001[Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] What are you? [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Incredible job, guys. Thank you all so very much. Let's give them one more round of applause. I know Mr. Mosscada, incredible job. Mr. Mosscada is over here. He's our director. Just so you know, Rudder has their own program and then we've got uh as well two at the middle school level. So, four different mariachis is just incredible. So, would you like to say anything? I know y'all are being recognized later for uh advancing to state. You kind of already said anything. Anything else you want to say? Um yeah, of course. Uh I just want to reiterate again our um gratitude to the district administrators. Um special recognition over here to Mr.
002Patrick Corbett. He actually drove the bus for us to go to state and we cannot thank him enough because literally without him we wouldn't have got there. Um and of course our our wonderful school board. Uh we can't function as an ensemble without them. And of course y'all our community without your support uh we can't do what we do. So thank you again and we very much appreciate y'all letting us come play for y'all. Thank you. If you've never made it to their uh concert, you need to. A couple weeks ago, they had it. If we could get the uh students that are saying the pledges, if we could get y'all to come on up, we're going to put y'all up here. We have a very packed house tonight. So, it's an exciting night. So,
003if you're saying either the Texas pledge or the American pledge, we would like for that to come up. And if you'll scoot in, if there's any empty seats, that would be great. We're going to move the um podium back. Kevin, you want to help? And ladies and gentlemen, if you're at the back of the room, if you'll go ahead and try to make your way into some of these seats, if you all don't mind scooching into the center so guests can come in. We still have some pledge kids out in the hallway who can't get into the room right now. I apologize, but if you'll come on and funnel in. We're going to keep this line open over here because the students that are staged in the hallway will be entering through this entrance over
004here so that you all have room. We have a couple more seats up here. There's two right there. There's two seats right up here. You all want to stay together, don't you? Okay. Do we have all of the pledge kids in? Are there any more out in the hallway? What do you think, Linda? They're all in yellow. Good evening. I'm Brenda Kernavik and we're from Johnson Elementary and this is one of my fourth grade uh compadres I guess. My name is Katherine Mson. I'm the c um the teacher that goes over robotics at Johnson Elementary and I am the ambassador's person and we're just going to let the students introduce themselves. I'm ahead. Uh hold on just one second. We're gonna we're gonna go ahead and officially open the meeting and then we'll do that.
005Okay. Okay, let's see. I call this uh Brian Penn 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 that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. The time is now 6:00. Uh I wish to extend a warm welcome to everyone present. I ask that you turn off the sound on all electronic devices and stand for the pledges. And the American flag will be by Navaro Elementary. Now you can go. My name is Naomi and and I'm in the fourth grade. Hi, I am Adriana and I am fourth grade. Hello, I am Kayen and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, I'm Zoe and I am in fourth grade.
006Hi, my name is Aaliyah and I am in fourth grade. Uh, my name is W. I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Legend and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Aris and I'm in fourth. Hi, my name is Alex and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Samantha and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Julia and I'm in the fourth grade. Hi, my name is Natali. Hi, my name is Ariana and I'm in fourth grade. Hey, my name is K and I'm in fourth grade. Hey, my name is Jay and I'm in fourth grade. I'm Miss Howeth and I'm the science and social studies teacher. Daisy Portio, bilingual teacher. Jessica Leon, bilingual teacher. I'm Calli Schuler. I'm a math teacher. I'm Barbara Dell. I'm an ELA teacher. I pledge
007allegiance 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. Thank you all. Very much. [Applause] All right, and we have the Johnson Jaguars. Hi, my name is Isa and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Izzy and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Sophia. I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Grayson and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Miriam and I'm in fourth grade. My name is Adelena and I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Evelyn and I'm in fourth grade. My name is Dalton and I'm in third grade and I'm in robotics. Hi, my name is Emma. I'm in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Eric and I'm
008in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Warner Watson and I'm in third grade. This this will be the pledge to the Texas flag. under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. [Applause] Always appreciate getting our students out to take care of that uh wonderful job that they do such a great job for us. Okay, we have a lot of spotlights tonight and uh I'm going to turn it the uh program over for a while to Barbie. She's going to uh keep it smooth uh running and because we've got an awful lot to recognize tonight. Thank you, Mr. Stasney. As Dr. Merrill mentioned earlier, we're thrilled to have so many people here this evening. We are very fortunate to have such a great crowd. Um, our students will be entering through this door right over here. Um,
009as well as our teacher spotlights. Um, we do have staging areas out in the hallway for them. When your group is called, the students are going to come up here and they're going to come over here to the stamp and repeat where Mr. Falls will meet them for a photo op. So, uh, just know if you're there, you're in the photo. Okay. But parents, we're going to keep the meeting moving even as they're taking their photos. The next group will be coming in as Mr. Stasny, the president, calls them forward. Okay. Thank you so much for being here tonight. We are very pleased to see you all. Thank you. But parents can position themselves to get your pictures. Yes. And and and any board members, if you want to uh be involved in some of
010the photo, I'll just feel free to go down if you'd like for uh for summer or a lot. So, uh we're going to start out. Barbara, are we ready to proceed? Where'd she go? Just working on the club. Okay. Oh, there you are. Are we ready to proceed or get set up? Okay, we're ready to roll. Yes, sir. All right. Uh, first I want to recognize Truest Bank and Tim Pablo. Uh, they uh sweeten the pot here on on some of these uh spotlight or these awards uh with the gift certificate. So, we appreciate uh their involvement. They've been doing this for a long time. The first uh to be recognized is Kathy Riley from uh which school I guess this is that Navaro. Okay. Navaro Elementary and Amy Tholman uh will be introducing Navaro
011first. Um, I'm introducing our May uh teacher of the month. Her name is Barbara Darnell and she's our one of our fourth grade teachers. She started at Navaro as an instructional assistant. And it was very quick that we noticed the passion that she had for teaching and um having uh kids struggle and learn. And she has been a teacher on our uh campus um for a few years. she was second grade and did such an amazing job that we moved her to fourth grade this year. Um I can't tell you um what a wonderful job she has done with our kids um with our students, with our parents. She creates such a loving environment, but holds her those kids accountable every single day. They don't have to decide if it's okay to do something today
