001I now call this Brian Independent School District meeting to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been dually called, and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551. The time is 6:01 p.m. Uh, I wish to extend a warm welcome to everyone present this evening. Uh, we've got a full house. Uh I ask that you please turn off the sound on all electronic devices and let's stand for our pledges. Uh this evening we will have students from Jane Long Intermediate School. >> My name is Scarlet. >> My name is Cash in sixth grade. >> My name is Henry. >> My name is Nora. My name is Briea. >> My name is Annayia.
002My name is Thomas. >> My name's Olivana. >> My name's Catalia. >> My name is Sydney. >> My name's Sophia. My name's Anna. My name's Gabriel. >> Please join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now for the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, indivi indivisible, >> with liberty and justice for all. >> Yeah. >> Yay. Woohoo. Great job. We'll start with our spotlights uh this evening. Our first uh spotlight is for teacher incentive aotment celebrations. Dr. Barbara Ibara, our associate superintendent of teaching and learning will present. >> Thank you, Mr. President. We are thrilled
003to be here this evening. We have a very large audience and we had an even bigger room earlier. Um, tonight we are honoring the newly designated TIA teachers in Brian ISD. So we have a great number of people here today. Earlier there were 160 people and when we talk about the teacher incentive aotment, it's all based on student growth and teacher performance on instructional strategies. So there are three designation levels, recognized, exemplary, and masters. And this evening, we're honoring 76 newly designated recognized teachers, 74 exemplary, and nine master level designations. With that comes a payout. I do that could be a round of applause, RIGHT? YOU'RE RIGHT. It's fantastic news. With that comes funding from the state of Texas to pay an additional allotment to each of these teachers based on the campuses that they
004work at. Um, so we couldn't be more thrilled to honor them and thank them for, I think Miss Finford said it earlier, putting children first. Clearly, if their students are growing, they put them first and we're very, very pleased and thankful. Very, very briefly, the TIA process is a two-year process. And so, we had data collection for these teachers last school year. So during the 2425 school year, we collected data on if and how much their students grew as well as the teacher appraisal that dealt with instruction. Those two numbers go into a system that has to be approved by the Texas Education Agency that went in in October to them. And in February, they approved the designations that we put forward, which means this June, all of those teachers will receive a lumpsum payout
005based on their designation level. So, a two-year process uh sticking with Brian ISD and sticking with our kids and growing them. To date, we have had tremendous success with TIA and thanks to the leadership of the board for approving and encouraging us to seek out that funding source to compensate our teachers all the way back to the first group in 2223. We started with a small group of teachers, mostly core teachers, and we received $2.3 million in additional compensation for teachers. all the way up to this year. We anticipate that to be well over $5 million of intention of additional compensation that will go directly to our teachers. Brian ISD is now home to 430 total designated teachers under the teacher incentive aotment system. So I think that is a round of applause for sure.
006This afternoon we got the opportunity to do a quick reception with the board and with these teachers. Um, it is a wonderful problem to have that we couldn't fit all of the TIA teachers in this room, just the newly designated this year and it was a packed house. So, that is a wonderful problem to have when you have so many fantastic teachers. Finally, looking forward to the next year, TEA has released a new designation level called acknowledged teacher, and they've increased the payout allotments for teachers at all of the levels. So, everything levels up again next year. Um, and again, some really tremendous payouts if you're a master level teacher, anywhere between 12,000 and $36,000 in one paycheck in June on top of your salary for growing kids at the highest levels. So, tremendous work.
007It's no small feat to become a master level teacher, but um each of these teachers exhibits what we want in what we want for our own children, that we grow them in the time that we have with them. So I couldn't be more pleased to present them to you this evening and to honor them with a photo with the board of trustees. Um if if that's all right with the board. We're all that good. Is that good? Okay. If we could have the board please stand behind the dis. If you're a TIA designated teacher, if you'll please come and stand at the front on the two stairs and also in the front here and I'll move this podium out of the way. >> Sorry. That's >> called >> while they're coming to the front. Um,
008also want to give a shout out to the principles that work with all of our teachers and are here celebrating with them this evening. Um, they've poured into these teachers so that they can pour into their students and achieve growth with students. So, um, thanks so much to our principles. See your face. >> All right. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Congratulations, coach. >> Yes. Playoffs. >> I can't wait to when we say we're going to the playoffs and we don't have to worry about the dword. Duncan Bill. That's right. Where is Dad, you're way down there by yourself. >> That's okay. >> All right, our next spotlight is for the intermediate teacher of the month. Good evening. My name is Shory Grunken and I'm the dean of instruction at Jane Long Intermediate. Tonight I am
009excited to recognize Miss Alisandre Kay as our February teacher of the month. Miss Kay is our fifth grade new arrival center teacher and she has been with the district in Jane Long for the past four years. Miss Kaios brings incredible energy and creativity to her Knack classroom, making what we can offer often be a very challenging experience for students learning a new language into one that is engaging, welcoming, and empowering. She turns the process of learning a second language into an opportunity filled with confidence, growth, and success. Miss Kaios is a strong advocate for her students and holds them to high expectations because she believes in their abilities and their futures. What stands out most is the patience, kindness, and care she demonstrates every single day. She's consistently described as someone who is understanding and
010supportive and that she takes the time to ensure everyone learns, often retaching concepts and providing additional support without hesitation. Her colleagues echo those same sentiments. is noting her dedication to going above and beyond for her students while also being a supportive and valued member of our team. Miss Kaio represents the very best of what we strive for as educators and we are incredibly fortunate to have her serving the students of J Long. WOOHOO. >> CONGRATULATIONS. Also want to mention this evening we have uh truest bank representative Alonzo Roblace presenting our gift cards. Thank you for being here. Congratulations. >> Our next spotlight is for auxiliary employee of the month presented by Mr. Pat Corbett, executive director of operations. Good good evening. School nutrition services is proud to recognize Mr. Simon Aosta as the February Auxiliary
011employee of the month. Simon has been an employee with Brian ISD since early 2018. He is a dedicated and detailoriented employee at our central distribution warehouse. Simon has an easygoing demeanor that makes him highly effective in stressful situations. He remains calm and measured no matter how many issues or requirements are conflicting with one of one another. Simon is also very preventive maintenance focused and works hard to keep all of the over 30-year-old equipment operation operational and functional. Simon is candid individual to bring up and discuss issues before they become critical or reduce warehouse efficiency. Simon is measured and diligent in his approach and and success in assigned tasks. He takes on assigned tasks and accomplishes them on time with little additional guidance needed even when additional tasks were required to see his department succeed. He
012is demonstrating this now as warehouse is currently one employment one employee down. Congratulations Simon on this well-deserved recognition. Your focus, hard work, and diligence are positively impacting CDC warehouse and the students of Brian ISD every day. We're grateful to have you on our team. Congratulations. Next, we have a community partnership award presented by Dr. Brian Merrill, Deputy Superintendent. >> I've asked Alfred to join me. I'm excited and honored to to be completely honest to uh introduce the next group of individuals. um they're not only part of the NAACP, but they're a part of really so many of our organizations and truly the fabric of this community. When you think about um the amazing individuals that are sitting behind me, um decades worth of work and support um and accountability to be completely honest in uh
013such a healthy way that I'm incredibly proud to be a member of the NAACP and support them in any way, shape or form that I possibly can. And um just to put it into perspective, uh we have a faith-based partnership and um they have uh partnered with Sadbury and they're very active on the campus not only on a daily basis just in the simple fact of of greeting and I don't want to steal any of Alfred's thunder, but they are very very active and so I'll let him explain a little bit about the partnership and I'll bring up some individuals that we'd love to thank. >> Thank you. Yeah, as Dr. Dr. Merrill was saying, from greeting our kids in the morning to making sure our teachers have snacks to making sure we're supported during
014the testing days in the fall and in the spring, we couldn't do it without these guys. Uh, Miss Anne Bony, I know that she calls every other night and says, "What do you guys need?" We're there. And so, again, it's just with a great honor and privilege to present these guys with this award. Thank you, Dr. Mirror. >> Absolutely. Let me explain a little bit as well just their level of involvement. We'll talk about a specific instance where they um saw fit to really make way for our students to have an incredible field trip. They went to San Antonio. They did an essay contest, a Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest. Um and really at the beginning of this year, January, really had one of the most magical field trips um from all perspectives that
015I've seen in a long time. Um they loaded them up, took them all day, just had an incredible experience, made way for them to to just have everything paid for. uh they really took care of them, made sure they had food and uh made sure that they got entry into all of the various places that they went and more importantly they felt loved. Um I spent a little bit of time talking to a bus driver afterwards and um she talked about what an amazing experience it was not only for her but for the students and um when I think back to their involvement it it's right now embedded in Sadbury but I think back to the ambassadors and um we the students are actively engaged in all of our nonprofit work and uh Miss Bony
016and Miss Tanel who I'll bring up in a minute um did a phenomenal job in really um including our students and so often we come and uh we're we serve and we do what exactly what uh we're intended to do but I'll never forget the very first time we came to the NAACP gayla uh they were included in the back and they were able to sit and participate and able to participate not only uh in this service which we greatly appreciate but they were able to hear the speakers they were able to learn from it and they're really imparting in the next generation to make sure that we've got students and young adults uh turning into adults that are advocates uh in this community. And I, as I stated, we're better because of that. And
017um um I'm thankful. Uh I've moved here in 2018 um and the presence of the NAACP, the presence of Anne Bony, um and just that is just quite incredible. We're now led by an amazing lady, uh Ebony Tanel. If I could bring her up, she uh is our president of the NAACP. Come on up. and then I would have her introduce as well Miss Anne Bony and some of the other folks if y'all would come and stand. Uh we were uh it was lucky enough to participate in the Jubilee yesterday. Um and so uh come on up Ebony. She doesn't like to speak. I apologize. Um wonderful, wonderful. Her husband's in the back as well. He's in and around in everything that she does. Uh taking a back seat. So I don't I hate to
018put you on the spot. I know you get nervous. Okay. Uh but we appreciate your partnership. Thank you for not only being a faith-based leader, but a parent uh in uh a nonprofit, leading a nonprofit in our community. So, thank you so very much. So, if you want to introduce everybody or talk, we would appreciate it. >> I will. I'll first say thank you to everyone for having us here today. I get nervous when I'm among people who I don't know, but I know all of you guys. So, it it's with great honor that we um were selected or participate with the OW. Sadbury Intermediate School as our faith faith faithbased partner. I will say it is not just the NAACP. We also have sisters lifting sisters and the health department sorry Braz County Health
019District um who are in partnership for that in that partnership. Um it's been an amazing opportunity. I choose to raise my children in Brian ISC. My husband won't let me go anywhere else. Um, so um, it's important for us as parents and as community members to give back where we can and what better way to do that with these awesome people here with me. I have Miss Charlie May Lockit, Miss Ambone, Miss Jennifer Ross Hassan, Miss Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Garner, Dr. and Dr. Garner, and Mr. Tanel, my husband back there. Uh, what else? >> Okay, >> Miss Bony, would you like to say anything? I don't know. I >> I don't have to say anything. I'm kind of like Sister Ebony. All of you guys know me. I've been around for years. I am
020a community person. One person that didn't come down here and stand with us. If is Miss Felicia Ben. >> Felicia is a part of our group as well. Some of my people are not here. Dr. uh I'm sorry. Uh Linda Asbury is not here. Dr. Brousard is not here. Uh we had some that were not able to be here. We have two of them. Well, one another teacher uh uh Charles Denzy and he's a part of this group and his brother Chris is as well. So we have a an amazing group that we work with Sadbury and I want to thank you for allowing us the opportunity to do that. Thank you. >> Thank you. I can truly say we're better as a district because of the amazing partnerships that we have in our faith-based
021community. Uh, and this is just one example of them going above and beyond to make sure that our students have everything that they need. So, thank you all so very much. We appreciate your support. Uh, you're a gift to this district and a gift to me personally. So, thank you. You're welcome. All right. Would y'all take >> Good. She's going So cute. Clay, will you send me a couple of >> Dr. Merrell, do you want to ask if they want to stay for the resolution? >> Oh, yeah. I forgot. Yes, ma'am. Please do not go anywhere till we uh there's a resolution that we'd like to share with you. I think Mr. Brian and the board would like to read it. So, if you just have one more minute, that would be great. I apologize.
