June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM - Regular Board Meeting

001It is and I call this public hearing of the board of trustees of Yanowsa ISD uh in order. First item on the agenda public comments. None were none words. Next item on agenda is for the purpose of this meeting is to discuss the Edcow Jones Independent School District's 2025 2026 proposed budget. Hi Sylvia. Hi. Good evening board president um in Superintendent Dr. Oawa and the board of trustees. I will be presenting an overview of the 2526 budget. Uh and I'll start with the tax rate. [Applause] Oh, there it is. The 2526 proposed tax rate. Uh we're proposing to maintain the same tax rate. The tax rate will be brought back to the dis I'm sorry, back to the board of trustees. um sometime in August for adoption. Um we do not have at this this

002is the same tax rate as you had last year for 2425. Um I did break break down the M rate at the bottom so that you can see the tier one rate and the M tier 2 pennies as well. I know that uh Mr. for Trusty Losano had asked about the 17 the maximizing the the tax rate and so with the 14 cents and the 3 cents uh for the disasters were maximizing the 17 cents. So the tax rate uh for 2526 will be 1.1325 Right. Left. Um the current uh general fund budget includes both child nutrition program and general operating budgets. The budgets are based on current law and we will we'll continue and we will continue to work as a team to implement HB2 into the budget uh and bring back to the

003board the uh revised u realignment of that H2 budget. So for local revenues we have 5,300,373. Uh state revenues 45,313 and for federal revenues we have 5,572,200 for a total revenue of 56,186 186,197. Out of out of 5,532,000 from federal, how much is it how much is title one? Is it about 3 minutes ago? No, this federal revenue is this local revenue that we generate from our uh child nutrition program. Perfect. Yeah. Sorry. I'm sorry. Back here. I'm sorry. I I Sorry. Uh our general operating expenses, the uh general operating expenses are by object code. The proposed budgets include cuts to 6200s, 6,300s, and the 6,400s. [Applause] And the total for our expenditures is 59,16,388. These are the same expenditures, but these are by function. for a I'm sorry for a total uh deficit budget

004of 2,920,191. We also have our debt service budget. The debt service will be generating an excess fund balance. uh it will be reaching we will be reaching out to our financial advisor to uh get more information on the uh or to review the tax rate to ensure that it is appropriate and we have the rate that we need to maintain. Um and so with this deficit B balance um I know there was legislation that was might may prohibit us from paying our principal. So I will be reviewing that from with our financial advisor in the coming months and we we will be bringing it back on um in August for for the final uh uh rate. Um we also have our special revenue fund which is our our federal funds which is our title one,

005title two and title four. Uh and we also have our special education cluster and our ACE. This is the ACE uh grant and then CT Perkins grant for a total of 7,240,411. And I brought this graph back um just to reshow the graph. I I know there was some board members missing the last meeting and so I wanted to bring it back just so that we can review again the um the decline in in enrollment versus the revenue and the expenditures and fund balance. Um I will be continuing to work with um with the administrative team to implement strategies to to decrease the expenditures uh without compromising instruction. And so uh we will work on some strategies and I I believe I presented them the last time. You know some some of them of course

006we have a hiring freeze. We also have um we're looking into um expenditures that can be reclassified into our federal grants uh and things like that that uh will free up some of the money in our general fund. And that that is all I have for the public hearing. Anybody have any questions? Thank you. Thank you. There are no questions. 6:30. All right. So, it's it's 6:14. Worksh [Music] Three. I call this regular meeting of the Edcow Chelsea Independent School District Board of Trustees to order. Today is Thursday, June 19th, 2025, and we are meeting in the administrative administrative building boardroom at 920 West Santa Rosa Avenue, Ed Couch, Texas. As I begin, I would like to remind everyone that this meeting is being conducted in accordance to the Texas Opens Meetings Act. Roll call.

007Marmalinda here. Fernando Jr. here. Ashley Vasquez here. here. Dr. Here [Music] the record reflect that a quorum is present. With a quorum established, we will now begin with the pledge of allegiance followed by the I 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. Mr. Ro, heaven, I got it. Our heavenly father, be with us this evening as we carry out the deliberations that are important to this district's operations. be our strength and our guidance by giving us patience and understanding so that these issues may be resolved justly and fairly for all. We ask this in your holy name. Amen. Amen. Any public comments? No, no public. Can we sit down? Yeah. each other. At

008this time, we're going to be moving item 8H to the front. Discussing an action to approve resolution honoring Francis Roachcha and authorizing the naming of a district facility in her honor. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. We need one more here before uh we play our last song for the legacy of Miss Rocha. She's been here since the beginning, been an ultimate supporter of the mariachi and every other program. So I know I can speak on behalf of the entire district. Thank you for you. She had an honor honor mono the tie the first one that we had at Kelsa on her desk. Somebody took it so we first mono and we're going to retire this year's mono so she can have the collection of So we'll play one more song for you.

009Yes ma'am. The song is the national anthem of all mariachi. So it was back 20 years ago 2005. The vision of Miss Rocha and the vision of Benny Leen senior. They wanted to bring mariachi edsa but they wanted to take it to the next level. And so it was back in 2005 that they found the first director. 2006 came a second director. In 2007 they brought in a metal medal. Since then 2018 I've been here honored to to to be humbled to to put the program together. You can see that it's growing tremendously. Uh we have the best team, we have the best students and the best support. So, thank you for everything that you've done, Mr. Rocha, and we can't thank you enough. We we're men and women of little words, but we're we

010we like to present you with this musical gift. So, thank you so much. with my heart always will always be and I can remember this day we didn't have uniform and we were all trying so hard to get uniform this is very obvious for all of you we love you not only but I want to say everybody very supportive because Maria As the music is in your heart and you hear it, you might be happy. I said, but the music is enjoy the song and my heart. Heat up here. Heat. Heat [Music] up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. Oh, [Music] heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat up [Music] here. remember that you're the world's greatest known Washington DC for the congressman and everybody in the capital and it was real cold and Marcus will remember

011and I always tell the girls when they tell you you can't do it you say yes I can and it was real cold and the the text would never come for us so I went up to the front desk and I said is it far to walk and It's called the heel cuz you have to climb up. And he said, "Yeah, but it all depends what shoes you you're wearing." And and I went like this and I had high heels. Not that high, but high heels. And they said, "Oh, you'll never make it." And I had told the girl my story and said, "Let's go." And there we go. And she said, "You never tell me Georgia you can't do it cuz she gets more energy." And I'll tell, "Don't ever let anybody tell you

012you can do it. Believe that you're the best because you are the best and you will be the very best. wish you the very best of luck and you know that you're the best. Always thank your parents, thank your marasi instructors and our board of trustees and our superintendent that always always is always supporting you all. You're the best. Viva Makina. Thank you. Before we vote on this item, I'd like to read a resolution honoring Francis S. Roachcha on her retirement. Whereas Francis S. Rocha, an alumni of Edcow Chelsea High School, began her lifelong career in education as a student, volunteer, tutor, and member of the future teachers of America, mentoring young children even before graduation. And whereas in 1969 she officially joined Edcouch Elsa ISD as a pair professional at Edcouch Elementary and pursued

013her higher education at the University of Texas Pan-American. After obtaining her teaching certificate in teaching for 6 years, she earned a master's degree in education and rose to the position of instructional supervisor at Edcouch Elementary. Whereas Miss Roachcha served as principal of EdCouch Elementary for 6 years after which she was appointed director of curriculum and instruction. She went on to to a distinguish to excuse me to distinguish herself over the next 15 years as an assistant superintendent overseeing curriculum and instruction and later student services and even stepped up as interim superintendent of schools for a period of 17 months during a critical transition. And whereas drawing on her own experiences as a daughter of a migrant farm worker and the first in her family to pursue higher education, Miss Roachcha has championed expanded opportunities for

014students of all backgrounds, remembering her challenges as a youth. She has been a tireless advocate for enriching extracurricular programs and support services so that all children have the chance to succeed. And whereas beyond her official duties in the district, Francis Rocha has actively contributed to the border community. She had the honor of serving on the Delta Region Revitalization Corporation, an education task force under Congressman Ruven Inosa to spur educational and economic opportunities in the Delta area. She has further served her hometown as a commissioner of Elsa since 2018 and she continues to give through roles such as board member of the Edinburgh Teachers Credit Union, leadership in her local Rotary Club and volunteer service at Sacred Heart Church in Elsa. Her greatest joys has her greatest joy has always been serving the students of Ed

015Calchulsa ISD and uplifting the community that she loves. And whereas Miss Rocha extraord extraordinary Miss Roachcha's extraordinary dedication has been recognized at the state level. Notably, the Texas House of Representatives in 2015 adopted House Resolution 785 honoring decades of service to Ed Cowsa ISD, commending her for fostering a supportive educational environment and benefiting countless young Texans. And whereas after 54 years of steadfast service with ecalosa ISD, Francis S. Roachcha will be retiring at the conclusion of her contract term, concluding a truly remarkable career of educational excellence and inspirational leadership. And now therefore, be it resolved that the board of trustees of Ed Cowsa Independent School District hereby express a profound gratitude and admiration to Francis S. Rocha for her 54 years of distinguished service during which she positive positively impacted generations of students and staff

