001Good evening. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Temple ISD Board of Trustees on May 10, 2021, beginning here at 6 p.m. in our administration building. Our first item is to declare quorum, which we do have. Second item is the Pledge of Allegiance. Would everybody please stand? 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. I honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible. Item three is the public forum, and we only have one signed up, Marilyn. Is that correct? Mr. Rayford-Brown, first, the board will now hear comments from those persons who have signed up to speak. In accordance with board policy, each person
002may speak no more than three minutes during this part of the meeting. The board will listen, but will not engage in dialogue or debate with the speakers. As your name is called, please come forward and state your name and address. Mr. Rayford-Brown. Rayford-Brown, 3702 Jaguar, across the street from the bomb. Mr. Chairman, Superintendent, fellow members, the critical race theory, which is defined in many different ways, it depends on what people want it to mean. It's been changed around to mean whatever we want to, but it was started based on socialism. When they changed their mind, they decided in the 1920s that the American middle class was not going to revolt against the 5G. They were going to revolt against the 5G financial system because they were doing just fine in the roaring 20s, thank you.
003So they decided that the seam between black and white would be the best place to pick at the American fabric in order to destroy us. So critical race theory was brought about, and it said that anything that was white was bad, anything that was any other color was good. However, they really defined white as anything. They defined white as anything that was against socialism. It wasn't just the skin color. Anything that was against socialism could be white. And so critical race theory, if I go into a store and I let a black person go first, I do that because I'm racist and I don't want to show it. And if I go first, then it's because I think they're a second class citizen and should be second. So there is no way that antagonism cannot
004be. So there is no way that antagonism cannot be. So there is no way that antagonism cannot be. So there is no way that antagonism cannot be. So there is no way that antagonism cannot be. So there is no way that antagonism cannot be. Antagonism can be destroyed within critical race theory. Antagonism can be destroyed within critical race theory. Antagonism can be destroyed within critical race theory. There is no outcome except socialism in the end. There is no outcome except socialism in the end. There is no outcome except socialism in the end. So the founders of Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement, all of them have roots based in socialism. So the founders of Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement, all of them have roots based in socialism. So the founders
005of Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement, all of them have roots based in socialism. So the founders of Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement, all of them have roots based in socialism. and the social justice movement, all of them have roots based in socialism. The entire goal of all of these movements is the destruction of America. And we must be careful because the NEA, the National Education Association, also has its roots in socialism with Lewis. Thank you. Item four is superintendent recognition. First item is Friends of Temple ISD Award, Mr. Bob Browder and Mr. Thomas Baird. We are pleased this evening to have Thomas Baird and Bob Browder present with us. I'll first begin with Thomas. Thomas Baird has spent most of his life in Temple and he is a proud
006graduate of Temple High School class of 71, right Thomas? 71, right, okay. He understands the many ways that a strong school system can and will be a major contributor to the success of our community. Thomas Baird is a graduate of Temple High School, and he has a strong background in the field of law. Thomas has a thriving law practice with a large client base, and he uses his broad influence with impeccable character to promote Temple ISD at every turn. Whether it be campaign strategy, committee involvement, or fundraising efforts, Thomas is always willing to offer his support and expertise. We are grateful for all that he has contributed and continues to contribute to Temple ISD, and his support is invaluable. Bob Browder has spent countless hours focused on efforts that have helped to transform Temple ISD
007in the last 10 years. He was instrumental in the development of the PACs for the 2011, 2013, and 2015 bond and TRE campaigns, serving as the chair of each of these committees. Bob worked tirelessly to coordinate meetings, events, and materials, and fundraising to successfully execute each of these campaigns. Bob can frequently be found promoting the district and the community through various events and organizations. Through his efforts, we have been able to experience a district-wide transformation in our facilities and classrooms. Bob has been an extraordinary friend of Temple ISD, and we are grateful for his ongoing service and commitment. Both Thomas and Bob have been consistently strong advocates for our district individually, but when you combine the collective efforts of these gentlemen, there are two things that become abundantly clear. When this duo commits to a
008cause, their passion and dedication is unwavering, and two, they will succeed. Thomas and Bob, for all the reasons mentioned and so many more, we are honored to present you with the Friends of Temple ISD Wildcat Award this evening. I'll make a few comments. So first of all, Thomas and Bob, whether you like it or not, you guys are a tandem. Okay? I'll start there. I think, you know, there's a lot of talk about the Temple ISD support. I think when you look at the community as a whole, whether it's the Economic Development Corporation, the Reinvestment Zone, the city, the college, the school district, anywhere, anytime you see progress, when you start peeling that onion back, you'll find these two in the middle of it. They are driving progress in this community, and they always have.