022Thank you, Mr. Carine. Now, we'll move to public comment. Uh public comment this evening can be for agenda items and non-aggenda items. Citizens may make comments about topics relevant to district business. Topics should be limited to three minutes. Comments concerning specific student or personnel will be heard in close session. I've received a uh request from Mr. Robert Rose this evening. Mr. Rose, I'm going to u we've got a three minute uh time frame. I'm going to I'm going to start a timer whenever you begin speaking. >> I I appreciate it. I I know for a while it was three and then it went to five I think and now maybe it's back to three. So So uh Robert Rose longtime longtime Brian resident about 50 years. Um so I um uh got recruited recently to
023join graduate studies at&m. Um I finally said yes after they kept bugging me. So that's kind of what I'm doing these days. Um so uh here today to talk about um the uh resolutions on the agenda items 13A and 13B. Um I'm like to say right up front that I'm opposed uh to these resolutions for a few different reasons. Um I'd like to share a little bit about some of my my previous experiences where uh religion and school intersected for our family. Um, one of my relatives uh was told in their school days that um they couldn't wouldn't be allowed to read the daily announcements in the morning uh because it was known that they were Catholic and Catholics were not true Christians. Um when I was was going through the school system um I
024was told that Catholics worship statues and that again Catholics were not really Christians. So, um I had uh Jewish friends who who are are treasured friends to this day and and they there were comments about them um people knowing that they were Jewish and it it was not good. So, um, there there's that aspect to it and that when students religious preferences are known, it puts them in a box and it puts labels on them and it potentially subjects them to bullying and attacks. That's the problem I have with this. Um, I'd like to further say that I'm doubtful these resolutions can be voted on because the text was not available today from 11 about 11:00 until 4:00 this afternoon. And I checked with staff and apparently this is an ongoing problem with a lot
025of agenda items. And so and and it's doubt it's unknown in the past 72 hours how many h how long that that agenda item was not visible to the public. That resolution was not visible to the public. It was not visible for several hours this afternoon from 11 to 4 and it may have been not visible for part of the previous 72 hours. So the ask is that you either pull this from the agenda or that you reject the resolutions. That that's my ask for today. Thanks for your time. >> Thank you. We'll move to our uh consideration of a board resolution recognizing Black History Month. I have um I have the resolution here that I'd like to read. I'm gonna read it in its entirety. Brian Independent School District resolution of the board of
026trustees regarding Black History Month. Let me turn my ringer off. Whereas Black History Month was established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson and later expanded to a month-long observance in 1976 recognizing the central role African-Americans have played in shaping the United States. And whereas Black History Month is nationally recognized each February in order to honor the history, achievements, resilience, and cultural contributions of African-Americans to our nation and to the state of Texas. And whereas African-American leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, public servants, scientists, artists, and community members have significantly contributed to the civic, economic, cultural, and educational advancement of our communities, the state of Texas, and the nation. And whereas public schools play a vital role in educating students about the full and inclusive history of our nation, and in encouraging thoughtful dialogue, critical thinking, and mutual respect.
027It is therefore resolved that the board of trustees of the Bryan Independent School District hereby recognize February as Black History Month and encourages schools, staff, students, and the broader community to participate in age appropriate educational activities that celebrate the rich history, heritage, and contributions of African-Americans. and there and be it further resolved that the board reaffirms its commitment to providing a safe and welcoming learning environment where all students are valued, supported, and empowered to achieve their highest potential. I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was presented to the board of trustees of the Brian Independent School District during a called meeting on February 23rd, 2026 in a quorum of the board of trustees being then present. With that, we can um entertain a motion to adopt this resolution. >> Do we have a motion? >>
028Yeah, of course. But is it written or can we just >> I'll make a motion. >> Go ahead. >> Motion. >> Yeah. >> Motion to uh let me see. We don't have it written, but uh in support of the resolution recognizing uh Black History Month in Brian ISD. >> Second. >> We have a motion made by Mr. Stennis, seconded by Mrs. Waller. Um all those in favor say I. I >> those opposed say nay. Motion passes to adopt this res. >> If I can say one thing uh just very shortly, I'd like to take this opportunity to uh face in a name that y'all know, Lisa Muton, um who leads u the board for the Brazes Valley African-American Museum. And they're centrally located in Bryant. Um historically located in Bryant, to be completely honest with
029you. And um when you talk about the contribution and remembering and keeping it on the forefront and alive, uh the museum is is a partner in that. We're thankful for all the tours, everything you do in this community, um and the Gala that's coming up. And so, uh thank you for the work that you do. Thank you for uh the contribution that you made in addition to everything else. So, uh thank you, Miss Muton. >> And she's one of our BIS. >> She is. Yes, ma'am. She is. She's our our history to make sure that black history never leaves. uh that uh we're making sure that it's embedded in what we do. >> Yay. >> Would y'all uh like to come up and take a picture with the board before uh >> or let us
030take a picture? >> Let us take a picture with you. I guess >> I think they were going this way. >> Where you going? >> Move this way. >> Thank you. >> We're out of balance. >> I'm on balance. >> We're not in balance. We're not out of dance. >> Yeah, >> we're not in balance. >> No, we are. Okay. >> Okay. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> Not on the board, but you're advisor. That's I was going to say wise man, but that was advisor. >> Same thing. Yes, sir. >> That's right. >> Yeah, that's true. >> Thank you all for coming. We appreciate it very much. Yes, ma'am. >> Look at her shoes. Those blue shoes, >> man, what I could do with those. >> Felicia, see if you can get
031those blue shoes away from >> I got a blue. >> At this point, uh we're going to um adjust the order on the agenda this evening um as board to uh get legal advice from our attorney in close session. Uh therefore, the board will reconvene and or will convene in close session for legal consultation allowed by Texas Government Code 551.071 pertaining to agenda items 13A and 13B. No voting will take place in the closed meeting. Any action the board wishes to take as a result of this discussion in close session will occur after the board reconvenes in the open meeting. The time is now 6:34 Yeah. I now reconvene this regular meeting of the Brian Independent School District. The time is 7:28 p.m. Um, next on our agenda, we will go to the superintendence report
032from Superintendent Carbine. >> Thank you, Mr. Brian. It's always a privilege to shine a bright light on uh Brian ISD and there's so many good things happening. So, I'm going to just focus on the students that are performing and competing and representing our district on the national and state stage. Starting with hot off the press and a little bit of foreshadowing because we plan to bring these uh students into the board meeting on March 2nd. But congratulations are in order. We celebrated uh Michael Farnsworth from Ruer High School a while back because he was a national merit semi finalist. Well, we have been notified that he has advanced to the stage of finalist. And the same as uh Katherine Kaiser representing Brian High School. You may recall we celebrated when she was notified that she
033was a semi- finalist. She too has been recognized as a national merit finalist. I don't want to steal the thunder because we will have them in the uh boardroom with us with their parents at the March 2nd, but we are so proud. This is an incredible accomp accomplishment and uh the best way possible to represent their high schools and our school district. Uh at the state level, congratulations are in order because we had wrestlers from Rudder and Brian advanced to the state level wrestling tournament. Uh Brian High School had four state qualifiers, two for and we had two from Roter High School and at Brian High School we had two on the medal stand. Uh congratulations to Caitlyn Dockery coming home with a silver medal and we have a state champion. Congratulations to Zoe Sonier
034as a gold medalist. Uh this is also foreshadowing because we would like to bring all of our wrestlers uh that competed at the state level to the next board meeting so we can celebrate them in person. Again, this is uh the best of the best. This means that they uh got out of district and region to go and compete uh with wrestlers from across our state. So, it's pretty incredible to have two of them on the podium stand at the same time. Also, uh sticking with the state level competition and performance. Uh congratulations to Brian High School's Los Vikingo Mariachi. Just competed at the UIL State Mariachi Festival in Sigin and they were recognized and awarded uh an honor of what we call excellence. So I believe this is 10 consecutive years of them advancing
035to that level. Again, best of the best. Al we are also celebrating from Brian High School Zaniah Johnson representing Brian High School as an allstate choir member at the TMEA clinic and convention in San Antonio. And just a little fast fact uh with Zaniah when she was there representing us again on the state level stage. Our former student Christian Edington Allstate choir student was there representing his university. So he was able to work with Zaniah and uh we got a few good photo ops from that as you can imagine. And then finally also from Brian ISD, one of our music choir teachers was a former all-state choir student. So we had the trifecta there representing uh Brian ISD again in the best way possible. And then finally uh Dr. Merryill and I had the very
036good fortune of attending the NAACP Jubilee Day just yesterday uh with Miss Felicia Benford and a lot of our guests who who were here earlier. It was a complete honor. But uh one of the highlights for me of course was to see Jade Davon Johnson representing Ruer High School as he was part of the ceremony uh reading the Emancipation Proclamation. So we could not be any more proud of our student representing Ruer and honestly we celebrated him because he represented our school district and our community in the best way possible. So it was just a great way to celebrate our community. We had a lot of clergy. We had law enforcement. We had school district and many, many citizens from our community coming in to celebrate in uh the best way possible for this. I
037don't know, Miss Benford, if you want to add to that. Uh you were master of ceremonies yesterday. So, >> it was a great event. He um the young man did a fantastic job. He really really um made Bron ISD look wonderful. He did. and he had never saw what he was reading until he got there. >> Mhm. >> And he was on the spot. So, polished, articulate, when he's not reading proclamations in front of a packed uh house, he's playing football and wrestling for Ruters. So, just a fantastic kid, well-rounded, great family, and it was another great day for Brian for sure. So, thank you, uh, Mr. Brian. >> Thank you. Let's move to board member reports. Uh first will be teaching and learning board committee uh from Mr. David Stennis. >> Uh teaching and
