001Heat. is true. We are so Betsy is a model student who consistently sets a wonderful example in the classroom. Mrs. Martin goes on to say she comes to class every day prepared, focused, and ready to work hard, always putting forth her best effort in everything she does. Betsy is respectful to her teachers and classmates alike, treating everyone with kindness and consideration. She's a good friend to all, always willing to lend a helping hand or offer support when someone needs it. Her positive attitude, strong work ethic, and caring nature make her a valued member of the class and a joy to teach. Congratulations. We have Henley Hicks says that she's so proud to recognize Henley for student. She's always dependable and can be counted on to do the right thing even when no one is watching.
002She listens carefully, follows directions the first time and sets a wonderful example for her classmates. She shows strong leadership skills by helping others, staying focused, and making responsible choices throughout the day. Not only is she a hard worker, but she is also a kind and supportive friend to everyone around her. Our third racer shared that Lydia is a wonderful student who always gives her best effort in everything she does. She's kind, helpful, and consistently makes positive choices. Lydia quietly does the right thing without seeking attention or trying to outshine others. We are so proud of the example she sets each day in third grade. Our fourth grade student of the month is Kale Sheran. All right here. Let's do our fifth grade student. The fifth grade teachers say they couldn't be more proud of you.
003He comes to school every day ready to learn, showing out dedication, responsibility. His strong work ethic is clear in everything he does. He stays focused and leaves his assignment on time and always gives his best effort. Easy sets a great example for his classmates. By being respectful and positive, he has committed to doing his best each day. Amazing work. Heat. Heat. Okay. Heat. You must be great. I make sure to do your best choices. Andrew is so so very talented academically and so gifted in so many ways and he's also really funny. Um it's a joy to get to talk to him. He has a very sense of humor and it's really fun to get to talk to him. Julia is also very very gifted academically. She loves reading and I get the opportunity to
004talk to her about books and see what new things she's diving into and just know these kids have such a wonderful influence on their peers and those around them. I'm so Heat. Heat. Heat. classroom. This is a very gesture and shows her people support her teachers. She Heat. Heat. She decision. Okay. Okay. Mr. Small Heat. Heat. Encourage heat. special and what does this dedication and everything they serve. I do not think I've ever seen one of them. It's increduc and support that they need to strive. Thank you guys so much. Okay. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Okay. If I have Mrs. Moore and Mrs. price. I'm so excited to get to recognize these ladies tonight. They're both amazing parts of our elementary game. Mrs. Moore was our Crystal Award recipient for the last nine
005weeks. This is an award given by her peers. She has such a positive life on our campus. She loves each one of her students and leaves a lasting impact on those who have moved on to other grades. She is very creative and always has the cutest arts and crafts projects. She also has a calm presence with anyone that she encounters and her beautiful smile is contagious and will write any Wednesday. Mrs. Moore is an impact maker at GPS. Congratulations this morning. So Mrs. Rise is not only our school counselor and our district 504 coordinator, but she is also our UIL academic program coordinator for G Elementary. She's worked tirelessly with our teachers, coaches, and supported our students through countless hours of preparation and ensured that every detail of the national competition day ran smoothly. Her
006leadership, encouragement, and organization create an environment for students to thrive, grow, and shine academically. This year, Gary Elementary, as you have probably heard, proudly claimed our fourth district UI title as the for a reflection not only of our students and coaches Harvard, but also the guidance, dedication, inspiration that Mrs. Rice brings to every aspect of the program. Congratulations, Heat. here. If you watch this for years, there's really building. Heat. Heat. Just a few angels. Heat. Heat. Okay, tonight we a couple about 3 months ago. We got an honor report and there were some updates to our audience. So tonight we're going to uh move into official business and you guys are welcome to stay here for the next hour and a half or so as official business. You can watch online. You can go to
007our uh YouTube page for the u and we may thank you very much. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. A Heat. And what you have is going over and point to the statist Four major funds of the district show up on these two pages. They're called major funds because they're the largest in size of the district. So on page 23 going from right to left, the capital projects, I'm sure you're aware that's the fund that spends the proceeds or bond issuances on construction projects in the district. In that column, you see $18 million of expenditures this last year. new bonds sold in the prior years by dropping that at the bottom of the column fund balance down from 32 million to $15 million still left 230 available to spend. Uh next 22 is a debt service
008fund is the fund that collects the interest and seeking taxes by portion of the property taxes makes payments on your bond debt. You see at the bottom that column a really large decrease in fund balance but of course because of the change in fiscal year 10 report you had a artificial bump in that fund balance. Uh you only have one of your bonds delivered bonds that have that made a bond principal payment in this 10 month period. Almost always bond principal payments are made annually in August and there's no August of the report and there's interest payment is only one semianual payment as well. So if that budget run through August 31 as normal there would have been $2.2 million of expenditure but that still would show pretty significant $2.6 $6 million still would show
009about a $500,000 increase in that fund by balance in August 31 would have shown around 2.2 million. The annual payments were about 5.3 million. So that' be about 4 months worth of reserve. So in my mind that's what that fun uh moving forward is and that's fairly healthy preserve cuz obviously you're assessing property and collecting property taxes each year to make the next year. Uh the next middle column is the special education fund for the co-ops. This will be the last year you see this fund. Of course, in your reports as the fiscal agent moved from gutter to another district as of July 1 of there you can see the activity that happened in that fund in the unbalance of 1.2 million in that fund as of June 30. The largest by far and one
010you are probably more interested in is the general fund left 22. Uh this fund also has has a smaller artificial bump with the change to June 30 in that while there is a full year's worth of instructional salaries, there are only 10 months worth of certain salaries, administrator type salaries, auxiliary salaries, and also there's just 10 months worth of utility cost and other monthly recurring costs. But you see for the timber faces at the bottom an increase of 1.7 million by $2.5 million. If you if you if you estimated what I did was kind of estimated what I thought those expenses in July and August might have been at this fin. And in my mind, when you dig back, you probably have about 2 months reserve in the general fund as of the end of
011would have been at the end of August. And that compares to less than one reserve had the previous August 21st. And so either way, you look at the general fund show improvement this last year. uh I as always tell you for a minimum of three months worth of serve in your general val but you're moving in that direction and that's basically all we ask you can you can't do everything in one year and then the last I want to point out briefly is all the way back to page 76 fund that you have to adopt a budget for and it's the child nutrition fund child nutrition is the the fund to 240 there on page 76. Uh again, there's not much activity that happens in well probably none that happens in July. Obviously, the new
012service fund has activity in August, but you're collecting revenue to cover expenses happen in August. So, probably that 255 any balance is not much different than what it would have shown as August 31st. And you can see that is really a fairly healthy fund balance. Fund $618,000 in that 10 month period. You even divide that 255 into say a $700,000 total expense, which is probably more over 12 by the year. And you're still going to get well over 3 months worth of reserve in that. And even to have a positive fun balance for a district your size is somewhat unusual in the Texas school district. Uh there are most smaller school districts operating at a loss of the child nutrition fund and have to have a subsidy from the general fund that policy. Y'all have