009Big supporters of the school district, obviously Thomas is a graduate. You may end up being an honorary graduate, Bob, if you're not careful. He's married to a graduate. Yes, he is. But we are so grateful for both of you and your support. The things that you've accomplished on behalf of the district for two people are just extraordinary. Thank you for being in our corner and for being a friend of Temple ISD. We're grateful. Thank you. Thank you very much. At Temple High School, you can see me now. My high school doesn't exist anymore, Waco-Richville, so I need a new high school to adopt. So, come on. Well, we're glad for you to adopt this one. Yes. I just want to echo what Bobby said, and also the Temple Education Foundation. You all have been very
010instrumental in raising funds for that vitally important organization for our students, for the teacher grants and scholarships. So, again, there's so much you all have done for the community and Temple ISD, and we're just so very appreciative. You all richly deserve these awards. Thank you. And your names are displayed downstairs on the plaque downstairs, so please make sure that you all stop and look at that on the way out. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You all can hang on to it just in case you all want to do something. I want to say something. Thomas and Bob, please also know that the T that you have in front of you was made by our CTE students. Thank you all very much for being with us
011this evening. Please, you all enjoy your evening. Our next item is recognition of fine arts, CTE, and athletic state qualifiers. If the board could just please rise where they are right now. So, if you will remember, in 2019, we began kind of a new tradition of recognizing all students who qualify for something to compete at the state level. Well, I'm so glad we did that, but I don't think we ever anticipated that we would have 120 students to present to you this evening, which is a great problem to have. So, they are going to come in in different groups, and we'll ask them kind of in each group to stand in front of you all. We're going to try not to do handshakes and stuff, Dr. Ott especially. They listen better. I'm sorry. They just
012do. Thank you. So, they'll stand in front of you so that we can take pictures and recognize these students. So, we're going to start with CTE this evening, and our first group of CTE students is the group for the FFA Milk Quality Team. If you guys want to come on up, and their teacher is Caitlin Moore, and if you guys just kind of want to stand in the front. These students competed at area competition at Texas A&M and placed fifth, qualifying them to advance to the state level competition. We have Cadence Horelicka, Wyatt Johnson, Zoe Smith, and Camilo Sanchez. Congratulations, guys. Truly great job. If you all want to exit out that door, that's perfect. Thank you. Our next group of recognitions is our students who participated in FCCLA. We have teachers are Ms. Fife,
013Ms. Phillips, and Ms. Elliott. And these students competed at regionals and placed in the top five, qualifying them to advance. And we have our students who participated in the state level competition. We have Jesse Hernandez for the culinary arts competition, Abigail Brooke for the cupcake battle, Nymiam Johnson for the cupcake presentation, Mike Espinoe and Joshua Thompson for nutrition and wellness, and Scarlet Castellano for serving up success competition. Is our Cyberpatriot 13 gold and silver tier state round. We have teacher, Mr. Caraballo, and Ms. Lillian. And then these students earned a certificate of excellence in honor of the outstanding technical skill, problem solving and teamwork demonstrated by placing among the top teams in the CPE 13 state round. We have Sophia Castillo, Jessica Dewitt, Porfirio Nino, Cade Strong, and Joseph Tovar. Congratulations. Our last group for
014CTE are our TAFE students. And these students, they're teachers are Cheryl Cook and Jordan Beeman. And these students placed among the top 10 at the state level in the Texas Association of Future Educators competition and are competing at the national level in June. We have Emily DeGraff and Allison Elliott. And we wish you guys the best of luck at nationals next month. So now we'll move on to our fine arts recognitions. Art is it here? We did have one student who qualified for the state vase competition, which is the visual arts scholastic event. And she was unable to be here this evening. But she ranked in the top 6% of state competitors. And that was Alexis Caddy. So now we'll move on to our UIL Texas state solo and ensemble contest. We had over 60
015students that qualified out of regionals to compete in the state level competition that is being held virtually this year. And the results will be released in June. Please join me in congratulating them as we call their groups. We'll do the first group of the soloists, UIL soloists. We have Terry Austin, Michael Barfoot, Michael Boyles, Colin Fowler, Ashley Hooper-Gardner, Cody Little, Melody Oradasky, Isaiah Owens-Williams, Serenity Patterson, Hannah Prince, Maricelo Valerio, Caitlin Vega, and Alethia. And then we have Atlantis Watkins. And then we have, they are under the direction of Cameron Reclus and Megan Burt. So join us up here. Congratulations, guys. Except ensemble. If you're in ensemble, hang back. Everyone else can head down. But if we had our ensemble students who also qualified, we have Terry Austin, Jacob Edwards, Colin Fowler, Isaiah Owens-Williams, who qualified
016in the ensemble category. Congratulations. Thank you. And I got to see some of them perform this weekend for the first time live. And it was amazing. So first time live all year. So thank you, guys. Now we have our band students under the direction of Brent Matheson, Marcus Bonillo, and Marcus Duran. Let's do our flute trio. Do we have our flute trio? OK. That's OK. Well, then, why don't we? We've got members of all of them. OK. Well, do we have our flute trio? Flute trio, if you want to come to the front. That's OK. We have Megan Delano. We have Megan Delano. Allison Elliott and Abigail King. Allison's here. Allison. Awesome. And then let's do our clarinet groups. We have Patience Johnson, Trevor Mitchell-Williams, Barrett Travis, Noah Delgado, Jessica DeWitt, Dahlia Avila, Dijajane Baker,
017Angelina Concha, April DeLeon Hernandez, and Amber Hemet. If we can have you guys come forward. So that is our flute trio. And our clarinet trios and our clarinet quartet. Congratulations, you guys. You good? All right. You guys, y'all can exit that way. Perfect. And now let's do our bassoon solo. We have Emily DeGraff. Alto sax solo is Dominic Gamino. Tenor sax solo was Colton Rankin. OK. Let's do our sax quartet number one. We have Dominic, Ellie, Abel. Colton Rankin. Tyler Van Bieber. Saxophone quartet number two. We had Mikael Edwards, Jacob Enriquez, Beyonce Rogers, and Ethan Magana. And saxophone quartet number three, we had Amber Morris, Seth Orff, Shania Booker, and Luke Herman. Congratulations to you guys. Emily, y'all hold on just a second. Parents, if you need us to hang on so that you can
018come up and take a picture, you're welcome to come and step up and take a picture real quick. So we'll be glad to pause for just a second. I know I saw familiar faces in that group. So you're welcome to. Come on up. Don't be shy. Great job, guys. OK. Thanks, Emily. Y'all can exit. Thank you. Next we'll have our, let's see, our French horn solo, Henry Iminger. Brass quintet is Henry, Abby Hannon, Blake Morris, Cade Riggin, and Jaylen Robinson. Brass quintet number two is Michael Barfoot, Parker Madsen, Sean Peasel. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. Great job. Congratulations, guys. Great job. Can I see the one? Any other parents? Y'all, don't be shy. Come on up. I