038learning committee uh we held a meeting on February 5th, 2026 via Zoom at 3:00. Uh the board members present were myself and Dr. Julie Harland Wolf. Staff members present were uh Ginger Carib and Dr. Ivara. Um a lot of this was just updates but um one of the things that we discussed was the the celebration and the reception we had uh before the meeting regarding the uh TIA. The district was approved to award 159 new um or hired TIA designations. So Brian IC is now home to over 430 uh TIA designation designated teachers. Um the vast majority of these teaching positions are eligible uh for TIA. The district is still exploring possible expansion uh to additional subjects for uh 26 and 27. Also discussed was uh summer school planning. The district summer uh summer learning
039team is working to identify locations and staff to support students in June. Uh we'll get an update later this spring. Staff will bring additional information to the board for feedback and discussion. Uh two other items that were discussed were Texas uh strategic leadership. The purpose of the Texas leadership or strategic leadership partnership with uh region six education service centers to develop an uh academic strategic plan for the district. Uh we got an update on the progress of the steering committee and reviewed wording of the student experience statements. Um other thing that we touched on was uh public hearing. Um the board meeting tonight will include public hearing for those campuses participating in the learning acceleration and support uh opportunities grant which is also known as lasso. Uh these campuses are partnered with region 6 education
040service center and participating in the Texas instructional leadership program uh focus on supporting teachers and using datadriven instruction. I believe that we're also going to hear about that later in the agenda. But um those were the topics discussed at the teaching and learning committee meeting. >> Thank you. >> Uh finance board committee report. Mr. Tim Pavas. >> Yes. We met on February 10th by Zoom. Myself, Mr. Stazzy, Mr. Stenis, Miss Carabine, Miss Friddle, Mr. Robertson, Miss Johnson. Uh covered many items on that. Um, first one was presented by Miss Johnson, the fiber um, interlocal agreement. The committee was informed of the opportunity to sell a surplus of fiber to Brazis County for a dollar. It was also noted that the maintenance contract with BTU expired in the fall of 2025 and if the district were
041to remove or dispose of the fiber independently, an estimated cost would have been over $50,000. Next was Mr. Roberts. Uh, we discussed the ESS contract renewal. Mr. Roberts provided the committee with an update to the district's current substitute expenditures including financial overview and a breakdown of various categories in which these costs were classified. Next, Miss Riddle um the CDC warehouse uh broker option. The committee received an informal update to the CDC warehouse to include broker's professional opinion of the value, the photos of the property, and a review of comparable sales in the area. Uh, next, Miss Riddle. Um, update for the 2526 budget to actual forecast. Committee received an update of the current year budget to actual forecast including financial data throughout those close of January expenditures. And then um, Miss Brittle also talked about
042the 2627 budget calendar. Uh, we discussed the high level overview of 2627 budget calendar. and discuss the key milestones leading up to the budget adoption. And lastly, Miss Riddle um talked about the uh negotiated terms Alphabet's contract uh informed us about the upcoming meeting with Alphabet representative to discuss the monthly fee structure and the current revenue sharing agreement that they currently have. So, uh went over very very many items and it was very good conversation and very good things to know. >> Thank you. Executive Board Committee report. Miss Ruthie Waller. >> The uh committee members present uh Dr. Brian Merrill, Tommy Roberts, Norma uh Friddle, Dr. Barbara Yubara, myself, Joel Bryan, and Ginger Carib. Uh the agenda consisted of uh Miss Carbine discussed the overview of current and future budgets everything for every department and
043the decisions that are being made. Uh Miss Friddle gave a talk and talked to us about budget to actual forecast discussion on the status of our current year budget. Uh Dr. Dr. Yabara talked about Senate Bill 11 policy and procedures. Dr. Merrill discussed uh and gave us an update on procurement uh on the architectural or architect selection process and the next steps. And Mr. Roberts talked about planning for future staff allocations. >> Thank you. And our last committee report, community affairs board committee. Back to Mr. Stennis. >> Uh community affairs committee meeting. We met um February 12th, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. uh here in the admin building. Those present were Dr. Caribine, uh Mr. Hugo Aara, uh Mr. Brian, uh Cali Donley, and myself. Um a lot of lot of good discussion. uh mostly on
044the agenda was recruitment and retention efforts for students, families, staff and community. Um the bulk of our discussion revolved around uh our marketing and our and our outreach efforts to families and communicating um the advanced academics that we offer as a district uh and also the CTE uh campus and and that marketing efforts and and I will say that I think that it was a very good conversation in that we have all these great programs in this in this school district and one of the things that I think um We, you know, an attempt to brag about that and entice parents is to make it a clear and concise uh marketing effort to where uh parents are are are looking at items or or things that might interest their kids and can clearly understand it
045and can clearly convey it and uh interpret it. And so um all good discussions um uh marketing and community engagement uh and again highlighting the community marketing efforts uh with organizations such as leadership Brazis uh the BCS Chamber of Commerce uh economic outlook conference and so good discussion. Um I like where we're headed. Um that's it. >> Thank you. Moving to our first information item, uh, bond 2020 oversight status update from deputy superintendent Dr. Brian Merrill. >> Clay to show the slide deck. We appreciate the opportunity to come in tonight. I just want to give a quick update on bond oversight. Uh, if you'll go to the next slide, Clay. >> Thank you. Again, you all have seen these slides, but just in case someone's tuning in for the first time, you've got the purpose
046of the bond oversight. Miss Carbine put that in place for transparency sake. Um, and if anything, uh, obviously we we would bring it to them. And so, as we move through uh the 2019 and 2020 bond that was established and you can see the uh committee's purpose. So, not only to work in an advisory capacity, they're not a decision-making body. Uh, we've run many of the things through y'all. we update you and then obviously if it's over $50,000 you approve it. And so at at no time are they at decision-m but they are advisory and we appreciate their commitment to the district. Uh they are volunteers. It's not unpaid position similar to yours. Uh and so we we greatly greatly appreciate that. You can see many of the things up there. Again uh these are
047not new slides but to those anyone tuning in uh they could see the purpose of the bond oversight. The this is how often we we've met. It kind of gets overwhelming at times. You could see that our last meeting was February 5th. We have one scheduled for April 9th. Um I would really like at this point to uh thank uh Melissa. She does a wonderful job, Miss Martin uh in our finance department. Miss Friddle isn't here. They do a wonderful job in uh just keeping us moving forward, collecting everything. Um and and Bobby, you know, Mr. Griffin talks about them all the time in such a complimentary way of making sure that we're lined up and um just keeping everything transparent with high integrity. So, I greatly greatly appreciate that. And the bond oversight is
048really just an extension of that. Uh this is the 2020 bond just in case you've slept since then. And uh we're incredibly proud of the work that this committee not only did but what uh obviously is on the ground and you're going to hear in a second from one of those projects which is Sadbury Intermediate School. We've talked quite a bit about that already. So that's when you look at that, that's one of the things that was included in this. So property maintenance, land purchases, safety and security, construction additions, and then obviously Hallebertton uh our auxiliary complex was another building uh that we were able to get in for 175 million. It was very timely. Uh this was obviously election happened before the pandemic. Um, Miss Caravan led that work and then really uh through
049the design phase, they were able to order so much of the product that once the the pandemic happened, it was stationed all over the place. And that was at a great benefit to the district to the point that I I'll share in a second. But um even though we weren't maybe able to start building because of all that was going on, we had it uh all over the world to be completely honest with you. And so that paid huge financial dividends to the point that we needed to convene our bond oversight committee. Um, and that was because we had a surplus of money. So, when you looked at it, all the projects may not be completed, but we've got those bids in and we're working on finalizing them. This summer will be the final uh
050phases of those projects to to close out 2020. And we had money left. And so, in that, we convened the bond oversight committee uh to look at a couple things. So, the February 2nd, we had an update on design development for phase three of the elementary renovations. Uh, Mr. Griffin and myself will be bringing up those projects. There's some remaining bathroom renovations and we put those out for bid and we opened that up and uh obviously we had money set aside for that and then we we collected those uh those bids and we will award that hopefully tonight. Uh 2020 bond project update. We did that as well. Financial updating projections and that's the financial luckily on the positive end of things. We had some additional money that we needed to spend. I think I
051brought that in either last meeting or the meeting before you approved quite a bit. uh one of which is at the end of the slide deck and that would be the uh band trailers that was a 2025 item but we use 2020 money and so again having money left allowed us to move some things forward from 2025 update on architect and engineer service we are still currently doing that and then uh current needs and possible reallocations which I'll go through quickly um again we just went through these things very quickly talked about uh the 2023 board meeting what we were going to bring in today the hardware and sign packages is uh and what that would look like. These are our current needs and possible reallocations. And so again, uh not really this is information
052item. We'll bring any items later on in the board meeting that that are over $50,000, but I'll quickly move through them. We opened up a couple new classrooms with Brian Collegiate and so they needed um furniture. So that was 11,000. That's a reclassification. We paid for this out of um just local money. So we would reclassify that and pay us back on the local side. the Shine uniforms at the beginning of the year. If you not seen those, they're beautiful. Uh they're really um beloved to be completely honest with you, and just really uh I think they're wonderful. So, we paid for those out of um local money. It was time for that. And then we would like to obviously reclassify and pay back local. Uh uniforms and equipment were voted on by the 2025.
