Regular Board Meeting - November 17, 2025

001Thank you guys for that performance. If you'll just be patient with us, apparently there is a small traffic issue on Five Mile Line, so a couple of the board members will be here shortly. It is 6.06. I call this meeting of the Sherrilyn Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present and that this meeting has been duly called and notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551. Now, board members that are present today forming the quorum are Mr. David Keith, Mrs. Megan Sullivan, Mr. Hector Rivera, Dr. Oliveira. Joining us via Zoom is Mr. Julio Sedla, right over here, and myself, Maritza Venezia. As we move on, we're going to start with, I'll ask everyone to

002stand for the invocation given by Mr. David Keith, and I'll ask you to remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance given by Jesse Jensen, Elementary Student Scarlett Elizabeth Garcia, and Oliveira Garza, Elementary Student Mila Mendoza. Bow your heads and pray. Father God, we come together for the good of the children in our schools. Give us your wisdom as we make decisions that will affect them today and in the years to come. Help us to work well together, recognizing each of our students, parents, educators, and community members are here because we love children and we want what is best for them. We ask for your blessing and your guidance. Amen. Amen. Amen. In your name we pray. Amen. Please stand and kindly remove all headgear as we honor our nation with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed

003by the Texas Pledge. Good evening, Superintendent Dr. Howard, Madam President Venezia, esteemed board members and community. It's an honor to be here tonight representing our elementary campuses. My name is Scarlett Garcia. I am a proud fifth grader and the 2025 Jesse Jensen Elementary Student Spotlight, where we are the... light that leads. And I'm Mila Mendoza, a proud sixth grade student at the 2025 O'Garza Elementary Student Spotlight, where every journey matters and every learner counts. At this time, please join us for the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the Texas Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ready? Ready? One, two, three. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas,

004one state under God, one and indivisible. On behalf of all the students, we would like to extend our gratitude. Thank you for always keeping your hearts focused on kids. We are grateful for the opportunities you create for us, for believing in us, and for making sure we have what we need to succeed. Your leadership makes a difference in our lives every single day. Thank you, Scarlett Mila. Thank you both so much. For the record, Andrew Riddle joined at 610. We'll now move on to item number five, Sherrilyn Student Spotlight, celebrating our shining stars. Nancy? Good evening, Madam President Venecia, Superintendent Dr. Howard, esteemed Board of Trustees, and distinguished guests. We just heard from two remarkable students, Margo Elizabeth Garcia from Jesse Jensen Elementary and Mila Mendoza from O'Garza Elementary. Their voices... These reflect the promise,

005talent, and bright future of our Sherrilyn ISD students. Both Scarlett and Mila were selected as student spotlights for their leadership character and the way they represent the very best of our district. Tonight, we are proud to celebrate them publicly and honor their achievements. First, we recognize Scarlett Elizabeth Garcia. Scarlett is a shining example of dedication and school pride. She inspires her peers and reminds us of the power of a positive future. She is a strong spirit and a positive attitude. And a strong spirit. Roll the tape. The Sherrilyn ISD Student Spotlight, where students believe, shine, and inspire. Hi, I'm Scarlett Elizabeth Garcia, a fifth grader at Jensen Elementary. I love learning new things and being a part of my school activities. I'm in cheer, choir club, volleyball, and radio club. I also serve as a

006treasurer for a student council. I compete in U of A, take part in a talent show every year. I always try to give my best. And have fun while doing it. After this, I go out and learn guitar, take some of my classes, and even teach myself American Sign Language. I also go to CCD classes. It helps me learn about faith, kindness, and helping others. I like to make people smile and learn how to help me whenever I can. Being kind is one of the best ways to lead. Thank you, Sherrilyn ISD. I'm proud to be a Jensen student spotlight. Next, we honor Mila Mendoza from O Garza Elementary. Mila is an outstanding student who demonstrates her talent. She is a leader in leadership kindness and a commitment to excellence the Sherrilyn ISD way. Her

007example shows us that even at a young age, students can leave a lasting impact on their school and their community. Roll the tape. The Sherrilyn ISD student spotlight where students believe, shine, and inspire. Hi, I'm Mila Mendoza a sixth grader at O Garza Elementary. I love learning, leading, and being part of my school community. I'm proud to serve as our student council secretary and co-founder of the Sherrilyn ISD. I'm captain of the cheer team. These roles teach me teamwork, confidence, and school spirit. I also compete in UIL calculator skills. I like setting goals and pushing myself to do better each day. Outside of school, I play volleyball, flag football, and basketball. I help with team funders and love supporting my teammates. I enjoy helping others and being some of my friends in the count off.

008I believe when we lift others up, we can all grow stronger together. Thank you, Sherrilyn ISD. I'm proud to be a Dimebag and represent O Garza Elementary. At the center of the school, I'm a student at the University of Minnesota. I'm proud to be a student at the University of Minnesota. I'm proud to be a student at the University of Minnesota. I'm proud to be a student at the University of Minnesota. I'm proud to be a student at the University of Minnesota. Ora, next time, I'm going to invite both of our student spotlights along with their families, teachers, and administrators. that are present to join us on stage to be recognized. Britt Jones-Smith is a renowned teacher and a member of the defense team. Great job, students, board members. I ask that you please remain

009at the front of the stage after our student spotlight. I ask that you please remain at the front of the stage after our student spotlight. Congratulations to our student spotlights. As a reminder from our guest present today, we will be sharing all of our pictures on all of Sherrilyn ISD's board board boards. We will be sharing all of our pictures on all of Sherrilyn ISD's board boards. social media channels. Make sure to follow, like, share, love, and make sure that you grab the pictures from there as well. That takes us on to item six, board commendations. As we continue our evening, we now move on to this important item where we recognize our students and our staff. Before we begin, let's take a moment to recognize some of our most important guests. Let's hear a

010big round of applause for our parents and our guardians present here today. Families, please raise your hands! Raise them up in the air! Let's give them a very warm Charlotte ISD welcome. Thank you for your support and encouragement. As we proceed, we invite our honorees to join us on stage when your name is called for recognition and photos. Our communications team will capture official photos and share them on our social media channels so you can celebrate and share. First up, we have the 2023-2025 Texas A-rated Schools with Disabilities Distinctions. So we are recognizing our campuses and to recognize our campuses this evening, we ask our principals that are representing their campuses to please stand up. And they're ready to go and we're gonna have them already come on stage. As we line them up, I

011will be reading each one of their distinctions. First up, we have Sheridan High School, Lorian Garza Principal. 2023 over our Rating A, Distinction 7. 2024 over our Rating B. Distinction 7. 2024 over our Rating C. Distinction 7. 2023 over our Rating D. Distinction 7. 2025 over our Rating A. Distinction 7. Next, Sheridan Pioneer High School, Erica Julie Carranza Principal. 2025 over our Rating A. Four Distinctions. Sheridan Advanced Academic Academy, Diana Rojas Principal. 2023 over our Rating A. Four Distinctions. 2024 over our Rating A. Three Distinctions. 2025 over our Rating A. Two Distinctions. franchengbraine iPadаны. Wir We have Mr. Casuz Flores Principal. 2023 over our rating A. Seven Distinctions. 2024 over lighting A. Six Distinctions. 2025 over our Rating A. Distinction 6. Sherlan Rose Junior High School, we have Ivan Carr Principal. 2023 over our Rating

012A. Four Distinctions. 2024 over our Rating A. Seven Distinctions. 2025 over our Rating A. Six Distinctions four Distinctions. 2025 over our Brames. 24 over our Rating A. Seven Distinctions. 2025 over our Rating A. Seven Distinctions. 2025 over our Rating E. Кор Gray Junior High kommt aus der Lake Kentucky We have Mr. Casuz Flores Principal, 2023 over our Rating A. Horgan Mr. stay. Yanika Jayekjmire Commission334 over our Rating A. Overall rating A, four distinctions. Ruben Hinojosa Elementary, Araceli Rios Principal. 2023, overall rating A, five distinctions. 2024, overall rating A, six distinctions. 2025, overall rating A, five distinctions. Lloyd and Darlene Benson Elementary. We have Mr. Jose Silva. 2023, overall rating A, six distinctions. Harry Shimatsu Elementary, Claudia Garza Principal. 2023, overall rating A, five distinctions. Harry Shimatsu Elementary, Claudia Garza, again. Overall rating A, 2024, one

013distinction. 2025, overall rating A, one distinction. And last but not least, Donna Hornicky Elementary. Ms. Norma Salazar Principal. 2023, overall rating A, five distinctions. Facts have been long awaited. We congratulate our principals, our campuses, our students, our staff, but our families as well for these honors that are being received tonight. Facts as well, we do want to make sure that we recognize our superintendent, Dr. Elaine Howard, receiving these facts on behalf of our district for 2023, 2024, and 2025. She's like, oh. She's such an actress. I know. She's trying. I know. That's awesome. That's awesome. All right. We move on to our next commendation of the evening, and that is our 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program. Up first, from Sherryland High School, we have four students that are going to be presented this evening. Each

014year, approximately 1.3 million high school juniors across the nation enter this highly competitive program by taking the preliminary SAT National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. Of those students, only a small percentage, and the highest percentage are recognized for their exceptional academic performance. This evening, we are proud to honor our National Merit semifinalists, who represent the top 1% of high school seniors in the United States, and our National Merit Commended Students, who placed among the top three for nationally recognized. These designations reflect not only exceptional academic ability, but also dedication, perseverance, and a commitment to an excellence. Representing Sherryland High School, tonight, we have Lucas Garcia, who I want to make note is a National Merit semifinalist. I do want to make a special note that sometimes our students are unable to be here for commendations because,