019know. It's OK. I gave him permission. It's OK. It's OK. Y'all don't be embarrassed. It's OK. It's all good. Congratulations, guys. Thank you. Now we'll do our last group of soloists. We have our piano solo, Mark Wong. solo Cody Little, percussion keyboard solo Devon Gandara, percussion keyboard Isabel Torres, percussion keyboard Connor James, percussion keyboard Donovan Nichols, percussion keyboard Henrik Janala, percussion keyboard Antonio Hunter, percussion keyboard Jaden Cuevas, and Josiah Ramos. Dr. Little I was gonna stall for you but I didn't have to there you go! Can I say that? Great job band. So our next group of student recognitions is going to be Fine Arts and it's going to be our theatrical design students. We recognized them earlier but we wanted to recognize them again. These students they competed back in, when did y'all compete
020the first time? It was like it was it right after the like in January or February? Was that the first time? That was the first competition and then they competed again last month right? Okay so these guys made it to state and were able to compete at the state level. We have set design Genaviive Meyers, costume design Hannah Pryce, hair and makeup design Serenity Patterson, theatrical marketing Daniel Salazar and Kelsey Sider. That we were anxiously awaiting the results that should be announced tomorrow but Ms. Tolleson do you want to announce it? Our team design this year, We designed a set, makeup and hair, costuming and marketing for Man of La Mancha, the musical Man of La Mancha. And our design team made it to state, as did Kelsey, who is in individual marketing. But our
021team, which is Daniel, Serenity, Hannah, and Genevieve, we just found out they placed third. They got the bronze medal in state. And some of these kids got first place in state earlier in the fall for design. Yeah. It's an incredible group. Yes. Congratulations, you guys. Congratulations. If y'all want to just wait up there, and then we'll have the rest of the group join you. So now we want to recognize our UIL State One Act Play finalist. Out of the 250 schools that competed this year, Temple Theater once again advanced to state for the third time in four years as part of that Elite Eight. And we had three students who received individual acting awards at the state meet. We had Genevieve. Genevieve Myers, who was named to the state all-star cast. Serenity Patterson. And Cameron
022Hooper. Cameron, are you here? Genevieve and Serenity and Cameron, would y'all just step forward just so that they can see you? Serenity and Cameron were named to the honorable mention all-star cast list. Our UIL State One Act Play cast includes Genevieve Myers, Serenity Patterson, Cameron Hooper, Mamancha Shrestha, Austin Madsen, Hannah Prince, Michael Rodriguez. Olivia Johnson, Natalie Greenfield, and Kylie Burke. If you'll stay there, I'm going to have the crew kind of come in front of you. But if everybody will just stay up there. We have the crew and alternates are Kelsey Sider, Terry Austin, Colin Fowler, Rochelle Lopez, Melody Oradeski, Jillian Knox, Saniya Gilbreth, Julia Prather, Michelle Boyles, Phoebe Gonzales, Penelope Gonzalez. Janice Cody, McKenna McBean, and Daniel Salazar. And our on-set crew of Ashley Harisberger, Jayden Mayani, Sophia Pacheco, Carolina Rodriguez, Emily Perkins, Sydney
023Fisher, Skylar Gordon, Antonio Gordon, and Holden Rounds. And of course, this incredible group of students. So I'm going to pass the ball over to them. We'll have the rest of the crew come in front of me. We're going to have the three last students, and then we'll have the senior staff. I'm going to pass the ball to the senior staff. And we're going to have the senior staff come in front of you. This is the senior staff. The senior staff is led by Natasha Tallison along with Bradley Lamont and Kayla Stewart. Congratulations. If I can have seniors stay up here, and if everyone else doesn't mind exiting. You can hang in the back if you want to hear what I'm saying. But if I can have just seniors stay at the front. And yes, y'all
024have been to state. The department has been to state five times in the last six years. However, you guys have been to state three times in the four years that you have been part of this program. And you know, making it to the state level of any kind of competition is something to be proud of, but it's remarkable that you guys have been there three times. And the only reason you did not go last year is because it got canceled. So we can count it as, we're going to say that you're 100%. You are an extraordinary group, completely talented and amazing individuals, and this is just the beginning of what you all will accomplish. And we are so, so very proud of you and for everything that you've done. So congratulations, seniors. I'd be surprised
025if their diplomas go missing. We would like to keep them. Congratulations all of you. It's fantastic body work. Absolutely. Absolutely. So our last group of recognitions is athletics. And we have seven students across two sports that we want to recognize for advanced athletics. And we have seven students across two sports that we want to recognize for advanced athletics. And we have seven students across two sports that we want to recognize for advanced athletics. For golf, we have, it's been an extraordinary year for the THS golf program under the direction of Coach Rorick and Coach Jones. You get to come all the way up. And not only did they have the first female golfer from THS advance to regionals, but they also enjoyed watching Daniel Moon sail through regionals and qualify for state competition. Daniel, it's
026been so much fun watching your progress this season, and we're super proud of you. So congratulations. so congratulations like to recognize our track is it four by one four by one relay team you guys come on up we have coaches Justin Pierce coach Van Cleve y'all come thank you y'all come y'all get to come to the very very front no you hang on to yours y'all hang on to yours so as coach Pierce and coach Van Cleve watched this group early on they knew that this season would be great for these young men and boy were they right these guys certainly didn't disappoint this is our four by 100 relay team we have Mikhail Harrison pilots Amari Howard Carlton Mack Tredarius Taylor and then we have alternates Dijon Thomas and Jaylen Robinson that we also
027wanted to recognize tonight so congratulations you guys for making it to state and how many are any of you leaving us none of these are leaving us so guess what we have some years to look forward to we're super excited about that so we're very glad you're here we really wanted to honor you so thank you for being here and congratulations guys this time May is always one of the most enjoyable board meetings for me just to see all the students and the recognitions you're right this this is the most we've ever seen it's impressive item five is executive hires consideration for approval to hire Adrienne Lopez as the director of employee relations Donna Ward yes and so we feel like we won state two in the personnel round and so mr. Posey Board of
028Trustees dr. Ott the hiring committee comprised of myself Amy Hayes David McCauley and Kayla Holt reviewed 40 applicants for the position of director of employee relations and selected their top eight candidates to interview after interviews on April 13th and 14th the committee selected Adrienne Lopez as the candidate to take to the school board for approval on May 10th today you mr. Lopez received a Bachelor of Science in Ag economics in 2001 from Texas A&M University in College Station and went on to earn a master's in educational leadership in and his superintendent certification from Texas A&M Central Texas in 2010 and 2012 respectively mr. Lopez has dedicated his entire educational career to Temple ISD he began his teaching career in Temple serving as a bilingual teacher while serving as a teacher mr. Lopez served many roles