053When you look at it, it's overall 13.4 million. I think somewhere in the 11 or 12 million range is what we're moving up. So in 2025, we were able to cover that with 2020 money, which I think uh is a testament to the board, testament to uh really construction departments, our architects, uh Miss Martin, Miss F, anyone that really worked on this that allowed us to get kind of a head start on 2025. Again, I can go through them. Grounds came up with some trailers. I think they're from 1994, so we're buying them four new trailers. Um fire suppression in the in the basement here. We've mentioned that. This will allow us to move some records and keep that all in house. So, we have a, you know, floor beneath. We're not really officing out
054of there, but it would allow us to keep um some equipment and some uh files in there. Navaro has a a washer and dryer campus hookup, new project. Uh Ross has additional pre preK classroom two total. That's uh for some equipment. Um the graphic window film, that's a 2025 bond uh item. Security cameras and monitoring system again across the district 2025 bond item. Replacement of damaged playground equipment at Fan in Houston. It is crazy how expensive playground equipment is. It's just pretty wild what that looks like. But again, reclassify uh and so we've already paid for it out of local. We would move that and cover the the cost that we did. ADA pathway at Johnson Elementary. We have a special needs student that's just having difficulty getting out to the playground and we want
055to make that easier on on them as well as the teacher. And so, um, that work, uh, has begun or will be done very shortly for 15,000. The rest of the items are all 2025 bond items. And you can see, uh, these were voted on, uh, this last November by our, uh, community. And, uh, so it totals around 13.4 million. Again, just information items, but I wanted to show you the great work for the bond oversight and the items that we'll be bringing forward later on in the board meeting for your approval. This is one of the items that you approved last uh, I think board meeting. This is the Prada Brian, the Viking band trailer. Um, not only the exterior obviously, but the interior is just quite modern. We're very excited about it when
056it pulls into town what it'll look like. This is the rudder uh trailer as well. Again, you voted on that. We were able to send those checks off and get that fabrication started, which we're incredibly proud of. So, just information today to talk about it, but I wanted to to do that. And so, if you um have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them at this time. I move very quickly. I apologize. I talked fast. >> It's good. >> Thank you. >> Okay. I appreciate very much the opportunity to share. Thank you again for the committee and their great work. I appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> I now recess this regular meeting of Brian Independent School District. The time is 7:48. I now call this public hearing of the Brian Independent School District
057to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present. that this meeting has been dually called and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code, chapter 551. The time is 7:48. The purpose of this public public hearing is to present targeted improvement plans for Sadbury Intermediate, Long Intermediate, Raburn Intermediate, and SFA Middle School. Presenting director of accountability research evaluation and assessment, Dr. Dr. Jill Morris and Associate Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, Dr. Barbara Eubara. >> Good evening. Um, so I am here to share and I've got some campus leaders with me are going to come up and tell you what's actually going on on the campus, but as required by law, these targeted improvement plans. So, there's two reasons that
058we might write a targeted improvement plan. The first one is participation in the lasso grant and all four of these campuses are participating in the lasso grant. The other reason is that if you're identified for comprehensive support and improvement um you have to write a targeted improvement plan. Two campuses SFA and Sadbury were identified based on 2024 scores. And so you'll notice that at the end of that bullet it says progress. That means they've completed their first year and they've made progress, but it's a two-year process to get out of this identification. So, we've made progress. We're on the right track. After we get the scores back, we're planning on this identification going away after the 2026 scores. So, those are the reasons we wrote the plan. And so, the lasso grant, you have many
059tracks that you can choose. We chose the observation feedback track. And what that does is it provides principles and assistant principles, those people that are on the campuses appraising, providing feedback and coaching to our teachers support to get better at that so they're better able to coach the teachers and then in turn impact student outcomes. So the amount of the grant was 76,000. um 70% of that is spent with region six and our partnership there, excuse me. Um and so we've been working with them since last summer. We had training for all of our campus leaders for these four campuses last summer. Um and then we have ongoing training where um our region six partner is in the district multiple days every month on the campus walking in classrooms with principles coaching them helping them
060give feedback and follow up with teachers so that they it's kind of a gradual release model. She starts working very closely with them and then the principles do it on their own and she gives feedback and so they learn to get more proficient at that. And the campus leaders are going to come up now and tell you a little bit more about how this process works on their campuses. >> As they're coming down, I did want to just share uh this process as Miss as Dr. Morris mentioned began in the summer of of last year and the principles and the assistant principles all participated and all have been working so very hard and and I think what I would say this was a K or a 58 initiative. We really focused strategically on supporting in
061the middle years programs in our district and the conversations that we're hearing and participating in alongside the campus administrators are amazing. They gave a common language and a common practice to coaching and giving feedback to teachers to focus on the most important thing. What can I tell that teacher? What's the highest leverage coaching point I can give to that teacher to move students forward and to achieve student growth? And so I just I commend the work of the principles. I know it's been um a lot of additional is a change in their time and how they're spending their time, but it's the right change in how we're spending time and what we're focusing on. So with that, I will I will turn it over to the experts. >> Hi, I am Shori Grunken. I am
062the dean of instruction at Jane Long. And I'm going to start with the observe part of the observation feedback cycle. So um something that we do is we look at current data and then we pick a teacher that we want to um try to coach. So after we look at the data um we go observe we uh debrief as a team. We look at what they call a waterfall document where we pick out a small bite-size specific skill that we can work on with this with the teacher and then we create an action plan. Okay. Good evening. Becky Luna, principal of SFA. Um, I would beg to argue with you guys that feedback is the most um, important part of this process. I think that traditionally we do walkthroughs on teachers and they get an
063email with whatever that feedback is from us. But this has really set a bar where we now meet with those teachers individually in a timely manner with an actionable item and it's non-evaluative. So, it takes that pressure off. Um, it's really a we're in this together approach. And so I think it's really set um a new campus culture when it comes to us coming in the room. It's like I said that we're in this together approach has kind of eased that anxiety of sitting in front of a laptop waiting on that walkthrough feedback. Um with that being said, the items that we coach on are things that can be implemented within 24-hour turnaround. So the goal is we meet with you within 48 hours and you can turn it around in your classroom tomorrow and
064then we see an increase in student achievement. um and growth. So, >> okay, I'm the other Becky, Becky Ryberg, U principal at Rayburn. And so, I'm going to talk a little bit about practice. This is probably the part for myself and a lot of us have had these conversations that we really had to get back into because we write feedback typically through um well, written feedback. We don't ever sit face to face. So, after we've done the observe part and we've given that verbal feedback, then we have to get up and practice. And so in their classroom, because you always want to have these conversations in their home turf, we say, "Okay, well, now we talked about it and now we're going to practice." And so we do that very quickly. And then it allows
065us the opportunity to reframe if they get to a part where they're stuck or they say, "Oh, I in this situation, what if a kid does this?" Um, it really does allow us to on the spot, in the moment, based on what that teacher says in their own classroom, give that very specific feedback, monitor, adjust as they practice, and then say, "Okay, um, I'm going to come back because that was, you know, like me, I'm long-winded sometimes." And so, a after 20 minutes, I'm like, "Ah, I'm going to come back tomorrow. We're going to try it again because, um, we need that practice." And they really do, I've noticed a change in them being very receptive to that because especially as an administrator, you never want to become an administrator who doesn't remember what it's
066like to be a teacher. So, this allows you to jump back in and and play teacher again, kind of like we did when we were little. And I think that they really appreciate that because we have very productive conversations through the practice. And I'll actually say practice is the fun part for me because it allows me to be in there when the teachers are practicing it and then give them real-time feedback. Now, the part I actually have is after the practice where we go and see it live with the students. So, when you go and see it live with the students, you'd like to say that it's going to you're going to knock it out of the park and everything's going to go great. But sometimes it doesn't. And so that's why it's a continuous
067process because if you see something in the classroom that I with students like say for instance we're doing academic monitoring and the teacher doesn't make it all around all the way around the classroom we talk about okay what about the pathway making sure that we actually stick to our pathway get around and see how all of our kids are doing. So you know we might have to have a reset of like one or two or three kids or we could do a whole class reset. So that's the most important part is seeing it live. And then once we see it live, if everything is great, it's good. And if it's not, then we go back and we talk to the teacher, we practice again and make sure that it's effective so we can have best
068practices implemented in class. >> So uh first, thank you. You all are incredible. I've gotten the opportunity to visit several of their campuses and participate in their walks along with Mrs. Lake who helps also helps lead this initiative. Um, I think something very important that they've talked about, they coach all teachers. All of our teachers have a growth mindset. They want to grow so they can grow their students and hopefully join us for a TIA designation celebration with them. So, this is about coaching all teachers. Uh, I think someone said it before, you don't have to be sick to get better. And so, it's all about improving your practice so that you're a better service to students. And that has been the focus of each and every one of these administrators and their assistant principles.