015as you well know, they are very involved in multiple extracurricular activities, and it's really hard for them to balance everything out. Lucas, we're going to have you step just to the side for one second, and then we'll do a picture with all of our students from our three campuses. Next up, from Pioneer High School, we recognize Cesar, Echavarria, Commended, Paxton Berry, who is unable to be here with us this evening, but we are going to have a picture with both of our students together. And if you notice up there, we have a picture of Paxton. So let's give Paxton a round of applause. On to American Legion Boy State is designed to bring out the best in America's future leaders. Attendees are selected because they are the best representatives of both their schools and their

016communities. At Boy State, participants learn government, from the township to state level. The training is objective and centers on the structure of city, county, and state governments. Operated by students elected to various offices, Boy State activities include legislative sessions, court proceedings, law enforcement presentations, assemblies, band courses, and recreational programs. To recognize three students from Sheridan ISD with this honor, we have Alan Gabriel Salazar-Balandra from Sheridan High School, Marcela Gonzalez-Diaz from Sheridan High School, and Abraham Garcia from Sheridan Pioneer High School. We also have a representative from the American Legion Boy State. Continuing with tradition, we bring back our spectacular series. And we want to commend our special education department for going out to our Special Olympic and having our Special Athletes, Olympic athletes participate. And this was just this past October, pardon me, in the

017Area 1 Special Olympics Bowling Competition. Our students demonstrated incredible effort, determination, and pride, reminding us of the joy and strength they bring to every event. We also extend our heartfelt appreciation to the parents, coaches, and staff who support and encouragement made this experience possible. We are truly proud of our athletes and are grateful for everyone who helped them shine. Let's give a round of applause. The next slide that you're going to see is representative of Sheridan High School's Boys Cross Country. They're called the Boys Cross Country. I want to acknowledge the girls cross country team as well as the athletes who are unable to be here. Nathan Salinas, who we're going to recognize as a cross-country state finalist. But let's give Nathan a big round of applause. We'll show you that he's running outside somewhere,

018training for his next competition. I do want to note that Nathan achieved first place in the Valley, first place at District, first place at Regionals, and fifth place at State. Next on the lineup, Sheridan High School Girls Cross Country team, on October 7, 2025, girls cross-country proudly represented Sherryland High School at the 31-5A District Championship at the Springfest Park in McAllen, earning the district team title and an individual district title, and the team advanced to regionals on October 20, 2025 in Corpus Christi and placed top eighth in the region and advanced at a state qualifier, Sofia Garza. Congratulations goes out to our girls' Sherryland cross-country team for capturing the team district championship title and advancing to the regionals and placing eighth in the region. Let's hear it for them. We want to make a special

019note to Sofia Garza for being our district champion overall and placing fifth in the region and advancing to state and placing 19th in state. Next up, we have Sherryland High School team tennis. Let's hear it for team tennis. 5A Region 4 regional semifinalist and UIO 5A Region 4 regional semifinalist. You see their picture, beautiful picture. picture up there on their slide. And this team works very hard the entire season, but the entire year as well. A few more for our moms. There we go. Congratulations, team tennis on all your accomplishments. Switching gears, we move on to Pioneer High School. On September 27, members of the Pioneer High School band proudly competed at the TMEA Region 15 Orchestra Winds and Percussion Auditions. All three students earned a spot in the prestigious TMEA Region 4 Orchestra. Thank

020you for exemplifying the SISD excellence. Shanaya Andol, flute fourth chair. And Camilo del Angel, Percussion fourth chair. On to athletics at Pioneer High School. Now we recognize the high school girls cross-country regional qualifier. On October 7, Yaretzi Bentejo proudly represented Sherryland Pioneer High School at the 31 5A District Championship, receiving eighth place. receiving eighth place. And in addition to the high school girls, we also recognize the six-pronged girls class in the region. earning her regional spot for the 2025 cross-country season. A highlight, she has been competing at the highest level all season. With her leadership on the field, she helped our team receive first place overall at two meets and this season. Congratulations, Yadezi Buentegro, eighth place at the district meet. We switch gears back to Diamondback Team Tennis. This fall, the Diamondback Team Tennis

021participated in the team tennis competition. We had 18 students participate in the playoffs and eventually advanced to the third regional semifinalist. Their picture is up on the slide. We have Brandon Garcia, Josiah Guerra, Diego Canchola, Diego Mireles, Alexis Quintanilla, Noah Beza, Evan Torres, Christian Vela, Josh Rivera, Emiliano Mireles, Daphne Gellert, Cassandra Rodriguez, Natalie Garza, Alexandra Moya, Alison Gonzalez, Harris Mata, Madison Perez, and Regina Treviño. Big smiles, athletes. But not least, we would like to recognize the Pioneer High School Volleyball. A huge congratulations goes out to our Pioneer High School Volleyball team and her coach, Candy Holly, along with assistant coaches Armando Macias, Nicole Villarreal-Sandoval, Jesus Garza, and Hilario Confian. For an outstanding season, our girls volleyball team has captured the SISD Volleyball Championship, along with a district by district area championship, and have an overall

022record of 34-4. This remarkable season marks the second consecutive year that the Pioneer High School Volleyball program has advanced to the Sweet 16, which is the regional semifinal playoff round, a true testament to the hard work, dedication, and excellence of Sherri-Land ISD. One more for the moms. Congratulations, Pioneer High School Volleyball. This concludes our commendation portion of the evening. We also want to give a sincere thank you for his service to our board member, Mr. David Keith. This month we honor our veteran, so we thank you for your service, sir, and we thank you for your service as our board member as well. To our families, thank you for inspiring your children to believe in themselves, dream boldly, and pursue a future full of hope. Your love and guidance make moments like this possible. Remember,

023believe in excellence, believe in Sherri-Land ISD. Now we're going to move on to item number seven, public comments. Here there is one public comment here today. If you can come up to the mic. Oh, perfect, Mr. Salinas. Okay, Mr. Salinas, before you get started, I'm gonna have to read some fun stuff. And then when I'm done reading it, if you could state your name and address for the record. Audience participation at a board meeting is limited to the portion of the meeting designated for that purpose. At all other times during a board meeting, the audience shall not enter into discussion or debate considered by the board unless recognized by the presiding officer. No presentation shall exceed five minutes. Any individual who wishes to participate in this portion of the meeting shall sign up with the

024presiding officer or designee before the meeting begins and shall indicate the topic of which they wish to speak. You now have five minutes. All right, thank you very much. Thank you, board members, for having us. Dr. Howard, thank you, everybody. First time ever being involved to this level. And I am very grateful. I am enjoying it quite a bit. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I'm here because of the Sherrilyn ISD Aquatic Center. And I left you a copy, I believe. Each one of you has a copy. We do. Perfect. So basically, what I'm here to tell you is, ask you is, please, please, can we have an aquatic center of our own? I've had kids already in college and have other kids in elementary, and they've been through the swim program. Unfortunately,

025we haven't had an auditorium of our own. Right now, our swim program swims at Bandworth Duck Pond, three and a half feet deep, which is not deep enough for competitive swimming, obviously not deep enough for water polo. So where do we go to water polo for? We've got to rent Mission ISD swimming pool outdoors. So we're all over the place. We ask for your help, please. And getting this out there. Thank you. I'm going to turn it over to our next speaker. Our next speaker is Swim Aquatic Center, hopefully soon. Now, the Swim Aquatic Center is not just for the high schoolers who are in swimming. No, no, no, no, no. We want the aquatic center for everybody. If you have kids in elementary, bring them over. Let's teach them how to swim. Harlingen ISD

026has a really nice aquatic center. They bus your kids to the Aquarium, I'm sorry, Aquatic Center and they teach them how to swim. So that is wonderful. That's what we want to do. Okay, so we want to engage the entire community with our new Aquatic Center. Do you guys have any questions for me regarding the positive points of having an Aquatic Center? Anybody? Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I really appreciate it. You're welcome. And I just came from the other meeting with the, in FAR today. So it's been a long day. He knows me from work. Thank you. Any questions, anybody? Any, any? Over here, my swim parents. Anything you guys want to add? We're good? Oh, yeah. The last page also. So you've got the water polo team on

027the last page. Both high schools, junior high does not have the program, but imagine if we did have a pool. We can start a kid learning how to do water polo in junior high. That would be wonderful. Okay. The GROTC program as well. They, I believe now they're mandatory. They know they, they know they have to swim. So you got to teach them how to swim. So that's, that would be so cool to become our own Aquatic Center. Lifeguard certification. That is wonderful too. My oldest kid who graduated from Sheridan High School, he's at College Station. And guess what? He was part of the swim program, the water polo program, and he was a lifeguard. Guess what is his part-time job at College Station? Lifeguard. Lifeguard at the Rec Center. So wonderful, wonderful. It correlates.