029to include campus lead math teacher T best mentor and campus webmaster to name a few and was the recipient of a TEF grant that focused on the use of iPads in the classroom mr. loop Lopez moved into the role of math science instructional coach in 2007 where he helped develop plans for RTI served as a new teacher mentor coordinator and wrote curriculum for math in two in 2010 mr. Lopez moved into the position of the president of the of AP at Bonham Middle School in Temple ISD, a position he held for five years when he was named the principal of Cater Elementary in 2015. Mr. Lopez is a Temple native and is a 1995 graduate of Temple High School. He currently resides in Salado with his wife, Laura, who is an AP at Kennedy Powell
030Elementary, and his two children who currently attend Temple Schools as well. And I did find out he has goats and chickens that he likes to dabble in when he's not principally. Mr. Lopez brings a career with experience at elementary and secondary levels, as well as a love and dedication to the community of Temple ISD. So it is with great pleasure that the committee recommends Mr. Adrian Lopez for the position of Director of Employee Relations at Temple ISD. Members, any questions? No. Is there? No. Does the staff require a vote? Yes. With great honor, I move for approval. I second that motion. Motion by Ms. Suarez. Seconded by Mr. Gaines. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The ayes tremendously have it. It is done. It's approved. I am so glad your staff
031is not here to protest your ascension and keep it. I told them not to embarrass me. I knew they wouldn't let me down. So thank you guys. So first off, I wanted to present my family, Laura Lopez, my daughter, Adalia, and Isaiah. I didn't think I would do this. But so I really am excited to fill this role as someone who knows Temple and knows our students. I cannot wait to be part of the recruitment and the retention of teachers and staff who will be working with our students. In addition, I'm glad to be part of the organization. I'm glad to be part of the upcoming initiatives such as a teacher incentive allotment and the principal residency program. Thank you to the interview committee or to the interview committee and all the support from the
032staff and colleagues. You know, I greatly do appreciate my team, my admin team, my staff. They're just an amazing group of teachers at Cater. I also thank TISD for all the opportunities that have been available to me to prepare for this role. And thank you to you, Dr. Ott, and the board for your vote of confidence in this new role. Dr. Ott, our human resource department is now 50% Aggies. We are in trouble. I'm sorry, Joe, I didn't hear you. Our human resource department is 50% Aggies. But the superintendent is a longhorn. Exactly. No longhorns. Congratulations, Adrian. Congratulations. Item six is the board presence report. A, administration of administrative duties. B, administration of administrative duties. C, administration of administrative duties. D, administration of staff. K, administration of staff. And finally, an oath of office. Oath
033of office to newly elected board members. And Tammy Frenzel? We had three positions that were open, three posts, and those were unopposed, but we do have to make y'all official. And you have the forms in front of you, the oath of office and the statement. If y'all would please rise and just read along. We'll just read it along together. Okay. I, your name, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of the Temple ISD Board of Trustees District of the State of Texas and will do my best of my ability to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state, so help me God. All right, now we have statement of officer. It will be the same. I, state your name, do solemnly
034swear or affirm that I have not directly or indirectly paid, offered, promised, to pay, contributed, or promised to contribute, sorry, went a little long there, any money or thing of value, promised in public office, or employment for giving, or withholding of a vote at the election at which I was elected, or as a reward to secure my appointment or confirmation, whichever the case may be, so help me God. You are official again. Great. Yeah, it's, I've enjoyed so much serving with this board and behalf of the students and the staff and the teachers. It's, we're doing great things. It's definitely been an honor to serve with this group. It makes your job easier when you serve with a group of eight and the superintendent that we have. It's really a pleasure. Strong team of eight.
035Okay. Item B. Item B is the TISD School Board officers election. According to policy BDA local, the board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a secretary shall be a member of the board. Officers shall be elected by majority vote of the members present in voting for the year of June 2021 through May 2022. Recommendations will be received for each individual position. Board officers shall serve for a term of one year or until the end of the year. Okay. And the successor is elected. Officers may succeed themselves in office. Each officer shall perform any legal duties of the office and other duties as required by action of the board. The first position is board president. I now open up the floor for any nominations. I nominate Dan Posey, board president. Okay. I would second
036that. All right. As a motion for discussion. All right. Motion for Dan Posey by Mr. Gaines, seconded by Dr. Sonney. Are there any other nominations out there for board president? All right. Seeing none, I will close it. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? The motion is granted. It's approved. So thank you all very much. Well, thank you. Thank you. Besides, thank you. Thank you. Again, you know, just like being sworn on the board again. For another three year term. It's enjoy being on the board and any position I can help out. So thank you. I appreciate your confidence. The next office is the office of vice president. The floor is now open for any nominations. I would like to recommend Mr. Ronnie Gaines for the office of vice president. Okay. Nomination
037by Dr. Sonney for Ronnie Gaines. I'll second. Seconded by Ms. Suarez. Are there any other nominations for vice president? Seeing none, I will close the nominations. The motion is for Ronnie Gaines as vice president. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The ayes have it. Mr. Gaines is reelected as vice president. Congratulations, Ronnie. The next office is board secretary. And now I'm opening up the floor for any nominations. I would like to nominate Ms. Virginia Suarez. Nomination of Virginia Suarez by Mrs. Lanella. Mrs. Lanella Davis. I'll second the motion. Seconded by Mr. Gaines. Are there any other nominations for board secretary? Seeing none, I'll close the nominations. The motion is for Virginia Suarez as secretary. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The ayes have it. Virginia, you're secretary
038again to the board. Congratulations. Our next item is destination of delegate and alternate to the TASV Delegate. to the TASB delegate assembly. And I believe Shannon Myers would like to be the delegate and Dr. Sonny Asani is the alternate. Okay, do we need a motion on this? Just to name it, okay. All right, so that's Shannon Myers as the delegate and Dr. Sonny Asani as the alternate. Okay, that's done. All right. Congratulations. Item D is designation of facilities and policy committee members for 2021, 2022. And I believe we're all gonna stay the same with policy committee chaired by Lynelle Davis. Also in the committee is Lynelle Davis, Sonny Asani, myself, Dan Posey. And on the facilities committee, it's gonna be chaired again by Ronnie Gaines. Now on that committee is Virginia Suarez, Shannon Myers, Shannon
