001Now call this Brian Infin school district meeting to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present that this meeting has been duly called and the notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with Texas Government Code Chapter 551. Time is now 6:00. I wish to extend a warm welcome to everyone present. I ask that you please turn off the sound on all electronic devices and stand for the pledges which will be using a pre-recorded pledge by the students from Stephen F. Austin Middle School. I aliance 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. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to the Texas. One state under God. One indivisible. Good
002job. All right, we're going to move right on into some spotlights. U again, we're going to have an employee of the month. And I don't think I've specifically assigned this to anybody, but Uh, you want to do it? You do. You want to do it? Sure. All right. We're going to have Miss Benford do that. And we have Tim Pavas from Truest Bank. We want to thank them again for providing some gift cards for the uh folks that are the winners and of that. And the u this is from the auxiliary department and the employee is in the Davo. And we have Claudell Lipkin, assistant director of transportation, I believe, is here. Is that correct? Okay, come on up. The microphone here. Yeah, this one's working. Yes. I would like to uh represent uh Miss
003Alda Davala. She is one of my uh subd drivers. She's been with the district six years and she uh comes in every morning and fills in any route that needs to be covered with a smile. She goes from one end of the county to the other picking up our students, transporting them safely as possible. And I do and she helps out inside our building as well. And she's just a good employee. And I just wanted to recognize her. Thank you. [Applause] And Mr. Stazzy, while they're taking the photo, I just happen to notice we have someone new and very important joining our team who happens to be here tonight, Mr. Robert. Yes. I'll just take a moment to introduce Mr. Bryant Washington, our new director of transportation. Mr. Washington, I'm actually gonna invite you to
004join your staff over here. Mr. Washington, why don't you jump in the picture? Welcome. Welcome. We've been asking about you a lot, Mr. Washington. So, we're so happy to have you. All right. Very good. Our next spotlight will be uh presented by Derek Rush. Come on up, Mr. Rush. Good evening. Uh I would like to take a moment to spotlight the city uh Brian uh Legend Event Center and also Destination Brian. uh they bring a tremendous amount of uh events and exposure to the city and also the Brian ISD. The Brian ISD athletic department frequently partner uh with these organizations to help facilitate many of our events. Uh most recently we had the privilege to help host the 2025 TABC girls showcase organized by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches. This event took place last
005week at several locations in the city. uh Legends Event Center, Ruer High School, Doppler Middle School, and Sadbury Intermediate. We're proud to uh recognize and spotlight the individuals uh who helped make this event possible. So, join us by acknowledging first of all John Ferg, uh Megan Key, Morgan Key, excuse me, and and Jay Rio from Destination Brian. So, let's give him a round of applause. Mr. Mr. rush. How many teams did we have? We approximately had 253 52 52 252 teams. Yeah. In in the Bronx. Yeah. Wonderful. That was great. Do we know how many college coaches were here to scout and recruit? Yeah. Over 150. That's what I heard. Over 150 collegees. Thank y'all very much. And I also want to recognize two other gentlemen from Legacy Leg uh Legacy Event Center, which is
006Kyle Walton and and Jamie Cox. Give them a round of applause. These individuals do an outstanding job of bringing high quality events to Brian which in turn elevate the visibility of the city and school district. We are deeply grateful for your partnership and your commitment to again thank you. Y um Mr. B do you have a something that we're going to kind of add on here? This is not anything we're going to act on, but it's a recognition. So, please come on up. Have this Mark and Bobby come up. Yes. That it's Kevin's gonna Yes, we have special guests. Mayor and would you kindly Mayor and council councilwoman, please. We just want to uh thank you and and uh say how grateful we are for the uh relationship and the partnership that continues to grow
007with Brian ISD and the city of Brian. And uh we recently uh got a little bump from y'all. We just want to acknowledge that uh taking on the uh crossing guards for another year for us. We're fixing to talk about our budget here in a little bit and it's not a pretty sight. So, we're appreciative of anything that uh that y'all can help with and and uh thank you very much. M Mr. Pavlo doesn't have a a card for them. Sorry about that. And I would just like to say thank you all very much. I think our partnership our partnership is extremely important and I think we're doing very very well. And as we've all discussed, we cannot have a wonderful school district without a great city. And y'all can't have a great city without
008a wonderful school district. So, we are on the same side and contrary to popular belief, we're not always on river boat cruises. You know, we we do work really hard. So, I can just have one. Yes, sir. You know, I just want to say real quick because I don't think people understand the impact that you guys have as a school district on what we do for economic development and you guys get nothing in exchange for that. So, I don't think people realize when we're doing these abatements, when you're helping doing a lot of what I would call the heavy lifting, when you're agreeing to do and help and and all this, when we're doing an abatement, we're trying to get somebody to come here, advocating for a company to come here to bring better jobs,
009bring everything else, you're doing something, you're giving out of your income that could potentially come in for you guys and this project, and you get nothing back in return. The cities will get sales tax, we get property tax, we get all this stuff like that. When you're giving that up, you're getting nothing. So, I want people that are listening on the outside to understand that this is why we support you guys. This is why we do the things that we do. This is why we expect the city and the community to do as much as they can to support you guys as well. Thank you, Bobby. Appreciate it. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Um, next item, uh, presentation by our director of career and technical education, Laura King. Come on out. Good evening. Thank you for
010having us here. I want to take this opportunity to pass the mic actually to our CTE program specialist, Mr. Parker Nutson. Um, one of his campuses that he supports is Brian High School. And when Mr. Lady brought this opportunity to him about a year ago, um, Mr. Nutson, he was crucial in helping organize and coordinate a lot of things. So, I'd like him to talk about the project a little bit before introducing Mr. Lady. Yes. Thank you'all for having us tonight. Um, so I got a text I think I text first about we need to talk for Mr. Lady. And I'm thinking after his first year of teaching, you know, rookie teacher of the year for Brian High School. um doing amazing things for kids, getting certifications his first year, coming straight out of industry
011back here to um you know, take a probably pretty big pay cut to come and and teach our kids and um and get them certified in welding. And so I was getting a little scared, maybe he's having some second thoughts about sticking around. And so talked to him and he said, "Well, I think we've got a pretty big opportunity." and he told me about um him and his wife actually were calling around and and checking in and getting donations for the program and they spoke with Northern Tool and they said we we actually have an opportunity that we'd like to present y'all and um hopefully get some items and some equipment for the school district but it would be a buildoff and so we had to kind of keep it under wraps for a little
012bit about the Monster Jam buildoff and um we got together met with everybody and uh started getting things rolling and it was pretty ambitious at the beginning but Mr. lady just kept saying, you know, we're going to do it. We're going to get it done. We're going to get it knocked out. We had some hurdles. Um a lot of hurdles early on just with timing and things. Um because m the uh Northern Tool Darcy who were working with uh for outreach wasn't in Texas. And so kind of just communicating through uh Zoom and things like that. And so um they got started, got the team together. And um Mr. lady who we'd want to recognize tonight. We got we had an opportunity to recognize the students already, but the hours, the weekends, um the early
013mornings, the traveling the truck, um taking it with the trailer and things like that, the um industry partners that he's brought in to Brian ICD and to CTE specifically. Um just an amazing opportunity and there's so much um we are thankful for for Mr. and the time that he's put in and the opportunity once in a lifetime opportunity that he's given these students and and um our school at Brian High. And so we wanted to recognize you tonight and say we appreciate you and thank you. Thank you. We do have a short video here um that we're going to watch that was made through Northern Tool and Monster Jam and kind of uh slowly [Applause] someone would love me. [Music] Wow. Nice. So, so this thing's going to tour the the country, right? And that's
014what I heard. Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, sir. It'll be on tour for with Monster Jam for the next three years to run the country. Wow. Wow. Well, that's that's a long time, but when it's all done, um uh I'm part owner of a ranch. I I want to know what what it would, you know, what it'll cost me to buy this thing. It'll be up for auction. I'm going to try to reach back out to him in in a few years after it's done moving around and see what we can do to get it here or start building another one for us to have for showcase and, you know, homecoming games and gear more towards Brian. Yeah, that would be really neat. Right. Thank you very very much. That's that's a fantastic opportunity. They'll they'll
015never forget that opportunity to do that kind of stuff. So, it was amazing experience. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for all your hard work. Thank you. Do you want to get a picture, Callie? That's really cool. I think we could make it part of our white fleet. Work it out there at Ruby Hallebertton Auxiliary Complex. If if you can get Mr. Stazzy in it, I'm all behind it. If I borrow it from time to time, I would have taken it to San Antonio. Exactly. All of us. Next on the agenda, we have board member reports. Well, actually, we're going to start with a superintendent report. Uh, so M. Carmich. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Sasnney. Um, I can't believe it, but we're in the middle of June, but as we reflect on May, it was a
016whirlwind of finishing strong. We had uh so many campuses have their awards presentations, their field days, uh all the fun things that you get to do as you wrap up a school year. So again, I I can't uh thank our staff and our students enough for a strong finish. Uh speaking of strong finish, uh we we also celebrated four different graduations as you know. Thank you for your attendance. Uh we graduated over a thousand students and we started a new tradition this year that we hope everyone appreciated. All the top 10% graduates, we announced where they went to school for elementary, intermediate, middle school, and high school. And the moral of that story is most of those kids were with us K through 12. And the other good part of that is they received an
017exceptional education because we're sending off the top graduates in particular to Texas A&M, to University of Texas, to Baylor, to Yale, uh you name it, everything in between. And also this year we really had a concerted effort effort to celebrate our kids not just going into college but we had kids signing to go into workforce for CTE and we had kids sign for fine arts going into music programs and then we also uh uh celebrated all of our kids going into the military. So um the end of the day children first always equipping them for futures beyond their imagination. Uh this bears repeating. I know we just talked about Mr. lady and we're so proud and thankful for the opportunity that he afforded our kids. But our kids were shining stars that night. I had
018the good fortune of watching this debut happen in Austin. And I'm telling you, these 14 kids not only walked away with knowledge and skills from the build, but the soft skills. You cannot put a price tag on the opportunity that they had for the interviews, the interaction, the uh the partnership with Northern Tool and now Monster Jam. uh some of the monster jam truck drivers who I I see as celebrities now uh knew some of our kids by name and it's because they spent time with them, coached them, mentored them and have encouraged them to to dream big and maybe join that profession. So again, I just want to make sure everyone's clear, Brian ISD, Brian High School in particular, is the only school in the entire country selected for this opportunity. And yes, our
019kids uh and their product will that that that mini GM truck that you're looking at will be on tour for three years all over the country. So the Brian High School Viking name and logo with our district will be forever uh promoted for the next three years. And I I just can't thank Mr. Lady enough and u and all of his kids for the the good work and the good experience. And moving on, uh this is another amazing accomplishment. For the fifth consecutive year in a row, the NAM Foundation has recognized our fine arts department as a 2025 best communities for music education in our district. So again, this does not happen by chance. Our kids are amazing. We've seen them perform, but none of that would be possible without our administrators, our teachers, our
020directors, and everyone else pouring in to make these opportunities possible. So many celebrations. And then finally, we are uh in full swing with our marketing and our communications plan to help everyone understand the good things happening in our school district. So uh new and different for this summer on our billboards and on our fence at Merryill Green Stadium. The message is this could be you. If you join our school district, you too could be uh going off to the University of Texas. As we see Natalyia representing Ruer High School, we have Edgore rep representing Brian High School going off to Yale and then Madison from Brian Collegiate High School heading over to suit up in Maroon. Uh just an example of just only three of our kids uh with endless possibil possibilities ahead. Uh another
021billboard, the point of this one is to shine a light on Christian at Brian High School representing fine arts. We had a signing day for him to go to North Texas which was a very prestigious program for the fine arts program. Of course, we all know Jockeyy's in the middle. He could have been up there for uh football, basketball, track, you name it. Uh we picked his University of Houston just to send a message that this could be you, too. And then finally, this is Brody representing Brian High School, uh representing CTE. We had a workforce signing day for him as uh one of our local construction companies hired him as soon as he graduated so that he can enter the workforce. So, we're just extremely proud of our students and again our staff for
022making this happen. And the message is this too could be you. So we invite all parents if they live in our district to please consider enrolling your kids now. So thank you sir. Thank you. Well I do want to also recognize uh the board and you for attending SLI the the the summer leadership institute in in San Antonio because that's a time taking time out from all the family stuff and business stuff that everybody's dealing with with the board. Uh and this is not fun in games. We went and uh went to a lot of sessions and we've learned a lot of stuff and we're going to meet again in the near take an opportunity at some point to go over that with each other. But uh but it's uh it's kind of overlooked sometimes
023that well we go to these things and it's maybe people get the wrong impression but but I wanted to make sure everybody knew that we're a hardworking board and and we very much uh I think enjoyed our our trip but at the same time it was a lot of work because there's so much so much new to learn especially after a legislative session. Before I got on the board, Mr. Stazzy, I I thought y'all did a lot more partying than learning and it's uh I learned the hard way. There's a lot of learning. Yeah. But it was a great I did enjoy spending time with all of y'all and learning. So, thank you. Thank you. All right. Well, since you've got the floor, we'll let you go give we'll let you go ahead and proceed
024with the finance committee report. Okay. Well, it's I have that, but it says Miss Fiddle. Oh, well, this is finance committee. Okay. Yeah, this is the finance committee. The last meeting we had of the finance committee. So, if if you don't have notes on that, that's okay. I don't have notes on that, but I can just discuss. Okay. Okay. Then I will I'm sorry it says Miss Fiddle, but I will be happy to read it. We had a lot going on. I'll read it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So, I will which I thought it was kind of weird that it didn't have this on here. Um, we did meet we met on June 10th via Zoom at noon. Um, and it was Mr. Stasnney and Mr. Stenis, myself and uh well, I guess Mr. Stenis
025was not present actually. I didn't neither was him. It was me. It was you and you and me were the only board member. I will tell you it's Julie and I I'll tell you I I got attacked by bees about an hour before. So I was a little bit out of it. So I yall will have to excuse. I kind of remember. I hope they didn't get me to agree to Yeah, it was it was a little confusing. That's okay. Too crazy because kind of at the last minute we made some changes. I I learned a lot what you learned and y'all three of you learned or the two of you learned in the ex in the executive committee meeting. So So I out and I think I'll just stick to the script. How about
026that? That's fine. Okay. We discussed the 2025 2026 budget and the implementation of House Bill 2, which has been signed by Governor Abbott. HB2 provides for increased teacher pay. Teachers with three to four years of service will receive a $2,500 raise, and those with five or more years of service will get a $5,000 raise. The bill did not include adequate funding for raises for other essential positions that support instruction. The administration will continue to monitor information obtained from state from the state. A public hearing regarding the budget will be on tonight's agenda. So, we just did learn a lot from HB2 that there's a lot we don't know. We've got to figure things out and I commend our uh our admin for going through it line by line and figuring out, you know, a lot
027of times we get these laws and they're very broad and we have to figure out what the legislature meant within it. And we have an excellent team that spends a lot of time going through through law. So we are still working out the details but I have all the faith in in our team. So that's what we discussed. Thank you. You were still recovering from a few beastings. Yes sir. About 150 beastings. Yes sir. So I was even even uh less coherent than normal. So thank you all for your patience with that. And this may be very similar but uh executive board committee met basically just before that uh the previous day I guess it was. And uh Mr. Brian, you have a report on that. You may want to just keep it short because
028it may be a little redundant. Sure. Um, June 9th at 2:45 p.m. the executive team met in the superintendent's office. Present were Mrs. Benford, Mr. Stazzney, myself, Mrs. Caribine, Dr. Merrill, Dr. Ibara, Mrs. Friddle, Mr. Bau, and Mr. Roberts. Um, we received a sort of a highle overview of the progress our finance team is making on our budget and got a real picture of House Bill 2 and some of the legislative impacts that it's having on our budget for 2526. Um we discussed a few points where there was some highlights of interest of things that our finance team is working on and also there was some SLI conference uh preparation of which Mr. Stazzney mentioned we had 100% attendance of our team of eight and um it was a wonderful experience for all of us.
