001All right, we're going to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. You ready to flag the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Yes, that's what we do every morning. Um, we're excited to celebrate. We have some of our members of our drama club. Uh, they put in a lot of hard work uh this fall semester and they performed Alice in Wonderland on February 6th. Um, one show for our students during the day, then one for parents and community uh e in the evening and they really did an outstanding job. Um, all their hard work. Miss Copelan is our fearless leader of the drama club. Um we jokingly said that's because she leads all the drama. Um
002and so and then Miss Bailey helped assist her. Um and so so we're really fortunate for their work with our students and they really enjoyed what they did. So one and two this is Miss Aubrey Alice number five. So we had so many kids come out. We had five Alice during the story. Um, and so they really did a fantastic job. So, want to recognize them. We have some certificates Miss Copeland will hand out. And so, we're going to recognize um all of our participants that are here. I love Miss Copeland do that. Where do you want them to go? Just stand. So, what they can do is they will go and shake their hands. shape. You're going to go right down and take any violero Can I be a fowler? Like a baby. Aubrey
003Brazilski roll baby and Kayen Stern. So they did a really good job. Um, she didn't say her name, so Miss Copel did an outstanding job. So, a couple other two notes. One, uh, Miss Jana Mendoza is our spelling be champion. So, she had a two busy days. She won the spelling bee on the 5th and then performs in our drama club on the 6th. Um, the other thing to celebrate is we have an author in the building. Okay. Miss Copen last week, her first book got published. Um, and it's an outstanding it's a tough read. It makes you cry. Uh, but it's a really good book. So, uh, we're really proud of her her effort and all these students and what they do every day. So, big round of applause for them. Awesome. All right,
004guys. Thank you all parents. If y'all want to stay, you're more than welcome to stay or you can jet. There is a presentation across the street with Forever 15. I would highly encourage you Monday. These cords are having one day. I think I got it to stop glitching. Loose. All three of them. There you go. Okay. All right. Uh, any questions about the agenda? I see it. All those in favor say I or the comment. Um, Miss Jolene's first adjustments. just moving some money around for everywhere. There's some shortfalls and on prem they're allowing it to be spent out. So, I have moved some money out of some salary lines and moved into asset and supply lines. I think M. Williams has a plan for spending all that money out. The next one is on
005the literacy grant. Uh I that as well I'm moving some money to a line where I can get some books for that program. It's got to happen in March because the first is deadline for that. We have to put in for request for reimbursements by April 15th. We were going to NASPO, which is association of school business. Me and Raquel and Carmen, we go twice a year. We just got back from that this last week. So, it's been busy trying to catch up today. Any questions for Miss Julian? Thank you, Mr. Barbie. Ros's fire out of Albuquerque came down on the February the 5th and did our bianual inspection of the kitchen range hook fire suppression system. We're in the process of removing some graffiti at the football stadium where the bleachers and doors on
006the dungeon got hit and just a little bit on the track. also started tealing the foam and triple jump pits and some other work at the track field getting ready for the track season. On the 17th of February, inmates from RCC came out since we didn't have any students and finished some painting, cleaned gutters, and and picked up trash around the campus and football football field. Miss Reyes and her husband cooked for them and they left full and happy. We are still having to deal with lots of plumbing issues and doors not locking properly. Also getting ready for bus inspection on March the 6. Any questions? Did we ever find out anything about the bus? Last meeting we talked about possibly getting it deleted or figuring out what was going on with it or it's
007kind of I'll go ahead and answer that one. So I actually contacted the Hamls and they do have we could go both ways. So this bus is probably like 15 years old 15 maybe 18 years old. So, if we pay to get it fixed, it's going to be a good 12,000 to $15,000, which is a lot of money. Okay? And then we have to retire it in three years. Now, the thing is that I believe in the past it's already been fixed like three times. So, I don't know total Gary, how much has it been spent? And it's usually about 12 grand every time. And and then it doesn't work. So then I contacted the Hamls and they do have a company from I believe it's from Guatemala and then what they do is they
008purchase buses. So we'll probably get anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000, you know, for that bus. And I think it'll probably be the better route to go because if we spend another $12,000 and then we have to retire the bus in two or three years. So open for suggestions on on what you know you want us to do with that. The bus is only worth three grand. It there's that's pretty much what they you know once that they're already old they're not worth it. If we pay, we can pay $15,000 to get it fixed and then it'll work for maybe two three years and then in three years we have to retire it. That's it. What have we done in the past whenever we retire a bus? Where does it go? Does it just go to
009state auction? No. Last time till we traded them in on bus on the Bobcat, too. I'll see what they what they offer on trade. I think for the little bus we got maybe 1,500 and for the bigger bus we got 2500. And they were running this running. This one has been hard for how long? At least eight years. Well, since pay to deleted three years, we can't use it. It's not going to be cheap to delete it legally. Oh, be 12 grand. Yeah. We can try. We can try to, you know, get it fixed and then be able to use it. If we use it, it probably it has to be like short trips. Yeah, the air conditioners never had worked very well on that with us. We've had them worked on several times and
010they never did. The heaters don't work very good. We'll have to buy new batteries to put in it. Mr. Williams, sounds like it's all right. What would be our responsibility if if we they sold it to the Guatemalans? What did they take it as is? So, so basically what they what they do, my understanding is that they pretty much rebuild everything and then I mean they there's no guidelines for them. We do have to we do have to retire, right? But as far as us, they're not going to require us to have it running our batteries or No, they just take it as our name off of there though, right? Probably. around. And we can try. I mean, we can try to get it fixed. I wish there at this point. Do we have a
011like an online PO deal? Like purchase orders are being turned in yet? We do have and um it's called um I always say hey dude but what what is it called? Hey dude it's the shoes. School dude. Yes. Thank you. And uh so so yes we do have that. And so Carmen puts in all the the work orders when Mr. Barbie you know when he got training as soon as he finishes the u the work whatever needs to be done then he has to close it up. Does that work pretty good? Yeah, I'm just behind on, you know, I don't get anything else done when I'm doing that. So, you know, it's tough to try to get it all worked in. I see. Okay. But it is a must though. It It's something that needs
012to be done. Okay. And that was one of the, you know, prerequisites when we applied for the new school, having a preventative u maintenance plan. And that's part of it. Any other questions? Special ed. Hey, everybody. All right. Wonderful world of special ed. Our um corrective action plan is finally over. Well, I've been working on it for three years. And um we can probably thank Mr. Williams for as soon as he got on our Zoom. Um he charmed the people in Santa Fe and the next day it was over. So, props to him. There's nothing I did. Um indicator 13 file review. Um and that was our indicator 11 um problem for the corrective action plan. Our indicator 13 file review went fine. No one's mentioned anything to me. So I called some other districts
013and they said they'll call you if there's a problem. If there's no problem, you have to go onto the site and get your data, which means it's either 100% or you failed. That's the way these work. You guys understand all this indicator business I say with indicator 1, 9, 8, 14. If you want, I got a cheat sheet here for you guys. And um so like a a semester's worth and be hacked out in five minutes. And you can just look at this. These are the 20 indicators that um special ed compliance. I'm not going to go into any of them. At least then you can kind of look down and go, "Oh, you're required to do all these different things." Apparently, there's um they invented five more indicators, but I don't think they've quite
014gone through yet. So, for instance, I just finished indicator 13. That's secondary transition. I don't need to go into it, but at least that way you guys kind of know all all the spid lingo. Um also, let's see what else we got. Spring bed academy is coming in late April. That'll be helpful. Child find is March 14th. Um you know we're just kind of plugging along. We're averaging about six IEPs in the bells every week. Um see maybe um what else? Maybe just a a note a big shout out to um Crystal Pana at the high school. She's been kicking butt and helping me a lot lately. She's always proactive and wants to work collaboratively and certainly a great help up there at that level. Any questions with any of this business? We still are
015we're still looking for a sped teacher in the elementary. Is that right? We're always looking for sped teachers at all times. Even if there's not an opening, we hire them. Hope so. Yes. Yeah. So, right now we do have an opening for an elementary and then also a secondary. So, we're hoping that we'll be able to you know, just I interview everybody who comes through the New Mexico. We met some interesting folks. It's a tough gig, you know. Any other questions? Thank you. All right. Yes, sir. Um, so he is over at the game. Um, so he couldn't make it, but um, we just briefly, so we've done a transition where, um, Officer Harrington is no longer going to be the SRO and Officer Childris is the SRO now. Perfect. Any questions? We all good.
