0016:31. I call this regular meeting of the Encount Center School District to order. Today is Monday, September 22nd, 2025, and we are meeting in the administration building boardroom at 920 West Santa Rosa Avenue in Couch, Texas. As we begin, I would like to remind everyone that this meeting is being conducted in accordance with the Texans meeting. Roll call >> present. Junior >> present >> here. >> Dr. Ricardo >> here. Let the record reflect that a form of board members is present with the form established. We now begin with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Oh, there she is. >> Heavenly Father, we started meeting. Heavenly
002Father, we just are so grateful for the challenge the second heavenly father. We continue to give us blessings to people and students and heavenly father bless our board members as you guide them to make the most important decisions for the district also as a very special foreign >> sandy you wanted A moment of prayer for Jose Gonzalez's child. >> Yes. Uh for Chloe, we can just all keep it in our prayers. Uh Chloe is one of our students at Thwan Junior High and uh is also a member of our mariachi. >> Thank you. comments from the public signed up recognitions. A recognized at Calulsa Early College High School that earned designations and distinctions for the 2025 2026 school year in access, attainment, and achievement awarded by the Texas Education Agency. B recognize Tammer Leia, senior,
003and Aliyah Ramirez, Jr. earning a thousand career dates breakouts high school ballach here. for outstanding performance presented to the Josea Early College High School achievement regard that we're really excited about this recognition. This is the second year in a row that our great college high school has been designated. And we also um earn distinctions in three areas. And so we're really excited the hard work of our students, our teachers, our administration, our support, staff, our counselor, and of course our team. We're very grateful for our boards um providing this opportunity for our community at no cost to the students uh and these students that are earning associates and building. Thank you so much for everything that you do for your support. >> Thank you all so much. I think better. >> 1 2 3 4
004Next up are Tamara's career. >> Coach, do you want to say a few words? Thank you. [Music] >> Front row. right here. Ready? 1 2 3 It takes a lot of hard work and dedication and you haven't been able to see it, you know, not only during season but the summers and it's here and he's really committed himself and I'm really happy and proud of him, you know, for accomplishing this and especially since left. So, they're just going to add to a thousand, you know. So, this is a great a great example of working to be the best that you can be. And these two girls right now, they're the foundation to our defense and they're setting up a great president and also a great example of what strong defensive players are. And so when
005the third time comes to the neck they graduate their legacy is going to be one of hard work or something like and for the girls that are coming up next you know and they'll have someone to look out to you know and so I'm really like I said happy proud that they accomplished it. I just want to say that the volleyball is not soft. It's very, very hard. And when they're coming at you and you see a 6'1 hitter come at you and they're in the back, those balls hurt and it hits right here. And it's I mean, just a lot of kudos to them. >> Yeah. Coming hard. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] I don't know. >> I didn't notice that one. >> Yeah, we saw it. >> Oh, did you? [Applause] I know we
006have some presentations, but I'd like to move a presentation of South Texas School Board Association. I know we have uh board president for Edinburgh, Mr. David Torres, in the house. >> Admission school trustee, Mr. Jerry someone. used to this side of things. >> We thank you for doing that. Good evening. My name is David C. I'm the president right now. So we have uh created uh we have been elected. I'm the former president of the South Texas schoolboard association vice president here we met a week ago in Houston in Houston and we establish organization but we're here uh to to invite uh you to possibly join this organization. It's very important. Let me start off by saying good evening trust superintendent members. Thank you for the opportunity to present something truly important for Dr. South
007Texas education. Tonight we are proud to introduce the South Texas School Board Association alliance built by trustes for trustees. You want to do we're just going to do the presentation as we we were prepared. It was prepared for us. >> This association was created because our regions deserve a stronger more united voice in public education. It's an advocacy, leadership, and collab collaboration. All designed spec specifically for South Texas schools. We didn't build South Texas School Board Association because it was convenient. We built it because it's essential. Trustees across South Texas recognize that the future of our schools depends on us working together. >> So, this is this is about more than just an organization. It's it's about protecting the authority of local boards, defending public schools, and ensuring our communities will be heard, not only
008here, but uh in the capital. >> So, why South Texas School Board Association exist? The reality is too often policies in Austin don't refle reflect the realities of South Texas, our area. Our students, our districts, and our communities can't afford to be an afterthought anymore. With the constant push of p privatization and vouchers, we need unified voices. This board was created to defend public education and elevate South Texas priorities. What makes South Texas School Board Association different? South Texas School Board Association is different because it's rooted in our region. We're going to be from Web County all the way to Cameron County. We're eight school districts large right now, but we're we're baby. That's why we're asking all school districts to join because together cohesively we can be a very very very powerful network and
009and and and association. Uh it's not driven by outside consultants or distant agendas. It's trustyled unapologetically pro public and already operational with structure and dues in place. This means we can we can get to work right away. No delays, no waiting. We're ready. We're ready to act. But you see, um, it's by us for us trustees. It's not it's not something that's coming from the outside. That's what's important. It's it's going to be made by us and we're going to work it all together. South Texas School Board Association supports trustees and districts in five key ways. Legislative advocacy, leadership development, public messaging, innovation exchange, and regional collaboration. That's the biggest one. Regional collaboration. In short, we're helping board boards lead better, speak louder, and solve problems together. Why join now? Founding members like your district
010will have a direct say in shaping the association's governance, legislative priorities, and advocacy focus. Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me membership ensures your district has a seat at the table in the statewide policy discussions and the due model makes participation accessible for all districts of all sizes. >> One way to think of this is when one district speaks it can be ignored. We're all in our castles. We operate our regions. We're elected to do what we do for our regions. that we're missing cohesively is that but when we do it collectively as districts speaking together people start listening. This board isn't a lobbying group. Okay. Or is it isn't a vendor network. It's a government alliance built to strengthen public schools where policy meets private action.