029Thank you very much. And one more uh committee uh is the bond oversight update. Dr. Har. Yes. On uh Wednesday, June 4th at 4:30m, the bond oversight committee met. This is the committee that meets regularly for updates on the past bonds that were passed to make sure that we are on track in terms of our expenditures. And um there were many community members and parents as well as district staff. I believe I was the only board member at that one. Um but we met for about an hour at our new Sadbury Intermediate School. Um so folks were able to get a tour if they had not yet seen that facility. Um but the good news is we are still on track with our budget expenditures from the past bonds of 2019 and 2020. All right.
030Thank you very much. Um next is information item u public hearing on the 202526 budget and this again is a public hearing so that there's an opportunity of uh uh I suppose I guess in the past since this is a public hearing questions can be asked by by anybody in the audience if they have any. Uh, and we're going to start out though with uh uh presentation by uh Norma Friddle and Kevin Bau. Thank you. Good evening, Mr. President, board members, and superintendent Caribine. Tonight, we are presenting the proposed budget for the 2526 school year. This reflects our shared priorities which are supporting student achievement and operational excellence all while maintaining fiscal responsibility. This year's proposal is shaped by several significant developments including the passage of House Bill 2 during the most recent legislative session.
031This bill delivers new funding for teacher compensation and requires key adjustments to salary structures and other targeted aotments. While we are grateful for the investment in our educators, it is important to note that the bill did not include adequate funding for raises for other essential positions that include instruction. Although House Bill 2 created some challenges, we are actively seeking ways to promote fairness and equity across all of our employee groups. We appreciate your continued leadership as we move toward final adoption, and I look forward to walking you through the key concepts of this proposal. Our budget goals are centered on investing in highquality instructional resources and attracting and retaining top talent, maintaining a strong fund balance, and always ensuring that safety and security remain a top priority in every decision that we make. So, what
032have we done? In recent years, the district has taken thoughtful steps towards implementing targeted strategies to reduce the budget deficit. And these are just a few examples. We've been able to reduce costs by tightening our staffing processes, um, leveraging natural attrition, improving how we track and manage positions through our new Skyward system, and combining roles where it made sense to do so. It is important to note that at this time we are considering all options to reduce expenditures. As you may recall from last year, we had several budget scenarios where we considered uh that were considered in an effort to adopt a balanced budget. Ultimately, we moved forward with u option two as it allowed the district to maintain competitive compensation for all of our staff. And let's get started with our 2526 budget. The
033foundation of any budget begins with revenue. In public education, we don't build a budget based on what we wish we could spend. We build a budget based on what we know we will receive. Tonight, we'll walk through how these revenue projections were developed and what they mean for our operating capacity. While it may appear that overall revenue is increasing compared to the prior year, it is important to note that the majority of those additional funds are simply pass through dollars. These are state allocated revenues tied to specific mandates, primarily compensation requirements outlined in House Bill 2. And they come with little to no local discretion. So let's start with the base revenue from the prior year. You see that number, that $169.6 million right up at the top. Uh that is our base revenue from
0342425 under that current law. So the first allotment that we see here are for the allotment that was given to the district for all staff that is $565,000. That is the revenue that needs to be uh allocated for all employees excluding teachers with three plus years of experience and administration. The next allotment down is um aotment for added special programs. Again, another targeted aotment specifically for those programs, dyslexia, CTE, bilingual, and compensatory education. The next line item down is about $1.7 million, which at the surface does sound like a lot of money. However, we are having to use those dollars to absorb the expenses related to the teacher retention aotment, uh the benefits tied um to that to those funds there. and we are able to also use it for any increases uh if any
035that we incur with property insurance and utilities. The next aotment here is the IBC which is the industry based certification allotment. Again, just another pass through. That's the state simply reimbursing us for the expenditures that we have already occurred um for these certifications. Next one down is a safety aotment for $68,000. Uh once again, as we've talked about in prior presentations, this is simply throwing water at a burning house. Although our um expenses for safety and security are at maybe roughly $45 million, this doesn't even get us maybe or maybe it does get us to the halfway point of how much we actually need to run our safety and security program. So we are grateful for the additional dollars that we received, but once again, not nearly enough what we need. Next, we have the
036special education aotment for 179,000. As you know, we always have more need than there are resources. So, once again, we are grateful for the additional dollars for the special education uh program, but it again, not nearly enough what we need to actually fund the program at full capacity. And then we see the $4 million right there. Um that is our main aotment and that is to actually compensate our teachers. Again, it is a pass through revenue. We don't get to keep any of that. that is not discretionary. Um, as Mr. Gonzalez stated, that is for teachers uh with three plus year three and four years of experience will receive $2,500. Five plus years experienced teachers will receive $5,000. Again, just past $3. Transportation aotment, we see about $16,000. That is another program, not nearly enough.
037Um, we are always grateful for the money, but as you can see, $16,000 um will not take us very far. And then we have our famous basic allotment increase of $55. I would like to note here that although the basic aotment did increase by $55. If you see those two little pink items down by the bottom, it basically washed out leaving us with a per student amount of actually not a per student amount but um an actual increase of about $5.17 if you put a pencil to what the increase actually is. So although we did receive uh 629,000, you can see that there was some formula changes behind the scenes for the early education aotment and of course the freeze of that golden penny. So if you do the math on that, it's I don't
038even think it's maybe 59,60 at the most. So that was the actual net effect of the $55 basic aotment increase that the state um sent our way. the state is touted so proudly so not even I mean barely 10% and so thank you for bringing that to everybody's attention because I hear that a lot well at least they gave you something they didn't really if if they'd come in and said hey we're going to give you all $5 a student or $5 extra everybody would have been in an uproar so they they did it very slightly here to give us $5 that make it look like they gave us 55 and I'd like the public to understand that that we really didn't get anything out of it and we're still still struggling as much as
039we were last year. Yes, sir. Well said. It was very carefully crafted. But I I do again I want to emphasize that this increase was washed by other changes within the funding formula to basically net itself out. And moving on to the last allotment here, we have the new special ed evaluation allotment. And again, pass through monies. Um that's basically for us to be able to use for any contracted services that we have in our special education department. So there you have the revenue picture. Once again, we start with our base revenue from prior year current law. We take ourselves all the way down and we are right at about $177.9 million. Now let's move on to the expenditure side of the house. As you know, with any budget, the majority of our expenditures are
040really allocated towards payroll costs. So the very very top number you see up there which is about 80% 86% of our total costs is $144.9 million and that's dedicated to uh the current base pay uh of our teachers and I would like to note that this does not rec include retention stipens. So 144.9 is our starting number there. next payroll expense. Here's that pass through that we talked about uh that $4 million. If you notice, the revenue side was about $4 million on the on on the revenue side. And here you'll see it as 4.3. And again, it's just so that you can see that we have to absorb the additional uh expenses related to any benefits, any benefits uh that are tied to that raise. Once again, teachers with three three and four years
041experience will see about $2,500. Uh teachers with five or more years of experience will see $5,000. House Bill 2 raises for all staff. And here is that $565,000 number again that we see. Just like I said, it is a pass through. It comes in, it comes out. $565 is what we have to pay our teachers with zero, one, and two years experience. We have to use this money to pay our auxiliary employees, our clerical staff, our instructional aids, and any other hourly staff members that we have here at our district. So, $565 to cover all of those employee categories. How how many, Miss Fiddle, do you know, more or less, can you give me a ballpark? How many how many employees fall within that category that this 565,000 has to be spread among? Mhm. Well,
042we have approximately how many teachers? 230. It's about there's about 231 fall within the uh zero to twoyear. Okay. And then and then the hourly staff and the the other and of course they're still trying to define define what is what is an administrator, what is not. But it it's going to be probably around um I I'd have to look it up to make sure what we were using, but um I think it's probably about five or six hundred at least. That would be the hourly in that group. So, and then you've still got in between. Okay. Somewhere. So, thank you. So, a lot of people for correct money is what I'm trying to get across. Thank you. We'll definitely bring back some more accurate numbers for you the following meeting. So that way that's
043actually an excellent question um just to be able to visualize it and see what it is that we really have for these number of people. So we'll definitely bring that information back to you. This ballpark took 565,000 uh to pay say 600 teachers. It would be $941. So or 600 hourly employees. Right. Right. Approximately not teachers. Correct. Yeah. $941. Well, and again, just to make sure we don't get any confusion here, these this is of course for the raises. The I guess the what we've been already paying is in the top number, correct? And then this is what we have available for raises. Correct. That is correct. Yes. Additional revenue. Uh which of course is again, if we've already discussed somewhat fictional anyway, but uh so so just keep keeping that in mind. We're not
044talking about that's all the money we have to pay these people. That's the amount what we can give is raises. But we've also gone a long time without raises because of and I might as well say this now while I'm talking is that one of the things that is most uh frustrating to me is one of the things that are going to stick in a lot of people's mind is this has been touted as a record eight plus billion dollar increase is like a record and that's pretty easy to reach a record when you went nothing to well in the last session. So they had a ton of makeup to to to go, you know, to try to make up for the for the past here. So touting it as a record uh uh increase
045is extremely misleading because we've been going in as as everybody knows here at least uh we've been going into reserves just try to keep people from leaving the profession or leaving the district because of of of inflation and so on. So, so um that that should need to be understood by everybody that's heard that phrase and thinking, "Wow, the the legislature is really generous and some of the folks in the legislature in the governor's office have been touting how great this is that we're we're taking care of public schools." And yes, we appreciate what they did, but don't don't make a big deal out of the record because again, they had so much to make up from the previous session where the governor said, "I'm not I'm going to veto anything unless I get my
046way on vouchers." And so nothing I mean, basically was virtually nothing last session. So that needs to be uh out there so that uh no one gets this wrong impression that we're whining. Oh, you got a record increase and you're still whining. Well, we're not whining. We're just pointing out the facts. Yes, sir. Yeah. Miss Friddle, would you reiterate uh the zero first year, secondyear teacher, they were not included in the $4.3 million that we have to carve theirs out as well. So, there's it's highly unlikely that we could match that 2500 and we for sure couldn't match the 5,000. So there's there's going to be a significantly less amount of money. And the the other thing um that's really unusual is typically when they talk about the teacher salary structure, it always includes librarians,
047registered nurses, and uh certified counselors, but they too were excluded. So that professional category of employees were excluded from all the other uh money as well. Yes, ma'am. Absolutely. Yes, that is correct. Typically, um if if you remember back in 2019 with the passage of House Bill 3, uh it was very clear that that the that the current teacher salary scale or any employees that were on the teacher salary scale, teachers, counselors, nurses, librarians, um it's, you know, they've always been included with raises every time that the um basic that the basic a lotment was increased and this time that they weren't. So, you are absolutely correct that $565,000 is not going to go very far, especially when we include 270 something teachers uh into that number. And you are correct. Not even close. Not
048even. I I think we ran some super preliminary numbers on how much it would cost maybe to increase uh those teachers, maybe maybe $1,500 when we were playing with some compensation scenarios as we're continuing to do so, but not nearly enough. And then do you want to remind the board in our community what they said about the administration category? Yes. So um we are still receiving uh guidance on what an administrator is and what an administrator is not. So they've basically um narrowed it down to if you're an hourly person, you're not an administrator. And if you are salaried person, you're almost considered an administrator. So you are and we you you may be uh excluded um from any kind of compensation set aside. But that doesn't necessarily mean that that we're not bringing or
049that you're not getting a raise. It just means that we're working through those scenarios right now to figure out how much um we're able to bring to the table. Yes. Did that answer your question, ma'am? Yes. Thank you. because it's all um yes very confusing and we were at SLI and we heard a lot of this in our breakout sessions but it's it's just hard to process because this is I've never seen this before in my 30 plus years in this profession for this is very real when it comes to this amount of exclusions for many different uh employ employee categories. Yes, ma'am. Absolutely. I think it's also important just to remind folks that there's two different parts of the budget. There's the maintenance and operation side, which is really what we're talking about now,
050and then there's the INS side, the interest and syncing side. It's very confusing, but when we pass a bond, like you heard me give the update on the 2019 2020 bonds, we cannot legally use any of those bonds funds to uh increase our teacher salaries. That is correct. Thank you very much for pointing that out, Dr. Harlland. Um our tax rate is broken out into two major components. One being the first being the maintenance and operation side, the second being the interest and syncing side. We are not able to cross over any pennies. We're not able to do any penny swaps. One they each um each segment of the rate has its own rules and we are not able to kind of cross pennies or or cross anything like that. So any revenue generated from
051the INS side can only be used to pay voter approved bonded debt. any revenue generated from the maintenance and operations side can only be used for paying salaries, uh, contracted services, supplies, travel, etc. So, we are not able to co-mingle those funds. We're not able to borrow from Peter to pay Paul. Um, so yes, that is a very good point. Mr. Fle, I'd like to tack on what Dr. Harlon said and just remind people as well because I I think I I mentioned this at the last time but I just want people to understand that if we were to pass the bond for M for a maintenance operation we would simply have that amount of money reduced from what the state sends us. Is that correct? Because we to the whole cup analogy. So is
052it's not possible to do a bond to pay our teachers. Absolutely not. Okay. Because that's what I get asked all the time. Again I know I said this last time but I just want to remind people that we can't do it. They you I get asked well why are you passing a bond to build things and you can't pass a bond to pay your teachers that are so important. So I just want to remind the public again building on what Dr. Harlland said that we cannot pass a bond to pay our teachers. That is a hard thing to understand. If you can pass a bond to build a building why couldn't we pass a bond to pay our teachers? I think you know the public would probably happily do that to to help our teachers
053out but it's not in our in our the way it's set up but it's not possible. Absolutely Mr. Gonzalez. Thank you for pointing that out. Um it's it's also um you know sometimes the state also thinks that we can put in these capital expenditures into our operating budget and we simply cannot afford to do that. So that is why bonds exist for our capital expenditures. Uh we certainly couldn't build a school out of our fund balance. That's just not um you know we're just not able to do that. So that's why bonds exist and that's why they're it's kind of like a mortgage. you get it over 20 30-year note and uh and it is voter approved. So, thank you for pointing that out. Thank you. All right, so moving on. Um again, $565,000. We
054got to make we got to stretch that and give raises to our auxiliary employees, clerical staff, instructional aids, all hourly staff, including um or and including our teachers zero to two years of experience. So, next line item down is our $4.1 million, and that is all of our stipens for athletics, UIL, fine arts, um, etc. The next three items down there, you'll see overtime, comp time, and supplemental pay. It is important to note that, um, we we do incur overtime. As much as we try to minimize as much overtime as we can across all campuses and departments, the real the reality is sometimes it happens, especially when we have vacancies. For example, we um if we have a couple of vacancies in the area of custodial um custodians, sometimes if one person is out or
055if we have a vacancy, it has to go to the next employee to actually make up that time. So, you will incur overtime even if you're try to avoid it. Next item down, we have our health insurance district offset. So, we are setting a million dollars aside for any anticipated deficit in our health insurance fund. Summer school for payroll. This is the non-federal portion. Um so we do pay for summer school partially out of federal funds and partially out of local funds. So our payroll expenses um add up to about $158 million there. And right below that you'll see our non-payroll expenses. Uh our budgets, our campus and department budgets are about $24 million. Um it is important to know that we did ask our uh departments to reduce their budgets by 5% this year.