039Gallin. And so we will keep the same committees. All right. E is the TASB request for advocacy resolutions. This is TASB's requesting for the delegate assembly advocacy resolutions. Before you, you have our legislative positions and priorities and looking over what we came up with late last year, earlier this year, I think we're gonna have a lot of things. I think it'd be a good idea if we submit this to TASB as our resolutions. Is there any discussion on this or thoughts? We'll support our own resolutions, and yet we will be supporting TASB's resolutions also too. Exactly. Right, we'll support them and we'll put this forward to TASB. So, okay. Very good. Are there any future items discussion? All right. Item G is important dates and Dr. Odd. Okay, thank you, Mr. Posey. I'll run down
040some very important end of year dates. Starting May 21st, we have the NAACP Scholarship Awards event. It's always a very special occasion. This will be done virtually this year. And Marilyn, I don't believe we've received the link yet. Is that correct? Yeah. When we get it, we'll make sure that. You'll send it out to all the members. Everybody can. May 22nd, we have the Temple High School Prom here in the Santa Fe Plaza. 8 o'clock. May 25th, top 10 senior recognition, and that will be held at the Temple High School Library. I'll just qualify everything I'm saying by telling you that we're going to do everything possible to have all of our events in person as we finish the year. And so I think you'll see that as we go through here. May 26th, we
041have the School Board Policy Committee meeting, but then we also have the Superintendent Scholars, those are your top 10 freshmen, sophomore, and juniors. And we'll be doing that out here in the Santa Fe Plaza as well. And that's at 5.30 PM. May 27th, Joe Palmer's retirement reception from 2 to 5 at the Railroad Heritage Museum. And I want to encourage everybody to come. And in Joe Palmer fashion, make sure you come to harass him. But we are, oh, he's taking his mask off. We are a great tribe. We are a great tribe. We are a great tribe. We are truly grateful for his service. And I know we're going to have a good turnout. So please be sure to be there. School Board Facilities Committee meeting, May 27th. And then May 28th, we actually have
042a student holiday. That's the Friday before Memorial Day. And we also have a remote staff development day. And then the 31st is actually a student staff holiday. June 2nd, we have our TISD Retirement Banquet. And Mr. Palmer, I believe that is still going to be at Temple College Pavilion, is that right? Okay. I think we talked about, depending on the number, maybe moving it here, but I think it's large enough to where we would just use the pavilion over at TC. Please be sure to go. That is such a special occasion. I mean, you have so many people that dedicate and committed their lives to kids. It's really well done. Temple High School Senior Awards Assembly and TEF Scholarship Awards, that will be at the Temple High School Auditorium on June 2nd, the week before
043the last week of school. And that starts at 630. Last day of school, June 9th. We have a school board retreat, June 10th. That's where we go over our long range plans. Senior leadership team has been working that through their respective groups and departments. And we will be prepared to go through and present those items to you. And then the 132nd graduation ceremony for Temple High School. My goodness, that is a lot of graduations. And that will be held in person from 10 to noon, June 12th at the Bell County Expo. And as always, I know it's a joy to watch our students walk across the stage, especially rounding out this year. It's gonna be particularly special. And that's all I have, Mr. Posey. Oh, and then the one last thing, I'm sorry. You have
044another attachment. At the end of the year, we have many fine arts celebration shows, concerts, activities, and there's an entire page there that runs all the way into the summer, full of performances for you to attend and see. Our students, they do a fantastic job. And it's always a good reminder that we're closing out the end of the year. And that is all I have. Okay, thank you, Dr. Haught. Next item is item seven, consent items. We have A through K1. What is the pleasure of the board to deal with these items? I'm here to approve all consent agenda items together. For one item. All right. Second. Motion by Ms. Gowen. Second the motion. Seconded by Mrs. Davis. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The ayes have it, the motion passes.
045Thank you. Eight is action items. A, human resources. One, consideration for approval of superintendents recommendations regarding employment and contract status of administrative personnel. No items, okay. Item two is consideration for approval to terminate probationary contract employees. No items. Item three is consideration for approval to propose non-renewal of term contract employees. No items, okay. Item B, curriculum instruction. And no items. All right. C, finance and facilities. All right, we're going through this pretty fast. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. The curve bust. Yeah. Students, D is student services. One, fine arts program update. No, no, no. Just want to remind the board that this is part of our cyclical program reviews where we have advanced academics, fine arts, CT and athletics. I believe advanced academics. Lisa, is that correct? They went earlier this year with the IB update.
046And if this presentation is in line with that, if this presentation is any indication of what we saw earlier in the board meeting with our students, it's going to be a fun one for sure. But fine arts has had a fantastic year. Katrina, I do want to take the time to thank you for your leadership publicly. You have done a great job. I know there's been a lot of things that you've had to balance. I don't know how you work between the disciplines because they're all so different, but you really do a fantastic job on personnel, encouraging, supporting the different groups. And I truly appreciate your leadership. Katrina, I really do. So we'll go ahead and get started. Thank you. Dr. Ott, President Posey and board, thank you so much for what you do for
047our fine arts students. You got to see the end result tonight, and it's amazing. So we're going to kind of walk through what it took us to get there. So starting with this, you notice my little flower that I have up there. That is a plum blossom. In China, the plum blossom symbolizes perseverance and hope after a long, cold winter. The plum tree will blossom when covered with frost, even if it looks like it's dead. And that has been our fine arts this year. So when you back up a little bit to the spring of 2020, and when we were ramping up for State One Act and all of the things that we celebrated tonight, they kept getting canceled. And we just, we lost UIL events, One Act play, Texas State Soul Ensemble, spring concerts,
048spring trips, and it was kind of depressing. But we did have something to look forward to, thanks to this board and to the community of Temple, and that was our new fine arts wing. So as we were looking, I kept sending out pictures to our staff. And I do have some kudos, because our plan was to have our students help us pack up the L wing before it was time to move. And that didn't happen. So our teachers had to come up and do all of that without student assistance. And then I was homeless for a couple of months, and Mr. Hagerberg graciously put up with me and let me, and put me up in his conference room. I don't know who was happier when I moved out, him or me. But it was great.