069Uh, Dr. Morris. >> So just in summary, um the plan is to have principles better able to support teachers who then um are better able to instruct our students leading to a cultural shift like you've heard, but then ultimately student outcomes. We want our students to perform and um do well. And so the plan that um you'll hopefully approve later tonight um all four campuses have all of these components in their plan. It was a form done by TEA. So there's not a lot of wiggle room. They all look almost identical just because we're all working together so that we have that common language in the district. Do you have any questions for us? I know that two of you takes one to no one because you're Brian's students, Alfred and Shy. Shory was a
070cheerleader and an athlete. Yes. Back in the day. So the two Where did you two Becky's Where were y'all where did y'all grow up? >> I grew up in Magnolia. >> So it I just think it's amazing. in C Magnolia is much typical of our population and Becky just has so much experience. Tall Becky, taller Becky. And so I just think that's so important that you're walking the halls of schools. Well, of course, Sadbury wasn't born yet, but you you can relate because you were those kids and or you've been in the business long enough to really really get a feel and know. And now that this is part this uh everything we're talking about is part of what you're responsible for is just it's right up your alleys because one, you can be a
071teacher again. you know, which is always the be when I quit thinking like a teacher, I need to get off the board. I think somebody said that earlier in in the day and um so I just I know that all of you it seems like all of you are really enjoying this and enjoying being back with the teachers. It's almost like having the te when you were a teacher and then you had a student teacher. So, you're back in the classroom and then you're getting to work with these teachers. Um, anyway, I just I think you guys are doing such a really really good job. Thank you. And thank you for of course for Jill and Barbara because it's easier. It's easy to work with people that you and they're the same way with people
072that you respect because they were y'all too, math and social studies. and um I remember when they were young teachers. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> There being no further business, the public hearing adjourned at 8:01 p.m. I now reconvene this regular meeting of Brian Independent School District. The time is 8:01 p.m. Um, we'll go to our consent agenda. The board can remove any item from the consent agenda if applicable. If there are none, I will entertain a motion. >> I move approval of all the items listed on the consent agenda. >> Second. Motion was made by Ms. Benford, seconded by Mrs. Waller. Um, all those in favor say I. >> Those opposed say nay. Motion passes. We'll uh let's see. Let's move to item 13B. We will consider a board resolution uh regarding
073Senate Bill number 11 and associate superintendent teaching of teaching and learning. Dr. Barbara Bar will present. >> Thank you, Mr. Brian. Uh good evening. We're here this evening. Uh, the 89th Texas Legislature approved a bill, Senate Bill 11, that requires trustees across the state of Texas to consider a resolution as to whether or not to adopt board policy regarding a designated period of prayer and the reading of the Bible or other religious texts. Um, so a little bit of background on Senate Bill 11 so you can have discussion with it. Um, it does designate a daily period of prayer. It does need to be daily. Um it must be outside of instructional time. Um so it cannot take place during um as a formalized period during instructional time. It could be before school. It could
074be during lunch. It could be after school. Um they don't have a lot of specifications regarding the duration of the period. It just says a period of time. For students who want to participate in this period of time, they would have to have a signed written consent from their parent um that could be revoked at any time throughout the year per parent discretion. Uh but in order to participate in this uh period, they would have to have a signed consent form from their parent. Uh for employees to participate, there would have to be a signed waiver from the employee to participate. Um, and some additional specification from the bill language is that those who are participating uh need to be in an area outside of the physical presence and hearing of those who do not
075have signed consent forms or if it's staff a waiver. Uh it's also important to note that regardless of the language of this bill, it does not prohibit any staff or student from engaging in religious expression that's already protected under law and district policies. So all of those rights and and freedoms are still in place um in addition to this period of time. And so for the the board this evening, um it is the the consideration of whether or not to adopt a resolution that would put in a policy for the Brian Independent School District. What questions can I answer for you? >> Anybody have any questions? >> Well, I guess we're also going to be commenting. Is that >> Yeah, we can certainly make a comment. >> Okay. Well, I' I've struggled with this. Uh
076first, let me say that I'm a regular churchgoer and I taught religious set at St. Joseph's uh Catholic church for about 40 years before they phased out that particular class. So, I'm I'm very much uh somebody who cares about religion, but I also am very sensitive to the fact that that there's a lots of different religions and a lot of different philosophies about religion. And this this uh bothered me uh the way I think it's very complicated, but I think one reason it's so complicated about the waiverss and consents and so on is because they were trying to take into account the limitations that actually probably should be there under the United States Constitution. And this legislature of course recognized that they were not in a position to try to change the US Constitution. Uh
077so uh they were trying to be very protective and uh so as I said I've struggled with this because I think it does uh potentially impose a lot of uh unknowns uh difficulties with parents trying to understand what they're consenting to that uh trying to make sure that it's properly implemented in the schools. uh that's going to be on the administration to a large extent but having said that uh I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt and say that uh to the extent that it appears to say that if you don't have the consent during this period of prayer you can't get together with informally with your own friends and and do what you want to do with regard to reading the Bible or praying or whatever that that's truly not what
078they meant. Then I'm al and also hoping that we will try to do everything in our power that if we're going to have that interpretation that we're going to be have to be very limited on this so-called formal period of prayer so that we don't limit the rights of those who want to informally pray. So, so all of this is making a lot of assumptions on my part that we're going to make this work in a fair way and in a non-limiting way uh with regard to those that don't either don't participate because their parents refuse to cooperate or you know they don't want their kid because of the unknowns they won't sign the the waiver or I don't know what you're going to be told in these uh in these meetings. uh so or
079or the the student uh himself or herself simply says I you know I don't want to do that uh but I do want to do my own thing with my my friends. I don't I don't want to go into one of these formal formal meetings. So that's a long way of saying that I I'm going to somewhat reluctantly support it to say that that it but we but we have a duty as a board and as administration to again do everything in our power not to limit the uh all the opportunities that I hope we do on another resolution. reaffirm that we we are in favor of uh making sure every child and every employee to the extent with that is allowed under the US Constitution that they have every opportunity to pray when they
080want to pray or read the Bible or any other religious uh text if they want to as long as of course it doesn't interfere with the school day. So, um, I hope that you made some sense out of everything I said, but I can tell you that, uh, there's really nothing simple about the way this was presented by the legislature. It's it's pretty complicated and potentially problematic, but but as I said, it's my roundabout way of saying that I think it was well intended. So, uh, I think I can uh I can vote in favor of it. >> I've got a comment. Um, I'm a Christian. Um, teach with my wife, uh, second grade at First Baptist Church, which is a blast. Um and I I was conflicted on this as well because um you
081know in my lifetime um I haven't outside of what's voluntary and what's club driven um and student led I you know I haven't encountered anything like this and so I was intrigued that um you know I believe that prayer and studying scripture is a good thing um and is good for our kids. Um and so I, you know, I've talked to members of the community. I've talked to my family. Um Mr. Rose is here tonight, shared some comments. Um it's a it's a very difficult thing to navigate in terms of, you know, deciding what's best for for our students when it comes to religion. Um, and I think that um, you know, the I agree with Mr. Stasnney that the complexities of how this is written makes it even more challenging to do so because
082it's sort of it's contradictory in how it's written. uh that you know yeah the students um have the right to u gather in prayer and scripture reading but at the same time um can't do it around anyone else which which goes against the way we currently sit is where our students are free to do as they please and and um and pray in school and read Bible in school and and gather with organizations and um I think those are all positive things. And so the complexities of this u make it challenging to you know see far into the future as to what this will actually look like because what it looks like right now is a bunch of u students from various beliefs and religions coming together in the same classroom and reading scripture together.
083And and that's a that's an interesting topic to approach. And I don't know necessarily what that looks like, but what I do know is what we currently look like, which is free to do as you please and practice, you know, prayer and scripture reading uh on your own time and in your own way and gather with clubs and organizations that that align with your beliefs. And I think that's a positive thing and I want to encourage that. my my my children uh participate in those activities and thrive in them and I value them immensely and I value them for all of our kids. But uh this is a this is a challenging thing to consider um in how it's presented by the state. I >> think it's important too to note that I think that
084there's we have to make a decision on whether or not to adopt this policy tonight. Correct. But there's no timeline on when we can reverse that decision or I mean I hate to use the the term change our mind but >> Yes sir. >> Um that's that is the tr that's the case correct that >> this evening is simply that if you want to adopt a you want to adopt policy in the future and then you could look at the policy and what's required in statute. Um it's unclear um but unlikely that the board would be held to whatever decision is made this evening um for any future boards to take a different action. >> Okay. >> Growing up in Brian ISD um at Brian High, you know, I participate in FCA, you know, it's
085a great organization, you know, um but there's a lot of Senate Bill 11. There's there's a lot of wording in it. It is kind of sometimes vague the way I see it and could be, you know, kind of contradicted in different ways. So, it's it's it's a it's a hard decision. I believe kids should be able to pray. Um, but this one's just kind of it's it's it's tough on the wording and and when you can do it and if if if you want to pray before you take your math class test, you know, at at noon or whenever you have it, can you do that? I mean, it's kind of just vague on that if that's appropriate or not. So if if you would get in trouble by you know a teacher that you
086weren't praying during that designated time. So it's kind of vague in that area. >> Also want to ask I mean is it is a no vote a reflection of um us discouraging uh what we're what we're already doing. Right. So, is it just if I think there's there's a little bit of apprehension on my side where if if I say, "Hey, listen, I'm not in support of this," that that means that I'm no longer in support of any type of religious activity in this district. And that is not the case. >> Um, this is just specifically addressing a specific time frame on every day when students or faculty can practice, pray a certain type of religion. Correct. Yes sir. Um this is is purely about designating a daily time on each campus and it might
087be a different time on each campus. Um certainly it'll be different locations that are appropriate to the size of the interest um should it be adopted. Um the policy itself does have the constraints of must have consent, must have supervision. Um if there is because there has to be supervision, the employee would have to have a waiver in place um that they wish to be in that room um for whatever faith they're practicing while they are in that room. >> Another question I didn't really think about. What about if there's athletic practice during that period? You know, athletes that practice, you know, if it's before school or whatever, would that interfere with it? that doesn't really, you know, make there's no comments in this Senate Bill 11. If that happened during that time, you know,