056Uh we asked them to reduce their discretionary budgets by 5%. So this number is inclusive of that request there. And then we have uh again some more summer school uh this again this is the non-payroll side and then ESS our substitute pay. Mr. Fiddle I just want to bring I'm sorry to keep interrupting but I do think these are important to bring out. We did discuss or you guys discussed it with our Skyward program. Uh you are able to you've been looking into overtime. I know you said sometimes you can't help it, but you did mention at our last meeting that you are doing everything you can to try to manage it as as best as possible. I I don't want people to think we're just like, oh well, it's only a million dollars. I
057know you guys have been working extremely hard on everything, but I did want to point that out that I you did mention that y'all are y'all are managing it as best you can. Is that correct? We absolutely are. Yes, sir. Well, and that holds true for some of these other numbers, too. Uh I know that we've had some discussions in committee about the health insurance uh deficit. Uh I'm not going to name things, but we've had some what appears to be to to us who know a little bit about this, we've got some things that we just need to change with regard to how some of our providers are or especially one in particular is is handling things. Uh and uh and so we would because I'm only reason I'm addressing this is because why
058would you need a million dollars for a deficit? Why why would you even have a deficit? Well, if all was going we're going the way it should be going, we might not have that. And legally uh we're going to do what we can to try to minimize that that uh uh uh deficit on the on the insurance. We are a self-insured uh district, meaning until we get to the really high numbers, we we have to pay for uh the the services that our that our employees are using. Uh and then only when it's a very uh major illness do does a another insurance company kicks in to cover the excess. So that that's just another example. we we can move on, but but there's a there are things that you're someone might look at and
059wonder, well, why do y'all have that? Well, there there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we can't talk about everything tonight. Uh, but we're doing I I'm just going to give you my assurance and I think the others would would join me that we're doing what we can to try to minimize these. And but it's not always easy. It's not always easy. Some of this involves a change of behavior on on on the part of some of our employees because they don't understand what sometimes the impact of their choices which seem very plausible and and look like a really good idea but unfortunately as I said it's it's a problem for us because of the way the uh provider is manipulating uh what's going on behind the scenes. So Mr. May I ask,
060have we had any luck in I know I know we were having a concerted effort to try to educate our employees uh about their choices for healthcare. Has have we had any any luck with that? And and if you need to get back with me, that's fine. I I've been meaning to ask that and I just keep forgetting. Yeah, we we did roll that out uh last year at uh open enrollment. Mr. Styers and his team when they go out uh they are trying to do their best to educate. uh they've had campus meetings uh pre-enrollment and then at the open enrollment they talk about that um and and it's uh in newsletters and things the discussion about you know what that is what the choices are to to uh help reduce the cost to
061our plan and and uh uh try to make that uh better choices for for the plan which then is for everybody right because that gets uh gets spread among the whole the whole district if you have to to put extra money in. But so we are rolling that out. We've got a couple other things that we are going to and and I know it must be difficult because that they do such a good job at making it convenient convenient and and sound like a great thing for everybody. So I know you guys are up against a hurdle. So against the brick wall. So thank you'all for that. Yes sir. And thank you thank you so much for um for bringing that up. one of the obstacles, one of the challenges that we run into is
062um as far as to your point of educating our staff. Um sometimes they're they are able to hear it during open enrollment. Uh and and and sometimes they just don't for whatever, you know, for whatever the reason, if they're not able to be there that day. Um, so it it would certainly benefit the district if if maybe there were some type of um mandatory open enrollment so that we could actually educate our staff and make sure that everybody knows because right now I don't think that hearing all of our insurance and options are mandatory. So we do have some staff members that think that it's optional and they do miss out on some very great information uh simply thinking that oh I've got nothing else to learn. So um yeah that's who would make that
063mandatory us? who who would make it. Okay. So, maybe something to consider. Thank you. Possibly. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. I want to before we move on, since this came up, we're kind of dancing around up here what we're talking about and that's not fair to people that don't understand. So would one of you explain what we're talking about the difference in the emergency room visits versus standalone versus because it's not our employees that we're upset with here. We we need to educate them what's best for them to do to keep their cost down. And that's what we're talking about here. So, it came up and it wasn't expected, but I think it's only fair for anybody that doesn't understand what we're talking about to get a little version of what we're talking about. And
064I think you can do that without necessarily naming names, but but at the same time, it is a real problem. And I don't think there's necessarily a problem with at least explaining at least in general terms what what the problem is. uh without again you're not necessarily naming names but but we are doing a lot of dancing and I'm not sure you're exactly right but I don't want to stir up a hornets nest right now but I think that you can at least say that we have a good system in place but unfortunately it's subject to a certain type of abuse which I think that's what you're looking for is what what is going on how are our employees being misled okay uh again this is very summary very top level I'm just going to
065cover it in a very broadstroke. Uh we are having some challenges with our freestanding ERS around town. Uh they when employees come up to be seen um they are not collecting a copay. So some of these freestanding ERs you can just kind of walk in and they do not collect a copay. And when you're think about when you go to a standing room to a standing emergency room, we do have some staff again unknowingly. Again, to Mr. Stasney's point, it's very convenient. You walk in with a runny nose. Um, you you can only imagine how much it costs walking into a freestanding ER out of network and thousands of dollars are charged behind the scenes because somebody walked in with a runny nose because it was convenient. Um, I I would like to emphasize that
066all of us here, all of us that are participating, we are selfinsured. We are self-funded. That means that I am paying and Mr. Vsauce pain for somebody else to walk into an emergency room for a runny nose. So, it's just we also we just we need to do a good job also of making sure educating our employees of the the resources that are available so that they understand um if you don't have a primary care physician. Uh you know, do do your best to maybe try and find a local one. Uh do your homework if you can so that way you stay proactive with your health. And uh we just we ask all staff that if it's truly an emergency and it absolutely is and we understand sometimes we don't know that it's an emergency.
067You may not know that it's an emergency. Um so but for the ones that we know, you know, we always say the runny nose example. Uh if you simply have a runny nose and you think you may have allergies, um I I believe that we have an employee um hair the center. Thank you. Uh an employee center here. So, if if we just ask our staff if you could please be proactive if if you feel yourself just kind of coming down with something, maybe make an appointment a couple days ahead of time. I know sometimes um you can't get in right away and and I get that. Um so, again, just some of the challenges that we we've got to work through. Um, and to Miss Ruthie's point, it's it's the freestanding ERS that we're
068having a difficult time with. And and it I've got a couple of teacher friends and and I've had this discussion with them and they had and they're very usually they're on top of everything and they were absolutely flabbergasted that there was any extra charge to us by them going to these freestanding clinics because they've done a great job with their PR side of it. Zero cost, zero cost. And they assume that means zero cost across the board. And so again, making uh mandatory I I think attendance would probably really help help us out and help us get the word out because no again they understand all of our teachers, our educa, all of our staff are are extremely intelligent and they know if you explain to them this is going to cost all of us.
069So you know I know that's not what we're on slated for today, but I would just like to say that uh I I do think more education is definitely what we need to do on that. Now the main point of this extended discussion of this is that we recognize the problem. It's on the proposed budget. Uh and I I think it is important to people to understand why that's there. So So I hope uh that's helpful to anybody that's reading this or is trying to understand this because nothing's more important than right now than for the public to understand that we're not being lazy. We're trying to cover these things. We're trying to deal with them. Uh one another way to do this would be just to up what the employees pay on their insurance
070and we don't want to do that except as a last resort. Sure. We may have to do that at some point, but right now uh that that discussion hasn't occurred. We don't want to do that but but we can't also necessarily feel good about having this built into a budget that we may have to come up with an extra million bucks to cover the the insurance. So, so, uh, I think that's probably enough discussion on that and I and I I hope everybody again understands that it's a problem we're trying to solve. So, let's go ahead and try to go to the finish line here and we'll we'll see where we are. Yes, sir. Okay. Well, taking it to the finish line. So, if you remember from the prior slide, we had um anticipated revenues
071of about 179 177.9 million and our total expenditures here are right at about $184.6 $6 million. So this next slide here is simply a summary of total revenues versus total expenditures. And you can see that if we move forward with adopting the budget this evening, our projected fund balance will drop to approximately $43.8 million, which is just under three months worth of operating expenses. And if we duplicate the same result for the following year, our operating reserves will be below two and a half months. So on the topic of operating reserves, this is a look at our fund balance trend since 2019. Uh you can see that we were at about three and a half months worth of operating expenditures back in 2019. You can see uh the huge increase in fund balance at the
072end of 2020. Obviously our uh the COVID pandemic shut the entire district down at around March. So we were able to there was just you know by naturally some savings there on the operating side but then you can see quickly in 21 22 and 23 we can just kind of see that you know that we went from 1.9 in the positive 1.4 in the negative and then 3.1. So it's it's been difficult. We haven't really kind of caught up with you know our fund balance hasn't really caught up since then. So we're doing our best to kind of keep ourselves out. And then you can see the 25 uh estimate there. The ending fund balance at the end of the current fiscal year is slated to be about right at about $50 million, which is
073again just about a little over three months worth of operating. And then if we go another negative $6.7 million, we'll be uh just below those three months. So again, this is just a little fund balance. And what what is our cut off for the interest rate? What is our fund balance? Where does it need to be? How many days? Well, we uh board policy says we should keep between two and three months, 60 to 90 days. And so that's that's mostly what we're what we're gauged on. And of course, the first rating has a has a indicator that that looks at that. So I mean to keep it above the two months is is to go below that would be I think okay detrimental. So and I would I would point out on that the
0742024 that's uh where we switched our year end. So, thank you. We made that move uh just specifically to uh give us a little bit more time to deal with the issues as we got through and and uh to move to the legislative session this past year, which hopefully would have turned out a little bit different. But, uh so it it did not, but that's that's why the big bump that year because that that then puts some extra and we're looking at two years out and I'm sorry, Mr. So, pardon me, but we kind of looking at two years out if I understand correctly in the hopes that next legislation session we might have some improvement. Is that is that kind of why we're giving this is if we had to maintain this in the
075hopes again, you know, we had lots of hopes for this session that didn't pan out, but hopefully in the next one maybe a little bit better. Yeah. And I I don't I don't know about the hopes so much, but but hope's long gone. Hope's not a strategy. this. Yeah. Hope hope is not a good strategy. We But the our Texas legislature only meets every two years. So this this is what we're locked into as a revenue stream bianium. You know, so that's why we push about that. We are hoping that Mr. Fiddle will play the lottery a little bit for us. We'll have to give you a little cap on what you can spend. Yes. Yes, sir. Mr. Bisau actually made an excellent point here, and I can't believe I almost forgot to say this.
076This is a two-year budget. So that means that the teacher that gets a $5,000 race this year or a $2,500 race increase this year, that's going to go for two years. They're not going to get another $5,000 next year. They're not going to get another $2,500 next year. The state has taken upon has taken it upon themselves to say, "We know how we're going to pay your people. We know what they need. We know the local needs of your district. This is what we are going to pay you and it's going to last for two years. I don't want there to be a misunderstanding. They're not going to get $5,000 this year and another $5,000 next year. This is essentially $5,000 the teachers will not see. The ones who actually um qualify for the HB2
077increase, they will not see an additional raise the following year. That's not the worst news. It's the younger teacher, the newer teachers that don't get anything. Correct. Correct. Yes. And so if they were to leave the profession after the $5,000 was paid, they don't they're not responsible for reimbursing. Correct. That's been paid already. So it seems like it would be almost an incentive for us to lose our valuable teachers. Well, from from our current understanding, and this could definitely change. um they will be looking at a role ID most likely maybe during either either the PEM snapshot or maybe there's going to be an endofear submission. So it's going to be very important uh more than ever for our HR department and our PE's department um you know to make sure that the coding is
078correct so that that way we can get paid for everybody that we're supposed to get paid. But to your point um it's possible that we could incur the expense and then they could maybe leave somewhere. Again, we don't know exactly how it's going to transaction, how it's going to work. That's the scariest part. Exactly. Yes, sir. Yeah. Well, and the understanding is, and and Mr. Fiddle, correct me if I'm I'm wrong, the amount is going to be basically included in salary. So, it's going to be paid over 24 checks for for all of them. It's not it's not a one-time stipen, but so if you're a a teacher that's making, you know, 65,000 this year, then uh or or you made 65 last year, your salary for 2526 would be 70,000. And then for 2627,
079it would still be 70,000. There's there's no additional increase for the next year, but it but it's going to be paid out uh just as if regular salary, and that's what they've been saying. This is permanent. This goes to salary. They're not. So then they are paid the 5,000 twice. That same 5,000 the same. So 5,000 this year, an extra 5,000 this year, and an extra 5,000 next year. Right. It just stays in their salary. Gotcha. I I'm sorry I misunderstood. It stays in their salary. That's they're not getting a total of 10. You're getting 5,000 on the front end. Like to Mr. Be's example, if if if you're making, you know, $55,000, you're a 10-year teacher, okay? You're going to be making $60,000 next year and $60,000 the following year. Okay. So, so you
080are two-year budget, but but you are getting so for each year you are getting the full 5,000. That is correct. Okay. That I misunderstood. It just stays status quo. It stays. The same applies for all the people excluded. Let me give an example. Assistant principles at our campuses who are critically important principles, you know, all the other administrators, they have been excluded. So if we don't do anything, there won't be anything for them for two solid years. And remember, we haven't had an increase to basic a lotment since 2019. So this is devastating for all the people that were excluded. So u every district is trying to figure out, you know, what is the definition of an administrator and how to take care of our first and second year teachers. So um but at least
081we got the $56 this year. There there is that. But we're, you know, we're trying to, you know, figure it all out to to um take care of our staff because we can't do what we need to do without um attracting and retaining top talent here. So, I'm I'm going to turn it back to you so that you can talk about compensation and how that's not tonight, but All right. Yeah, let's Okay. So, what's happening here? Thank you, Miss Carabine. All right. So, here we are our budget development timeline. Um and as you can see, it is June 16th way down at the bottom. And that is where we are. We are right on time. So, in closing and as a reminder, the budget presented this evening is built uh on current estimates and serves
082as a foundational step um in the planning process. The district recently received updated guidance on the definition of classroom teacher and administrator. This will allow us to begin applying the requirements of House Bill 2 uh to determine which positions very specifically which positions qualify for the mandated pay increases. We are preparing a range of compensation options uh to present at our next board meeting. Um and depending on what is adopted, it may increase or decrease the budget deficit. I'd be happy to take any questions at this time. I think we've been throwing them at you the whole presentation. So, I'm good. Well, and you see how they've really complicated it. Just some of the questions that we've asked as you pointed out, Mr. Gonzalez, is it 5,000 and then 5,000 more or is it five
083or is it one time? Is it There's just a lot of things to work through. So, that's that's why we're going to take our time and and uh work through it and and bring back an amendment to to discuss that and and uh hopefully make those decisions. My my final comment on this is just going to be it's not too early to be uh talking to to the extent that you have any opportunity to talk to our legislators or anyone else that's in a position to to influence our legislators in the governor. It's not too early to start talking about the nest section. I wish we could have special session that would address some of these obvious glaring errors that they made. But but we we at least need to start uh working on on
084educating our our legislators and the governor about what really happened here because I'm not sure they all understand it. Uh in fact, I almost hope that they didn't all understand it because you would think they would not be bragging about this this budget. It's it's woefully insufficient in so many ways. So So that's I appreciate what y'all did. U that was our public hearing. Uh and I guess uh thank you and we'll move move on with their next information item. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh we are going to now have a uh uh an update from the bond steering committee which is different than the bond oversight committee. This is uh with regard to our existing bond. Uh and uh I believe I'm sorry this is I'm I got that backwards. This is
085it with regard to the possibility of a of a bond in November. And this will be presented by Dr. Brian Merrill. And it looks like a whole slew of people. Come on up. Yeah, Dr. Merrill is out of town. So, Julie Johnson is going to be just That's what it says here. That's okay. Point of contact with a uh roof of her. There's a whole team that will be helping with this presentation. Takes all of y'all to replace Dr. Merrill. Is that right? Sure. We'll go with that. So, um, we're here to provide another bond update. Um, thanks to your feedback and your questions last week, we were able to go back and kind of, um, investigate and find out more information. And so, this won't be as lengthy as the last presentation. So, we're
086going to try and hit some highlights for you. And if you have any questions, concerns that come up, please don't hesitate to let us know. Um we're trying to get all this information gathered before our next bond steering committee and so um we'll we'll proceed from there. Um all right. So just to kind of cover what we're going to talk about um we're going to talk about the possible pro possible projects. Um we're going to talk a little bit about funding. Um oh we're going to talk a little bit about the proposition scenarios and then the committee work with next steps. And so bond proposition possible projects. So I get to take the first slide like last time. Um 1.1 um transportation. So this one is the one where we're earmarking 5 million for buses.
