a motion to have a second I've been want to second the motion I have a motion to second any further discussion none all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for in the motion carries next we have consider approval of an order authorizing the remarketing of the variable rate portion of the districts fixed and variable rate unlimited tax school building bonds series 2021 in

102the maximum amount of 20 million dollars delegating the authority to certain district staff to approve and execute certain documents and other matters in connection therewith miss hermes so back in february of 2021 the district issued 20 million and five year term rate bonds and those are at a at a very nice interest rate lower than one percent back back in 21 when things were really low but we are at the point now where we've hit that five year term and we're needing to reinvest those funds or or the interest rate is going to jump up to seven percent and so what we we've been working with mr kroga our financial advisor and are recommending that the board consider a parameter sale order allowing us to go out and remarket those funds in january when we

103come back from the break the the sale order has been a little bit more of a challenge for us but we're going to continue to work on that as the complete 20 million dollars listed in it but we actually have an outstanding balance of 13 620 000 in those bonds and so that's what we would be looking at remarketing under current market conditions we're looking at resetting those bonds with another three-year term rate to take advantage of the just a little over three percent three point two percent rates that that we're seeing right now obviously we're going to look at those in january when we come back and move forward with what we think is right for the district mr. Krogas here as well if you have any questions happy to take those any questions

104I have a question what why is the agenda item say to the maximum amount of 20 but the principal balance is 13 6 2 I think it's because the original bond issuance was the full 20 million and that's how the legal counsel wrote that wrote that up but we really just have the 13.6 to left so the news that the new bond sale order would be for 20 million or for the 13.6 13.13 point six okay so when we do the bond sale order we got to make sure that's at the 13.6 okay yeah not a look for a motion I'm Lane Nash move to approve the district remarketing order as presented I have a motion to have a second I Joe beater your second the motion I have a motion in a second any

105further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members are at four and the motion carries next we have consider approval of budget amendment mr. Hermes yes so as we we have previously spoken about and Finance Committee the district has and some additional safety needs some personnel related that we would like to move forward with we so this would be a reclassification of funds from our project capital project contingency so a function 81 to move those funds into a function 52 to be utilized by the safety department and I can take any any questions y'all have on that as well questions now look for a motion I Jason bonding to approve the budget amendment as presented I have a motion I have a second I've been want to second motion I have

106a motion a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members are at four and the motion carries next we have consider approval of the 2627 academic calendar mr. McGraw good evening mr. president board members dr. k loss we started off by having our first DWAC meeting on October 12th we started off by having our first DWAC meeting on October 12th and we are currently reviewing the budget that was approved. 1st. We also had another D-WAC meeting on November the 5th and then our final one on December the 3rd. We came together and put two options together. We put it out for vote and as you saw in the survey results parents chose option 2 by 80 percent. Our staff chose option 1 or option 2 as 79 percent

107and D-WAC meeting voted unanimously on December the 3rd for option 2. Option 2 does have a third trade day available for our instructional staff to attend three days of professional development in the summer and our students would go to 170 days of instruction. Teachers and instructional staff would all work 187 days. So the D-WAC and district administration recommends option 2 to be our calendar for the 26-27 school year. Any questions? Now I'll look for motion. I'm Matt Castellani. Moved to approve the 2026-2027 academic calendar as presented. I have a motion. I have a second. I, Joe Beater, your second in the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Not all those in favor raise your hand. All board members vote at 4 and the motion carries. The time is 7 46

108p.m. and the Board of Trustees will now convene in closed session as authorized by section 551071, 551074, 551076, and 551089, and 551072 of the Texas Open Meetings Act to discuss agenda items 6a through d. No action will be taken in closed session. The board is now in closed session. The board is reconvening it into open session at 8 51 p.m. For the record, no action was taken in closed session. Next on the agenda is consider approval of the superintendent's recommendation to hire the NBISD Athletic Director, Doctor Kalos. Yes. Administration recommends Dustin Davison for the Athletic, the Medina Valley ISD Athletic Director position. Any questions? Now I'll look for a motion. Aye. Blaine Nash moved to approve the superintendent's recommendation to hold Object 5, 16-20 to eat until 5 increased condition known as to hire Dustin

109Davison as the Medina Valley ISD Athletic Director. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I'm Matt Castiglione. Second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? None of those in favor, raise your hand. All board members voted for, and the motion carries. Welcome. Next, we have consideration of future meeting dates. The next regular board meeting is scheduled for Monday, January 26, 2026 at 6 p.m. Last is adjournment, and I'll look for a motion. I'm Matt Castiglione. Move to adjourn the regular board meeting at 8.52 p.m. on December 18, 2025. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I, Joe Bieder, your second. The motion. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor, raise your hand. All board members voted for, and we are adjourned. Thank

110you.