016through her dedication, vision, and compassion and confers upon Francis S. Rocha the honorary title of superintendent emmeritus of Edcow Chelssa ISD effective upon her retirement and as a tribute to her enduring legacy of service and leadership and officially designates the district's fine art facility to be named the Francis S. Roachcha Fine Arts Center in lasting recognition of her contributions to education and the arts of of our school. so that the future generations will remember and be inspired by her commitment. I need a motion to approve. Second. There's a motion made by Mr. Losano, seconded by Mr. Torres. All those all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. All those against. Motion carries. Heat. Yeah. Yeah. Heavy. I'd like to say cuz I heard about your witness ago something special and I think after

017Thank you for being here. I just want to say I'm truly honored by receiving this on and my mom and dad both us and they instill in us that when you did something and you sign your name to something, make sure that it was the very best because you were not only representing yourself but the name Silva and that's why I kept insisting that always wherever I go Francis S is S Silva because I am who I am because I'm my daddy. So I'm truly honored and I accepted on my family and also my family here at Erica Chelsa for 54 years in counting because when I was in high school we were a family. We've had the privilege of working together and this is a tribute to all of you all of you that

018love kids of parents. You're my family. We're our family and I can tell you that it was hard cuz I was told I was never going to go to college. My counselor said I want I wanted algebra that no you're not. You're going to take related math one related math 2 and you're done. And I said but I'm going to be a teacher. He says no you're not. You're going to get married. I said well maybe I'll get married. I said maybe I will get married. I probably will but I am going to be a teacher. I wish he was alive to know this. through all the years there's 1969 I graduated and I sat in that football field and I was denied the privilege of being in band. I wanted to be in band

019but because my daddy would go to West Texas and then we would come back to school. They said I go there I am in Central Middle School and I go to to because there was all these instruments but I didn't know they were instruments and they would take the suitcases. I said where are they going Mr. Ready? They're going to band. I want to be in band. go talk to Mr. Sats. There I go. And I said, "Mr. Sats, I want to be in Ben." He says, "Young lady, where were you in September, La Misa, Texas?" So, I never got the opportunity to be in band. But my sister, my family, Lisa and Philip, they all were my children were in bed. So, I made a decision sitting in that b that football field where

020the transportation department is now. And I said, Francis, one day you're going to come back and you're going to make sure that every student that wants to go to college will go to college and everybody that wants to be in extracurricular will be an extracurricular. And I'm an advocate for children. I will always be an advocate for children. And here we are. We've got the best mariachi program, the best fine arts program, the best band, everything. And now we have the early college. So that gives me a great honor. I remember when Mr. Castillo Miguel Castillo was the principal and we got ready to send out the application for the early college and there I am and I said wait Mr. Cuz you before we sent put send let's pray and we prayed and it's

021history now we have all that we have you'll be seeing SDC graduates and all of that is possible through the support of all of us and I am here representing all of you and together we have made who coach is and a lot of these board members or my students or my colleagues Roelly all of all of Sandy all of them were were kids Sandy sister and I used to share clothes because we wanted to wear different clothes to But it's an honor and a privilege and I will never say goodbye because eka Chelsa I cannot picture a Friday night without me running all over the field praying with the rose in my hand that nobody gets hurt and thank you so much aboard I can never Sandy I can never thank you enough this

022is truly an honor my family that oh have to miss a lot of activities in home with my family mom we have to go h I got to go here I got to go there my daddy can testify my sister Lisa I always do that because I said, "Mom, one activity that you don't go is not going to hurt anybody and I'm walking to the K program one time and it was football season and it was basketball season. Here comes some boys." And he said, "Man, you know that the basketball, we're also yellow jackets like football players. You haven't come to a game." So I didn't see they do know this. But anyway, and I love you all my family. Thank you so much. One, two, three. Four more. Ready. One, two, and three. I'd

023also like to take this opportunity to recognize Mary Gonzalez, who's been part of this district for 39 years. And uh He said you all smell great. Yeah. Were there any uh open comments for the regular? No. Next item on the agenda are recognitions. We're going to go ahead and move up. Uh presentations presentation on the possible dream by region one. [Applause] Good evening, President IATA, board members, uh Superintendent OA, it's my pleasure to greet you to tonight. Um, okay. It's my pleasure to be here tonight. You know, this is uh whenever I think of Ed Calchelsa and I think of the deep history of this district, I little did I know coming tonight I was going to uh witness history again. So, uh it was kind of my privilege to to witness this uh with

024you tonight. I I don't know uh I don't know that we have slides. Joe, I have you have a packet. We have a packet in front of you. And uh that's kind of what I'm going to cover. So, first of all, just a little adjustment. Normally, when I speak to you, I'm representing region one. Tonight, I'm actually not representing region one. So, region one is my uh region one is where I make my living, right? And I love it serving districts and serving you and we've been serving you quite a bit uh uh this year in particular. Right. But in my spare time uh in my spare time uh I I have founded this um foundation. It's a 501c3. So uh I'm not an employee of this. I don't receive any revenue from this. I

025am the I'm the founder and the chairman of the board of the Possible Dream Foundation, a 501c3 Corporation. And this uh I'll go back a little bit. A passion of mine, as you well know, because I've talked to you about it before, is adults that do not have a high school diploma. Adults that never got to complete high school and so forth. And especially if you go back in the history of this valley, the history of Ed Calchulsa, if you listen to Francis Rocha story, you know, there's there's many reasons why why we have a high level of adults in our area that do not have a high school diploma. And so thing things that happened historically are part of that, right? And the expectations they used to be very different historically. Uh also the

026need to work and migrant farmwork and just so many different things that that that have led to this. And uh about uh back in 2007 when I became superintendent of PSJ uh school district that had a horrendous dropout rate at the time, we set up the first adult high school in the state of Texas that would serve adults over the age of 21 and uh which we helped through region one. I so I'll step back and forth, but through region one we helped you to open something similar this year. And so over the 12 years I was at PSJ, we graduated almost 3,000 adults ages 18 to uh 26 with their high school diploma, helping them to get certificates and everything. In about I don't know 2013 2015 a group out of Austin that had

027that was pretty connected went to the state leadership in the legislature and they got a bill passed to take the model that we had started here in the valley and say what if we tried this for adults up to age 50 older adults. So they they compromised and they agreed on you know what age 50. So what if we gave this same opportunity instead of going to because it used to always stop at 21. Well, we pushed it here in the valley. We pushed it to age 26 and that started spreading around the state and the legislature started endorsing that. And uh so it was can we do it to age 50. And so uh a 501c3 Austin Goodwill was granted a pilot through legislation to open an adult high school uh similar to your

028college and career center that you have here for for adults up to age 50 to get their high school diploma. uh they've gra they've graduated almost 2,000 adults 18 to 50 in the decade since they since they opened that. Um when it happened, I remember feeling very shag grin cuz I'm I'm like we started that we should have the opportunity to uh you know to to also serve older adults. In 2023, the legislature passed a bill saying there could be 10 more programs around the state and and that they would be willing to fund 10 more programs. And so, uh, one of the caveats, it needed to be a 501c3 was the the key type of organization to operate these. So, uh, I set up a 501c3. Uh, got some help from Senator Cornin to

029expedite it. had some help from senator uh our state senator in hosa and so forth and uh so this fall we are opening uh high schools for adults up to age 50 this is through this is not region one this is a possible dream foundation in Igo county in Laredo in Brownsville throughout our region throughout our region and I won't go through you have a a packet here where you can look at data and everything but throughout our region Approximately 30% of adults over the age of 25 do not have a high school diploma, have never completed high school diploma, GD, anything like that. So the need is tremendous. Um, so what what what we have here, what I will refer you to is in the lefth hand pocket is this one-page document here. If

030you turn it to the back, if you turn it to the back, what will be offered through this possible dream ado high school is a high school diploma. This is not a GED. Not to not to knock a degree, but just to indicate this is a high school diploma. So, this means these adults will need to earn all the same credits that that the students at Edelcha need to earn. So they'll need to pass their history classes, their math classes, their their science classes, their English classes. They will need to take uh exit exams and so forth. Okay. We will be offering them also concurrently and we're required to we will be offering them industry bas based certifications in areas where there's need in area. So the idea is to help them move up in

031life, help their families to move up, uh set an example also for their children, help the community, help the economy. And so this is these are some of the examples. This is based on on the uh lower Rio Workforce Board. These are some of the high need areas in our area. Now, they can also they're not limited to this. Going back to Mr. Rocha's story, they're not limited to this. if they want to transition into college and they want to get their university degree and they want to become a teacher anything else well then we'll be supporting that as well um and then uh on the right hand column is the kind of support we'll be offering them so these are adults that you know they have a life so couple things about it very

032much like your college and career center that we that region through reach my other hat I'm wearing two hats right but through region one we helped you all to open this year so we'd be talking about uh in this case uh up to three shifts a day and one from in the morning like 8 to 12, one in the afternoon and one at night to accommodate adults different uh life schedules and working schedules. So you can see there different kinds of counseling and coaching connecting them to daycare services if they have children anything that would that that is going to facilitate them being able to to to attend. And then digital literacy, financial literacy. A lot of times adults, especially if they're over 30, over 40, they may or may not feel comfortable in our

033digital world we live in today. So, so u helping them with that um job placement services, life coaching, and so forth. So, this uh so what this is, it's a in essence, it's a charter high school. It's a charter high school. So, the state will fund it the way they fund charter schools. So what what that means is that once we that once this this this program has enrollment, it will draw down uh weighted average daily attendance funding much like your high school does. What it does not have is a tax base. It doesn't have taxing authority. So it doesn't really have facility money uh per se other than uh applying for grants, looking for partnerships and things like that. this um high school, the state will be measuring it just like it'll be accountable.