016Is that a permanent or That is a per. Yeah. I know that's permanent. All right. Elementary. All right. Uh been a busy couple weeks. Um right after the last board meeting, uh Miss Copeland, Miss Lopez, Miss Rodriguez, and I went to San Antonio for the high reliability summit. Um it was a very good uh three days there. Um Marzano resources um which is one of the leaders in education that have a high reliability schools framework um and you're looking at safety and supportiveness instruction u curriculum competency base and and so it it's you in essence you have leading indicators and trying to get this and then you just build. So it's really a good framework. uh we we started working through it just how can we um do some things well and improve what we're
017doing there at the elementary. So that's been a good thing. Um we had spelling B on February 5th. Uh you saw Miss PNA there. Uh Bristol got second and PC Lopez got third. Um that was a really good event. Shout out to Miss D for her work on that one. We had a little bit over 35 kids participate um all the way down from first grade to fifth grade um and stuff. So it was good. Um February 6, we recognized the drama club um Miss Copelan and Miss Bailey did a really good job of working with those kids. They started about September, February 6, every Tuesday and Thursday. Um and really just did a fantastic job with those kids. Um we had parent teacher conference last week. We were in the 80s as far as
018parents who'd met. We had one teacher who had an emergency, so she c she wasn't able to meet with her parents, but she's doing it now and stuff. So, we'll be high 90s if not 100%. Um, a couple other meetings are still outstanding that parents have planned uh with the teacher just couldn't meet those two days. So, um you see on there February super readers, amazing mathematicians. Uh February was uh integrity month and so we had students of the month and then our pride referrals. Uh a couple things coming up on Wednesday. We have a house day. Um excited. Uh all house days are fun. Um this one's a little I'm looking forward to we have our house leadership and so kids are running for president, vice president, uh secretary reporter and historian for their
019house. Um so we have some campaign posters. Um and then on Wednesday, kids will give like a 1 to three minute speech um and stuff. So looking forward to those. On Friday the 28th, we'll have an IHL on-site training. Uh they're flying somebody in. They're going to train all of our teachers and some secondary teachers on how we can best use that platform. Um the fourth, we have a STEM night. NMI is coming back out um for a STEM night. Um and so we're looking forward to that. Mr. Lazard has alluded to uh we'll have child find but prek kinder roundup March 14th and so it'll be time we can uh see who we'll have coming in next year um what our numbers look like. We'll do some screenings and that'll give us plenty of
020time to evaluate and get that paperwork done before the end of the year. Um then we'll have spring break which we're all looking forward to. Then when we get back on the 28th, we have a Spanish spelling bee. Um, and that got moved, I think, at one o'clock on the 28th. Uh, and then our staff will have another training with the gentleman John Conick. Um, it's coming in doing some SCOP training, some instruction training with our staff. So, we're looking forward to that. So, it's a busy time. It's just busier all the way down through the spring um and stuff. And so appreciate all the staff's hard work with the kids and and everything that they do for our students. I stand for any questions. Thank you. Any questions, Mr. Williams? Thank you. Thank you,
021Miss Dennis. Okay. Uh I'm going to try to keep it brief because I know we have a lot of things to get through today. Um enrollment the middle school, high school, if you're interested in that, we're at 68 at the middle school. um 31 23 and 14 is the breakdown there. 67th and 8th high school's at 98 and it's 20 29 24 and 25. Uh all secondary together is 166 um probably go up a little bit because I think we have some kids that'll be coming back soon maybe uh but we don't know end of this hopefully the end of this week. I was ask a couple places uh tenants is still seeing real positive trends. Uh letters are going out weekly. Phone calls happen daily. Um we have a couple of kids that have
022kind of hit some threshold where they need intervention and between Miss Pa uh Coach Jrod and myself, we are taking care of that and trying to address that um on the front side rather than the back side of things. Um lots of stuff going on. I if I try to start naming off things that we've been doing, I'll leave lots of things out. I know that middle school had a very successful Valentine dance. Apparently our middle schoolers really enjoy dancing. um huge crowds at the P at the two middle school dances we've had. Um they had a great candygram fundraiser. They their middle school student council's done a lot of things. Junior class is preparing for prom that they've been making about the weekend, I think, at the Little League games. And uh they're on
023tap to do a big prom on April 26th is the date for that. Um and this Friday, our middle school students will have another opportunity for 4 Friday. The cooperative extension is coming down once a month on Fridays and for their core support classes doing little activities. If you're if you have a middle school kid, they came home with a corn husk doll. That is why because they did a New Mexico education and made corn husk dolls with corn husk dolls all over this place that day. This week is on beekeeping and I have no idea what that entails. It may be the little bee robots or hopefully it's not real, but I that's what Friday holds and then they'll do one more in March. Um but the deadline for 4 enrollment is March 31st.
024So we have a few kids who have expressed interest in becoming active in the organization which is great and it's exposing them to some different things. Um parent teacher conferences. It was a really cool thing. We only have eight middle schoolers that required presence to come because we anybody any student with an F got a phone call that somebody need to come pick up their progress report. There was only eight phone calls I had to make and seven out of the eight people showed up to get their kids report. So that was good. Uh high school, there was a a few more on the list. Um but they had really good attendance. I know I think Miss Danny had a line in her in the commons area consistently for the two days that we had
025parent teacher conferences but attendance I don't have exact numbers for that but it seemed very positive and the parent meetings that we had went well um don't have anything else in regards to building reports at this time but any questions that I could answer any questions for us do you want me Parker. Yeah, I got some stuff. Um, judging season has started um in full swing for FFA. Um, we've had a great turnout. We have about 33 kids traveling with us on average. So, it's a large number for us. Um, I think in the last three years, I haven't had more than 24 kids. Um, so it's it's a good turnout. Our program is growing, which is good positive signs. Um, as of right now, we have four teams qualified for state. Um, Grimy, nursery,
026wool, and milk quality. Grimy nursery has met the chapter requirements of going to state. Now, we're working on the rest of the teams to meet those small requirements. So, it's been it's been good. Um, it's been long weekends. Um, all that fun stuff. We're heading to our third contest this next weekend in Hot Springs. Um we'll leave Friday night in San Francis and then drive up so we're not leaving so early um the next day. Um we're kind of in a hold out pattern kind of seeing what transportation is going to look like with basketball and track and all the fun stuff. Um CT grant season is full swing now. Um our APR has opened our annual performance review for nextgen Perkins. It's a little bit of requirements that we have to fill out on
027data and analyze data. Um this will be the last year of data. I have not. Miss Reyes and I have not done ourselves. And so we're seeing the light of future and growth of what CT looks like for us. Um I have officially finished their APR this morning or this afternoon and submitted it or sent it to review before Miss Ray takes a look at it. Um we're having to do something called a PIP, a performance improvement plan for our math, English, and science. Um it's really targeted towards CT classes. So my classes or business classes, general ed classes, things like that. Um and how to improve these these performance standards and numbers. Um CT uses the nom or denominators, numerators and things like that and pulls random characteristics of kids. And our district is
028improving um just not as fast as the state would see. We had to do the pips last year. This year the state is requiring every school district to do a math tit. And so um submitted that. Hopefully we get good feedback unless they're going to tell me to rewrite the whole thing. Who knows? They did it to me last year. Um the last thing I kind of have on CT is um state change course framework. So I'm working on adapting what we have in our district and how our courses lay out for a welding business. um most of our CT classes how it's going to translate into the new form framework. Um still waiting for the new framework to actually land in my email. They have not sent that out yet. And so I've been
029working blind kind of cleaning up what our stuff says um until I get that official email um from the CCB. And for that I stand for questions. Any questions? We are looking at about 115,000 we're going to get between Perkins and NextGen this year. So that is an increase of about 8 grand from next year. What is that fun going to be used for? That money. So uh Perkins is the federal funding and that's going to be about 15,000 um that could be used for equipment, material purchases, curriculum, professional development. um that one has strict guidelines that we can spend on and so like we've haven't fully touched our Perkins just because it has strict guidelines on it. And then next is the state federal funded money and so that could be buying official dress.
030It could be paying for transportation for students to conventions um contest. I know this year it covered all of our judging card um our reg most all of our registration fees between FFA and business. um we could put in there for larger pieces of equipment. We could put stipens in there. Um there's a wide variety of things in there. And so until the application this year opens, um we don't have a direct budget of what we're going to use it towards yet until Miss Ray and I meet with the application, but has some very flexible but very strict policies. Miss Dennis sat through the lovely January basically in Hebrew. Yeah, it was in Hebrew for her. Um we got to watch people business managers fight over RDI or buffs and bars and all that stuff.