087So I'm not sure if y'all remember back in the days when I was over transportation just kind of filling in for a few years. Um we created for a few years. Yes. It's very fond memories for you. very I missed that. That would have been fond memories. Um so we did create a process for um replacement process and y'all may remember me presenting that. And so we'll be using that same kind of formula targeting that 15-year replacement and get caught up on where we need to be with our buses with that 5 million. But not just our buses, also white fleet as well. We have a lot that are aging out. What's nice about our white fleet though is they put a lot of miles in transportation, but our departments put less miles. So, we're
088able to then reallocate that white fleet to some of the departments like technology for example. So, we get to keep using those mach uh those fans. Um transportation um also has the technology and security system for 405,000. That one is that badge system for our students where they can come on and swipe. um the bus driver will know who's on the bus and also the parents would be able to see when their child got on the bus based on that swiping. Um and then the system actually updates the bus route with the turnbyturn directions based on who is swiped onto the bus. So it also helps create efficiencies um with this program. It's a great program um if selected to move forward. um instructional uh technology. We have the classroom displays. We have some schools,
089believe it or not, that their displays are aging out and it will be time to replace those. Um they're starting to lose some of the features with the upgrades that are coming along and because they're aging. Um so we're looking forward to replacing those for our teachers. And then for infrastructure, our Cisco phone system is up for renewal. In the last bond, we were able to fund a fiveyear um agreement for our phones and it will be up um and so this will help us get those next five years of our telecommunication service. And then infrastructure as far as our campus address system in the last bond, we were able to um install the infrastructure side of the PA system. Um, but this would let us address the issues with any speakers that may not
090be clear and then add additional speakers to add additional security for our campuses. And then safety and security is our security cameras and monitoring. Um, we have cameras that are aging out. Um, the video isn't as clear and then we need to replace the storage for those. They take up a lot of storage. Um, and so that would be that 836,000. So that is mine. Any questions for that slide? We'll move on. All right. Next up is our athletics and fine arts. And I'll let them introduce themselves. Good evening. Uh Jacob Justice, director of fine arts. Thank you once again for uh hearing us out on this and considering uh what the committee has been discussing for the past nine weeks. Um my 2.1 uniforms and equipment, $739,000. Uh what that is is we have
091some band trailers that we need to uh one we need to update Brian High's band trailer and make sure that it is uh safe and uh that it uh adequately uh is equipped for our band. We also don't have a full-size band trailer, but we have a full-size band at Rudder. Uh over the years, Rudder's Band has grown uh significantly and so now we want to make sure that we're supporting them and that as they're going on the road that they can rely that their equipment is going to get there. In addition to that, we have uniforms and some other instruments and some um microphones and things like that that that we need to update um because it's just that time. So that's sort of what's included on that. Any questions? So will the trailers
092is it up to us to get them either wrapped or painted particular or is this in the cost? So included in the quote that I got included the wrapping and so we would have a trailer that's wrapped for the Brian High band and a trailer that's wrapped for the Ruer High School band. And they won't be white for like a year. No, we will include that on our order. So, when we order it, we order we outfit what it looks like on the inside and then we also go ahead and order what we want everything to be so that when we get it, um, it's ready to roll. I don't want the That was kind of an inside thing for some of the wrapped buses that didn't get wrapped. And anyway, so I want the
093band kids to look bright. Absolutely. Green and blue at the very beginning. Yes. All right. I will let athletics come on up. Thank you. Uh Derek Rush, executive director of athletics. Uh when we look at uh the 2.6 here as far as the school boards are concerned, uh we want to try to replace all our school boards that are in the currently in the district. Uh that is that is uh at both high schools, both middle schools and also our intermediate schools. Uh our school boards definitely have exceeded their life cycle uh from that standpoint of it. And also that's one of our biggest issues every year as far as addressing uh scoreboards as far as repairing them uh throughout the season uh from that standpoint. Plus we also have three brand of scoreboards. And
094so we want to try to uh uh bring that down to one brand so we can uh utilize that uh more sufficient as far as calling that one company to come out and fix our scoreboards uh from that standpoint of it. So, next here is the 2.7 uh the uh batting cage covers for our baseball teams uh and softball uh at both campuses. Uh one of the biggest need that we want to try to do as far as uh provide our kids with the best opportunity to be successful uh when it comes to empty weather uh those type of things. Wet bub globe uh have a hindrance of our players going out in the batting cages. And so having a covered batting cage uh will will help that issue. It definitely won't solve it, but
095it would definitely help uh that issue as far as our kids being able to go out doing imperfect weather and also doing the wet bub glove when it's too hot from that standpoint of things. Uh next here we have 2.8 which is satinic uh turf baseball and softball fields at both campuses. So that's consist of uh uh baseball and softball at both campuses from that standpoint of it. and I kind of spoke on it last week as far as the this year the first 29 days of baseball and softball season our uh players only practice nine times uh from that standpoint of things and also when you when you look at the cost of it as well uh when you when you compare it to a football field it only takes two acres to to
096uh for a football field for a baseball field it takes four acres uh from that standpoint of it and also uh when they come in and and and and do treatment on the uh to the soil uh uh we're we're we're in a bad uh location when it comes to soil and and clay and those type of things. And so that also increased the cost as well uh from that standpoint of it. So uh I know one of the biggest issues was we're we're comparing uh turf to grass. So I'm going to let Mr. Griffin come up and kind of explain that uh further to give more details on that uh and kind of enlighten us on uh turf versus grass. The cost So, we we reached out to one of our partners in our
097tools and they actually got some information that's basically um compares grass to uh synthetic turf. And you'll see in front of you, it basically talks about hours. And the reality is, yes, you have a a an original increase as far as the cost of that synthetic turf, but your ability to play on that surface much more much quicker, much more often. You don't have to worry about seating. You don't have to change from winter grass to summerrass. You don't have to worry about rain and then the the constant use. So reality is you have a surface that can be immediately used after a rainstorm and it can be used a lot more often because it will not wear down like a grass field will. So also you've got to figure the maintenance cost for cutting
098the the paint and all the different parts of that. But when you put this over time and you are looking at a a year's worth of use, more often due to the weather, more often due to wear, you end up with a a surface that actually per hour is cheaper, especially as you run it longer. Another item is the original cost, why it's so expensive versus when you have to replace it. the original cost it is a uh non-permeable surface so you have to capture that water and it has to go into retention ponds. So there's a lot of preparation for preparing it that first time but after that replacement of that turf is is much cheaper because well as we found out with the field that we're currently doing at Mel Green replacing the
099carpet is nothing compared to the overall infrastructure and this is uh saying that it's going to be replaced every 10 years. Is that what? Yes, sir. It's figured in as you see your cost per hour in the the first 10 years is fairly but it's that in that original input putut of cost for turf. The next year you see it flips and then the next year after that and then it will continue to be that way until you have to go in and do something with the underground again. But over time due to the fact that you have more use of this field and you have the opportunity for um outside activities to use your field whether it's like we was discussed earlier with your whether inter mural or tournaments or uh the the baseball
100uh what do they call it the summer leagues and winter leagues youth leth travel leagues. Thank you. you could have the opportunity to use that as well. So reality when it's just a grass turf field and as was mentioned you have the the 29 out of 29 days only nine days was able to be used was due to inclement weather and the fact that if you do destroy that grass or you do tear up that grass now you have to wait even longer before you can get on it. some additional work over and above years 11 through 20. Is that why the cost is a little over four million as opposed to 2.6 million? Uh do you understand what I'm talking about here? I apologize. When you get when you get to the years uh
10121 through 30, the cost is a little lower. You're going to be replacing that that grass again and it has to be basically resurfaced again. these this was prepared by PBK Sports which is they do this all over the the nation. So I I'm not particularly that understanding of that but I do know that that over time frame they are clearly showing and it's also stuff that I've been able to look at and interview off the our own sources and referencing. Well, it sounds it sounds like maybe they got to redo the base or something. I think so, Mr. St. more for that third. Yes, sir. That's that would be my understanding is that they're having to redo for the grass field to redo this actual. Well, this is this is all on simp. Well,
102yes, sir. You you were having it for both, but as you see that by the hours it gets bigger and bigger, you end up with further apart. I was just wondering why it was uh considerably more than for the second decade, the third decade. Third decade. I understand what you're saying, sir. For for synthetic. Okay. Mr. Mr. Griffin, let me ask before I or I guess all of y'all, have any of our coaches, anyone lobbied for natural turf versus synthetic or is everybody behind synthetic? I think from our staff and and folks, it's all been synthetic and as was mentioned before, compared to other school districts, we're the only one other than Hearn that is currently playing on natural grass. Just want to make sure we didn't have any diehard turfing that we needed to
103address. Okay. Thank you. Well, I appreciate y'all sharing this because I I'm one of the ones who's asked in the past about synthetic versus natural turf, recognizing that, you know, some of our collegiate sports um have switched back to natural turf. Granted, they're not they have other fields they can practice on, right? So, if we're looking at use, so the what's really helpful to me on this is is the the cost by 10 year and then how much use it's going to get. That's really the kicker because we want our students to be able to to get use out of it and just given the rains we've had over the last many weeks and months here. It's just really interesting. I know we got another three inches yesterday where I live. So, um this is
104really helpful. Thank you for taking the time to get this for us. And and one of the things I want to definitely emphasize as far as uh when we're looking at turf in the baseball and softball uh fields, it's no longer it's it's not only for our uh student athletes, it's for the community. as from that standpoint of it. So, we're looking at increasing our rental fees, you know, think type of things uh to generate funds for the district. And so, with uh utilizing our base turf and our baseball and softball fields, we would be able to utilize that as far as giving our youth leagues opportunities to play there, uh giving travel league baseball teams opportunities to play there, and and also generating funds, revenue from that standpoint of it. and that and that
105would be a great asset to the district as for developing our young kids but also uh generating funds for our uh our young athletes and also for the district uh from that standpoint of it. So next thing I'm go on next thing here is the uh Derek Do you know what would we be generating? Is it on here? I'm sorry if I missed it. Do you'all have any any idea of what we what kind of rental would be generated? Yes. Uh, as far as uh concrete numbers, we're still uh u looking at uh different districts in the area and also districts around the Houston area as far as generating the the amount they rent for fields. Uh it all depends on if they're using lights and that type of deal. Uh so we're looking at
106uh I mean I hate to give a number but roughly around uh uh $2,500 uh per per winner. Oh wow. Right. From that standpoint of it. And again, when you look at playoff games as well, this past year, we had five uh baseball and softball teams that called us. They wanted to use our fields, but they wasn't uh turf. They had to go on to Mford or a Navasota or Madisonville. And so, when we can be using those funds to generate uh for the district. Absolutely. Thank you, Derek. I want to add a little something to this if you don't mind. Yes, sir. Um, and it just goes to the, you know, Julie, you mentioned some college programs going back to natural turf, and I like natural turf, but those programs have a dedicated uh,
107maintenance staff that is manicuring a baseball and softball facility to a to a very high level, which we do a we do a good job here locally of of maintaining our um, baseball and softball facilities, but it's a lot more than cutting grass and raking. Uh it's drainage. Uh it's rebuilding the dirt mounds and the infields. Um and it's uh it's very involved. And as someone who's, you know, going out to our facilities and seeing our coaches, uh, maintaining the fields in addition to what our maintenance staff does and seeing parents volunteer to bring in truckloads of dirt and spread it and spend their own time uh, to maintain our facilities, it's it's an extensive amount of work. And if we were doing it um, the way some of these college programs were, I know
108that this number of the the cost of maintenance would be much higher. And the truth is that the uh the artificial turf is going to cut out a lot of that work, allow our coaches to coach, allow our parents to parent, and uh create create an atmosphere for our student athletes that's that's high level and meets the expectations and the perception of what our community should deserve. Exactly. That's well said from that standpoint. And just to enerate that as far as our coaches, you there are teachers as well. And so uh they don't have enough time in the day uh to go out and maintain the field uh to expectation. They do a great job. Don't don't get me wrong on that. Our maintenance department, grounds department do a great job as well, but as
109forced to put the emphasis on a a a grass field and that's a lot of time and energy put in it and our coaches who are teachers as well don't have enough time in the day to get that done. Uh so next uh any more questions about that? I just want to reiterate about the fee structure, Mr. Gonzalez. We do have posted on our website uh what it cost, if you will, to reserve our facilities, not just u the fields, but the gyms, etc., meeting spaces. Um, and we've had an attorney look at it for terms and conditions. We feel it's viable. Uh, but to your point, I do believe we are looking at other districts to decide if we need to increase the amounts because we do want to make ourselves available for others,
110but we don't want to take a loss. We want to make sure that we're taking care of the wear and the terror, etc. And I've been on some of those uh phone calls as well uh for the playoff games and they call and the first question is, "Do you have synthetic synthetic turf or do you have grass?" And when we say grass, they're like, "Oh, man. Moving on." U because they're they don't want to schedule a game and then it rains and then they're scrambling. I mean, you you've had a baseball player, you know what that looks like. So um so we talk about it all the time at the state level and um more and more people are moving to the artificial turf just so that the kids can play. Yes. And uh not
111uh be impacted with the weather. Correct. And I don't want to exclude the possibility of rentals. On the other hand is I'm going to say this one more time. I really don't want to just even break even. I don't I don't want to lose money. When you invest that much taxpayer money into a facility, then there's no harm in saying we got all this wear and tear, we got all this going on, we're going to have to replace it at some point. Uh it's if we come out in the positive, that's that's what I want. I don't want, you know, when you rent a place that they don't they don't rent it so they can break even. They rent it so they can make a little money. And no, we're not in the business of
112renting. However, we are in the business of making sure that that we look long-term and we ought to try to come out ahead on our rentals so that we can invest that money ultimately either into whatever but also for our uh when it comes time to replace this stuff. So, uh uh so I just I just don't want to just take the attitude that if we somehow just break even after all everything's paid for, I don't know that that's a goal that I'm happy with. I would like to see us actually make a little money off of it and with the understanding that we'll definitely spend that money at some point on the facility. Absolutely. Because you know that's going to happen even just the routine stuff. So So I I hope that we'll uh