012or tomorrow because it's always the same. Barbara Darnell. She is an amazing [Applause] teacher. Okay, I think we get back on track here. I think a little out of order. Uh the uh next teacher is Violeta Gonzalez and from Johnson Elementary and she will be introduced by Amy Thman. Hi, I'm Amy Thman, the proud principal at Johnson and I could talk your ear off on how fabulous Vleta is, but I have some Jaguars that I think will do a better job. You can do this way. Miss Gonzalez is special because she cares for me. She helps me grow. So close. And then the last one, as of a week, she is now officially an Aggie to all my Aggies in the house. [Music] And now I may have to ask for forgiveness, but we have
013a thing at Johnson where we have some awesome death. So, boys and girls, I count three. One, two, three. [Applause] All right. Before y'all leave, y'all clean that mess up. Okay. The uh Just kidding. All right. Did we do it? All right, we're going to go ahead and move on to the secondary teacher of the month. Uh teacher is Christian Renan and presenter is Lane Bubin, principal. Brian High School is honored to present Miss Christine Ren as our teacher of the month for May. Uh Kristen has demonstrated exceptional qualities this school year, including achieving the highest level of TIA designation. Her ability to build strong relationships with her students, has created a classroom environment where students feel challenged and safe to take risks. Miss Renan consistently displays an extraordinary work ethic, and is always willing
014to take the extra mile to help a teacher, student, or even her instructional coach when needed. Her kindness, patience, and positive attitude spread to those around her, and Brian High is lucky to have her on campus. However, she is quick to remind us she is the lucky one. Miss Ren is a joy to be around and her students and co-workers would tell you the same thing. Congratulations. [Applause] All right, moving right along. We've got uh auxiliary employee of the month and the employee is Olivia Barto and the uh assistant director of school nutrition services Bridget Young will do the introduction. Good evening. School Nutrition Services is proud to recognize Olivia Berettto as the May auxiliary employee of the month. Um, since joining our team in August of 2017, Olivia has worked in various campuses across
015the district. She's a valuable team member who works hard to keep everything running smoothly. Whether she's preparing meals, cleaning, or reorganizing, Olivia has learned many roles in the kitchen and is always ready to help her co-workers. Outside of work, Olivia enjoys camping, spending time outdoors, and nurturing her love of plants. She is a proud mother of two daughters. Olivia is dedicated to Brian Icy students and staff, and we are truly admirable of her. Her contributions are greatly valued by the Mitchell Cafeteria team and the entire district. Congratulations, Olivia, on a welldeserved recognition. Your hard work, kindness, and commitment to making a lasting impact of the great [Applause] All right, we're we're moving on with uh we've got executive director of athletics Derek Rush coming up and he's going to recognize the Ruer High School 4x1
016relay team uh who participated in the state track meet. [Applause] Good evening. Over the past four years, the ruer track program has consistently sent student athletes uh to compete in the UIL state uh track meet. Uh the rights have done a outstanding job of building this program to the level that it is today. And so at this time they're going to come around and uh introduce their players and and talk a little bit about them. Right. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Jiad Wright. I'm the head boys track coach here at uh at Ruer High School. Uh these are three of our uh four members of our team. Uh so we have far right that is Rashad Harris. Uh then we have Jais Martin and then Brandon Brown. Uh Jais is our long senior
017up here representing our our 4x1 squad. Uh Jais is gonna go on to the University of Houston to play football uh in the fall. U and then we have two uh up and cominging juniors who uh will absolutely get a chance to compete uh at the collegiate level. Uh just with their hard work and dedication that they've had over the the last uh three four years. Um we were able to do something that's that's really hard uh to make it to the state meet. um especially in a 4x one. This was uh the fastest 4x1 in the history of the state uh that these ga that these guys competed in. Uh we didn't get the results we wanted. We always uh our goal is to get on that podium. Uh but I thought our guys
018did really well. Uh they represented Ruer the way that uh that we we talk about at the beginning of the year all the way through the end. You represent the R on your chest. Uh, so we're just super proud of these guys and um and we're looking forward to what each and every one of these guys continue to do in the [Applause] future. And we're not quite through with Mr. Rush. I think we've got uh the uh Ruer High gymnastics team who participated at state gymnastics, me and I believe you're going to introduce head girls coach Jared Wilds and hope I got that right and head boys coach Omar Lawyer. Lawyer the gymnastic program continue to be one of the top programs in the state under the leadership of coach Wilds and Coach Laura. they
019have taken this program to the next level and they also have extended training and support to these young student athletes. So at this time uh coach Wilds who is the girls head uh gymnastic coach and coach Laura who's the boys head uh gymnastic coach will come around and introduce their players. Good evening uh school board members. My name is Omar Lawyer. I'm the boys head coach. Next to me is coach wilds. He is a girls head coach. We'd like to first acknowledge and thank the school board for y'all's continued support of the middle school and high school gymnastics program is unique to Brian Texas and Brian ISD. And so we want to say thank you. Also want to uh say thank you to the executive director of athletics Mr. Derek Rush and uh the assistant
020athletic director Josh Woodall for their support and guidance that they offered to us throughout the season. Uh without y'all support and the guidance we wouldn't have such a successful program. On to the team. I want to introduce each team and then I will talk about our accolades that we got at the state meet. Um we had one freshman Benjamin Farnsworth and then we had uh sophomore Brady Chavez, junior Michael Farnsworth and we had three seniors, Elijah A Costa, David Hernandez, and Aldo Rios. Um, these fine young men have worked all year and at the regional meet qualified as a team to compete at the state championships. We went just like with uh track, we really had a great plan and we try to execute it, but state is state and it's very difficult to do
021well. But we did have some high earners um on the floor exercise. Uh Elijah took fourth place on the floor. On Pomahorse, Michael Farnsworth also took fourth place. And on Vault, Elijah took third. He got the bronze, which is a big deal. Most of the students or most of the athletes that competed per event was in the 70s to 80s athlete. So to be in the top 10 is something we made it in the top five. These guys are outstanding and as a team, uh, out of 12 teams, we took ninth. So, we're going to keep working and building on success for next year. Thank you. Coach, did the Farnsworth gymnastics? I thought so. So, y'all are second generation Bast Gymnastics. Yes, the Farnsworth are second generation. Yes. Their their dad, Michael, competed uh back
022in the day. Yep. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Go ahead, Coach W. Awesome. [Applause] On the girls side this year, we had a very, very young team of mostly freshman and sophomores led by our lone upper classman, senior Mabri Chavez. Chavez. Um, Mabri showed exceptional leadership throughout the year, building up her young teammates into a truly competitive team. She uh des in addition to being extremely good leader, she also was a solid and consistent competitor where she found the award stand at pretty much every meet we competed in this year, culminating at her best performance of the year this year at the regional championships. At regionals, she scored her personal high score in five of the eight routines she performed and also had personal high scores in the all-around on both days of the two-day competition.