031But um this last year we primarily used it to fund any materials um student transportation for state events, registration costs, materials and equipment for FFA or ACT classes. So business got to use it for their registration for their state conferences, um their membership dues, things like that. Um, FFA got to use it for our now our judging season, our dues. Um, trying to think what else we've used it for, transportation cost. Um, it does cover professional development for our CT teachers and so it has covered some of that stuff. We're going to cover future professional development as we go through the rest of the year. Um, it has to be used for a true the way the wording says now. It has to be used in a true pathway. And so if it's not written
032into the application with a true pathway. So okay a high school a horiculture or high school welding those are true pathways. They have a sequence of a introduction concentrator completer in a sense. Business has an introduction concentrator completer. Only those two programs can use it for career tech. Um we do have journalism classes but they do not have that sequence that we can't write into the application for it. Sounds a lot of Hebrew student working. Oh yes. Um we are looking into so like we do have a young student that's working for us this year. Um helping with the custodial and maintenance. Um there's possibilities. I'm waiting on the correct answer from our region K coach. Um she's been busy trying to get the new framework and all the courses out be and answering all
033my million questions. Um, but there's possibility where we can actually help use that funds to help pay for student workers for us that are might be interning and doing things like that as well. Cool. The more we apply for this and keep using this grant, the more we get every year. If we don't use it, they take it away. We don't get it again. I want that. All right. Thank you. That it, Miss R. Yes. All right. Moving on. Um, next item was a consent motion for the uh regular meeting, the work session for January and uh the investments and bills for the month of January. Are there any questions or concerns there? See a motion to approve. Make the motion. by Trevor. All second by all those in favor say I. I. All those
034oppos say item A, it's the budget adjustments. Any more questions for Miss Jolene? See a motion to approve. Chris second by Dusty. President, do you do you mind if we kind of move around a little bit? I have Mrs. Montes that needs to go to the game and then Mr. Williams that also needs to go to the um elementary auditorium and just kind of be a play admin here. So, can we skip over to uh item D so that Mrs. Month can do this one if you're okay with it? Yeah. Item A. Is everybody in favor? Yes. Item D. It's the approval of the portrait of a graduate and local graduation requirements. And I have the in your packet you have a infographic like this. And I'm not going to take credit for this infographic.
035It's this is all the work of Tara done. She did all the hard work of making this look nice. Um Tara and Coach Rodriguez and I met um I'm not sure can't remember when it was. It was since we came back from Christmas and we were tasked with with with having a port the portrait of a graduate. every district is supposed to have one. Um, and we looked at several other examples and figured out the things that we wanted to include in the portrait of a graduate and came up with these five things that we expect our students to be critical thinkers, lifelong learners, socially and emotionally competent, effective leaders, and connected citizens. And then kind of as you can read through there, there's some different bullet points of what that would each of those
036things looks like. Um, we believe that this is something that is attainable for all of our students and gives us a gives us a direction to move with our teachers and things that they can work on independently in their classrooms. So, when a student graduates from Herman High School, they are capable of doing these things or that's what we we expect a graduate from Herman to look like. So, Tara was not happy with the overall thing. She said there may be a few tweaks to the design. She thought that aesthetically it could be a little more pleasing, but she wanted to get us this today so we could have it and before we if it's approved, we'll make big posters and get it shared far and wide. Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry. Let me go there
037actually. Is this one or this? Yeah. Is this the same? Is there more? So, there's two things. They're independent of each other, but both of them are things that we have worked on to get approval from you guys today. So, they kind of go hand in hand. So, the first one is the the um portrait of a graduate, which is what you have right now. But then this right here is submitted which is the local graduation requirements and then Parker will discuss that and we did work on this that portra the graduation requirements we also have to have those in place when the new so the eighth graders now when they start uh their freshman year in the fall they will fall under the new um graduation requirements um outlined by the state. So, we
038met last week to iron this out because we were waiting to find out if how we wanted it to um and if we could because they've changed the requirement. Previously, we had discussed having financial literacy as a local requirement. That is now a state requirement and we can't double count it. We had to come up with our own new local requirement because there that is going to be something that starting with the freshman next year, they will all have to have financial literacy as part of their math sequence. Class 2029. Yeah. And this kind of follows PED is turning and changing everything this year. Um they're in that phase of let's do something new, let's change it. Um and so they're putting all this stuff out and it kind of comes along with a lot
039of the laws that was signed in effect in January. Uh we learned about this when we went to the CCB leadership workshop in January. um they changed a lot and it's kind of follows the core sequence and things like that and kind of the way we picked it was our preferred local graduation requirement was to kind of meet requirements um everything has to be a sequence pathway as I stated earlier the intro concentrator completer um and so we decided as our little committee was a minimum of one agriculture education class and a minimum of one business class that way they're learning they're taking both pathways and they get to choose after that if they're wanting to stay in this pathway or that next pathway. And it gives them time to follow those pathways. Um, we're
040in a unique situation. We're not like the big districts. I the big districts, their counselors aren't going to let be able to change schedules somewhere after freshman year. Like you're going to be stuck in that pathway after that because they want that data. Our kids don't have many options here. Um, they most of them are already doing this anyways. Yeah, we looked at the senior class now and there's probably five or less students who haven't already t done this. There's a handful that have only stayed either strictly business or strictly ad, but most of our kids are already getting two classes and by that time they have taken one class no matter what. And it feels like it grows because we have some kids that are be like, well, I really don't want to take
041business. I don't want to take a and they're not going to take either and then they finally do take it and they're like, oh wow, I actually do enjoy this. And so it's kind of forcing them into there and getting them more involved. Um the alternative plan we had come up just in case you guys wanted something different was a single credit in a one pathway CT pathway either aggra business um that's kind of how it's stated now and then a dual credit class. Um the hard thing with dual credit is not every kid's cut out for it. Um we could force them we could drag them to water but they're not going to drink the water. Um I had a kid young gentleman who was like yeah I'm all gun and take an act
042dual credit class with us this year. He did nothing. he'd got a zero in that class and that class was pretty easy. Um, and so putting these kids up for failure is not going to make them successful anymore. Um, we feel the other two ways. The first option A was the most successful pathway. If you have any questions, so these are related but not the same things. Sorry, a little different. Half of the same committee. This one affects CT more. So, does this one have like a curriculum? Because it seems like this doesn't have a curriculum. This is just like, as far as I understand, this is Herman schools. This is what we're about. This is what we're This is our vision for our students. Like, I was going to say this should already kind
043of be implemented. It right. I believe that this came about prior to Miss Reyes's leadership. It just never it like there was conversations had and I remember submitting stuff in a document one time but it never went anywhere other than typing it into this document that was shared with people that not everybody had access to you hang this out though or what if you guys are good with it and we may clean it up make sure that there's not not any major errors or anything like that before we go far and wide with it but if you guys are good with this this is what we see and that we want to really get behind and push our kids towards and say, "Hey, these are the things that we expect of you. These are the
044things we're going to provide you opportunities and classes and education so you can be this person." But, you know, really especially it's probably more important to have it in place for the fall so we can really hammer it home as we start these kids on like this new freshman class that'll come in and like working to our kids. Hey, can you at the end of your senior year check off that you are this person is how we as a committee envisioned it. And there's lots of if you Google portrait of a graduate in different districts, you'll see all kinds of stuff. There's ones with trees and leaves and they've all taken a different I think um we looked at Lake Arthur's because we looked at some of our neighbors and there's a picture of like
045an actual graduate and it's got some like little bullet points coming off the side. Everybody envisions it differently, but I think it's really like a like a quick thing like what is our school about and what are we about as education? Like this is where our seniors are going to graduate as, right? And that's what we want to see our kids be. these kind of people. That's how I understood it. Was there more to it than that? And as far as the graduation requirements, we just have to have this on paper. So when we revise our handbook and all that kind of stuff, we can say these are the new graduation requirements that have now come out from the state. The other thing that I understood from all the stuff that I went to when
046I went to the Hebrew meeting with Mr. Parker, what the CCE thing is that now there's going to be three different classes I think that eighth graders can take that will give them high school credit, but not till the kids that are seventh graders now are eighth graders. So, the class of 2030, but I think there's still more more information forthcoming on that. But as the things always change at that point, ask me that Monday when I get the email. So, because but we've seen lots of different things. But for now, this is what we we would like to see happen as far as our local graduation requirements. So, we just need to choose preferred local or Yeah. Do you like that? Do you like option A or option B? Option B. Yeah. Like option
047A. Is that going to affect a person that wants to do a every semester? No, because they every year they have more than one elective. At some point in their high school career, they have to take if they want to take a every year. If they're going to be gung-ho atha and that sort of thing, at some point between freshman and senior year, they also need to take a business class to meet their graduation requirements. And same is true for a kid that's gung-ho business and they don't ever want to take an ad class. At some point between freshman and senior year, you got to take an ad class to graduate. That's just what we're saying. just so they get more exposure to the two career pathways that we offer because that's where we're at.