028It all correlates. Water safety instruction program, swim meets, club swimming, you name it. It's, it's, it's going to open up a whole bunch of doors for our kids and, and definitely our community. Guess what? Parents, parents, you don't know how to swim? Come on over. We'll, we'll teach you how to swim as well. Any questions, anybody? Yes, sir. The board, the board can't engage with you in those questions. Oh, my bad. I'm sorry. That's why we can't go back and forth with you. Okay, okay. We're restraining you. Perfect. All right. Parents, swim parents, anything else? No, we got it? All right. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Salinas, for taking the time to print this out for us. We appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, now

029we will move on to our next item, which is, I remember a mission statement to be read by Ms. Megan Sullivan. Sherri-Land ISD's mission is to inspire, educate, and inspire. Thank you. Inspire, educate, and empower all students to reach their full potential and become leaders of the highest moral character. Thank you, Megan. On to item number nine, board reports. And since we have none, we'll move on to item number 10, superintendent reports. I'm just going to let you run on A, B, and C. Thank you. Go for it. Madam President, trustees, it's so great to be able to invite to our podium tonight members of our facility planning committee. They would like to present to you the culmination of the work of the committee over these last few days. Thank you. And I will allow

030them to come forward and make formal introductions. Good afternoon, school board members. We first want to thank you guys for having us here. We thank you for having this, allowing us to present to you this wonderful experience that we went through. We want to start talking about the facility planning committee and the impact it had on not only our students but our community. I was able to be a part of this facility planning committee. And I saw wonderful things that can happen here at Sherrilyn if we all put our minds together and work together. I want to start off with introductions. My name is Alejandro Rico Arambula. I am a student at Sherrilyn High School. I am the junior class president. Like I said, I was able to be a part of this facility planning

031committee and see what Sherrilyn could do for our future and for our students and our community as well. I loved this facility planning committee. I was able to be a part of this committee. I love this facility planning committee because it just made me wish that I was a bit younger to see all of these things that the facility planning committee could do. Like I said, I am a junior, but I don't worry about the future of Sherrilyn ISD because this facility planning committee allowed me to see what Sherrilyn can do because we're one big family. Good evening. My name is Miguel Lopez. I've been here first as a student since 1981. I graduated in 1980. And soon after graduating from college, I came back in 1992. And ever since, I've been doing work here

032for our wonderful families in the district. Why am I here? I'm passionate about Sherrilyn ISD. I believe this is the best district in the state of Texas. And we have the best kids and teachers. And the faculty. And the facility. This committee and this plan, this project, I think it's a good way to give our kids what they deserve, what they need to keep up and really compete with the districts around us. Good evening. I am Ashley Gutierrez. I am a parent from Jesse Jensen Elementary. I am also the PTO president of Jesse Jensen. I am the first year working as hard as I can with the support of our wonderful principal. I did make a lot of effort into having my kids enrolled in Sherrilyn district. Really hard. I had to move to get

033them in because I witnessed firsthand how the education, the very wonderful education Sherrilyn provided for my cousins. So that's why I made a lot of effort into having my kids into Sherrilyn ISD. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is Isaac Petersack. I'm a teacher here at Sherrilyn Advanced Academic Academy. And unlike Miguel, I didn't get to go to school here, but we moved as soon as we had the chance. So it's a great opportunity. It's a great community. Working for the district and living in the community has really brought us a more conscious awareness of the opportunities that our school district has for our students. And hopefully through this planning facility meeting and being a member of this cabinet, we're able to bring that and share that with you as well. Hello. My name

034is Julianne Andre-Chapla. I moved from Massachusetts about five years ago. Since my move, I've really learned to love the people and kind of grow within the community. And when we moved, when we were moving, one of the focuses that we had is a great education system. Massachusetts, as you know, is home to some of the most known colleges all over the world. And education is a huge focus there. And so we wanted to keep that focus as we branched out into this wonderful area. We picked Sherrilyn ISD, our home is entirely selected based on the school that we wanted to attend. And, you know, we believe in the system, but we did see some areas where we could improve. And so hopefully this committee will allow and show you some great points that we are

035able to discuss and conclude. And hopefully get your approval. And hopefully get your approval on getting to the polls in May. From the start, this work asked us to imagine what's possible. To believe in a future worthy of our students. It began with a simple idea. If you build it, they will come. And they did. We launched with 150 voices. Students, parents, staff, and community members. Showing up with purpose, passion, and belief in the future. And what we could create together. The committee grew. And at our final session, almost 500 arrived. Lining the streets with headlights glowing. Families walking in with determination and pride. Their presence spoke louder than words. Our children's future matters. Over these months, we studied needs, explored options, walked campuses, and engaged in honest conversations. Each meeting brought clarity. Each voice

036strengthened the vision. A shared roadmap emerged. One that reflects our values, honors our legacy and traditions. And put students at the center of every decision. The one constant through it all? Collaboration. This moment isn't an ending. It's the beginning of what comes next. Together we are building hope. We are building opportunity. We are building community. We are building the future our students deserve. Believe in excellence. Believe in Sherryland ISD. Yeah, that was wonderful. I almost started crying. But at this moment, if you were a part of this amazing journey, would you please rise to be recognized? Because it's also very important for all the work you have put in the time. So if you could please rise to be recognized. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Now, you might be wondering who served on

037the committee. Well, all of the Sherryland ISD community. I got to meet more than over 400 people at this committee. At the first meeting, we had over 100 parents, staff, students, residents. And at the last meeting, we had over 450 students, staffs and residents at this committee meeting. Like I said, it wasn't only students. It wasn't only parents. It was everyone. It was all Sherryland ISD. This is why it was also so incredible to me to see what Sherryland ISD can achieve all together. Representation across schools, businesses and the greater SISD community were also present at these committee meetings. As a committee, we reviewed demographics, school finance and tax rate history, facility needs and assessments, project concepts, which I'm very, very, very excited about, cost modeling, tax scenarios. And we had the opportunity to tour

038the different facilities. The committee met six times from August through November. The first meeting took place in August 27, State of the District Facility Needs Overview. Meeting two, we had the student panel and curriculum and instruction. Meeting three, September 24, school finance and tax rate, bond capacity information was discussed. Meeting four, October 8, campus tours and project concepts. Meeting five, October 22, project ratings, cost refinement. And the final review took place in November 12 for meeting six and final review and package preferences. Meeting two really impacted me. That's when we had the students sharing their experiences, their needs. And that just kind of confirmed my feeling, my passion for bettering our district. Like I mentioned before, I really believe that we are the best. We have the best kids. Best teachers. We have the best

039teachers. We have a very, very good program. And we can compete with anyone, except for our facilities, really. And having been able to work in other districts, I can proudly say that we are the best. We just need to better our facilities. And I believe that this project would do that, would give our kids what they need. And I see it as an investment. You know? We just had these three people here that we attracted to our district just because we have a good reputation. They look up to us as Sherrilyn ISD. They really do look up to us. I can tell you that because I work with other districts. You know? And when I say I'm from Sherrilyn, oh, you're from Sherrilyn. If you only knew, right? But we can make this place even

040better. The aquatics that you were saying, sir? You know what? I'm a firm believer that everybody should know how to swim, you know, for safety's. I mean, we all want our kids to know how to swim out of danger, right? So, and there's a lot of things that you'll see in this project that needs improvement. And that's why I'm very passionate about it. And I can do and I will do anything in my power, whatever I can, to help and pass a word to our community. To really help. To really, really believe that this is an investment in the future of our kids and our kids' kids. During our meetings, we discuss district-wide facility needs. Like aging infrastructure and building systems. Classroom modernization needs. Safety and security improvements. Updated fine arts. CTE and program areas.

041District-wide maintenance. Outdoor and extended learning spaces. As president of Spitzel at Jesse Jensen. I am honestly doing my best to help beautify the school. That is one of our goals this year. One of my goals as a president is to help the school with picnic tables outside. Because we, today I have picnic day with my kids. Both kinder twins. And I noticed that we didn't have picnic tables. So we ended up putting tables outside with normal chairs. So I'm working my best to help with that. The other key things from committee works. And we did, on our meetings we discuss these things. And we put into these brackets. So safety, modern learning, student experience, program access, and equity. How the committee reached its recommendations. The committee considered multiple package options and used the structure voting

042process to identify the options with the most support. So, these structured voting processes. We started voting in the spring. we started voting in the third, well, we started organizing in the third meeting and they really culminated to this live meeting that we had a live vote. So we broke these down into three packages. So the packages are really based on needs and some wants, like the aquatic center is a want, and it's something that we started recognizing that our competitor districts really have. So in option A, we included the aquatic center and in option B, we're looking at different wants from the community, and in option C, we kind of cut off some more, I think it was the fine arts projects were excluded. So there was such a strong representation in the community, we

043had the swim team, we also had a lot of band members and band parents, and we had a live vote. So it was really nice to see this interactive, transparent vote. So in this package, A, B, and C, we were able to vote live and we chose the top two. So after these top two, and this is all happening live, very transparent, they're using Menti as a software to be able to kind of get this live vote going over, I think it was 487 votes. So we had a strong participation and we did, as a community, it's a tight race on option A, but for the majority, we do feel that we want the whole package. We want package A, we're pushing for the $260 million bond to be able to run it. So we're

044not going to be able to run it, we're going to have to run it over and over again. So that's a good thing. When the budget is up, we're going to be able to run it over and over again. And so I really think we're going to be able to run it over and over again. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to run it over and over again. But we also have to be able to renovate, build new facilities to really expand and meet the needs of our students. So I really enjoyed that last meeting because I live in the community. In fact, not only as a faculty working here in the district, we built a house right across Sherryland High School. We came and we moved into

045the district and love the community so much that we're now walking distance. working here in the district, we built a house right across Sherryland High School. You know, we came and we moved into the district and loved the community so much that we're now walking distance. I'll tell you where I live, but I'm afraid of my house getting egged. Too many students. No, actually, my students know where I live and no problems. But we have such a strong, cohesive community. I can tell my students where I live and nothing bad's going to happen because that's who we are. We're Sherryland and we really do love that. So as a community, we showed that strong involvement through this whole process of this committee planning facility and really showed a lot of dedication and commitment to what

046our students, our children need. We broke it down into four project frameworks. So the first one is academic modernization, safety and security, learning outside of the classroom, and district equity and alignment. So a lot of these overlap. For instance, when we're talking about equity, we're in a building that is really nice. This is PHS auditorium. SHS doesn't have the equivalent. We have what Mr. Leal is going to, you know, pretty much push for a new auditorium because it's an older, the infrastructure, the sound boards aren't as good. We also have SHS band parents that are pushing for a better, you know, renovations in their own fine arts department. But PHS has an auditorium. SHS doesn't. We're talking about equity. We're also talking about safety because we can project to build a fine arts department that's