088how do you adjust for that? I mean, do you adjust for your whole athletic schedule for it? >> Great question. >> You know, I struggle with this a little bit um because I see different sides of it. I believe in God and I was a Catholic all my life until I got to be an adult and then I went to Baptist, back to Baptist. And I just know for me, I knew being a Catholic when I was going to pray, how I was going to pray. I knew when that was coming. And when I went to school, I wanted to pray over my breakfast. I wanted to pray over my lunch. I want to pray for the class or whatever. And and with this, it just seems like you're telling me when my child has
089to pray. And I don't like that. I mean, my child is getting ready to have a math test and and they can't just say a little prayer before the before the math test. There's a problem with that. And to me, I think you are supposed to be able to call on u whoever you serve at any time. Shouldn't be a set time on you can only call on the Lord at this time. You can call on him anytime you want. And I struggle with us saying third period 10:00 is when we're going to only time you going to be able to talk to him. that just seems like we're just where now they can pray anytime they want. They can read the Bible anytime they want. I mean, there's there's no parameters on it. And
090now we're putting parameters on what they can and can't do and when and can how they can and can't pray. >> Well, I've already said I'm not crazy about it because of the complexity, but I don't I don't think that if we adopted that that that would prevent the other informal. that all of the religious expression and freedoms that are protected under the constitution and of course state law are still in place. There's some um lack of clarity regarding during the period of prayer if students do not have assigned consent or do not go to that location. Are they able to have a conversation and group conversation about the religious text or what have you during that same period of prayer time if they don't have the consent? Again, you said it earlier, a well-intended
091uh legislation, but with some some lacking in clarity, >> right? But in terms of other than that period, there should not prohibit restrictions whatsoever really other than interfering with the school day, >> right, for interfering. The um the other thing I would say is it it I think you all mentioned this a little bit earlier that um it is uh in our understanding right now as it stands today because there's very little guidance right now. Uh it's all faith prayer location. Um so all faiths would be represented potentially in that location. >> This is getting down into the weeds, I know, but I mean is is is it vague to I mean are they saying it needs to be this size of a room? It needs to be I mean so it's it's just the
092district would need to provide >> a location outside of the site and hearing of those without consent forms. >> Okay. So it could be a classroom, it could be an auditorium, it could be a closet, >> preferably not the closet, but yeah, but anywhere I guess I'm just trying to >> appropriate to the size of the interest. Yes, sir. >> And it doesn't I assume it doesn't have to be just one. It could be five different ones at the Baptist >> if you have appropriate supervision for all of those locations. Yes. But you would need an employee with a waiver in place to be in each of those locations. >> It's so do is it does it have to be per religion? I mean room per religion because >> so that has not come out
093um in terms of legal guidance right now. It's being interpreted by most to say that it is a singular location with all faiths. Um because you would have to if you were to to move to that model where there was a different room for each faith-based group, you would have to have an employee who's supervising on a waiver to be in that space. Um which could be potentially problematic depending on the variety of faith. >> Well, and I did a little I just I >> was just researching and it's you know there's 4,000 apparently different religions and so I didn't know if it's and I'm not again I'm just you know, trying to understand the scale at which this could could go. Um, and so that kind of leads my question on the size, the
094capacity, the the uh staffing um of what this could mean um overall. >> Yes, sir. >> So, I am just like the others have said, I'm a Christian. I was um one of the uh Fellowship of Christian Athlete sponsors when I was a teacher and a coach for 12 years. Um we have never in our district hindered any student from uh openly say before school, at lunch, whenever uh from practicing any or saying any of their prayers. if they have their Bible open or whatever it is that they're studying, uh they know and I think the students always feel very free to be able to do that any time of the day. Um we have I the 11 years I was an assistant principal, I never had a discipline referral from a teacher that said
095this student was off task. So we're reading their Bible and we're you it just students get it. They have felt comfortable in our district and employees also. Um, so just quickly I'd like to read some of the provisions in saying that and how kind of blessed we are as a district to have the freedom and give the freedom in a conservative district to our students to do this. And I think most of their parents realize that their students are not um going to be chastised or not going to be in trouble when they express their views in our district as is the way we are now. So um for instance talking about a student this is the step this is the um the way the bill is written. A student who wishes to participate in
096the period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts must submit a consent form signed by their parent or guardian that includes an acknowledgment that the student has a choice whether to participate in the period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text and a statement that the parent or guardian has no objection to the students participation in or hearing that the prayers or reading offered during that period and an express waiver of the students and parents or guardians right to bring a claim under the state or federal law arising out of the adoption of this policy including a claim under the first amendment. Do you see where I'm going with this? Um, if the parent or guardian has not submitted a consent form or has revoked a previous
097consent form, no prayer or reading of the Bible or other religious text shall take place in that student's physical presence within the hearing of that student or in another manner that would constitute an injury in fact within the meaning of the United States or Texas Constitution. So that seems a tad complicated compared to the way we're doing things now. Okay. Talking about our employees, an employee shall designate an appropriate lo or the district shall designate an appropriate location and time for the period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts in accordance with the law. uh in hold on with me here. The period designated for prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts shall not be substituted for instructional time. No prayer or reading of the Bible or other
098religious text shall occur over a district's uh facilities public address system. An employee who wishes to participate in the period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts must submit the following. An uh a signed consent form that includes acknowledgement that the employee has a choice whether to participate in the period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts. A statement that the employee has no objection to participating in or hearing of the prayers or readings offered during the period and an express waiver of the employees rights to bring a claim under the state or federal law arising out of the adoption of this policy including a claim under the first amendment's established claw United States Constitution or related federal law if the employee has not submitted a con
099a consent form or has revoked a previous consent form, no prayer or reading of the Bible or other religious text shall take place in that employees physical presence within the hearing of that employee or in another manner that would constitute an injury in fact within the meaning of the United States or Texas Constitution. So that's what we would be getting into when we already have >> a good thing going. Well, any further discussion? >> I'll entertain a motion. >> Uh, I move to decline to adopt the board resolution regarding Senate Bill 11. >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Stennis, seconded by Mrs. Benford. All those in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed say nay. Motion passes. Let me make one more comment. I I said I I just want to make sure people
100understand my vote. I I said I could support it, but I certainly I think I made it clear I wasn't crazy about it. And and Ruthie, I think explained it pretty well is we would be adding a layer of complexity that I don't think we need. We are still going to consider 13A. Is that correct? >> Yes, that's correct. >> All right. Thank you. So, um, moving to 13A. Um, got to get my papers right here. Uh, consider a board resolution reaffirming voluntary religious expression and the reading of religious texts. Dr. Barbara Ebar. >> Thank you, sir. Um, this polic or this resolution rather reflects the conversation that was just had that there are so many wonderful partnerships in Brian ISD and opportunities for both staff, students, and the community to practice voluntary religious expression.
101And so this resolution speaks to that good work and to that reaffirming of of both students and staff rights. Um, so again, we've kind of been through a little bit of this already. U, but there are certainly federal and state laws that um also are reflected on our board policy that protect religious expression. For example, much like you've mentioned before, students may pray individually or in groups. That is their religious freedom and their right to do so. They can pray at breakfast, lunch, before their assessment, whatever the case may be. They can pray with their friends so long as we mentioned earlier it does not interrupt instruction or the school day. Um they may read a religious text that actually happens throughout our schools uh both by staff and students. They may do that individually.
102Um they can participate in the fellowship of Christian athletes and other student sponsored clubs uh and prayer that's led by students. Uh they can express their religious beliefs before, during, and even after school. Uh but it must be voluntary, non-disruptive. Uh like we mentioned before, it cannot be over the public address system or the PA system of a school because then others could not opt out of hearing it, right? Um so all of that's already in place. Uh we think about um various times of day that students pray and I I think this board's spoken to it that it is specific to the individual, specific to the person, and specific to the need of the day. And it's can certainly happen at any time. Uh we have fields of faith. We have see you at
103the pole. We have a tremendous partnership like we saw earlier with faith spa faith-based leadership uh working in partnership with our schools to support our students and our staff. Um it is not a singular moment but rather an ongoing culture of support, acceptance um and just taking care of what you believe is true for you. Uh so the resolution does just do that. It reaffirms things that are already in policy, law, and in practice and that are thriving in Brian ISD. Uh and so it is here for your consideration and discussion. >> Dr. Bar, is it is it okay if I read this after? >> Absolutely, sir. >> So Brian Independent School District resolution of the board of trustees regarding voluntary religious expression and religious text. Whereas the board of trustees at the Brian Independent
104School District is committed to supporting students and staff while upholding all applicable federal and state laws, including constitutional profs related to freedom of religion, speech, and expression. And whereas the board values and respects the diverse religious belief and perspective represented within the district and affirms the importance of protecting individual rights in a manner that fosters mutual respect and inclusion. And whereas in full compliance with current state and federal law, the board affirms students right to voluntary pray, read religious texts, expression religious viewpoints, and organized religious groups before, during, and after the school day on the same basis as other noncurricular groups. And whereas the district currently allows and supports the rights of students and staff to engage in personal and individual religious religious expression at appropriate times throughout the day when they feel the need
105for such expression rather than limiting it to designated times or locations. It is therefore resolved that the board of trustees of the Brian Independent School District reaffirms its commitment to supporting and val and valuing students and staff while upholding all constitutional and statutory protections related to religious expression in public schools. And be it further resolved, the board will continue to ensure students and staff may exercise voluntary religious expression, including prayer in a lawful, non-disruptive, and flexible manner throughout the school school day consistent with the existing law and district policy with the intent to provide opportunities which are personally meaningful. >> Thank you, sir. I I was asking make sure that we did consider this in addition to the other one. And uh as Dr. Barrow knows, I was I made a few suggestions that were
