001i'm at 6 p.m on april 14 2026 i called this regular meeting of the rockport fulton independent school district to order let the record show that a corner board members are present but this meeting has been duly called and notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the texas open meetings act texas government code chapter 551 we'll begin the meeting with our prayer led by trustee yarnell dear heavenly father we come before you this meeting with gratitude for the opportunity to serve our students families educators and we ask you for wisdom and guidance over this meeting and over every decision made tonight grant the board discernment as they consider matters that affect education due to our children help each member lead with integrity humility and the spirit of children bless our teachers administrators
002staff and all who are tired to educate and support our students protect our schools our community and remind us of what we do today in your name we pray amen amen please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance in the texas pledge by our njr otc thank you so much cadets and i know usually we see them in our in their uniforms and i'm going to ask again that we continue to pray for our servicemen and women and all of those who wear any kind of uniform and the target that they have become so please continue to keep them in your prayers this evening leading our color guard our cadet chief petty officer leonard leonard luke wilson and cadet petty officer first class chloe loki nelson cadet wilson is a dedicated fourth year cadet in
003the rockport fulton high school high school njrotc unit who has consistently demonstrated leadership commitment and excellence throughout his time in the program wilson is an active and accomplished member of the most of multiple competitive teams including unarmed regulation armed regulation armed exhibition and guard his involvement across these demanding teams highlights his versatility precision and dedication to mastering both basic and advanced drill skills following graduation cadet chief petty officer wilson will continue his journey of service by enlisting in the united states navy with a scheduled ship date of july 6th he will serve as a bosun's mate carrying forward the leadership and skills he developed in njrotc into his military career his future reflects a strong commitment to service and he is well prepared for success in the fleet cadet petty officer first class chloe loki
004nelson is dedicated and highly motivated third year cadet in the rockport fulton njrotc program throughout her time in the unit she has demonstrated strong commitment discipline and a willingness to take on challenges that contribute to both her personal growth and the success of her team chloe is an active member of several key teams within the program including the physical fitness team unarmed exhibition drill team commander unarmed regulation drill team and color guard her involvement across multiple teams highlights her versatility teamwork and drive to excel in all aspects of njrotc looking ahead chloe plans to continue her service by joining the united states navy as a culinary specialist her future goals reflect her dedication to serving others and building a meaningful meaningful career and she can be a role model for the future of the njrotc
005community she is well on her way to achieving success through her hard work and determination thank you again cadets all right that brings us to agenda item four this is our district celebrations dr austin right good evening everyone okay there we go um i think it's going to be a great night as you can tell it's a full house a lots of celebrations and recognition i want to first start off with one that's actually not listed right now but if you did not know it is mr cruzan's birthday um so if i would have if i would have had more time i would have practiced with a band and we would have played happy birthday but i don't want to put them on the spot and then we have a lot of things to do
006tonight so we won't sing happy birthday if you're okay with it is that perfectly okay all right so i want to ask mr cruzan not just because it's your birthday but will you join me up here please um tonight we are celebrating something that is so so amazing here in rockport we are doing so many great things not just with our students that you're going to hear tonight but with our facilities but there's much more to do and some of those things we just don't have the means to do it but our kids deserve it and because of that need there is a family that has stepped forward and stepped forward majorly who's ready to fill that gap and make one of the biggest donations rfisc has ever seen and so what i'm going to
007ask is i'm pretty sure i heard him but mr chapman if you and your wife are here please come join us on the stage yes come on up tim and debbie chapman have stepped forward and are doing something amazing for not just our current pirates but our future pirates and as they make their way i'm going to turn it over to mr cruzan who has more than a few words to say about this amazing couple on behalf of rfisd we would like to recognize and express our sincere gratitude to mr tim chapman and miss debbie chapman for their extraordinary generosity they have agreed to a donation of nearly two million dollars the donation is to turf our high school baseball and softball field which will benefit generations of pirate student athletes for years to come
008while the size of this gift is is is a huge amount of money but we are going to do our best to make sure that we are able to provide the best of our students and the best of our students and the best of our students incredible it's remarkable what makes it even more meaningful is the history behind it this donation did not happen overnight and has been going on for several years however it represents decades of commitment service and love for the youth of our community you see for decades mr tim chapman has given something just as valuable as money his time as a little league coach and manager he helped shape countless young people not only on the field but off the field as well through his leadership kids have learned the importance
009of hard work discipline teamwork and a strong moral character and these lessons go far far beyond the game this gift may be the largest single dollar donation the schools receive but the chapman's family's generosity to our students has been evident for many years their continued support of education through scholarships including the kim chapman memorial scholarship has already helped many young people pursue their dreams and continue their education past high school tim and debbie your investment in our students our schools and our community will leave a lasting legacy and i stress the word legacy on behalf of the rockport fulton isd board of trustees our staff our students and the entire pirate community thank you for your generosity your service and your belief in the future of our kids please join me in recognizing the importance
010of the championship and the legacy of the young people who have been here in this community and i will turn it over to the board of trustees to begin their presentation 30 years of dedication like yours leaves a mark that can't be missed you've helped guide these boys from little league to varsity shaping not just players but young men your recent donation speaks just as loudly as your time and effort it's another example of how much you care about these programs and the kids in them that kind of support makes a real difference both now and for the future you and debbie have given so much time and heart to this community and it truly shows we're beyond grateful for everything you've done and your impact will stick with these kids for years to come
011all right so we have a special treat board i'm going to go ahead and say if you want to go down there before they start our pirate band is going to perform and i know later on in the celebrations i'm going to have the band directors come up but on march 27th i want to commend you guys you received all ones in your uil concert and sight reading and we're so proud of you i cannot wait to hear you tonight please give them a round of applause under the direction of mr ryan thornberry lord you can go ahead and come up we're going to hold them here for right now dr carter will you please come join me our next celebration is our pirate academy graduation this is a huge night for two of our
012students who have worked through their coursework in our pirate academy we talked about this last month they have successfully completed and now we are going to do their graduation ceremony dr carter good evening board parents friends and guests please stand as the pirate academy seniors enter the auditorium that's for the achievements of our pirate academy graduates but we also the perseverance growth and determination that brought you to the stage to our families and supporters here with us tonight thank you for their encouragement and strength that you have provided our graduates along the way to our graduates this is your moment be proud of how far you have come and confident in where you are going pirate academy graduates please stand dr austin and the members of the rfisd board of trustees these students have met
013all state and local requirements as set forth by the texas education agency and the rockport fulton independent school district i hereby recommend them to you as a candidate for graduation and high school diplomas with all rights and privileges a diploma carries by law i care hear you 生 Haushot on this day april 14th two ent twice sixth and in this place martha luigi auditorium and rockport fulton isd i concur with the recommendation of principal jody carter that these have successfully completed the chorus of study as recommended by the state of texas and delivered by the faculty and staff of rock port november high school and they are qualified to graduate therefore with the authority that uni Texas, the Texas Education Agency, and our outstanding Board of Trustees, I hereby certify these students as graduates of
014Rockport Fulton High School. May your journey in life be safe. May you continue to grow. Never stop learning. And I will now direct Dr. Carter to grant the students their diploma, which recognizes that they are entitled to all rights and privileges associated with this degree. I ask you to prepare our students to receive their diploma. Students, as I call your names, please step up to the stage. Yehida Acosta Vasquez, Zayden Xavier Willis. Once Zayden shakes everyone's hand, we're going to come take pictures. And then at the end of this, the high school team will escort our graduates and they will go celebrate with their graduates. Thank you. We're going to have their families over in our new high school. But first, pictures. Well they were going to have the fight song as they walked off.
015So fight song. Okay. No fight song. But we're good. Band, we're going to go ahead and let you all get off stage so you don't have to wait for all the rest. We have a lot of celebrations tonight. So over the last year, we have been doing calculations and watching closely. And tonight, Dr. Carter will come to the mic. Because she is going to introduce our class of 2026 valedictorian and salutatorian. I'm incredibly honored to announce the top two academic achievers of the class of 2026. I'm excited to have their families and friends here with us this evening as we honor their incredible accomplishments. These two exceptional students have earned this recognition through their unwavering determination, hard work, and perseverance. I know they would be the first to acknowledge the vital role that their families,
016their teachers, and their mentors have played in their lives. And supporting them along the way. It is with extreme pride that I announce these two students. Our salutatorian for the class of 2026 is Gustav Johnson. And the valedictorian for the class of 2026 is Burke Johnson. We are so proud of their accomplishments and look forward to celebrating their success at graduation. Congratulations to both of these outstanding scholars. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I know. I know. Is Carrie out there? Have
017they been competing for the last four years for this? Awesome job, gentlemen. And now, we're gonna move to award that our high school has received. The International Student Exchange would like to recognize our school tonight. So, if Ms. Rupe, are you here? If you will come on up and give a little bit explanation. And then, Ms. McClendon is here to receive the award. TO RECEIVE THE AWARD OR RECOGNITION THAT YOU'LL BE GIVING TONIGHT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WANT TO THANK THE BOARD FOR ALLOWING US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU ALL AND TO THANK YOU ALL. AND THANK YOU. WE'VE WORKED TOGETHER QUITE A BIT JUST THROUGH STUDENT EXCHANGE. WE WORK WITH THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE. MY NAME IS JANITA RUP. I AM THE REGIONAL PLACEMENT ADVISOR FOR TEXAS. PATRICIA HERNANDEZ IS
018THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR TEXAS. AND EVERY YEAR, OUR ORGANIZATION ALLOWS US TO CONSIDER SCHOOLS THAT HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR OUR STUDENTS. THEY SEND INFORMATION OUT TO ACROSS THE U.S., TO ALL OF OUR DIRECTORS, MANAGERS, FIELD REPRESENTATIVES. AND THIS YEAR, I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY THAT MARK PORT COLTA HIGH SCHOOL IS ONE OF THE RECIPIENTS OF THIS AWARD. AND SO WE WOULD LIKE TO, YEAH, TO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH AGAIN FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND DEDICATION, ESPECIALLY AGAIN, MS. MCCLENDON. SHE REALLY HELPS OUT OUR STUDENTS TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE IN THE CLASSES THAT THEY NEED TO BE IN. AND DEFINITELY DR. CARTER, WHO HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL IN WORKING WITH US, NOT TO MENTION ALL OF THE STAFF AND THE STUDENTS, BECAUSE THEY PLAY A HUGE PART IN MAKING SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS
019ARE COMFORTABLE AND ENJOY THEIR TIME WHILE THEY'RE HERE IN THE U.S. SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS. YES. EVERYONE PAYS YOUR CHEESES. RFISD PIRATES IMPACT NOT JUST IN RFISD, BUT INTERNATIONALLY. ALL RIGHT, AT THIS TIME, ONE OF MY MANY FAVORITE GROUPS GETS TO COME UP. MR. LUTMAN, WILL YOU COME UP SO YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THEM? I WILL. OKAY. I WILL RECOGNIZE THE AMAZING ONE-ACT PLAY. I DIDN'T EXPECT THE FAVORITE THING. YES. ALL RIGHT, SO THIS YEAR, WE COMPETED IN THE UIL ONE-ACT CONTEST WITH A SHOW CALLED CANDID. WE'RE AT DISTRICT, WHICH HAPPENED ON THIS STAGE. WE GOT FIRST PLACE. AND THEN WE WENT TO BI-DISTRICT. SADLY, WE DID NOT ADVANCE TO BI-DISTRICT, BUT WE STILL GOT PLENTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL AWARDS, AND I'M GOING TO GIVE THEM A QUICK
020SHOUT-OUT. MAKING IT TO BI-DISTRICT, THOUGH, WE ARE IN THE TOP 50% OF THE SCHOOLS THAT COMPETED IN UIL OAP. SO I'D LIKE TO BRAG A LITTLE ABOUT THAT. SO AT DISTRICT FOR ALL-STAR TECH WAS MADDIE BREEDLOVE. FOR HONORABLE MENTION, WE HAVE ELIZA ORTERO AND LEVY TATE. FOR ALL-STAR CAST, WE HAVE ELIZA PENA, WHO COULD NOT BE HERE TONIGHT, AND KATHERINE JONES WITH BEST PERFORMER. AT BI-DISTRICT, WE HAD JAY EDWARDS GETTING ALL-STAR TECH, ELIZA PENA GETTING HONORABLE MENTION, AND KATHERINE JONES GETTING ALL-STAR CAST. I'M VERY PROUD OF THESE KIDS. THEY DID AMAZING. GO THEATER, YOU HEARD IT. OH, SURE, OKAY, SORRY. WE HAVE KAYLEIGH DELGADO, LAURA AMAME, KYLIE STANILAND, ANNA OCCHIOA, AND THEN SHANNON WADDELL. YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE RIGHT. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO OUR AMAZING RFHS CHOIR WITH MS. MICHELLE CHRISTENER. I'M NOT
021SURE WHAT THEY'RE YELLING, BUT I WANT TO SAY THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GROUPS, TOO. OKAY, WE'VE HAD AN EXTREMELY BUSY YEAR. OUR YEAR STARTS IN THE SUMMER AT TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY IN SAN MARCOS FOR THE TMEA ALL-STATE CHOIR CAMP, WHERE WE TOOK NINE STUDENTS. THEY LEARNED THEIR AUDITION WITHIN THREE POWERHOUSE DAYS. OUT OF THOSE NINE, WE HAD FIVE STUDENTS MAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE AREA AUDITIONS, WHICH IS THE FINAL COMPETITION TO GET TO STATE. TWO OF THOSE STUDENTS PLACED IN THE TMEA ALL-STATE SMALL SCHOOL MIX CHOIR. NOT ONLY DID THEY PLACE INTO THE ALL-STATE CHOIR, THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO PERFORM ONCE AGAIN AT THE TEXAS STATE SOLO ENSEMBLE CONTEST AT THE END OF MAY WITH THEIR STATE SOLOS. ONE OF THESE STUDENTS IS ALSO HIS FIRST TIME EVER TO SING
022IN CHOIR, AND HIS NAME IS JOHN GUERENA. AND SO I WANT TO INVITE JOHN GUERENA TO COME UP. AND THEN JOHN GUERENA WAS ALSO THE ALL-STATE TENOR AND OUR ALL-STATE BASS. OUR AWESOME BASS IS TRISTAN DIAS, SOPHOMORE. NEXT UP, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE OUR REMAINING STUDENTS WHO WILL BE PERFORMING AT THE TEXAS STATE SOLO ENSEMBLE CONTEST. THESE STUDENTS ARE EXTREMELY HARD WORKERS AND AMAZING PERFORMERS. WE HAVE ALEXIS HAGENS, AUBREY MCCLESTER, ANALEAH OCHOA, DONNA CAPOOL, AND LUFFY TATE. THESE STUDENTS ARE A DREAM TO WORK WITH, AND I AM SO BLESSED TO WALK ALONGSIDE THEM EVERY DAY. AND I WANT TO GIVE A HUGE THANKS TO MY ASSISTANT, MR. DICKENS, OUR ACCOMPANIST, MRS. MERLENE FLORINOY, OUR VOCAL COACHES, MRS. MOLLY MCCONVIL, MR. DUDON, AND OUR AMAZING CHOIR BOOSTERS AND PARENT SUPPORT, OF WHICH I COULD NOT DO
023WITHOUT. THANK YOU, RFISD SCHOOL BOARD, DR. AUSTIN, DR. CARTER, FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT OF OUR CHOIR PROGRAM. WE ALSO WANT TO MENTION, TOO, I ALSO HAVE DUSTIN HAMS, AND KATHERINE JONES, WHO UNFORTUNATELY WERE NOT ABLE TO BE HERE. THEY ARE GOING TO BE PERFORMING AT THE TEXAS STATE SOUL ENSEMBLE. THEY ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW. MS. CHRISTENER, GREAT JOB. I GAVE YOU THREE MINUTES, AND I THINK YOU GOT IT. ALL RIGHT, WE ARE NOW GOING TO CELEBRATE. I KNOW WE JUST RECOGNIZED THE BAND, BUT THEY HAVE MANY, MANY AWARDS AND CELEBRATIONS THIS YEAR. AND I WOULD LIKE MR. THORNBERRY AND MS. MARCI PETERSON TO COME ON UP TO CELEBRATE NOT ONLY OUR HIGH SCHOOL, BUT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND. GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, ADMINISTRATION, AND COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR GIVING THE FIGHTING PIRATE
024BAND THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM FOR YOU TONIGHT. I AM INCREDIBLY PROUD OF WHAT THESE STUDENTS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THIS YEAR. THE BAND PROGRAM HAS EARNED UIL STREET STEAK AWARD AGAIN THIS YEAR, THE HIGHEST HONOR A BAND CAN RECEIVE IN TEXAS. WHAT MAKES THIS AWARD UNIQUE IN BAND IS THAT IT'S THE ONLY ORGANIZATION IN ALL OF TEXAS THAT REQUIRES YOU TO BE JUDGED THREE TIMES DURING THE YEAR IN ORDER TO EARN THE SWEEP STEAKS. SO WE HAD TO EARN ONES IN MARCHING CONTESTS, IN CONCERT PERFORMANCE, AND IN SIGHT READING. AND IN ALL THREE OF THOSE PERFORMANCES, WE GOT STRAIGHT ONES FROM ALL JUDGES. CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY, SURE. I'M PROUD TO SHARE THAT ALSO AFTER THESE PERFORMANCES, THE JUDGES WERE SO IMPRESSED BY THEIR PERFORMANCES THAT SOME OF THE JUDGES CAME TO FIND US AFTER OUR
025PERFORMANCE TO EXPRESS EVEN FURTHER HOW MUCH THEY ENJOYED OUR PERFORMANCE. WHILE AWARDS ARE EXCITING, WHAT MAKES ME THE MOST PROUD IS CHARACTER AND COMMITMENT. THESE STUDENTS SHOW EVERY DAY TO ME. THEY DEDICATE COUNTLESS HOURS OF REHEARSING, SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER, AND STRIVING TO BE BETTER MUSICIANS AND BETTER PEOPLE. I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE TWO PEOPLE WHO PLAY AN ENORMOUS ROLE IN THE SUCCESS OF THE PROGRAM, AND THAT'S THE OTHER DIRECTORS ON MY TEAM, MS. PETERSON AND MR. SIEGERT. A STRONG PROGRAM IS ALWAYS THE RESULT OF A STRONG TEAM, AND I'M INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO WORK ALONGSIDE TWO EDUCATORS WHO CARE AS DEEPLY ABOUT OUR STUDENTS AND GROWTH ABOUT OUR BAND PROGRAM AS I DO. INDIVIDUALLY, OUR STUDENTS HAVE ACHIEVED REMARKABLE SUCCESS THIS YEAR. THIS YEAR WE HAD ONE STUDENT PLACE IN THE ALL-STATE BAND,
026AND WE HAD 27 OF OUR STUDENTS QUALIFY FOR ALL-STATE IN SOLO AND ENSEMBLE COMPETITION, WHICH REFLECTS FOR THE INCREDIBLE LEVEL OF DEDICATION AND MUSICAL GROWTH. WHAT YOU HEARD THIS EVENING IS A SMALL SNAPSHOT OF OUR DEDICATION TO OUR WORK. THESE STUDENTS HAVE SHOWN ALL YEAR. THE MARCH WE PERFORMED FIRST WAS FROM OUR CONTEST, AND THE SECOND IS STAR WARS, OF COURSE, WHICH YOU WILL, IF YOU COME TO OUR CONCERT, OUR SPRING CONCERT, YOU'LL GET TO HEAR THAT PLUS OTHER MOVIES, SONGS, AND PLEASE COME JOIN US. OUR CONCERT IS ON MONDAY, MAY 11TH AT 630, RIGHT HERE, FOR ANOTHER EVENING OF AMAZING MUSIC, INCLUDING MORE MOVIE MUSIC. AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OUR STUDENTS FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS. SO, MADISON BREEDLEV, ALL-STATE WOODWIN TRIO, AND SHE'S ONE OF OUR DRUM MAJORS. QUENTIN CHEEK, ALL-STATE
027BRASS QUINTET. ETHAN DORSEK, ALL-STATE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE. EVERETT GAMBLE, ALL-STATE BRASS QUINTET. ALEX SWERTA, ALL-STATE SAX QUARTET. BRADEN LILLIS, ALL-STATE BRASS QUINTET. HUNTER MISE, ALL-STATE BRASS QUINTET. ILEANA NORANJO, ALL-STATE WOODWIN TRIO, AND SHE IS ALSO ONE OF OUR DRUM MAJORS. SHAVON PATEL, ALL-STATE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE. CELINE PILE, REGION BAND. AVI SINGLETERRY, ALL-STATE BRASS QUINTET. AND ANOTHER ONE OF OUR DRUM MAJORS, JAMES SOTO, ALL-STATE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE. GAGE TYLER, ALL-STATE BRASS QUINTET. DEVIN WATSON, REGION BAND. NOW, THE REST OF THE CERTIFICATES ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE EARNED MULTIPLE THINGS. SO FOR EVERY PERSON AFTER THIS, THEY ARE GOING TO INCREASE FROM JUST THE ONE THING. SO ANGEL DELEON MADE REGION BAND AND ADVANCED TO AREA AND IS AN ALL-STATE TROMBONE QUARTET. JOHN GUERINA, WHO IS THE ALL-STATE CHOIR PERSON, ALSO MADE REGION BAND AND WILL ALSO PLAY IN AN ALL-STATE
028SEX QUARTET. JACK HECK, REGION BAND, ADVANCED TO AREA AND ALL-STATE QUINTET. MATTHEW LYNCH, ALL-STATE TROMBONE QUARTET AND ALL-STATE BRASS QUINTET. SAM LYNCH, REGION BAND AND ALL-STATE HORN SOLO. MADELINE O'CONNOR, REGION BAND AND ALL-STATE BRASS QUINTET. BRADEN TRAN, REGION BAND, ADVANCED TO AREA AND ALL-STATE WOODWIN TRIO. BURKE JOHNSON, OUR VALIDATORIAN, REGION JAZZ BAND, ALL-STATE SAX QUARTET AND ALL-STATE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE. JOSEPH MACE-TROSCH, REGION JAZZ BAND, ADVANCED TO AREA, REGION BAND, ALL-STATE SAX QUARTET. CADEN SOLIS, REGION JAZZ BAND, ADVANCED TO AREA, REGION BAND, ADVANCED TO AREA, REGION BAND, ADVANCED TO AREA, ALL-STATE TROMBONE SOLO AND ALL-STATE TROMBONE QUARTET. AND FINALLY, JOSH LOPEZ, REGION JAZZ BAND, REGION BAND, ADVANCED TO AREA AND THEN ALSO PERFORMED IN THE ALL-STATE BAND, ALL-STATE TROMBONE SOLO AND ALL-STATE TROMBONE QUARTET. NOW, TO SAVE TIME, WE'RE NOT GOING TO READ THE NAMES OF EVERYBODY
029ELSE, BUT ALL THE FOLKS THAT ARE DOWN HERE WERE ALL PART OF THE MARCHING BAND, THE CONCERT BAND, THE MARCHING BAND, THE SIGHT READING. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE WHOLE BAND COME UP HERE WITH THE TROPHIES TO TAKE A BIG PICTURE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. KEEP GOING DOWN, PLEASE. SURE. SOMEWHERE IN THERE. OH, NO. YEAH, GET UP THERE. OKAY, SO THE FUTURE OF OUR FIGHTING PIRATE BAND IS OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND MS. PETERSON SAYS SHE DOESN'T WRITE SPEECHES, SO SHE'S GOING TO GO QUICK, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FUTURE OF THE FIGHTING PIRATE BAND IS RECOGNIZED. SO... OKAY, SO, YEAH, I DON'T DO SPEECHES. BY THE WAY, THANKS FOR COMING INTO OUR... SO I'M MARCIA PETERSON. I'M THE MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND DIRECTOR, AND THESE KIDS HAVE ABSOLUTELY BLOWN ME AWAY. WHEN
030I GOT THEM IN AUGUST, WE MAYBE COULD PLAY THE B-FLAT SCALE, RIGHT? WE DID PRETTY GOOD AT IT. AND I TOLD THEM, ESPECIALLY IN JANUARY, I SAID, I WANT Y'ALL TO COME, AND I WANT YOU TO TAKE A JOURNEY WITH ME. I WANT YOU TO COME AND WALK WITH ME. I WANT YOU TO MAKE A ONE. I WANT YOU TO MAKE A SWEEP STAKES AT CONTEST. AND SO THAT WAS OUR GOAL. AND I SAID, DO YOU WANT TO WALK WITH ME ON THIS JOURNEY? AND I MADE THEM RAISE THEIR HANDS. AND ALL 54 OF THEM, THERE'S ONLY 14 HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE OTHERS ARE PLAYING BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL AND ALL THAT WONDERFUL STUFF. BUT THEY SAID, YEAH, WE WANT TO GO ALONG WITH YOU, MS. PETERSON. AND SO WHEN, AFTER WE PERFORMED, I WAS JUST BLOWN
031AWAY BY HOW WELL THEY DID AND HOW LOCKED IN THEY WERE. THAT'S THE TERM THEY USE. AND LOCK IT. CLOCK IT, OKAY. WELL, THEY WERE LOCKED IN. AND I TRIED TO HIDE THE TROPHY ON THE WAY OUT, YOU KNOW, AND TRIED TO USE MY THEATER SKILLS TO BE ALL SAD, LIKE, Y'ALL, I'M SORRY, I KNOW. I DON'T HAVE A WRITTEN SPEECH. HOW ABOUT THAT? OKAY. SO, SO, I PULLED IT OUT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY WERE LIKE, AND THEY JUST TOTALLY WENT JUST CRAZY. AND SO I SAID, YES, YEAH. AND SO, AS IT KIND OF GOT TO THE BUS, THE BUS DRIVER TOLD ME THAT ONE BY ONE, THEY REALIZED, OH MY GOSH, THEY DID GET ONES. WE GOT ONES! WE GOT ONES! AND THEY, I MEAN, I'VE NEVER SEEN CELEBRATION LIKE THOSE KIDS
032CELEBRATED. AND SO, THEY DESERVE IT AND I'M SO PROUD OF THEM. AND THESE ARE THE 14 THAT WERE ABLE TO BE WITH US HERE TONIGHT. AND I'M VERY EXCITED. AND, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY EXCITED TO BE HERE TODAY. AND I DO WANT TO JUST VERY QUICKLY TO INTRODUCE THEM. AND I DO WANT TO ALSO JUST SAY THAT THERE WERE SIX OF THESE STUDENTS THAT ALSO MADE REGION BAND BACK IN NOVEMBER. AND SO, I'D LIKE TO CALL THEM UP HERE FIRST. MATILDA SINGLETERRY. SHE GOT THIRD CHAIR IN THE SYMPHONIC BAND. IS JUAN HERE? JUAN IS NOT HERE. COLTON IS NOT HERE. COLTON GOT FIFTH CHAIR. CALIPHER? HE GOT FOURTH CHAIR IN THE CONCERT BAND. AZIEL IS NOT HERE. AND HE GOT SECOND CHAIR IN THE CONCERT BAND. WE ACTUALLY HAD TWO TUBA PLAYERS. AND THEN CHARLIE
033BRANUM, SHE RECEIVED FOURTH CHAIR IN THE SYMPHONIC TOP BAND. SO THESE ARE SOME OF OUR KIDS THAT I JUST CAN'T TELL YOU HOW PROUD I AM. CHARLIE? NOT CHARLIE. CARLEY. CARLEY. CARLEY CHANEY. AND THEN WE HAVE SERENA TIWADUA. GALILEA. GALILEA ALMADA. ELLA BUCKLEY, WHO ALSO RUNS REALLY FAST. SOPHIA WYNN. ANNABELLE LINDER. ALLISON DEGNER. ZAYDEN HATCHER. NATAN SERNA. NATAN ALSO. REGION BAND? NO, HE WAS NOT REGION BAND. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT WAS JUAN. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. I WASN'T EITHER. I WASN'T EITHER. ALL RIGHT. CALEB LOPEZ, ONE OF MY TROMBONE PLAYERS. NATHAN DOMINGUEZ, ANOTHER T-BONE PLAYER. AND OUR LAST TROMBONE PLAYER, CHRISTIAN OLIGOOD. SO I WANT TO GIVE THEM, I WANT YOU ALL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE. THEY WORK SO HARD. OUR SPRING CONCERT IS MAY THE 5TH, CINCO DE MAYO. 6TH GRADE IS
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
035STATE, AND WHAT WE SEE TONIGHT ARE GOING TO BE STATE QUALIFIERS AND ACADEMIC ALL STATE. SO THE FIRST ONE UP IS OUR THIRD YEAR IN OUR PROGRAM. CORRECT? THIRD YEAR. WE HAD A WRESTLING STATE QUALIFIER. SO COACH BLACK, COACH CLARK, AND COACH DENISE. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BRING THEM TO THE GAME. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BRING THEM TO THE GAME. SO COACH BLACK, COACH CLARK, COME ON UP AND TALK TO US ABOUT YOUR STATE QUALIFIER. RIGHT, LIKE DR. AUSTIN MENTIONED, THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR OF OUR PROGRAM. AND JUST THE GROWTH WE'VE SEEN IN THOSE THREE SHORT YEARS HAS REALLY BEEN TREMENDOUS. AT THE START OF THE YEAR, IF YOU HAD TOLD ME WE'D HAVE A STATE QUALIFIER, I WOULD NOT HAVE BELIEVED YOU, OKAY? AND I WAS PLEASANTLY PROVEN WRONG. CAMILLA ACTUALLY
036CAME TO US FOR THE FIRST TIME. NEVER WRESTLED BEFORE. SHE SHOWED UP TO OUR SUMMER WRESTLING TEAM. SHE REALLY TOLD US THAT SHE WAS EXCITED TO DO IT IN THE FALL, OR THE WINNER, EXCUSE ME. WE WERE REALLY EXCITED TO SEE HER. SHE STARTED THE YEAR OFF ON JV, AND SHE JUST KEPT WINNING MATCHES. SO WE BUMPED HER UP TO VARSITY FOR THE DISTRICT MEET. SHE FINISHED SECOND AT THE DISTRICT MEET, BATTLED HER WAY TO FOURTH AT REGIONALS, AND THEN PARTICIPATED, LIKE DR. AUSTIN SAID, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ROCKFORD FOOL HISTORY AT THE STATE MEET. WE ARE SO VERY EXCITED TO SEE HER CONTINUE HERE. SHE IS ONE OF THE HARDEST WORKING GIRLS YOU'LL EVER MEET. AND WE ARE JUST SO, SO EXCITED FOR THE FUTURE OF CAMILA, EXCUSE ME, FOR CAMILA'S FUTURE AND