011Our ask tonight is simple. Adopt a resolution some membership today and join us. making a difference with South Texas School. We definitely encourage you to join us and let us build this moment together and then you can get with you right here for more the contact information if you want more information. We're a new group and I know that we're reading here but you know what this is something really good something for all of us to to work together to to promote South Texas. Okay. When when when the representatives go up north and they're talking up, they're talking about their districts up north, Dallas and East, right? No one's talking about us. That's why we need to work together to to make this happen. So, so the thought is we're not here to compete with
012anyone or any other association. We're here to compete to complete something that's been missing. A regional engine of governance leadership built for South Texas by South Texas. Thank you for allowing us to be here. And we hope you you join us. But most importantly, >> yeah, together we can we can secure the promises of public education for every child in every school in every community we serve. So in a nutshell, when we all our legislators, our friends, you know, our senators and so forth, but when people pass governance that affect school district, we want to educate people from West Texas, East Texas. We need to be organized as an organization. So this isn't new. This isn't in central Texas. This is in East Texas. They have one in West Texas. We should have one. We
013can have anybody else. You know how we think we think the same way. We can do it. So this is why this is important. But it's the first time. So that's why we're coming together and we're inviting everybody. Most importantly, we need because we want to know what's happening much like what's happening. We're all from the south, you know, the Edinburgh. different. We're all unique in our ways, but we serve our community. So, we want to invite so that's the importance of this as simple as that. If you join, you get one member who has a vulnerability, not not a person that's on on the actual as a vice president, but a votility and somebody who can show up in case that person doesn't go, you know, as an so that's what our ask this
014year is it's an investment in Edinburgh. We decided to invest. Uh the biggest thing we're going to have to do on our first year if we're going to set up the budget is going to watch finance. That's very important. It's just like everything else. in one direction, but we're asking everybody because as we set up legislative agendas and how we do this in the process, we're going to have communities. We want y'all to be so that's and if you don't join, you can be part of this committee and make it happen. It's from scratch. We're starting from you. We're going to start writing the white starting. So, right now, September just get on. >> Thank you so much. Y'all did great. >> Let's go down there and take a picture of that off. We get
015board member per. Thank you. I consider this. It's great for everybody. [Music] Thank you so much. Good job. Good job. >> I think we are. >> What do you think? >> Say what now? >> They're asking if we're contemplating joint. >> It's on the agenda. >> Yeah. Do we have enough votes? >> Uh, next item is a presentation on SB546 related to seat belts on buses used for to transport children. Complete data update. >> Good evening uh board members uh Dr. Ooa and everyone present. Uh my name is Juan Garcia. I'm uh consultant, transportation consultant with region 1 and I'm here to present uh some data on Senate Bill 546. As uh board president stated, this is a bill that is directly related to threepoint safety belts on school buses. Okay. Um, the requirements of
016Senate Bill 546 state that all school districts must submit bus fleet data to the Texas Education Agency before the end of this school year, which school year 2526. The data from the 1,200 plus school districts in the state of Texas will be gathered and compiled by TA and presented to the state government by January of 2027. Um the data will also uh that it will be put together by TA will have calculations of the total amount of financial assistance needed for all school districts to be in compliance. So basically, uh, Senate Bill 546 states that by September 1st of 2029, all school buses must have threepoint safety belts on them. Um, Ed Calulsa already has a plan in place, met with Dr. Ooa and uh, plan is as follow. uh Ed Calulsa will be in
017compliance by 2029 by replacing three buses per year. Each bus is approximately $160,000 per bus. Also to replace two activity buses and to retrofit eight buses at approximately $33,000 per bus. retrofitting of buses basically which mean uh which means replacing the seats the current seats that do not have uh threepoint safety belts and adding those seats on the buses. Um, as of today, Ed Couch Elsa Ed Couch Elsa's uh ISD's report is ready uh once we have uh the guidance from TA and how we're going to submit the data. Ed Calchulsa is ready. >> Thank you. Are there any questions? >> Are these going to be these three-point retractors? Are they ALR retractors or they just standard three-point retractors? Just standard threepoint safety belt. Shoulder belts. >> Just wondering is it two per seat or
018three per seat belts? How many per seat? >> There's three per seat. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you so much. Appreciate it. >> Hey. >> Thank you very much. >> Next item is presentation on school board governance services. Good evening board. Good evening, superintendent. Don't have a slide deck for you, especially because we just got done with a little mini workshop with some of the newer board members. Um, I think that considering that I walk in and I see that you already have the tagline on the wall and hearing and understanding that you all have done some work around this, uh, really it's just more of being able to hone in and fine-tune a little bit more on some of the key pieces such as community engagement and outreach. Um, that's really part of
019the framework that um, I strongly believe is a non-negotiable for the board. Uh some of the questions that I typically ask boards that have gone through this work, it's what are your goals? Um do you know what those are? There are districts nearby you who they've memorized their goals and they know the progress towards the goals. And so one of the examples I said is that one of the districts nearby the board members have their goals on the back of their business cards. And the questions that I would ask the board is why why would that be important? and conversations we had earlier today was that it is important that you as the representatives of the owners of your school system would have an opportunity to lead the work. Um the idea is that your
020superintendent in the analogy of the football is that she's your head coach and you're the owners and so at any time um you as the owners would ideally know where you're at on progress to your goals uh regardless of who the head coach is. Now, that's not to say that we should be replacing them repeatedly, right? Because the average, I think we talked about earlier, is 2.5 right now is the average. That is detrimental to children. The research is very, very clear on when there's role confusion, when board members don't understand their roles completely. They may unintentionally lean into the superintendent's role and vice versa. And so, having clarity on what that is really opens up that avenue. The biggest one is uh I'm known for saying that a board that lacks focus will find
021things to focus on and sometimes those aren't the healthiest things to to do. Uh in your case because you have been doing a professional development and you have been doing the work. I think that uh just to elevate a little bit more on the community engagement outreach you owning your goals and the biggest one along those lines monitoring progress to the goals. And so, as I shared with the board members earlier, uh when halftime of the school year is over, which would be like coming out of the holidays, my hope would be that you would be really anxious and excited about reviewing how your children are doing in your school system. And so, if you know what your literacy rate is and you know what's working and and what direction you're moving as an entire
022team, that's what a team of eight really could be doing. And and when you're doing that, uh kids are going to win. you're going to win the game. Meaning that we absolutely want to put academics on the forefront. I saw your agenda. I see what you're what you're what you're spending time on. Those we call golden minutes. Uh and so the other part that I think I'd like to propose to you is that you would all get an opportunity to learn how to code your board meeting. So as soon as y'all started at 6:31, in my head I'm already starting to clock. What is this board spending its time on? And if you spend 50% of your time monitoring student achievement, guess what's likely to happen? It's likely to go up because what meas what
023you measure is what gets done. What you choose to spend your time on will become the priority. And the final piece is this is from your two-day workshop. It's called parallel processing. That as you do as a board, you give permission for everyone else in your school system and your community to do the same. When you are unapologetically focused on improving academic achievement, you want every one of your children to be as close, if not meeting or exceeding literacy, mathematics. Um the line that I shared earlier as well, people will say not everybody's going to go to college. I got it. What I would say is that you want to be able to say, "But every kid will be college ready because you know that if they go to a military or a trade school,