034So, it'll be accountable for meeting enrollment goals. We've proposed to open being very bold. We've proposed to open this year with up to 900 students across across the region. Uh up to 900 adult students across the region and over a 5-year period grow to the capacity of being able to serve 1,800 adults a year through this program. Some of them some of them that will enroll might only need they might have only lacked a couple of credits. They might have only lacked exit exams or anything like that. So some of them will be in and out. In other words, they'll be in and then one semester they'll be out. Our job during that time is to try to help them get a certification or something on top or help them transition to college. Others will

035never have even started high school and so they will need a lot of help with their basic reading, their basic math and then move on in and they'll need tutoring and all of that and then move them on into uh into into their uh credit bearing courses. So there'll be five metrics that the state will hold accountable for. One is uh reaching the enrolling goals. Reaching the enrollment goals. Two is just like your regular high schools. what's the graduation rate? You know, are they, you know, is it the state is not going to want to fund a program that people are coming in and leaving and almost nobody's getting a diploma. So, they're going to be looking at now, they'll have specific metrics knowing that this is a very challenging uh uh uh initiative, right?

036But the state will be setting graduation standards for these type of schools. The third one is the percent that get industry-based certifications andor transition on into into higher education from there. The the fourth one is uh employment. Do they get employment or do they improve in their employment? So, we'll be held accountable for that. And then the fifth one is wages. Are they are they making a living wage? Are they doing better than than minimum wage? Are they doing you know so are we lifting them up? So that's what the initiative is. Uh and like I said, I'm I I love it. It's based on a passion that I have and and work that started, you know, years ago. in your in your folder is this little card. And if you know people and I

037think uh Superintendent Cho and her team are going around town and putting things uh people that are interested in rolling can scan this QR code and they can go to a Spanish option or an English option and they can fill out just some very basic information to uh to to to enroll and register. If we're overs subscribed, we go to a lottery process kind of like the charters do, but they will be growing each year. Um, in in uh I was a a I guess it was last week I was walking the the the facilities with superintendent Choah where where the district is looking at college and career where they're looking at a potential partnership with South Texas College. And I looked at the space there and and I was seeing the synergy there and

038I kind of mentioned uh to super choy, you know, if there were enough adults here in that age range. Let me mention one more thing from my region one hat, we've done a lot of work to help you all stand up the 18 to 26 year old program. So one commitment that I've made on this to the communities where that is going is that we're geofencing those districts. And if through this we recruit 18 to 26 year olds, we're going to we're going to refer them very strongly to your district program at to be their first option and their and their best option. And we'll we'll focus primarily then on the 26 to 50. Now, if somebody just absolutely is like, "No, no, I you know, I don't but I think they're going to want

039that yellow jacket diploma if they can get that yellow jacket diploma, right?" I know I would. Right. So, so, uh, so it's intended to be a partnership and not like like not compete, but there's so many thousands of adults in our community that need this that all all of us pitching in together to do it. You know, I think over the next 5 to 10 years, we can change the story of the valley, the region, we can change the story with Algo County, we can change the story of the Delta area of of our county. So, kind of in mentioning that and looking at the needs for equipment and things, I kind of mentioned to to uh to Superintendent Oaha that uh if we could, you know, if you know, I mentioned to her this

040synergy and said, "Wow, could you all locate here?" And I said, "Well, there'd need to be enough numbers to make it viable, but if they were, it could work side by side with a college and career, help each other, and also um each program could apply for equipment and start getting equipment faster." And the other thing is, I know I talked to the president of South Texas College the other just two days ago and I congratulated him for the public statement that he made that uh that that they would come here and I you know I I I uh that's something I've been pushing for uh for more than 10 years. Back when they passed their last bond issue, I met with the previous president and I said, "You should be in the Delta area

041back when back when the congressman was involved trying to get them to use the building." And I I talked to them and I said cuz no matter what district or whatever I've been in, it's it's about all it's about all of our community. But I think I can see where if both are here and then you know your high school and you're growing your early college work and your dual enrollment all combined, you know, I think that can incentivize also the college by having more numbers to to help fill their classes. So they have there. So I wanted just to present that to you in that conversation and uh uh you all may have an item on the agenda on it uh later today or you may want other discussions on it. But I just

042want to thank you for the opportunity uh to present this to you. I want to thank you for the great partnership with region one with that and for a proposed new partnership uh with the possible uh dream foundation. I have mentioned to several people in here um there's different ways I know Superintendent Cho and her team are looking at going out and I think they've already started and I've mentioned even like your cities could get involved you could send uh we could help produce little uh brochures with a QR code that you could send out the cities could maybe send out with their water bills or the district if you're sending out communications you could put it on your ISD and your city's work so anything that gets the word out to the community better

043so that you can uh get the numbers and help get the numbers because uh if we address this population in a very powerful way, it can just really lift up the community. The other thing about it, I've always believed in a multi-generational approach if the parents are learning and going to school and moving forward. It creates a whole new energy in the household and and it be becomes a role model for the parents. And I've seen so many cases where the parent and the children now are studying side by side in the in the home. The children are seeing their parents studying. They've seen the their parents trying to get more education. So that um it's one thing if they see their parents saying they value education. It adds some more if they see their

044parent actually investing in their own education and not just in their children. So that's what I have for you. I don't know if you have any questions for me. Other than that, I just I thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you, Dr. King. Uh certainly count on Ed Couch's full support in this endeavor. Sounds like a great program. Yeah. Thank you. It's on the agenda, Dr. King. All right. And I'm going to personally take the time. I toured um um the building where we are currently housing our CCC program for is for our 18 to 26 students. And Dr. King has been incredibly gracious um with with funding um that project. And now with this possible dream um it's going to open and expand for the Delta area. So thank you for that.

045It is already in the consent agenda. So thank you for all you do um and for your team support. And the other thing like I did mention I'll just close with thisite classes also. So, a great source also of students for this is your school district employees, your city employees that do not have their any that do not have their high school diploma to encourage, you know, encourage them and and uh create that pathway for them as well. Thank you very much. Thank you, Dr. Next item on the agenda are recognitions. We will recognize Edcow Tulsa High School 2025 top 10 students, Edcow Tulsa High School 2025 STC Associates graduates, Edcow Tulsa High School girls powerlifting at Cal Tulsa High School, I'm sorry, Edcow Tulsa ISD Elementary secondary campuses with the highest attendance rate for

046the six six weeks. No, all of them. Oh, I'm like Excuse me. [Music] They're all here. Oh my go [Music] one, two, three. Perfect. But they're also other [Music] I think [Music] I'll be strong [Music] back. [Music] All right, guys. Right here. Right here. Right here. Ready? One, two, three. One more. Mary, would you like to say a few words about this being the the biggest graduation class we've had? There it is. So, um we are recognizing our top 10 students here. Um and also our STC associate graduates. We have a total of 54 graduates that earned their 60 college hours, which is a total of 20 college classes. We're really excited. This is the most we've ever had in the history of Elsa. And we want to thank our board for being so supportive,

047our superintendent, and of course our parents. Thank you so much because without your help and your partnership, this wouldn't be possible. And thank you students. Thank you. Congratulations. [Music] Stay [Music] on it. [Music] You got Yes, sir. Awesome. Got it. Would you like to say a few words about our girls powerlifting team, the amazing things they accomplish? I I do actually. Uh I have an incredible team. Honestly, these days have accomplished a lot in the last few years. Actually, this is our fourth state title. We missed it by one point last year and it kind of a little sour taste and we came back pretty strong. So, I'm very fortunate to be part of this team. I'm blessed actually to be part of this team and uh hopefully we can continue this streak in the

048next few years with uh hope get selected as a coach. We we talk about what it takes to be a powerlifter and just getting inside that that outfit that they wear and and how you have to slowly take it off because it's just such a Yes. Uh teaching passion, teaching consistency is something I I pray I do a lot. I I show them I I'm not myself. So I try to them for like ahead going back to that. Um, uh, just the consistency is a major part. And honestly, like I was telling the financial instructor is getting the girls to the fields, getting the girls there cuz it's different for you. It's a different, it's a different methodology with them. With the boys, I'm not looking at them and they're there. With the girls, I

049have to be, hey, where you at? Hey, come over. Hey, give me a train. Hey, come on. Come on. I haven't seen you yet. You were here Monday. So, it's a different girl who ladies. So I have to find that way to tell. Hey, I need you here. Come on. Let's lift. Come on. So yes, but you know what I have and again I'll say it again. There are a strong group. These ladies put some a lot on them. And to see him work that weight is incredible. And I teach a lot of my a lot of mind. Hey, put it in your mind. You got to go on. You got this. So if I could teach them that and not only that I can take this on after high school and this becomes a