048We have two if we were in a big that they would have to stick with that from freshmen to No, that's that's so they do they will have to stick with one of them because big district. Sorry, I I phrased that wrong. Okay. Um yeah, in a big district if they pick like if we were in a a big district and we had health and business and a and you know all these others, they would pick that one and that would be that it for the rest after their freshman year, they won't be able to do get out of their pathway because that'll be what they pick. I I phrased that wrong. That was my bad. But um no, not for us. That's gonna like once they take and so like after that they will
049choose whatever kind of direction they want to go. So if they're really more passionate about a they can take those a pathways and there's two directions in a they can really go. They can go the plant science and the a mechanics side in a um right now that is defined pathways and then business there's really one pathway they can go um which takes them through and financial literacy technically counts as a business class. Um because the way it's worked right now is fall semester is dual credit, spring semester is that financial literacy class which is a business class. or personal finance. Personal finance. So, and all we have is business, egg and FFA as our CT. FFA and AD are the same thing. FFA is the organization that goes with FA. So, our true defined
050pathways are business and agriculture education. Those are the only two pathways that have a true sequence um that fit. Now, we do have other CT classes such as cyber security um systems though does fall under CT. um journalism falls under us um and those things but they don't have there's not enough sequence for them that PED is going to consider them as a pathway um and then of course the new ones which Mrs. McKinley here she will be talking about it you know during her presentation it's a lot of Hebrew as Miss keeps saying it's there's so much that has changed this year it's crazy what's considered a dual credit class what kind of class any college class that we offer any college level so so I mean the alternative method would we be encouraging
051them to do more right to do but the the problem is that we the reason that when we when Miss Dunn and coach A-Rod and and Parker and I sat down we were seeing some kids who are never going to be successful in a dual credit class and by letting them take a dual credit class if they fail it here that goes on their college transcript and so when they start their freshman year they're going to start with an F or an incomplete or something that's going to really negatively impact their college career or maybe they don't have any aspirations of going to a college onto college and so that is also there's nothing and so now most of our kids are taking two dual credits as it is um if they go through my
052a mechanics program they take my dual credit welding class or um all the juniors and seniors are taking dual credit business right now um they're already taking those or dual credit financial literacy that's where it's taught through the hard thing is I've I've just like Dennis was saying I' I've had a few kids this year alone take some dual credit classes and they're just like ah whatever or this is high school. I don't have to worry about it. And now they've permanently impacted their record just because they're not had that motivation or drive to do it. And I think the state has gotten away from requiring dual credit. That is not the state in Mexico does not recognize dual credit as a requirement. Requirement anymore. That used to be a requirement. I think with the
053seniors that are graduating this year, they had to have a dual credit in order to graduate. they've gone away from dual credit AP. They don't recognize those anymore. You consider like what if those students that want to choose a path and they just do not want to do a or do not want to do business. What if they fail those classes? I mean, same scenario, right? And I mean, if we and if you if you'd rather table it and go back to the drawing board, we can meet again and and put some more work into it and come up with something else, too. I just think we'd have to get something sooner rather than later. I know. I'll have to have something for our applications. Okay. And which the alternative is already in place. That's
054what we do. Yes. Right. Yeah. the alter. That's already what we're doing and we can keep that um or add to or amend it and kind of make a hybrid of the two either two CTE classes and from different pathways or a CTE class and a dual enrollment class because if we have kids that are highly motivated who do want that college credit that would be and they do have four years to be able to take their class, right? It wouldn't I I know that Miss Rodriguez asked a good side question that would it impact a kid who uh like as far as in order to be an FFA they have to take at least a semester of a every year to be eligible for their FA membership because it's required by this national charter
055that we have they enrolled in a they can't just FA is not a club it's an organization that is part of it's intracurricular not co-curricular or extracurricular sorry um and so the the other thing is is that every year this every student unless they've gotten themselves in credit trouble should have at least two electives every year. And so, plus their athletics, there's there's plenty of options. We we've tried to weigh it all and think about what was good for our kids. I know a lot of our kids are very rigid in their mindset and they don't ever want to venture out of their comfort zone and take something different. And that is something else that we as admin consider that we really want to encourage our kids to see what else is out there. Try
056something, try this, try, you know, try cyber security, try a business class, try an ad class. comments. A table. I kind of like a maybe a little more thought like a little more ideas brought, you know. Um, so why don't we table it and then listen to Miss McKinley's presentation a little bit and then that will just kind of broaden the Let's do that. I I move to uh table this table by Trevor. Do we need to table uh make the motion for a time period till like next meeting? Is this Yes, it has to be done by next meeting. Okay. So, I make the amendment to the motion for till next meeting for just the graduation requirements or for both pieces graduation requirements for the this one. Are you looking to get this one
057out anyway? I mean, we we can I mean I think we just we for a really long time. This is, you know, this is I think this is more up to you guys. And okay, if you guys are good with it, we'll run with it and we can we can do that too unless I mean we can get bring up Robert rules of order if we really need to and separate the two or just that one and then the other one. Yeah. Do I have a second to take? A second. All those in favor say this till it next. All those in favor say I. I go pop my head in and make sure nothing crazy and then we can go back to the president. We go where? Go back to back. All right. I
058don't need RBC capital markets. We do have Katie. Are you there? Uh, yes, ma'am. And I am right. All right. All right. Well, um, Superintendent, unless you have something to say, I'm happy to go ahead and kick it off. Go right ahead. All right. Good evening, President, members of the board. My name is Key Wymers with RBC Capital Markets, your municipal advisor. I'm here tonight because in front of you are a couple resolutions that allow the district to go forward with the sale of $900,000 of general obligation bonds with the New Mexico Finance Authority. Before we get to those approvals though, I do have a brief presentation for you. Um, am I able to share my screen? Are you guys able to see that? Yes. Yes, ma'am. All right. I'll begin to share my screen
059now then. Here we go. All right. Just to confirm, is everyone able to see my screen? Not yet. There. Great. All right. All right. So, first looking at the district's history of assessed valuation. This is your tax base. Um, for tax year 2024, the district's AV did drop by about 3.5%. When we look a little bit closer, we can see that your residential values continue to be really strong, you know, increasing by over $2 million. On the other hand, the drop in your AV was caused by non-residential businesses in your local community. Um, we'll go over those fluctuations uh more in depth shortly. You know, total your five-year average growth rate for your AV is still sitting at 14% and your 10-year average growth rate is still sitting at 8%. Um, to be financially conservative
060though, in case there are any uh continued fluctuations in your tax base though, you know, we're anticipating that your AV will continue to drop year-over-year just in case. So looking a little bit closer at your history of major taxpayers, we can see that the uh the changes, the fluctuations in your tax base really is due to Tucson Electric. You know, back in 2022, they had an assessed valuation of 42 million. Last year that dropped down to 33 million and then in 2024, our current tax year, you know, their value dropped again down to $29 million. you know, that's a business in your local community that we'll kind of continue to keep an eye on and consider as we continue to, you know, sell bonds for the district. You know, another update, another thing that we're
061keeping an eye out for is some constitutional amendments that were approved by voters this past November. Constitutional amendment one widened the property tax exemption for disabled veterans from 100% to essentially all disabled veterans. Really what this allowed is that a veteran can be exempt from their property taxes at the rate that they are disabled. So for example, if there's a veteran that is 50% disabled, that veteran would now be able to be exempt from 50% of their property tax. In the past, you had to be 100% and that was it. Constitutional amendment two increased the property tax exemptions for all veterans uh from $4,000 up to $10,000. You know, these constitutional amendments can impact your assessed valuation. You know, recent data showed that the district had 39 veterans and eight disabled veterans in your local
062community. You know, we think that this would impact your AV by about 1% or about by $76,000 of value. Um, you know, state legislature is currently meeting to decide how they're going to roll this out, but it's something that, you know, we're watching um and we're taking into consideration as we sell the district's bonds. Looking at your history of tax rates, the district has uh for tax in 2004, the district levied a $10.14 residential tax rate that includes an SB9 mil levy rate and then also a geo bond at service rate of $7.96. You know, back in 2023, voters did approve a tax rate increase for that PSFA waiver. Tax year 2024 is the first time we've seen it on the rolls. You know, our current plan of finance is based off of keeping the
063tax rates at their current rates, that $10.14 residential rate. So, the approval of the bonds tonight will not increase your tax rate, but rather continue to support that level tax rate. Looking over at your debt summary, the district has six general obligation bonds outstanding for a total of $1,480,000, all of which have also been sold with the New Mexico Finance Authority. Um, you know, you can see that the district's debt is structured in a rapidly declining manner. You know, the district has about $500,000 of debt service payments in 2025 and 26, but then it really falls off starting in 2027. You know, our plan is to kind of layer in debt so that it keeps your overall debt payments level and in return, you know, continue to keep your tax rate level at its current
064rates. So for the overall capital funding plan, you know, the last time we went out to voters for geo bonds was back in 2023 for $1.8 million. We have sold $900,000 of that authorization and we're planning on selling the remaining $900,000 of authorization. Now, you know, after this sale, the district will no longer have uh any authorization left and is scheduled to go back out to voters this upcoming November for an additional $1.8 million $1.8 8 million of general obligation bonds. Um, for overall tax rate management, again, your total uh debt service tax rate historically was $5.14, but back in 2023, voters approved that tax rate increase to about $8 for that PSFA waiver. Our current plan of finance is based of keeping the tax rates at their current rates um for that PSFA waiver.