037FOR ROCKFORD FOOLTON WRESTLING IN GENERAL. ALL RIGHT. WE WILL MOVE TO POWER LIFTING. COACH ALVARADO AND BAYES, WILL YOU COME ON UP TO CELEBRATE YOUR STATE QUALIFIERS? ALL RIGHT. FOR US, TALK ABOUT LADY POWER LIFTING. I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE GIRLS THAT WORKED REALLY HARD THIS YEAR. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN WITH THE SENIOR GIRLS. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN WITH THE GROUP. WE HAD FOUR SENIORS AND THEY KIND OF TOOK THE ROLE OF MENTORSHIP TO OUR THREE FRESHMEN. IT'S KIND OF UNIQUE. WE HAD FOUR SENIORS AND THREE FRESHMEN, NOTHING IN BETWEEN. AND THEY DID A GREAT JOB OF WORKING HARD. WE CAME INTO THE SEASON HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH SOME GREAT THINGS. AND WE END UP WITH FOUR REGIONAL QUALIFIERS. AND OF COURSE, ONE STATE QUALIFIER IN ELIZABETH, YOU KNOW, TWO,
038TO HIT REGIONAL, YOU GOT TO HIT THE REGIONAL TOTAL, AND THEN AT THE REGIONAL MEET, YOU HAVE TO HIT THE TOTAL TO GO TO STATE. AND ELIZABETH DID THAT WITH HER OPENERS THIS YEAR, I BELIEVE. AND SHE ENDED UP WITH 1,105 POUNDS AT STATE TO END UP AS A STATE RUNNER-UP. SHE DID A GREAT JOB THIS YEAR. CONGRATULATIONS TO ELIZABETH. DID A GREAT JOB. EVERY MORNING SHE WAS THERE BRIGHT AND EARLY. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO RECOGNIZE OUR TWO STATE QUALIFIERS. THEY'RE ALL GREAT. YOU KNOW, IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO BUILD A CHAMPION. AND THIS SEASON, REALLY, IT WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY A LOT OF THINGS. BUT THESE TWO YOUNG MEN WERE NOT ONLY WERE THEY GREAT POWER LIFTERS, GREAT ATHLETES, THEY PLAYED TWO SPORTS, THEY PLAYED THREE SPORTS, AND HAD JOBS, AND THEN HAD A HEAVY
039LOAD AT SCHOOL. AND THEY EXCITED ME. THEY EXCEL IN THE CLASSROOM. SO PROUD OF THEIR EFFORTS, SO PROUD OF WHAT THEY DID, NOT ONLY IN THE CLASSROOM, BUT WHAT THEY DID AT OUR STATE LEAGUE. THE FIRST INDIVIDUAL I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE IS WYATT CALHOFFER. HE WAS A STATE QUALIFIER. HE PLAYED SIXTH PLACE AT STATE IN THE 220-POUND WEIGHT CLASS AND WAS A REGIONAL RUNNER-UP, SILVER MEDALIST. WYATT WAS ALSO THE REGION FIVE RECIPIENT OF THE TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL POWER LIFTING ASSOCIATION ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP. CONGRATULATIONS. OUR NEXT INDIVIDUAL, TREY ALVARADO. HE WAS A REGION FIVE DIVISION TWO CHAMPION. HE WAS A STATE QUALIFIER, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, HE WAS A STATE CHAMPION. 165 WEIGHT CLASS. TREY NOT ONLY WAS A STATE CHAMPION, BUT HE ALSO BROUGHT WITH HIM, HE SET THE STATE RECORD IN DEADLIFT WITH A 640-POUND LIFT
040AND SIXTH CHAMPIONSHIP. HE SET THE STATE TOTAL RECORD WITH A TOTAL OF 1,609 POUNDS. THAT'S THE STATE MEAT. SO IF YOU GO TO THE STATE RECORDS, OUR OWN PIRATE, TREY ALVARADO IS IN THERE. AND HOPEFULLY, TREY, YOU'LL BE IN THERE FOR A LONG TIME. CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE TWO YOUNG MEN ON THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. I'M VERY PROUD OF THEM, AND WE'RE ALL PROUD OF YOU. AND BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR BRIGHT FUTURES. SO NOT ONLY DO WE SET STATE RECORDS, BUT WE HAVE SOME SMART KIDS. SO COACH SOS IS COMING UP TO RECOGNIZE OUR ACADEMIC ALL-STATE ATHLETE. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. SO IN OUR ORGANIZATIONS, WE HAVE ASSOCIATIONS THAT EACH OF THE HEAD COACHES CAN BE A PART OF. AND WE HAVE TWO ORGANIZATIONS TODAY THAT HAVE GIVEN OUT, OR NOT GIVEN OUT, BUT THESE ATHLETES HAVE
041EARNED ALL-STATE HONORS. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH THE TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL COACHES ASSOCIATION FIRST. WE'RE GOING TO START WITH CROSS COUNTRY, THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO VOLLEYBALL, FOOTBALL, AND THEN BOYS BASKETBALL, OKAY? SO CROSS COUNTRY, WE GOT JONAH LEBLANC. HE WAS SECOND TEAM ALL ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. HUNTER THOLEY, HE IS HONORABLE MENTION ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. ADRIAN VIRIEL, HE'S PLAYING SOME BASEBALL RIGHT NOW, BUT HE IS ALSO CROSS COUNTRY ACADEMIC ALL-STATE HONORABLE MENTION. GOING TO VOLLEYBALL, WE HAVE ADISON BURTON. SHE WAS ACADEMIC FIRST TEAM ALL-STATE. MEGAN LEFWICH, SHE WAS ACADEMIC ALL-STATE SECOND TEAM. AND WE HAVE HALEY NOE. SHE WAS HONORABLE MENTION ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. GOING TO FOOTBALL, WE HAVE CAM AUSTIN. HE WAS FIRST TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. WYATT CAULIFFER, HE WAS FIRST TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE FOR FOOTBALL, AND THEN HE WAS ALSO THE ELITE TEAM IN
042THE TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL POWER LIFTING ASSOCIATION AS WELL. JACKSON COWEN, HE WAS SECOND TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. JACKSON GRUBERT, HE IS ALSO OUT OF BASEBALL GAME, BUT HE WAS SECOND TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. XAVIER SILVA, HE WAS SECOND TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. BRADY CUTTINGHAM, HE GOT BACK FROM VICTORIA. HE WAS A REGIONAL QUALIFIER IN GOLF. HE COMPETED YESTERDAY AND TODAY. HE WAS SECOND TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. CALEB WILSHER, HE WAS SECOND TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE FOR FOOTBALL. HE WAS ALSO SECOND TEAM ACADEMIC ALL-STATE FOR BASKETBALL AS WELL. AARON GONZALEZ, HE WAS HONORABLE MENTION ACADEMIC ALL-STATE FOR FOOTBALL. HE ALSO WAS SECOND TEAM TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL PACKET LIFTING ASSOCIATION ACADEMIC ALL-STATE. NEXT UP IS ZANE RIOS, HE WAS HONORABLE MENTION ACADEMIC ALL-STATE FOR FOOTBALL. WE HAVE ERIC HYDUK, HE WAS ACADEMIC ALL-STATE HONORABLE MENTION FOR FOOTBALL. MASON GARZA, HE WAS HONORABLE
043MENTION ACADEMIC ALL-STATE FOR FOOTBALL. AND THEN TO THE NEXT ASSOCIATION, I ALREADY MENTIONED THE BOYS WITH THE TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL POWER LIFTING ASSOCIATION, NOW WE HAVE THE TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN'S POWER LIFTING ASSOCIATION. THEY'RE NOT ONLY STRONG, BUT THEY ARE VERY, VERY SMART AS WELL. SO WE HAVE NOBLE CHAPMAN, SHE WAS THE ELITE TEAM IN THE TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN'S POWER LIFTING ASSOCIATION. MERCEDES ESPARZA, SHE WAS THE ELITE TEAM, TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL POWER LIFTING, WOMEN'S POWER LIFTING ASSOCIATION. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, OUR RUNNER UP AT THE STATE MEET, ELIZABETH GARCIA, SHE WAS ALSO NAMED TO THE ELITE TEAM ACADEMIC ALL STATE. AND THESE HONORS ARE AVAILABLE TO ANY SENIOR WITH GPA'S AND WHAT GOES INTO IT IS THE GPA'S, THE CLASS RANK, THE SAT, ACT SCORES, AND SO ALL OF THESE YOUNG MEN AND
044WOMEN FROM THE FALL AND THE WINTER SPORTS ARE BEING RECOGNIZED. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT, THAT WILL CONCLUDE OUR CELEBRATIONS. I WANT TO THANK NOT ONLY OUR SPONSORS, OUR COACHES, OUR PARENTS WHO CAME, BUT THANK YOU STUDENTS. I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO DO AND YOU SHOWED UP TONIGHT TO BE RECOGNIZED. I APPRECIATE EVERYONE. ALL RIGHT, THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM FIVE, WHICH IS PUBLIC COMMENT. WE DO HAVE TWO PEOPLE SIGNED UP TONIGHT, SO LET ME READ THIS BEFORE WE BEGIN. THE BOARD WELCOMES COMMENTS ABOUT THE DISTRICT FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. ANYONE WHO HAS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BOARD PROCEDURES MAY DO SO AT THIS TIME. THE BOARD ASKS THAT EACH PARTICIPANT'S COMMENTS PERTAIN TO DISTRICT BUSINESS AND BE NO
045LONGER THAN THREE MINUTES. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE INFORMATION SHARED IN PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE INFORMATION SHARED BY THE PRESENTER OR AND SOLELY PROVIDES THE OPINION OF THE INDIVIDUAL SPEAKER AND NOT THE DISTRICT. IN ADDITION, THE BOARD ADOPTS POLICIES TO PROVIDE PROMPT AND EQUITABLE RESOLUTION OF COMPLAINTS AND CONCERNS FOR EMPLOYEE STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS AS WELL AS THE GENERAL PUBLIC. COPIES OF OUR DISTRICT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ON PUBLIC COMMENT AND FILING COMPLAINTS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE OR ON THE RFISD SCHOOL BOARD WEBSITE AT RFISD.US. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE BOARD MAY NOT DISCUSS OR ACT UPON ANY ISSUES THAT ARE NOT PROPERLY POSTED ON OUR AGENDA. THE FIRST PRESENTER WILL BE MR. MATT FREY. THE SENIOR THAT I'M HERE, YOU ALL PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ME AND I'M NOT FROM ROCKFORD,
046BUT I'M HERE BECAUSE MY CHILDREN ARE HERE AND THEY'VE BEEN HERE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. THEY'VE BEEN WELL ACCEPTED IN ROCKFORD FOOLTON ISD, ADAPTED WELL AND HAVE EXCELLED BOTH IN THE CLASSROOM AND IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. AND I CREDIT THAT TO THE PROGRAM YOU ALL HAVE HERE. I'M HERE THIS EVENING ALSO BECAUSE WE HAVE INTEGRATED AS PART OF THE CHAPMAN FAMILY AND I WAS ASKED TO BE HERE FOR THEIR PRESENTATION AND ALSO TO BE HERE FOR THEIR PRESENTATION. I'M HERE TO SHARE WITH YOU THE PROGRAM. TO THANK THEM FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO CREATE A PROGRAM WITHIN THE BASEBALL COMMUNITY, SOFTBALL AS WELL. TO COINCIDE WITH THAT, THERE'S ALSO BEEN A LETTER AND I DON'T KNOW IF THE SCHOOL BOARD RECEIVED IT OR IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S COMING, BUT THERE IS SOME CONCERNS WITHIN THE
047BASEBALL PROGRAM. IT CAME FROM VISITATION THROUGH MR. CHAPMAN. IT CAME THROUGH VISITATION WITH CHILDREN THAT HAVE BECOME FRIENDS OF MY CHILDREN AND ALSO WITH OTHER PARENTS. I THANK CLAYTON FOR THE EXCELLENCE HERE TO SPEAK ON PART OF THAT AND MAYBE PRESENT PEOPLE WITH THE LETTER AND I THINK IT'S AN OPEN POLICY. I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS BEING BROUGHT UP AS A CONCERN IN ORDER TO GROW A PROGRAM. SOME OF THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN INVOLVED, THE ATHLETES HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THINGS IN HIGHER LEVELS OF BASEBALL THAT HAVE COME ALONG AND I THINK THAT THERE NEEDS IN THEIR OPINION, PARTICULARLY, A FOCUS ON SOME DISCIPLINE, EXECUTION OF FUNDAMENTALS AND A FEW THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE PART OF THE PROGRAM. I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD CREATE A STRONGER BACKMOUND. I ASK YOU ALL
048AS A BOARD TO TAKE THE LETTER INTO CONSIDERATION. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PROGRAM GROW TO COINCIDE WITH THE FACILITIES THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED BY THE CHAPMAN FAMILY AND CREATE A PROGRAM THAT CAN STRENGTHEN KIDS TO MORE EXCEL AS THEY GO ON THROUGH LIFE AS ALL EXTRA CURRENT ACTIVITIES ARE SET UP TO DO. I APPRECIATE YOU ALL'S SERVICE. I KNOW BOARDS ARE ABLE TO DO THAT. WE'RE ALWAYS THERE TO HEAR COMPLAINTS AND THERE'S A LOT MORE TO IT. BUT I HOPE YOU ALL TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION EVERYTHING THAT'S PRESENTED TONIGHT AND ANYTHING YOU ALL MIGHT RECEIVE IN THE E-MAIL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CLAYTON STOCK. GREAT SET, MATT. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU ALL. THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK ON THE CONCERNS OF OUR BASEBALL PROGRAM, SOMETHING I FEEL VERY
049STRONGLY ABOUT. AND AS PARENTS, I FEEL LIKE WE ARE NOT BEING HEARD. THE YOUNG MEN PLAYING BASEBALL FOR OUR SCHOOL, MANY OF THE SAME ONES HAVE HAD SUCCESS AND GROWTH IN MANY OF THE OTHER SCHOOL SPORTS. SO WHY ARE WE NOT SUCCESSFUL IN BASEBALL? THE ANSWER BEGINS WITH COACHING. I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU ALL HAVE RECEIVED DETAILED LETTERS FROM ME AS WELL AS OTHER PARENTS. RATHER THAN RE-READING WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN IN DETAIL, I WILL JUST SUM UP SOME THOUGHTS TO MAKE IT QUICK. THESE ARE THE SAME THOUGHTS THAT HAVE COME FROM LAST YEAR AND HAVE COME FROM THE OTHER PARENTS. AND I THINK THAT'S WHY WE ARE SO STRONG. AND THEY NOW REFLECT THE CONSENSUS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SIGNED AND COLLECTED 31 SIGNATURES IN THE LAST TWO DAYS FROM CONCERNED PATHS.
050THERE IS A LACK OF LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY. THE COACH REFLECTS AND BLAMES AND DOESN'T FOCUS ON THE ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE CORRECTED TO HELP THE TEAM BE SUCCESSFUL. THE TEAM DOES NOT ADEQUATELY PREPARE TO PLAY DUE TO THE POOR PRACTICES AND POOR DESTINIES. THE NEXT POINT I WANT TO RECOGNIZE IS THE CLOSED MINDSET OF THE COACH. THROUGHOUT THE SEASON, ADJUSTMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN MADE TO HELP OUR PLAYERS BE SUCCESSFUL. THERE ARE INCONSISTENT STANDARDS WHICH LEADS TO CULTURE ISSUES. A QUICK EXAMPLE, I DID HAVE A MEETING LAST WEEK AND I BROUGHT UP THE PROVANITY BEING USED SO WE COULD HEAR FROM THE BLEACHERS. THE VERY NEXT GAME, HEARD THE EXACT SAME GAME MULTIPLE TIMES. THE INCONSISTENCY IN PLAYER CONFIDENCE AND THE INCONSISTENCY IN THE PLAYER CONFIDENCE AND THE INCONSISTENCY IN THE PLAYER CONFIDENCE AND THE
051INCONSISTENCY IN THE PLAYER CONFIDENCE AND THE INCONSISTENCY IN THE PLAYER CONFIDENCE AND THE INCONSISTENCY IN THE PLAYER CONFIDENCE AND THE RESENTMENT AND DIVISION THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE TEAM. THE PROGRAM IS OBVIOUSLY REGRETS. WE ARE CURRENTLY ONE OF FOUR IN DISTRICT, WORSE THAN LAST YEAR AND LEADS OUR TEAM TO FIGHTING TO NOT FINISH IN LAST PLACE. OUR TEAM IS CURRENTLY THE WORST BUILDING TEAM IN OUR DISTRICT. WE HAVE MANAGED TO GET THE BEST OF OUR TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. ぜ поб surname Windows www.wisdr.net ъ um for these reasons we're kids are leaving our baseball program at an alarming rate at
052the end of the day we just want to see our kids be successful and have the high school experience take a break and the current baseball program is failing good time as i say to my emails at the time of their lives they can never get back i'm asking you to take these things thank you all very much thank you all right move on to agenda item six board of trustees report do we have any committee reports committee reports anyone all right then we'll move to 6b which is a trustee continuing education annual report i have to read this every year so let me read this in accordance with the state board of education requirements for continuing education i'm reporting that the annual continuing education status of the rockport fulton isd board of trustees all