047going to connect this auditorium with the main building, Hall B in the main building. But that's also bringing about equity because SHS is going to be pushing for one, but also safety because now students can walk across the courtyard. Well, they wouldn't have to walk across the courtyard. If it's raining, they're getting, you know, soaked. Now they're going to have protection. They're going to be staying within buildings. So these are some of the frameworks that we're pushing for the projects, and now we'll explain the projects in the different. campuses. So in the third meeting, I was able to go tour Benson Elementary, and Mr. Silva, the principal, was able to give us those tours. And here you see some of the gym or the gymnasiums and they're open access there. They have garage doors. It's

048hot. We live in the valley. These kids are having to play sports in hundred plus degree weather. So one of the proposals is to air condition them. We also want to introduce new. playgrounds at all the. elementaries and increase security at the entrances of all the elementary campuses. At Sherrilyn High School, as I've mentioned, we want to introduce a new auditorium, a fine arts expansion, classroom modernizations, and open up an integrated cafeteria and turn the old cafeteria, our present cafeteria, which would be an old cafeteria, into a field house. So right now where the field house is located, students have to walk across campus, cross the street. There's safety issues. There's security concerns. So the idea would be to turn the present cafeteria into the home field house and push and create this integrated cafeteria

049that's going to be within an enclosed area that's going to connect both the high school with fine arts department and the CTE addition. So we want to open up spaces between the science building and the library to really incorporate what the CTE department is doing to open up classrooms with large glass panels so that students can see what's going on in all these other spaces. So that's what we're doing. And then we're going to be able to do a lot of the other CTE areas as well. Pioneer High School, we're proposing a fine arts addition, and that's going to help bring about the connection between the main building and also classroom modernizations. Right now, when you connect, when you walk through a hallway, you're opening up a small courtyard. It's enclosed, but the idea is

050to create these classroom areas, these collaborative spaces where students can come and meet, engage, and have an interactive educational opportunity. I also want to take a quick moment to thank our panelists for their time. I'm going to turn it over to our next speaker, Dr. Kari. Thank you, Dr. Kari. I just wanted to say that attending these meetings made me realize how amazing the kids were. And so providing this to them, it's not just, it's really a way to say we see you. We know that we acknowledge that you have been shining despite all of the issues that you've had to deal with. And we're trying to be better. You know, just kids really feel that. For junior high and SA3, I mean, they're hoping to or we're hoping to get some collaboration spaces so

051that they can interact and learn in a slightly different environment. And CTE program alignment, the SA3 campus gym renovation and a 200 building modernization. District-wide aquatic center, honestly based on the parent support alone, and kids are like, we have to give it to them. They really I mean, this is a united crowd. And they're just willing to give their everything. Dr. Adel. Yes. Dr. Adel. Yeah. Thank you. And they're willing to go to bat for their kids and we shouldn't be the ones to stop them, right? So they want the district-wide instructional and program use, safety courses, activities and teams as you've already heard. District-wide projects, technology, classroom devices, just kind of modernizing the classrooms a little bit so kids can, if they go outside of here, whenever they do go, they are not going

052to be blown. Their minds are not going to be blown out of the water not knowing how to handle the technology, right? We want them exposed. We want them to have experience so that they're well prepared. And deferring maintenance, which if you, I'm sure you guys have toured the schools, it's a big need. Now for historical tax rates. So the total tax rate decrease was 41.8 cents over the last 10 years. So we are due for an increase. So I don't think, I don't think. I mean, it's, you know, when people talk about what they want, I often say, well, you want the best, but you're not willing to pay the best, right? So this is just something that I think it will be, I hope it will be well received. And so you have

053the trend through the years. I don't know if you guys have these slides. All right. Estimated tax rate impact. So the summary assumes a May 2026 bond election with bonds sold in August 2026. The district's current INS tax rate is $1.5 billion. So that's the current tax rate. So the summary assumes a May 2026 bond election with bonds sold in August 2026. The district's current INS tax rate is $1.5 billion. So that's the current tax rate. So that's the current tax rate. So that's the current tax rate. So that's the current tax rate. According to the Hidalgo County Appraisal District, the average home market value in Sheridan ISC is 311,936, with an average taxable value of 171,936. The tax impact matrix assumes 170,000 home taxable value for illustration purposes. For those that were not able

054to make it to the meetings, it was repeated throughout that it's about a cost of pizza, $20 to $30 for a home appraised at this value. And I think package A, which was what most of us wanted, was $27, and I think package B was $22. So it's a $5 difference in those. I think parents and residents, homeowners would all be very interested in getting package A passed through. The projects, this was all voted on. They asked many times, what do you guys want? And this is what the attendees answered. They said projects at elementary schools, new playgrounds, elementary schools, gymnasiums. I have to stop there because gymnasiums is the big one too. A lot of times these kids cannot go to the gym because it's too hot. And they need to have these 30

055minutes of moderate to rigorous activity every day at school. And sometimes they don't get to do that. They have to come up with it. I mean, I think teachers and staff, they're amazing. They always try to get the kids to go to the gym. They always try to be creative and do the best for the kids. But it shouldn't be a thing. It should be that they have a place that they can safely exercise in. All the mentors would get secure vestibules as well. This I've heard a lot from parents. They just want to be able to get in the school. It means something that they can feel a part of it too. The main building, Sherrilyn High School, it needs definitely some TLC. New auditorium, new fine arts, new main building, new cafeteria. Renovate

056the field house. Pioneer High School needs to renovate the main building. New fine arts as well. SA3, renovate the gym. Gray Junior High, renovate collaborative space. North Junior High, renovate collaborative space. The District Aquatic Center, deferred maintenance and technology. The committee recommendation was 260, but we hope that through contracts and when we get the get bids that they'll be able to lower that. And the bond election amount is not to exceed 250,000. So we're hoping that we can get that down. So we're hoping that we can get that down. So we're hoping that we can get that down. So we're hoping that we can get that down. On behalf of the Sherrilyn Facility Planning Committee, we would like to thank the school board for listing us out. We would also like to thank our community

057for sticking with us throughout this whole process. I know it's been a long journey, a lot of voting, a lot of using Menti, a lot of asking for the WiFi. I know it's been a lot, the countless hours. Thank you guys so much for sticking with us, for your opinions, for your perspectives. It really means a lot. Familia de Sherrilyn ISD, les queremos agradecer por siempre estar con nosotros. Gracias a todos por estar con nosotros. Gracias a todos por estar con nosotros. Gracias a todos por estar con nosotros. Por esta aventura larga, por este tiempo que hemos planeado para el beneficio de nuestros estudiantes. Les queremos agradecer por todo el tiempo que han invertido, no solo en la comunidad, pero en sus hijos, en sus estudiantes. and now we are going to listen to some

058of the testimonies and perspectives on the Sherri-Land Facility Planning Committee. I've been going to the meeting since the beginning and it's really nice to understand how Sherri-Land is growing and some of the potential that we need. In the past, you know, we haven't been quite as involved in bond elections as we have this time and I think when you involve the community as much as we have this year with the school board and superintendent, it makes a total difference. I really enjoyed the experience. The tours, it starts with the tours and we get to see the needs of each school. I really appreciate that, you know, when you're asking for funds and, you know, just to see why you're, everybody questions why you're asking for funds and that really allowed us to see a lot

059of the gaps that they have in the education system here. Me encantó. Me encantó formar parte de este comité de planeación porque nos sentimos incluidos y pudimos dar nuestras opiniones tanto como lo que se necesita para banda, lo que se necesita para las escuelas y para los estudiantes. I know at the meetings I always heard from students and those who were running the different groups made sure that if students were in the groups that they wanted to hear their opinion and hear from them and their experience. Every conversation began with, for our students. Which I found amazing because usually it's about, okay, money first and then the children. I think it's important for students to be involved in the planning committee because the students are the ones receiving like the new equipment, using the new

060like facility space. All these wonderful ideas that the students have, the parents, the admin, I think it was so incredible how we all put our minds together to try to see the best thing that Sherrilyn can bring to our community. To our community and to our students. Something that filled my heart with pride was when our students started showing up, the swim team, the band showed up today. I know there are some things that we lack, for example at Sherrilyn and some at Pioneer. And some of these things we can build on and grow and in the future we see what the success has been. With the fact of them being so transparent with everything, with the projects that they had in mind. For example, how they wanted the students to learn with a computer.