023After all of that, she finished in third place all-around at the regional championships, placing her well inside the top eight, who qualified to move on to the state championships. She had another solid performance at the state championships. And while she didn't quite make the awards stand on any events, she competed with pride and poise and was a tremendous representative of what Rudder Gymnastics and Brian IST is all about. We are extremely proud of her and all of her accomplishments in the last four years and look forward to seeing her grow and blossom further as she begins classes this fall at Texas A&M University. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] That's uh very impressive. Got quite a run in gymnastics. We're going to move on to recognition of the Texas State History Day winners and National History Day qualifiers.
024And we have uh Lisa Muton to uh uh handle that for us. Thank you. Thank you. I am the social studies coordinator for Brian ISD and with me I have Leslie Hulcamp. Dr. Hulcamp is our CNI coordinator and we wanted to recognize nine of our students from Texas State History Day who collectively won five awards at the state level and several of them are moving on to the national level. We have from the elementary division Eli Bayensky who won the Dr. Charles Pipes History of Veterinary Medicine award. And then we have the in the senior division in the group exhibit category we have Savannah Aartto, Serenity Aardo and Zoe Mauricio who won the World War II in the Pacific award as well as the naval order of the United States award. And for their naval
025order award, they are moving on to the national division of that competition. And then also in the senior division group performance, we have the group uh Gavin Nef, Juan Martinez, Sophia Spanielel, Eleanor Abbott, and Sophia PZ, who won the CM Caldwell Memorial Award, as well as placing first in the senior division group performance. And they will be pres presenting their award at the national competition at the University of Maryland next month. Wow. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] And the list goes on and on. We've got next uh you heard some really beautiful music before the meeting and we're going to I believe recognize uh Los Vingos uh having advanced to state for UIL Mariachi for I don't know ever since they started it. I think. Anyway, it's been a while. Was this year nine? Yes, year nine.
026Um, good evening. My name is James Moscetta and tonight I am here to recognize the hard work of these students, Brian High School's Maria Los Vikingos. Um, which I am the proud director of. Uh, I would like to firstly thank you the board. Uh, without your support for our students and programs, we could not do what we do. Um and it's because of that support we are able to have mariachi programs at all uh at both of the high schools uh Rudder and Brian High that offer fine arts and at both middle schools SFA and Davila um for the ninth year in a row and since its inception mariachi speaking has uh has advanced to the state UIO Mariachi festival and we are so proud of these students and how they represent Brian ISD to
027the and we cannot thank you enough. Uh, and we really do appreciate it. So, thank you. I think they wanted us to stand up. If the board will please stand, we're going to go ahead and do a photo with the with the whole group. Yes. Thank you. Right there in front of the DAS. on chair. [Applause] All right, we've got now recognition of career and technical student organizations. Uh we have assistant director of career and technical education Laura King joined by Parker Kudson and Casey Marshant. Good evening. Thank you for having us here tonight as we celebrate just a portion of our student success from this year. Um here shortly, I'm going to have Parker and Casey um bring each of the individual groups and their adviserss up to recognize them. Um but before we
028begin with those acknowledgements, I'm proud to announce that Parker Netson, our CTE program specialist, has been selected as the Joy of Teaching award winner by the Give Joy Foundation. Parker [Applause] Parker was chosen out of over 70 local applicants, a true testament to the incredible impact he makes on our schools each and every day. This award honors educators who spread joy throughout their daily tasks. And Parker embodies that spirit through his dedication, innovation, and passion for student success. Please join me in congratulating him on this outstanding recognition. My my kid still thinks you're the best. I just want you to know. I mean, that is you. It's a well-deserved award. The uh super safe trebuche that we made for the uh Renaissance Festival. I'm sure that did it memorable for sure. All right. As we
029said, just a just a little bit of the success that we've had this year for CTE. And uh first up, I'm going to um invite Miss Karen McMillan and Valyria Reyes up here uh for TSA for photography. She is a state champion in portrait photography actually through technology student association. Congratulations. [Applause] Next up, we have Steven F. Austin Fost Middle School. Our adviserss, Mr. Ross Baldridge and Mrs. Noel Ward. We have five state champions here. We have Jackson Hines and Jonathan Medlock with electrical applications state champions and they'll be qualifying for nationals as well. And then Enrique Gomez and Noah Condi will be um competing in problem solving. They were state champions as well, making it to the national level. And then last but not least, McKenzie Anderson is a state champion in desktop publishing
030and specifically business cards. So if you need a business card, Mackenzie can help you out there with our uh principles of business class with Miss Warden. So thank you'all. Congratulations. [Applause] Okay, up next we have our TSA national qualifiers from Davala Middle School. The adviserss are Joshua Trevinho, Robert Wilson, and David Sprouls. Uh students we had um Ashby Bullock, Karen Jamal, Frederick Coleman, Melanie Negret. They qualified in the teams contest. They will compete be competing uh this summer at the national contest. And then we also had uh Rihanna Niclarde and Areli Escalera. They qualified in structural engineering. So we wish these students and the advisers best of luck at the national [Applause] contest. Okay. And I also want to recognize uh Mr. Joshua Trevinho was the state technical student association advisor of the year and
031he [Applause] [Music] you need to wear it around your neck. We'll get you in change. Our national list was a little bit light up this. No. Okay. All right. Thank you. Alrighty. Up next. Go ahead. Is that supposed to happen? I've never seen dark. Somebody's leaning on the light. Somebody switch. It's a budget cut. Okay. We have some Davala state champions to recognize. So again, the advisers were Josh Trovinho, Robert Wilson, David Sprouls. These are some of our state champion projects. So we have Melanie Negret, Aureli Escalera, Christopher Bdderas, uh Pearla, Sakuri Collins, Angela Gagos, Ruby Lopez, Benjamin Toado, Martin Mendoza, Rebecca Sana, Jasmine Sandival, Kayla Shallow, Daniela Toado, Vega, Johanna Torres Barbosa, and Serena Trevinho. Congratulations you guys. [Applause] All right, next up we have SFA esports team. Their team is actually composed of
032two different video games that they play, Overwatch and Rocket League. Last year they uh did get the state championship in um Overwatch. And so this year there was a repeat for 2024 uh 2025. So they have a fall season and a spring season. So the Overwatch team actually won state championship in both seasons this year. And then the Rocket League team won the state championship this spring season as well. Wow. So our adviserss for that are David Mcha, uh Mark McDonald, and Tyler Glance who wasn't able to make it tonight. Would you have them step forward or wave whenever you call their name so we'll move? For sure. Yeah, please. So if y'all would step forward when I call your name. Benjamin Ruqua. Vincent Riverava, Colin [Music] Wear, Haley Vance, Cameron Busa, Christopher Green, Cyan