024they will be that much better prepared and they're going to exceed and they're going to do do great things." the change as it says there. says, "Starting with me 100% you as the board as the representatives of the true owners of your school system, which um this this group said earlier, it's your community, your taxpayers. You are elected to represent them." And so those of you that conduct yourselves like the owner of the school system, my goodness, just like the research says that it only takes one board member to create dysfunction within a team, I would also argue that it only takes one board member in the right mindset to change a trajectory for an entire community. questions, thoughts, wonderings that you may have from board for me. I think the group found out earlier
025I'm a pretty straight shooter. So, >> no mito. >> Any questions? >> Very good. >> Thank you so much. Appreciate this. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you. Next item on our agenda is presentation of delinquent tax collection report for the period of July 1st 2024 through June 30th 2025 presented by Limear Goen or Gagen Blair and Samson. >> Good afternoon Mr. uh Dr. Choa members of the board. Michael I'm standing in for my colleague Kelly Salasar. Uh the bad news is yes I'm here to talk about delinquent taxes. The good news I'm not asking for anything. I'm actually here to bring some good news. Uh, so I'm here to give the annual report for the taxes that we collected for July 1st, 2024 through June the 2025. So we always takes a couple
026of months because we need to finalize the numbers with the county tax office. And I believe you have a report in your packet. I'm going to be very brief. I'm not going to go through all the details. I just want you to know that the most important part of what we do is work with your taxpayers, especially your resident homestead taxpayers. uh even though we're a law firm and we have the tool available to sue uh people for not paying their taxes and for closing their properties, that's actually the last thing we want to do. So, if you look at the first page, you'll see everything that we do uh in regards to that effort. We call your taxpayers. We actually visit them at their houses. Uh we send them, you know, notices through the
027mail. All just aimed at trying to get them to come into our office and work out a payment agreement. So, we've been very successful with that. And if you look at page number three, uh, Kelly did something different this year and she gave you a breakdown of your top 25 accounts. A lot of board members always want to know, you know, those that are the most delinquent in this area. You know, what what are they comprised of? And you'll see that about half of them, 13 of them, actually have tax deferrals. These are your residents who are over 65. Uh, they live in the home, they have a homestead exemption, and they've elected to defer paying their taxes. So, that tax bill gets pretty high. uh and once they pass then you know whatever he
028errors take over the house they have 180 days to pay that before we initiate our litigation process. So there's a breakdown of that. On the very bottom of page three you'll see our efforts for your tax sales and resales. Uh this is what I actually personally handle for the firm. Uh and I'm very proud to show that we only sold one property this past year. And again that's because this is not really what we focus on. Uh Mr. V is very familiar with our foreclosure process through the city. uh what we do foreclose on are empty properties and abandoned properties uh in really in an effort to help the cities, you know, clean up the communities. So, uh you'll see that most of our sales usually result in the taxes being paid. And then on
029the last page, you'll see we always benchmark to the prior year and uh I'm really proud to report that this past year we collected about $32,000 more than we did the prior year. It's always very important for your business office. Obviously, they look at what came in last year. Make sure that we're going to collect that this year. There is a caveat here. Um, and I want to direct their attention to the middle area of both these bar charts. I didn't realize we had on screen. There you go. So, last year we had $55,000 in what we call refunds. This is not a a you know, money that we're giving back because we weren't supposed to have collected it. And then this year, you'll see there there was a noticeable difference up to 168,000. uh
030this is as a result of the homestead uh exemption having increased from 40,000 100 to 100,000 now is going to increase even more this coming year. So it was a good thing for all these communities right to to lower their their tax burden. But what happened is now a lot of people that didn't have homestead exemptions heard about all the fanfare with this increased exemption. they went and filed their homestead exemption and some of the and so if they didn't have the exemption but they were entitled to it the appraisal district goes back two years and grants them that exemption. So what happens is they have to be refunded the difference for the prior two years payments that they made. So the bad news is and and so Paul Varial at the current tax office
031cannot pull that money from the current collections and that's very important to keep that collection rate high for funding purposes. So, what he does is he pulls the money from the delinquent tax collections to issue those refunds. So, your your business office may say, "Hey, wait a minute. We didn't get $635,000 from y'all. We got a little bit less." Yes, it's because of the refunds that was paid out, but we nonetheless collected that and we obviously get paid for it. Um, the good thing is the state actually reimburses you for the $168,000, but you just got to wait till further down the year. But your business office should be, you know, reconciling that. and the state is doing a good job of making the districts whole. It's just kind of a, you know, you get
032the money a little bit. Even though we already collected it, we have to pay the taxpayers, then we get it back from the state. So, things are going well here in the district. Uh, and and in looking at all these numbers, you know, I'm really impressed. You know, Kelly, my colleague, really handles this account primarily. I'm really impressed that this year she filed about probably about 25% less lawsuits than last year. And, you know, I want you all to think about that. Anytime that we file less lawsuits but collect more money, that means there's more of an effort to bring your taxpayers in, sit with them, talk to them, and reach a payment agreement so we don't have to make them incur those additional court fees and all that other good stuff for bad stuff.
033So, things are going well here in the district and uh be happy to answer any questions y'all have questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Con. >> Thank you, Mr. Next item, our superintendence report, DEISD enrollment and attendance report and MAP data. >> Thank you. So part of um the superintendence uh report is going to be an update um that last week we did experience a payroll is issue that affected about 12 employees whose direct deposits did not process as expected. To ensure no one was left without their pay, our team immediately issued paper checks at the same day to the affected employees. The matter has been resolved properly and the employees um that um that did participate in that error have been written up and procedures added procedures have been put in place to ensure that
034this doesn't happen. Another thing that I wanted to report is that as we were going through this process, we did find some errors in the years of service that obviously impact um teacher retirement system. Uh we have worked diligently in trying to resolve that. However, we have encountered files that are missing and the team is diligently working on going to the record retention rooms and working to find that those files. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. So as we move to the attendance um I don't know if you can Yeah. Thank you. So um it was important that um I report to you in the we are in the fifth week but this was fourth week as of Friday the enrollment and our ADA for the fourth week of school with a comparison from
035last year. If you look at the bottom of um the first row where it has all our district campuses in uh 2425 on the 20th day la last year we were at 4,265 students enrolled we are currently at 4,144 um students. If you look at the other section for the attendance last year at this same time we were at 94.2 27% attendance and this year we are at 94.07. Um the district goal at this point is uh 95% overall district goal to meet our ABA and we are at a0.93. The one thing that is different this year from the previous reports that have been given is that the ADA which is very important um is being reported. So, if you look at this time last year, the ADA was at 3,812.90. This year, we're currently
036at 3,684.10. Um um and our budgeted ADA is uh 3706. When we look at the next slide, please. When we look at the difference of those 121 students, um I I did create a bar graph to show that uh where we had some the tracking of the data. So we currently have 18 students at our CCC program. Um we have at I the students that left we have 46 students that left to IDEA, 27 that left to Wesley, eight to Mercedes, five to Montialto, five to Eddie, six to South Texas, five uh to Donna and one left to Mexico. So if we go back to the slide for the ADA, the one thing that I asked the the the the principles is to please present a very quick brief overview of what are going to
037be the initiatives because if students are not in school, students are not learning and they're not going to meet their learning goals, their individual learning goals that have already been discussed with every student that is currently enrolled. So we can start with our elementary campuses. Good evening members of the board, Dr. Cha. I'm Miss Variala. I'm the principal at LBJ Elementary and with me are the elementary uh principles for the other campuses. And so one of the things that we do is we collaborate a lot and we share a lot of ideas. So um we if the kids are not in the classrooms, they're not learning. So that is one of our focuses every single day. So um we do things daily uh by like doing shoutouts in the through the intercom um recognizing classrooms