050dead lifestyle. Absolutely. Yes. Can we go down the line starting with 80 here and what's your total weight? I mean 80 is a three time state champion. I mean, I have a lot of things to say about Amy, but she's an incredible. She she's always uh memorable things actually about you as well, and you know, she's done this three times in a row. So, it's an incredible feat that she does. So, yes. Do you remember that you did this? She broke a record. Yes. Okay, we're just not going well. I'm sure it was a lot, right? Uh so to to further so the banners are going to be going up in this is going to be the new standard moving forward. We celebrate all our v victories and readiness and joining us to be part

051of alumni which is a big deal and we appreciate all your sacrifices all Somebody. with all your right here. 1 2 3 1 and up. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Thank you so much. [Music] What is this? Okay. Okay. Nobody outside. [Music] It's an honor for me to recognize our attendance from the elementary life. Congratulations. [Music] Holy gra. Thank you. Congratulations. very and now for the secondary I'm telling you we're very close between the high schools and but you want 87% 87% Thank you. two months one and I just want to say that the high school and very very very next year the high school 85 almost 8%. [Music] Yes, please. King I don't know why other [Music] One more.

0522 3 1 2 and 3 I'm going to do the game just started some Next item on the agenda is uh presentation of region one ESC SB1882 partnership schools custodial team cleaning schedules and ground maintenance Good evening, Mr. President, Dr. Ooya, members of the board. Uh this evening we have a an update on the 1882. Uh this is one of the things that we were discussing this uh actually about a few weeks ago. I know that uh normally we associate the SB1882 with academics but uh one of the things that Dr. O mentioned the last time she says you know what why don't we share all of the other great things that we're doing. So and I we thought it was a wonderful idea. So uh the 1882 does not just include academics but it

053includes other things such as what we're going to be covering today. Uh it's important to know that uh we we looked at all aspects of you know the education system here at uh at couchulsa. One of the things that we wanted to focus on as well was the environment. The learning environment is very important. So when Mrs. Olivare and I were writing the grant or the application we said you know we need to include uh support and operations maintenance and operations and uh we have beautiful buildings. We want to showcase them. We know we're going to be one of the uh one of the sites, the visit sites from the state. You know, right now they're already calling us saying, "What are you doing?" You know, we already they heard the great news and I

054know this is coming later, but of some of the improvements that we've done already without the formal SB182 partnership. So, uh, what we want to do today is talk a little bit about what we're doing in the area of maintenance and operation to in to ensure that our buildings are up to par and, uh, that we are, you know, uh, taking care of all of the buildings. I know that I had the privilege of meeting with Mr. Borggo over at Santiago Garcia this week and, um, it's not even like, you know, we're going to be going around the campuses and giving feedback and all and this wasn't even his turn, but he's like so excited. He's like, "Mr. Garson, Mr. Garson, can you get Mr. someone on the line and and can you show him

055you know what we've been doing. So he was really excited to show us what he was doing and we thought yes we can do it now you know but uh but that's just the excitement that we've been seeing. So today we have Mr. Alvin Samo who's one of our administrators administrator for operations and Mrs. Dalia Neves who is our maintenance coordinator that going to be giving the presentation. Good evening Mr. President members of the board superintendent. It's my pleasure being here, but part of the partnership is uh is to focus on campus cleaning, grounds, maintenance, schedules, and staffing models, highlight improvements made, and changes planned, request districts uh help. Okay. Okay. to the next slide. What is the part partnership overview? It allows partnerships to support school improvements, operational components, safe, clean, and inspiring environments.

056A key pillar, enhancing learning spaces through strategic planning, facilities management. Why operationals improvements matter? Clean, well-maintained environments promote student focus and attendance. encourage staff satisfaction and retention, reflect pride in our schools, directly tied to better academic and emotional outcomes. And I'm going to pass this. There's two components that we're looking at. It's the custodial and the grounds. At this point, I'm going to let our custodial facilitator Daniel talk about this a little bit. Thank you. Um the custodial maintenance um current right now they're working on the zone cleaning. Um, we have the custodian assigned by area and inconsistency through the campus. We're proposing the team cleaning concept, custodian assigned as a team and consistency through the campus. The team the team is jumping. Just go back a little. We'll be brief. But the soil maintenance

057currently they do zone cleaning. That means one person goes to different zones and we're proposing team cleaning. That means you work as a team and they go out throughout the district. It shows consistency. They all work together. On the team cleaning, assigning cleaning by task rather than area is much better because the employees will know exactly what are the responsibility and the task and by them knowing their task increases efficiency, the quality and the accountability of each custodian. Some of the example roles that we have is the light duty specialist, the vacuum sweeper specialist, the restroom specialist and utility specialist. I have a video that um we went to RCR um to do the first training there. Um I want to say we have a strong custodial department there. Um is this a video? Just

058great. Yeah, as you can see here, the custodians walked into the classroom. They already knew their responsibility. what task they're supposed to address when they got there. Um, it only took him 3 minutes and 32 seconds to accomplish the whole classroom and the cleaning. As you can see, we have the the light duty specialist is responsible in cleaning the table, the desk of the students, picking up the chairs uh for like that. The sweeper or the vacuum specialist can go through the area sweeping easier for them. As you can see here at the last, we have the utility specialist. He is responsible to pull all the trash out. Make sure that all task has been completed by each resilience. Once task is completed, he will go ahead and turn off the light, secure the classroom,

059and continue to the other classroom. I have another um u video that I added. I'm also RCR. Like I said, awesome custodial staff. Um they started at the beginning not understanding the team cleaning concept. I want to say 30 minutes of me training them 35. They already knew what they had to do when they came into the classroom. Same scenario here. We have two persons sweeping because there's no restroom in the classroom and we have one person taking care of the dry eraser and all the desks are being cleaned. And this one because the furniture was less and the position the way is arranged only took him 2 minutes and 42 seconds to accomplish the classroom. Team cleaning schedule is a daily task is reminding them what their responsibility during the day is the classroom

060sweeping mob sanitizing the desk the restroom making sure that it's clean is always refernish stock and disinfected for our students hallway mop trash removal constantly during the day they'll be addressing all this weekly look ahead schedule when the buffer needs to be done the dusting of the vents while even um addressing the windows and the main entrance of the campus we also have the monthly which the head custo may um schedule the deep cleaning rotation, responses, steam cleaning, even rewashing or rewaxing the floors if it's needed from the gym or the cafeteria area. This isam not example actually this is a a schedule that we implemented at RCA. We still have to tweak a little bit but I would like to share with you really quick. As you can see we have four custodians there

061and they actually they're missing they have a sub custodian. We have the head of studying responsibility that comes in the morning. He opens the campus. Um he he makes sure that the main entrance of the campus is ready for our student, staff and our parents. He will continue with the schedule. Um here he has addressed the the gates. He opens the gate and then he will continue um doing the breakfast area of um delivering the breakfast to the classroom. As you can see, he leaves at 9:00. I have the second person that comes in at 8:30. Once this person come in, he will tag along with the morning person and continue assisting them with the breakfast. Once that is accomplished, as you can see, every 30 minutes consistency where the custodian has a task in

062the area that he's supposed to be addressing the restroom, the hallways, um the trash cans around the area and it'll continue like that until it's time for him to leave his lunch. Then we have the other two custodian. And the reason, let me share this real quick. The reason I put them here at 10 o'clock on the G for them to team up is because the prek students when they go to the cafeteria to have lunch, that gives the time for the facility to go in and address the restrooms for the prek. Um, study those rest without attending till the end of the day. They will go in during the day, disinfected, refurbished, clean, have it ready for the students when they return back from lunch. The rest have been addressed in the classroom. So

063once they're done taking care of the test, they still in the cafeteria, they'll be they will remain there. It's just time for them um to leave a lunch and before they leave in the cafeteria, their responsibility is to ensure that the floors are being locked. The tables of the cafeteria are being cleaned and all the restrooms and everything has been addressed and is ready for the next day or for any event that is being left in the afternoon at the actual program. Once they go out to lunch, as you can see, everybody at 3:00 in the area, which is the G G because that's the area. Oh, that's cuz you stood right underneath it. Yeah, it has a sensor. G is the area where the prek um students are at. The reason we start there

064is because they tend to be first from the classroom, which that allow the custodian have 15 to 20 minutes ahead of dismissal of the students to come out. So if you notice every 30 minutes they start with the clean each of them has the same responsibility and they're in the task and then we takes them three to four minutes to accomplish they'll continue with the schedule as they go until is um the last is the gym I want to say RCR the custodians they understood the schedule less than 35 minutes and then they completed the training on the first day they finished the whole campus by 6:55 Five. Okay. Have any questions? Yeah. Just go back to the sound real quick. Just the biggest difference between zone and and the team cleaning is the whole