053board members have completed and are in compliance with required continuing education training with the exception of trustee eli romas and trustee jack vogel who are currently deficit in required training hours the board's annual team of eight training has been scheduled for june 26 and all trustees are expected to participate at that time this concludes the annual announcement of the board continuing education compliance that will move us to agenda item seven with our presentations and discussions 7a bond 2022 project update we have teal construction and clay combs associates just say clay comb architects shouldn't i i said associate you could call it by a couple different names claycom associates architects victim associates all right so this one um we're going to keep somewhat brief somewhat i know that you know we've had a lot to celebrate
054and we're you know we don't want to take up too much of your time some of it is that frankly i have spent most of the time doing my photos are zoomed in on problems and like nicks in the wall floor tile that needs to be replaced and i didn't really want to just have a bunch of photos up there but i got a couple of good ones and we've got some milestones we want to talk about um so we're going to go ahead and start by talking about the high school project that progress billing wise is 96 complete um money authorized 37.49 million of the 39.24 and jaymond are we still on track for may of 2026 that's what we're tracking um you want to talk about work that's happening what's this kind of
055yes so last month we continued a lot of punch lists in the existing classroom areas and in the athletic area we've got some signage up in the interior of the building we've got some signage on the exterior of the building so there's a monument sign we've completed all the demolition on the north side of the building and started all the side work back on that side we continued the site fencing we've done lighting controls we finally can control our lights in the building exciting um and like i said we just continue to work on punch list items moving forward uh we'll try to get all the heat to the room signage on the interior of the building uh we are uh we poured footings on the small little foundation in area g the north side
056of the building for our little entry vestibule um for those today we'll get foundation down in the next year and we'll start paving on on the north side we've got underground utilities going in storm sewer working on some sanitary reroute and we will continue to work on punch lists uh and throughout the school uh focusing in the athletic league really trying to get everything addressed on this one thing we did have some meetings earlier we had a lot of meetings earlier today where we discussed this i do want to be up front uh there were after we demolished some of the buildings tore up some flat work uh dug up the ground there were some utilities that we found not configured in the way that we expected them to be so we have a plan
057moving forward we're working with all the team players involved i'm not anticipating it causing any problems long term but i'm raising my hand saying hey we're seeing this want to be up front that we found some unknowns and we're tackling it vitrified clay pipe uh sanitary sewer and storm sewer not exactly where we thought they were going to be and as one would guess sanitary sewer and storm sewer have to go at certain slopes and so you can't just put them wherever if it was water lines you can reroute them because they could you could do loopy if you felt like it but sewer you have to do it at a certain club so we are working with a civil engineer the utility contractor we're working with field construction um comes with a plan that's
058effect cost effective but gets exactly what the district needs so that's safe is that what was causing that smell in the second story we have we have done a couple things to address that specifically uh we we've talked to the group we haven't since the last fix was attempted nobody smelled it but if it comes back up i apologize i was unable to make the construction committee but i just heard y'all say that tracking make sure yes just for clarity's sake uh are we talking about y'all immobilizing you know at the end of like punch we'll be doing punch lists after that but to be clear there will be still teal personnel in the building working on punch list items um how long past that some of the issues that we're having in the locker
059room will be there until sometime before school but directly before the end of summer y'all will be off site correct that's correct any other questions i had one question you mentioned on your slide the outside signage what about the signage of the the pirates isn't that supposed to go up on the top of the building still in the front yes it is it's one of the things we're working with our sign company to get installed they've been on and off site a couple different times they're fully aware it's got to get installed before working with them part of that is access uh we'll have to get a lift up in there and we've got to be working around students and so we've got to be cautious with that and conscious of where we're working so
060after hours weekend work um so it's it's fully on our list and we're aware of that sign that's getting installed did the sign in the locker room get installed we're in the middle of working in the boys locker room uh and the girls locker rooms to follow okay so like i mentioned um i don't have quite as many shots this time but some of that is because a lot of the things that we're working on are either demolition or working on the finer finer details thing so this is just an example of you know the continued demolition we're calling it the back side of the building but that's over by you can see in the background there you've got the media center on the picture on the right that's the that's the building in the
061background and on the right in the background that's where your your welding shop is you've taken down several buildings um there's going to be paving that goes back there you're going to get more parking i mean then also there's just there's been work going on for prep for site paving so in some areas we've just taken the buildings down we're working on utilities in some areas where we're a little further along than these photos suggest but we're prepping for additional paving to go back there any other questions from the high school before we move on okay so one thing we wanted to touch on briefly was we've hit substantial completion for fulton elementary quite a while ago we did want to give you an update where project progress billing wise is 98 the reason we're
062bringing it back up is because we're still kind of finalizing the closeouts the paperwork the punch list and jim do you have anything to add to that yeah so we are about 95 with punch list so there's a couple little minor things that we've got to get done one of those is some vct4 replacement that's a summertime job obviously we can't we don't want to be ripping floor up and re-waxing while students are there we'll be in there right at the beginning of summer replacing some vct another item is building distribution antenna that will be started that progress progress will start on that scope of work in the next month any questions on that i do will fulton be 100 complete yeah sorry will fulton be 100 complete before school starts um i need to
063we haven't left the contract for the building distribution antenna we've got the dollars approved today to move that forward uh and so as soon as we have that let and free con with them get them on site do a site survey i'll have a better understanding of their timeline i don't anticipate that taking all summer long i anticipate them being 100 complete before school starts but i need to before i commit to anything we need to make sure i understand their exact timeline are y'all coordinating that with miss cox and the team your schedules i mean that to me it sounds like intranificate logan you're breaking up i'm having a hard time hearing that i just asked if you were coordinating that schedule with miss cox and the team yes for sure once we get
064once we get that schedule locked down yes we will anytime we're in the school we check in at the front desk let them know that we're there we know where they're working i hear you correctly that the only things that are remaining at fulton is the floor being waxed and paperwork no we've got there are punch is probably around 95 complete so there's still some other items on there they're small items that we you can't get into classrooms uh while kids are there so working around that schedule and some of that work has been completed so it's hard to go back and verify that that work being completed with kids there but we're we're working through that list the the floor needs there's bct that needs to be replaced and then then waxed and so
065the two-step process so dr austin and again i'm a apologize i missed the meeting today but is the district on the hook for this these continued extensions that is a topic of discussion that we are continuing to have with till claycomb um we have a meeting next week good morning thursday okay this week at 8 a.m next thursday okay next thursday thank you dinah i just need your help with my calendar uh at 8 a.m to specifically talk about that um there are some discrepancies we're trying to find where critical path was impacted come to an agreement there's a lot of work that goes into it do i think there are legitimate delays that are going to have extra money tied to it absolutely but there's some work that we need to put in to
066make sure we are accurate in representing what those delays were i hope that answers as much as i can until thursday at 8 a.m next week any other questions thank you all right that brings us to item 7b upward communities for children and the youth i appreciate that again this is the spring presentation. Thank you for giving me your time. Got to see a lot of good stuff here earlier. My name is Jason Roberts. I'm the owner and founder of Upward Communities. I had the pleasure of being invited to Rockport through a good friend of ours, but Mr. Jackson, my mother-in-law, has been best friends with his wife for kids, I think, and their whole team, women's group is called the Ya Ya Girls. So we were having dinner at my house, and I was
067explaining to him our latest initiative, what we are doing. And I say we because it's a team, but it's one of my companies. And we are a mission-driven company, 100% focused on solving the crisis that essential staff cannot afford to live in the same family. And so we are the only privately funded group that I know of, dedicating our resources, our expertise, and our time to the community. Now, there are amazing people like the folks here that donated $2 million today. We are trying to be like them. We see a problem, we see a situation, we are taking our money, our resources, and stepping up to solve that problem. So I'll explain it in great detail. We've been working on this program for almost three years now. Got several million dollars that I've been across
068the country spending hundreds and thousands of hours for special benefit. with superintendents, school board members, HR directors. I have five kids. You know, I almost was just completely embarrassed that we didn't know that this problem existed. And there's several reasons why and I can explain, but I want this to be a fluid conversation. I want you to ask questions, because I'm the only one doing this. And so I'm sure there's a lot of unique questions. But I'll go through a presentation which helps me stay to a script. There you go, here, here. Uh-oh. Okay, here we go. Okay. So I am familiar with Rockport. I actually have an investment here in town. It's a really nice one. It's an RV park that I did, bought several years ago. One of our main team members did
069and it's a great place. So I'd like to be here more. I just would now occupy it across the country doing this program here. And that's what we discovered when we were, we were in the middle of discovering this problem three years ago. And so we stopped all of our other alternative investments and focused all of our resources, money, into our community. So like I said, we were building a build to rent community on the west side of Austin. And the city manager of BK came to me and said, Jason, will you rent me the whole community? And these are $800,000 houses. And I said, why would you want to rent the community? He said, I spend 40% of my time trying to retain my existing staff and trying to recruit people. But he's like,
070every time I ever get a new person in the head of a department, they leave because they can't afford this job anymore. So we spent a day with a police officer. We spent a day with a fireman. We spent a day with a road maintenance guy. And the road maintenance guy is the one who told me about school districts. He said, if you think you can have it bad, there are several days we don't have bus drivers to pick up our kids. And so we went to the school district. And we spent a lot of time there. And this is where I just live in Barrett. I rode with several teachers, several coaches. And they had $52 left in the bank account in a month. They were driving 60 miles away to come into town
071in Rockport. You know, I had to pay them. And after visiting with Mr. Jackson and looking at the community, it's a similar situation. Wonderful community if you can afford to live here. And this staff is not an affordable tenant. The staff is an amazing staff. They work really hard. They got some surprise. Their duty is doing this. It's an amazing customer. It's just they're struggling. So we're not affordable housing guys. We build A-plus quality houses and communities. We just want to give this benefit of this cost analysis to the schools. We want to give this benefit to the school district to offer it to their employees as an employee benefit so you can recruit the best chemistry teacher, the best whatever program it is, special education teacher, whatever your programs are across the country and