038that have like 100% attendance. We post this information on our class dojo uh accounts. We put it out in social media. We put it in our staff bulletins, our staff um newsletters, and our parent newsletters. We have bulletin boards that are charting our attendance. So that just to see that attendance is important and it is something that we look at daily. And so um these are kids and the kids need to be incentivized. They need to be the ones to tell the parents, make sure I'm at school, take me at school, take me to school, we're doing this, we're doing that. And so one of the things that we've done in the past is that we used to recognize the students who had perfect attendance throughout the whole six weeks. And we've discovered that a
039six weeks period is too long because we can have a child who's been there almost every single day and then they wake up sick one day and so then they've missed out on the incentive or for some reason or another their parent couldn't get them to school and it's not their fault and yet they weren't being recognized or being part of the incentive. So what we've done is we've created shorter periods of recognizing or incentivizing or challenging. we call them attendance challenge uh for the students. So um for instance, I'm just going to go over several that we put in place last year and some that we have in place this year and um and that you know the ones from last year uh especially for my campus and we share these ideas have worked
040quite a bit. So we'll mark out like a twoe period and we'll say whoever's been here for those twoe periods can have nachos. So we put advertise it, we send it out to the parents and so forth. We've had during Christmas, we had daily raffles, so we put it out there, put it out for the parents. It's something that the kids look forward to. Uh sometimes we say um we need to make sure Mondays and Fridays are the toughest. So we'll come up with something like on Monday everybody who's here is going to get something. So we've done stuff where we'll give them like, those are something kids always want. Pencils that have a scent. Um charms. We've had perfect attendance charms and these like sometimes we'll say like on this Friday everybody's here is
041going to get this charm or this messel. Um I know that uh this year we're looking more at doing our healthy snacks, but we'll figure things out. We had like a cotton candy day or you know where they had >> something but we're we're working on that. Rasp uh something that worked really well. I'm I remember this event at at um at my school was lunch with the principal. So I remember some of the older kids were thinking, why would I want to sit and have lunch with the principal? But when they came in, they were really excited because we had like a whole bunch of nice treats for them. And um and I had lunch with all the kids who had perfect attendance for that week. And so giving them that extra attention, taking
042them out of the cafeteria and eating elsewhere with them is something that they look forward to. Another thing that we do also is uh um like just classroom challenges. So like we'll give everybody in a classroom for that one day. Towards the end of last year in March going through like May, we said um any classroom that accumulates 15 days of perfect attendance will have lunch at Peter Piper. So we worked at doing doing that. We took almost every classroom but two. The pet Peter Piper didn't take too much time out of instruction. It was during their lunchtime. Put them on the bus, took them to Peter Piper, they had lunch and came back. So, we're just trying to be innovative and different with how we challenge our kids because um if it's the same
043thing, if it's a piece of paper, a certificate, they're not going to work for it as much. It's got to be something that we can put on their hands, something that we get excited about, and something that, um, they will get excited for. So, um, this year we had popsicles, you know, thank you for popping in, and we had popsicles for them after two weeks. We currently have um every two weeks if uh they'll earn like a um a jacket buck. So they they get to >> they get to purchase something from the snack the cafeteria healthy snacks with that uh jacket buck. Another thing that was also a big hit was giving um a football ticket to the student and an adult. Um and um we had quite we had quite a bit of
044those given out and we understand that the turnout was was pretty good. So we've had to like kind of move away from like every six weeks to like doing shorter things sometimes like just on that one day especially when we anticipate that attendance is low like on Labor Day, you know, that's a day that we all have to come and they have to come to school. So we um make sure that we give them something for being here that day. And in addition to that, we still recognize them during our awards ceremonies, our scholars assemblies, and give them a certificate for um being present at least for the whole six weeks. And then again at the end of the year, we try to continue to recognize them, especially if they've been there um all year
045and they haven't had any absences because um their children, they get sick often and um they still show up to school. So, you know, those are some of the incentives, challenges that we put in in in to play because we need our kids at school. So, any questions? >> Thank you. Thank you for being innovative. >> And I was at the football game with a lot of kids that went with their free football ticket and they even announced them a couple times to stand up and, you know, get the round of applause for not missing any days. And the kids loved it. Thank you so much for everything. a lot of the ones who normally wouldn't have gone were there and and of course a lot of this um we have to raise the money
046to to be able to do this these trips to Peter Piper they're quite pricey and so we're having to become a little bit more um innovative also with making sure that we're selling healthy items and you know to the kids and stuff like that but we don't want to um we don't want that to be something that keeps us from from doing these kind of things for the kids. We can't say you get an extra recess or you get this or that, but this is they like things like this and they take money to school to buy stuff. >> Good job. >> Thank you, J. Miss Leighton. All right. Good evening, board president, board members. Um, Mrs. Leightton, principal at DRG. Um, you know, we do the same as elementary. Ours are a little smaller,
047so they get sick sicker more. um if it's cold, it's raining, parents want to keep them at home. So, it uh sometimes we do call call and make sure uh to have them bring the students. So, we also have weekly incentives. We do the smart snack. Uh we do a lot of social media posts. Um we have bi-weekly incentives. Uh we do also do the jacket bucks. We just started that. So, thank you so much. We do the cafeteria snack. So they get excited because after their lunch um the cafeteria manager passes them a snack if they were here uh for the two weeks. They also started the free football ticket. So a lot of the students were super excited. They I went to the football game and they saw you know other friends. So
048super excited about the football game. Um we also do the six weeks incentives. Uh we have campus uh incentives. We do celebrations. Our students love slime. Our parents hate slime. Um, but we try to get them uh like a smok so it'll get dirty because once it's on them, you know, it's hard to take off. Um, we do have bulletin recognitions um as you're walking into the school. Uh, we do again social media shoutouts. Uh, we do it by preK3 by preK4 and then we do a whole campus uh percentage. So, we're pushing trying to get that 98%. Um, Tuesday was our highest. We're at 95% of course first day of school we're at 100. Thank you. Um we do uh end of year incentives. We do the trophies, medals, certificates. Um we make sure
049that you know all our parents come to make sure um you know they look at this uh these students coming to school every single day. Um, and I've always said that if a child comes to school every single day, um, they get those AB honorals, you know, as they keep getting older because they don't miss out on any instruction. Um, as far as enrollment, uh, we are minus three compared to last year. Um, and we are getting one more student tomorrow, so we'll be at 427 tomorrow. Thank you. Uh, any questions? >> Nope. >> Good job. >> Thank you. Can we please have in collaboration uh high school and please Dr. Ch. >> Good evening Dr. Ch board president members at Thor Middle School. We're we're we're going to be doing our raffles and drawings
050weekly. We'll also be doing uh bi-weekly incentives, popcorn pickle if it's within the smart smart snack ice cream and other smart snack uh pass the test. Also, the football tickets and the jacket bucks. The jacket bucks is very popular. Thank you. >> We're also going to be doing our six weeks social media recognition certificates again drawings and our end of year incentives are again will be the trophies medals and certificates. >> There isn't like semismart snacks. They're saying they don't think they like the smart ones. >> Good evening everyone. >> I'm Monica Cass. I'm a principal at Eacha High School. Um we have um merchandise store. It's called um Buzz Shop. And uh actually this was something that one of our attendance clerks has been like asking every year we could do this. She's wanting
051to put up a store and when I told her, "Okay, you get your chance to put up your your Buzz Shop." So, um we're giving out the Buzz Bucks and these you get to purchase at a Buzz Shop. um school merchandise. She said something like labu toys or whatever those ugly little animals are. She wants to add those on there. Baseball cards, things like that. Um, of course, we want our kids to come in. Um, we want them to be in attendance, right? But then we also want them to be engaged. Um so one of the things that uh we had thought of was the recognition dinner with uh administration and this would uh involve all parents. Um so and this would include uh like our most improved so we wanted to be equitable also.