113look into that and try to make sure that we're going to go past the break even point a little at least a little. Good. That's I mean that's one of the things again we're taking our time and researching it to make sure that we're when we do change the the the rental cost that it's appropriate and also beneficial for the district. Thank you. So it's good to know that. Thank you. Okay. Uh next here uh is the 2.9 synthetic turf for football and uh also replacing the tracks current tracks. So uh this cost will go towards the current uh turf and tracks that we already have at the high schools and also at the middle schools. and also adding a uh synthetic turf to Daba Middle School as well. Currently, right now, Doppler is uh
114uh playing in a somebody said pastor field and so we want to we want to make sure that we are doing our due diligence as far as uh providing synthetic turf for that for that those kids as well uh from that standpoint of it. Okay, next up CT. Good evening again. Um, our first CTE property here that we're looking at is out at CEK. Um, now just a reminder, this design is still to be determined. Uh, we are talking to a bunch of stakeholders involved in this. Um, we've got a few different inputs on what that should look like for a teaching facility out at CEK. Um, I even was visiting with multiple stakeholders just last week um that were already wanting to give their input on uh what they think would serve the students
115best out there. Uh, and then it also had the line item on this one for the two trailers for Agmech. Those are large flatbed trailers for them to be able to haul their projects all around the state to do great things. Any questions about this? All right. Last one here is a 2.11. That's a uh for renovation of our concession stands and a possible fieldhouse for baseball and softball. Uh, from that standpoint of it. So when you look at at Brian High for example, uh the concessions and and restroom area there at Brian High baseball and softball facility needs to be renovated. And so this is something uh Dr. Merrill and Mr. Griffith have looked into as far as maybe some some uh companies here in the area that provide portable buildings, things of that
116nature that we're going to be looking into uh from uh that standpoint of it and also at Rudder as well when it comes to uh ticket booths and renovating the concessions and possibility of providing a fieldhouse for baseball and softball. Uh one of the reason for the fieldhouse is again uh uh both uh current field houses are so uh far uh from the uh baseball and softball fields in weather uh those kids have to run to the fieldhouse which we know that's not safe or they have to uh get into the concession stand and the visiting team has to go to their uh buses and so we want to uh do our due diligence again as far as being able to provide safety for our kids. Uh but again, that's something we're going to be
117looking into uh uh from that standpoint of it. All right. I'm going to make a comment about that and then I have two comments before we move on. Um one I know of course Ruer doesn't even I mean they have Do you even have I guess you have a restroom over by softball and a restroom over by Okay. Yes. the the current restroom at Ruer softball is across the street at the uh at the uh field football field area, right? And also the concession is across the street as well. And I know it's it's new, but it was built for a 3A school and um with the amount of traffic and again having to go across a street, it's it's unacceptable. It is. And um the same thing for baseball. And those kids are out
118in the middle of nowhere. Literally, they're in pastures. I mean, there's an oil well and cows on the other side of the outfield fence. And so, it's so needed for those students and a place for them to try to get out of the weather or something else that I know we're going to work on. I know for a fact because of my own kids coming through, Brian High's on the other hand was built adequate 25 years ago. But if you go there's there's one concession stand with a men's or boys and girls restroom on either side of it built in the 90s, maybe four stalls. And you know, I'm really big on enough stalls for people. And uh so you've got softball and baseball games going on at the same time. The players have to
119go in there. The parents have to go in there. The fans have to go in there. And I know for women that's not big enough. And it's again cats having babies in the walls of it. And so this is so important. Which takes me to um I want to shout out that up in 26 the scoreboards the 1 million87 that's all that's indoor scoreboards that's basketball scoreboards baseball scoreboards softball scoreboards football scoreboards that's every school board. So, we didn't really we mentioned it the other day at the workshop, but that's all scoreboards for what? Seventh grade on up. Yes. Right. All middle schools, high schools, and also the intermediate schools because So, it's not just our big scoreboards that people see. That's every everyone we have for every level of our program. And our program
120deserves that. And another thing, and I'm just kind of on a little high horse here, is we keep talking about the cost of everything, which is important. Yes. I mean, it's all about, we talked about our budget ahead of time, but another cost we have to look at is the cost of our kids not having these facilities. Because if we don't get these facilities, CTE, fine arts, athletics, we've already put ourselves behind other schools around us. Just like we've had people turn away coming in for playoff games because our facilities, even though we're in a perfect location and we're a 6A school, we get people turning us away because our facilities aren't what they need to be. So, the cost of us not doing this for CTE, fine arts, and athletics is a negative. it's
121is would be a negative cost for our kids because they deserve it and we've put it off for too long and now we're behind the eightball. So, we need to catch up and do what's you know best for our kids because they deserve that there. Yes, ma'am. So, you know, I like those scoreboards all over. I just like them the bells and whistles. So, do I know we do it at Merl Green, the other schools where we're going to put them at. Is there some kind of way we can look to see if we can get the ones that we can get advertisement to where my son goes to do? I might if I have a company, I might want to advertise on on the scoreboard. I don't know. But I just, you know, I'm
122like Ruthie. I hate going there. The number don't work. And you know, I'd be embarrassed. People, I hope they don't recognize I'd be a school board member. I'll be wearing a hat and everything, you know, because you know, I called you. I know you called me. If people wasn't bleachers out there and I'm standing up, the other people standing up and I say, you do you do blend in, Felicia. I'm sure nobody notices. No, I didn't blend in that back. But see if we can maybe get some of those uh to generate extra income. Yes. instead of just saying, "Okay, this is middle school. Let's just get the basics or let's get the little because the those kids are going up to high school. So, give them a good experience because they deserve it because
123we want to play for us in high school. And we got superstars, some of them, coming from those schools. And we want them to have the same experience there that they'll get in high school. So, they don't get it there and then figure, oh, high school, I'm going out to consol or I'm going to here. I'm going to there. They want to leave and we start them out. And I'm not saying buying the bells and the whistles, spend a bunch of money, but we're buying them anyway. And we can find a way to generate income off of them. Let's look for that. Well, I think when we get to that, before you respond, I'm I agree that we need to look at all the options and and I think this is a process that is
124not obviously complete. We're not just going to go out and you're going to say, "Okay, this one, this one, this one." We're going to look at options, what they cost. And certainly, you can do advertising in a fairly simple way, or you can do it in a really complicated way with video board that's uh uh uh going on that that maybe we don't need that at every level, but and I don't think you're advocating for that. I like that. Yeah. Okay. Well, good. If you want to pay for it, great. But anyway, uh but we can we can certainly look at options and if we can do things and it's not going to break the bank, then great. Uh but but we need to look we need to know what what all these options cost.
125I'm I'm fully in favor of trying to do advertising. That that's a great thing to do if we can make it work. Uh and and uh but you don't want to necessarily uh well I don't see us as trying to say well that's going to be we can spend several hundred,000 more and then get a little bit of advertising income back. But but but again we'll look at all the options. You're going to show us options and and and we as a board ultimately are going to make the call. Uh but but again we we uh I'm just making sure that we we are getting good information just like we did on the turpp versus grass. That's the kind of stuff that everybody needs to know. That is certainly changed a lot of people's attitude
126probably including mine about that. It's really a savings not a cost. So a lot of people don't know that. I didn't know that. I wanted to find out and you told us and that's the kind of stuff we need on all this stuff. So So I'm I'm agreeing with you but cautiously. Okay. So, so I want to make sure that we uh we do get the options out there. Say, well, this is what it what we can do and this is what we get and this is what it's going to cost if we have something that's got some bells and whistles. Thank you. We have people coming to us look at Northern Tools, you know, so sky's the limit. So, there have been some requests to kind of have a comprehensive look at the age
127of our facilities. This is our 24 campuses. Let you kind of digest that for a minute, but I'll give you a couple of facts. The median age of our building is 35 years old. If you took Sadbury and CEK, which is our two newer facilities out, it jumps to 38 years old is our median age. We've talked about this previously. What we're requesting of our bond steering committee is that we look at P1's and P2s. P1s are immediate needs. They've already well exceeded their life cycle. And then P2s are necessary and they are at the end of their life cycle. The relevance to that is, as we heard a little while ago, our finances are not going near where they need to be. When you are running things past their life cycle, your expense is
128now more than it should be. The efficiencyy's gone. The cost of repairs is higher. So, we are expending more funds to keep up equipment that has passed this life cycle. With that said, the items that we are looking at currently are the P1's and twos on roof replacements, the building sealant replacement, that's windows, doors, things of that nature. Mechanical improvements, P1's and P2s. That's a very big issue because, as we heard, we've got equipment that is double its life expectancy running. And yet, I assure you, we've lost our efficiency in that equipment. And when it goes down, that is not equipment you could just pull off the shelf. Electrical is also similar to that for our P1s and P2s. Plumbing improvements, it was really loaded on the P1s. There wasn't that much on the P2s,
129and we felt like we could hold on that for a little bit. technology improvements. That is actually more doors as far as our card access for safety and security and some additional cameras outside of the ones we currently have. That also is part of the life safety and security. Then under site improvements and civil, that is your um actual drainage, your storm sewer and your sanitary sewer that's outside of the building. 315 317 is wall improvements P1 ones and twos the just paint wall paint and wall structures restroom finishes is 321 then we have miscellaneous interior in renovations which is basically large group instructions multi-purpose rooms and teaching theaters then we have life cycle priority maintenance equipment systems at Brian High School and then we have Brian collegiate this is the life cycle priority maintenance
130as we reported previously. The current FCI on that building is a 59. We'll talk in a minute about what that really means. But after the if if we spent this 33550 on Ryan Collegiate, we would still only see a reduction to about the low30s 31 32% for SEI. Mr. Griffin, may I ask you on the So, PBK came up with these numbers on like their a lot of that is just Yes, we we did, but also uh E3 is more heavily involved with this because it is MEP. So, it really wasn't that much PBK, the walls and flooring, yes, but for the MEP, which is the heavier items, is is E3. So, we did have more. My concern is always having one one company take a look at everything. We we are looking at multiple
131we have multiple tools we've been using for this work. Okay. And that's and I figured you did and I I really really appreciate that because once we get a number out there if we say the roof replacements are 15 million it's going to be hard to get any contractor anywhere to come in at much less than 15 million. So I I worry about getting pigeon holed into these prices because that's what we threw out there. Again, we are appropriating the money for this, but when that comes to the actual design and what goes out to bid, it will be an individual project that will be designed, have design specifications and criteria, and then we'll be bidding that particular work. I understand what you're saying, but we'll be more finite and we'll be putting out individual
132packages. This is they'll have no way of knowing what our overall money is. Does that make sense? and and and I I do I do have a lot of faith in you to make sure that that happens. So, you know, I think sometimes things fall through the cracks and when you start talking about numbers this big, you know, I you know, I've heard people say in the past, well, it's just a couple of million dollars. Couple million here, a couple million there. But I I I do think that there's an opportunity. I we need to squeeze every penny and every I want our kids to have more for whatever we can squeeze out of this. If we go with a bond and it passes, we need to squeeze everything in my opinion that we can
133out of it. And we will be truly looking for requests for proposals for everything from the top to the bottom. We're we're will be starting from ground zero. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. All right. Um, so I'll just mention the kitchen. Y'all may remember from the last meeting, um, the upgrades to the kitchen cafeteria at Brian High School. right now it's a bit small and it restricts the number of students that can attend. Um and because of that this by enlarging the kitchen we would be able to feed more students and then that's been the thing that's kind of limits the the capacity of the build building. What's nice about this 43 and 44 though is that our child nutrition services would be able to help with other parts of the the um implementation of
134this. They just can't build um they can add things like stoves um cooking uh devices um and but they are not able to pay for the actual physical building and so that's why that is allocated that way. So yeah, just uh so over at Brian High School, all the CTE spaces are there on our blue campus and have not been touched in years and years and years. Um so this is all about bringing them up to industry standards, even expanding capacity, allowing more students that want to be involved in these programs opportunity to take advantage of what we offer in CTE. Any questions about those? Laura, when you say the blue campus in you say touched in years and years u 1971 yes the uh there are a lot of spaces that are the original
135um we may have we've replaced some equipment in there you know new welders and such but the space has not been touched. Uh I know I mentioned in a previous meeting we recently replaced a uh air compressor in one of the labs that was from 1984 I believe. So um this is just kind of showing some of the age. Um we've we've done a good job with what we've had but it's time to do more for our kids. What do you have any idea what the square footage of that is? The square footage of everything that we covered. So this was um we're talking about renovating here 31 million. So, um, I can get that information, but I don't have it. That's okay. Because it's kind of I mean, it's spread out over a lot
136of different Yes, ma'am. We are upstairs, we are downstairs, we're in multiple hallways. Uh, this was part of our uh facility assessment that we did. Was that two years ago? I do think a list of what we're spending the 30 or projected 31 million on would be helpful because it does give us it's a lot of money to have in just kind of miscellaneous. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Um I can I can get you number of classrooms for sure. Yeah, we can circle back with aligning items but what I'm hearing is uh based because it was built so long ago it's inadequate when it comes to capacity compared to utilization and then the areas equipment etc are in disrepair or yes ma'am end of the uh life cycle. So bringing them up to industry standards
137involves a lot of parts. Uh we obviously want to expand the actual space to accommodate more students. Uh Mr. Lady is a great example that you saw earlier this evening. Um if you were ever to go by his lab before school, after school, during the day, um he's got students even outside in the fenced off area behind his lab to give them more space to practice all at the same time. We don't want students having to wait their turn to learn a skill. Um in addition to that, a lot of our equipment, you know, needs upgraded electrical air. Um, we need safe places to keep our gas, stuff like that. Great questions. So, uh, the 4.121, this is looking at renovations for locker rooms, mariachi, and drill team spaces. Um, part of the locker room