065You know, additionally, at the bottom of this page, we have the district's legal bonding capacity. You know, by law, the district could bond up to about $4.3 million. Since we only have about $1.5 million of general obligation bonds outstanding, we're only 33% bonded to capacity with over $2.8 million left in legal capacity. But the reason why we don't issue all that $2.8 million is because of tax rate constraints. The next slide is just an overview of the district's election timing. You know, as I had mentioned, we're looking at going back out to voters this upcoming November for $1.8 million. And then for my last slide here, we just have a time schedule of this transaction. So, with the board's approval tonight, we'll then uh have the New Mexico Finance Authority Board approved the district sale
066at their March 27th meeting. We'll then set the interest rate on the bonds a couple days later. closing will be scheduled on May 9th, which is when funds will be um uh ready for the district to spend on voter authorized projects. I'll be back at your March 19th meeting to present those sale results and to also discuss um that 2025 election with you. You know, I do have a market update in the back, but with that, I'll stop sharing and I'll I'll stand uh for any questions that the board may have for me about, you know, the district's wider plan of finance or about the resolutions that are in front of you tonight. questions. So, in your your opinion, is the the veterans uh tax exempt? Is that you think that's going to I mean
067it is a constitutional amendment but do you think it'll always be there? I think so. Yes. Um you know the way how it gets rolled out though is is what we'll have to see. You know that second constitutional amendment of increasing the exemption from $4,000 up to $10,000 is pretty clear-cut. But state legislature has quickly learned that you know implementing that first amendment where it's that percentage of disability is a bit trickier to implement. um you know they're meeting currently to decide on how to roll it out. It sounds like they're going to do it in kind of trenches or buckets as in you know a zero to 20% would get this much amount a 20 to 40% disability would get this much. Um we're still waiting to see. You know we think also that
068this would impact your tax base probably in calendar year 2027. Um and another big factor too is if veterans know to apply for the exemptions too. You know, we're still waiting to see, but you know, we're just trying to be really conservative with our estimates on how this will impact your tax base. Any other questions? So there's two items below that. Correct. Up for approval, right? Yes. Uh Katie, so there have two items here. Yes. Go right ahead. Yes. So the first item is consideration of an approval of a resolution authorizing and approving submission of an application to the New Mexico Finance Authority. This essentially just allows the district to ask the New Mexico Finance Authority to buy its bonds. The second resolution is approving the sale itself. Um, essentially what it does is that
069it delegates the authority to your business staff to be able to sign the bond documents so that the board wouldn't have to hold a a special meeting to approve everything on the day of the sale. So, first resolution approves the NMFA. Second resolution approves the bond sale itself. Okay. What is the interest rate now? So, the 10-year Treasury is sitting at around 3.8%. 8%. Um, you know, I I think that the district's total tour interest cost would probably come in somewhere around that, probably even a little bit lower. Uh, the New Mexico Finance Authority has a disadvantage funding program. Um, really what that allows is for the district's bonds to be priced at a 2% coupon. Uh, sorry, 10% of the district's bonds to be priced at a 2% coupon. So, that would definitely help
070bring that true interest cost down a bit. You know, additionally too, as far as it goes for kind of the timing of pricings, you know, initially we were thinking that the Fed may be more willing to cut rates a couple times this year. At the moment, it's not looking like that as much. Um, you know, we got a read of the consumer price index or inflation, you know, last week and that came in at 3%. A little bit hotter than expected. You know, with this in mind, it's looking like the Fed isn't in any rush to cut rates anytime anytime soon. Actually, I think I misspoke. I think I said 3.5 is what the 10ear Treasury is at. It's actually closer to 4.5. I think the district's bonds will be closer to 3.5. Okay. question.
071Any other questions? Well, I'll make the motion for the consideration and approval of the resolution. Okay. Motion by Trevor. I'll second it. Second by Dusty. That's a roll call vote. So Dusty, yes. Trevor, yes. Myself, yes. Chris, yes. And Dusty, yes. Okay. And then question. I'll second it. Second item D. Motion by Trevor. Testing by Trevor. Second by Trevor. Moved by Dusty. Dust. Yes. Trevor. Yes. Myself. Yes. Chris. Yes. And Dusty. Yes. Okay. Thank you, Miss Katie. All right. Thank you. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to myself or any of my colleagues. Like I said, I'll be back at your main meeting to present uh the sale results and how it went and also talk about that 2025 election. Um I hope you have a great rest of your
072meeting. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. So, we're moving on to this valley collaborative project presentation. Yes. So with us today we have Miss Jenna McKinley and uh we have been working together for probably about a year already. We discussed you know here at the board meeting about the uh perman basin and the initiative that we're trying to do to bring more CTE programs into the valley which is uh Herman Lake Arthur and Dexter. So you do have a the slides there but then she will also present it. Perfect. Yeah, you do have perfect answer. Awesome. Thanks for having me. I appreciate um school district for allowing me to come present today. Um so asia mentioned my name is Jenna McKinley. I work with education partnership of the perian basin. Um, so
073it's kind of a a funny story how all this all evolved, but I'll give you a little bit of background before I get started. So, um, this initially started when I got the role. Um, my background is in education. I worked um, for a long time um, for school districts. I'm from New Mexico. So, even though EPB is Midland based nonprofit, I'm actually from Carl'sb, New Mexico. So, born and raised Carlb New Mexico. Um, went to New Mexico State. Go Agies. uh came back, worked for um my home school district. I was a school teacher at Carl'sbad schools for a while. Um went to work in a extension for a little while um for NMSU. Was really excited to be part of my home wander there. And then um turned around and I started to
074work for the state virtual schools. You know, when children come, it's just um that time where you want to keep your career going but also be a mom. So that was perfect for me. Um, as my kids got a little bit older and got into school, um, that put me back into wanting to do something. Um, so when I was in school, I was a CTE teacher. Always really loved the idea of, um, being able to bring career opportunities to students. So I, um, got a job with the college. Um, and started working in workforce development, which really opened my eyes to opportunities out in the Peran Basin. Um, after that role, um, I was actually connected from an industry partner to this, um, position with EPB and I've just been rocking and rolling since.