052So we wanted uh someone that had the most improved attendance uh perfect attendance of course and making an effort. So as equitable as we could be with that and we're really excited about that one and we were we were think so the first one would be like something that's daily uh our recognition dinner we were thinking of every 3 weeks and then uh raffles and drawings. Um, we thought about an innovation hour cuz how do you engage kids that are, you know, older and what what could we do to engage them to engage them? So, one of the things was innovation hour and there uh during lunch they could have uh 15 minutes where they would work on cahoots and answer questions. So, of course, we would throw in there some star star uh questions
053uh but also um include trivia. So, that that was what our innovation hour would be and they would also get some time to play games and things like that. We wanted an attendance hall of fame, a bulletin board where they could put up their pictures cuz of course they they love selfies. Uh, so we would take him for them and they we would put him up on the attendance hall of fame themed celebrations like maybe an ice cream social, hot cocoa on the cold days. Um, we also last year we had a canvas painting. Kids really like that. They they did um they painted one of our teachers told them step by step what how to draw and and they did a really good job. So, classroom perfect attendance, those would be monthly themed ideas
054like oh in October every day counts, no skip November. So, these are the things that we're excited about and hoping that our kids uh like the incentives that that we are offering them. >> Thank you. >> Questions? Anyone? >> I don't have any. I I do want to say that uh I do appreciate the honesty, Dr. Sandy, the way you presented the information and then the principles coming up with their innovative ideas and I I do agree 6 weeks is a long time cutting it down to daily it just I think it matters and I think it's going to be impactful. Good job. >> Thank you. So I did I do want to add one thing that last week um before we passed out the uh jacket bucks we did have 1,591 at the three
055week mark with perfect attendance. So it it can happen. it will happen. One thing that our amazing team forgot that uh was my ask um is that every campus at the very front by the cafeteria and by every classroom they have the thermometer for the attendance because if you don't see it, you're not going to work to achieve it. And that goes for students for everyone. So those visuals, we've also um I've asked them to also have class competitions so that it's not going to just be individual incentives, but as actually classroom incentives by grade. So um I'm excited because we're starting that uh this week actually. So we're going to go out to the community, ask for some sponsorships, look for some money so that we can do some really good prizes for them.
056So thank you all. Thank you everyone. >> Dr. Could Could we put the the chart back up of the absentism the uh Harper campus? I have a question. >> Somebody forget a decimal number >> and I thought I was off. >> I want to see if the number is skewed because on we're saying that this year we're at 809. Correct. Last year was 80 836, >> but last year we had sixth grade campus separated. >> Oh, we combined them. I'm so sorry. >> Okay. So, there was a combination last year. >> We combined them. Yes. I'm sorry. >> I just wanted to make sure that the number wasn't. >> Yeah. No, we combined them. >> All right. Thank you. That's that's one more question. >> And I am going to be very candid. If we
057don't sustain where we're at right now and we don't get either some of really if we can get some of the students back, that's what we're working on right now. Um our a shout out to our truency officers, community aids the last two weeks, they've really been out in the ground um making those home visits, not the phone calls, the home visits. Another thing that we've uh we've just added is that 8:30 is the time to let central office know who our students are that are absent. And we've got three different modalities that parents can get a direct uh automated message. So the so what I'm telling um our our uh community aids and truency officers is like you don't need to be calling. You've got the automated system. you need to be out there
058checking to see what's going on and getting them in there. And the 8:31 is very deliberate because we want to make sure we get them in by the the time we take attendance for ADA purposes and that's when the core content instruction begins. So that's something that's new this year that we just started this week. As a parent doc, I could attest to those somewhat anno annoying text messages and emails and everything else that comes around worse >> cuz they they they come in, you know, fast and furious. >> Yeah, they're going to get a little worse because we're making sure that we put them out there. >> That's a call. >> So, thank you so much. Oh, what I was going to say is if we don't sustain, uh, we're looking at a financial,
059uh, drop of 793,000 plus. >> So, attendance matters. >> Good job, Grace. Good job, sir. >> Thank you. [Applause] like to recognize Jackie board member from West. Didn't see you there. >> What do you got going on? >> What you got going on? >> Oh, >> good evening, Mr. President. Members of the board, Dr. Ooa. This evening, I bring to you our Housefield 3 math data. This is our beginning of the year um math and reading data. Our students that are in kinder through third grade took this assessment the third week of school, September uh 8th. And this is the data that is tied to our Lonear governance house bill 3 goals that were previously adopted. So, these are the ones that we currently have in place. Just a little reminder here our progress uh
060key. So if we have data that is showing that is um greater than -1% that is did not meet the goal. If we have data that is showing that is -6% to -10% that reflects that some progress is being made. data that is negative 5% to positive 5% reflects that uh progress was met and of course anything greater than that uh positive 6% means that the progress was exceeded and again just a friendly reminder this is the beginning of the school year and with the go the way the goal was set up and is measured is at the end of the school year uh 2026 this would be June so starting first with our first graders this is district-wide data. When our students took the beginning of the year, 36% of our students scored in
061reading at the meets or exceeded growth. And our goal is that by the end of the school year, by June, when they take the end of the year assessment, that our students be at 55%. So, um, we are currently negative 19% from meeting the goal. We do have um our principles here that can speak if you have any questions in regards to the glows and grows that are currently in place at the campus. So because it is early, we have not gotten started with the afterchool tutorials. Uh that for example is a grow something that we're going to start doing um this fall semester to already start working with the students that are historically showing that need additional support. Moving on to our second grade, um we have 17% of our students districtwide that scored
062at at uh the meets or exceeds grade level. And our goal is that by the end of the school year by June when the students take the end of the year assessment that we have 25% of our students scoring at the meet or the exceeds. Moving on to our third graders and um for this exam for end of the year this is where we are measuring the students that score at the meets or exceed based on our star data. So for for beginning of the year we are using map we have 22% of our students that scored at the meet or exceeds and our goal is that when our students take the star test that we have 36% of our students scoring at the meets or above grade level which means that they scored at