065team starts the team cleaning at 3:00. They're all working together. It's constant maintenance. This has been around for a while. Go ahead. Yes. So, as like Mr. Sam mentioned, when you have the zone area that was told, they take ownership. So what happen is they come in from the morning and they don't want to move from that area. They just want to stay there because that's their area that ownership in they need any assistance in any other area. We hear where they say, "Oh, that's a nice area. I don't want to go over there. I'm busy." And what happened? That area stay unattended until the other facility comes in either at 10:00 or or 11:00 in the afternoon. With this schedule, the whole facility is everybody responsibility. It's the whole building. Since they come in

066the morning, they need to know that they have to address the campus, have it ready for hopeful for our students, our parents, and our staff. I'm going to go ahead and message. You go ahead and talk about just like custodial, we also schedule, but the current situation is that there's irregular mowing schedule from campus to campus. what we have or what you have is you have somebody mowing one campus and that's where he's always at, somebody else at another campus and they're very hard workers that they're mowing all day long. I see that u the ground crews are assigned by areas like I said one's in different schools. I think you have two schools where you source it out and they come every two weeks and the plan is to mow the grass every week

067cuz then after we can start we get we can see the the shabess there and then there's because everybody's at a different area there's inconsistency throughout the district. The proposes to have team weekly mowing schedule and we have a schedule just like we've used with custodial ground school grounds crews are assigned as a team and then the consistency is throughout the district. So, it's the same team doing RCR, the high school, whatever it is. And and that's what I I just add are are we for the sake of consistency, are we implementing some of this in those campuses or not? So, the the the reason that um I had the conversation with Dr. Garza is because not only did they graciously um agree to come to present but also to provide the training to all

068our campuses for free. Thank you free. We just know we just need your support because with change you know there but uh just know that our intentions are are good for the kids. We want you know have beautiful buildings. We want to showcase them. We want to make sure everybody understands that, you know, this is very important to us. Uh we've been doing this with several districts and uh nobody wants to leave. That's awesome. Feel free. We had 47 PSJ. Yeah, we've been do we did this in back in the ' 90s and then at PSJ we teamed up with I had a bunch of schools there, a bunch of yards but once a week the yards were cleaned every day was team cleaning going on at all the campuses and now we're doing it

069at a very small scale at region one but now we're beginning to help the different districts that are seeking our help. So the weekly task trash pickup around the perimeter I mean every day when they go out there they're going to pick up the trash and we've included that in the team cleaning custodial edging mowing blowing and debris removal. So they hit a campus that's what they're going to do. All of them doing the same thing at the same time. You have people five people instead of one person. Monthly you do the granite beds if you have we have some there at region one. We weed them and rake them out. The landscaping of the beds by yearly we mulch pal trees tree trimming. And when we look at the schedule, you can see how

070we I this one was created just for this one's region one. Yeah. And this one is broken up. I've only got we only we do we do region one to 68 hours and uh and they're part of the maintenance staff. They come out and you can see this they're scheduled. That's the at the very beginning from they come in at 6 so they don't break windshields and stuff like that. That's before the cars come in. They they start uh they start doing the mowing, the trimming, the blowing, and then they go all the way down to 11:00. When they go to lunch or 10:00, they go to lunch 11 and then after that they go do maintenance stuff inside. But this is a schedule that's created specifically for whatever area we're going to go. It'll

071be different here. I started a schedule for this district and um I just that's just when I met uh Dr. Oo, and she said, "Why don't you just present it to the board?" And that's why we're here. We need your support. But it's very detailed. The employees after a week, they'll know where they're supposed to be. Mondays are going to be here. Tuesday's going to be here. Wednesday's going to be here. It's just consistent. This is just a tool so that Mr. Rodriguez knows where they're supposed to be at any time of the day or the morning or the week. But uh what's next? What's changing? team schedule staff training programs custodian crowns consistency and that's what we've learned throughout the years at Eladima PSJ region one that it has to be consistent always request

072what what's the request for support these changes need help us provide the best learning environments commitment for all levels is essential we're asking for your continued support input and partnership now are there any questions that's the end of our presentation but I want to thank you for letting us be here to present and we're very excited every time we go to the school. This will be the actually the very first grounds uh uh first district where we use a ground schedule. So I I feel very uh proud and confident that we can make a difference. Any questions? Thank you. Well, let there be no doubt that Cal is fully committed to SB 1882. I mean, so thank you. I know Dr. Joe's been been part of this team since the beginning and thank you so

073much for getting us this far and that's good news impressive right on every 30 seconds we know where they're at what they're supposed to be doing there's breaks I mean they take their lunch period no one's over that example if somebody's out because we're missing them well it's the whole camp is going to be treated like everybody said there's no without even being clean. And usually that happens when you're doing the zone. The area there's no way to clean that section. What happens? They just go in, take out the trash, it will stay like that. That area will not be ready for the students for the next day. With the teeth clean, the whole campus, the whole facility is going to be addressed deeply. It's not going to be where one area is not being

074clean or tended exactly as the other area. So the team does work to make a difference. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Next presentation is Elsa Police Chief Robert McInness presentation on the teen life skills summer program for ages 8, I'm sorry, 14 to 18 on the life skills every teen needs. Chief McInness, I hear you guys have a real city manager. Is that true? No, he was walking. He's a jerk. No, no, he's very supportive and I appreciate the school board. uh speaking with Dr. uh ooa she asked uh the school board has been or the school has been very supportive thus far and we're hoping to continue that partnership. He asked she asked that we come do a uh do a presentation basically you know we look at it we believe that

075the police department and the and the school district and continue to partner up uh it helps better prepare our kids uh to create safer and stronger communities. the the kids that are here today are going to be sitting there not too far in the distant future and so you know we want them prepared. The teen life skill program and this is a progress and the impact we've had so far. It's a fiveweek program for uh kids 9th to uh uh 12th grade. The topics that we're covering at this point, we're hoping to build on it. We have five different classes that we that we do right now. confidence and communication, personal finance, job readiness and career exploration, social media and digital responsibility, and community service and leadership. Those are the five we're doing right now.

076We're in the middle of our first session. We got a great response for the first session and we have an overwhelming response for another session. The school asked if we could do another session and as of yesterday, we have 65 people for the next session. Wow. So we'll have we'll have reached almost 90 kids uh through this summer. So where do we get the kids? Most of them are court ordered. Okay. But those are the kids we wanted to reach. These are the kids that that that are going to have the issues uh as we move forward to try to create a better relationship with them. Uh they're gaining uh confidence and and practical uh tools for life. Uh we've had strong uh attendance and participation. Uh, I'll be honest with you. I teach the

077first one, which is the, uh, the confidence and communication. Uh, and it was a rough day. It was a rough day because you're having to try to get these kids to open up. It's a communication class. So, guess what? You got to get up and talk. You got to say something. You know, uh, by the end of it, I was uh, you know, I'll take the little wins. Uh, I had like two or three of them come to me and actually thank me. uh by the time we did the second one, we did the second one last week, which is uh uh one of the things that I didn't mention. What we do here is we try to find somebody that that lives this every day. So, personal finance, uh they actually came in for

078Real Bank and taught that the job readiness and stuff, that'll be workforce solutions. And all of this is volunteered. Nobody's being paid. It's all volunteered. But by the time we came around to the second one, they were actually way more engaging. They asked more questions. So, I see as as we move along, they're getting more comfortable in their and they're uh uh opening up some. Uh we want to thank the the the school district obviously access to the to the facilities starting this Saturday coming up for the next one which is the job readiness. Uh Dr. Oo has allowed us we're going to be able to use the uh the technology building at the here at the school and then for the second session I mean there's 65. We hopefully that room's big enough but

079we'll we'll figure it out. We'll we'll pile them in there. And also and also the nutrition uh uh staff uh they've been providing breakfast and lunch and we're really appreciative of that. We I came up with this idea and I had this much money to to make it happen. Zero funds. And so city manager uh you know I'll go back to my original statement. It's a narrow statement. The school's been instrumental in in the promoting and the referrals by staff particularly uh uh the trreny uh Miss Rios uh has been tremendous on this worked a minute ago. What we're hoping and I and I did add some future collaboration in here. What we're hoping for uh coming up this new school year, we're going to start a Texas public safety cadet program, which basically if

080you explore program, most people have heard of an explorer program. This is where it's gone to. This is what it's called now. We already actually have our post. Uh we have mentors that have already uh uh taken their training and we're going to be working with the uh the the law enforcement, the the the fire service uh programs that you have to recruit kids for that. Uh another thing that we've signed up for that we're doing is books with badges. It's a literacy program. Uh we're going to send officers into the school to read to the elementary kids. Uh as we do this, they will actually this program will provide the books uh to the kids that we can give away. So we I I don't know how often we'll be able to do it

081with the with the books, but my goal is to get into the school once every couple of months at the most, even if we're not giving books away, at least so we can read with the uh read with the kids. The other thing that I have coming up, it's going to be for this year, and I'd already talked to Dr. Ooa, and we're looking for the school to help uh nominate kids that we can look for is uh chief for the day. So a student will get sworn in as an honorary chief. Uh they'll go through a morning briefing. That briefing will obviously be scripted so they're not exposed to anything that they shouldn't be exposed to. They'll tour tour city facilities. Uh have lunch. They'll get an honorary badge. They'll get an honorary uniform.