106exclusively intended to strengthen it somewhat in the way it was worded and she graciously uh accepted those. So >> they were well done. I I'm just uh making sure again everybody knows that I think this is a great way to reaffirm what we have already been doing, what we've been enforcing and making sure is happening. And so uh I'm I'm proud to have a little bit of role in that, but uh I uh I'm certainly in favor of it. >> Dr. Rebar, could you uh just reiterate and and let our community hear if they're listening in, is this something we had to do or is this above and beyond the call of duty, if you will, uh since we're not doing Senate Bill 11. Yes. >> You explained to everyone how compelled the board was
107to say something uh in this manner. >> Certainly. Yes, ma'am. This developed um out of conversation with um the board and the committees um and just working towards just over the history of of the time of this board. It has been such an important aspect of of the way we do work in Brian ISD and that we support all students, all faiths, our faith-based leaders, all of the things that we do. And it seemed disingenuous to not make this moment um to consider that work and make a public statement of of support for the established freedoms and rights that are protected under the constitution and the state and federal law. Um so this this resolution was in draft form and again Mr. Stazzy, thank you. You did make it stronger. It was quite good. uh
108and knowing that it it reflects the values of what has been here historically and hopefully will continue forward, but it is uh not one that I have seen elsewhere from other districts. So again, this is of the board of trustees and by the board of trustees. And so we thank you comments, questions. We can uh entertain a motion to adopt this resolution. >> I move approval of the board resolution regarding religious expression and the reading of religious text as presented. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Mr. Stazzy, seconded by Mr. Stennis. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say nay. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Uh C. Consider a board resolution nominating Ginger Carine for superintendent of the year. We don't have a uh presenter. I would like to uh
109read this resolution. um you can have comment um following the resolution and then we'll entertain it. Brian Independent School District resolution of the board of trustees nominating Ginger Carbine for superintendent of the year. The Bryant Independent School Bo District School Board on this date, February 23rd, 2026, resolved to nominate Ginger Carbine for the Texas Association of School Board Superintendent of the Year Award. This nomination is made in recognition of her exemplary and visionary leadership, distinguished by meaningful family and community engagement, and measurable improvements in student growth and performance. Her leadership reflects a collaborative team centered approach to serving and supporting both staff and students. I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was presented to the board of trustees of the Brian Independent School District at a called meeting on February 23rd, 2026 with a quorum
110of board members then present. >> Discussion comments. >> I'll make another comment. I I like to make that. >> Heck yeah. She's >> wonderful. >> Yeah. >> I I'm I I I actually felt like months ago that I should not even go down that road possibly or that we should not go down that road without at least running it by uh Miss Carabine. and and her response was uh pretty much what I expected was I'm not one of those people that's looking for that kind of thing for myself, but if it will help Brian, if it will um make us give us some more credibility, then then sure, I'm all for it. And and you could somebody might say, "Oh, well, that's that's just uh false modesty or whatever." And but if you know Miss
111Carbine like I do, and I know most of us do by now, uh it's I think it was very sincere. She she's not really all that excited about getting some kind of glory, but she's wants to do everything she can to make shine the light on Brian and and I'm very happy to support it. >> Uh move approval of the board resolution nominating Ginger Carbine for superintendent of the year as presented. >> Second. That's okay. >> Just write all our names down. >> Yeah. Uh motion made by Mr. Stennis, seconded by Mr. Pavas, Mrs. Waller, and Mrs. Ben. Take a pick. Wait, don't leave me out. And Mr. Stazz. >> Um, all those in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed say nay. Motion passes. Nay. It's going to be good. J go to the
112conference. >> Well, I just want to thank you. I'm grateful and I'm very humbled. But please know this is not about me. This is about the table of uh professionals sitting out here with us, our 3,000 employees that join us every day in the good work uh that's unfolding here and of course our 16,000 students. So, thank you. This is a district effort with a very supportive board. uh lots of families partnering and an amazing community constantly engaging with us. So, uh a group unified effort. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. >> Okay. 13D, consider approval of a purchase of over $50,000 for the contract for -ate category 2 internal connections. Uh Mr. Rob Hayes, director of technical support, will discuss tonight. >> Yeah. Good evening. Um, yeah, I'm here to
113talk to you all this evening about the -ate program. And I wanted to give a very, very quick overview of what the -ate program is. So, the -ate program, it's administered by the FCC. You may notice that there's a little bill called the or a little thing on your cell phone bill called a a USAC charge. And that is the money that goes towards the -ate program. And it pays for all kinds of things. And primarily they fall into two categories. Category one, which is things that bring service into our buildings. This is stuff like um our internet or the fiber contract that the board approved a few years ago. It's bringing the stuff inside of our schools. And then category two, that's the contract we'll be talking about today. It's what provides that network
114connectivity and the backbone for all that inside of our schools. The things like our Wi-Fi or you might hear us talk about like our backbone. That's like our like switches. It's not like a light switch. It's a really boring piece of equipment that sits in the rack that everything connects to. So, um, that's what we're going to talk about today. So, okay. So, um, we're we're recommending um, we went we went to bid for two there were two pieces to our bid. One was for licensing and maintenance of our existing equipment. So, um, we have a lot of, uh, we have a lot of equipment in the district. We would like all of it to stay under contract so we can get those important security updates. And that's what the Cisco Enterprise Agreement part of
115this takes care of. Um, it locks in our price for 5 years um, on our licensing, which is really good. And it provides um, all of the warranty and support for all of our all of our stuff, all of our backbone. Um, we're also starting, this is also going to give us the equipment for phase one of the first of our five-year plan for replacing our network equipment. And that's going to be for five elementaryaries, um, one of our intermediate schools and CEKC. So, um, pretty excited about that. The total price um is, uh, a pretty big scary number. It's that $973,119.77. However, um we are given discounts based off of our um national school lunch program numbers and we receive an 85% discount for category 2 services. So if approved, which I've been here
116for a little while, we've never not been approved. Knock on plexiglass. Um so our portion of of it would be $145,967.97 if funded through category 2. Um, let's see. Okay. And this is just talking about our five-year plan. Um, runs on a fiveyear cycle. So, we kind of like to plan for six because sometimes, um, the feds need a little bit of time if they're reworking the program. Um, this is our fiveyear our five-year renewal or our five-year plan. We're on year one. And then it's balanced in a way to um you know some of our high schools are quite large like Brian High and um so we kind of have it broken out as far as like the amount of equipment. You might wonder why are there more schools being replaced some years you
117know versus uh less schools on another year. So and that's why it just has to do with the amount of equipment in those schools. So >> do y'all have any questions? >> Only question I have is >> Yes, sir. What bucket does this come out of? Is this M or is this bond or >> um these would be local funds that pay for theund $145,000 like our piece of it. >> Um but we do get those -ate federal funds um when we're if and when we're approved that do take care of that 85% of that cost. >> Okay. Yes, sir. >> What are the maybe I missed it, but the terms of the contract? How many years Yes, sir. So, the the Cisco Enterprise Agreement is a five-year agreement um that will uh what it
118does is it covers uh all of our licensing. All of our switches have to be licensed to be supported through Cisco. Um that's that it's so that someone's on the other side of the line whenever we make that call and we have a school that's down and they're able to um you know get us our support or ship us new equipment. So it also is what gives us access to get their um security updates and things like that. So >> yes sir, >> thank you. I may get be getting confused with this with something else because so this will be a five-year uh agreement. >> Um yes sir. So, the contract for the enterprise agreement, it it is kind of confusing. Like, I did a ton of reading on the enterprise agreement before we even
119entertain going to bid for one. But, um, that is a five-year contract. And then the the hardware that we're buying is separate and apart from that, although it does fall under that enterprise agreement umbrella. And that's going to be part of the nice thing of this is like next year, whenever I come for year two, I won't I'll just be bringing the hardware, right? We'll already have that umbrella. um in place for the licensing. So there any qu any other questions? I'd be happy to answer them. >> Anybody have any questions? >> Um I'm assuming we need this. Yeah, >> that's kind of where I was going like we need do we need this? >> We we have to know more to ask the right question. Yeah, I mean I'd be happy to um like
120I said, it's to to break it down really simple. This is just like I said, it's the what we're primarily buying are like our w our new wireless access points for um the schools that I that are outlined in the notes there. And um and then all of the support and stuff and all the backend equipment that makes that stuff uh give us Wi-Fi. >> So, better Wi-Fi, better signal. Is that what this is? >> Uh newer Wi-Fi. some of our uh equipment is quite old and it's actually starting to fall off of where it will no longer be supported by the manufacturer. So yeah, that's that's part of the planning. We do tend to try to run all of our equipment um as long as possible. Try to be I take our being a
121good steward of our money extremely seriously. Um I think it's one of the most important parts of my job and so believe me that I fight for like every dime and we are not needlessly spending. I promise. So, we we need it >> and and we got the money for it. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Hayes, I'm gonna overify. Would would it be safe to say that this is a uh you've planned for this? It's a replacement cycle based on the condition, the age of the equipment. So, this is not a surprise. You've had the money set aside as part of your budget planning process and it's a replacement and it'll take us through five years for the schools described. >> Uh absolutely. Yes. Yes, Miss Carbine. That is absolutely correct. And we have a huge
122coupon. >> That's right. We have a pretty nice coupon. Yes. >> 85% discount. >> Yes, ma'am. Yeah, we're still spending it though. >> Uh, here's my only thing. And I I guess I'm supportive and sorry if I've cut you off, but no. I I you know, this this it just kind of reminds me sometimes whenever my kids tell me that they need a new iPhone. Oh, yeah. You know, and it's like, >> well, what's wrong with the one you got? >> Exactly. >> And so that's just when I look at technology stuff, that's where I'm like, >> no, it it's a good point. It's a good point. So, I mean, we typically, >> like I said, >> our our goal is to not just run out and get the newest, best shiny uh thing cuz
123I'm going to be perfectly honest, they're shiny things that sit in closets and up on ceilings where no one can see them. And it's a lot of work to swap them all out. So, um, believe me, um, the things like whenever we're buying new equipment, the idea is not just to get better functionality, but it's also to not have that equipment start to fail, which is to Miss Carabine's point that it's part of a replacement cycle plan so that we don't get into a situation where all of a sudden, uh, I'll just pick on Fannon Elementary for some reason like Fannon's internet's down. Why? Oh, they had an 8-year-old switch in their backbone and its power supply went out because it just did. Mechanical failure. So, that's kind of the idea. Um because when our