013been able to build up and maintain what I think is fairly helpful. So, just want to point out these revised results and make sure you knew where you stood by far numbers as 2025 and got any questions. I'd be happy to try answer. I do want to clarify a couple things and they may lead to some questions. If you don't mind hanging on just a second. uh we had to have another audit done because some of things were miss submitted a to the state that we had to wait for the report. Whenever we resubmit this one it may lead to a reduction in 2 years of about 11 points of our first reading. When that happens we don't want to major fail. We will have one year where we have a lower rate because we
014submitted numbers that were larger than 3% variation to the peaks reported that were accurate because that happened that's the highest start that year for first 89 and I just wanted to make sure that 2 years and as we approach Thank you. Okay. >> All right. Uh we hired Zonda to do a demographic study for us and over the last several months probably 5 to 6 months they have been working to provide a forecast for what will look like in ISD in the future. So that'll turn it over again here from Z. Good evening board Johnson. Thank you so much for the opportunity to meet you again this evening and kind of talk through today. So uh number of charts and graphs maps and things that are this. So I'll take you through this um Do
015I have someone kind of that's going to click click for me? I think that's fine. I'll just I'll I'll talk through it to the best of my ability. So, uh so we are some uh other demographics. We we uh get a chance to work across the state of Texas. We also get a chance to work in in Arkansas, Oklahoma, several several states. Um we also have a housing gap across the country. Uh so it really gives us an idea of what's happening in uh multitude of areas and then also it gives us some insight on some things that are happening specifically in the state of Texas regions around the state. So uh we'll go through quite a bit of information or some of it's very general um but then we will get into a lot
016of detail specifically what's happening uh directly in the district. So um that you'll see kind of this next slide um just talks briefly about kind of the overall economic um picture. So, one of the things that we do want to kind of highlight is we kind of talk about what's happening uh in the greater area is kind of evaluate what's happening in jobs, what's happening with the overall economy, see what that may be, how what kind of an impact that may have in the housing industry. Uh and so one of the things we do see, we have seen a little bit of softness uh in the job market. We have seen unemployment tick up a little bit from what it was last year at this time. Uh and then if you also think about the
017last several years what we heard about job announcements a lot of moving into the state uh and a significant amount of population was taking place. Uh we we've seen those numbers window from from tens of thousands to now we're getting closer into uh smaller numbers at least in the last year or so. So again just referencing the fact that that just kind of shows a little bit of the solance that's happening in the marketplace. Now you look at kind of what's happening specific to our region. Um many know uh and understand kind of the the work that's been happening uh related to Texas Instruments. Uh so significant development related to that plant over you know 3,000 employees uh as a part of that and then Apple has justly announced that there additional needs associated with
018that plan. it's going to only increase the need for production and build and out of that land. Uh and then also being there logistical land that's that's going to be coming in. All of these things are going to we will continue to have people moving into this area because of some of these jobs being um the next slide will just tie into kind of the overall national picture. So we do look at the overall national picture of what we see happen. um we have seen some declines in the overall housing market. So compared to where we were the last several years, you'll see uh kind of uh reference to the number of starts, the number of closings that we had across the country. Uh so the overall market, as you can see, those have started
019to slow a little bit and builders are being very cautious about how much they build. They're going to make sure that their inventory doesn't build up similar to what it did many, many years ago. uh anyway that um and so from that standpoint we're just seeing some cautiousness in the overall market. Um now when we look at the DFW area what I will say is uh related to that market um you know we still fairly strong really the number of closes and low um we're not quite as high as we were the last few years we're still fairly strong as far as the overall housing sector um in and in the northern section of the region and that continues to be a very strong region as well. So, um, but you can also see that
020number of starts has started to slow a little bit compared to where it was several years ago and even just the last quarter. So, again, we just kind of want to monitor that to make sure we kind of understand a piece of construction last year. Uh, again, another another factor that ties into this is going to be, of course, that interest rate. uh anybody look at that during your mortgage rates out there. Um we've seen those those rates that were about 6 1/2%. Um really things have been very very positive and and a little bit of that softness in unemployment allows the Federal Reserve to really evaluate um if they can maybe make some cuts to the interest rates. Um that is moving in the right direction. I think we're kind of getting into high
021fives. Um but as many know we we've had some events that have taken place over the last uh last several weeks uh that have impacted u oil and that has also had an impact related to inflation. So those numbers related to some of those interest rates turn back up a little bit. So we're back towards the the low six range right now. Um, again, a lot of times we've seen builders that uh for the new builds are able to offer incentives and are really trying to bring folks in for a lower interest rate um for some of the new homes. So, from that standpoint, that's why new homes are still more attractive than a lot of existing homes because builders are able to offer some of those um some of those better interest rate. Um
022now again to kind of get into that next uh series again we're going to track um the the starts and closes so that you can see kind of within the district as a whole. Uh the number of starts we had quarter over quarter we had about 43 starts and 23 as a year. Uh that turned up to about 70 starts in that 2024 time frame. And again, this past year, um it's it's actually been fairly strong the last two quarter, but uh we've had about 55 starts this past year. Um and then again, you kind of see where those closings are related to that 2024 and 53 closes. And this year we're at uh this past year total. Um when you get to uh prices, we we look at what's happened uh in in the
023district related to the average new home price as well as the existing home price. You can see both of those are up significantly from where they were about 5 or 6 years ago. So again, significant amount of population increase. We'll highlight that here shortly. Uh we've had a lot of folks that in the region very competitive uh and also dealing with some of the material costs and things that were out there in the last several years. um cause some of those costs to go up as well. So um what I would say is as we kind of go through the next uh next slide, we'll talk about the different drivers of districts as a whole. So um one of the things that was surprising to me is the overall population increase that we've seen within
024the state of Texas. So you can see that that growth that we've had again over 25 million residents when we were in 2010 about 29.1 million residents in that 2020 time frame and we've grown about 200 million um people within the state of Texas um you can see how significant that growth has been think about 2020 within the county uh and and the growth that has been about 15,000 residents that have been added to the county over the last four or five years uh and then even better has has has grown approximately about four 400 plus uh residents over that last last several years. Um we do kind of break down that generation so you have a really good idea of the composition of your overall population. Uh the one thing that we really want