075Um, I've now been with them for two years. Um, when I first got started, I had, um, one of my first task was to come out. I had to meet all the districts, right? I had to meet all the superintendents. Um, Eddie Lee and Chaveis County was my area when I got started. So, I came down to Hangar. Um, I met with your previous superintendent, Mr. Klouse and just had an informal conversation. He invited his office to have informal conversation about what you guys are doing for a career in technical education. What is his vision? What is he thinking for next steps for opportunities for students here? And he shared with me um you know different programs you're having really highlighted the a program and welding and the business side of things. And at that
076time he said you know they were open to other things but they weren't sure about capacity. And um I asked what about a partnership with other school districts? Um something that we're doing on the Texas side is we have something called perm based innovation zone which I'll share with you in a minute and it's really an awesome model where schools are able to share instructors or share students vice versa and I told them you know being a small district I know that there's face is a challenge you know with that being able to have those access to those programs. So would you be interested in a rural collaborative if I talk to the other districts because you guys are so close. Um if we can get this going see how it works. So if you
077want to change over um change again. So um covering that region. Um you know it was a big scope for me. Um but this wasn't my only thing that I kind of got hired to do per se. I really wasn't hired to do that in the first place but it just kind of fell on my lap and it was exciting. So I was like you know I think this could work. Um really what I was hired to do was the grow our own action network across Peran Basin and the early childhood action network. So um I started an early childhood action network in the region. Um and then I went and I started doing the grow our own action network which is the oil and gas pathway you might guys might be hearing about. So
078we developed an oil and gas pathway for um state of Mexico and also Texas. So I was part of that design team. um I was the only educator on that team to be able to give feedback on the curriculum um working with various partners to to get that going. Um so u just being a part of that team um you know um with the Texas time we have individuals who do other initiatives and that permutation innovation zone is one that always stuck out to me. Go ahead and change um so about the model. So when I came in, go ahead and change that. Um I just started briefly talking about, you know, I have my a colleague on the Texas side that has this model that I think is really neat. So um they work
079for various school districts. Um and with the role collaborative model, it looks like this. Basically, it's a connection between business and industry, school districts, and also higher ed. Okay. Um, so EPB works as a coordinating entity for innovation zones and that's basically being the boots on the ground, the backbone, being able to build these partnerships with industry, with school districts, with higher education and all the workforce stakeholders in the area. Um, so we um at that time um after everyone kind of agreed and informally Bellia came on board shortly after. So I got to meet Bellia and after meeting her she was coming from the high school and just really excited about the opportunity. I just briefly gave a story about meeting with Mr. Claus and um she's like, "Yeah, you know, I'm interested in
080meeting with the other superintendents to see what this is all about." Um so that's what we did. We um had that transparency out there with them and um got to meet at Lake Arthur School District. We formally had a presentation for them. Um and really they were just all excited to hear about the opportunities that could come to their students if we brought this in. But the one number one question of course was who's going to pay for this? So um started having those conversations and it led to where we are at today. Um so we the big thing is of course the experience staff. Um so again background um with me you guys heard that but then also we have technical assistance um partners that have really been helping this out where they do
081this um in other areas. Go ahead and change. Um so this is a little bit about the PBIS. So this is the one that I talked about that is already established under our nonprofit in the Midland area. So they are now in their third year and this launched in fall 2023 and it's the same model. It's a collective impact model which is breaking down barriers that rural communities are facing um in terms of CTE. So then their school districts just like yours um you know they're great have all these great programs um they have special programs that are like the hub of their school and all students want to be part of that and then they have these group of students where um you know they're wanting other opportunities and they start asking about you
082know what about college what can I do for college but sometimes those options aren't available because maybe the school district don't have a partnership with a higher ed institution or they didn't have a teacher to be able to employ full-time for for that pathway. So, it's really about closing the equity gaps and being able to access um various pathways to um individual schools. Um so, they uh went and met with each of those districts. So, there's three school districts there. Um Crane, Grand Falls, Royalty, and Mckame. Um they're right around Odessa area. They partnered in with UTV and Odessa College. Um and we're able to basically um do exactly what we're doing here. And I could also talk a little bit about that um and their industry partners. Go ahead. Um so their pathways are
083medical, welding, education and oil and gas. So basically taking um the pathway that we created in partnership with the states um they formed it into a smaller version because um their schools weren't fit to be able to have you know a state-of-the-art lab. I'm not sure if you guys toured um CEK before their oil and gas lab. um millions of dollars they've spent on this lab, but um it's just not something that you see in smaller districts, right? We don't have the space, maybe not even the capacity to hire a full-time teacher, even though that would be awesome, it's it just doesn't work. But how can we get access to these programs for the smaller districts? Go ahead. Um so far um the number one thing that um PBI is really loving is not only
084offering these um opportunities to students but building the bridge between students, schools and industry. So you have that community engagement aspect um they've been able to partner with an advisory board that they formed um with the hospitals with Premier Energy Blakeley Construction some of these other more mom and pop type businesses to be able to offer industry visits. Um so these businesses are offering like um welding demos and um you know how to use appropriate um tools and students are able to tour their facilities and kind of get a uh face toface look at what this actually looks like in the field. Um so exciting thing back to what I was saying about um the funding. So I shared all of that information with the districts there at that meeting and you know the number
085one thing was where are we going to get the funds. Um thankfully we had secured a partnership with the new schools venture fund. So about a year ago we um all sat together we applied for this grant um with the help of our PA partners and we got a grant for $215,000 which was um supporting us for our planning year. So we're currently in our planning year. We're about halfway done with the planning year. Um so now we're um here today to share with you about where we're at with things and what that looks like. Go ahead. Um so we um work really closely with the new school venture fund. We're doing a roadmap to launch. So they're also um guiding us in ways that um other um foundations wouldn't be able to guide us
086because their funding is tied to directly to improving schools. They're able to offer us assistance in connecting us even further than just what's going on in our region, in our state. They're connecting us with school districts that are across the United States trying to improve their school districts. Um, Belellio went with me to Houston um, recently in October and we were able to network and got to just hear some really great inspiring stories of individuals, say for instance, there's a there's a team there that's in our cohort that um, they were bankers um, in a smaller district near Chicago. Um, their school districts were closing down due to funding. They didn't have the funding. So, they took it upon themselves to create a nonprofit and do something similar where they're now being able to house
087schools and collaboratives in that area to be able to offer um school to kids in that area even though they don't have their their home school base anymore to be able to offer different opportunities for travel. So, um throughout the year, we've been working really close. I work with each of the school districts. Um we meet monthly uh steering committee meetings. um along along with Eastern and Roswell. And what we've came out to so far is um a medical software programming and teaching pathway. And this all ties to a labor market analysis, which I'll also talk about in just a minute. Um so basically um if we move forward with three pathways this next year, it'll be um students can leave going to um Dexter to do a medical pathway which is already established. Um
088we've been working closely with Eastern able to ensure that they have um dual enrollment, dual credit opportunities to be able to get um their CNA. Um they're also pending phobottomy certifications, um first aid, susceptibly and patient care tech certifications. Um great thing about Dexter, they're really ahead on that program. Um so we did want to share across the three districts and um be able to help them clean that up and ensure that everything can keep moving forward for all three districts have access to medical. Um so that would really help us with students that are wanting to go into the healthcare fields. Um another thing a great thing that you guys have here is your business pathway. um and specifically um students have an interest in IT um which has already been something that was
089started here and we've been working closely with Eastern um for hangarman to try to identify um certifications that the students can get through that program. So we're looking at a Google certificate and also be able to implement a computer programming um certification through Python for students. So um that is all stuff that's in the works through this planning year. Um we're hoping to be able to give those teachers those resources for next year. And then lastly, um teaching and training. This program would be housed through Lake Arthur. Um students would leave with the teaching um certificate from Eastern and Roswell with a pathway in early childhood education for early literacy. Um so talking about um growing our own workforce, you know, there's always a need for teachers. You I heard that earlier in your meeting.
090We we always have that need for teachers and we do. um you know and even if you don't stay in the field of teaching it can always lead you into another path for training um there's a lot of u different opportunities for anyone with an education background it's just a matter of getting that education right um and there's also always a need for coaches and different things so good way for them to explore if that's something that they want to do um so this is a slide just kind of identifying what our labor market analysis look like so we work with the company called Study State Impact. And if you'd like to see um more in detail what this looked like, uh we actually paid them to do a labor market analysis on Chaveis County.