063the meets or the masters. Any that's our reading data. Any questions on our reading data? Okay. So, moving on to our math again, our kinder students uh scored at 50% of them district-wide scoring at the meets or above. Their projected growth and our goal is that by the end of the school year when they take that end of the year MAP test that we have 66% of our students scoring at meet or exceeds. This is the first time that our kindergarten students take the MAP test. Uh in preK, they take a different test. They take circle Moving on to our first graders. Um the beginning of the year data reflects that our students scored at 35% of them scoring at the meets or exceeds. End of the year goal is 59%. We're currently showing that
064we are negative 24% uh away from meeting that goal. Second grade, our students scored at 11% of them scoring at the meets or exceeds. And our goal is that at the end of the school year when they take that end of the year assessment that we have 26% of them scoring at the meets or exceeds. Then of course our third graders that take that star test at the end of the school year. Our map MAP data for um beginning of the year reflects that we have 20% of our students scoring at the meets or exceeds. At the end of the year our goal is 30% scoring at meets or mast's level. Uh we're currently 10% below the goal as we are progressing through dayto-day instruction. Of course, making sure that our students are in the
065classrooms learning. Um our principles are monitoring instruction. Our teachers are receiving ongoing professional development with the blue bonnet curriculum. Um we have ongoing progress monitoring. Our superintendent Dr. Roa has been very direct ensuring that in ensuring that we have all assessments on DBACK to ensure that we're monitoring the data more consistently than we have in the past. >> How how many assessments are we going to be taking a year or how many assessments are are we going to be giving a year? >> For MAP or for other assessments map it's three map is three assessments beginning of year, middle of year and then end of year. So I'm I'm assuming or I'm I'm expecting that we get another report at the same Okay, perfect. Okay. >> Additionally, you're also going to get um because um
066well, we won't get into the map issue, but um the the one thing that is being done this year is that um Blue Bonnet does have key assessments. >> How for for most of the grades, for the ones that it does not, we are going to be uh where we have a line. So for this week, for example, if you are not getting assessed with a blue bonnet, a star formatted test, they have been created for those other subjects. And they not only are they formatted, but they're the same amount of questions because what we're doing is working on building students endurance. So at the October meeting, you're going to be getting the outcome of the six weeks or the fifth week's exam, but this one is five weeks exams and those results because that
067is more closely aligned with where we're at with START, >> right? Well, and that's what I was that's kind of what I was alluding to. I mean, because these are the these numbers are are preliminary. I mean, they're they're right at the beginning of the year coming off of summer. Uh there's still a lot of what I call rainfall coming off of summer. So, okay. I was I thought I had I'm sorry. >> Sorry to interrupt you. Go ahead. >> Thank you. >> Okay. You waited one more second. >> Could have waited just a little bit longer. >> I guess my my my question would be is that every year this is the topic and this is the subject we always have a lot of discussion. going forward like you mentioned you're going to have
068pre-est uh presentations the next presentation I would ask just make sure that we're always up to date as to what the actual at this time you know I think sometimes we throw that well at the end of the year you should know every way possible what we're at and where we're at and it's okay to tell us hey guys right now we don't see the light we're struggling we're making putting a plan together every year with the previous superintendents we've always had that discussion where hey this is your data you're giving it to us make it as accurate as possible tell us, hey, the f, you know, there's no reason to worry or there's a fire in the house and we got to fix it right now. >> And and and Mr. Torres, if I
069may, that that's why it's going to be critical that we report out the uh the six weeks or in this case, fifth week's assessment that unfortunately is happening this week, so I couldn't give you that data now, but that will be presented. So every 6 weeks you're going to be getting that type of data and that's when we're really going to know whether or not the house is on fire. >> Good deal. [Music] >> I have a question. >> Yes, sir. >> On your data you have like did you all compare like the third graders at the beginning of year when they were second grade and see if there was a increase or not? >> We did. Um, also what we did is we looked very closely at our end of the year, especially our
070third graders that took the STAR test. We looked at our at our goal. For example, our students last year when they took third grade STAR, the goal at the end of the school year, our Housefield 3 goal was that our that we have 25% of our students scoring at the meets or masters in STAR and we actually had um 26%. So, we exceeded the growth by one. we exceeded the goal by 1%. Um in reading the goal was that we had that we have um 31% of our students scoring at the meets and masters and star and with the reading we had 24% of our students scoring at the meets and masters. So we were negative 7%. So, in looking also at the cohorts, when it comes to our house three goals, we're not we're
071not measuring the same group of students because they move on to the next grade. But looking at the data um the way you're asking, Dr. AOA, that's actually comparing the same group of students as to how they're progressing. I don't have that data here, but that's something I can bring to you. Something that I did notice is that our second grade students um although it's a different cohort are scoring lower are scoring low as last year's cohort of second grade students scored. So, you know, that tells us as administrators, you know, and then in working with our teachers what's going on with our first grade curriculum when they're testing in second because we're seeing that that the students are not scoring um anywhere near uh they should be based on uh what the data is
072telling us. um second graders that moved on to third grade when we're looking again at how they scored uh based on their previous year, we do see the improvement. Um and I can bring you that data um in a different meeting. >> I can I can speak to that. Um I I don't have all the numbers memorized, but I can tell you that from uh third grade on to EOC, we did have the regressions um and we had them with individual students. The things that were looked at were for example, how did students do um it what was their attendance like? What was their discipline like? What was their um what were their scores like? How did it compare from star score to MAP score? And the commonalities obviously were some of the attendance, the
073discipline, but it was it became very clear with patterns that one of the big indicators was a curricular issue because it was across campuses, across grades. Now, keep in mind that this is um going to be our first year with Blue Bonnet um supposed to be star aligned and so we're closely monitoring that. I can get you those numbers, but I can tell you with complete confidence, you'll owe me a dinner if I'm wrong, but I'm not. Uh that it was definitely tied into curriculum uh curriculum align alignment, scope, and sequence. And of course, it was very obvious the the patterns with our um attendance. >> Well, I was going to ask on top of that. I'm sorry I said that was out of right. But I didn't. What's the cohort right now that started