025to highlight when we look at this is evaluating the population. Of course that's your current families in the district right now. Where do you have your students coming in? Uh we also want to know where that uh ginzy population is in comparison because that's going to be future. So you do have a very strong population is backing up a millennial generation right now. Um again there's a few other pieces in there that will just reference the the world index uh and housing affordability diversity is referenced on the score is 100. So you would evaluate that that the wealth index within the district uh is is very strong compared to national averages. Uh so that kind of shows you kind of where where you are related to that. Um because of what it's at you're very
026much in line with the affordability piece is because folks that are able to move into the area that they do have are able to afford the prices that are in there right now. And then diversity uh the district is is on a little bit on the lower side a little bit to overall diversity just based off makeup that's here. Um but the other thing we do want to talk through things is is to reference the fact that um the population drives a little over 5 hours um uh a week. So it's it's just shows the amount of mobility that's out there during the month. uh some drove a little bit probably an hour and a half to two hours a day traffic appreciate you know that the traffic that's out there. So again that's just
027something we like to speak to when we're talking uh DFW and everyone that's part of you certain vulnerability that's out there presence within your uh again just to kind of highlight the opposition of student uh student enrollment. Uh again, just a breakdown show about 70% of your uh a little over 73 about 74% of the student population is is white. Uh we've seen the Hispanic population grow in many areas. We're still around that 20 about 21% there again. And and I would say too is we always try that percentage of economically disadvantaged in the last several years about 20%age. Now the next slide will take you into specifically the developments that are taking place around the district. Uh again you'll highlight in that map you'll see green uh green developments that are there. Those are
028we refer to as existing developments. That's where we've already got housing activity currently taking place. Um you'll see some some yellows that are out there. Those are those futures. Uh we know that there potentially have been flatted where um there've been meetings with the county or the district referencing potential future developments that we can download the road and then you see that red outline which is also extremely important around several of those developments where futures or activives uh because that's just showing there is utility work activity taking place within those areas to uh to build those work. So, um, next slide, we'll kind of get into a few of the subdivisions that are out there. Uh, I won't go into great detail on every single one of them, but I will say it's kind of
029in the northern section. You have two two right next to each other that have been very active for quite some time. The woods on Preston as well as the meadows. The woods on Preston has a little over 100 total lots of that. Again, we reference that they got about nine maybe a couple of lots that are there. facilities available to be built on. Um, one of the things we do want to highlight as we talk through the the numbers as we go um is that we've got about 97 homes that are occupied within that overall development that um and that why that matters is we track the number of students that are in those developments. And so we have you know 597 uh yield in that department which means for all intents purposes about six
030students home in that development. So those are things that we want to track as we go through this. Again you'll see those same numbers related to Meadows uh and Lancing Hamilton is the builder there. Uh but again a very strong student yield number in the Meadows um basically 944. So that's basically a student for every home that's in that rural development. Uh next slide is going to reference Lakes Ranch. It is approximately about 200 total lots there. Really not a tremendous amount of housing activity taking place in that area. Most of the area is developed. Um but again fact again that's that 6. So we just want to continue to kind of track that. Getting a really good understanding of what that yield has been in the past gives us an idea of what our
031forecast real numbers based off those in the future. So again just uh also any future that's out there that age range that has to be there will be a custom home build. Uh the next slide just highlights the bridges personal crossings. uh fairly large development is there again about 1,000 total lots is a part of that uh that development uh about 78 futures that are part of that. So multiple phases uh that are being built right now. So you can see roads and these kind of things currently going in. U so again another 200 plus lots going to be in the next year or so. Uh again you look at the yield that we currently have coming out of that development right now uh close to the elementary school campus uh we got a little
032bit lower yield but again uh a large percentage of that development has been built in so we can see potentially that yield build up over time. Um again the next slide kind of getting into the southeast portion of the district is crossing. Uh again uh showing that development has about 78 total lots about half of that is futures. We have about 13 vac there about 600 construction. Um again we look at that yield again very very strong yield. So over really almost uh two students that we're looking at in that that development right now uh for every home that's there. The next slide just references Hunter Bridge. Uh again about 15 homes under construction. So one of the things we do want to track is we kind of evaluate what's going to happen this next
033year or two is we want to make sure we have a good understanding of how many homes are currently being built and how many pay attention we put together next year too. again referencing that this is that build home that that yielded 1.133. Uh and then Sunset Ranch as well. It's got a lot of streets and lots uh that are really to go. Um you can see that they've got about 189 of their total 669 lots that are developed and uh ready to build on currently right now. They have started to ramp up in that area. We got about 14 homes under construction currently right now and again still working on on uh that next phase. Uh so again ultimately when things really start to ramp up uh we talk to builders about their their
034strategies about building rates are really pace. Uh they're referencing something that would be close to like 800 I mean 80 to 120 uh a year. That will take a little bit of time. So I would say it takes a little bit of time before they get up to that that that amount. Uh but but again we want to make sure we take that into account when we think about the next three four five years now. Um again our next slide just references kind of central centally located in the district uh is this racing crossing uh again um right next to the JC road there just north of FM 121. Um and again this is a potentially about another 200 lots you can see um again roads and lots being prepared. So these are these are
035things we want to make sure we track. This is the river side uh in that price point that 7,000 this is the start of that that development. And then uh kind of to the east uh of of the uh of that area is this Lotus Stars. It's going to have been an additional 70 uh lots as a part of that. Preliminary lab was done just this past year. Uh so uh so having that work uh the paperwork in place you can see the satellite view and again one of the things that we got they got the capability of doing is is uh going going over the barrel area and seeing dirt work and the amount of work that's taking place to get a really good idea of when we anticipate some type of activity taking
036place as far as home start. So right now anticipated loans potentially in that early 2027 time that enrollment uh and again you know central along uh the 289. You can also see where we have a reserve. Uh this development is about 208 uh total future lots that are there uh just just this past uh uh summer. Uh and again you can see the ground underway growth being cut in currently right now and at least some discussions with builders uh that they're looking at early 2027 time for that for that area as well. Next slide is is we'll reference out to the west. So quite a few again we'll reference kind of the bigger bigger uh bigger pellets but we're also going to track down the small just to kind of have an idea of the