061They had to be able to learn with a computer. They had to be able to learn with a computer. Like problem based learning. That's a big positive movement for the kids. When stakeholders are involved and given the opportunity to share their voice and feel seen and heard, then it gives the Sherrilyn ISD community the opportunity to thrive. We're just so proud to be Sherrilyn ISD parents. We're grateful for the experience and excellence that our kids have received in academics and athletics and fine arts at Sherrilyn ISD. I think what makes me proud is that we're able to share our experiences with our kids. We're able to share our experiences with our kids. We're able to share our experiences with our kids. What makes me proud of being at Sherrilyn ISD is all the leaders that

062come out of it. I think there's so many amazing students with so many leadership capabilities and with all the organizations that it provides to us. I think it just opens so many doors for us. Madam President, on behalf of the administration, I'd like to also publicly thank our committee and those that are presenting tonight. To say that this is their voice would be an understatement. They have kept us accountable through this process. I think that's what makes me proud of being at Sherrilyn ISD. I think there's so many amazing students with so many leadership capabilities and with all the resources that they have. They have done a tremendous job. I think they have made this a very successful process and have ensured that their voice was the priority. I'm grateful to each of you for

063that. You represent a very diverse group of people unlike I have ever seen before come together on behalf of the needs of the school district. So for my heart, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, could I say something? Yes, please. Hey, David, will you go back to the slide of the list of things that are in that particular package. Please. Don't forget, I did see you smiling. Thank you. smiling when technology was on there, I did too. Ear to ear. I've been a member of the Sherrilyn ISD community since 1998. I came from Edinburgh, and all of my kids graduated from Sherrilyn ISD. I've got four. One is an engineer in New Braunfels, one is a student at Texas State right now, another one is a student at STC, and my youngest, she's a

064senior at Sherrilyn Pioneer. As a teacher in the district myself of 18 years, I saw these needs, and I had no idea that we would ever get to this spot. And I'm vibrating with excitement, and pray that God's hand is on this for our children. Because our children are the ones that are gonna benefit from this mostly. And what I know, and I had a hiatus from education for eight years, and what I saw in other school districts, and I don't wanna say anything about anybody in particular, because I'm working for another one right now. I went back to coaching, and what I saw in the eight years in the interim was how great our district is. And I can't make that up. It was something I saw when I got here in 98, and

065I saw it consistently. And when I see Coach Thompson on the screen, the history that's here in Coach Odom, and now as our AD, because I was a coach, but all our principals and administrators, and our students, and our custodians, and our teachers, and our bus drivers, and it just goes on and on and on. And now our current superintendent, to be a part of this district right now, in any way possible I can. As a board member now, and as a parent now. But for what the committee did, thank you for the time and effort that you put into it. And I can hear your passion. I can see that you know and you care, and you've tasted it. And I know when parents get to our district, they taste it, they see it,

066and they see it in their kids. So thank you for the tremendous effort that you did. And to get to this list this way, this covers a lot, a lot. There's always going to be more, but this is amazing. So thank you for the hard work that you did. I'd also like to say, I've been participating in the Leadership TASB program, and for the last two sessions, I've had the opportunity to go into 14 campuses all across the state, in districts, all across the state. Different sizes, different types of communities. And the only thing any of them have on us is the facility differences in the ones that have newer facilities. We do so much with old buildings, and that's a testament to our staff, our administrators, our parents, our teachers, our parents. We've been,

067historically, a destination district. And then sometimes families come and they're like, wait, why doesn't the gym have air conditioning? My kid is dying. It's 100 degrees half the year. And those are fair questions. And that's a legitimate criticism that we've faced. I think if, I think the committee has done an amazing job. bond experiences in the community, and I've never seen it done like this. It was, I call it a unicorn experience. It really, it was very different, and I appreciate that from the super and from the committee. The amount of, the quantity of people that invested. Our time is our greatest resource, our rarest, and people invested a lot of it, so thank you. Yes, no, you know, thank you so much to the community. You know, where Sherryland started, it was one school

068to where it is now, and, you know, I'm glad the community sees that, you know, these are needs to take Sherryland to the next step, you know. Like Mr. Riddle says, you know, let's leave it better than we found it. You know, really special thank you to our seniors and our juniors. Yeah. Because, oh my God, you know, it's a testament that they're here advocating for the future of the kids. So we're doing something right in Sherryland, and, you know, we do owe this to our kids as a community. I know. Thank you all very, very much, you know, and seniors and juniors. I tip my hat off to you with all respect. Thank you. Well said, well said. You know, their goal and the goal is to impact our students. I think just going

069through this exercise, seeing a young man like Alejandro step up and go to a school, you know, and be able to do that. I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing. And go to every meeting and just do your thing, man. You did a phenomenal job of just getting out there and just being there and being present. We saw you speak. We saw you speak at the beginning. We saw you speak at the end, and you've just grown so much through this process. And I think that that's what the goal of all this is, is to impact our kids and give them a platform to just rise. And my hat's off to you,

070and thank you very much for all your efforts throughout this. Yes. All right. They've said it all so well. Thank you so much. We really do appreciate it. And let's just keep going forward. Thank you. So one last thing. I did go and eat the other day with my daughter, I think. We went to Schlotzky's, and we paid $28, I think, for both of us to eat there. So I'm thinking I could give up that one day for all of that. So even if, and she's going to graduate this year and won't even use the facilities. So she's in favor of it. My family's in favor. We live in the district. We will pay $27.14 gladly. I can tell you. For a fact, that's two Chick-fil-A combos. And almost not. Pretty soon, probably. But just

071to wrap it up, I want to also thank the committee. Being, sitting back and watching the committee work has been one of the greatest joys of being on the board, to watch everybody come together. From it being kind of like a, when I came on the board, it was always kind of like north versus south. And I didn't feel it anymore. I felt Sherri-land. I felt us as one. And you guys presented a number, and I want to reiterate that number, because 40 in the past 10 years, our tax rate has gone down 41 cents. It's almost like a sick experiment, right? Of us doing, yeah, us doing the most with the least. And not only thanking you guys, I want to thank the principals, the teachers, the staff, because you guys, you guys have

072really invented doing the most with the least. And it's not easy, and we're so grateful that you do it anyway. But I'm really excited to do more with the most. And I think that this process is going to do, and I'm hoping that our kids, our kids see your passion, that our voters see your passion. And that, I know, I know we, I can speak from all of us that we all did. So thank you to everybody who participated. And thank you for this presentation, and to the committee's presentation. It was awesome. So thank you guys so much. Madam President, moving on, I would like to welcome to the podium tonight, Ms. Diana Rojas. She has been leading the charge to assist us with our SA3 expansion project, and this is a wonderful opportunity for

073us to bring to you the culmination of lots of meetings and work and discussions. Growing pains are good pains. good pains to have and to know that we are able to take a program that has a longstanding legacy in our community, in our school district and has earned its respect that it deserves and to grow that beyond where it's at now is the next amazing opportunity for our district. I would be unkind if I didn't give a shout out to Mr. Cerda tonight who when I came on board here he made sure that I knew how valuable this program was to our community and knowing that to be able to have this opportunity to expand upon it is going to be a tremendous gateway for access for our students and achievement for our students. At

074this time I'd like Ms. Rojas who is currently our principal of SA3, the Share Land Advanced Academic Academy to share the vision of the SA3 expansion. Ms. Rojas. Thank you. Good evening, Madam President, Venezia, Superintendent, Dr. Howard and State Board members. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today to share with you our expanding plan for college and career readiness pathways. I'm going to have to look up because I don't have anything in front of me. So the mission or the vision of SA3 is a college degree within reach of every student, right? By expanding this model for our two comprehensive high schools. So that is our goal to continue providing our students with those dual credit opportunities. So this aligns with the TA vision, the strategic plan to allow students by the year

0752030 for our students across the state of Texas to at least have 60% of those Texans that can be ready to go straight into the workforce, right? So TA did develop these college and career readiness school models. These models, early college, high school and pathways and technology allow us to provide those opportunities for students. So that's what we've been doing at SA3 since we opened our doors in 2014. So a little bit about the two models, right? So early college, high school is more geared academic based, right? Our students start taking dual credit from their freshman year. The goal is for them to be prepared and ready to take college level courses, right? The goal is for them to graduate with an associate degree by the time they leave high school. And you've been a

076part of these graduations for years and seen our success. Pathways. Pathways, technology, early college, high schools. This is more work based learning. So our students start also academic driven, but in addition, students start early on with work based learning starting their freshman year. Opportunities for presentations, internships, certification programs, anything that aligns to the career of choice so that they're going on to preferably if they're going to work right after high school. And then of course, ultimate goal is an associate degree. I'm proud to stand here and share with you, just like Dr. Howard said, SA3 has been a role model in college and career readiness success. We've been in existence for 12 years and from our first graduating class in 2018, we've been very successful. So on average, 70 plus of our graduating seniors graduated

077with an associate degree and that is commendable, right? It takes a lot of work, a lot of dedication from our staff to be able to accomplish that. Our students. Our graduate students leave our campus with at least 50 plus college credit hours. We have 100% of our students graduate college ready under CCMR criteria. And since we've been rated, we have been an A rated campus. So I was very excited to receive those three plaques today. And not only do we have a TA rating on accountability, but we also have OBMs that we have to meet through early college designation. So I'm very proud to say that we've always met those designations and we've often met them with distinctions as well. So the structures that are in place at SA3 are not accidental, right? We have

078been strategically planning through the models that the state provides. What you see up here are all the services, all the hard work that gets put into a small learning community like SA3. So we have our COBRA support team where we look at grades. 10. We have our student attendance behavior. We're constantly meeting as a team. I have a counselor and one of our teachers here where it's an ongoing conversation all the time tracking our data and looking at where our kids are at. We also offer a path to college and career success elective course. All their students take this course starting their freshman year. Through this course, we give our students those skills that are needed to be able to take dual credit courses for them to be successful in what the college level course

079requires. 11. A lot of intervention happens through these courses as well. Mentorship programs that we've established that we've been very successful as well. Our college and career exploration, freshman year, sophomore, junior, our students start going to university field trips. And so we start exposing them to what the future holds for them. They have something to look forward to once they graduate and they already get to experience what a college setting is about. And then we have amazing counselors who work with students on their academic support, social, emotional learning where they're tracking constantly. Not only are they following a high school graduation plan, but they're following a college degree plan. So we need to ensure that we are tracking and guiding our students in the right direction. And then our, proud to say, our parent and