072also housing as an employee benefit to retain that staff and encourage them to retire here in their community. So to let you, I can ramble. I will try to keep this efficient because you guys have a long night. We went to San Francisco. San Francisco had a 30% loss of their staff every year. Jefferson University had a 30% loss of their staff every year. Jefferson University had a 30% loss of their staff every year. And then Union High School, they raised their own debt. If you want to see the future of housing prices, go to California. And so you can see that they actually have, once they bought an apartment complex with their own debt, they retained 100% of their staff. Now they didn't house 100% of their staff, but they showed their staff hope.
073And so they gave people, they have a 30% of their staff is housed with a waiting list. The waiting list is so strong that they can only let them live there for seven years before they have to leave. And when they leave, they can't afford market rents. They're leaving the profession. So the reality is in the state of San Francisco, the reality is in the state of Texas, 20% of the education department is resigning every year. Here's the big number, 78% are thinking about it. So in California, San Diego is building 1,500 homes, 1,500 houses, units. They're buying it with their own debt. I'm the only one that does this without asking the school district for any money. That's a big point. So, I'm sorry, I skipped forward in my statistics here. These are from
074the Taper Report. I'm from the Taper Report here in Texas, and I think this turnover is pretty close to Rockport. It is Rockport, right? Yeah. So when you look at these numbers, and you can Google us, you'll see Lockhart ISD just announced 117 homes. Been working with those folks for two years. Going through every detail. 13 bond councils, 12 financial advisors, all the things, guys. Every attorney in the world dreaming of the worst scenario he's ever imagined. We're through. We've got Hayes being announced tomorrow. 363 homes. And I brought the drawings of those communities that are being built. So we're real. But what you're seeing is 25 percent. If any one of my businesses lost 25 percent of my staff, we'd be out of business. So you're doing a great job with the best resources
075you've got. You're patching holes in a boat with duct tape. I don't know how you do it. I've come to believe that superintendents could be the best CEOs in the country if they were running a different business. So our solution, we take enormous amounts of risk to solve this problem. That's why this problem hasn't been solved. Nobody's stepping up to the plate, and nobody's willing to take that risk. But for us, we've always seen the world a little bit different, more like Forrest Gump in Some No Millionaire kind of, but we've looked at it differently. And so we are willing to provide 100% of the capital. We're willing to cover all of the expenses. We're willing to, in our program, give the school district the exclusive lease rights to these units to restrict it. The
076only people that get the benefit of these units at this wholesale or discount price is staff. And we're usually saving people somewhere between $600 to $1,000 a month in their rent. We're going from dual-based income households to single-based income households. We have 30% of the teacher staff that we've interviewed that owns houses is wanting to sell their house to live in our community. That's just how bad it is. And it's unique in different scenarios. Everybody's different. Every school district, every zip code's different. But we do everything. We don't ask the school district to do a single thing because you're not real estate professionals. So if I'm going to provide all the capital for this, I want to put professionals in there to run the real estate operation, not educators. You guys are great, but we're
077just a little bit different. Stronger retention, higher retention, improved performance, workforce stability. At the end of the day, when you're losing 25%, you're losing 25% of your workforce. Do you have 25% of available, very qualified workforce to replace them? It just doesn't, the math doesn't work. So, however, housing is a major crisis for all people. And so even people with college degrees working in other professions. But if you could tell them, hey, I've got a college degree and you're a highly qualified individual, and you could get this amazing house at this amazing price if you were a chemistry teacher for our school, you could get a lot of people to come into this profession. That's how we're going to reverse the flow. We're going to reverse the flow of people seeking this position because the
078benefits now are more attractive and are back to where they used to be. Staff, you know, again, we've walked hours and miles and miles in their shoes. When they rent, they don't know what rent's going to be next year. When they rent, they don't know if their lease is going to be renewed. And when they rent, they don't know who their neighbors are. And they're usually in an affordable housing community. That comes with its own side effects. And they're, nobody's wanting to, you know, they're not going to be able to pay for their rent. And they're usually in an affordable housing community. That comes with its own side effects. And they're usually in an affordable housing community. That comes with its own side effects. And they're usually in an affordable housing community. That comes with
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080should they're making so many financial consequences why do they got to take all these emotional consequences as well just to maintain the profession and they ain't getting any easier so that's what i'm trying to help so here's our structure we are not affordable housing guys just so you know never going to be we're just we're solely focused on solving this problem building a plus quality houses and our entire company's focus is that an employee of the school district says wow i get this amazing house at this amazing price and i can live here consistently for the next many many years retire here because i'm an employee of the school district that's what we usually do that's everything is built around that if we don't succeed at that we fail and we lose a lot of
081money uh our communities so we do see we have one bedroom two bedrooms three bedroom and four bedroom houses um the one bedrooms and two bedrooms are really because we're trying to serve a capital of a state organization we don't know what beginning teachers need or retired teachers need two bedrooms are incredibly popular beginning teachers can almost live in a two-bedroom house for 500 bucks a month in rent with a roommate program it's crazy and they have a yard and they can grow their pots their plants and they can have their five-pound wiener dog run around and it's all the things they would want to have because we spent hours with staff asking them what do you want what would you need in order for you to stay an employee for 20 more years so
082all of our communities are not the cheapest built at all in fact they're quite expensive we designed our communities with dpz uh out of miami designed rosemary beach seaside alice's beach they are designers so all of our communities have rear-loaded garages lockhart 85 of the houses in lockhart rear-loaded garages so when you drive down the street you see front porches and front doors you don't see garages you don't see cars you don't see trash cans and the reason for that is if you look on a historical trend being a real estate professional over 30 years the communities built this way have are valued at twice the amount of money per square foot and that's what we need we need to be cool today we need to be cool 55 years from now so uh kind
083of pointing to some of the things that one in the middle bottom is the cottages the one-bedroom cottages they're super cool but you know you can't really build a good looking one-bedroom house so they're more tight and those are usually more dense towards the town center uh the community center this is these are renderings of lockhart so this is the community center for lockhart right there um see i got more photos popped up trendcules solution okay let me go to the so we got really good looking so i got better photos for you guys but the magic to our solution is we provide the revenue neutral option so these staff members are paying rent somewhere else we didn't have to create revenue we didn't have to raise property taxes we didn't have to ask you
084for donations or grants or federal restrictions we went simply went and captured their rent payment that they're paying somewhere else and we bought it here And so we brought it into our community, the magic of the master lease with the school district and the sub lease with the staff. And so staff is already offsetting the expenses. And so we can walk through this in more granular detail in a closed session, but it's just happy to – it's not crazy. It's just that we didn't raise taxes, and we don't ask you to raise taxes. We don't ask you to do your own bond debt for it or anything. It's one of the magic formulas. The process is this, is being invited, identifying there is a problem, and leadership knowing that there's an actual problem, and wanting
085to do something about it and have a solution. And so we were invited here. This is what I'm going to do. This is my purpose now. This is what I'm going to do across the country. This is my legacy I'm going to leave behind. And so we are in Texas. We are in Tennessee, and we are in Florida. We're here because of a different – that I had with Mr. Jackson and just because it's Rockport and I'd like to be here more. I had a wonderful conversation, but this is – like the good folks in the back here, we're dedicating our money, our dollars, and our resources to solving this problem. And we'd love to do it for you in Rockport if you feel like you want us to. But we're not here to sell
086anything. We're 100% here because of chance and happy to be here. So that's kind of me in a nutshell. I appreciate it. I'm sure I could add a couple more slides, but that's it. We'd appreciate it. Is there any questions? Yeah, Jason, thank you for the presentation, man. Very interesting and certainly great timing. I think this is something that the board and the district have recognized. Is it me? It's hard to look and talk at the same time. Okay. So anyway, I did – can you explain just a little bit more? I think you said this is year three. Yeah. So it's – we're doing the Rendall community, and then the complicated part of figuring this out – so I've been the first at many things. I was the first at building one of the
087largest saltwater disposal networks when the Eagleford blew up. And so in order to truly solve a problem, you have to know the problem. You have to diagnose it. Like a doctor with a disease, you have to figure it out. And so we had to spend a lot of time. And then also there's a legal part of this process. And when we started this, we got our hands on it and we found out, well, why don't we – you know, I'm an affordable housing guy. Why don't we get the government to, you know, donate dollars and make it income-restricted? Well, that didn't work. The staff didn't want to live in an income-restricted community. And why punish the staff if they make more money? They get kicked out of their house. It didn't make any sense. So
088things like that. We had to go spend time in school districts that had made other efforts. And we took all the winning parts of each program that we found, and we took the things like the moving out in seven years. We didn't like that part. So we created a 2026 version hybrid. We took all the things that we saw. So two years. And there's three legs to this stool that make it stand up. One is money, if we have the money. That's usually the biggest problem. Two is good old-fashioned land development. And nothing happens fast developing land, even when you're doing it for a good purpose for a school district. And so that's a problem. That took a year, 18 months to do that. And then the other process is politics. You've got to –
089when you're cutting the trail through the jungle for the first time, doing something nobody else has done before, and school districts are not built to be ambitious, you had to have some pioneers and some champions. And I'll tell you, Hayes ISD, which you'll hear they're announcing tomorrow or next week, 363 houses, I have 605 on the waiting list. Dr. Wright, Christine Fortune, I'll take those guys to the moon. They're amazing. Dr. Estrada Lockhart, ISD, amazing individual. So many things went wrong. Wasn't even phased. And now he's got a beautiful community. So that's – it's been three years of discovering and perfecting a scalable solution that I can do to multiple school districts in multiple key areas. Gotcha. And so three years, I heard Hayes and Lockhart. So right now, is that the two communities that
090are completed? Lockhart is – Lockhart's just an announcement. Lockhart's just an announcement. I'm hoping to have the houses for the staff of Lockhart, the first – I'm hoping to have the houses for the staff of Lockhart, the first – I'm hoping to have the houses for the staff of Lockhart, the first or second week of August when school starts. So we're breaking ground. We've had the property. We've been through the county, the city, the development, the sewer, the water, the designing of the houses. That is the community there. Hayes, we have the land designed, fully getting our approvals from city council on Thursday. And then we'll be moving forward to break ground in May and June. That's 363 houses, much bigger. So I'm hoping – probably have houses for them in September, October. Yeah, that's
091Hayes. And so Hayes is like a small town. That's a community center. That's – we're putting a childcare facility in there. That was one of the things that the staff really needed. We have a library. We also have a grocery store location at the front of it that we're doing to recruit a different grocery store to the area. So part of our programming when we manage the property is we have Christmas tree lighting ceremony, Easter egg hunts, turkey trot pockets. And it is Rosemary Beach, but in these school districts, in these areas. So how many acres, units, does it take to make it – make financial sense? Well, what you need about – you already looked at you guys, and you actually already have property that is ideal and does make a lot of sense,