049I asked if I qualified for homeless services, and I didn't get anything. But anyway, we were looking forward to it, and we were so excited. And then we finally, so these are some of our under construction pictures as we were going through. And then we finally got to move in. And so some of the pictures that we had as we got to move into this space, and the teachers were so excited to come up over the summer and get their rooms set up. I have to brag, when you look at that picture, you'll see that camera on that tripod standing up in the middle. That's how we've done a lot of teaching this year. We've had live and remote going at the same time. And just having these spaces has been amazing for the high
050school fine arts programs and our teachers. And our students have very much enjoyed being in them. And we have taken advantage of it. So as we started planning for the 2021 school year, the key word was flexibility. CNI and Student Services worked so hard to give us guidance and direction, and their support was invaluable. So thank you all very, very much. We had a lot of online meetings, online trainings. And we made sure we had a plan B and a C and a D. And as it says, if plan A didn't work, we had to do it. If plan A didn't work, don't worry. The alphabet still has 25 more letters. I think we went through all of them for some of our things. So we jumped into hybrid learning. And we had students, synchronous,
051that were online at the same time that the teacher was teaching the class, as well as asynchronous that would come in afterwards and watch videos or participate. And the fine arts team came together to figure out how to make that happen. Our elementary art and music teachers came together, and they created the entire online curriculum for elementary art and music at the beginning of the year for the whole school year, grades K through five, and put all that together and worked together to make that happen. Our secondary teachers collaborated to help each other to create remote lessons, resources, and activities. And we learned a lot about technology and cameras and microphones and blended learning and flipped classrooms. And we did a lot. It was fun, but we wanted, we kept saying, where there's a will,
052there's a way, that we will find for our kids to keep doing the arts. So we come into the fall, and we found ways to do performances. And we took advantage of that beautiful new courtyard outside and theater and choir both did performances in that courtyard. And we were able to actually do a theater show on the stage, a 20-style radio show where the kids were all distanced, and we were able to do that on the stage in October. It was wonderful to have live theater on the stage. And, you know, we do this fun thing in the fall called marching season. And we had some fun. The first day of marching camp where we had the band out on the field was incredible. To go out there and see our students out there on
053our field. We hadn't seen them in about six months. And we were thrilled to see them out there. And as you can see, they had some fun. And we did some pep rallies to kind of get the year up and going. And, of course, we were at the football games. And very much enjoyed that. Our kids had a great time participating. You can see our seniors with their homecoming. And, of course, you can forget our first game at AT&T Stadium. So we had to bring some pictures of that. And, of course, we masked not only our students but our instruments. So we put those beautiful masks on our brass instruments. And we might actually keep doing that on the sousaphones because it looks pretty sharp from the field. And we had a lot of fun.
054And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. Our kittens there at AT&T Stadium, that's where the Dallas cheerleaders take a lot of their pictures and stand and cheer. It was really awesome to put our drill team up in that same spot. And, of course, our playoff game at McLean Stadium at Baylor. All the kids that we had in the stands playing. And our kittens down on the field. It was a great fall season. And
055then we went into UIL Marching Contest. And about two weeks prior, we almost pulled the band. Between grades, remote school, and then we went to the UIL Marching Contest. And we pulled out students in, out, in, out. Kids that were sick that were out for various reasons. We felt like we just didn't think the band was going to be able to do it. And the student leadership said, no, we want to go. And so our student leadership said, we will make this happen. They got straight ones. So these are some pictures from our region marching band. And I was so thrilled to be there, to see our band perform at Marching Contest. And you know, this is the first time I've ever been to a marching contest. And I'm so glad to be there. And
056I love it when you listen to your kids. Because they told us they could do it. And they did. And we were proud of them. So after marching band is when COVID started to spike across the nation. And we decided we were not going to do live concerts for the December season. We felt that we needed to move online. So welcome to the Fine Arts Production Studio. Yes, there are three computers on that desk, along with a dual monitor, a phone, and there's an iPad somewhere. And there's another teacher at my secretary's desk who was streaming from there. We had multiple events going on at the same time some nights. We figured it out. So this year, we have streamed 14 elementary music programs, seven band concerts, six choir concerts, eight orchestra concerts. And these
057did not include the UIL performances. These are just the concerts that we've streamed out. And so far, we've had more than 3,000 views. So our parents still engaged. Our family and community still engaged with us. So then we move into the spring semester in UIL. Every school and every music program participated in UIL solo and ensemble and UIL concert site reading evaluation. Very few school districts have this claim. Very few. And every school, every program participated. So some of our results. Temple High School Orchestra took two orchestras, got sweepstakes for both. The Bonham Orchestra received a sweepstakes. Lamar Orchestra received a sweepstakes. Travis Orchestra received an excellent rating on stage and superior in site reading. Our choirs, we just got the high school choir and band results this afternoon. So our non-varsity tenor bass choir
058at the high school, sweepstakes. Our varsity tenor bass, sweepstakes. Our varsity treble, superior concert, excellent site reading. Varsity mix, sweepstakes. Bonham Choir took two choirs, got sweepstakes with both. Lamar Choir, same thing. Travis Choir got a sweepstakes. Lamar Choir got a superior on the concert and excellent in site reading. And Travis Choir has not been able to participate in UIL for about two or three years. This was their first one in three years. And they do it in a COVID year and they got wonderful ratings. Very, very proud of that group. So we overall had, oh, there's our band. High school symphonic band, excellent and superior. Temple High School Wind Ensemble, sweepstakes. Bonham Band, sweepstakes. Lamar, excellent for concert and site reading. And Travis, superior for concert and excellent for site reading. And Travis Band,
059we had a mix with our sound when we recorded them and the sound was so distorted we had to redo their whole performance and find a new site reading piece for them. So the Travis Band did UIL twice. Bless their hearts. And they did great. So overall, we had 19 UIL concert site reading ensembles, 13 sweepstakes awards. Three concert superior plaques and two site reading plaques. So very proud of our music programs. And we had a lot of success. We had a lot of success with our music programs. And as you saw, we had 49 music students qualify for Texas State solo and ensemble. Five theater qualified for state design and won bronze. Of course, UIL theater, one act play, were district champions for the 29th year in a row. And they advanced through by
060district and region to qualify for state. And they had an amazing, amazing state performance. And we're very, very proud of them. And people have asked me how they did at state. State judging was kind of all over the map. One judge had us rank second. And we ended up coming, placing seventh. It was really kind of weird. And the play that won, one judge ranked that play seventh. So the judging was kind of all over the map on that one. But we were very proud of their performance. They did an amazing, amazing performance. Dance has had an awesome year. These are just some of the awards that our dance program has won with the Davy Kittens bringing in awards, our varsity kittens bringing in awards, our dance officers and our elite team bringing in a
061lot of best in category, best in officers, judges awards, wow factors. This is really amazing. And of course, our state art student. The other thing that just went up, and you can still go see it if you have not, is Artworks. Artworks is back at the CAC. So these are just a few pictures from the Artworks display. So I believe a lot of you have already been over there and seen it because there's a picture. A picture of a group dressed up like Alice in Wonderland. And I recognize the artwork behind you. So you probably had a chance to see our artworks that is going on at the CAC right now. So some great artworks. So the fabulous thing is we're going live. So we just had our first live music for performances in over
062a year in the auditorium this last weekend. Polly, of course, started us off. So we are going to be open for live performances. We're going to be open for live performances. We have some live performances in May. We do have some protocols in place. And we have a full slate of middle school and high school music and dance productions and theater. We'll be closing out the year with Chicago. So we've given you those important dates on your calendar. And always I try to keep the calendar on the website as up to date as I can. So if you would like to come to an event, please contact the Fine Arts Office. We are doing ticketing for these. So the job is to get tickets. And the dance performances this weekend are getting very, very full.