124network goes down, um it's a pretty big deal on campus. So, you know, their phones don't work and things like that. So, it is in my opinion a pretty critical infrastructure service. And how long did the current system that we have right now, how long was that there? And >> yeah, that's a that's a great question. So, u much of the equipment that we are replacing is like seven years old on this FA first phase, right? So, the idea is is that as we're going through our five-year plan to have this true replacement cycle that right, the equipment is getting older, right, as those years are approaching. So that's kind of how we plant it out. Um, so the idea is that, you know, we're not replacing equipment that's only like two years old or
125three years old. We're replacing equipment that is six years old or seven years old >> by the time it comes up for replacement. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. >> That's it. >> I'm I'm a part-time rancher. I have a 2004 Dodge Dakota. Do you recommend I replace it? >> Never mind. Never mind. I can answer that. I don't know. >> Yeah. >> Uh I guess in spite of my badgering, um I move approval of the contract with Rock It Consulting LLC in the amount of $973,119.77 uh for -ate category 2 internal connections and enterprise licensing as presented. I don't know if it's possible to I can add a an addition to the make sure we get the discount in there or not. But >> that's not included in my motion. It's just me
126saying that I guess out loud. But >> I was going to add we've never we've never purchased without the rate funding. >> Okay. All right. Yeah. I will >> it is a requirement that we do go ahead and ask for the full amount, but in Yes. And I've been here a long time. >> Yeah. I've been I've been here for 12 years, I think, and we've never not been funded. in my school district before that. We were never not funded. So, >> well, maybe your question though is are we stuck if we don't get it? >> Yeah. >> Do do we get to have to pay the whole bill? >> We'll get >> once you know and it's all approved and official. Maybe update uh us via a node or back in. >> Oh, we
127would be more than happy to. We're always very thrilled. >> A huge celebration for us to know that we got the 85%. >> Oh, yeah. I usually run I run down the hall usually as soon as I get the funding commitment letter and everyone in the building knows. So >> well include Julia in my motion that she's >> you did not plexiglass so I feel safe. >> That's right. >> I second. >> Motion made by Mr. Stennis, seconded by Miss Benedford. Um any further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say nay. Motion passes. >> Thank you. >> I feel bad when you say seven years. My phone is older than seven years. >> 13E. Consider approval of contract for phase three of elementary campuses priority renovation product projects. Deputy
128Superintendent Dr. Brian Merrill and Director of Construction Services, Mr. Bobby Griffin will present. >> Yeah, if I may, Mr. Stazzy, I might be interested in your truck after this. So, if we could hook up, that would be great. Uh, we'll see. I got got something. We We definitely could use a good truck. So, I appreciate it. Um, if we could move to E, we're going to do the phase three of the elementary campuses. We're um excited to bring in a recommendation today. And we appreciate again Melissa uh Martin, uh, Bobby Griffin, really everyone who made, uh, this possible. But, uh, we had a budget of $4 million. And so, uh, we had, um, six different companies that submitted bids and, um, based on the criteria, we're going with Auiland Construction, um, at a savings of
129$964,200. So, they came in below our budget amount. And so, just to remind everybody, we've got Crockett, Fan, and Henderson bathroom renovations on there. Uh, Mitchell in Houston, some sanitary line replacements, and um, just some work there. and then Neil sign replacements and Bobb's here to answer any of the additional questions if you have any. >> Have they done anything? What other work have they done? >> Have they done anything? >> That's a great question. >> Aguil does a considerable amount of work in this area. They do a lot of work for&m. They do a lot of commercial construction. Uh they actually it weren't just the low price, they were also our highest value. So they came in with the the highest score across the board. >> Yeah, I think those are should be attached
130>> and I do have personal history working with Aland and other places. >> We're very excited about um really the interest and then the submissions as well. We felt like we had really great representation. Again, Melissa does a phenomenal job in making sure that all of these um projects are out in front of hundreds uh of vendors, which I greatly appreciate. Well, I guess ready for a motion. >> Yeah. >> I move approval of phase three elementary campus priority renovation projects aged construction in the amount of 3 million 35,800 as presented. >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Dazznney seconded by Mrs. Waller. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say nay. >> Motion passes. All right. And now we'll go to consider approval of contract for phase three of No,
131that's not it. Where's uh Here it is. consider approval of a purchase of over $50,000 for the replacement of the water pipe at Crockett Elementary. >> I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, we we mentioned this earlier in the bond oversight. We did take it to them. Um again, they are not a decision-making body. Um and we're here tonight to obviously um do that with you. Um in the process of reviewing and looking at hail damage around the district, um we found uh Mr. ours actually found and then we contacted multiple vendors as well and our insurance company. But what we found is that the chilled water pipe was laying down on the TPO roof to be completely honest with you. Normally it suspended. They've got some supports that would keep it off of the roof,
132but what happened is it it moved and it fell uh for lack of a of an educator. I'll let Bobby explain completely, but the pipe didn't burst, which is completely crazy. experience. >> Yeah, >> we we were very lucky. Um, it was 115 ft of chill water and hot water piping that actually just came off its carriers and just it appears it just slowly fell over and has been resting on the roof. We did have an impingement of a gas line which we took care of immediately, but we've been trying to work through the process of how we were going to repair this. Uh ultimately we've got the opportunity with E3. We did get multiple vendors to go through and price to make sure we're getting competitive bidding. Uh this is piping that under normal
133circumstances wouldn't have to be replaced, but it is now stretched, skewed, and moved because again, you're taking pipe that's full of water and has been welded in place and it actually just fell over and is now resting on the roof. So ultimately we that's has to be picked up and the concern is but we have cracked lines we have other issues later. So we decided the best uh avenue would be to go ahead and replace it and put new new insulation, new jackets, new new covers, new everything. Uh new stansions and make sure that we're carried on down for the future. >> When did this happen? >> It's a great question. I mean, >> we we really I mean >> I Well, I guess my question is I I could have I vaguely remember something
134similar to this. I didn't know if it was this was the same deal or >> So, we've talked about it now for a few months. Okay. We've pushed back on not pushed back, we've asked E3 to just get we just kept saying, "Can you get another bid? Can you get another bid? Can you get We just kept pushing to make sure and um we finally, you know, ran out of people that would be able to do the work." Well, we also have the opportunity to do this over spring break >> and so it's that we're not waiting till summer. I'm not concerned with breaching of that roof. Uh obviously a mechanical system that's vibrating, there's much concern that we're going to damage that existing TPL roof. Uh getting this all done during the spring break
135time period uh makes us whole, makes us get us gets us back in in service. And in allowing us to do this, it did save considerable money because some of the first numbers that were coming across were quite a bit higher. >> Yes. >> Y'all aren't going to put it next to Rob's Wi-Fi connector things. >> We are. >> Yeah. And you can see Bobb's been learning from me all of the stressed and what was the word you used? I I don't that was just >> I don't want this one to roll off at stansions or whatever it's called. >> Right. Stansions and the expression and the movement and >> Insulation. Mr. Griffin get that -ate uh discount. It'll be fantastic for the pipe. >> That coupon. >> I bet you don't even check your
136mailbox. >> No. Where's Rob? He already left. >> We'll get Rob to check it. Okay, >> Dr. M. I remember talking to you about this how it has not something has not happened. It's crazy. >> Which is is is amazing. Yeah. >> Um, so I think this definitely needed. So I move to approval of the replacement of the rooftop mechanical pipe at Crockett Elementary to E3 integral solutions in the amount of 1.2, excuse me, 1,800, >> excuse me, 1 million282,500 as presented. Sorry, I messed that all up. >> Mine after you saw how much it was. >> Yeah. I was like, "Oh my gosh, it's a big number." >> Yeah. Yes. >> Second. Okay. >> Give that one. >> Uh motion made by Mr. Pavas, seconded by Miss Waller. U all those in favor say
137I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. Motion passes. >> Again, you can tell by um Mr. Griffin as he walks off just the expertise that we've got. You could tell my explanation, his explanation were they were almost identical. Uh his just a little more complex and technical uh slightly. I appreciate him, you know, learning from me so much. Uh I just can't thank him enough for what he does. Um now we'll consider approval of a purchase of over $50,000 for special education buses. Um executive director of maintenance and operations, Mr. Pat Corbett. Yeah, I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna do my best. Pat Corbett, he's over there. Brian Merrell, >> why I'm standing here. Yeah, Brian Merrill. Uh, we're we've been in here, I think, three times buying buses. Um, and you know, that's
138a good problem to have because we've got ridership that is just increasing. We also also a good problem to have. We mentioned earlier that we had a surplus from 2020. So, we're thankful that we've got money and we've got the resources to be able to put towards these projects. And so, um, you've got a a you've got the bids in there. We did go uh obviously by board um and so when you look at it there are those three quotes there we are recommending that we go with Longhorn busing um and the reason that we're doing that it's a qualitybased selection to be honest uh we've included in there all of the reasons for that um and obviously it's not the lowest it's close to the lowest but when you look at our fleet and
139making sure that we have standardization and then the quality of the buses um Mr. Bryant uh Washington he really that's what he believes and through his expertise Pats everyone they believe it's a better bus and so even though it costs a little bit more uh in the long run it's going to save us money it lasts longer um and again it is a quality based selection instead of just the lowest uh price to be completely honest so Pat did I do a decent enough okay thank you um so any questions about that >> I assume these all come with some sort of warranty and >> guarantees over certain life of the vehicle. >> I don't know how many miles get guaranteed on a bus, but >> do you Pat any idea? Melissa's got it over
140there. >> Do you know what we currently have? >> What we currently have? >> Yeah. >> Uh I mean I'm just curious from a >> like what our fleet looks like. Well, just do we I guess we're buying this from Longhorn Bus Sales. Is that just the >> It's on a byboard. So when you look AC when you look at it, it's a vendor list ahead of time that they submit their >> Okay. >> Yeah. So it's an approved vendor. >> Is it a true statement? Some of our older fleet might be different models, different brands. >> Yes, ma'am. That's I didn't know if that's what he was asking. We have buses uh we have all over the place in some cases. So we're we're trying to get the standardization. Um, and I appreciate the
141question. Um, when you can do that, you stack all the same parts, stock all the same parts, all the same equipment, you're not training drivers on three different buses. So, at this point, we do have that. Um, but as we come in, hopefully, we'll continue to be able to purchase that standardization. That's only going to increase, you know, if something needs to get repaired, we're decreasing the time. We're doing everything we can to keep that fleet moving. And when you look at all of the different things going on and uh the variables of that plus just staff, it it really does significantly help purchasing of of additional equipment, those types of things. >> Five years on the engine, seven years transmission, >> five on the five years on the engine, seven years on the transmission.
142>> I move approval of purchase of 254 passenger buses from Longhorn Bus Sales in the amount of $37,934 as presented. Second >> motion made by Mr. Stazzy, seconded by Miss Benford. All those in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed say nay. Motion passes. Thank you. Um the board will now convene in close session to discuss the following items as allowed by the Texas Government Code Chapter 551.074 and 551.0821. 0821. No voting will take place in the closed meeting. Any action the board wishes to take as a result of discussion in a closed session will occur after the board reconvenes in the open meeting. The time is now 9:02 p.m. The board reconvened in open session at 10:37 p.m. No action was taken in close session. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at
14310:37 Yeah. Yeah.