037total that's out there. Uh you can see this is uh bounds estate uh again right next to to there 12 future lots uh and again a little bit of work there. We'll see what would happen with that that overall area. Uh and then 7th Street small small little area there with eight total futures that are out there referencing they anticipate a few homes being started this year. So, um, we we had that we had that in there. Uh, and then you'll see kind of in the north central section of of district, you'll see 140 referencing uh potential that's there where developers and some discussions with the city and right next to that uh to to the east of that is start uh estates. It has about 27 total futures over there. Again, several of these
038several of these uh properties have been applied really in the last year and a half or so. Um also we've got Taylor Ranch and Taylor Ranch is referenced there just south of Little One Creek Road. Uh again, 682 futures that were part of that. uh and they do have reference to a phase one to approximately almost half of the development 280 lots that is currently uh has ground work under the way. So again, plans on getting that moving forward and again you'll see that reference when we talk with builders about their plan and again we're going to be evaluating what's happening in the marketplace and those kind of things but we know and many of these builders aren't able to get started especially builders that are able to build at a significant pace. um they're
039going to be able to build, you know, 50, 100, potentially 150 mill. So, we want to make sure we take that into consideration when we're talking about pace several years out or at least have a real strong understanding of all these different elements that that be coming together with the same time. Um, also you'll see kind of the reference to black branch. Again, this is in that uh southwestern quadrant of of the district as a whole. Uh this is one that uh we want to continue to track really get an understanding of when and with the total number of lots that are there. Um be able get an understanding of what that long-term 91 may be. Again, taking into consideration a lot of single family lots. We're also proposing uh some of those units about
040almost 300 of those 200 rivers of the single family. Um so that is one of the newer sectors that's out there. We see builders building new units that are the single family uh product and then there's also the potential for some multi part of that as well. So, um then I would go ahead if you go go up a little bit more actually uh you'll see that there is that reference to the uh municipal utility district developments that are in that have been in discussions. So those totals were significant again about 4,000 right now. What I would say related to those is you have many other developments in the district that platted and reviewed and you plan for most likely long before any of these are potential take shape. So um but want to make
041sure as always we track uh the number of potential developments and number of lots that are out there just so districts aware of what those look like. Next slide. I'm just going to just briefly touch on some very general uh numbers that that you may have hearing about numbers related to what's happening overall the overall enrollment picture in the state of Texas. Uh so if you look to the right we have seen some fairly significant numbers uh growth related to education uh in students within the state of Texas. Uh but one of the things we also want to track and we're seeing in the overall state numbers is we're looking at some of the lower uh grade numbers. So we're looking at kindergarten first grade seeing what those numbers were about 10 years old 10
042years ago compared to where they are now. And so what we see across the state is we do see some numbers fall. U so some of the discussion that you've been seeing about lower rates and those kind of things we are seeing. So, um, we're taking losing account within the state of Texas because of the amount of population increase we've had, uh, for the last several years when people talking about the birth rates. Um, we basically say, look, we got swing in the area right now. Um, but as time has gone on, we're starting to to realize that it's something that we make sure that you can grow on. So, um, things that were there. Next slide. Uh because we have track um we're going to it's not significant within um but we do want
043to be tracking how many students are transferring in um to the district as as well as those who reside in the district and potentially transferring out. And so we want to make sure we count those numbers. We're looking at projections as a whole. And so you can see the uh the total within that graph there of how many students have been transferred in. many of them come in with their um with with with their parents that are on staff. So that's a a big contributor to that. Um but again, we want to track track those numbers as well as the transfer out. There's not a large number of students that reside in in the district that are going anywhere else. Uh but what we do see kind of growing across the state. So when we
044get into we reference down there uh within the district, there's a few small districts that reference there. I say there's small uh Paulsville, Rosco, great line, and Texas College. All of those are virtual programs. So even though they're public, um there we see a number of students um that'll be going in that direction. So Fallsville uh as well as a small district that's out in West Texas called Stockton. um the actual uh number of students that are physically in the district probably in the thousand range halls but if you look at hall tea we wanted to have it about 22,000 students because of how how they're um their their own. So those are things that we just want to point to as we kind of talk about what's happening in the overall state of education
045in the state. Again, you can see kind of the next slide that reference to virtual enrollment growth. Um it's it's uh it just shows where prior to the pandemic, we had about 16,000 students across the state of Texas that were doing a virtual online program. And now you can see this past year that that number to about 57,000 students. So again, we share those numbers. Uh just so our clients know, we have some of the trends that are out there just to acknowledge as we talk about enrollment numbers and projections down that is something that needs to be considered. The next one that's out there uh is just related to enrollment as a whole. You know, we talk about charters. So we do know that turners specifically for for for this region is not is
046not anything to to spend a lot of time on, but we do want to just talk about what's happening across the state. And so you can see that charter has been growing uh across the state from uh from about 336,000 almost 37,000 students uh in charters back in 2019 all the way up to uh about 100,000 more as of last year. So those are the things we'll be tracking. Um now enrollment specific to what's happening within the district. You'll see that with the geo code that we had uh we showed we actually gated the property uh we had about 124 students that were actually residing outside the boundary lines that are ranges because where properties are their houses are so there's some that are already on the property overall district so they're they're just houses
047just a little outside where you see the TVA but again That's about 10% of the overall student population and then about 600 of those students about 50% overall and see uh see. So the next slide we'll we'll run um specifically to talk about birth rates briefly. uh see kind of what kind of what we analyze that. We look at the district births and we also evaluate the district's careers. And so we evaluate that not necessarily just in one year in one time snapshot but we look at the last 6, seven, eight years back to identify correlation between those two. And with that gives us an idea of what we would anticipate or what our range should be when we project out future kindergarten numbers down the road. So again, there's always been that effort to
048do kindergarten roundup make sure we we know what's going to be in the area. Um this is our statistical demographic reference on how we're going to try to get these checked out. We anticipate that. Uh and again when we go to the next slide, we're going to track not only those type of numbers, but we're going to look at the last several years uh of the district. We want to take in consideration where your largest groups have been. Uh so in yellow going to be the green groups, the kind of the highest area is going to be the that second uh second area. And and so tracking those and we're going to look at the cohort numbers down below. So we want to look at where our increases year over year, what rate are growing.