063So if you would like to come, please let me know and we will pull some reserved tickets for you. So we'll make sure that you have a way to come to see a performance if you would like to. So that's kind of how we got where we were. But rather than me talking to you, I'm going to let our kids tell the pictures, tell you the story through pictures. This runs from the beginning of the year where we started with our summer marching all the way to the Polly Encore performance last weekend. And normally I would put music from our groups performing. But the song I chose for this I felt was very appropriate for the students and the staff. So I'm going to let them close this out with thank you. Because Fine Arts
064has thrived this year because I have an amazing, amazing staff. And we have amazing support. And it doesn't work without either. So I'm going to let these guys kind of close it out. . It's so impressive to see all that this wrap up of the year. Dedicated staff, teachers, students. It's just amazing. Thank you for everything you've done, Katrina. Item two, consideration for approval of the interlocal corporation contract relating to redistricting with Bell County. Thank you, Ms. Locks Beach. Eric, that's going to be a hard act to follow. Yeah, I know. Not even going to try. . Well, every ten years the country conducts a census. And part of the result of that is that every voting district needs to analyze their current districts, potentially redraw those. And there are two rules that redrawing has
065to take into account. One is called one person, one vote. And that's so that every district has to be pretty close to the same population. So the largest one and the smallest one can have a variance of 10%. So that's one of the first things that they analyze. The next is called educate or electoral opportunity. And so they look at those districts. They looked at how compact it is. How connected it is. And the community of interest that are within those. And they look at ethnicity, socioeconomics, as well as if there's any existing political community already there. They try to keep all that together. It's a very complicated process. And tonight we're proposing with the Bickerstaff law firm to perform these analysis for us. And it's in conjunction with the Bickerstaff Law Firm. And it's
066in conjunction with Bell County. And so we're looking at an MOU with Bell County. And in connection or as part of this regional process, we're looking or the City of Temple is part of this. The City of Killeen is also part of this as well as Bell County and us. Over the course of two fiscal years, the total for this redistricting process is $29,914. And that's a lot. And that's $2,030. And the new arrangement we're talking about this decade almost mirrors last decades how much it cost us to do this. So they're going to look at it. If there's a rearrangement, redrawing that's needed, they'll present that to the board here. And it's a lengthy process. So tonight we present this interlocal agreement for your consideration. Thank you, Mr. Hagenberg. Members, are there any questions?
067This does require approval. Move for approval. Motion by Mr. Gaines. Seconded by Ms. Gowen. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you very much. Item E is Board Committee Reports. First one is Facilities Committee Update. Meeting held April 29, 2021, 4 p.m. Mr. Gaines. Thank you, Mr. Posey. The meeting was called to order at 4 p.m. No one spoke during the public forum. The first item was consideration of approval of the new soccer concessions, restrooms, and utility GMP. Mr. Wolf provided an overview of the proposed GMP for the soccer and concession and restroom facilities and related utilities. A summary of the project and a bid tabulation was presented to the committee. The administration recommended approval of the GMP of a total of $1.5 million. $375,311. That recommendation
068was unanimously approved. Item B, consideration of approval to exceed the original contract costs for the Temple High School parking lot. Mr. Boyd presented a request to approve the change order to the original contract for the parking lot project at Temple High School. The effort to improve the intersection of the school and the parking lot project at Temple High School was added to the GMP. The effort to improve the intersection of Houston Street and North 31st Street, the administration asked Emerson Construction to provide several yards of reinforced concrete to tie into the intersection. The change order will cost $6,702. The request was unanimously approved. Consideration, item C, consideration or approval to purchase a white fleet vehicle. Mr. Boyd presented a recommendation from the Transportation Department to purchase a new Ford Explorer for $31,842 from Caldwell Country
069through the buy board. The recommendation was unanimously approved. Item D, consideration for approval of the sale of surplus portables. Mr. Wood presented a recommendation to sell one surplus portable. Recommendation was unanimously approved. Item E, update of the sales of the Ford Explorer. Facilities master plan. Dr. Ott and Mr. Boyd presented the overview to the facilities master plan process. They provided committee members with the plan for each campus complete and detailed needs and associated estimated cost. The administration will continue to refine the plan and report back later. The meeting was adjourned at 5.06 PM. Our next committee meeting will be May 27th, 2021 at 4 PM. Thank you, Mr. Gaines. Item two is the Policy Committee Update. Meeting was held April 28, 2021 at 4 p.m. Mrs. Davis. Thank you, Mr. Posey. The meeting was called
070to order at 4.02 p.m. The committee discussed several candidates for the Friends of Temple ISD Award and agreed to move forward with the nominees. They are scheduled to be recognized at the May, June, and July board meetings. Two names were presented to the committee for inclusion to the list of recommended names for naming facilities under CW Local. Sue Mayburn was nominated. Jody Donaldson was nominated with his name specifically mentioned for the announcer's booth at Wildcat Stadium. The committee agreed they would be added to the list. This list was placed under tonight's consent agenda. For board notification. The committee reviewed update 116 and the policy changes were discussed. The local policy changes will be presented at tonight's meeting for board consideration. The meeting was adjourned at 4.39 p.m. The next policy committee meeting is scheduled for
071May 26, 2021 at 4 p.m. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Davis. Item B. Is consideration for approval of policy update 116. Mr. Augenberg. Yes, sir. This policy 116 is the last of last legislative session. So this is, while it's rather thick, several of these policies are minor one-word changes in long policy. So this, again, this one is just rounding up last legislative session. So this is just rounding up last legislative session. So this is just rounding up last legislative session. Sort of the calm before the storm. Because the next one will be the first from this legislative session. And those are typically pretty significant. As always, we'll go over various legal policies of interest. And I'll specifically note the local ones. Those are the ones that we are presenting for your consideration tonight. First policy, CCG