082They'll be able to go to school, tour their school uh in their uniform. And we believe that's going to create more positive law enforcement exposure and promote responsibility and leadership. And I think it'll, you know, our our our genuine hope and and this what I told Dr. Oah. I have two goals. One is we graduate a better educated student. We would like every kid to go to college, but in the real world, that's probably not going to happen. So, we want to give them some tools to at least give them a better start coming out. Uh I wish I had some basic personal finance uh uh when I got out of school. Uh you know, I think I think all of us kind of went through that low spot and said, "Wow, boy, did we

083make some mistakes." So, we're hoping to to do that. The second part is it's to create better relationships with the with local law enforcement, not just us, but Ed Couch, the surrounding areas. Our program is not just open to to Ed Couch. It's open to anybody that that uh that wants to come around. Last thing is I want to thank the the school district. I mean, we could not be doing this if it wasn't for the for the school district. I will tell you right now and and I told Dr. Cho, I was going to bring this up. Uh, you've been interim now what, month, month and a half, four weeks. So, a month. I've been the chief in in Elsa for 6 years. I've had more cooperation with the school district in the last

084month than I've had in six years. She's done a great job. She's cares about the community. She cares about the students and and I think if we can continue this relationship, we will build a better community for everybody. Awesome. Thank you. And that's all I have. If anybody has any questions. Any questions? Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Chief. See you in the morning, Chief. See you. I think we all looks like uh I skipped the project in power presentations. President members of the board Dr. Joe, thank you for giving us some time. Assembly presentation we got we'll do a tag team right now anyway. technically me a couple of days. So, um, a little backstory. One of the areas that we struggle here in the couch Elsa is giving our kids opportunities

085to gain real life work experiences, especially for students with disabilities. So, a couple of weeks ago, Dr. Ooa calls me with it wasn't really an idea. It was more like a like a project like hey I need for you to help me do something. So when I started to hear about it it was something that we had started to do before by ourselves but we really couldn't do it. So when Dr. Chuck comes along like we started thinking like yeah this is this can be done now. So we started to think about ways to start business business incubator type of deal for for for our students especially students with with disabilities. So the first project that we want to do is is like a uh like a cafe uh a jacket cafe that I know

086I cannot do it by ourselves by myself. So we want to the the next the previous page previous we fight a lot when we're presenting so so we we want to you we want to give our our kids in the in the units our chance kids the other uh unit students and special ed students these opportunities. So, in order for us to do that in this type of a setting, a cafe, we needed some help. So, we started to collaborate. So, here comes the cake director with a culinary class with a business classes. So, like, hey, we know that we have special a kids in those classes. We know that those kids in the class needs need to work on some of these projects, so they need to help me out. So, we're talking and

087then we said, you know what? We need equipment, especially for the cafe. So here comes uh Cinte Flores our our PA nutrition director like hey can you help us do this like yeah we can do that. So where can we do this at the mercado? All right so Rudy this is the room that we want to use. Can you can you help us outfited with with electricity and water for this cafe? Of course of course we can do that. So the vision started with with Dr. Roa um we we came up with with some ideas. So we want to start off a cafe with our business incubator uh mentality and grow from there. We know that that Mercado uh earlier today we wanted to uh to bring in uh try to fit different different uh

088rooms for different purposes and one of them was was a media center for for Pete Bjo. So hey so that's another opportunity that maybe we can send our kids to to gain some world experiences. So the the project overview page before um the first one will be our our our hive using our our Champs kids using our culinary arts uh teacher to or students to cook the food bring to us and we sell and then along the way they they they learn about business right and we can also send the business students uh to uh to help us and and do some of that work. We're going to come up with the logistics as to when is that cafe going to be open. Uh some designated hours throughout the throughout the day or or designated

089days that we can use to incentivize our our students uh um uh attendance awards or something. And we also want to open it up to to our community. So we feel that this is a perfect opportunity to encompass as many kids as we can including our kids with special ed. But we know that I had tried it with special ed by ourselves. That wasn't going to that would really didn't work. But here comes your superintendent. Here comes the rest of uh the the district and the community. And uh we'll make it happen. The benefits of course hands-on experience hands-on experience for our students the development of of soft skills and leadership skills integrating classroom learning with real life experiences and a lot of studentled management roles and and and maybe even certifications. The funding the

090funding will will be shared. Uh, of course, some of it will become through uh through Kate. Some of it will be self- sustained with with with the with the products that we sell and also uh our special ed uh funds and and some of the local funds as well. That's these are some of the illustrations that that that it might look like. Uh but our goal is to to use the whole the whole uh uh meal in some sort of way to bring up the the what we don't have right some of these opportunities in our in our cities but we're going to take matters into our own hands and and create our own so so our students and the community can take advantage of this go ahead no I was going to say very

091nice I like the presentation I like the uh the concepts good job I think Virgil did the presentation on his head. And and in a in a positive note, the building is in headcount. So, of course, continue. And I was about to say, is there any way we could take the jacket hive, especially during, you know, basketball games and volleyball games over to the How about a little cart? Well, I'm just saying just, you know, nachos and sodas and waters. I mean, that's all right, but we should elevate everything, right? Of course. So maybe concession type concession type is expensive. Yeah. So so we have we have the car I mean the the food truck that DA has. So of course we we can rebrand it uh to different things and and this is just

092a start, right? So start so we can get started. So this is just a presentation. I I know later on in the consent agenda items we'll read. Sure. Little Terber park. Uh one thing I could also add is like official apparel. Like official apparel for sure. Yeah. So, so the team is being very modest and I just I want to thank them because I literally just called them and I'm like, "Hey, so I was thinking, what about this?" And right away they're like, "Let's do it." And it grew from a cafe to a thrift store to selling our own apparel. Um to having one of the rooms be a parent center so the parents can come and help and collaborate and learn those life skills and how to teach them to the kids to also

093having the professional development for parents there working with our parents that are having the truency holding our parent engagements there. So, um, we hope that it's a it's a goal because Rudy right away came into and he already ran the water for the cafe. So, um, kind of started the momentum, but again, couldn't have done it with it without the team. It's like I brought the idea, but you know, they they're ready to work and we're very excited for our community. And so, thank you all. All of you. Thank you. I'm just going to say that when you allow our administrators to to think freely and take on certain challenges, they do. Proud of y'all. Good job. Next item on the agenda are superintendent reports. So the first item, I'm going to be very uh

094quick about it. So, it's important that um the US board trustees and our community um recognize the value of students being in school every day, not just because of the learning, but because it continues to allow us to offer the resources that our educators and our most of all our students need. So, right here, what you're seeing in uh in front of you is just the first to the last six weeks. So the way the state uh basically determines how we get our funding um they allow us to take the best four six weeks and at the bottom you can see which ones they are. Um so it was the the first the hard part the first the second the third and the fifth six weeks and so that is how our uh ADA is

095generated. So if you can see at the bottom for 2024 2025 district totals our enrollment uh was at 4,618 the percent of our attendance was 90.85 and the ADA generated on the average of the best four 6 weeks was uh 3,73. So basically that's just how it is calculated. So, I just wanted to let you know um that we are working very hard to ensure that our kids are in school every day learning and thriving. The next report is a truency report and I apologize there's a lot of information um so it's a little small but essentially what the uh report shows is all the students from the different campuses that have participated in try court. There was a total from all of the campuses 192 students that um were required with their parents or

096legal guardian to come to court. Court started um on the first court started in February 7th through 25 and the last one for this academic year was uh June 11th. We actually had of the that were mandated to attend 226 that came. Um and the this was very important for me to share with you that before um before we had the the truency court. We had a total and these are based on second period or what is considered the uh the ADA attendance period. That is how they determined our funding was 7,226 absences. After the court hearings, um it went to 1,184 absences. So there was yeah pretty significant. There was a total of 140 fines that were given out to parents and they they varied from $250 to $400. Um in some cases one

097parent was fined and some two parents were fined. And then those who were participated in the mandated counseling training, our counselors are doing an amazing job meeting with the parents. They meet with them five times um five sessions teaching them about the importance of educa of their ind their their child coming to school. A lot of psycho education. A lot of dealing with some of the parents just don't know how to deal with the behavioral issues. there are some um drug addiction issues. So, we're referring to the in-house Texas Tropical that we have. So, a lot of the resources that are being provided next school year is going to be mandated that they participate in our counseling uh parent trainings that will be happening at the Mercado and uh so there was uh as I

098said 140 of those uh I mean excuse me 84 and then as a result after after the train the the truency of the ones that were made mandated we have had 19 that have withdrawn however the team um has been make did make some home visits And we are working on you know making sure that these students and the parents recognize that dropping out to avoid fines is not the answer. It's about coming will give them the resources and help them um you know to stay in school and do well in school. So the total uh again for the total count that was fined it was at 140. The total calculated was $64,436 in fines. Um today we haven't collected anything but it's because it goes it goes um through the court system and then