138renovation is you're going to hear more about, but we are running out of space and, uh, we share space, fine arts does with athletics for locker rooms. And so, uh, later on you're going to hear about Mel Green and they're going to talk about that. But we're looking at renovating some of our current locker rooms at Brian High. Uh, in addition, we tried to find space that already exists that we could renovate for our mariachi and our drill team. Um, our drill team, they need to perform in a gym. And so, we have gym 3. It's been a fine arts gym at times and now it's a shared space. And so they will still uh practice on those in the morning, but this extra space would be where our dance classes um could have mirrors
139set up, could be uh better for direct instruction. It's not as big um but it's adequate enough to be a dance studio and it's a space that already exists. We would just need to renovate it for Mariachi. Um, this is a space that currently is being utilized as a CTE classroom, but we would be relocating that classroom to uh hopefully closer to the ones on blue campus and then we would be able to use that space and renovate it for mariachi. Uh, it will require some renovation and um a little bit of maybe walls coming down and ceilings going up and and all of that type of thing to outfit it for those students. Have to do some soundproofing and things like that. Um, in addition, 4.16 is our auditorium building edition. Um, so we
140started out with a really hefty number for an auditorium and we've got it down by half from where we started to really just streamline um, putting it in the right place at Brian High and making sure that it works for what we need. And so by relocating the mariachi and the drill team into known spaces, we were able to cut back on a lot of the costs that we started out with. And so what this would be, it would be an auditorium. We haven't designed anything yet, but we would make sure that the stage is large enough for a 6A high school. Um I know the last time when I presented the question was asked of how much money do we actually bring in right now for um outside organizations. And so over the course
141of this year, we had seven groups come in, paying groups, and that brought in about $14,000. Now, we've made all the way up to uh 20 $22,000 in the past in a year. And it it in May, we were contacted by four different groups about next year, about things they would like to do. and we had to say no either because our space wasn't large enough, our stage wasn't large enough or we didn't have room in our schedule uh to add because we also priority goes to our Brian ISTD students and so they are the ones that get first dibs and so this was the uh the state theater office called about hosting area regional meets here. Uh we also had two dance organizations reach out about hosting uh dance here. And we also had
142an outside concert that wasn't quite big enough to be on&m campus, but they love the size of our auditorium and our seating capacity here. And a lot of that is it's great that people are noticing us and know that we're here, but if we had the spaces, it would not only help our kids and and do right by them, but it also could provide some more things for our community um here in Brian ICD. Does anyone have any questions about those things? It's just like sports. We're in a central location. I don't know who the concert is, but they know that in an area like ours, we could bring in a lot of different people to off-campus or you know sponsored by off-campus people. Um have you where in your mind are you talking about
143the auditorium being built? So we don't have an exact location yet. Um but we are looking sort of around the fine arts building to see if there was an area that we could place it that connects it to that current building. Um but again we haven't drawn any plans. We would have to get uh PBK um to also help us with that to look at what would need to be done making the best decision for use our money. Um and is mariachi now going to we're trying to move them closer to all the other music. So we're trying to move them into the fine arts building and so they would be um right across the hall from an art room. If you've been in the room, the big blackbox theater, they're right on the other
144side. That's where that building is to me. That's the music hallway. Yes. So yeah, they deserve good. Yes. All right. Thank you very much to uh piggy back on what Jacob was talking about as far as on the 4 uh.121 as far as a renovation of the locker room. So, uh, we were talking about renovating the base, uh, excuse me, the basketball and volleyball locker rooms in in the gym area, uh, uh, as far as that standpoint of it. And also moving boys soccer and boys baseball to the fieldhouse. And so that would open up the current because currently boys soccer and boys baseball, their locker rooms are in the fine arts building uh, next to gym 3 if you're familiar with that, Brian Heis campus. And so we that would free up that space
145for uh a drill team and mariachi from that standpoint of it to clear that up. All right, the last CTE space we're looking at today is over at Rudder High School. And this is going to help remove our cosmetology and barbering programs from the portable buildings, the last remaining portable buildings that are there on that campus and put them in their own permanent space. Uh this will also allow us to expand that program and accommodate the students that are asking to take that course. And remember, all CTE courses receive weighted funded funding, which means that the more students that are allowed in the classroom, the additional funding gets to go to the entire school district. Questions? All right. Okay. Next, uh the uh 5.4, which is Ruer High School new competition gym. Uh so, uh
146three things I wanted to point out on this and then I'll let coach Ear come up and and expound on it. Uh number one is for the new competition uh gym why it's needed as far as safety and security. And so when you look at the player and fan interaction there at that gym, the competition gym, they're they're entering and exiting other players. Uh I mean they have to go through the fans uh uh before the game, come through the fans before the game to get to the uh get to the playing uh surface there at the gym and also exiting during halftime as far as going through the fans and those type of things. And so the the the the the design of the gym is not conducive for safety reasons uh from that
147standpoint of things. And also uh number two thing is schedule practice schedules. So right now currently Rudder has two gyms and and you heard us said before most 5A programs there at least have five excuse me three gyms. And so when you look at volleyball who has three to four teams, when you look at boys basketball who has three to four teams, you look at girls basketball who has three to four team. So that becomes some scheduling issues as well as conflicts especially when uh volleyball seasons overlapping with the start of basketball seasons. So in the past uh to alleviate some of those conflicts either boys basketball during volley during the end of volleyball season has to go to Raburn and but get on the bus and go to Raven practice and same thing with
148the girls basketball team. And so this will alleviate that problem uh as far as practice conflicts and those type of things and also alleviate the safety and and and security issues from that standpoint of things and also it would also alleviate locker room space. currently at uh uh Rudder Fieldhouse. Okay. At Rudder Fieldhouse, uh one of the one of the lockers they house uh boys track, boys soccer, and boys baseball. And so by extending uh locker room space in the new competition gym would alleviate that uh situation uh in the uh Brian Hyde fieldhouse. So I'm going to let coach Ezar come up and talk about expand a little bit more on the fieldhouse because he live it on a daily basis from that standpoint of it. Uh, I just want to interrate even though
149he's the head football coach, he is the campus coordinator and he overlooks all those different sports on campus and so he has an excellent ideal as far as the day-to-day life there. Jeff, before you get off that, let me ask real quickly. I'm sorry. Sorry, sir. How many square feet are we looking at in the knee gym and how what is our current gym at Ruer? I don't have that information at the moment, but I will still kind of just Yes, I will get that information. Okay. And a lot of that is seating capacity, the need for more. I mean, again, and I keep saying this because I've been around forever, but it was built for a 3A back then because Brian High was going to be a 5A and Rudder was going to be
150a 3A and we didn't have 6A. And so it was built for a small school gym and the capacity was for a small school gym. And now it's busting at the seams with big teams winning, bringing in a lot of, you know, fans and it's standing room only. And that that's why I asked the question, Miss Waller, because I want to make sure that we build I mean, I know we're on a budget, budget, budget, budget, but I do want to make sure that we build it adequately if we decide to go this route to to be able to handle the bigger crowds, to be able to handle it. there's no sense in building one because we don't want to spend the money and and it's not usable. So, you I think if we even
151if we needed to work something somewhere else, that that is my question on that is I'd like to know size-wise and as Miss Walder pointed out fan capacity compared to our current the the quote big gym, not the what's it called? The layer, what's the other one? The foxhole. Foxhole. Thank you. My daughter practiced so many times there I can't even remember. But yes, sir. So, just that's one thing I would like to keep in mind. Thank you. Well, I just want to say thank you'all for letting us speak today and and have the opportunity to talk to you about the gyms. The biggest thing I think you know it's kind of the same thing what Ruthie was talking about too uh is when you we have a game both our basketball programs have been
152very successful and when we play a college station when we play a console and there's all those people in that gym there's a big safety issue because it's standing room room only and then I mean basically you know being at rudder if you imagine the competition gym here the smaller gym over here there's a hallway and then those our players have to cross that to go to the locker room and we're just lucky lucky that something hadn't happened yet. And so, you know, that's the big thing. And then on the smaller gym when we're playing our freshman A, our freshman B, there's three rows of stands. I mean, there's one more row than we have right here. And that's the all the stands we have. So, that's the really packed part where people come in
153the door, they stand there, and we're just lucky we haven't had an issue there. And the walls are very tight as far as the competition. You know, you make a layup, a kid could run in the wall. Um, so those are safety issues I think that really need to be taken uh, you know, into account. And then also it's not just basketball, volleyball. You also have like drill team who you know you're that comes in uh, and does stuff after school cheerleaders and you know if there's bad weather football team you know as far as having to come inside and if you have three gyms you know it it just gives you more space to do things. And also, you've already, you know, said this, you know, when I was the athletic director in Willis
154for like six years, the medium point between Houston and Austin is Brian. And so, people are always looking to come to nice facilities here. And to have a beautiful basketball facility is going to bring playoff games. The turf, I go on the baseball and the softball is going to bring games, you know, to this area that will help re, you know, to to get money for the district. Well, the fact that we had 250 teams come in is an attests to that completely. You know, that that we are, like Miss Waller keeps saying, a perfect location. Perfect location. And I, you know, just the city of Brian itself, uh, you know, just able to get the when we have a big tournament like that that all the funds and everything that come to that. So,
155I just think putting a uh a third gym, competition gym would be really good. and also the expanded weight room so that our girls are going to have a weight room that is the same size as the boys uh and you know the sports that are down there as far as basketball and stuff that they're they're going to have a a you know a very gym that's very similar to the gym that's in the fieldhouse and I think as far as equity that's going to be something that's going to be very important too and then just having the the locker room space with our our track team has gone to 85 members now and so having 85 members in a locker room along with the soccer team that's gone to 80 and then the baseball
156team is probably right around 30 and they're all in the same locker room. So, if we were able to um get track over maybe to the new space, we could just look to see with the new uh locker room facilities. I think it would be very much an added benefit. Thank you. coaches are I remember at the beginning of the season one of our baseball players told me that he had to store his equipment in the concession stand and it got stolen out of there is so I mean that's kind of another thing is that you know our our fieldhouse is kind of in the middle and I would say I mean it's a good maybe half a mile to the the baseball I mean it's you know a good 800 yards to the baseball
157facilities and so I mean a lot of those kids almost kind of dress in their cars and again having an ability for them to have a place to dress and you know softball with this new gym I mean softball you almost could put a locker room in there because that's going to be very close to them uh in their field so there's a lot of advantageous stuff but basically having somewhere to dress for our baseball really our because our baseball program is the one that is the furthest one it isn't the pasture as you said and to have something where you know just that's why they call it a clubhouse in baseball just to have a small room where they can have lockers where they can dress, you know, I think would be great. Thank
158you. Thank you. Um, and I'll just echo the need for a third gym. Um, we have our color guard at Ruer High School uh practices in the hallway because there isn't space. Um, and we have done a phenomenal job at Rudder at getting kids involved in programs. uh you have done a phenomenal job as a board to make sure that they have access to these things and now the next step because it's working like we're seeing when I started 10 years ago we had about 30 people in the rudder band and now we're 138 like we're seeing it and our kids are winning awards and I think it's a great opportunity to see how we can invest through this competition gym through what I'm going to tell you about the dance hall and the new
159band hall. These are good problems that we have and our kids want to be in our programs. And so we're looking at 5.6 renovating a dance hall and providing a new band hall. Um this is not getting rid of the current band hall. This is an addition to the band hall so that can house more room for instruments as well as more practice areas um and storage. Any questions on that? Thank you. Okay. Uh next is the uh 7.2 uh Mirror Green new video board and sound system. Again, uh I spoke on this last week. It's forced currently with our video board. Uh it's uh was purchased from a company in Ohio and whenever something goes wrong with the video board, we got to fly this gentleman down. And so uh and it's also outdated
160from that standpoint of things and also the sound system. And so, uh, we want to try to do our diligence as far as, uh, if we do decide to go this route, as far as to find somebody local, uh, in the Texas, I mean, local in in the Texas, uh, state of Texas that who who, uh, ensures video boards, those type of things where we can don't have to fly somebody in just to fix our video board. All right. And the next thing there is the seven. Any questions on that? Uh, next is the 7.4 M green new fieldhouse. Uh, and so, uh, three things I want to point out on this as well as far as, uh, why a two-story fieldhouse. Uh, one thing I want, uh, first thing I want to talk about
161is is, uh, I mean, we're landlocked, uh, from that standpoint of things. So, we can't go out, but we can go up uh, from that standpoint of things. And also meeting the needs of our student athletes. We've kind of outgrown that fieldhouse uh, when it comes to uh, uh, participation from that standpoint of it. and remind you this is a district facility. Uh even though uh Mel Green Stadium is a district facility, uh even though it's Brian High Fieldhouse, uh when we created Ruer, it became a district facility. And so uh all of our uh sports use it uh from that standpoint of things. And so we want to utilize that as well. And so if you go to the next slide here, uh we kind of gather some information for you guys that hopefully
162will be helpful as far as uh picking back off last week last last week discussion. So uh when you look at Mel Greenfield House, uh it was originally built in 1972 and it was the square footage was 21,000 square feet on that. And then in in 1992 it was renovated and then and the square footage went up to uh 29,000 square ft. And so what was added during that time was basically the north side of the building. Uh I know you guys are familiar when you walk in the walk in the fieldhouse. The right side was added as far as that's consists of uh coaches offices uh uh the varsity locker room and and uh equipment room and laundry room. So that was added. Then in 2008, uh, additional locker room was added for Ruer
163football. Uh, in which, uh, now that's that's currently the square footage there now as far as the 32,000 uh, square feet there at at uh, at the stadium at the, uh, fieldhouse there now. And so, Rudder has outgrown uh, uh, that uh, current locker room. that locker room now is is uh currently uh girls cross country and girls track now houses in that locker room uh from that standpoint of it. And now Ruer when they come over and played on their Friday night games or Thursdays if they happen to come over on Thursday they dress in the uh Brian High uh JV uh locker room from that standpoint of it. So we look further as far as the sports programs currently housed in the fieldhouse. So we uh we have Ruer and Brian High football.