049Um so that kind of gives us an idea of what what may be happening in the next several years related to that. So anything that's positive uh to one will be a growth from the previous year to to this year. Uh and then anything potentially false that one just show small picture. Your next is going to be just referencing all of those great groups and all that information that we start to accumulate as we put together those anticipated numbers. So when we take into consideration this construction number of homes that are under construction potential families that potentially moving into the area evaluating the yield um you know we don't have a significant amount of construction currently taking place. So fairly uh uh fairly conservative about what we think potentially can happen next year related to
050to growth because of how the overall housing market. But you take into consideration the number of lots that we're talking right now in preparation for a lot of those taking place. We do anticipate those numbers potential to ratchet up. Uh so that's where we get closer to this 7% again. Um when you think about where those numbers are, you've had increases in the last few years where we could have four, five, 6% increases. So um we would say right now uh and again we're going to build out a model based off of those builders are telling us in the years 3, five, 6 years down the road how many they potentially be building. So we take those that that information into account. So that's why you see these numbers increasing as you are because we're
051anticipating the builders going to be building at some kind of pace uh as you get to that three four five. Uh and then the next slide just references specifically what's happening in each one of those campuses uh in the district right now. to link to those breakthrough groups in each of those individual campuses. uh taking into consideration the capacity of those individual campuses and identifying potentially when you could be getting too fast those uh those buildings whether it be 2 3 4 years out when you're getting close to those capacity numbers and then identify there in yellow when we would anticipate see so again just overall last last uh last slide there is just a overall summary just to kind of see uh the district has had about 60 students that have grown in the
052district come district in the last several years had about 23 additional students based off the go we had late this fall uh we see number of new homes has slowed a little bit compared to what it was previous year uh we anticipate some of that inventory and and lot inventory starts ramping up in a number of the developments, right? So, uh and again we talk about where that population is and that's why we talk about millennial versus generation to come. There's some population still is still going in here. So, very small 62 homes uh kind of in active inventory right now about 400 of those vacuums that are out there. So, uh, reference kind of longterm potentially about 1,700 students, 1750 by the time we get to 2030. Uh, and then on how active things
053are in those developments that we talk about tonight. Um several of those do do up pat telling us longterm it will um then you may be looking to something that student could do up to about 3,000 um students when we get 10 years out. So we think about these things and see that seems like we've been for the last 10 years the last 10 years. So again happy happy to answer any question you may have. Thank you. Uh my question is this is a snapshot spend the last 5 6 months working on it. How frequent are we asked for building up especially as we're experiencing 7% 12% growth. Should we be looking at new study in your opinion? So when districts really start to see significant amount of activity and I would say specific to
054housing activity. So we see a lot of lots that are being developed and those kind of things but uh we start to see quite a few rooftops starting start start a lot of foundations that start to take place. Uh many districts we will start doing analysis just about every year. Uh again, so that gives you an idea. Part of it is is to really give you a good understanding of what's happening related to that student, how many homes are potentially going to be built and applying some of that information to those projections and updated patch on a regular basis. So that's that's uh you know I say that's why I say the lockown in itself be a little bit cautious and conservative about what that means as far as short term but then as you
055really start to see some of these companies start to really start to take shape so develop really start then it's it's an advantage to have us partner with you on a regular basis to kind of do that analysis so we can do those satellite views like we've done this for go through and things really up and need to be more but I would say for the time being when we start to see some activity we can start place on a basis you guys you guys like anticipated schedule 5 years anticipate elementary middle school high school what bond package you should have something like that for so we don't so many times we'll will work with architects um on that part of their building to evaluate what your building capacities are, what potential options may be
056there. Um we can we can work to help with that type of um traditionally we work more on the on the housing activity and side of the house. Again, we can we can chip in that give you some guidance based off experiences that we have but a lot of times but to clarify this 10 year programs on campus a lot more we as a middle school we capacity during the 2930 school year so 2028 29 solution for And we'll be in the uh danger zone at and we'll be at the high school if steady. Yes sir. So that's why I always reference the fact that we're we're we're always tracking this based off of that yield and what we anticipate related to the amount of housing activity that will be for James B. So one
057thing that reference is we traditionally want to be pretty tight over the next let's say the next probably 2 to 3 years I would say we try to be within the numbers that we're looking at probably within 2 to 3%. Um, so in that general range, when you get further out, we're we're we're doing we're building for all intents and purposes. So if the builder slows and the market drops off, um, you know, some of the numbers that we're referencing is going to be based off what that builder is able to produce in the next couple of years. So I I'm I'm very transparent to share with the build out some of these big numbers still get it on Vietnam building area. But I will say if they if they do what they've shared that
058they intend to do the pace that they tell then we should be fairly in line with at least the next five to seven years based off whatever is wrong. Whatever exact Oh no. not there's there's there's a lot of many moving pieces part now and again and that's why we want to reference when we present the information we try to talk through each one of those parts of it so you know what the truth thank you question I think So one of the things I've noticed over the year we've anticipated that one of the biggest challenges yeah we may have um we have developed discussed created but you know you look at the average cost per uh house this time is significantly increased and honestly it's been a bit of a challenge to get started
059to get young couples that are something. So, how do you so you get in looking at at start looking at you know you guys take in consideration like I'm looking at one of the one of the uh developments that are talking about free zone prices. >> Sure. >> Right. So how do you how do you may or may not take how do you take that into consideration and get to look at inventory but not all not all houses the same or people are the same kids. So to to your point, uh many times when we have lower price points, um you do anticipate that um you're going to have a higher yield. Um but we do have times when we're evaluating what I would call special places where communities, you know, really have moved intentionally,
060move their families into specific areas. Um and so again, even at the high price points that you got, that's why we're seeing those higher yields. Uh if I were going to just look at it traditionally, I would see those high price points and if you said you think our yields are the much lower than 6%, it would have been closer to that four, you know, that four range um in that building, but across the district, the large percentage of real is higher. Again, it's largely tied to people intentionally moving in on the district. Um, so I would say, you know, better price points. I still think you're still going to continue to have strong yield. Um, depending on the price points, if they stay at that much much higher range, then that could could tie
061into your long-term numbers because of the pace of building and and absorption of those lots, but not necessarily. I still think your guilt is going to be still very high those thank you very much appreciate you. All right, we're going to go back now this time and uh go back to our home. >> Good evening. We have the financial report for our March 14 meeting that is for our February end of February. Um the first thing we'll talk about is the bank account update from page five and this is the statement of position one fund. Uh the total ending balance for all accounts was 27.33,270.334. Some of the material changes within those accounts um the Lamar general operating investment account increased by $2.7 million and that was due to um the tax collections. The debt
062service in Lamar account decreased by 2,939,14155 and that was due to the bond payment that was made in February. The debt service techar account increased by $3.1 million and that's that tax revenue goes into the service side. the Lamar 2023 bond account decreased by $580,89755 and that finishes up the um the high school and middle school and elementary um payouts that we have those. And then the total interest earned for all accounts $35,5240. Next, we'll take a look at the tax collection the revenue um update from page seven. From there, um, we have our M collections. We collected 98.13% of our M budget revenue. And then down below, um, our INS budget revenue is at 113% fluor. We'll go over to the budget summary here. Um, we'll talk about the expenditure area first down towards