033Mithl, Lucas Escobido, and Jonathan Alvarado. Congratulations, guys. [Applause] Our next group to come in will be our Brian High Welding Monster Jam buildoff team. Yay. Our instructor is Christopher Lady. And as you can tell, some of them I think Mr. Lady, did you get to make it home in time? Okay. No. Straight from the shop today. We uh I actually got a chance to drop them off this morning uh at Braz's Valley Auto Restoration. Today was final filming day and pretty much the last day of full build activities. So um they had they got on the bus after I picked them up this afternoon. I said, "You guys smell like the shop for sure." It was windows down all the way back. That's for sure. So they they've been working hard. Um, so specifically they've
034had since I guess September, um, they've been building a third scale monster truck partnered with Monster Jam and Northern Tool, um, sponsored by DeWalt, um, Milwaukee, a lot of the top brand, uh, tools. And so June 7th, they're actually going to be displaying their monster truck at the Monster Jam event. Um, they'll have pit passes. They they've been a part of the crew. The crew's been actually coming up to um, some of the monster truck drivers and helping them. And so they've actually got the truck outside um on the trailer if you get a chance to take a look. Um it's amazing. So those um if you would step forward when I call your name. Alandre Cruz, Alan Garza Galvan, Carson Geese, Juan Danielle Kuroga, Joel Rios, Payton Stone, Riley Zach, Carson Dodd, Noah Drager,
035Caleb Gates, Noah Hen Hinger, Zayn Nelson, Cedric Robinson Jr., Nathaniel Surley. Congratulations, guys. Man, that's so cool. Great job, guys. So, is is that Oh, you're you're still going here. We have a few more. Bear with us. We're trying to make it quick. All right. Our next recognition is going to be another national qualifier from Rudder High School. Um the adviser is Mr. Justin Barrett. Uh he's in our computer science program at Ruer High School. And our student is Mr. Michael Farnsworth. He has qualified for the National Skills USA contest in computer programming. So congratulations, Michael. [Applause] Mr. All right. We have two more national qualifiers from our CEK facility. So, Mr. John Gerzik is the adviser for this group of young ladies. Uh we have Miss Maxine Khalil and Paige Cerny. They qualified for
036nationals in robotics and automation technology. And if you guys have ever been out to our CEKC facility and you've seen the manufacturing lab out there to see these young ladies work on the machines um and just their knowledge and their skill set that they have, uh we wish them the best of luck at the national contest. Y girls. [Applause] All right, up next we have our third time national qualifying Viking Pit Smoker barbecue team. Yay. [Applause] Smell it in the air. Yeah. Did they smell on the way over here too? Like unfortunately they didn't have practice today cuz they didn't cancel them out. No, but you can smell it through the beastro. That's for sure when they are. Um, so yes, again, our third time qualifying national um, barbecue team here at Brian High with
037our advisor, uh, Chef Brad De's and, uh, Joshua Newower as well, who was unable to make it tonight. And tonight, if you would step forward when I call your name, we're going to honor Cameron Caldwell, Ro Manaka, and wasn't able to make it tonight, Eli Robinson. Congratulations, guys. Okay, last but not least, we have some FFA state qualifying teams. Um, some of which have already competed and others that will compete later on this summer. Um, so tonight with us, we have adviserss, Miss Autumn Hagen, Mr. Dalton Quinn, and Miss Cassie Reading. These adviserss were critical in uh training the students in preparing them for these contests. And if you're familiar with FFA, um you know how big of a feat it is to get these kids to the state level. Uh so we wanted to
038recognize them tonight. Um and I'll just call the names of the young ladies here. So Miss Riley Stokes, she was on the livestock judging team and the a sales team that qualified for state. They competed and did very well. And then we have Miss Maya Williams. [Applause] and she will compete in July at the state FFA convention in Fort Worth, Texas. So, we wish her the best of luck in the senior public speaking speech that she's going to present. Yay. Thank you. Woohoo. Okay, is that all y'all got? Uh not that many people actually see this meeting, but some of you out there maybe uh social media influencers. Uh this is uh just a a small part of of the opportunities in Brian ISD and uh not a lot of people just have no clue
039as to all the opportunities that do exist. So uh please spread the word. letter let you know the public needs to know what how valuable uh Brian ISD is public schools in general and we would we would love very dearly if if y'all would help uh again spread the word on that because it's it's a it's a message worth worth hearing that and more people need to know about it. Uh without further ado, we have u Sarah Braden who's the executive director of Brian ISD Education Foundation and u there's going to be a recognition of district uh staff who have been awarded the Brian ISD education foundation paraprofessional scholarships and alternative teacher certification scholarships. Okay. Uh good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to share some exciting news as we recognize and celebrate the incredible
040dedication of our educators and future teachers. We are proud to announce that a total of $260,000 in scholarships is being awarded through two key initiatives aimed at growing and supporting our educator pipeline. First, we are thrilled to award two $20,000 scholarships to outstanding pair of professionals who are pursuing their undergraduate degrees in education. The first recipient is Taylor Baker, who works as an IC teacher at Rudder High [Applause] [Music] School. Unfortunately, Taylor is homesick. Otherwise, she really wanted to be here tonight. Our second recipient is Anisha Gray, who works as a sales classroom teacher at Kemp Carver Elementary School. Anisha is a Brian ISD alumni. Has worked for Brian ICD for 26 years. [Applause] Yeah, bring everybody. It's worth celebrating. These scholarships will help both of these women take the next step towards becoming certified
041teachers. And we couldn't be more proud of their commitment to Brian ISD. She's got lots of love out there. Love that. In addition to these two paraprofessional scholarships, we are awarding 62 alternative certification scholarships. Of these, our top four applicants will receive $5,000 which will fully cover their certification tuition. The recipients of this scholarship are Elizabeth Berentos who works in DAE. [Applause] Congratulations. Yeah. The second one is Megan Paisley from Rudder High School. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Then we have Jessica Walker also from Rudder High [Applause] School. Go Walker. And last, but certainly not least, we have Elena Chavez from Sam Rburn Intermediate [Applause] [Music] School. Beyond these top awards, 58 additional degreed pair of professionals or District of Innovation teachers will each receive partial funding to cover the majority of their certification cost. We
042are excited to announce that each of these 58 applicants will receive $3,450. Yeah, you can clap for that. This money will all be put towards their certification goals. If you are one of our award recipients, please stand to be recognized. [Applause] These scholarships represent a strategic investment in our future, supporting passionate, skilled individuals as they transition into certified teaching roles. We are proud of every recipient and grateful for their dedication to our students, schools, and Brian ISD. Thank you for helping us share this news with the community. And once again, congratulations to all of our awardees. We invite all of our all of our alternative certification award recipients to come forward at this time for a quick group photo. [Applause] He's sassy. [Laughter] We can just kind of congregate back here. Okay. Looks like we