099the court system there's a portion that comes to the district that's going to be used um again for parent education for psycho education for the students any questions lot better a lot better report 700 so the next thank you the next report um this was an initiative that we started um for the first time this year. Um and again I I I talked to the team and I'm like, "Hey, what if we do a bash, a pre-registration bash? We always have them after the fact, but we're chasing kids." So um before the bash, uh we had 1,52 students that had um registered um after the bash and then through some initiatives. And I really want to thank um our nutrition department because they've been out in the community at the splash pad in Elsa and

100we've registered students there. Um we're taking every opportunity. We've got a Dr. King's countdown to zero that I learned about when he helped us a few years ago and I kept it. So we've got teams in place that are going to be going out into the community. But after that we've gone from 1,52 uh students that are already registered to 2,499. The goal for our team is for everyone to be registered and when they come for registration, it'll be more of a celebration to pick up their supplies. The next report is our projected employee count by fund and position for the uh uh from 2020 to uh 2526. And so this report is really important because like many other districts, you know, that are struggling with the finances, we're trying to be very proactive. This

101board has uh been very committed to make sure that, you know, we we do not let go of valuable employees, but we recognize that we do need to make sure that all our talent and resources are used effectively. So, this report just basically shows um the the different areas of where we've had our staff and the staffing patterns. And we went from 2021 all the way to 20 2526. And here, if you notice, um we started increasing a little bit, a little bit every year. And in 2324, that was the highest um at 834 employees. Um and then in 2025, 813. um as a result of some resignations, uh retirements, and some program changes that um were made this year, we are now at 756 employees. Um and we're going to work as diligently as

102we can to keep that hiring freeze to ensure that um we are physically uh fiscally responsible. Um just for for information sake currently we are um we do have six teachers that that you know through through retirement resignation or through different placement that we still need to place. We have 27 teacher assistants uh that through the tazby study and through the placement that we've noticed that uh we also have placements for 15 clerical and then eight custodial. So the the goal for the team is to conduct an audit and to synchronize the personal the personnel and um payroll modules through a sender. So basically just make sure that everyone is placed where they need to be and how do we optimize um everyone's capacity in the school district. So for example um an employee is

103closed out due to retirement or resignation or termination. When the payoff occurs, they are inactivated on the payroll module but not in the personnel module. So we need to make sure that we have a checks and balances and we always know exactly what employees we have and in what area. And then uh we are going to be conducting an internal control uh audit that will begin in 2025 again to make sure that we've got the employees placed in the places that they are needed the most. Any questions? Wonderful. All right. And then um the the the one thing that um was a little startling and and I felt that it needed to to to be brought um to everyone's attention is we we currently participate with region one through their subhub. So anytime we have

104staff that requires a substitute primarily teachers but there have been um custodial um staff as well that they they call um substitute. So for the 2025 uh 2425 school year, we had a total of 7,1 uh substitutes that were called in. Well, from that, this is the part that that that was a little starting startling of the 7,00 597 were coded for uh personal or sick leave. However, in the NA, the non-applicable, there was 5,251. So, just to explain what the NA means, that essentially people there was 5,251 absences, but they were not applied to anyone's record. So, essentially, they were free free days off, but the district was paying uh for a substitute. Do you have the total of the 5,251? What did what in other translate to fiscally fiscally? Well, I I I

105have it broken down over here. Yeah. So, then for professional development, it was uh 898 89 absence uh substitutes related to that. For UIL, it was 241 substitutes that were called for that. Athletics, it was 923 substitutes related to that. And then as of May 29th, the cost was uh one uh over a million dollars in substitutes. Question is those 5,251, you're saying that they basically no sick time was taken from their So yeah. So So for example, we have 10 days, five local and five state. So if you were one of the five 5,251, neither your sick day or personal date was sick. But we understand who these 5,251 people are, right? So, we have a very very very 5,00 5,251 that we are going to be looking at every single day. And then

106I'd like to follow up next, you know, a month as well on this one. I want to look for patterns. I want to see uh the people that were obviously calling in sick and I want to see the patterns. You know, they were calling in on Mondays after holidays, Fridays, every Friday, things like that. I want to understand their behavior. I think more importantly is you can account for the personal one and sick. It's the the 5,000 plus that are Yeah. But these if we're looking at them, there should be something as for what they that's what you're looking at. Exactly. Understanding what in other words there might be people here that all need to be deducted sick time for personal. Exactly. And so just so you know moving forward the the issue is that

107with with the Subhub it you can request your own substitute. So the principal probably will find out after the fact. So what's going to be instituted this year is that we're going to go back to the basics where the principal was called. Then the principal will then uh uh have the secretary call the substitute so that that way we can make sure that it translates into not only finding out if there's a pattern um of a teacher being out that's impacting um the learning but also is it translating to the days making it into the payroll department and the days being deducted. And this leads into um one of the initiatives that that that um is further into the agenda. So this is just the the Subhub. So every time somebody's out the 7,101 on

108average it's $145 a day, right? This is what we're paying Subhub and then we're still paying the person. Exactly. So you're paying twice. So I' I'd like to if you could add that to your report for next month. Yes, sir. And the other thing that ju just from these numbers, I'm really plugging it from these numbers, it was an average of 42 staff members out daily. And so again, there's an initiative in the discussion where I'd like to us to consider or you all to consider creating our own um substitute pool. I think we need to go back to that. I think we need to have better control. Now, does Subhub understand that no longer will people be allowed to call in their own substitutes? So, so there's systems in place to where you can

109only allow, as I said, uh the principal would have the access and the and the secretary would have the access to be the one to actually use it. Uh but um more importantly, I'd like the consideration for us to use internal um staff. Uh as I mentioned, we're over on some staff and creating our own. Um I think that's a good move. I think Yep. That's part of the direction we should probably go. Is that something that has to be brought up and later? Yeah, I could give it more words for the for the actual campus, but that's the only way we're going to get. I I was under impression until I think a couple of months ago that it was done like the old days. Principal met the secretary called in. We brought in

110subhub a few years ago. Yeah, I know. For some reason, I always thought the principal knew. All right. I think this is something month. Thank you. And we'd like to see a running total maybe for current year as well. running total as to every month how many people are missing. Legal has a suggestion. I'm not going to suggest it, but legal. What would legal like to suggest? Uh so some districts have uh in their DEC local uh their leaves and absences policy where they prohibit uh leave to be taken on Fridays, Mondays, and days before holidays and extended holidays, all that kind of good stuff. being implemented. Why don't we look at that? So, yeah, we can you may already have it, but we can review to make sure it's being implemented. So, there's people

111that could be violating our policy potentially. I think that's a good idea. And then lastly, um the very preliminary scores, but um I want to thank the administration, the leadership um region one um for all their support. I did you do have in for for the board you do have uh preliminary um accountability ratings. I'm not sharing them with the public because they're very preliminary, but I do want to go ahead and just share some of the results and again for those that are watching um and for the board just a reminder that when we look at when we look at um what the scores represent so for approaches um remember there is some understanding there's some understanding of the of the knowledge uh but they don't fully grasp the concept. for the meat. There's

112a good understanding of the material um and they are and and they're performing at grade level and they are generally prepared to go to the next grade level. And then of course masters is a strong understanding of the material and they're well prepared to go to the next grade level. So we're going to start off with our math. So with our math, um I like to just kind of use the colors because the colors tell the story. So the red is the did not meet, the approaches um is in the purple, the meets in in the blue, and then the masters in the green. And you can see the district all the way to every single campus. And what I really want to point out is that um this year we had a lot of

113pluses. So every plus that you see so for example in the district you will see in the approaches that we went up five percentage points and in the mast's 3 percentage point. So across every campus there were some gains on the fourth grade math the similar pattern. um again throughout um throughout the district. Um I want to point out that for example uh Santiago Garcia in their masters went up 17% and LBJ in their masters went up 15%. In the fifth grade math again the same type of pattern and here um as you can see throughout um there were some gains. I'd like to point out that JFK in the approaches went up 25% from the previous test administration. Going into our um next slide of their sixth through 8th math. So we have David

114Iara along with the se throughan with the seventh and eighth grade. Again here I'd like to point out that at David Ivara in the approaches went up 17% and uh we definitely had some gains throughout although small but there were some gains in the seventh grade and then um um some gains in the eighth grade. We've already established what the areas of need are um and we have put in for the first time an initiative and I want to thank um Mari, Mary and Jesse and all the principles that have already started working on the assessments that are going to be um geared to where it shows that we need to be really going over the material and just doing a lot of drill and drill for the students. So for algebra 1 you can

115see um some gains um in the high school academy in the approaches you're going to see a 13% uh gain and then uh as a district that overall uh gain as well for the English language arts we've got our district third grade reading and you can see that across the board there were some steady gains again um uh Santiago Garcia in the approaches did go up 14% um which is very significant from the last testing uh period last year for our fourth grade reading as you can see there are gains across but with LBJ you can see gains at 14% in the approaches I'm sorry in the meat as well as 14% in the masters In our fifth grade reading, there are gains across and they're very steady gains as you can see on the