063the bottom. Um, all expenditures from here is a 71%. Um that's right along where we need to think if we were to take out the incumbences. Um we're at about 67% which is why we're off and um being to the close of February and but just uh four months left. Still watching the maintenance operations um at 88.16% of the budget of the total budget and next month in April we're going to be doing a budget amendment. We obviously collected more than what we budgeted. So increase the revenue side. It also increase that maintenance and operation uh function there. And then back up to the top budget, we're at 106% of what we did. That's all I have. You have questions. Thank you. All right, next item. you will turn big 18. You'll see that your
064moment is pretty much holding steady right now of the Navy R is 1163 that is down from this time last month. Still above what we projected what we budgeted off of and that was the 1150. All right, pages to our principles and director's reports. We'll start with maintenance update, Mr. All right. U the high school uh the walls being replaced has been done. It's finished allow this past week. So the cafeteria high school capacity is for that's here also uh as far as the ticketing system request um the uh using that so we don't have to actually pay any more money to implement make that so YouTube I need to um process some other systems as far as reports but um in talking with the developers they're constantly changing things and upgrading so we're pretty
065excited about that be spending most of the summer uh integrating all serial numbers and numbers and all this stuff into that system so we can get it all out the elementary school in May. We get that scheduled calendar just walk around just like we do house just make sure everything's all looked up and ready to go. Uh return is going to begin next week. Um we're told that should be project should be finished. Uh hopefully uh made expect that those should be happening here pretty soon. Uh should start the end of April that should be finished by the end of June. usually waiting on some variances for the city to figure out that um how we go about doing that. Uh so we make sure we're meeting that uh as far as starts out before
066school starts next year. uh the building relations uh those should begin about miday and they should be finished by January 27th restrooms and the building we're still waiting final approval blueprints that's about it we are working right now to get access to the website that uh has the bond update. We're not able to go and find that and we'll start over with another one. So that way updates for the public are so that's currently something we're working on. So for updates the elementary is still on there. The middle school gym is still on there. All those projects now are completed and we have three or four currently being done. We want to make sure that stuff is there. So look for that too. All right. Next we have curriculum update. This is okay. So this
067is kind of already mentioned um our ambassador academy one wrapped up spring break that we celebrated with our graduates of our cohort and a survey we sent um to our participants yesterday and we're going to be taking a look at those to help us with our future cohorts. um under our instruction um we began our interviews for our new KA math instructional coach um as an internal uh position and so we started interviews today. We have a few more tomorrow and so we hope um a candidate to to bring for you guys next month. Um so we're excited about that. It's going to be helpful with our HP implementation. um our teachers have been helping us through our framework, our math framework and um just some uh resources and some information that uh Miss Laurentini
068and I sent to them to review uh the curriculum and so they have selected blue on it and I believe it's in your binder. So, um, next month, um, we're going to kind of look at it tonight, but I want something for you to kind of review. And so, blue on it has been the selection that was made by the majority of our staff. Um, and so, uh, it's aligned with the framework that we presented last month. Um, so we wanted you guys to have an opportunity to preview that. Um, you know, ask me any questions that you have this evening and then next month, we'll be able to have it on on the agenda for you guys to approve as well. So we hope to have that approved and then we will start a
069comprehensive implementation and professional development and all that we have underway uh for this upcoming school year. Um we are trying to expand our CT program. We know that that is a a a project that we'll be working on for the next 5 years with this uh upcoming school year in 2627. We just sent out um our forms like our course selection forms for our freshmen um to be able to register for education and training for that CC. Um and so we're hoping to add that halfway this upcoming school year. We're hopes to shore up our other school in the future. Um and so we're really working on that and we'll hear more when we do the principal report for the high school. Um we've really been working on our IBC's and getting some uh industry
070based industry based certifications as part of our uh progress measure. Uh we were awarded the lasso mentorship grant. So we'll be hearing more about that in 3 months on how we're going to support our new teachers um as mentoring them with some of our stellar veteran teachers we have in our district. And then like I said, course selections are already underway and staffing and schedules principles are working on that now. As far as assessments, uh we completed our middle year testing. We'll do the end of year um of those coming up uh in May and so they're using those to analyze uh their tier one instruction. We did SAT and PSAT uh testing um for right after spring break and so they are finishing that that up. We have some makeup exams that we're doing
071this week with all of our kiddos at the hospital that are everywhere uh right now. So they're finishing that up tomorrow. Um we finished our telecast uh successfully before um spring break and Miss working really hard uh to get all of that done with Mrs. Ricardo. So those are those students are all finished. Um and we do have our upcoming state assessments, those fun assessments that we have. Um we have teachers that are still doing interums. Um looking at that progress and we will begin start and then you'll see official testing on April the 8th. That's when the window opens and we'll have schedules that actually runs until the end of April the first day. That's questions. Thank you very much. That brings us along to step the restroom getting started. Um we have Senate
072Bill 546 passed. This last session it said that by the year 2028 2029 we need to have seat belts on every bus and we need to uh current inventory which is what this man is going to present on is the current status of our transportation fleet and uh tonight we need to make a decision uh on whether or not we want to go into uh fund balance wants to pay for this. You're going to want to pump the ball and told the state need more time to figure it out. >> Good evening. Y trustes Dr. Yes. As Dr. said, "I'm here tonight to present the compliance report regarding Texas Senate Bill 546 and the steps that our department has taken to um ensure that we have full adherence to the state's requirements. Um if you
073look at the first section of this bill in place, basically our purpose is to review the legislation requirements for seat belts and our current fleet status and how much that's going to cost to install seat belts. So the changes that have taken place for this that came into effect pretty much used to any models prior to 2018 were exact. That's one way. So when we conduct this public report we're determining on if our current budget you know can if it's is sufficient to be able to meet 100% compliance. And when this gets turned in, the TEA Office of School Safety Security directive that came out on October 25th that the following data represents our current school bus inventory and the cost estimate is to fulfill the requirements 546. Currently, the three the three categories you
074have to submit are your current fleet. We have 16 current buses in our fleet. Eight of those buses meet requirements because they are models 21 and up. We do have eight that don't meet requirements. Three of those are non operational. Five are still in service. So those are the five that we're pretty much looking at the cost for. Okay. And now the next page will show you our current fleet age. Um we do have one 2004 77 passenger international is still rolling. Okay. Use it as a route um subst constantly. So that would just um not meet the requirements. We have none neither of our 2006 international operation. We have four Uber buses 109 and 316. Those are still routes every day. So those are the those are the eight buses that don't you know
075meet the requirements. 75 of them are actually in place for us to look at what we can afford to to do to make them complant. So as we cross for compliance resting these buses right now between 50 and 60,000 bus depending on your age your model and as the demand comes into place further down the road I'm sure that cost is going to go up. I do have some in place the one I just had today is actually even higher because they're definitely ahead. So it is at least going to be a minimum $50 $60,000 time 5. So we're looking at $250,000 $300,000 to retrofit buses that are between 227 and 10 years old. The purchase cost of the new bus right now is approx,000 and going up. So um pretty much on this generation
076recognition it's just for you guys to review this and the impacting our current non-compliant buses and if we can accelerate replacing them compliant buses. Um so when you guys vote on this we'll submit this data to the TA report module which is due by May 29th and then we'll still monitor grants for that future if we decide we want to put seat belts on those. And then hopefully on plan for a long-term capital replacement cycle before 2029 zero. So you'll see in the next building page that you have on there. I did give you full information on those eight buses. So you have the total mileage if they're out of service that they're currently being used for the strap value and if they're still in operation, how much longer I think we're going to get