043stand. I don't think we have to. Call three ambulances. Y'all get up on there. I can't get up there. I won't be able to get back down. I thought I might get up. I can't get back down. [Music] Ginger. And should we go down? Should we go down there? Okay. Oh, got another one. Okay. I was asking if we need like so far from the Congratulations. [Music] [Applause] Congratulations. Get to work. We're clearing the room now. Give me five. Give me five. Y proud of you. Good. [Music] The uh education foundation is completely separate from Brian ISD. There's mostly it's a volunteer board. Uh they raise money, they work hard, uh and this is this is what they're able to do. And this is not all they do. They do an awful lot more with
044the individual grants to teachers and so on. So we are incredibly grateful that they are so active and doing such a great job for us. President Stazzney, something I noticed that a lot of who just got those scholarships are the children of our teachers or farmer teachers. I see a lot of the friends I taught with out there and they're so proud because their children just stood up. Yay. Okay, the next uh item on our agenda, we're going to go ahead and move along, is our superintendent update. Uh Miss Carbine. Thank you, Mr. Sazzy. Uh I'd just like to echo a huge appreciation to our education foundation. Thank you for the investment in our staff who are serving our students so well. Uh, I'm going to make this brief because I felt like we've had
045a whole night of shining the light on our amazing students and none of that could be possible without our incredible staff. So, thank you to the teachers, sponsors, directors, coaches, you name it, for making things happen for our kids. But, we've been busy. It's the last week of school. Uh, but, uh, we're going full throttle. Uh, many of us just attended the Brian Collegiate High School college program. This is an This is a great day to celebrate every single student graduating from Brian Collegiate High School had a 100% college acceptance rate. So just another testament to the great things happening in Brian ISD. Last week we also celebrated Ruer High School. They had 11 student athletes signing to play at the next level. And speaking of signing to play at the next level, Coach Rush
046has shared that he was just uh informed that Brian ISD just set a record with the number of kids signing uh to play at the next level. In fact, we had 19 students from Brian High School and 19 students from Ruer High School for a total of 38 students signing to take their talent to another level. So, a big round of applause to our athletics department. Yay. Not to brag, but the uh the uh ath the sports reporter told coach Rush that that was the largest number in the Brazis Valley. So, 38 kids in Brian ISD. Congratulations. Very proud. Uh also signing, we had a student uh Christian Eddington at Brian High School proudly signed to the musicians uh department at North Texas. That's a really big deal. Another type of signing. And last but
047not least, when we talk about signing and taking their talent, we had three students in our CTE program that signed to enter the workforce with a high wage, high demand, targeted occupation. So, we're shining a light on all of our kids going on to the next level. Speaking of Thank you. Thank you. It is worth applause. Speaking of next level, we're so proud of uh Brian ISD as a district. We were nominated and then recognized as a semi- finalist by the HB Excellence and Education Award. This is a tremendous uh recognition for all of our teachers, our students, our school board, and our parent and uh community at large. Uh there were over 2,000 school districts nominated across the state of Texas. Uh out of these 2,000 school districts, Brian ISD was only was among
048only 25 to receive the award, putting us in the top 2% of all school districts in the state of Texas. So, a a huge congratulations to Brian ISD. Uh just one more congratulations to Parker Nudson receiving the giving the Give Joy award for teaching. He is the epitome of giving and serving our community and positioning our kids for success. And last but not least, I can't believe it, but we have four graduations this week. It's always bittersweet to say goodbye to the students that we love and care about so much. Uh, and with that, I'd like to congratulate at Brian Collegiate High School, vowictorian, Marlene Lopez Tovar, uh, will be graduating again, representing us as our vowictorian, attending Texas A&M University. Also from Brian Collegiate High School, Saludiatoran, Madison Pierce, also attending Texas A&M University
049representing Brian High School, Valdictorian, Olivia Shear, attending Satan Hall University. Saludiatoran from Bryan High, Emily Heslip, attending Texas A&M University. And last but not least, representing Ruer High School, our vowictorian, Natalyia Sanchez Zuniga attending University of Texas and Saludiatoran Caleb Ikeman attending Texas A&M University. We're proud of our validictorians and saludiatorans and all of our students. Over a thousand will graduate between Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So job well done, students and staff. Thank you, Mr. Stasnney. Thank you, Caroline. Okay, we uh now will move to some board committee uh reports. Teaching and learning uh committee. Uh I believe we're going to have a split report from Miss Benford and Miss Waller. Yes. Teaching and learning committee. Uh we met May the 6th via Zoom. and the board members present, Miss Benford, Miss Waller, Mr. Gonzalez,
050and uh Mr. Gonzalez was there at the meeting in Dr. Harlland's absence. Um she was out of town, I think, on your honeymoon, as a matter of fact. So, congratulations, Miss Wolf. Now, uh staff members present, Ginger Carbine and Dr. Barbara Yabara. Uh we started by talking about the purchase requests over $50,000 which usually our committees run by uh the committees we break down in as a board because we have to understand and approve any uh purchases over $50,000. Uh so Dr. Dr. Yubar explained to us that um there will be some uh sub supplemental services related to teaching and learning that will be presented in the June workshop for information and then considered in the June 9th meeting. The administration is carefully reviewing each request for evidence of usage and impact to ensure the
051requested purchases are delivering on expected outcomes and also uh letting us know in the place which uh items we're giving up uh so that we understand we're losing one maybe making another purchase in their place. something that could be of interest. School start and end times being considered for the 2526 school year. In response to the feedback regarding transportation services, particularly administration will be presenting tonight a minor we'll see minor adjustment to the school day at some campuses to allow for more efficient operations of transportation. In preparing this option, administration assured campuses would still open the doors at the same time in the coming year that so that parents who drop students off would not be impacted at all. So, we sure want all our parents uh in the people who are in charge of
052bringing the children to school, nothing's going to change as far as when the schools open for drop off time. And then one bit of exciting news for us to celebrate again tonight. We received notification that the city of Bryant awarded our Project Hope division a community development block grant. And for those of you that don't know, Project Hope is um part of our school. They help our students that are homeless and have unstable living situations by offering them uh clothing, food, school supplies, whatever they might um need. And so we're excited about that. And that is it. Okay. Thank you very much. Uh next is the executive board committee report. And I believe Mr. Brian will handle that. Uh the executive board committee meeting occurred on May 14th at 2 PM in our superintendent's office.