091So it's uh broken down to all the high demand high wage occupations in Chavis County. So if students were to graduate tomorrow, what jobs would they be guaranteed to be able to find job openings in and would they be able to afford a living wage by being in that job? So, um, this really breaks that down and that's just a snapshot of the overview. Um, if you'd like to see the full details on that, I could have send that over to you. It's a really basic study that they did. So, um, the pathways were not chosen just because, um, it's something that we thought that the kids would like. We did it based on a labor market analysis that meets the needs of the community. So it shows there um the top three that we
092chose were the healthcare, computers and math and education. Go ahead. Um so what does this look like? Um of course um it takes um a lot of partnering with the districts to keep things moving forward. So um we are in the commitment stage. So we actually meet tomorrow with the superintendent to go over logistics and commitment. Um, so we'll be going over a draftou and what that looks like. Um, so um hopefully by next um board meeting should have anou to share with you guys for approval. Um just kind of what u our goals are um what our roles and responsibilities are, what the term of the partnership looks like and then also um everything that entails our funding, our budget, all the resources um where where our money is being spent, all of that
093stuff. So you guys will be seeing um that formalou coming soon. Um we want to be able to get that on the agenda um by March and then um hopefully get everything approved by April so we can continue moving forward. Um do you have any questions so far? I do. So who supplies the teachers? So the great thing about the grant currently is that we're starting with um programs that schools are already hosting. So they already have their teachers. We will confirm the teachers tomorrow um with the superintendents on who is teaching what based on the current teachers. Uh but like for instance, if you think about the education program, even though that that program will be housed at Lake Arthur, they have an education teacher students for that particular pathway um will have a
094class in the evenings at Eastern once a week. So, the college is actually will be able to provide that teacher for that class. They do have funding um at Eastern already that's tied to um the pathway and what we're looking at. So, they'll be able to help cover that cost. Okay. So, this is all running off of a grant. Yes. So, it's all running off the new school venture fund grant. We have secured the planning funding and we're in the process of funding the implementation year through the same funer. Um, as long as we keep up with the reportings, everything looks good and we're on track to get funding for next year as well and then possibly a third year. So, it's a yearly grant every year. Grant. So, this isn't part of the the
095perian basin that $40 million grant, right? Am I then the then ped came and they took and they said, "Well, we're just going to divide amongst all CTEs across the state." Um, so this is through the perium basin, but it's not part of the 40 million in the ped. No, that that's totally different. That's different. Okay. Yeah. Different. And um, you know, as we grow, we're going to be adding things as well. Um, superintendents are already really excited about the work that I've done around the oil and gas pathway. Um, and I know Dexter in particular, they were really excited to hear that we also have a program that we're starting for a fourth pathway in Midland, which is a renewable energy pathway, which is also one that is a priority right now for the
096state of New Mexico. Um, with the power plants being so close, I also think that could be another opportunity for students to be able to get some experience there. Um, and we do have already an industry partner who is helping us build that out on the Texas side. So it'd be really easy to to bring that one over to New Mexico since they also have operations here through Next Era Energy. So that would be our year two. Um so everything is kind of what you guys already had in existence this year other than partnering um for next year with the college to be able to clean that up, be able to offer those certifications and then of course man the logistics and what that looks like. So, we'll be in our learning year next year
097saying how busing is going to work and how students are going to get to get from school A to school B and working out the kinks and all of that and um of course the pay and what that looks like between sharing students and all of that. So, we're working on trying to figure out as much as we can out now, but next year we are learning year and then um by that second year we want to add that oil and gas or renewable energy pathway. They'll be able to offer four different pathways for students across three districts. So just out of curiosity, what happens if if we don't you don't get the grant then? Okay. So one of the big things uh that's part of my role is building partnerships with funders. I've already
098built partnerships and I do have backup funders for that. Um PY Foundation has already expressed interest in this collaborative and they'd be willing to support us to continue the work. Um they're specifically interested in the valley schools and wanting to support that. I've also been visiting with the Maddox Foundation, which is out of HOPS, but they also support neighboring districts as well. So, um that could be another option, too. Okay. And as always, if you guys ever want to hear any anything else, I'm happy to join you guys for a meeting or um even give you guys a tour. Um like I said be before this role, that's what I did was I would um support the oil and gas pathway across other districts in Texas and New Mexico. So, um, we do actually have
099a tour for our superintendents that we're setting up to go see the Peran Basin in Innovation Zone. So, love for you guys to come look to see what that looks like. Um, that would be a really great way to meet um, each other and kind of get all your questions answered. Um, we'll be able to visit that collaborative. Um, you could also look into um, the RSI. It's in South Texas. That was actually the first of this model to be done. Um, so that's around like the Harlagen area. Um, these schools started that. So that was the first of the US. Um then we have the Premier Basin Innovation Zone which is Odessa and then will be um our third in this area and then we also started one in the Big Ben Marfa area
100through our organization. So now um VRC is the third one through EPB that we started and then um it's actually the first in the state of New Mexico. So that puts you guys also on the map for um CTE and we're going to be bringing in of course a lot of attention to this school district and some of the partnering ones for being a model for CTE and I'm really excited for that. Jenna, can you tell them the rationale behind this? Yes. U basically to improve um experiences um to um students. you know, there's not a lot of opportunities um that are shared and especially with students in rural districts to be able to get hands-on experiences and be able to see um experience what different career fairs are out there. Um so I talked
101a lot about um you know my experiences I I was the first in my family to go to college, you know, so I didn't really have that, but being exposed to other careers and being able to see also gives you exposure to other careers. Um, so oil and gas is just one that I love to use for example because that's that I've been working with the last couple years, but um, you know, a lot of schools have welding programs which are great programs, but that's only one small part of our operations in this region. Um, in the program that we started um, with oil and gas, like we're training um, individuals to be pumpers, to read measurements, to be able to work as safety professionals, so they have to learn all the safety stuff. Um,
102we're talking about water and the different fields that you can work in the water industry through water emission and oil and gas and all of these operations are out here which are, you know, very high wage um paying jobs and they're high need. They will be sustainable um, you know, based on our data that we have. Um, but um, I think it's a matter of just um, showing kids that, you know, um, we want to be able to give them those opportunities even if it's someone that's in it. Um there's other opportunities if you work in IT to work in some of these industries and it's all interconnected or public relations. We have you talked a lot about your your ACT students and I love seeing the ACT students. Um so I look forward to
103seeing them at a future board meeting with their presentations. You know they a lot of those students go into fields like um being public relations. You know they're good presenters. Um they also can be connected if they had a background and they say for instance took the oil and gas pathway class. how much knowledge would they have behind them for an entry- level job in the oil and gas industry on top of their speaking um presentation skills that they got from being in Skills USA or FFA. I think that it just all ties together. Um and you know whether students are going straight to the workforce or whether they're wanting to be an engineer, it gives them that background knowledge that they need to be successful. It works for them. And anyways, a lot of
104the companies in the area, if they do work for a company, they end up paying for the college sometimes for their training. So, it is giving them those other opportunities that they don't necessarily need to go to a four-year college get experience. There's some local hospitals or local um gas industries that are willing to pay for for your training right here. I was just kind of surprised by the survey because nowhere does it say anything about oil or gas or agriculture on the labor market analysis. Oh, on that labor market. Yeah, that just kind of surprised me with Chavis County. What? Chavez County. Yeah, Eddie and Lee, it shows it really spiked up out there. Chavez really low and that's more based on the census data, but if you'd like to see that more invasive
105survey, we can get that to you. But but yeah, we all know um the stuff isn't always the most accurate um based on the census stuff, but we all know that that's stuff that a lot of you guys travel to, you know, to neighboring cities to work in those industries. So, we just want to be able to give those um opportunities out there. And I think I even use the opportunity that I said about healthcare. Like students might think that they're going into nursing, but might start working for a teacher General Hospital and decide, oh, I want to be a X-ray technician and didn't even know that that was a field and it's really a highp paying field that they can get trained right there. So, it's all about opportunity and um access and just
106being able to to give our students the tools in their toolbox that they need to be successful. And that's our goal here. Nobody signs up to be a farmer. You ask a kindergarter, "What are you going to be when you grow up?" Nobody ever says a farmer. Daddy. Yeah, that's it. I think this is a great opportunity for Herman kids and and you know, bottom line is that a lot of these industries, a lot of our kids are going, you know, they graduate from high school, they go straight to work. They're not prepared. And I think, you know, it's the main goal to be able to prepare our kids for the workforce. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. An action item. No, no, it's not just a presentation. Okay. Um, next item is
107E or G approval of the proposal for the PS COC increase square footage. Yes. So, as you all know, or some of you, you know, is we're already in the planning stage with our new programming stage, uh, planning with our new school. And the more, you know, I think about it, it's coming to reality. So, I think it's great. So, the last time we had this on the um the agenda, however, we decided to table it until we had more information. So then uh just to to give you a little bit so then you know PSFA PSC they recently announced an update to the uh square footage um you know GSF calculator which impacts the allocation for our new combined K12 school. So the original umou that we received we were awarded for 69,000 uh
108square footage for our new school. However, under the updated calculator, this allocation increases to 83,000, which is a significant, you know, increase. So then, um the current um right now, you know, the PSC and the Herman Municipal Schools agreement, we initially based this on the school size for 375 students. We have seen based on the 40th day count, we have seen a an increase. So right now we are up to 402 which that includes the prek students. Uh however the prek students do not reflect on the 40th day count and which you know that gives us a an increase of 10% from the original student population in the originalou. So this enrollment growth makes it critical to secure additional square footage to accommodate you know the uh students uh effectively and then um currently for
109the planning and design phase Hegger Municipal Schools uh we have a share and it's 345,000 with the additional square footage it will be an approximately $51,000 more which you know we can do it because we had we filed a um a waiver which our waiver for the planning and design phase out of the 1 uh 800 million that we you know with our bonds with our geo bonds. So we you know it was 624 for the planning and design and then another 624 for the construction and then the rest would be for the um teacher housing. However, you know, with the um PSFA, they they were able to help us out in the planning and design phase. Instead of being 624, it was 345. So, with 345 and then an additional, if we go with
110the additional square footage, it will be an additional 51,000. So, it will be about 400,000. The construction phase, it will be about 624 to 600 uh to 649. And um this is excluding the additional square footage. The additional cost we still do not know how much it will be but it will be determined by you know at the future PS COC meeting before the construction begins which we definitely need to go and you know we already applied for the waiver but then it hasn't been awarded until we start with the construction phase. So um with that you know I am requesting if you want me to send out a letter I do have to submit a letter to uh PSFA PSOC so that we can get an increase of square footage and I believe we
111will be okay funding wise. Does this this didn't include the other stuff we discussed the other day with the this this does not include the other stuff. So that one I have to also add it to my letter and that's what when you know I said mention here that we have so our our award was for 375 uh students however if you know I am going to request and submit our 40th day count which you know right now it's about 42 students so that would give us additional so the letter will have both it will have the um the new square footage, the new calculator, and then also request see if they could get, you know, fund us at least for the 402 students that we currently have. And this is just to get approval
112for the square footage. We don't have to technically build it that big. Correct. So, we're not going to run into a a cost issue where we get it approved, but then we don't have enough funds to cover. So, you know, we did we went out for this geo bond was 1.8 and we we have the funding for that right now. But then with this new bond coming up there there will be no cost. There will be no increase and it will be again for another 1.8 million. So, we will have the funds. Any other questions? We're just approving the extra additional square footage for paper to have it not need it. I think we're going to need it. Well, I mean, you know, stand up. Motion to improve. I'll make the motion. I'll second it.