077to use them. So you guys are going to complete the compliance part of the reports and then do you have any questions for coming up? So I'm asked you to come back several months in a row. So we're going to get small updates from Mrs. Max. We're going to hear more about each we have. We currently have two that we can put students in and travel anywhere. And so we're constantly trying to figure out how to move students around safely. That's it's really unacceptable especially for as busy as we are as many activities as our students are in all the time. I don't know how got through which is we're asking a lot of people to drive their own kids up and so uh you'll see that we'll have to add some light in the
078next few years. You'll also see that we have either buy these buses that are already out of these things, these three point uh seat belts or we're going to have to buy new buses. We also have to buy at least one accessible bus. So, you're going to see some transportation possible have in the upcoming few years. So we're trying to build in to the next budget for next year to cover these items including third question. >> So out of the $50 to $60,000 per bus, do you have any idea what the percentage of that dollar amount is for the hardware itself and what part of it is like the labor? I'm getting is there like certain companies that do this and you have to use those companies or is there >> there is we have
079Russia estimates. A lot of this has been for top directors and we kind of just been seeing what they're getting back in. Nobody really has a clear plan because if everybody needs all this it's going to be it's going to be nuts because the demand is going to be higher increasing the cost and then who's going to do all this? who's going to who's going to retrospect you know 230 buses for one district in seven seats on 230 buses. So I think as we get we'll get more information as we go on. Graham has given us both rush um our buses the way they stand right now still so but it's still you don't know till you get in there we're going to have to do it before. So, the labor is a huge part
080of this. And I did look into Dr. I talked about lobbying. We have an amazing mechanic and he and I went over it. We talked to the company out of Oklahoma City that actually handles the work since most of us and ordering our seats in and then have trying to find ways and then having it happen. It doesn't save us anything because they're going to up the the charge to shipping and it's just going to you and it's just it's so it's it's just overweight. You can't even put it in one truck. So, I'm hoping that the grants might come out where we can keep some of our buses. So the way I look at it right now, I don't have a plan in place where we just look at we have a few years
081to figure out how buses and we'll you'll see that a lot of the cost for installation is because some of the costs because people have to train. If you if you put seat belts in and you're not trained properly, then we don't know if it's safe and the buses won't ensure that their buses won't uh default whenever there is an accident. So some of that is a liability cost of making sure these people who are doing the work are actually qualified work. And so um this a year ago lucky I think people either thought was select and boards had a choice to say we know seat belts are what we should do but maybe once said yes you're well about 3 years ago all the bus companies start saying well don't seat belts because now
082standard you want something different and take off the cost more that's why you see most schools that have a fleet like big districts aren't having to do this because they've already cycled through all their buses, but the smaller ISVS are the ones have to build for this and there's no one from the state for >> and just to back that our blueberes that this affects there is no retrofitting design seat belts we have to replace all the so that's kind of the thing but if I can help you guys with any other questions please let me know and I will I Dr. I talked about there is a district that possibly can look at purchasing some gas buses and they will not have those for their routes because it's just the cost they get for
083diesel doesn't outweigh them using those buses. They just they get an amazing deal. So as I get a new CFO this summer, we might be able to figure out what those 2019 international usually miles might be able to build for us while bus is that there's an opportunity at some of these schools that are getting rid of very good buses that uh they don't have a need for before. They have maybe 15 or 35,000 miles on if they use a few years. We can possibly get some of those buses in and save some% and we're doing some of that. Some of those buses have gasoline. If that's the case then uh the typical money for saving still outweighs the uh justification by thank you. Okay. >> All right. Good evening. Spring is definitely spring at
084elementary school. Uh we have 497 students enrolled as of today. We have two new start today or today's study at about 95.7%. Um so for some happenings prek is learning all about insects that hop jump. Um springtails, leaf hoppers, frog hoppers. They're going to learn how insects talk and jump and which ones are pets and which ones work day and night. They're also going to have a history event next week. Kindergarten celebrated Read Across America week with fun dress up days and themed units tied to literacy. Students got to try green eggs and ham after reading the Dr. Seuss book and most of them agreed it was the best thing they had ever. This week you'll learn all about Texas symbols and they did a chips and dips chips and salsa taste test which tied
085it to the story and salsa and they loved it. First grade I don't know if you saw the live web but they just hatched their baby chicks. After incubating the eggs for 21 days and doing research on the chicken life cycle 55 baby chicks were born in our classrooms. They have all found locoms either with students or community first. They are not in the school anymore. Second grade is preparing for the market day on April 9th that is tied to their economics unit. Um students will make both make a product or offer a service in exchange for money. Our first and third grade students are earning money in their classes. They will be able to shop the market and you can come um shop as well as you there. It might be a massage, self-portrait,
086some baby gifts. You never know what you're going to get. It's pretty incredible what they create. Our third graders wrote the story I sent about her and completed opinion essays. They dressed up as judges and presented their writings to the class where classmates either chose to agree or descent based on arguments that they heard. Fourth grade went highly in Frisco for their field trip where they all had the opportunity to fly in the simulator and participate in STEM activities. They said it was the best day ever. They just all came back ready for it. Mrs. Layman's fifth graders are starting their novel study. They'll be reading the classic adventure novel Treasure Island. Throughout the study, the students will create character trading parts, keep a diary as if they were the main character, Jim Hawkins, and
087outline a sequel to the story. And right before spring break, we celebrated 52 second through and fifth grade students that have earned 100% on their reflex math for the possible party. So reflex math is an online program that we're using this year this year where students um master math apps. We also hosted kindergarten prek roundup for spring break. families have the option to attend in person or they could enroll online from home and enrollment is still open as well for our kinder and prek students. We have about 20 families attend um that event as well. Lastly, we're gearing up for our fun spring and just preparing for the star test that starts April 14th. Thank you. Okay guys, so is consistent just as we increase it to 93 and 13. 292% is next week this
088week but here is amazing but she did start and she's continuing it on for the next couple of weeks. They all teens. I walked in to just tell her a quick something and they were they were doing a relay race while answering questions. So just fun getting them engaged and getting them excited about our you know a difficult assessment. So it's great. Um they're also working on your projects, projects, novel studies, portfolios, things like that. I gather everything for this last week. Beginning of April, um I'm going to go visit the fifth grade and speak to them about their course that they'll do in sixth grade and then have all the leaders come over and do a visit and they can see the middle school. Um we're changing a little bit with our honor school
089requirements. We're going to be here for the high schools with some of those course requirements and expectations for students um for enrollment and then just expectations throughout the year with averages and teacher recommendations um work ethic um the star scores, math scores and stuff like that. So just taking more into consideration on those kids that we're placing in those classes. Um we also celebration all that participated about We are still about 109. previous teaching. Heat. Heat. into 202. Heat. Heat. The result. But it's best and the entire on the night and the district once division. Thank you. Okay, we have one last report. Hospital 3 update tonight. We'll be uh looking at the IDC's industry based certification is not here. Okay. So our CCR special one uh for CCR is to earn an industry based
090certification for career readiness and our goals are to increase from 0 to 10% by August of 2029. Um so in 2024 our graduates were 44 students that we had um we graduated with about 56.4% of our graduates graduated with an industry based certification. Currently, we have 41 417. So, we're just under um that 44 uh students that we had last year. So, we're looking for 2% growth. So, we're just, you know, that 2%. It's one of those areas that we're really uh working on and we're going to continue to work on because obviously for the next four to 5 years, that's an area that we're we're trying to increase. Um, so we currently have 447 like I said 53.2% so it's right there. We're super close. We have 19 students that are in animal science.