092with multiple blooming ecosystems and opportunity on top of that. So you probably need around 120 to 150 to start phase one. Is that acres or units? That's units. Units. Units. A lot of acres. So Lockhart is condensed and tied as on 16 acres. Hayes is done on 88 acres. And that was one where we purchased the property from them and then kept portions of it. And then round – so now since our announcement with Lockhart and a lot of people have been watching, we have 13 more school districts in the state of Texas on deck that are – I'm going to their board meetings and getting their approvals. They've already reviewed our lease structures and everything. So we are beating the bushes around here. We are beating the bushes around. We just – now that
093one and two are done, everybody is okay with being number three and four. So if we go back to your slide, I'm sure there's going to be another meeting about this. But if we have the land, is that typical that the school district donates the land and you guys come in? Or are you typically purchasing the land? And how does that work? There's a lot of flexibility. So the beauty of this arrangement is no school district is the same. So you need an individual, creative like me. And you to help design the best program for you. So I'll give you an example. Hayes ISD had extra land that they were never going to use, but they were going to build a new middle school. So they had 200 acres. So we bought 88 acres, leaving
094room in Master Plan, the future middle school, within walking distance next to the elementary school of this community. So for you, we're buying that land for them because they just didn't need it. And so we're paying $5 million for that land. And that's part of the thing. We don't try to – we don't ask you for any favors. Because we want to build that land. Because we want to build a scalable program. And I want to hire long-term employees that are not subject to favors or government grants. So Round Rock is a very good one that we've been talking to lately. They have land. And there's other schools that have land. And they're like, well, we need housing. This is a great thing. So we're going to monetize it. But could maybe we lower the
095purchase price and get a cash price for the housing portion? Or if you have commercial activities, could we do a ground lease and a partnership so we have recurring revenue coming in? So we are 100% fans of you doing well. The more money you make, the more likely you are to be a good tenant for the long term. So we look at it as real estate experts and try to say, okay, should we buy the property? Because it's all on amortization. It all goes to what the rent's going to be. I don't have magic money. It hits the ceiling at some point. But we do craft those things with you in executive session and also those things to say, okay, what's the best strategy for this school district today? Okay. So what is your five-year,
096ten-year plan of recurring revenue? And we can possibly help you contribute to generating income off the property as well in the commercial aspect of it. So I know that several school districts in the past, and this is something we've been working on for five, six years, something like this. And we had entertained at one point going for a bond because that's what school districts are doing. So you're saying that this does not require the school district in any way, shape, or form to go for a bond? No. You don't go for bonds. So we do tax exempt bond financing on our end. The debt is on us. You're doing a true lease. We've spent many hours with the attorney general, you know, who reviews every school district transaction to make sure that this was a
097lease. It's not a debt for you. It's no lease to own, purchase, things like that either. So how is it a lease if we own the land? Well, you can do a ground lease. So there's ground leases. There's land acquisitions. In financing, there's millions of options. It just depends on which legal structure you want to do. So you're saying that you're going to do a bond lease? Yes. And then you're going to do a bond lease. Yes. And then you're going to do a bond lease. Yes. And then you're going to do a bond lease. Yes. So for Hayes, we bought the Hayes District plan. For Lockhart, we bought a phase of Perry Homes' Master Plan development. And so we don't have to use your land. If there's a great piece of property, which is
098ideal for the community, and that's where staff wants to live, we'll acquire land. We've just got to put it in the overall schedule. And we'd like to do that, so we don't need a donation in any form or fashion. Just to make sure it's very, very clear. Because you're going to get hit up by every affordable housing guy in the country about you donating your assets to make the economics work. We're the only ones pulling this off without any favors. What we want is, we have one request, is that you just tell us what your needs are, and we're hired, done for servant-based leadership. We're here to serve you. These are houses for you, for you to have the best school district in the state of Texas and also the country to use it to
099have retained the best staff. That's 100% what we ask. So if we have to sign a lease with you, I guess in advance, and then we sublease to our staff, correct? Yeah, we do that. How flexible is the number? I mean, what if we over-lease and it puts us in a bad spot? Over? In other words, if we reserve too many units. Yeah, so what I do, here's another thing, another element of risk. The number one way you would want to terminate the lease is if you have to go to your school board and ask for additional capital that you don't have. Right? You're already stretched on funds. So what I do is we post a reserve account of millions of dollars into an account that the school district has . In the event there's
100an unknown expense or unknown vacancy or something goes on. And what that reserve account does is it gives us both time. In real estate, you're not going to wake up and have a $5 million bill. You're going to lose 50 grand. You're going to lose 100 grand. I'm going to be like, red flags. What's going on? Why is there nobody in these houses? Okay, let's go rent those houses to somebody in the public market. Which is another reason why we build amazing houses is if this lease is terminated, my real estate has to compete with all the other real estate in the area. And I need to fill them with market rate . So we give money on behalf of the school district that you get to use so you're able to go to those
101reserve accounts for any unknown expenses or situations. Before you would have to go to your school district general fund for money. And so it gives us years of operating capital. Good question. And Jason, how many people, obviously you've given this presentation a number of times. I'm sure somebody has asked you, what's the cap? Yeah, the number one thing we get is, and I'm getting better at answering this question is, it's too good to be true. You know, it smells too good. And, you know, if I was a doctor and I made money performing medical, but I go to Africa and perform medical procedures, am I making African coin or something? Like, no, you're doing a good thing. I'm a builder. I'm an investor. I'm a developer. I build things. I'm not a doctor. I see
102this massive problem. I can build things and I can fund things and I can create things that solve this major problem. Nobody's going to love me for building a gated luxury community. My RV park's got a lazy river in it. Nobody sent me a thank you card, you know. I mean . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . So . You know, what I'd say is, you know, there is a problem. We are passionate about solving this problem. We are taking elements of risk that are substantially higher than any other real estate investor entrepreneur is going to take to solve the problem. So what I would say is there are wonderful people like these folks in
103the back. They didn't . Why? Did we ask them, why did you give $2 million? Is it because you wanted to pick the baseball coach? I mean, no. Is that? You're just wonderful people seeing, solving a problem. And so that's where it is different. We're not affordable housing guys. We don't make money off of the cash flow. None of the units do we make the money off of. Because we had a choice 18 months ago to decide, do we want to solve the whole problem, or do we want to make money on the cash flow? And so we went all in on creating value. And if we create value and we truly focus on this and solve this actual issue, we know how to make money. Our DNA is making money. We're going to figure,
104there's going to be an entire economy of value for this tenant that we will be able to create and make money off of. But that's, if you don't solve the problem, none of it matters. So I would say we make money building things. We cover our overhead. We raise money. We raise donations. All the things. But we're professionals. And so I can do that on a scale. Because you know why? Everybody loves this tenant. In 21 years of real estate, the best real estate tenant I've ever had has been in essential employment. . It's not a Section 8 employee. It's not an affordable housing employee. People are just awesome. So why not build real estate for the best tenant? That just looks at the world a little bit different. And so, yeah, we figured out
105a mousetrap. And our mousetrap's pretty darn good. But that's what you get when you deal with professionals. Any other questions? No, thank you so much. Thanks, guys. Nice meeting you. Thank you. All right, that brings us to agenda item 7C. It's our featured campus report. We have Rupport Fulton High School. Feature tonight with Dr. Jody Carter presenting. Because we don't ever talk about the high school. Just kidding. Never. All right, I'm going to make this very brief. Because I think a lot of the information that you're going to see on these, on the slides are things that we got to see today firsthand. So I think that that's clear. I do want to take a second to just say that I'm very proud of the work that our SALT team continues to do and pour
106it into our, rolling out our pirate path and our values. There's just some snippets. I think that's a great example of what they're doing. We have SALT groups that teachers are coming up with to enrich the staff. I'm just really proud of the work we've done. It's our first year doing this. And I'm excited to see what it's going to have next year. You saw a lot of student success. We are just excelling across the board in different CTE programs and athletic programs, fine arts, all of the things that you see. There's just so much going on. And I'm truly fortunate to work with an amazing leadership team and staff and students every single day. We are in the middle of testing. So we've been really working on trying to increase our test scores because
107that is how we're measured. There's been some collaboration going on with math and literacy. And so we're hoping to see the fruits of that work. We would be nothing without our staff. And they really are the heartbeat of our campus. Every opportunity we have to celebrate them, which I'm trying to rush through so I can celebrate one amazing one that's sitting here very patiently. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I can't wait for her moment in the spotlight. But we have amazing teams and we continue to find ways to celebrate them and continue to develop them as staff members. We also enhanced our data-driven instruction, which the other principals have mentioned that. So this is some familiar images. It's going on also at the high school. Our community partnerships is
108top notch. We have really upped our parents' presentations and are inviting parents out for a lot of things. We had the Sheriff's Department, Lieutenant Cox came out and gave us these go bags that have been wonderful. There's just so much going on in partnership with our community that we continue to see. Our Chamber of Commerce helped send some kids to Houston for a presentation. We partnered with Aransas Pass for Hope Week. There's just so much going on. CTOs, we're continuing to volunteer within the community and participating in competitions and highlighting our successes there. But I'm just going to skip right to the reason that I come to work every day is to help our teachers support our students so they can be the best they can be. And the teacher that I want to highlight
109tonight is Jamie Sestock. And she is our first year teacher on our campus, recent graduate of Texas A&M University College Station. And I had to get that in. And she is teaching welding. And I just want you to take a look at these pictures. Like she is in it. If you walk in there. You see the kids have a lot of respect for her. They made it to state and had an amazing performance there. Scored really well. Came back with a bunch of blue ribbons. And we are just very fortunate to have her on our team within our CTE program and also just part of our staff. She steps up. We've had some changes in staff and she's really stepped in to fill a gap and to get our kids ready for their second year
110program. So Ms. Sestock, thank you so much for being here. And I want to take this opportunity to just thank you publicly for all you do. All right. That brings us to item eight, a consider take possible action to approve contract with sustained ED, sustained ED required for LASSO cycle four. Dr. Robbins. All right. So Dr. Robbins is at a conference. So I am Dr. Robbins tonight. I'm very excited about this grant. Every year LASSO comes along. You can see we're in another cycle. This is actually now I'm sure we're in the second year. So we're in the third year. So we're in the fourth year. So we're in the fourth year. So we're in the fifth year. So we're in the fifth year. So we're in the sixth year. So we're in the seventh
111year. So we're in the seventh year. So we're in the sixth year. And you can see we're in another cycle. This is actually now I'm sure you're going to be surprised. TEA has named it a new name. It's called LIFT. With that, there's been a lot of incentive to truly look hard at our curriculum. Across the state of Texas, they provided this grant opportunity called LIFT, and so we applied for it. We received the grant. The total grant is $464. We are excited about it so much. six thousand dollars of that grant we have to pick a technical partner you guys will remember sustained ed is who we did our literacy framework with not too long ago a few months we have truly enjoyed coming along with partners with sustained ed they are collaborative they