053Board members present, Mr. Stazzy, Miss uh Benford, myself, staff, Mrs. Carabine, Dr. Merrill, Dr. Ibara, Mr. Besaw, and Mrs. Friddle. Um topics discussed the bond steering committee update. We received an update on the bond steering committee's feedback and progress to date. which is available on the district's website. Uh there will be a meeting that will likely occur or um possibly meetings into June. The legislature has several potential bills that may impact our recommendations uh received from the committee and additionally the committee wants to dive deeper into some of the potential projects and estimated costs to fully understand the scope. also discussed and and we received an update on the Jedi process and agreement and more will be discussed this evening in close session. We received a staffing update and we are in the interview process
054for current vacancies. Two principal positions will be on the agenda for this evening for consideration. and also received an update on board goals and key performance indicators as it relates to progress and the upcoming formative evaluation of our superintendent discussion about the Texas strategic leadership initiative that will support the district in development of future goals and indicators. That is all. Thank you, Mr. Brian. Uh we now move to an information item uh regarding the hours of instruction and operation for schools and I believe Dr. Barbrey Mara and interim executive director of operations Pat Corbett are going to present. Thank you Mr. Stasnney. Uh this evening we'd like to bring forward to the board um some feedback that we received from stakeholders and our solution for responding to that that feedback and thank you Mrs. Waller
055for the summary earlier. It is a minor change to the operational minutes of schools. Um but one we wanted to talk about tonight with with everybody. Um so when we look at our school start and end times that's pretty um important to the community. Um but mostly we look at how it impacts our students as well. So children first always. So, we're looking at the academic success, making sure we have enough minutes of instruction to fully educate students to the curriculum standards of the state of Texas, looking at their health and well-being, and then just looking at what those needs are for students. Uh, we do have required operational and instructional minutes by the state of Texas. Each year, we must satisfy 75,600 minutes. Uh, back in the day, it used to be the number
056of days you went to school. A few years back, STE Texas changed it to minutes. So, how many minutes do can we account for? Um, and with that, we want to build in days to make sure we can make up bad weather days without having to go into those summer months to make up those days. So, all that comes into consideration, as well as the family impact. Um, when we're talking uh with Mr. Corbett and the transportation team about when should school begin. We also have a pretty large geographic footprint. So, we want to make sure that our little prek kiddos aren't getting on the bus too early. Um, and making sure that it's appropriate to their health and well-being and their developmental age. Um then of course our staff impact making sure they can
057get to work and also take care of their own small children and by dropping them off at school prior to coming. So some of the feedback we've received this year um and things that stakeholders across the board want to ensure are happening in Brian ISTD. We want to ensure that students who utilize transportation services, this seems pretty reasonable, arrive before school begins. And we also want to make sure they have time to get breakfast before said school begins. We want to ensure that parents who are dropping off students are able to get to work on time. Again, that seems like a pretty reasonable request. Uh we want to ensure that buses are able to pick up students when the school day is over and get them home in a timely manner so they do not
058wait at their campus for 20 30 minutes for the bus to arrive and then make their way home on a bus route. Um to the extent possible, we want to align the number of instructional minutes across campus levels so that it's roughly the same number of minutes for a school day no matter what grade that you're in. And to the extent possible, making sure that staff members can take care of their own small children before coming to work. Uh if they need child care services or daycare um to be able to accomplish all of that magic, uh Mr. Corbett's going to speak a little bit about a transportation analysis to help us be more efficient with our systems. Thank you. So earlier earlier this uh this year we had we contracted with a company called
059Transpar to do a analysis of our our transportation department to see where we where we could become more efficient and some of the uh big the big things that we needed to work on. And a couple of the of the big things that came out of it was we just not did not have time uh in between our elementary and our secondary uh school bell times. We did not have time to run a route and get our kids to school on time on a on a regular basis. Some kids were getting there, but we just didn't we just didn't have time. The recommendation was to have at least 60 minutes of time between uh the the the campuses so that we could our buses could leave one school, go out, pick up another set of
060kids, and get back to the school on time. So that 60 minutes was something that we uh were looking at when we came up with some uh start and stop times. And the other and the other big thing is some of our campuses are are not as efficient at loading for various reasons. Most are, but there are some things that we can do better. And that's that's something that we're going to be working with our school leadership department on making sure that our buses are not that the students are ready to go when the bell rings. And then as a transportation department, we're going to do our job to make sure our buses are there when they're supposed to be. Uh so if you'll if you look at our start and stop times, we came
061we proposed several different um schedules to in order to give us that 60 minutes. So we these are the times that we uh decided had the least amount of impact on the current uh bell change to the current bell schedule and and still giving us our 60 minutes. So uh our elementary schools will just be starting five minutes earlier. Uh their school day will remain exactly the same. Our intermediate schools uh were shortening actually shortening their school day by five minutes. We there was a 10-minute difference in their bells in the afternoon and that 10 minutes really caused a lot of issues for our transportation routers to get from intermediate schools to deliver students and get back to the secondary campus. Um and so then our uh middle middle schools were we're starting will be
062starting 10 minutes later but they'll middle school will be ending at the same time and high schools will also be starting 10 minutes later but going five minutes longer. So as Dr. Riara pointed out it does actually balance the instructional days. If you'll see the surplus days are a lot more even across uh all of our campuses now. So we don't have uh teachers at one grade level teacher working a longer contract. Just a little bit of trivia that you may or may not have on the top of your head. How how many miles do our buses run each school day? I couldn't tell you right off the top of my head. Okay. It it anybody know supposedly it's the equivalent of New York to LA. Los Angeles back to New York. It is a
063lot. I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah. It's a crazy number. We're going to go. Sorry to hit you cold like that, but I appreciate that. You let us down. Oh my gosh. So, with those proposed changes, we um of course got feedback on how those would impact various stakeholder groups. We talked to our campus administrators and Mr. Corbett was gracious and answered many of their questions about when should they expect buses to arrive. So they had staff there to take care of the students. Um and and at same thing at the end of the school day as well. Uh we visited with Mrs. Carabine's parent leadership team and got feedback from them. Um overwhelmingly it was not a big impact for most families. Um it it's six of one half dozen of another depending on