113And then I will craft the letter and then submit it. I'll send you guys a copy and then submit it to PSA. All those in favor say I. I. All those oppos. Okay. Motion carries. superintendent report. Okay, I will be very brief. So, you do have a copy of the uh the bills that are being heard and and you know this is just I wanted you to provide you with an update on this uh ongoing legislative session. So, all of these are the educational bills. I did send it to you also via email so it's a lot easier to click on the link and then you'll be able to read exactly what each one entails. And then so right now, you know, the legislative, they're about halfway through. So there's several bills related to education
114that are still pending, including, you know, HB8. There's a few of them that have already passed. There's one of them, which is the um I believe this one is H2, which there will be an increase of minimum salaries for teacher. So the new sal the minimum you know for salaries for teachers will be level one 55,000 level two 65 level three 75 there's another one that um there is the minimum like for example the minimum for custodian will be like $30,000 and that would be the starting pay hopefully all of this will be funded and um so I will continue monitoring these bills those and then provide you further updates as more information becomes available, you know, in the coming weeks. But this one here will give you like a really good synopsis of what
115what that is. Okay. And any questions on these bills? I know there's so many of them. There's so many of them and every day they're, you know, huge. I went through it this morning. It's a lot. It's a lot. It is. It is a lot. Which one was the uh wages for the teachers? Uh two and it and you know and it's it's not even on this one here. House Bill two or Senate bill. I think it's a House Bill House Bill two. House I don't think it was in this packet. Um cuz I went looking for it this morning because they there there is a lure pay bill in there but it's just going over like clarification and stuff. There's so many of them that it would take me all nine just to go
116through every single one of these. But at your leisure time, you know, and I didn't need to email it to you so that you could be able to click on it and be able to open it and open the extended version. How about an electric school bus to be electric? We could try to go electric. That's that's the the push. Maybe we'll have to include no charging stations in the new school build on athletics. How do you how do you do that? How do you do that? Linux. I don't think you know they do have I believe they do have they purchased like two of them those electric buses but they only use them like Yes. Well, I know their chargers. They installed them in the act shop there and they don't even have enough
117power to charge them. I'm not mistaken for the new school, I think that's one of the requirements. We have to have those charging station. It's in the building code now for residential. You have that in your garage. Okay. So, that's on that. You know, just something that you guys can look at. And then so I just wanted to let you know that we're also in the process of forming the committee and that already passed pretty much you know with the 4 day week that if the schools that are four day week they continue to be a 4 day week for us you know it really doesn't affect anything but we're in the process of forming a committee with uh teacher representatives from each building along with the admin team so that we can begin working
118on the calendar academic calendar for next year. So, um our goal is to mirror the 2024 calendar while considering of course the addition of a few more instructional days and um you know the more instructional days that we have then the more funding for the school. So, we hope to have the final draft prepared for your review and approval at the next board meeting. So, if you have any recommendations, you know, just uh let me know on that. And then we have um this week is early release and I think you know the uh principles already mentioned that we will be having the Bobcat uh break and you know once again the kids really enjoy that. So I'm last time I believe they had 69 kids and um you know we help them out with
119the snacks. So I think that is just a great thing and um really that's all I have for today. I do stand for questions. Have we ever discussed the 4 day week? Everything or there hasn't any discussion or anybody ever brought it up or I don't know if they're opening it up for new schools but once they do I really think that's something that we need to look into it. Teachers have thrown it out. I know when we sat the other day, we kind of tossed it back and forth. The judge did ban that 180day rule for this next school year. And so they're kind of I know PED and you can correct me. You know more about your friends at PE than I do. I know they're waiting on clarification what that means that
120they threw it out. Yeah, they they banned they blocked that. Yeah, it's blocked. I mean so basically you know if you're a 4 day you could you all you have to do is just make sure that you meet the requirement which is the hours which is uh you know 1140 hours for but they don't they don't allow any new if you you know like for example Herman if we want to get go into 4 day they don't it's not open well so if if I'm not mistaken loving just did They just decided that we're going to we're going to be a 4 day week. But I they've been though they've been Well, they was I think it was from CO because I remember Mr. Williams we talked about it because we were basically for day
121because it shut down on Wednesday to clean the school. So let's just roll into it. Mr. Williams was kind of like I don't think it's a wise decision and loving just this is what we're going to do. And that's what from that point I will definitely look into it and um I know that Lake Arthur the way they do it they have every Friday early release every Friday is there I think it's every Friday and so maybe that you know that could be a park too you know something else too went to every other Friday and so and how many uh professional development days do we have to have so we have to have. So, right now we have um it has to be and and that's another bill that that it's on here for
122the secondary. So, for the elementary it's 60 and I believe it's 60 hours and then for the um secondary is 30 but now there's a bill that the secondary will also be having 60. Right now we pretty much meet the 60 both you know for the entire district. Uh we will continue having our right now we have 10 early release days and that's throughout the year. So would the professional development would it affect the 4day school like could you do that one day of professional development on on the fifth day? You know what? We I could look into it and and I don't know if they will allow it because I know that it's so what they'll do. Okay, that would be let's say 30 36. So you take 36 possibly times because we have
123to get out at 1:00. So that would be about two and a half hours every day. We might be able to pull it and just say, you know, every Wednesday. I don't think I want to do Fridays. I don't know. Or maybe Fridays might be tough. This is just my thought because you if you have football games or uh things like that the students have to be at the school for a certain amount of time, correct? And it might be okay for the kids because we do have to in order to have a early release, it will be at 1:00. So even if it's Friday and I know we did we had a Friday what about four years ago that we would the first year we implemented the early release the early release and I
124think it was on a Friday but then we had the issue where so many staff members had something that they had to do. So we never had enough people to be able to do a professional development and then sometimes we pay for this PD and then people are not here. I see. So then this year we decided to do Wednesdays and it's working much better. But sometimes on Friday it's okay because sometimes we can't find um the substitutes. But then again on Fridays I think we had we encountered the problem that the coaches were always gone and you know they were never here for the um for PD and then usually so on Wednesdays nobody there's no we have no games. So we found that it was a better day. Roswell all the elementary schools
125they do every Wednesday and they leave at 1:45. I believe that's the time that you know that they dismiss. So maybe that's something else like we can look into it. So, we'll have, you know, a variety of calendars for for you to look at and then usually Ped approves and then you guys approve or or we can definitely look at different options and if that ever comes up the 4 day, I think that would be the ideal. I think we get some teachers then make travel for the cafe and all that stuff so much easier. So I don't have anything else but I do stand for questions. Any questions or other questions? I just an update on our sped student that we discussed last meeting. The letter went out. I don't think we can discuss
126it during open, right? Probably shouldn't. If you give me a second, I can shut this down.