112meet with us they visit us they're from all around we have went to different districts to look at curriculum and processes this has been i would say a long few months truly looking at what the needs of our curriculum is and this will be ushering us into a new curriculum for you'll see k-5 rla k-5 math 6-8 math and algebra and with that what you have in your packets or on board book is truly breaking down all that sustain is offering in that implementation support anytime you implement a new curriculum the biggest piece is the level of support and training and why we have went with them is they're detailed they're coming alongside us we are starting very early we are getting the curriculum in the hands of teachers summer learning not just summer learning
113by the beach which we're pausing for the year because this is going to be our focus very excited and so what you see is the work around lift grant we'll entertain questions and nikki's going to take back her microphone back a year trying to find it but one that's presented yes this one is not like why because jessica signed it is that what you're saying tea doesn't require me as superintendent it requires you can do your whether it's a chief academic officer whether it's a assistant superintendent that's not something the court has to do no no i noticed the contract said it started march 1st so you're not required to board but our internal policy is when anything is written over 50 000 so tea because it's a grant doesn't require us to have board
114action our internal policy says 50 000 so we can sign it now it's an in like that money passes through tea and then goes out but for transparency anything that shows fifty thousand dollars it's not our money but your policy says you want to see it so it is out of respect of our board that i bring it to you to you because our policy technically in my last district this never went in front of the board but our policy reads that any contract it doesn't say if it's a grant for the contract must come in front of the board and I'm really just being transparent with you all that we have a grant and we're going to spend this money on it. TEA doesn't require it's our internal policy. Well this is kind of
115going for that right now. This would say we're about to I'm going to go with sustained ed this 70 what is it 70 for we have to send. So is it going to come back May 1st when you write this check and you spend that money. No this is it now. This is it now. Any other questions? I just have one about something that I don't completely understand at the time but it's just in regards to the curriculum itself. I feel like every now and then we talk about change happening in the classroom so often and a lot of it's pushed down from the state right and a lot of that's our students and I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's
116a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. And the way that we're measured and all these things. To me this appears to be a new curriculum and I would question whether now is the time and obviously I think you're going to tell me yes. Because otherwise you wouldn't be doing it. But I am kind of questioning how does that happen in the classroom. Does it push us a year back? Does it slow us down? do the teachers have to pause and learn does it change their approach absolutely so i want to talk about the evolution of bluebonnet it is not new it has a new name so actually uh when covid happened we came out of covid tea brought forth some some
117curriculum called amplified eureka bonnie would know what some of those are carnegie and started working on implementing those in districts the rigor level the support for diverse learners in this curriculum is very strong i have experienced implementing those under their other names texas i'm going to talk about texas they like to have their own name for things notice bluebonnet is a texas name eureka was california and amplify was new york and i might have got them switched up california i already proved you wrong in our last committee meeting i'll look it up for you i did i promise i was like i know it's california anyways we don't want to like i love texas but we want to say something came from california so i'm just being honest i'm from california i'm sorry everybody out
118there watching absolutely i'm a san diego native so i can say that right now here's the thing they spent the time they took the tex aligned it to the tex put the bluebonnet name have been working through the errors that in the curriculum so it is not new they have been doing iterations of this curriculum fixing it to match the alignment with our tex and then gave it the bluebonnet name now with any new curriculum change you must go through that change theory and there's going to be training there's going to be teachers that feel like they're starting anew you can't get around that especially when it's a new curriculum i'm going to be very honest benchmark is what we talked about over the years if you track back when we started losing ground in
119our scores it is when benchmark was implemented and i have walked all the way through that to say like what is that now there's a variables that went with that but when i am doing classroom walks with our team i am seeing gaps in that curriculum there is no perfect curriculum but the level of support that we can get in implementing this and i'm also trying to look through at the horizon we are about to in 27 years and so i hope we can get out of that tailgate we've been talking about this for years we are seeing a lot of progress with the children but i want to make sure we also have a full government program and the i'm also trying to look through at the horizon we are about to end 27
120years and so i just want to 28 have three uh tests the beginning middle and end of year and i believe the alignment is going to start looking like our blue bonnet i cannot say that's the case but i'm trying to look ahead for our district i could keep going logan well isn't it true like when the state tea takes over a district for filling they implement bluebonnet that's what i've i've heard too so it's better be proactive now than reactive later we haven't had eureka and we had carnegie last year it was our first year in middle school again carnegie now changed to bluebonnet so our middle school while it's a new name they have experienced it because it is truly the same great no other questions i'll entertain a moment a motion i'll
121move that we approve the contract with sustain ed required for lasso cycle for grant and the amount of four hundred sixty six thousand dollars all right we have a motion made by mr burton second by mrs austin any further discussion if not we'll take a vote all in favor any opposed motion carries six zero brings us to eight b consider take possible action to approve the purchase of a replacement hvac unit for the rotc and culinary arts building mr milwatney okay so this is for a 40 ton unit that services rotc and culinary that's part of our long-range facilities plan is one of the large units we have so this also includes replacement the unit and implementing it into our controls our floating automation system which is now automated logic and the uh total was
122160 thousand forty seven dollars and thirty nine cents and i put on here not to exceed 170 just in case whenever they're installing an unforeseen happens just this is a little bit of a buck on that mike i know it was on the uh the livestock replacement plan but do you have any idea how approximately how old this unit is that one was put in around 2012 so 13 13 that one also did make it through the hurricane as well so that's it's it's showing some some wear i look for a motion i make a motion to approve the purchase of a replacement hvac unit for the rotc and culinary arts building not to exceed 170 000 to be paid out of bonds funds second all right we have motion bay miss randall seconded by
123mr burton any discussion if not we'll take a vote all in favor any opposed motion carries six zero that brings us to eight c considered take possible action to approve the purchase of replacement hvac unit for the fulton elementary office area this is a 35 ton unit at the service it's a multi-zone unit that services the fulton office area it was put in in 2011 again so this is one of the large units and it's also part of the our long-range facilities plan and the total for this one 140 659.39 and i'm here i put a not to exceed 150 000. and i just want to remind i believe this is in our board hub under a spreadsheet so this is part of the bond plan so i'll look for a motion i make a
124motion to approve the purchase of a replacement hvac unit for fulton elementary office area not to exceed 150 000 to be paid out of bond funds all right motion made by mr burton seconded by mrs randall any further discussion if not we'll take a vote all in favor aye any opposed motion carries six zero it brings us to 8d consider take possible action to accept the donation of one million nine hundred and fifty five thousand three dollars for the construction of the baseball and softball field turf pursuant to district policy cdc local again y'all accept your donation uh the wonderful donation of the the chapman family because it's designated for a specific purpose the board is required to accept the donation and i did say before uh almost two million so i'm just being this
125is the correct number so i have a motion i make a motion that the board accepts the donation from tim and debbie chapman of one million fifty five thousand three dollars for the construction of the baseball and softball field perp pursuant to the district policy cdc local a motion made by ms austin second Mrs. Randall any discussion if not we'll take a vote all in favor aye strong eyes any opposed motion carries six zero thank you that brings us to 8e which is to consider take possible action to approve the procurement method for construction services for the district's baseball softball fields project and delegate authority to the superintendent to proceed with the procurement this is just so like we're going to go through a local co-op so this is by board contracts this is just
126us approving that procurement i make a motion that the board we're going to make i make it i make a motion that the board approved the interlocal cooperative purchasing method as providing the best value for the district in connections with construction services for the district's baseball softball fields project and delegate authority to the superintendent to evaluate and select a contractor or contractors to provide the construction services for the district with the contractor offering the best value to the district from those available through any of the local cooperatives in which the district is a current participant all right we have a motion made by ms allston seconded by mr burton any further discussion or questions if not we'll take a vote all in favor aye any opposed motion carries 6-0 brings us to 8f to consider
127take possible action to approve ryan sanders sports services llc to install baseball and softball facility upgrades using the interlocal agreement by board number 737-24 all right so this is both mike and myself i'm going to start first if mike's good with that he's going to do more of the the contract but i'd like to bring to your attention that it does show the field and some additional things now when we went for bond 2022 and you brought together the committee this is the language that the committee decided on for our athletic complex specifically site paving parking concessions restroom tennis court lighting softball baseball stands and fields and so truly an enhancement of our athletic complex you will see that it says stands in fields and we have done some work and i'm going to show
128you pictures in a minute of fields but as you can hear tonight the amount of money that has been donated fields are very expensive so here's what we have done so far on our left side we have done the tennis court lighting we lighting we have done the baseball we have done the softball this is all with bond money we have done the seating for both baseball softball concession stands both baseball softball and they have beautiful new restrooms all part of what our committee had asked for what we need to still propose for bond is we talked with the committee and what were those enhancements dugouts came up i have scoured all of our meeting notes and everything dugouts came up the benches the helmet racks really truly making a facility where the facility is
129going to be a great place for our sports teams fencing and i'm going to show you some of the fencing and why that needs to be there new foul poles padding if you look at our softball one if you come around and i know you're not our players on the field but it looks like it's been there for a while the the letters are peeling off both baseball and softball and then we actually don't really have bullpens we have grass with some dirt thrown on down and so what we would like to do is look at our fields we got a wonderful donation i am so grateful because here's what our fields look like they're uneven i think they're injury prone because the unevenness the grass is not growing in certain areas we do our
130best in a minute you're going to see an area where we're actually having to dig up and get our home plate down on the softball field in the middle of season we just need a lot of work to our fields right now here's what we have with current conditions in our dugouts i am sorry that i'm not sure what that material is for our boys dugout but it is getting torn up just because it's not really solid work solid materials and then our benches i'm sure we have done our most amazing job making sure we have something for them but you can see it looks like we built it and our guys do amazing work but i do think we can provide better quality for our kids in there and it was what our bond
131committee voted on providing there's the inside it's actually growing plants inside of the dugout as well i just wanted to show you that here's kind of our bullpen area we've done as best as we could with the materials but i think it is time to upgrade what we are giving our students here's our girls so i always feel if we're doing it for the boys we're doing it for the girls they've got a chain link dug out there with one bench and we've all seen our softball girls in there there's a lot of them that's where we're going to be and that's where we're going to be and that's where we're really injury prone on our home plate we're taking care of that those are our batting cages and our bullpens all look at that