080community involvement is strong, right? We can't survive without that communication with our parents and we constantly invite them over to parent meetings, parent presentations. And we also require students to participate in community service events, right? We want them to be well-rounded. So these are the systems and structures that we have in place at SA3 that have proven to be successful. Along the lines with, like I mentioned, TA accountability and STAR system, and we've been A-rated since we've been designated, but the college and career readiness models requires that we have, we meet certain measures on access, attainment, and achievement. We have to ensure that we're servicing students that are at risk, that students that without a program like this, we're not going to be able to meet the needs of the students. So we have to

081ensure that we're serving these students that are at risk, that students that, you know, are at risk, that they're not going to be able to meet the needs of the students. So we have to ensure that we're providing achievement plans that they can, are going to be able to graduate with that associate degree, as well as are they doing well in TSI, SAT, everything that requires achievements so that they're successful once they leave us. So I'm proud to say as well that we've not only earned the designation for early college that the TA allows, but we've earned them with distinctions. So about our expansion plan, right? We currently are a standalone. And what the plan is to move to have SA3 South and SA3 North, right? Expanding a school within a school model at both

082of our high schools so that we give our students more opportunities. Traditionally at SA3, we've served 450 to 500 students on average ever since we had our first graduating class. So in expanding to this model, the goal is that we are going to be increasing every year as we recruit students for these. To SA3, both at North and South that our numbers will increase. We're scaling up. So if you see on this chart by the year 2030, our goal is that we will be servicing over 800 students that will participate in a small learning community that will be served with the purpose and the intentions to be successful once they leave us. A little bit about PTIC, and I mentioned it earlier. PTIC is Pathway and Technology. So we are in the planning year. For

083a PTIC Health Science at Sherrilyn High School. The goal with the PTIC in Health Science is for our students to graduate with an associate degree in biology. So we want to create that direct pipeline to a nursing program. Through this program, our students will be able to earn stackable credentials that once they leave us, if they decide to go straight into the workforce, they can go straight into the workforce. Or maybe they want to continue their education, they'll be able to do that. So we want to equip them. With the skills that they need to be ready to go into the workforce. So Pathway and Health Science will allow us to do that. What we want to do is we already offer a CNA, but we want to expand and offer level one, level two

084certificates in the areas of phlebotomy and EKG. So that is the planning year. Right now we're in the planning year at Sherrilyn High School. Like I mentioned earlier, PTIC is more work based. Our students will start early on participating in the training. So we're going to be able to do that. So at that time we're all participating in presentations, visiting job sites, internships, anything to have to do with hands-on. So that is our goal. Level one, level two certificates, we don't offer them right now. But through PTIC, you know, that is definitely one of our goals to make sure that we afford our students that opportunity. Mentorship, and of course, ultimate goal is that associate degree. So they can leave us ready and safe two years, right, of college tuition. Pioneer High School, we applied

085for a planning year at Pioneer High School. So this upcoming year, the year 26-27, will be the planning year for Pioneer High School. So what will it require? It will require that we look into our community, right? We ensure that we're gathering data, that we're looking at our students' interests, that we know what the workforce is saying that is the need within our community and our region. And as we develop those committees, ensuring that we're looking at all that data so that we align and provide our students with those needs, right? This upcoming spring, we'll start that process so that we can decide as a committee what our next P-TECH model will be at Pioneer High School. And like I mentioned earlier, all the systems that are at SA3 have been very strategic, right? So

086the goal is that everything we've done at SA3, from including those electors, those tracking systems, the data that we review, that we continue doing it at both schools, SA3 South and SA3 North, so that we're able to track our students and ensure that they're successful as we provide these models at both schools. And by year 2030, our goal is that we will have two very successful P-TECH and early college models at both high school and ensure that our students have many opportunities for dual credit, many opportunities to earn IVC. As well, level one, level two certificates, and of course, ensure that they have the opportunity for work-based learning as well, and that we sustain our partnerships with STC, UTRGV, and our local industries. So what does our timeline look like? We start this spring semester

087to recruit for both SA3 North and SA3 South. So we will start recruiting roughly about 50 students per program. And of course, the P-TECH Health Science at Sheridan High School, and then we'll start recruiting for the P-TECH Health Science at Sheridan High School. And our goal is hopefully by sometime in March and April, notify the students that they've been selected and ensure that we do a commitment ceremony, get them excited about coming to their own school. No longer will the students have to be traveling back and forth, they'll be able to stay within their pathway, their friends. So I foresee that being a huge success when it comes to particularly our North students, because we do see a decline. We've seen a decline. They join SA3 and weeks into, it's, I miss my friends, I

088wanna go back, and they missed out on that opportunity. So by expanding to both high schools, we will ensure that our students don't have to make those choices. And pioneer P-TECH planning will start also in the spring, like I mentioned, is developing those committees, looking at data. There'll be a lot of people involved to make sure that we're providing that P-TECH pathway that is relevant in our community. that is relevant in our community. And that our students are interested in. Thank you so much for the opportunity. SA3, like I've, I started at SA3 in 2014 when it first opened its doors, right? So it is very dear to me. I've seen what a small learning community with the right intentions and strategies, and of course the right personnel can do for our students and our

089community. So I'm very excited about this opportunity, excited to be able to expand between the two high schools and afford more students this opportunity. So thank you again. Thank you for your vision and for allowing this to come to fruition. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Rojas. If I could say something real quick. Ms. Rojas, I'll text her from May to July, usually asking her certain students that want to get into your program. And there's historically always been the cap because of the availability of the staff and everything of that nature. And for somebody like yourself and your staff who has got 100% graduation rate, 50 college credit hours on average for their students, you're at the top. I mean, you've done, you've reached the pinnacle of everything. And for you to go out

090and take that initiative and want to expand that program after being on the top says a lot about you and your program. So thank you very much. We are just lucky to have you. Thank you. Yeah, definitely. Madam President, I have one last report out for the community and for you all. In closed session tonight, I will be disclosing to you some details regarding two recent district-wide intruder detection audits that we had. And we had two campuses that did not successfully pass their audit. And I will report to you the specifics of those in closed session. Thank you. Okay. We're going to move on to item number 11, which is consent agenda. Item 11, consent agenda. 11A, October 2025, month-end bills. 11B, July 2025 financial reports. 11C, August 2025 financial reports. D, September 2025 financial

091reports. E, October 2025 investment report. F, previous meeting minutes. F1, regular board meeting October 20th, 2025. Does anybody want to pull anything from consent agenda before I move on? No? Okay. Perfect. We'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. Okay. Second that. A motion by Andrew Riddle and I have got a second by Hector Rivera. Any further discussion on consent agenda? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Julio is not here, so we're actually 1, 2, 5, 0. Okay. It is now, we're going to go ahead and go into closing. You might want to wait. Let's move it to the end. Okay. We're going to move closed session to the end of the meeting. Go ahead and move on to item 4, consent agenda. Okay.

092We're going to move closed session to the end of the meeting. Go ahead and move on to item 4, consent agenda. Okay. We're going to move closed session to the end of the meeting. Go ahead and move on to item 14, which is business. So item 14, business. Item 14A, discussion and consideration to approve policy update 126. Madam President, I'm going to present that here. Let me just. Okay. Let me just. We got out of the meeting. David Keith returned at 733. Left at 727. Madam President, the administration would like to bring forward all of the updates to policy. Okay. Thank you. So item 14A, discussion and consideration to approve policy update 126. This is recent legislation, has just gone through this past summer. And as you are aware, this is probably one of the

093most robust updates that we've seen in quite a long time with all the different changes that are coming forward. The meeting agenda does disclose that we are bringing forward all of local policy update 126. In addition, we have added some additional local changes for additional policies with regard to, let me make sure I've got this up correctly. I want to make sure I'm quoting it correctly. Yes. Additional policies related to, and I'm going to call them out and we can discuss them a little bit in detail in a moment. EFB, FD, FM, FNCE, CAA, CDA, CY, DH, EHB, EHBB, FFG, and GKA. These are additional policies that have been updated since January, but we've done some local changes to make sure that all of our policy is in alignment. And so just wanted to make

094sure that you had all of that in addition to all of the policies updated. And I'm going to read them out now. BE, BED, CJ, CJA, CLE, CQB, CQD, CFA, Policy CB, DBD, DEC, DFBB, DGBA, DH, EEP, EFA, CQB, CQD, CFA, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, CQB, DGB, DGH, EEP, EFA, EHBA, F, EIA, FA, don't say EIEIO. I know you thought it. FA, FEF, FFAC, FFB, FFF, FFG, FNG, FO, GF, GKA. Okay. Okay. Motion? Okay. Okay. to accept all of those acronyms. I move to approve as read. Okay. I've got a motion by Dr. Olivedo. I'll second that. Second by Andrew Riddle. Is there any further discussion regarding policy update 126? These are all required. Okay. There's no room for

095discussion. Okay. So no discussion. Then all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 6-0. Thank you. Thank you. On to item B, discussion and consideration to approve a resolution casting Sherrilyn ISD votes for the posting of directors of Hidalgo County Appraisal Board 26 through 29. Do we have any color on that? I'll go ahead and bring this forward. Madam President, this item here is a Board of Trustee item to each year you all will make an annual recommendation for the posting of the directors of the Hildago County Appraisal Board. Sherrilyn ISD is a contributing member of the Hildago County Appraisal District and as a voting member, Sherrilyn ISD, may cast 72 votes for one or various candidates to serve as the director on the Appraisal District Board of

096Directors. Hildago County Appraisal District is governed by the five Board of Directors who are elected by the taxing units that participate in the district. At this time, the district, the rationale is the Board of Trustees may cast all of its votes for one candidate or distribute them among any number of candidates as presented on the December 15, 2020. Okay. So, we will call the vote on October 25th, 2020. Okay, so we will call the vote on October 1st, 2025, excuse me, or sorry, the voting shall determine in votes written by the subjects to submit to the Chief Appraisal Office before December 15, 2025. Okay. So we will receive that voting. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the resolution? Motion to approve the resolution. Okay. I've got a motion by Andrea Riddle. Second. Second