064where your kids are at. But for the most part, they felt like it was a minor change, especially given and and this is important. Uh if you go back and look at this slide, the school doors open at the same time as they do right now. So if you need to get to work on time, even though school's starting maybe 10 minutes later, the school door is still open at the same time as they did this year. So for a family who's dropping off prior to work, it should not be impacting them in any negative way. Um, and then we also talk to all of the curriculum team, um, instructional side of the house to make sure that we're covering the number of minutes. There are certain rules about how many minutes each class must
065be at certain grade levels. Um, and so it still can meet all of those minutes. Um, it'll be a little tight for some transitions at the high schools, but they're making it uh, right now work with their proposed bill schedules. And then of course, we're here this evening to receive any feedback from the board of trustees um, and what you might have before we move forward. So, are there any questions that Mr. Corbett or myself can answer for you? 10,000 miles, sir. He forgot. He just remembered. That's I'm quite impressed. [Laughter] Wow. Anybody? Well, thank you for all, you know, all the work y'all put into this. I know. Yes. That's that's very very important. Thank you very much. Uh sometimes we forget about the logistics of just getting kids to and from school. Uh
066now our soon to retire assistant superintendent of business services Kevin Bsaw and the person who will be transitioning in Norma Friddle will I hope I got that spelled. Did I pronounce that right? Riddle. Okay. All right. She said it's riddle with an F. Is that right, Miss? uh will will give us uh an update on the budget development status for 2025 which has been a real simple easy process because the legislature as usual has cooperated beautifully and telling us and telling us exactly what to expect. Oh, I made that up. Anyway, go ahead. I was going to say you have different information than I have, but hopefully that's you hopefully they're trending in that direction. But no, I it it has been a difficult challenge as you as you've said. Um, I'm going to go
067through uh just preview a little bit of some of the things we've already talked about just to make sure we're all on the same page, aware of of what we've uh discussed here before, what we've discussed with the campuses, the district leadership teams, any of the uh Miss Carbine's uh groups that we meet with the parent uh parent advisory superintendent uh all of those committees. We've talked to all of them. try to uh make sure that everybody understands where we are and and exactly what we're what we're uh dealing with and what we're up against. Again, we always want to keep uh in line in mind the the reasons that we're doing this, right? We support a high quality instruction uh and and those resources and retain a high quality recruit a high quality workforce,
068maintain a healthy fund balance, which we we need that. That's part of our first rating. uh and uh you know, you want to have something to fall back on should should things get worse, which we hope not, but you never know. And then safety and security now is always top priority and what we're talking about. This is just a a timeline of of where we've been the budget and legislative timeline. Uh you can see 2223 we started out with uh a negative budget adoption and the 23 legislative session ended uh with no decisions on anything really to do with uh school funding and went on to four special sessions. Didn't complete uh any of that. There was no additional funding. We moved through 23 24 and then 2425. Of course we're the 20 January 25
069legislative session is ongoing now. I'm going to turn it over uh in a minute to uh Miss Friddle to go through the legislative uh update as to where we are uh at this time and there's some changes things that have come out just recently uh as as recent as this weekend. And again, all of the the things we make sure that you know everyone understands this is this is not a Brian ISD problem. It's uh there's many schools in Texas that are having similar issues or or many of them even worse. And it's not even just Texas. It's it's really a nationwide uh dilemma that uh public education is is uh seeing uh as far as funding for our schools. And then make sure that we're we're talking about we have really the three type
070of funds. Local funds, our bond funds, and grant funds. Tonight, mostly we're talking about the local funds. That's uh our property tax revenue and our our state uh funding. and then make sure that you know that funds our day-to-day operations uh not the buildings and and other things that we uh uh facilities and that that would be through the bond fund. So tonight we're talking only mainly local fund and day-to-day operations and and uh working on maintaining our fund balance uh to be sure we have at least 60 to 90 days of operating at all times. And then we can't go without mentioning the cup uh of course you know which sets our uh our amount of our funding uh the 6160 per student and of course that's based on 100% attendance. It's reduced uh
071for for every day that uh they're not in attendance and uh then the local property taxes fill that to a certain point. The state fills the rest of that cup and then we go make sure that everyone understands our local property values go up. that doesn't uh bring in extra money for the for the district. It just reduces the money that the state uh funds and we've gotten our preliminary uh property values and they have gone up again in prior years prior to 2019 that would be a good thing for us. That would have meant extra revenue for us but uh it it no longer means that it just means the state will fund less of our uh of our uh funds. And then just to just to talk again about the inflation and and
072the basic aotment uh really hasn't changed there. You can see in the chart the inflation lines go up behind the cups there. The cup has really stayed in the same uh the same amount, same size uh and some of the things that have happened uh as far as inflation wise uh that the district is dealing with. And just as a as a point of of interest, if the Texas legislature uh had accounted for inflation, increased the basic aotment to to match that, that would have been approximately 15 to$16 million in additional revenue uh to the district. And then we just talk about some of the examples of uh mandates that we have, but underfunded mandates. So that when the the governor talks about the how much money we receive and all of those things in
073the different mandates or the different uh uh allotments and things that we get besides the basic aotment you can see transportation is is a large one there. Um the allotment is about 1.4 million and our actual cost to run the transportation department uh for the year is a little over six million. So that one's severely underfunded. Safety and security is another one which uh Miss Friddle will talk about in a minute. There is a uh an adjustment to that in one of the bills that's coming forward. It would actually raise our our state aotment and security from 521,000 to about 1.1 million. That's double, but you can still see there the cost uh just for our SRO's and our uh safety or uh uh armed security on the elementary uh to cover every campus is
074uh just about $2 million in itself. So 1.1 is better. It's it's a little over half, but it still is short uh of meeting that need. And those are mandates from the state to to cover those. And then this is the main, you know, what Texas public schools financial challenges, but it's also even statewide, nationwide, um you know, had record inflation, uh the end of the esser grants, which was the relief funds that were uh to help get through the the uh the challenge of the of COVID. And then no change in the basic aotment since 2019 equals the statewide financial challenges for Texas public schools. And I'm going to turn it over to Miss Friddle now to go over the uh legislative update at this time. Good evening, Mr. President, board members, and Mrs.