132picture that you have up there our fences you know i think i have a pretty keen eye but it kind of does that both baseball and softball it is lumpy and so we would like to truly enhance and upgrade based on what our committee asked for and because of the generous donation we will be able to tackle a better field for our kids and what i want and what i'm most excited to show you thank you chapman family again is this is rs um rs3's work this is their actual work on softball fields at the top and our baseball fields their baseball fields at the bottom stellar work i mean it just pops and i cannot wait to see an rf logo on our pictures so now mike's going to answer any questions you will
133see that in the contract it says what the fields were cost what the dugouts will cost with the bullpen because of the donation they will be covering the fields we will be doing the ancillary the dugouts the bullpens the fencing foul poles and that is money that was set aside by our bond committee in bond 2022. and i just want to uh i appreciate that review for those of us that were on the bond committees and and went through the whole bond process we definitely set aside this money and i want to remind the board that um a lot of the money that we used for that was set aside for baseball and softball specifically we took away from the gmp or the yeah the gmp of the high school that's because there's no sense
134of paying an architect a fee and a teal construction a fee and so we took it on our ourselves to save money to build these projects now with that said i want to remind the board that we are not going to be doing this for the rest of the year we are going to be doing this for the rest of the year we are going to be doing this for the rest of the year we knew that we would have to have professional companies that do this you know build dugouts and do the fencing and stuff like that so this was to save money so it's not anything new the the amount of money adding to this isn't anything new it's in all the spreadsheets on the bond we allocated four million dollars towards baseball
135softball uh sports events the the tennis courts and things like that we are still within we're under budget a lot so i say a lot i don't want to use the word a lot i don't know the exact amount but we are managing appropriately keeping the the numbers with the bond committee's request and every time one of these comes up i i go right to that spreadsheet and i ask kathy and and dr austin multiple times am i missing anything are we missing anything i want to make sure that we're not overspending and i am assured we are not so any questions for oh go ahead and so on that you're going to see the reason why it comes together in one contract is because the field and all of this work together was able
136to provide us a really good price and so that's why it's all one contract that's why you're going to in a minute have another motion that says where we'll put that money so the donation will go to the fields but then we our bond money will cover the things i explained mike i didn't mean anything so i just wanted to go over the numbers so uh obviously they'll say that number again one million nine hundred thousand dollars one million nine hundred fifty five thousand and three dollars would go towards the turf both baseball and softball and then all the other facility upgrades that dr austin mentioned dugouts fencing bullpens foul holes uh with uh 393 856. is there any 93 846 out of bond funds is it um i just don't have a calculator here
137is all of the options that are provided those are we're approving all of those that's right because there's a long list that totals every all other options minus the turf field is the oh equals that 390 thousand okay thank you mr burton i thought you'd have more questions i can't i uh i emailed uh mike today a couple of questions warranty of course what's covered um did you want to go over that really quickly or the warranty because the one that that i really liked was the the uh pitcher's mound and all that stuff every year it's actually a 10-year warranty i first said eight but then on here it's ten so i confirm rs3 it is 10 years and so every year that comes with also a replacement of the pitcher's mound and batter's
138boxes because those get worn so every year they come out they're going to leave that on site so we'll store it which that's nothing but then they'll come out once a year on the off season and replace both both fields pitcher mounds and better boxes if there is no questions i will entertain a motion i make a motion to approve ryan sanders sports services llc to install baseball and softball facility upgrades using one million nine hundred fifty five thousand and three dollars of donated funds for the turf field in three hundred hundred and ninety three thousand eight hundred and fifty six bond funds for all other upgrades using interlocal agreement by board number seven three seven dash two four we have a motion made by mrs. Austin seconded by mrs. Randall any other questions discussion
139if not we'll take a vote all in favor aye any opposed motion carries 6-0 that brings us to 8g consider take possible action to approve the budget amendment for the donation of the baseball and softball turf fields this Henderson any questions if not all entertain a motion I make a motion to approve the budget amendment increasing revenue and appropriations and the general fund from the donated funds for baseball and softball turf fields as presented all right motion made by mr. Burton seconded by mrs. Arnell any discussion not we'll take a vote all in favor any opposed motion carries 6-0 does not finish the meeting by any means we're just getting started all right that brings us to agenda item 9 our superintendent's report dr. Austin all right Thank You Chapman family once again appreciate you
140so much you all right thank you so much for joining us today we are going to move to our teaching and learning report and now I've got the clicker in my hand like I said dr. Robbins is out of conference so I have again stepped in and I am excited to talk about our gifted and talented showcase last year was my first year to go over to the high school Commons that's where it will be on Monday May 4th watch our gifted and talented students do their showcase of their projects please come out walk around talk to our kids the students and the skills that they've learned throughout the year they get to show it off and get to see the amazing work if not next time I'm going to bring it to this board
141meeting and they can present no I'm kidding I'm kidding make sure it's the April one got it and then I truly want you to go out go to the showcase talk with our kiddos so they can present and that's our teaching and learning for today questions all right we're gonna move now to the Q&A session No? Look at my list. Sorry, guys. Who is it? Kathy? There you go. It's up there. So, I have a business health report. One thing I just want to point out to you is on the investment report, you'll start seeing, I'm starting to see some short-term, short, long-term investments, 9 to 12 months. So, I'm starting there. I've been in the pool, so I've been in those for the years. So, keep it in mind, our cash flow is not
142going out any farther than a year on those. Any other questions? I'd be happy to answer them. All right. I don't think there's any questions. We're going to move to Molly Adams, Human Resources Report. So, it is definitely a busy time of year, but I do want to highlight two amazing celebrations we have. In our own education and training CTE program at the high school, Kinley Aris is on the top right. She has been going over to the middle school campus, specifically working with the high school students. She's in the sixth grade classroom. She is not only leading small group instruction, she got up to deliver a whole warm-up and is doing a phenomenal job. She actually just secured her education aid certification, and we have a special surprise coming for her next month. So,
143we're super excited. She is going to be a phenomenal student. I think she's at Fulton this year. Fulton. I thought it was Fulton. I thought it said Ms. Odovitas on the bill. That's why I'm thinking middle school. But she is going to be an amazing, amazing educator. She is already showing great potential, and we are very excited for her. The next is Ms. Grunden at Live Oak. She is a recent Aggie graduate, and her class was able to surprise her. We were kind of hiding in her classroom. Denise did a fabulous job of entertaining them while we were waiting. But they got to offer her the job. And they had signs, and the cutest signs. We approve of this hire. Oh, it was adorable. But they got to extend the offer to her, and I
144believe the student said, will you be our teacher forever? And so, it was an amazing experience when we have student teachers. That have poured into our students, and we want to keep them here. And what a better way than students to offer the job to her. So, great things coming. Great people that we work with. So, excited. Hey, I had a real quick question on the vacancies. The current vacancies, is that for the 2026-2027 year, or is that just to finish out the year? It's a combined. Okay. If there's no more questions, we're going to move to our athletic department. Okay. So, we have a department report. Coach Sosa. All right. Thank you. We have the participation numbers for the spring sports. And I think the big, big celebrations that we already did academics. We
145did state qualifiers for wrestling and powerlifting. But the big celebration that we had last week was with our track program. For the first time that I know, talking with a lot of people, we won the JV boys, JV girls, varsity boys, and varsity girls team championships for the district 30, district track meet held last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We had some weather delays, but that went on Friday. And it was a great celebration with our track program that shows us that track is just one of those, it's quote unquote, a dying sport. No one really wants to start to do that. But with our coaching program, it's a dying sport. So, we had a great celebration with our coaching staff. And the kids, ultimately, it's those kids that wake up early in the morning, that
146stay late after school, that do the hard work. And very proud of them. Very proud that we're hosting the area track meet on Thursday of this week. So, again, Coach Swinford, Coach Blue, and all the coaching staff, they've been really got to celebrate this on Friday. And then on Saturday, it was, boom, area track meet mode. And hosting a track meet. There's a lot going on. there's a lot of people, a lot of volunteers, and a lot of work that goes into that. So very proud of our team there. Before that, we obviously, we had our golf team, the girls' golf team. They won district. They will actually be participating in the regional tournament tomorrow and on Thursday in Victoria Colony Creek. Our boys got second team runner-up, or the team was runner-up, second place
147in district, and they performed today and yesterday in the boys' regional golf meet. They had a great time. Our season has come to an end. We don't have anybody advancing for the boys, but we're very hopeful for the girls. Also tomorrow and Friday, we have our tennis, regional qualifiers for tennis. We had two district champions with Landry and Dustin, and then we also had a team, a team, doubles also advance as well so they will be going up to San Antonio tomorrow and hopefully performing on Friday as well. It's the championship season so getting going. Any questions? 212. What's that one extra degree? If we don't have any questions we'll move to our operations report. Mr. Nelotny. Okay so first on the list we have some parking lot striping done. The picture on the left
148there that's actually where the portable bullpen used to be auctioned off and then we then had the county came out and paved that area so now we have a nice parking lot and then we had it striped over Good Friday weekend. We also restriped all of Live Oak all the striping the same weekend they came out and restriped all of Live Oak. And then picture on the right yeah did some more lighting at baseball just around the concessions and then you can't really see them too well but John Mr. Carvajal there's our electricians on the ladder at the press box there for baseball putting a light there. As you come into baseball it helps kind of light that area up. We also added a light to help light up the concession area as well because
149there's some concerns about lighting there and that issue is a little dark so we added some lights there. It seems to be lit up we checked it at night and everything and Sean you can back me up on that. It seems like it's lit up pretty well so pretty happy with how that turned out. And our budget we started the year 670,500. We've encumbered 462,734. We've got a lot of things that we need to do. We've got a lot of things that we need to do. On our last4Ward expenditure since last operations report it's 26,533 and we have 207,766 remaining at the press of the year. Any questions? No questions that ends our superintendent and department reports. All right that brings us to Item 10 our consent agenda. The superintendent may consolidate items on the
150Agenda Summary for possible Group Action or any Trustee may suggest Group Action on the items to expedite the meeting. Are there any questions or items you'd like to pull? There are two sets of minutes in there. If not I'll entertain a motion. Thank you. Thank you. a motion to approve the consent agenda i have a motion with a second all right a motion by mr garnell second by mr burton any further discussion take a vote all in favor aye any opposed motion carries six zero all right that brings us to item 11 closed session so at this time the board of recess in the executive session pursuant of the texas government codes section five five one zero seven one five five one zero seven two five five one zero seven four and five five one
151zero seven six and the time is 8 37 pm