164Even though Ruer comes over uh they we house them in there doing uh games, Friday night games, uh girls soccer, uh softball, girls cross country, and girls track. And also housed in there is boys track, boys cross cross country, uh JV football, and freshman football. They all share the same locker room, which is the JV locker room uh from that standpoint of it. And also when you look at the middle school and intermediate uh sports uh that we play over there when we have the cross time rival between SFA and DBA things of that nature they come over and they use uh the fieldhouse as well to dress out things of that nature and also uh when we're now currently using pre-athletics uh in our intermediate schools to try to get our kids up to
165date. Uh we started intermediate inter inter mural sports and they came over this past year and we're going going to continue to do that as far as they come over and and use the fieldhouse to address uh and from that standpoint and this year we're currently uh plan on doing soccer uh track and and football there with our intermediate and so uh and also we look at all the playoff games uh that we try to generate there and our youth leagues and fourth grade track meet. So, this is a district facility and and right now uh we don't have the the space to to utilize all our athletes as far as being uh from that standpoint of it. And also far as the sports, we want to move to the fieldhouse. Kind of add talked
166about that earlier. Uh we want to move boys soccer, baseball u uh if we don't get a baseball field uh locker room in that area. We also want to move golf and we also want to move swim and water polo uh down to the fieldhouse cuz currently right now uh swim and water polo they don't have anywhere to dress. They dress across the street at the uh aquarium center there in a public locker room. Then they come back over and uh uh put their clothes in their car and go to class. And so that's kind of what we're looking at right now. So next slide here is uh just a summary of what I've just discussed as far as capacity as far as overusage. Uh one for one example and then I'm going let coach
167saw this come up and talk about the next slide uh with some pictures uh that that that uh that was requested uh for the uh fieldhouse uh for one example as far as wet bug glow. That's one of the things with the UIL as far as uh recommended for because of heat uh the capacity over usage. So this past year or year before uh I have to be housed in the fieldhouse as well as far as my office and so one day around 12:00 12:30 the wet bub globe thing went off as far as alerting the uh athletes that they had to come into the fieldhouse. So we had uh baseball uh we had freshman football, they had uh softball, they had uh soccer and and all these athletes were in the fieldhouse trying to
168find space to work out and those type of things. And so uh by creating a a a bigger size fieldhouse, this will uh provide more space for these kids to work out doing web bub globe situations and things of that nature. And also that's the age overall age of the conditions of the fieldhouse. And also we want to be flexible in in a new fieldhouse force providing classroom meeting space study hall areas uh parent and community engagement and training space for our district uh staff and sports banquetss because currently right now uh with uh sports banquetss the most teams are either using the cafeteria uh they're going out and ridden a a restaurant area to to uh hold their banquets. So with allpurpose room that we could add to the fieldhouse uh and uh that
169would provide us these necessary needs. So next slide here. So coach Tull is going to come by because he he basically lives in the fieldhouse. So his day-to-day life is is is more uh conducive to explain this better than than I can. But again, I want to emphasize to this our our maintenance department and our grounds department and our custodians have done an outstanding job throughout the course of of when this fieldhouse was built maintaining it. So, this is not a reflection on them uh known whatsoever. It's just the wear and tear of our fieldhouse. So, Coach T is going to come by and uh explain. Thank you, Coach Telus, campus coordinator, head football coach. Yeah, I want to I want to reiterate some things that we've already talked about and first and foremost as
170as coaches and I know maintenance as well, it's hard for for me and and our staff to stand up and and ask for things and this and that, but I'm here to tell you because we all just roll our sleeves up and and get it done and and work and try to make things better than way we found it. And that's just what we what we try to do. And our maintenance is unbelievable. the job they've done with the age of our equipment and um but at the end of the day the life cycle as we've kind of talked about everything things break and it breaks more and more and more so the cost of fixing all that stuff just starts to add up more and more. Um, here's some pictures there on the left
171just in the main hallway of that building. Um, where there was a uh water fountain there that the plumbing no more allows that to go back up there. Uh, in the middle is down below we call it. It's where we store our pads and and a lot of our outdoor equipment is stored up underneath that stadium. And that there is just a couple of the pipes that have been I guess for a long 92 uh per se. You can see there they're leaking water which that was today. Um so I don't think that's probably you know good just in that fashion. I will I would have to agree. I don't want to be I would have to say uh that's your chill water pipes for actually the cooling system for the building and so those
172pumps are sweating but what it's tell showing is the degradation of the insulation which does show your efficiency is gone and so again we either need to renovate or replace. So coach tell us so you said this first picture on the left is in the main hall is that correct? So, when we have prospective students and their families and we're telling them how amazing our school district is and how amazing our our programs are, which they are amazing, but it it's hard. This this puts you in an awkward position to have to come in and our facilities. You know, some of these other things, at least they're in the basement, maybe you don't see them as much, but you know, that that's not a good look for anybody. So, I you know, I think anyone
173looking at this would would have to agree that we need to make some changes. uh the the middle one there down. So when it rains a lot, the drainage in there, we have pumps now trying to pump water as fast as we can. We have a lot of equipment that's been purchased from our uh pads and like all our equipment down there. So there's now when it rains quite a bit, there's going to be water this deep. I wish I had a picture because we go to practice one day and it rained the day before and the water's this deep. So, there's coaches with our shoes and socks off just trying to get our pads to go out and practice and it ju it's just to the point where it doesn't drain well no more.
174Um, so that's down below. Uh, you can see a pipe there on the right. The the bottom right that's in in one of our locker rooms uh in the softball locker room. It's just cut out and it's wide open with um I think that's a water u fire type deal. Uh but it's cut open and and in that the only reason I say that is back in the day that's where I was coaching in that softball slash soccer it's all one big thing unit that's where when Rudder plays there that's where the opponents dress so this is what the other football teams see besides having to dress in softball and girls soccer locker rooms. Um, just an example. No question. Oh my god. Okay. Uh, the left side is is some of our weight room
175equipment. It's it's very outdated in terms of there's rust everywhere. That's part of the building that was in 1972. Um, the flooring is is still very old. Um, the right side picture that is our JV locker room. freshman locker room. Cross country um rudder is where they dress. That is that's in the back and there's two again water fountains there that are non-existent, not not allowed to use. Um the left side is the urinal in that JB freshman locker room where visitors come dress. So, if we have a team, uh, Port Nature's Grove wants to come play and they travel 85 football players. There's three urinals that work. And coach, tell us, so when you ask for repairs on these, are they is it not are they not possible to be that's so outdated that
176you can't get parts for it? Correct. Okay. It also could be plumbing issues behind don't have any supply any water supply to them. Okay. Wow. the right the right side that is the that is the shower to the JV freshman locker room and rudder locker room and visiting playoff team locker rooms up above is the nozzles that turn the water on. They they are outdated and cannot be replaced anymore. So what happens there's a lever at the top that is the emergency water. So to kid for our kids to shower, we have to turn that on. And our coaches are monitoring the locker room. So it's important that the last kid showering, hey, reach up and turn that off because at this time there's so much water coming out because every nozzle is going um
177the water's this deep. So if if a coach misses that last kid, it's take our shoes and socks off and go in and turn that lever off while water's hitting you in the chest. So, it's go take a shower and change and try to get to class. That's still wa that's water today that has still not drained from I'm going to say two months ago um when we got out of class. And then those trees are very antiquated and getting parts for them is virtually impossible. Okay. Uh the left is our coach's showers. Uh there's a picture of that here in a minute. But the middle one is the drainage. That's where the water goes in when it floods the bottom and it's just got a pump out fast enough. The right side we have
178in that big fieldhouse of the current sports we have we have three dryers and three washers. That is the backside of one of the dryers. It looks like it might have been a part of the first part of the That's a a HIPS dryer and it's actually a commercial dryer and even though it looks very antique and old, it is still a widely used still working. That's a good brand. Okay, that's down at the bottom in in the storage area. Insulation um yada yada all on the left side there. Um the top part is the same thing. That's all part of the side down below. Miss Miss Benford's asking why y'all are storing things down there when it's in such bad shape, but you don't have anywhere else to put them. Yeah, there's no there's
179so much Mel Green storage stuff in there from soccer and you name it. Okay. The left is our varsity locker room. Um that's urinal there. And then that's a water. You can't see it, but it's all rusted at the bottom. So, I put my foot on the bottom and it's one of those that sets water out that I don't, you know, it's and and the whole thing shook a little bit just from the rust. Um the bottom middle that is in the back of the washers. It's it's very um the insulation it it it looks outdated. We took pictures of that earlier. The top right is our coach's showers. We talked about the wet bulb earlier. We have 18 football coaches, freshman through varsity, and now all our teams practice in the morning so that
180we can get out and practice. We have to come in and monitor the locker rooms and shower to get to second period class. So, there's adults, three coaches at a time, and you can imagine how 18 coaches are trying to get showered in three stalls um with very minimal time to do that. And it's really squished together now with the wet ball. the temperature. It kind of forces us in that small deal there. Um the right bottom right is one of the pictures of the AC units or the vent. It's just got stuff in it and you know u I don't know how much more you have. I do I love the the information and we're all seeing stuff a lot of us at least that hadn't seen before. I I don't think the issue
181right now is do we need to do something. I think the issue is is what do we do and and how big should it be and and what can we afford and all those good things which is definitely going to be a very important thing that we need to discuss. So I I do want to try to speed up the meeting a little bit. So I don't know how much more you have. So but I again you you're very convincing that that's the fieldhouse is a problem. It is a major problem and we can see that. So appreciate all the information that you've given us. Yes, sir. Very quickly, Coach Gar's gonna come around and talk about his Friday night exper. I'll be I'll be quick. Uh, you know, when it said like Ruer had
182their own locker room since I've been there, there's really I mean what I don't know what happened to it. There's a very small space where the officials dress and I think that was supposed to be the rudder locker room but it's there was never you know coach Rush has done a great job since he's been the athletic director to put up signs where it looks like kind of ruer stuff but an example we played at New KY uh this first game of the year and their visiting locker room was huge where you could talk to your kids and like in our home locker room like what you're seeing like right there I mean that's that's where we that's our locker room as far as we when we're the home team and there's, you know, smelly,
183you know, pants in there and everything as you walk in there and it just doesn't feel like home to our kids. And so, you know, the idea of having a locker room that would be forer rudder that has a green color that we are that, you know, a district facility, uh, I think would really help our kids as far as their pride in the and the facilities and all that. And also, you know, again, this is the place, the medium place for playoff games. you want to have nice locker rooms for people to come play out play playoff games and you know I think to be able to do that but just to tell our kids like hey you know we play at Merryill Green which is a great stadium and we have our own
184locker room there I think that's huge as far as you know uh for our kids pride and they've done a great job of you know really making green their home and that's where they play but that would be a big addition to it so thank you so y'all seen this slide or some semblance of it earlier on the 9th, but we've actually put some square footage to it. And these are the items that are still being discussed. As we know, this is a steering or excuse me now bond steering committee. They still have to bring y'all recommendation. This is a report from them. But we still have another meeting, possibly two where we'll be looking at. But these are three items that are still to be discussed. As I said earlier, the uh renovation part
185that we have is 33.6 million. We'll drop us from a indi index of 59 down to the low30s. The other option would be to go ahead and replace that facility. Reality is to replace it with the same size, which would be about 100,000 square feet, would service 550 students. is looking at 61 which is how that FCI FCI number basically means is it's less than double of what your renovation would be. Then we also were tasked or at least looked into growth because this is such an amazing facility that is one of a kind really for our area and to upgrade to a 700 capacity or 126,000 square ft would be 78 million. Reminder, this building was built, you know, most people call it Lamar, but it was built in 1957. The other two items,
186which you did see, but that is the Brian High School auditorium and the Ruer High School competition gym. Those still have to be discussed with our bond steering before they make a uh commitment back to y'all. So, so that brings us to what it the scenarios would look like. Uh, so on the propositions, they would be broken up into three. You'd have A, which is your general. You'd have B, which is focusing on athletics, and then you'd have C, which would be focusing on technology. Now, again, I know we have those amounts up there, but we still need to get back to our steering committee and get consensus. So this is all still draft. Um but that would using these numbers it would be 397.1 uh million for those three propositions. And Julie that the
187name of the propositions is dictated to what we need to call it. Correct. Oh yes ma'am. Yes. So because it's called athletics, there may be a lot of things in there, but it has to be called athletics as per the state. Correct. There are guidelines that we do have to follow based on um numbers that of seating for example um and how many we serve and how how often are the lights on in that facility. Is it serving students all the time or just part of the time? That kind. So the three A, B and C and the name of them is told to us by the state why we have to call it those names. Yes, ma'am. Because of the based on how those funds will be used, correct? Yes, ma'am. And I believe
188we have Miss Riddle up next. Yes, ma'am. Thank you so much. Okay. Okay. And um one last time just to reiterate uh this current bond proposal can be structured within our current tax rate of 27 cents. Uh we did have a question come up within the steering committee about how much revenue a 1 cent increase could generate for the school district. And the answer to that is $30 million. So you can see our uh scale here. A $30 million is what a one penny increase would do. So you go for you can see the 430, the 460 and the 490. We are absolutely not suggesting uh this by any means. Uh we're simply presenting this as an information item so that you are aware of what 1 cent uh could generate for the district. Mr.