072legal that I will mention. It deals with... Setting the tax rate. The county now has a specific form that is required for districts and various entities to use to establish the tax rate. And this form is now required not only to be used, but to be located within the various budget documents for approval. So you'll, as we go through the budget process, you'll recognize that. And that will be part of the... The budget materials. The next one, CE legal. That, again, deals with the tax form. And this requires it to be in those documents that are posted on the website also. CKB deals with the safety program. Over the last year or so, we've talked about how the state and best practices has changed the names of lockdowns. And soft lockdowns. Well, now it's formally
073made it into the documents. And so when you hear those things or when we present those for next year, you'll hear words like secure and lockdown, evacuate, shelter in place. And so now those are official in the language here. The first local policy we'll look at is CQB local. It originally stated that the board is the one that... Establishes the technology cyber security training and make sure that that satisfies all the legal requirements in the law. This change in local policy has you delegating the superintendent to find the security program that best fits the district and to provide... Make sure it falls in line and provide that training to not only you but... For staff members also. So that's the first local policy. Next one, DAA legal. And this is in conjunction with DIA legal.
074I just wanted to highlight this one. Lots of changes to it. This is part of the laws, the federal law for civil rights and for sex discrimination and those type things. And just to highlight that a lot of changes in this policy and I anticipate here in the next year or so, you'll be seeing these policies come up a lot more just because of change in administration at the federal level, change in various things. So while these changes are significant here, just know that it's going to... As law happens and as... Things evolve, you're going to see a lot more discussion on this in the near future. The next local policy, DCD and DCE. We'll take combining those. The original policy said that appeals will be heard by the board. This just clarifies that they
075need to go through the step... The local... Level one, two, three process that we've talked about several months ago and eventually get to the board. So it just clarifies that it doesn't... These appeals don't go directly to you. It goes through the standard process that's been set up. So that's clarifying language for those two local policies. The next one, EKBA. Wanted to highlight that one. You will... It used to be limited English proficient was the term. Before that particular learner, then it was an English language learner. Now the term is English learner. So as we go forward and you see various presentations with curriculum, you'll hear the term English learner. And that's what it was before. It's just a new title for it. So I'll highlight that one. The next one, FDD legal. That policy
076talks about military dependence. Military connected students. It adds language for a purple star designation, which is now an administrative code. And if you... When you walk in, you might have seen the sign there on the left that Mr. Hawley put up that said purple up. That's part of one of his initiatives trying to highlight the military connected students. And that's where the purple part came from, is from the purple star designation in this policy. The next local policy is probably the most significant one. Deals with medical treatments and various medicines that the school district can purchase and can administer. The first major change talks about medication provided by students. We as a district have always had parents bring doctor's notes. about four of those medicines and bring them in the original bottle so that we
077can be sure that the medicine that the parent brings is what's prescribed. So one of the pieces that TASB wanted to put in here was herbal substances and dietary supplements. We, two, three years ago as we went through this, we're not comfortable with those herbal substances and dietary supplements just because they aren't FDA regulated. And so while this is one of the proposed recommendations for TASB, we present tonight are not including that in this policy and just because, again, this is not what TASB is recommending. We've talked about before having potentially a legal advisory letter. This may be one of the things that will be highlighted in that one. The next piece of that is in the past, medication was not going to be purchased or provided to students. The district wasn't going to purchase
078it. They now have a clause that takes into account athletics and so this piece allows our, athletic trainers through proper supervision and the notes and all those, the normal procedures to as part of their treatment for various things to purchase medicine, to purchase aspirin and that sort of thing to be administered to our athletes through the athletic trainers. So that's the one local policy that's the, has the most significant changes to it. The last local policy, GQ. GKA is just a one word change. Instead of 90 days, it's 90 calendar days and this is talking about appeals for someone who was removed from campus because of their behavior. And then the last policy I'll highlight, GRAA legal. This highlights the connectedness, the relationship between the school district and various law enforcement's, agencies in trying to
079find missing children. So one of the laws that several years ago changed is whoever enrolls a student now has, we take a picture of their driver's license and just so that we have information that if the student was missing or the law enforcement was looking for it, then we're able to give them that information. And so not only in this policy does law enforcement now tell us who's on the, missing kids list, but now when we have that information and we have someone enrolled now we tell them. So it just is a, formalizes that reciprocal relationship we have in trying to find missing students. So there were five local policies and we're requesting your consideration for those. All right, thank you very much, Mr. Hagenberg. Any members, do you have any questions on this? This
080does require a motion. I'll move for approval. I think Mr. Gaines is gonna make. I move that the board revise the local policies as presented. And a second by Mrs. Myers. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you very much. And I hope you all still have the fine arts presentation in the back of your mind. Well, we're looking for a music from you at this point and a slideshow. Did you hear Kent? Kent said wow. Well, on that note, seeing there's no further business, we're adjourned for the evening. Thank you very much for attending.