074off at kinder on the math on the on the math on on the new math curriculum? What are they? Third grade now? >> Yes, >> they're they're third now, right? The ones that started off that with that that math curriculum. >> So, we should see that cohort do well. I'm hoping because I mean at least that's the right, >> right? Yes. All right. I was wondering what what cohort that was so that I could keep an eye out for that. And and I will say this, the the assessments in the blue bonnet curriculum are star aligned. >> Perfect. >> Which means if you look at the questions on the star release that TEA has put out, they're very similar with the form with the format and the wording. >> And for the record, it is
075our first year with blue on it. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> And if you recall um Dr. Ooa, last month when the star was you saw a lot of red and you saw the red across and and and that was the indication right there as we as we studied it further. It was correct. >> I think that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you, ladies. >> We will now move on to consent agenda. All items under consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion unless a trustee request to have a specific item removed for separate discussion and action. Are there any items the trustee would like to pull for consent? >> I'm requesting some. Yes. What number? >> A1. >> Okay. >> Um, looking at the um superintendent's contract, the motion seconded. Uh, we have
076an incorrect name there. Can we correct before we approve? >> What is the correct name? Do you know the the order of the motion? >> It says motion was seconded by trustee Norma Vasquez. So, let me clarify actually. Okay. Anything else? >> Yes. >> I have one. I want to pull um B6 approval to increase approval to increase the facility rental agreement fees for 2025 2026 school year. I just I just want to know if the um where the comparison came forward for the pricing and if it's aligned with other districts and what their >> either the baseball and softball fields are going to be included in there. >> You want to approve the rest of it and then ask a question. >> No, I think I think Oh, no. Uh good evening uh board
077president Mr. Evvada, superintendent Dr. Chaw. Um on the facilities rental agreement, what we are encountering are um when we have someone come and and um rent the our facilities. Uh we are not including the custodial uh cost or the security cost. So, we are recommending to um put an average amount of for the custodian at about $15 an hour for an average of five hours at about $75 for that custodian. And for security, also a five five hour average at $20 for a total of of 175 for both. And so, we're adding that to the current cost of the actual facility. And so um we want to increase it by that amount by the 175. >> The increase is for the custodial and for security. >> Yes sir. And then also we have the um
078the fine arts um auditorium um with um Mr. Canalis if you want to share that. Um he also has recommended his rental cost. Yes. So the information that I got from was actually similar uh school districts that have the same size. So I I called, you know, I called all the the bordering schools. I called Harlingen. So the price is actually they charge more. Uh their price usually runs 1,500 per day and we're just charging $650. Um and the reason being is that again we want to keep it open for the community. We don't want to scare the community off by charging them $1,500. So we're keeping it, you know, reasonable. >> Price is 600 right now. >> Correct. Yeah. >> And that includes the custodial and security. So that's additional. >> That's additional just
079so that way we can pay for the lights and the replacing of the lights and all that stuff that goes along with it as well. >> So 775 total. >> Yeah. >> Still better than what was it? 12 >> 15. >> That's all I just wanted to find out how you came to this. >> John, >> yes. Yes. Did you include the soft on the baseball field? >> Are the softball baseball fields included? >> Uh, no. Only >> Are we going to include this? And and the football field. >> The football field is there, but the softball and baseball field need to be included also because we have our nets and everything that everybody's using. We don't know if they're going to be taking care of them. I >> I I want to make a
080comment on that. I think we need to really go back and evaluate the football field, baseball field. Those are I don't want to say the word sacred, but those are goals for people to reach these children. And renting them out for tournaments, stuff like that adds a lot of tear, wear and tear to those facilities. >> I mean, those are future jackets. >> The future jackets, but that should be it's like the future. You know, you don't give them a gold helmet the first day they go out on the field, they earn it. And I think playing in the stadium is a is a goal for everybody. I I'm just saying I'm not knocking it down. I'm just saying let's look at that. I think a communal goal should be for like the school district
081and the two municipalities to come together and build a facility to cater to the younger kids. >> Yeah. >> And head coach. I think great ideas. >> Right there by Rya Street in the back. >> Ray Street in the back. >> Yes. Uh B3, please. Miss Garza. Yes. >> What is the question? >> Uh for the record, um what is our budget? What is our number? >> Our overall budget for the year? >> Yes. Is it 56,186,197? Are we looking at the amended budget? >> The original budget that's in here. >> The amended budget has not been updated with the new HB2 salary. >> We don't we don't have >> we we do, but the this report hasn't been updated yet. >> Okay. So, what is the original budget that we're working with? uh the
082one that I presented at the last time when I presented the um the budget amendment um it went up 3.6 million for revenues as well as 3.6 in addition to expenditures. >> So what's the total revenues? I'm just wanting to >> uh the total revenues will go up about uh I believe 59 million uh.7. >> Okay. And in the bottom of the sheet, I'm looking at uh a deficit then -2 9 million. Is is that accurate? >> Um well, this will change also. Um revenues will also go up by the 3.6 million. So we're going to be slightly over about um 62.1 million, something to that effect. >> Are we currently operating in a deficit? >> Uh the budget is still in a deficit. Yes. >> Okay. So, how are we communicating this to the
083public? >> This is communicated every month, ma'am. We you receive this this financial report every month. >> How does the public get access to this? >> Uh, an open records request. They can and and also we have it posted on our website under our budget. >> Bringing that up because as a as a parent today, I went into our website to see if I can easily ac uh access that and it was very difficult for me to navigate and find budget information. I went to neighboring district websites and they had a really neat and >> obvious tab there that says financial transparency and I think that we could do a little bit better with that >> because there was no tab uh for me >> it should be under the required legal postings. Well, I
084was able to find it by going into the search button, but for a parent, >> you know, it needs to be a little bit more accessible. And if we could work on that as far as having >> a button, a tab similar to all the other things. You press on a tab to see who the board is. Press on a tab to see who the principles are. I would like to press on a tab to see what the budget is. >> Absolutely, ma'am. We can do that for you. >> Thank you. >> Anything else? >> One more. Um, just with D1, I I don't know if we were going to approve any waiverss for professional staff. Miss uh Olivis. We don't have any. >> I asked um I asked HR and I was told we