097by Ms. Megan Sullivan. Is there any further discussion regarding the approval of resolution casting Sherrilyn ISD votes for? for the posting of directors of the Algo County Appraisal Board. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 6-0. We're on to Item C, discussion and consideration to approve the 2026-27 share of the 90-day district calendar. Oh, sorry. So you need to allocate to a particular candidate. Okay. Or split them evenly between. Okay. What you would do is someone would make a motion. It was his motion, yeah. Okay. Is there a particular candidate you wanted to? I'm familiar and I've done business with in the past with the Richard Garza, and I believe he's a strong candidate. I don't know if anybody else has got any that would like

098to split the votes up. I'll just share all the names so that everybody can consider. The nominees are Richard Garza, George Martinez, David Moreno, and Joe Olivares. And all of their bios were shared with us. Yes, ma'am. And all of their bios in our board packet, so we've had an opportunity to review. Okay. So your motion is to give all the votes to Richard Garza, correct? Okay. Sure. And you had the second? Megan. Megan had the second on that? I seconded the resolution to discuss it. Okay. So there's not a second on his motion to give Richard Garza all the votes? Yeah, I'll give him second. Okay. So we've got a motion to give all votes to Mr. Richard Garza by Andrew Riddle. I've got a second by Mr. David Keith. Is there any further

099discussion regarding giving all of the votes to Mr. Richard Garza? Okay. With that, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 6-0 for approval of casting all votes for Mr. Richard Garza. Okay. Now we move on to our next item. Okay. Okay. Okay. Item C, discussion and consideration to approve the 2026-27 Sherrilyn ISD district calendar. Madam President, I'll have Dr. Hinojosa present the process and the calendars for review. Yes, ma'am. Fantastic evening, Madam President, members of the board. What an exciting time for Sherrilyn. I'm so proud to be here. Great. Great. Great time for Sherrilyn. The, over the last couple of months, the DEIC is engaged in feedback discussions in developing three calendars for the 2026-27 Sherrilyn ISD. So, we're going to have a discussion about the DEIC

100and the DEIC-627 school year. The DEIC subcommittee was formed. People that were interested, campus representatives that were interested in taking it back to their campuses and soliciting feedback and presenting back. So, the subcommittee had two meetings and they presented at the third in-person meeting with the entire DEIC. We reviewed all the requirements, the TEA guidelines, the federal holidays, our testing forms, right, a line spring break with the stock show, things like that. Things that have been happening year after year. Our principals and administrators, we did get together and we looked at some, the impact on their campuses, impact on the curriculum, and they shared feedback. And, of course, the superintendent cabinet discussed feedback as well. So, from the feedback that we sent a survey to the entire district and the feedback requested was one, distribution

101of instructional days. So, instructionally, how does the calendar help you? How does it help you as a teacher? Two, professional development days aligned with your curricular needs. And three, just general open-ended feedback, right? So, just a summary of the feedback, and this isn't everything, but everything that we got was reflected in the three calendars. So, the first thing was very positive to the work that we put in last year. Eighty-two percent of respondents expressed that the current schedule provided a good balance of instruction. A good balance of planning and prep days. With strategic placement. On days off for students as well as for teachers. Often noting we have one planning and prep day a month. We have one day off a month. So, a lot of people really like this school year's calendar. There was

102some concerns reported on consecutive grouping of four-day weeks. So that impacted instruction, right? So there was, in the second six weeks, there was, I believe, three four-day weeks that occurred in the fall. And that, you know, kids are on a roll. Then they have a four-day week. And then the teachers get them going. And then another four-day week, right? So, we considered that. And you'll see that reflected in the calendars. Grading periods per semester are imbalanced. And that's just the nature of the way Sherrilyn and I see does their schedule. We have six, five, six. And then seven, six, seven. So, the grading periods and the instructional days are not balanced in the fall semester and in the spring semester. The professional development, and this was the heaviest feedback, and we are already targeting that

103in our district improvement program. So, we're going to be focusing on that. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. So, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. So, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. So, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the

104instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. And then, we're going to be focusing on the instructional development. professional development and the allotments are appropriate, however how they're used, right? So heavy initiatives, front load them in the two weeks of in-service, and then our campuses want at least half days of the planning and prep day to work with their teams exclusively, and that's something that we're committed to that we're gonna be working on on any calendar. So we got a lot more feedback beyond the days of the calendar that we took into the district improvement plan. And

105then there were significant requests for a fall break. Right, a lot of districts, and that's becoming a, you know, it's being included in many districts now, locally as well, a fall break. So four-day week in October, and then of course the Monday after Easter was also requested a lot. The fall break, unfortunately, with the imbalances of schedules, you can't have a lot more days off in the fall because that's less days for students. It ended up being 82 days, and I think like 94 days in the fall and in the spring. So. So there are three calendars that have all the feedback requests that are here. Calendar A, and TEA this year required that we identify two bad weather days as well. So those are reflected there too. Calendar B and Calendar C. So as

106you can see, if you can go back to Calendar B, David. So Calendar B did target more instructional days in the fall, which meant starting on the 17th of August, we were gonna go through the 22nd of December. And the committee reviewed that, and that was just something that we wanted to give everyone the option of selecting that if they did want more instructional days in the fall. Cause that's, you know, we're at capacity with the 17th through the 22nd, right? So, and then Calendar C. So what you have there is a calendar comparison. Everybody was, when they voted, they got to see the calendar comparison. As you can see, 187 days for teachers and 172 days across the board for our students. This year's calendar has 169 days. So all three calendars next year

107have three more instructional days. So we did target a little, target that feedback a little bit. So the total voters, we had 1,778 voters, including employees, students, and parents. So 642 employees, 182 students, and 954 parents. So that was an incredible response. And it was only open for four days. I mean, from, I believe it was from Thursday to today at noon. So. Calendar A got the most votes, 790 votes. Calendar B, 431 votes. And C, 590 votes. So the recommendation tonight is Calendar Option A. They got 43.6 of the votes. That includes 187 teacher days, 172 student days. And this is the most important piece, right? The operational minutes that the state requires. So from 7.30, which is when breakfast starts at the elementary, to 3.30, 81,000. 930 minutes, which results in plus 12

108days from the requirement. That means that if there's a bad weather event requiring multiple days off, if there is a, both teams are in the playoffs and we don't have enough buses, right? So we, there's situations where the superintendent and the board. It's real. You know, so we want, we did want to give you more. This year, this year it's only six, right? So we're like at 5.5 days. So barring any bad weather, we have, we have those days to be right there without having to make them up in the bad weather days. So we do have the bad weather days. Secondary, similar, 13 days. So that is the, the recommendation tonight. A lot of work went into this. Betty Barrera from Pioneer, she, she led the initial work. So she did a great job.

109And then of course Pam with her expertise and her history with doing the calendar. So I just appreciate everyone's help. So thank you principals and everybody that voted motion to approve calendar. Second. Thank you. Okay. I've got a motion by Dr. Oluwede to approve the recommended calendar A. And I've got a second by, I believe it was Hector Rivera. Yes ma'am. Is there any further discussion? I'd like to make a comment. Not about the calendar. That's fine. But I noticed in, when you sent the three calendars to us at the DEIC had, had discussed that only 163 staff had responded. That's less than 9%. I, I was stunned because the calendar is, it touches everyone and everyone, we, we all complain about something on the calendar. You're not going to please everyone. But that, that

110opportunity to give that feedback, you know. I think it was a culmination of a couple of things. So the committee themselves took it back to their campuses. So there was a lot of discussion before the voting. The votes came out as to what should go into the calendars and should not go into the calendars. So I think that probably had a lot to do with it. So that replaced some of the voting maybe? Yes. Okay. But I, I do think it was a little lower than last year. Last, last year we had a little bit more in staff participation. Well and I like, I like the having three calendars. I know that's not always, that hasn't always been the case. Correct. It's at least two but the years that there's three to choose from that

111is good. That's all. Okay. Thank you. Any further discussion? All those in favor, stand by by saying aye. Aye. I'll close same sign. Motion passes 6-0. Calendar A it is. Okay. On to item D, discussion and consideration to approve to award RFP 2526-3 medical stop loss insurance. Thank you President Bonaccia. Dr. Howard, board members. So stop loss insurance, also known as excess insurance, provides protection against catastrophic or unpredictable losses with the district's medical plan. The district's current policy is set to expire December 31st 2025. A notice inviting proposals was published in the Monitor newspaper on October 4th and October 11th. Proposals were due October 30th, 2025 and the district received two submittals. Following a thorough evaluation, the review committee reached the following conclusions. Two proposals were received and carefully reviewed. Both proposals met all district

112requirements. Each proposal mirrored the coverage of the current policy. Lower premium options were identified. However, they included three lasers, which significantly increased the district's potential for financial exposure. While the standard deductible is $125,000 per covered individual, the lasers raised deductibles for specific individuals shifting the risk to the district. The recommendation that we're going to present is based on multiple factors, including the lowest responsible bid, compliance with specification, vendor responsiveness, and quality of service. So what we're asking is that the district's financial performance in terms of the financial performance in terms of their financial performance. We're asking for the Monty Group proposed policy premium of $1,834,266. That is a 10% increase of our current premium, and it also increases the deductible, the individual deductible from $125,000 to $150,000. But it does come with no lasers. It