075Caribine. Tonight, I'll be providing some key legislative developments from the most recent session, specifically those affecting school finance. and then we'll talk through what these changes could mean for our district moving forward. So, on May the 3, the legislature approved Governor Abbott's school voucher plan, introducing a major change in how public school funds are allocated for private education. Eligible families can receive $10,000 or $11,500 if the student has a disability. And just a quick reminder that private schools are permitted to select a nationally recognized assessment of their choice and they are not subject to federal and state laws regarding students with disabilities. Okay. So what are some of the highlights and revisions made to House Bill 2 that were originally proposed? And before I continue, let me remind you that just to combat inflation, districts
076need an additional $1,300 increase to the race in the basic aotment. I'm sorry. Districts need an additional $1,300 increase to the basic aotment. So, one of the major amendments was reducing the basic aotment from $395 to $55. I heard an expression today that says that the counter proposal was like throwing a cup of water at a burning house. In other words, this is completely inadequate in addressing the major crisis that our Texas school districts are facing. So, let's go through some of the other specifics. The teacher retention aotment for classroom teachers. So there is nothing for teachers with zero to two years of experience or any other staff. There's a $2,500 increase for each classroom teacher with three to four years experience, $5,500 for each classroom teacher with more than five years of experience. And
077just as a recap, there's about $255 million for charter schools facility funding, and there is also an increase for school safety. This amendment amended bill also prohibits uncertified teachers in the core curriculum for the 2627 school year. So if the current version were to pass as amended, it would produce about $6.7 million in additional funding. I don't have a little red light here. That's okay. So let's go through some of those big ticket items. So, one of the major um variables here is that we are starting with an ADA of 14,450, which is um pretty conservative. That's about where we're at right now. Okay. So, you can see the increase in the regular program aotment of about 629,000. The next big ticket item is uh special education evaluation aotment for about 731,000. And if you
078keep kind of scrolling down the aisle there, you'll see a line item for the teacher retention allotment of $4,365,000. So between the special education evaluation and the um teacher retention aotment, that makes up about 75% of the total increase that our school district would realize if this amended version were to pass. So to put that into numbers, outside of that, we would have about $1.6 million to address raises for all other staff. With that $1.6 million, we would need to have make that stretch to make sure that our property insurance increases are covered with that and any other increases that the district could face. So $1.6 million I do recall that we did adopt a deficit budget of $6 million this year. So, you can kind of see that 1.6 is not going to take
079us very far. Too much doom and gloom here. All right. So as a quick recap, let's look at the projected costs uh here for once again teachers 0 to two years of experience and all other non-eing staff will not see an increase in their compensation. Teachers three to four years will see 2500 and teachers five uh plus years of experience will see about $5,500. So, moving on, uh, if you recall, there were some retention stipens that were sprinkled, uh, in the 2425 school year. Employees received, um, $1,000 new teacher sign on bonus. In September, employees saw 2% retention stipen, and that was for all employees. Nobody saw less than $500. In December, there was another round of those 2% retention stipens, and once again, nobody saw less than $500. And then in May, employees below
080pay grade uh A6, there was a 2% and not less than $500 again for all employees. Employees in paygrades A6 and above received a 1% raise. So what is the price tag for these one-time retention payments? The price tag for that was approximately $7.2 million. So if we can think back on the 1.6 6 increase that we see for all employees in comparison to the 4.3. We pretty much kind of we get there. So, um I don't typically read off the slides here, but I do think that this one is worth reading. So due to no action at the state level and in consultation with TASBY and TASBO, there is not information at this time to make any recommendations regarding compensation or possible retention stipens for the next school year. Decisions and information will be
081forthcoming as the legislative session unfolds. And one last final thought, compensation is always based on available funding for that fiscal year. And in an effort to balance the budget, the district has practiced some cost containment strategies uh to include uh carefully reviewing each position before making hiring or replacement decisions. Speaking of reviewing each position carefully, if you recall, our district did invest in a financial platform called Skyward. And Skyward includes a module for staff planning. Um, we have been working very hard behind the scenes to get all of our positions in. We've been working with HR. We've been working with technology. And God bless Jennifer Lemons. Where is she? She in here? No. Alan. Okay. Um, we have an just an amazing team here. So, between HR technology, we have been auditing that staff planning
082file, putting every single position in there, and we need to touch every single position. We need to analyze all of our vacancies and see how we can streamline uh some of these operational efficiencies, make them um just make them more efficient so that we can operate as optimally as we can. So we've been doing that, analyzing vacancies, refining the master schedule. Um we are considering all options to reduce expenditures at this time. Um again everything that we've been doing for the last couple of years um further reduction of staff maybe through attrition reviewing all positions for potential consolidation and cost savings. So here we are on the budget calendar timeline. As you can see we are uh in the middle of May. We are deep in the mud and we are um publishing the budget
083hearing notice. Actually, that will happen later. Um, but we have been um sending campuses and departments their budgets out for review and we will be coming back on June 2nd for a final update uh to the board of trustees budget. Hopefully by then we will definitely have some better guidance on what the legislature is going to propose and what the governor is actually going to sign. But right now it is very difficult to actually nail down or make a decision on any kind of compensation planning right now. Um I I don't know really of any school districts in our area that have really nailed that down or have made any any major announcements. So um we're just kind of we're in the same boat. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Great job. All right. We
084uh we do uh provide an opportunity for citizens to make comments about topics relevant to district business either agenda or non-aggenda items. Uh comments regarding specific personnel will be heard in close session. Uh any comments be limited to three minutes. I have one request from Gail Masters. Uh, and this is regarding Kickstart Kids. Come on up. Currently, Kickstart Kids is at three of Brian ISD campuses, Jane Long Intermediate, Rayburn Intermediate, and Davilla Middle School. I'm asking the board, I know budget is a problem, if they could consider having kickstart kids at um, Stephen F. Austin Middle School as well. Just in the first year for my daughter at Jane Long, I've seen a lot of growth, development. Um, she went to state and uh I don't know, I've seen her grow tremendously over the last
085year and I'd like to see that continue as she goes from Jane Long into Stephen F. Austin. Okay. Thank you very much. Congratulations. doing so well. All right, the uh next item is the consent agenda. Uh there's not a lot there. We do have uh a couple of items. Board may remove any item from the consent agenda. If there uh and if there's none, no items are removed, then I will entertain a motion to approve the consent. St. Move approval of all the items listed on the consent agenda. Second. Excuse me. A motion made by Mr. Gonzalez and seconded by Miss Bedford. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Pass unanimously. We had one action item in addition to that which I believe is uh not going to be considered tonight. So that's going
086to be removed and delayed for a later meeting just due to the fact that it was uh not able to get uh some essential information I believe to to hand to deal with that. So now we will convene in close session to discuss the following items as allowed by Texas Government Code Chapter 551.0. 0074.071 and 0087 and 00821. No voting will take place in close session. Any action the board wishes to take as a result of discussion in close session will occur after the meeting reconvenes in the open meeting. The time is now 7:21. How's that? You like Did you like that? I like that. Beautiful. Beautiful. The board reconvene and open session at 9:02 p.m. No action was taken in close session. Uh we will now consider approval recommendation to hire the principal at
087Stephen F. Austin High School. Mr. Stazzney. I move approval of the superintendent's recommendation for Rebecca Luna as principal of Steven F. Austin Middle School. Second. Motion made by Mr. Gonzalez, seconded by Miss Benford. Is any discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. It's unanimous. Uh, also we have another motion uh or or consider approval of the recommendation to hire the principal of Navaro Elementary School. Mr. Stazzy, I move approval of the superintendent's recommendation for Tara Hunter as principal of Navaro Elementary School. Second. All right. Uh, we had motion by Mr. Stennis and second by Miss Benford. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I all oppose. It is unanimous. There being f no further business, this meeting is adjourned at 9:03. Everything.