116side note with Garcia having a 9% gain in the approaches. our sixth through eighth grade reading exceptional gains um with our sixth graders in the approaches uh a gain of 12% as well as in our meats another gain of 12% and steady gains at the seventh and eighth grade um as well our English one as you can see here there there was some progress but um there are definitely some areas that we know and the team is already working on addressing them through the curriculum and spiraling and going back and reviewing the scope and sequence for English 2. You can see that there are some struggles here as well. Um however um we we were steady in not losing any points in our science. In our fifth grade science um we did have a significant

117gain in our approaches through JFK at a gain of 19% in the approaches and then in LBJ in the approaches a significant gain of 22%. and steady gains throughout the other um campuses. For our eighth grade science, um we did have some gains in our meats at 9%. For our biology and the academy, uh we had some gains in the approaches of 18% and then in the meats of 25% and then steady gains um at the high schools. And lastly, our social studies uh for 8th grade. Um again, we have um already been reviewing and studying where it is that we need to make our changes uh with uh Mari and the the rest of the team for our US history. Um looks very nice because you see a lot of that purple with the

118approaches. Um so a lot of progress and continued progress in that content subject. And that is the report for um our preliminary star source. Nano, how do you think about the color coding? Color coding look good. The only thing I'd say where we show progress, I'd like to see maybe the last 2 to 3 years data just to see, you know, we should and I don't want to be negative. I think they're doing a good job, but I want to see where we were at, where we took the dip, and where we're headed. I want to see that type of approach. Did you say good job when it came to academic? I I did say Oh, nice. Thank you. Great job. Great job, everyone. Yes. Next item is flood damage report. Who's doing that? Uh

119Rudy. Rudy looks surprised like, "Oh it's me." Good evening, board president, uh members of the board, and Dr. Sandy. This is a damage that we had on the 12th of June. It was basically at our high school north building. This was inside throughout the high school, but the most damage was concentrated at the southwest corner of the beehole where it was not rain damage, it was wind damage. A room peeled off. A roof peeled off like 20 30 feet across. So we have those pictures though. Keep going. Next. Next. Here we go. This is basically the wind damage that we had done. I called in Deal Johnson. They did a temporary fix. So, the water will not be going in if it keeps raining this weekend. But, uh, we have a major problem on this

120roof that we need to address here in the near future. As you can see, you can see the metal decking. It's all rotten. Where was the last time we check we we fixed these roofs? This one particularly, we got a roof coating installed like three and a half years ago, and it it gelled up. But this is a underlying problem. The roof deck that is all gone. Yeah, we just coated them. We didn't we didn't get into Yeah. It'll work. And And it held up pretty decent. But this time because of the wind, it got torn off. And the wind was bad. It was torn up my room. It was. And that's at the high school. The other place that we have a problem is at our technology which there we've gotten quotes already uh

121to do like an overlay uh with the membrane that I showed you about a month ago or something like that. Mr. President and uh was that that's what we're at right now on that one. Those are my two main roof links that I have right now. They have cost estimates. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But the technology didn't we fix that a couple of years ago? It's been more than a couple years. We did a patch job in the back part. Yeah. Of technology building, but now it's the top roof. It's It's a mess. That tpo didn't hold up very well. Was there Was there any warranty on that roof? I mean, it's not I mean, cuz it hadn't been too long. Was that one was done? What? When um 2016 17, right? When we remodeled

122it. Well, we tried the warranty. They said they basically we had no warranty on that roof because it we've done stuff to it like the metal coping and stuff like that. So, your warranty is gone. Do we file a claim already? We have filed claims. And are you going to file another one on this on the June 12th storm? So I guess next maybe you come in with some cost estimates and we can start preparing ourselves. I have one for the technology bill. All right. Is what is it? 160,000. That's not too bad. That's not too bad for an overlay. It'll be an overlay. Hurricane after hurricane season. That one comes with a 20-year warranty on the material and the labor. That's why I like that one through JJ Roofing from Waco, Texas. But does

123it does it include when it's damaging the storm or just wear and tear? Excuse me. Like a warranty. 20-year warranty. I was going to ask is it? Oh, wear and tear, but not damage in the storm. Damages also. Oh, really? Yeah. I talked to Robert from Duralast and that product is very, very good. And they warranty for the 160. Yeah, especially 20 years and it's going to be warranty. We still got to go through the process. Yeah. Yeah. I think Dr. Sandy I send her an email with a with a price for that roof uh technology. Hey, would they happen to be on a co-op? They are on a co-op. They're on tits. You go. Anything else? I have other leagues that we can But how are the buildings doing? The builds are doing good.

124Yeah, we're good. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next item on the consent agenda items. So move a motion in a second. Motion made by Mr. Thorn, second by Mr. Los. All in favor say I. I. All against. Uh next item discussion and action items. I'm going to move up actually uh we're going to take back uh A and F to executive to discuss with legal. And I'd like to move up or let's go with B. Right. Yeah. Head couch discussion and action on approval of the detention pawn fight. Great. City of couch represented body. Is that the same one we've been discussing or is there major changes? No, there have been some changes, right? There have been some updates. So, um we did we did a survey of the

125property that we have been discussing with the board. and we've been in a lot of communication with the school board and uh we have come to an agreement with the 7.58 acres which is going to be the very very back end of the David Nevada property. Um so that that is what we're proposing to get approved for the the detention pond. The detention pond will help facilitate all the northern part the flooding of uh the city of Encos and all the school districts and everything on the north side as well. So I know we have several problems areas all on the north side which is JRG RCR the fine arts the FFA that will help alleviate by that detention pond project funding and we're ready to go as well. We have uh created our accounts

126already with the city. We have created our committee already with the city and we're ready to go. We just need the land. I think I think we're good team. We got a motion on the floor. Second. There's a motion made by Mr. Banana. Seconded by Mr. Torres. All those in favor sign up by say I. All those against. Motion carried. Thank you all. Appreciate it. Thank you. Next item is 8 C discussion and action to reject uh request for proposal number 2025-03 fully funded health insurance. Chairman. Uh for the record, could the record reflect that I am abstaining and not participating in this full board discussion? Let the record reflect. Um, need a motion. A motion. There's a motion made by Miss Vosquez. Second. And there's a second made by Dr. Ooa. All in favor

127say by saying I. I. All against. Motion carries. Next item is discussion and action to approve the housing of possible dream adult high school in conjunction with the college and career center. So move. There's a motion made by Mr. Rosano, second by Mr. Torres. All in favor by saying I. I. All against motion carries. Discussion and action to approve the district-wide implementation of the behavioral support initiative initiative for students receiving special education andor section 504 services. Mr. Gonzalez is going to make a presentation. sister wants to go. You need a clicker. So, I'll just start with raw numbers real quick. Last year for our specialist students um we had 301 referrals that resulted in removals either ISS, OSS or DAP for a total of 1,385 days. Could have been ISS, OSS, DAP combined 1,385 days

128for 301 in uh incidents that might have been the same student over and over a couple of times. So since last year, Dr. Dr. Oo and I have been talking about an initiative to help out behavioral supports for our classrooms. So, we wanted to start it last year through one, but we lost the teacher that we're going to use. So, now through through the program change, uh we're able to repurpose and and ship some of our teachers. So we wanted to use one of our uh elementary teachers and par professionals to train them in in something called uh RBT um trained I'm sorry uh let me make sure I get the the correct uh uh name uh registered behavioral technician registered behavioral technicians right there's a motion on the floor second by motion made by

129Miss Tanga Tanguma excuse me for chapa and Mr. All signify by saying I thank you. You were struggling here. All right. Um Oh, there's G. No. Any Oh, discussion and action to approve the 2025 2026 proposed budget. So move second. There's a motion made by Mr. Osano, seconded by Dr. Ocho. All those in favor? All against? Motion carries. We now we will now convene an executive session pursuant to the Texas Open Meetings Act chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. The board will meet in close session under the following provisions. 551-074 for personnel matters. 551-071 for consultation with legal. It is 8:40. We're in executive She's going to do it. We're good. Yeah, we're good. All right. The time is 9:39. The board is now in open. Mr. President, with uh regards to action 8

1308 8 um it's up to y'all to make a motion. There are two candidates on the floor for this position. I need a motion. nominate. Second, there's a motion made on the floor by Miss Pñena, seconded by Mr. Losanos. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those against? Nay. Motion carries. Uh with respect to item A, Mr. President, discussion action to approve the 2025 2026 compensation plan stipen. It's the advice of council that the board accept the superintendent's recommendation. Need a motion. So move made by Mr. Torres, second by Mr. Osano. All those in favor? I. Those against? Motion carries. Uh with respect to item 10A, it's the advice of council that the board accept the recommendations uh as presented by superintendent. Second. There's a motion made by Mr. Losano, seconded by

131Mr. Torres. All in favor? I. All against uh Mr. President with with item 10 A1 discussion and action to employ high school principal. If you could please say the recommendation of the superintendent. I'd like to uh welcome uh Miss We all know her as Cass Miss Kasparinski. There you are. Maybe welcome Casperiski motion. There's a motion made by second. Second by made by Mr. Torres, seconded by Mr. Losano. All the fair saying I all against motion carries. And for the record, that was the superintendent's recommendation. She's just in disposed at the moment. Uh and then I don't need no action. I need a motion for adjournment for the motion seconded by Mr. Torres. All in favor? All against motion carries. It is uh 9:41.