113certainly does not come with any mirrored exposure as well. That is a recommendation we're making to the Board. You know, we discussed this in BOF, and I do think it's the best option to mitigate risk, right? Yes, ma'am. With that I will entertain a motion. Mr. President, I'll make a motion to approve. Second. I've got a motion by Mr. Hector Rivera and a second by Dr. Oliveira. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say goodbye by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 5-0. Ms. Megan Sullivan exited the meeting at? 7-5-0. 7-5-0. Thank you. Okay. We are on to item E, discussion and consideration to approve library materials for procurement. Good evening, President Venezia, Dr. Howard, board members. This is an item we are bringing before you tonight as

114for all of the lovely letters that you just went through and made policy. This is part of one of the new requirements by law that before we purchase any new library books that they are, all the titles are posted for 30 days for public review. These titles that are before you tonight were posted on October 7th and have been there. And as of November 10th, and I double-checked this morning, we have not received any feedback as far as questions on the titles that we are presenting for purchase. So we are requesting that our librarians be able to purchase these library materials. Motion to approve. Okay. I got a motion. I got a motion to approve by Dr. Levedo. Second, Andrew Riddle. I've got a second by Andrew Riddle. Is there any further discussion regarding? Yeah,

115if the Aggies win the national championship, we're going to change it to Horton. Here's a whoop. Whoop. I'd be very much okay with that. I figured you would. All those in favor, see what I was saying there? I'm sorry. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 5-0. Ms. Sullivan returned at 7-52. Okay. We're on to item F, discussion and consideration. To approve purchase of anatomy table package from pocket nurse using a state approved contract. This item and the next two items after this were discussed in detail at our BOF meeting. And also to let you know, these are purchases for our CTE health science classrooms that were made possible through a JET grant. So we are asking for permission from the board since each one of these are high in equipment and they exceed the $50,000

116mark. And this is really cool. Yes. I was about to ask Pam to, if you could elaborate. When you told us this is like Jetson stuff. So if you could just tell us a little bit about what we're doing for our kids by buying this. I'd love to hear that. This first item is an anatomy table and it's actually a full size eight foot table where the students can actually, instead of having a cadaver, we actually have a table where they can actually go in and manipulate the anatomy of the human body. So that is one of the big tables we're getting. So that's purchase F. Awesome. Okay. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. I'm sorry. Go ahead, David. Is that you? No, you're a doctor. Maybe you should. I've got the motion

117by the doctor. I am very much in favor of this. This is really cool. Okay. We've got the motion by Dr. Oliveda and a second by Coach David Keith. Yes. He also knows some anatomy. So any further discussion? All those people saying aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 6-0. We are on to item G. Discussion and consideration to approve purchase of hospital and phlebotomy training bundle with mannequin simulators from Platinum Consulting Services, a state-approved contract. This is another really cool item. This is where not too many of us will reach out our arm and say, please, practice on me for phlebotomy. Those blood draws, I am not one of them. I don't like needles. But I love the idea of us being able to buy simulators for the students to practice. So when

118they do take their exam to get their phlebotomy certificates, they are very successful. And they've had, they've been well-practiced and well-trained. Very cool. Yeah. That is super cool. And they will be hired immediately. Yes. They're looking for them, man, left and right right now. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. I will now entertain a motion to purchase this phlebotomy training bundle. So I've got a motion by Dr. Oliveda. Motion approved. I'll second that. Andrew Riddle. Second by Andrew Riddle. Is there any further discussion? Just a comment. I was excited about recommending it because my daughter is going to the medical field. And. Oh, very cool. And we've been talking to her a lot about it. So. Did you want to third it? Yeah. Okay. I'll third it. And a third by. I'll third it. Okay. All those in

119favor say no by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed. Same sign. Motion passes 6-0. We're on to item H. Discussion and consideration to approve sole source purchase from augmented and virtual reality AR slash VR student workstations from ZSpace Education Classroom. Once again, this is made possible through the JET grant. And these are virtual reality glasses. Our students can wear them. And experience virtually all different types of medical scenarios. And then actually live it. And then come up with solutions and next steps. So. Man. This. I'm excited to offer that for our students. Very cool. Tonight should be labeled super cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is super cool. We discussed this in BOF. And we're also super excited. And then, you know, thank you so much for going out and getting. Well, the JET grant. And

120finding these amazing opportunities for our kids using the JET grant money. That's amazing. So, thank you. Madam President. Can we get like a. Demonstration. We'll do a field trip. Yeah. Absolutely. I asked for that too. I was like, I want to go do it. Okay. So. I would love to go. If I've got a. I will now entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Okay. I've got a motion by Dr. Olivaida. Second that. Second by Andrew Riddle. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed same sign. Motion passes 6-0. Thank you, Pam. Thank you. And I will say. I do want to thank our former and current CTE directors. Dr. Vanessa Leal and Monica Kaufman for putting this together. Making sure these opportunities. And we will provide a really

121cool field trip. Yeah. When the equipment comes in. I'm excited. Thank you. Okay. I am on to item I. Discussion and consideration to approve purchase of genetic. Genetec. No. Sorry. Just kidding. Genetec access control software using a state approved contract. Madam President. This is the door security access upgrade that we are needing to get done for our campuses. This will be. And I'm going to speak out of line here. But over 70,000. Correct? 78. Thank you. 78,000. 78,000. 847. I'm sorry. 848 and 75 cents. Right. And this is the badge access system that we have for the districts. So this will be to upgrade that software. It will provide many more features. Yeah. We discussed this also in BWF at LinkedIn. Yes. We discussed how it syncs with our current program. Yes. It will allow

122us to just expand on the feature set. Very cool. Okay. So that's been listed with IT. Yeah. Question. David. Yes. What's like the best feature upgrade with this? Well, it actually makes it very efficient for us to program like the full year schedule. Yeah. That's one of the real biggies that we're not able to do right now. During the day. The possibility of also taking the schedules that we have, the bell schedules, releasing the doors when the bell rings. There you go. And then locking everything down when the target bell rings. Yeah. Stuff of that nature. Yeah. Nice. Cool. I'll make this motion. Okay. I was waiting. I was waiting. I was like, sorry you're looking at me. I was a little slow. Do I have a second? I'll second Andrew. I'll second by Andrew

123Riddle. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed same sign. Motion passes 6-0. We are now going back to item number 12, which is closed meeting. So before we go into item 12, I'm going to read our agenda for our closed meeting, which is 12A, Personnel Matters, Texas Government Code 551.074A1, Resignations A2, Employment of Personnel A3, Discussion of Employee, Public Officer, and or Board Member A4, Deliberation regarding the Employment and Employment Evaluation, Reassignment, Duties, Discipline, or Dismissal or Proposed Termination of a District Employee, Public Officer, or Employee Pursuant to Texas Government Code 551.074A1. 12A5, Deliberation regarding the Administration's Recommendation to Propose the Mid-Contract Termination of a Term Contract Employee. Okay. Martin? At 12A5. 12A5 will be deliberated in open session. Correct. Okay. For Contract Employee Martin Guerra

124Jr. Correct. Okay. 12B, Student Discipline. 12C, Deliberation regarding Security Devices or Security Audit, Texas Government Code 551.076. 12D, Deliberation regarding the Administration's Recommendation to Propose the Mid-Contract Termination of a Term Contract Employee. Correct. 13C, Deliberation regarding Real Property, Texas Government Code 551.072. 12E, Consultation with Attorney regarding A, Pending or Contemplated Litigation, B, Settlement Offer, C, a matter of which the duty of the attorney of the Shireland Independent School District under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with Chapter 551 of Texas Government Code, Texas Government Code 551.071. And E1, Consultation with Legal Counselor regarding the Recommendation to Propose the Mid-Contract Termination of a Term Contract Employee. 13C, Deliberation regarding the Regime of Contract Employee. 13C, Deliberation regarding the Regime of Contract Employee. 13C, Deliberation regarding the Regime

125of Contract Employee. 13C, Deliberation regarding the Regime of Contract Employee. I will now entertain a motion to go into closed session. Mr. President, I'll make a motion, take a quick recess, and then go into closed session. Okay. I've got a motion for a quick recess and closed session by Hector Rivera. Second. Got a second by Ms. Megan Sullivan. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say aye. 6-0. We're now going into closed session at 8 o'clock. Thank you guys for staying committed. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate it. It is now 922. Holy cow. And we are back in open session. Item A, discussion and possible action on closed meeting items. Ms. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approve the administration's personnel report, including the assignments

126to certified staff, resignations, and employment contract recommendations for the 25-26 school year. Okay. I've got a motion from Hector Rivera. Andrew Riddle, second. And I've got a second from Andrew Riddle. Any discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposing, sign. Motion passes 6-0 on to item 13B, consideration and possible action. You know what, Greg? I left that on that other. It would be consideration, possible action, and deliberation to propose the mid-contract termination of term contract employee, Martin Guerra, Jr., and authorize notice that the proposed action be sent to the employee. Okay. I will accept a motion for consideration and possible action to propose mid-contract termination. I'll second that. Andrew Riddle. Okay. So I've got a motion by myself. And a second by Andrew Riddle. Any further discussion? Madam President, Trustees, I am

127proposing the mid-contract termination of a certified educator who was arrested on October the 3rd, 2025. We believe that this decision is in the best interest of our students and we are happy to approve it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, as well as I will support our students and our community. Thank you. Okay. Any further discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying Aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes 6-0 for the mid-contract termination of term contract employee, Martin Guerra, Jr., and authorize notice that proposed action be sent by employee. It is now 924. And we are on item number 15, adjournment. Okay. Second. Dr. Lameda, and the second by Hector Rivera at 914. Any further discussion? All those in favor say

128aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 6-0. We are now adjourned at 924. Thank you.