189Fiddle, may may I just I just want also for the public to understand that everything we have came in at 397 so far on this, but it is not it's not like we did that and said, "Well, wait a minute. We can go 400 million without changing this." There's a lot more that we would have liked to have done. Is that correct? that we that needs to be done, of course. But we we we've kind of just taken the the emergency items and done that. I don't want people to think that we're looking at it that we had quote $400 million to spend. We if we could get everything that we wanted to in the district, it would have been a lot more than the 397. And again, I don't I don't want people to
190think it coincidentally came up at exactly a zero tax increase. We're working to keep it that way, but not not uh but it wasn't it wasn't planned that we needed to spend everything that we had the capacity to spend is what I'm trying to get across. It was actually very difficult to get to that number. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You are absolutely correct. Thank you, sir. Double. Okay. Yes. I'm ask okay. But again, you know, it's always one of those, you know, well, how much how much can you afford? It's like going to the car dealer. What is your monthly payment? What is your So I again I just want to make it crystal clear that this is a paired down number. The 397 is taking the almost the emergency items that need to be
191repaired and addressed not simply well hm what else what else can we put in here to get up to 400 million. Yes sir that is absolutely correct. There will always be more needs than there are resources. So yes the team has worked really hard to kind of get it under four 400 million there. And lastly, we do have uh that famous ballot language that we're required to post. Um it is important for us to be proactive and educate our community about this language so that they are aware. Uh we definitely want to build that trust and that transparency. Um so educating the public early and often is uh is very important. So thank you. All right. Our next steps here. Um so we have our meeting coming up. Um, June 23rd will be our next
192one. You can see the past dates are listed. Um, so that's why it was so important that we get back here in front of y'all again. Um, because we want to be sure we get any of your feedback or questions and that we have that for that next meeting. So, if anything comes to mind between now and then, please let us know so we can bring that back to the committee. Um, and go ahead and hit the next slide. And then key dates and deadlines. Um, last day to order a general election is August 18th. Um, so we do have a little bit of time, but it is creeping up. Um, if y'all are feeling like me, the new school year is right around the corner. Um, so we want to get um some recommendations
193from our steering committee and be back to see you. Um, you can see the last day for roer botto voter registration, early voting. Um, and so you can see how important it will be also to get the information out in a timely manner. So, any questions? Well, thank you all so much. Um, we took a little bit longer than we anticipated, but um, we appreciated the conversations. Thank you all. Yes. Thank you very much. That was a lot of information. Okay. Okay. The next item is uh public comment on on either agenda or non-aggenda items. Do we have anyone? No. Okay. Uh then we will move on. Uh to the consent agenda. We have lots and lots and lots on the consent agenda. So hopefully you've had a chance to look it over. Uh a
194lot of these are renewals. Uh I don't know that there's anything uh particularly unusual or different. Uh but again if you are interested in getting more information or discussing it please. Well Mr. Stazzing I just wanted to ask did they change they changed the minimum is that correct on what what can be approved without our I thought I heard something I meant to ask. Effective yet? Okay. Okay. Uh but it was I think it's I think it is being changed to 100,000. Okay. I didn't know if that had gone in. I saw Yeah, it's not gone into effect. Well, obviously Dan signed it, so I I saw one. Mr. Stazzy, um I move approval of all the items listed on the consent agenda. Second. Motion made by Mr. Gonzalez and seconded by Miss Benford. Again,
195if there's no further discussion, all in favor say I. All oppose. It is unanimous. It has passed. All right, so we're not quite done. We have some action items. Uh we have uh consider approval of budget amendments to to for the general fund debt service and food service fund for the year ending June 30th 2025 which means it's the past school year basically. So again we have Mr. Riddle and Mr. Baw. Yes sir. I'm I'm going to take this one since it deals with um the items that we um the the current year that we're ending right now. Um and I think you have attached there the uh copy of the amendment. So this is to uh take into account some of the changes or things that happened during the year uh additional revenue or
196different additional expenditures uh that that came forward. Uh there are some items on there uh would mention one of them is increased investment earnings. Uh for example, the short-term interest rate uh has been uh very high and has maintained uh or stayed that high. And also we changed uh to EA changed our payment schedule. So we got uh quite a bit of money early uh early on in the uh in the year when we normally wouldn't have. That would have been spaced out more. Uh but that's about 1.8 8 million. Uh we had uh $2 million uh when it's just basically switching between uh state and local. Uh that's due to the uh homestead exemption uh increase from last year. And then so that gets made up then on the state side. So there's there's
197the 2 million there plus another four million uh for uh things like ADA uh adjustments and and increasing there. One of the big items uh is the uh TIA aotment and that's the teacher incentive allotment that uh is not known the amount until February. Uh that's when that number comes out. So there's really not any way to to budget for it. Uh so that that would be an amendment for sure. So the the uh and is one of the things we've talked about that's a pass through. So that's revenue to the district, but it's also uh required to be paid uh by the district uh out on the other side. So that's an increase on both sides. Uh other things uh a little over a million dollars increase in state uh funding due to tax
198ro audits uh for the 2020 and 2022 year. cuts where we submit uh we have a firm that works on this for us but they submit our property values uh to the state if it's uh favorable to us. if it's not favorable to us then they don't submit that which is one of the things if you remember discussion about the Jedi that was an issue that this the district can initiate it u and the uh the state said they they they don't normally but but they could so uh some of those kind of things uh the other thing was there's about 2.2 2 million in uh additional expenditures. Those were uh uh things that we had uh talked about uh that we could reduce during the year. Uh if you remember last year, everything uh
199with the change in fiscal year end was uh in some flux. We were uh moving some schedules. We were trying to uh increase class sizes a little bit, do some changes in positions through attrition and that. So that was estimated we were going to be between four and 5 million. So we were a little short on that. We need to add that back in. Uh there's also a bigger item there, the 3.2 million. That's um uh in the payroll side as we've changed our fiscal year end and changed computer systems. We also uh began to acrue the payroll uh and also the benefits. So that represents the benefit increase. We had never uh never done the benefits before. We did not really have that as an option. Uh but with Skyward, that was uh an
200automatic u automatic option that was chosen for us. It's really correct according to the auditor. So So we did that, but that we had already done the budget for the next year uh when that came about. And then there's just some other uh alignments uh just to uh make sure that we're covered u when we do the go through the audit and uh we're not short on on a function in any way. And then uh you'll notice at the bottom of that other uses there's uh $2 million transferred to the group benefits risk pool and that's from the prior year uh that we were short. we the the end of the uh 24 calendar year uh was was pretty pretty difficult for the group plan. And so that's funding to cover that which is required
201by law. We have a uh another uh item coming up a little bit later. We'll talk about that a little more, but the the general fund uh has to make good on anything uh any shortage for the group health plan or the workers comp plan since we're self-insured for those. And then on the other the debt service side, there was a little bit of uh additional funding again because of the uh homestead exemption that was increased and then uh revenue expenditure about 2.2 million uh that was the uh defecence or the prepayment of the 2013 and 2023 uh amounts that we that we processed. the the end end product the end result of all that we come to uh still with a fund balance of just about $6 million negative. So we uh we had
202some additional revenue but we all had some additional expenditures. So we we will come in uh we're estimating somewhere close to that 6 million. Any questions? I move approval of the budget amendments for the year ending June 30th, 2025 as presented. Second. Motion by Mr. Brian and seconded by Miss Waller. Uh all in favor say I. I. All oppose. Uh sounds like it's unanimous. It is. It passes. Uh 10B, consider approval of resolution for the commitment of fund balance for the year ending June 30th, 2025. Right. And this is I mentioned in the in the last item that this is a uh to allocate the fund balance uh according to uh potentially what what might transpire. Uh this is a uh board has to review this every every year, every fiscal year. It's required by
203our our auditors, but this is an opportunity where we uh can assign fund balance or commit it to certain items. And for example, one uh technology on there, we've uh commit a million dollars to the fund balance. And if you remember uh when we uh came into COVID, that was an option that we uh were able to do uh and when we uh had to uh immediately rotate to doing uh remote learning, online learning, we had that uh set aside so we could utilize that to move forward uh immediately and and do that process. Some of the other things in there are uh 2.2 2 million for high deductibles as we've increased our deductibles on the insurance. We've set aside some funding there to be able to make sure that we could we could cover
204those deductibles. Uh and then the group benefits risk pool again down there. We we've added a million dollars to put that at two just to make sure that we're covered uh as required by law. Any questions, comments? Mr. Mr. Stazzy, I move approval of the attached resolution committing fund balance for the year ending June 30th, 2025 as presented. Second. Motion made by Mr. Gonzalez and seconded by Miss Bentford. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Unanimous and passes. Thank you. We have adopted the resolution. Uh 10 C consider approval of purchase over 50,000 for armed security guards. Yes, sir. And this is a renewal of our uh agreement with uh TNT security. Uh this is our second or third year. This will be our third year. Yeah. Time flies, I guess, when we're having
205fun. Um they uh we've had a we've got a really good relationship with them. uh and uh that's basically provides uh armed security for uh all of our elementary campuses. Uh this is a was a requirement of the legislature in the session prior to this one. Uh and we have been able to secure that. Uh they did come uh to us and ask for a 5% increase on this. We uh pushed back and asked that they consider reducing that at least if not eliminating. and they said, "Well, we could do three. That would be just basically would be raises for our our staff." And so we we uh went with that as it would be a 3% increase uh from the prior contract, but everything else would remain essentially the same and that will be
206passed on to the employees. Is that correct? I mean, is that hope is that in writing or do we just I I know sometimes you have to take people at their word, but I would hope that any increase would go directly to the employees and before proving we haven't had I haven't heard anything bad about all of our our guards. They've been doing a really good job. Is that Yes, sir. Fair fair to say. Yes, sir. Great. As a matter of fact, Brian PD gave a real good recommendation to one of the guards that spotted a man that was uh what school he was driving around and was intoxicated and the security guard found it and they got to deal with it real quickly. So, it was exactly what is, you know, his job description
207and PD, he helped PD a lot. So, that was awesome. Yes. I wish I'm sorry I can't remember the school so give them a personal shout out but will you do that for us? Yes ma'am that was bonum bottom bottom bonum good yeah they I mean they've been real responsive to any concerns that we've had or anything we've brought uh to their attention uh regarding an issue or anything but I think the the best uh thing that we could say is we we've not really heard exactly yeah I haven't in this case wonderful news is good news yes sir um Mr. Gonzalez asked about being applied to the wages. It says what the hourly rate would be increased to 37 to 60. So assuming the math is correct, well then they are that should be
208passed on all that. That's what I'm Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they they list their their hourly rate for the uh which and all that in here. And so that that was increased from the prior year. So that should uh if if that's all u that should that should be correct. I'll entertain a motion. I move approval of the contract with TNT Security Solutions in the amount of $859,67 as presented. Second motion made by Miss Waller and I think that was Mr. Bryan. It seconded it. U there's not any further discussion. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Unanimous passes. All right. attendee. Um, approval of budget for the year ending June 30th, 2026 for the general fund, debt service fund, and food service fund. And I think the understanding is that before we
209go into this is that this could possibly have to be amended at some point depending on what exactly happens uh with the I guess some some unfinished business with the legislature and so on interpretations and all that. So but but having said that I think it's been considered as probably a good idea to go ahead and get this done. So, with that said, uh, go ahead. And I would like to know why why would we why is that a good move to approve it without having all the details? Is it because there' be so minuscule? Is is that well, are there deadlines? I'm sure there are other deadlines we need to meet. We absolutely do. Yes, sir. And in order to simply operate as a school district, we we need to have formally adopt uh
210a budget even though uh we will be coming to you with compensation options uh at the next meeting. Uh yes, we we definitely should move forward and adopt this as a draft and then we can make any adjustments needed uh in the months to come. Okay. Thank you. I do recall at SLI some of you were in the breakout sessions because we are a July 1 uh fiscal year budget. Uh we have to adopt it June. Uh and then what we were advised per TASBY, Tasbo, Tasa, all of them was to um wait to learn more about compensation, the definitions, the clarification, all the things. Uh so that would uh put us back into the boardroom in July uh to address compensation across the board which would uh necessitate a an amendment. Uh but we
211we happen to be an early adopter budget because the July 1. That's the I'm sure that's Thank you. I appreciate the clarification. The reminder. Yes. Thank you. Sorry. You're Yes. You're welcome. Yes. Tonight is simply it's um we do need to formally adopt the budget. So, I would be happy to take any additional questions at this time. Yeah. I was hoping you wouldn't start at the beginning again and go through. I can if you'd like me to. We have a book, Mr. Stazzley. Let's go through the book. Uh so, we all heard the details. Uh and but certainly they're open to any more questions if you thought of some in the meantime. Yes, sir. Mr. St. Move approval of the recommended budget for the year ending June 30th, 2026 for the general fund, debt service
212fund, and food service fund as presented. Second. Motion made by Mr. Gonzalez and and seconded by Miss Waller. Uh no further discussion. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Unanimous. We have a budget. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Uh consideration and possible action to select the delivery method providing the best value for the wayfinding and graphics, door hardware and exterior waterproofing repairs and maintenance and to authorize a superintendent or her designate to take all action for the procurement of such services pursuant to statute and board policy. We probably don't need a real lengthy explanation on that, but just kind of give us the kind of the shorthand on that and then if anybody has questions, they can ask. Yes, sir. Very good. The the board policy requires that um if
213we're using procurement uh method other than competitive sealed proposal for something that would need board approval that we have to come to the board. Uh what we're asking here for is a delivery method other than that. for example, uh request quotes or or uh co-op purchasing on these on these items. Uh they're smaller projects, but uh the formal CSP really isn't isn't needed. It also allows local vendors uh to be more inclined to get involved in this, too. So, uh we feel that that is a good option for this particular project. Any questions? Well, I guess I'll do Mr. Mr. Stazzy. I move approval that the board select the interlocal purchasing cooperative method of procurement construction services as providing the best value for the wayfinding and graphics door hardware and exterior waterproofing repairs and maintenance
214and authorize the superintendent or designate to take all action for the procurement of such services pursuant to state and board policy. Second motion made by Mr. Gonzalez and seconded by Mr. Brian. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Unanimous passes. Thank you very much. Um, next one, discuss and consider approval of school leaders liability insurance and excuse me, annual renewal. Yes, sir. And then the next three items are are insurance related. And so I think this is good news, isn't it? Yes. And and and these I was going to say these are are generally good news. Uh we have uh one we have worked to uh get our insurance policies all to run concurrently with our July 1 to June 30 year end. Uh which does cause some some uh a little looks
215a little funny on for example on this one uh the uh premium for the last uh policy period was only 37,000 but that was only a seven-month period. So if we extrapolate that to a 12-month period the premium is basically the same. So, that's a a renewal of a uh from a company that we've we've worked with for quite a bit uh and have a good relationship with. It's also the um u the policy so that it it it includes the full prior acts. And I don't if you're familiar with the the uh like professional liability insurance for lawyers, that's a that's a big deal. And so, if we would move away from the company, then you would have to look at a tail policy or something to cover those other things. As Mr. Gonzalez,
216you understand? I'm sure. Uh so this is a we think very good uh renewal option for us to to go ahead and renew that one. I move approval of AIG as Brian ISD school leaders liability insurance carriers. Second motion by Miss Pinter, seconded by Mr. Brian. And I don't I I was looking at this and I was reading had read a different version of the of the explanation I think but this was wasn't this actually a slight reduction in in cost or am I mistaken because now reading this I'm not so sure but I think it's level I think it's the next one. Yeah that's the next one. Yeah the the big one is is the uh the last one which is the property. Well this one is well just just to make sure I'm
217clear on this. It says annual premium and then but the expiring premium was for not the whole year. So correct. I didn't really try to do the math on that. Is is it the year? Yeah. It's essentially the same. Okay. The same number. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. It's unanimous. So the motion passes. Okay. The next one. Uh this is discuss and consider approval of purchase over 50,000 for excess workers compensation insurance. And when you say when we say excess, might explain that very briefly. Yes, sir. So uh since we're self-insured uh for this, the uh the district's uh risk pool covers uh the claims up to a certain level. And so this is a policy uh that's that's purchased that covers uh anyone that it's an excess policy. So anything
218that goes over a certain amount then this policy would kick in uh and and claim or or pay the claim beyond that level. Uh and this this again is a is a a flat level. The the uh annotation uh I think is is the prior year's one. We we I guess we didn't update that. I apologize for that. But the uh the renewal rate is still the same. The 0.0501 0501 per $100 of payroll. So the only fluctuation in premium would be if our payroll fluctuates. If it goes up, the premium would go up or if it goes down, the premium would go down based on that. But it again is a is a renewal with a company that we've dealt with for uh a long time and and maintain the uh the same rate.
219So we would recommend that we we renew that one. I move approval of the renewal of the excess workers compensation insurance coverage with Midwest Employers Casualty Company as presented. Second motion by Mr. Brian and second by Dr. Harlem. No, Miss Waller. Oh, sorry, Miss Waller. Um, and anyway, any any discussion? If not, uh, all in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. That's unanimous. Motion passes. And I think we got another one. So, discussing consider approval of purchase over 50,000 for property, general, cyber security, and automobile insurance. Yes, sir. And this is the one that I'm probably most excited about. if you can get excited about insurance. Um, and I don't remember if you remember me talking I think last year, the last couple years uh the insurance market for uh property and casualty has
220gotten very tight and and it's been difficult to to even procure in some cases companies pulling out of California, Texas, uh Louisiana, Florida, not even writing these policies just because of the the storms and those kind of things. And for uh several years our premiums had gone up uh by quite a quite a large number. Uh 22 the uh policy was 1.7 million. 23 we were at 2.6 million. Uh 24 that they actually got it uh kind of stabilized and so we were hopeful it this year but this year we actually have a a renewal rate that's reduction from that. So and again the prior year was a short year. Uh so the the premium numbers look a little uh a little funny, but it's uh roughly, if I understand, about a 15% uh decrease
221from the prior year. So impressive. We're uh we're pretty pretty happy with that. I had a pretty big number built into my budget when we were planning all that. I was able to reduce that. So that that was really good news. Did did we have a lot of hail damage this time on the cars or not? It was not not widespread. I mean, you know, there was it seemed like there was a few small areas that really got hit hard, but uh it was it was not districtwide. Yeah, we'll take all the good news we can get. Yes, sir. Exactly. It's the bad news is it was my area that got hit. Sorry. Yeah, ours got hit pretty hard, too. I move approval of the Texas Political Subdivisions TPS as the property general liability and
222automobile insurance carrier for the policy period July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 as presented. Second. I can understand. I'm I'm pretty sure who it was when it read the whole motion. That was pretty good. I can I got that one. The motion made by Miss Waller and seconded by Mr. Gonzalez. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Unanimous. And a motion pass. And I think that Thank you. brings us to Thank you. That brings us to close session. We have uh several items listed as possible discussion items including uh superintendent formative evaluation. Uh we also may have some of the other items listed uh although that remains to be seen whether we need to discuss those but they're all listed on the agenda. So uh we will now go into close session.
223Uh somewhere I've got something to read. Let's see. Um that the uh discussion will be in accordance with Texas government code chapter 551072 074 and 08 087 and 0821. No action no voting will take place in the closed meeting. Any action the board wishes to take as a result of discussion in the closed meeting will occur after the board reconvenes and open meeting. The time is now 8:57. [Applause] Uh we are now uh reconvening in open session. Uh no action was taken in close session. Uh and there being no further business, we are adjourned and the time is 10:20. Thank you.