085have none. that was as as I had mentioned to you um in your previous uh question that was placed there as per region one in the event that we had to if we run into any issues where we have any um increases in our enrollment and our class size increases then at that point we want to have it readily available so that we can put a waiver if for whatever reason we have to move a teacher and we have to um ask for them to take an extra exam only so that they can get further certification. It does not require a waiver. >> Thank you. >> There's no further discussion. I'd like to make a motion to approve all consent agenda as presented. >> I second. >> Um we're going to have to pull E3
086approval approve a resolution certifying compliance with >> illegal. We don't need it. >> Yes. So Mr. Board President, members of the board, and Dr. for we just got word today from TEA uh that they're going to use their discretion and allow districts to turn this in starting in 2026. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> So, do I need to amend my motion or no? >> Uh yes, please >> like to amend my motion by removing item E1 and approving all other consent agenda items as presented. >> For the record is E3. >> E3. >> Yes. >> I'm sorry. E3. >> The motion made by Mr. Losano. >> Second. seconded by Mr. Torres. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All against. Motion carries. Uh discussion and action items. Discussion and action to consider an
087order authorizing the defense and redemption of a portion of the district's outstanding tax bonds and approving all other instruments and procedures related there too. Before you order authorization and the purpose of the resolution to authorize early retirement of outstanding bond obligations. Um this is so that we can pay our gift a little earlier. Um and that way we can. And so the resolution um calls for approval from the board. And so this will help us continue with. >> There are no questions. I need a motion. So move. >> Second. >> The motion made by Mr. Torres, seconded by Mr. Mossano. All those in favor say by saying I. >> All against. Motion carries. Item B, discussion and action to adopt the no new revenue tax rate and voter approval tax rate resolution for tax year
0882025 for EISC. Uh before you is the adopted revenue tax resolution and this will also out the actual tax. [Music] >> Wait a minute. Hold on here. Give this an >> I move that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of rate tax rate of $1.1325 which is effective a 0.05% increase in the tax rate. >> So Miss Garza is the tax rate the same as last year. >> So Mr. Thoris, trusty thoris, you that language is required by statute and the basis why it says an increase is because the property values have gone up. It's not because our tax rate has gone up, but statuto the statute makes us redeploy. >> There's a motion made by Mr. Seconded by Mr. Loss. All in favor say by saying I. >> All against motion
089carries. >> Discussion and action to approve disaster pennies resolution for 2025 2026. Uh before you is the disaster resolution and this allows us to increase our minimum cash rate by 2317 uh in addition to the uh and so therefore >> second motion made by Mr. Osan. >> I have a a question about this. Um, who was our CFO during Hurricane Barrel? >> Hurricane who? >> This Are we on? >> Which item are we on? >> We're on item. >> Yes. Penny 8. >> There's an attachment that I have questions about. >> Is this for the pennies? >> Yes. >> I I I was looking at a at an affidavit that was provided as a supporting document. Okay. And because this matter is in reference to Hurricane Barl, right? So who was who was our CFO
090during hurricane barrel? >> Because the uh the affidavit states that you are CFO during during this >> um it's an affidavit attachment for >> clarification. What is the hurricane that you're referring to? >> Barrel. >> It says barrel. Oh, yeah. That happened last year. >> Yeah. So, uh, uh, state law allows for school districts whenever there's a disaster, a declared disaster, and when the governor requests for federal assistance in the county, uh, for a district to take advantage of this to use these extra pennies that we don't have uh, uh, to help us with any damage that we may have. But part of that process is including an affidavit. And I'll make sure before we submit that to TEA that we revise it to show that Miss Garza was not the CFO at the time,
091but she's a CFO now, right? >> Uh and that she could uh state about the damages and we're using the pennies to address those. >> Yes. We just need to be clear with with what we're stating, especially because it is an affidavit when it says I was employed by at Calulsa School District on or after July 5th, 2024. We need to be accurate and correct that discrepancy. >> All right, I'll take care of it. There's a motion made by Mr. Lano second sign second by Mr. Torres. All in favor sign by saying I. >> All those against motion carries. >> Item 8 D discussion and possible action to adopt EISD tax rate for 2025 2026 school year. The actual agenda item of the tax rate and tax will remain. >> So move second. >> There's
092a motion made by Mr. Torres, seconded by Miss Vasquez. All in favor say by saying I. All against. Motion carries. Next item is 8E discussion and action to award RFP 2026-005 to the safety and security film installation services for the safety and security film installation services districtwide. >> Um the board approved for us to be able to go out for RT. We received four bids that came in. uh we evaluated him as a committee and we're making a recommendation uh to award protect for >> and this film is going to be suffic I know we've been down this road so is this correct film >> different company >> I'd like to make a motion to approve second >> there's a motion made by Mr. Osado seconded by Dr. Cha. All those in favor say by
093saying I. >> All against. Motion carries. Item 8F, discussion of possible action on schoolboard governance services. >> I believe that's seen. >> Yeah, I know that seat open. Just chilling right there. >> Are you going to say something? >> That's it. That's all we get. >> Second. >> There's a motion made by Mr. seconded by Miss Foski. All in favor by say I. >> All against motion carries. Not sure we we just voted on. Okay. Uh next item is discussion and possible action on South Texas School Board Association Services. >> That was a presentation by Mr. Torres. I mean Mr. >> And you have Mr. Cortez and Miss Jackie Susta here as well. If there's any other questions brought them all out. >> I just have one question then I see it. But what what's
094the cost for our district? Cuz I know they said it was like different for every district. What do we >> It's based on your student enrollment at 77 cents >> per student. Okay. Okay. So approximately about $3,500. >> Muscle. >> Is that one time yearly or is that >> it's a it's an annual? >> Okay. Annual. >> I apologize. I don't have the exact number, but it was under 3,000. >> Okay. Okay. I'd like to make a motion. I second. >> There's a motion made by Mr. Cotus, seconded by Mr. Mossano. All in favor? All right. Guess motion carries. >> Do we take a picture with Jackie and move it or landed? >> Let me just jump into executive order. >> We will now convene into executive session pursuant to Texas Open Meetings Act chapter
095551. the Texas government code with the board meet in close session under the following provisions and it's 551-074 personnel matters 551-071 for consultation legal it is 7:58 and we're in executive is 8:22. The board will now move. I'm sorry. The board will now uh Is it open? My bad. >> We're somewhere. >> You're somewhere, bro. We're here. >> Action items 551-074. discussion and action regarding personnel considering appointment, employment, resignation, retirement, evaluation, reassignment duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer employee. >> I'd like to make a motion to approve as discussed in executive sen. >> There's a motion made by Mr. Osano, second by Mr. Torres. All in favor? >> All against motion carries. There is no discussion on the no sir. >> All right. Need a motion to move. Second motion made by Mr.
096All in >> favor against motion carries.