091Uh, 24 students in Florida and six students in Microsoft applications. So um, it's an area that, you know, we're we're increasing modestly. Uh, I had Miss Wells, for example, reach out to me a few months ago to me in his career was like, "We need vouchers for the IC." So, that's what we love to hear in our department is teachers that are are really trying to get those done. So, um, I don't see that we're going to have an issue over the next few years reaching our goal, hopefully exceeding it. Any questions on these things? Okay. uh we'll look at the agenda right we're going to talk about and event workshop and meeting graduation board if you look at page 30 in your board you'll see that Miss Washington has already set aside all the
092dates for our board meetings for all next academic year. And she's provided a calendar right next to it on each one. Invites already gone out for all 2026 through December. Expect the 27s to come out in the next few months. That's all I have. Thank you. Uh that will move us to consent agendas. Uh does anybody wish to hold any items for individual consideration? Anybody wish to discuss any items? I'll take a motion motion second. All in favor say I. I oppose. I understand. Uh item eight, regular business, consider approving the board to cancel the resolution to cancel the May 2nd, 2026 board election due to opposed candidates. >> Got a motion. A second. All those in favor say I. >> I.O. Dr. Gary was a very enthusiastic announcement. Okay. Uh item 8, consider approval
093of the elementary new book list. Very good. Uh we have the uh list of books online. Let's get her here. If you have any questions for I'm sure that's why you're here today. Uh we have most of the books and we have the uh for you to look at page 106 10 in your book if you like to see every single is on the group list. Once everybody's reviewed the list, if you have any questions, let's get there. Otherwise, I ask that you approve the list as presented. So move got a motion second. Second. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. Item 8 uh C consider approvals in bill says this. We do not have fun to out the buses. We have required bill. We need more time as we can and every year
094to help us pay for the policy. So my recommendation board is to improve the bill that tells the state that we need to have fun to pay us. I'll take a motion. Second motion motion second. Most favor say I. I.OS. Passes. Item 8. Thank you, sir. Item 8. Consider approval of the district's innovation plan for 2026, 2031. This is what agenda disc. Thank you. And I'm a little I'll tell you a little bit about it. So every year we have districts to our district educational improvement committee and we talk to staff members and we also make sure that they some of the things that we're looking for here. One of those things have gone in every minute time 80%. So they said that they require track time with what they're doing. So that's why the
095deal Yeah. >> Okay. So, like Dr. um said, we during our de meeting on March 2nd, um we brought uh some of the things that we would like to update. Um so, everything that was in there is pretty much stay the same except for we made sure to remove um the motion for D uh DAP. Um, so let me get down to that one cuz that's the only one that we're going to make sure is not included anymore, which was um our discipline plan, we cannot be exempt from that. So perhap six um school districts, they no longer exempt themselves from um chapter 37, which is students, but um so we needed to make sure that that was not a part of our district of innovation plan moving forward. And so that is the only
096one that has been removed. All the other are not. Well, we're going to go through the new ones. There's several more that are up for renewal that we've left in there. our uniform start date that we've had here since we began our our dom and so we keep in there that allows us to decide when our first day of instruction is going to be um so that we can determine locally what is best for our students. and our staff um teacher contract days has not changed. We want to remove that as the number of teacher contract days um that we require to improve our recruitment and our retention without reducing their compensation. So, you know, we're not going to reduce any compensation there. We have the flexibility to decide what our contract days are. Um
097that way that helps us become a lot more uh marketable for people that are willing to uh come here. We still allow those work days to stay within the 65 I mean 65 75,600 minutes required for students. We're doing a teacher certification. That means we're able to take those local qualifications. In other words, we have those specialized courses like CTE and STEM. We're not talking about core subject areas. We're only talking about specialized areas such as STEM and CTE where possibly we can get um people in here that have those industry that industry background and help some of those programs. So that particular certification local qualification helps us with that. So we want to study there contracts for our experienced teachers. um who've been employed for at least five uh the previous eight years here.
098That's up for renewal. Um our inner district student transfers keeping everything in there the same based on our qualifications that we currently have for um our students and right now. But we did make six weeks for the year. We just established that we want to make sure that anybody that transfers into the school district is held to the higher students who currently live here. uh we don't want anybody coming here and not performing excellently in all their show up and act do what we ask and people to the higher we uh start contracts already that were transferred from work another have not removed yet they and then whatever it was that was happening. And that's what we just reminder that hey, you're you're a guest in our house if you will. And if you don't
099want to uh do a rest then go direct. So those are all kind of step through some of the things that we want to add looking forward to our plan. I don't know how much you guys have policies or policies that the state is now requiring. um it's quite a bit of uh paperwork at a time that's not really ideal for school districts. So we would like to um uh develop our local agreements procedure to take it back to what we you know um have used uh which means we're going to resolve those concerns quickly rather than dragging it out for a really long time doing it more efficiently like we have done in the past um and establish our policies uh within that. So our word for this is we shall use it for
100the burdensome cuz that's really what the policy for the state is is burdensome requirements of chapter 26A. You have anything else you want to add? So we're asking that you guys approve that because right now the state mandate state mandated has a 60-day window which is just a really long time um to work through that process. Um, Miss G was here earlier. She is worked really diligently with our library to make sure that all her books that are through approval. And so we'd also like to add council. Uh this is an exemption from uh from the state where is going to utilize our existing board approved review process for our acquisition like the other that already incorporates that community input. This will exempt us from the requirements for a new district council petition ensuring that
101development brings professional and local control process. We have it in policy already that if we need to meet that there's there's a way they can go through that process. He's already counselor. So that's one would like to add um how many of you participate in extracurricular activities but um there is a a rule that um involves injection of individuals from facilities. And so um here we officials officials um can disruptive individuals from our property or events without the immediate requirement of maintaining a written law which is just time consuming and cumbersome um warnings or adhering to a 9day order deadline. Um this gives us the flexibility to ensure that our campuses are all safe and everything is working orderly uh during all our school activities. So much for Jason really isn't their job and they
102get stopped and that's what we want to do. The next one is to have flexible student grouping based on rather than our strict mandated ratios of 22 to1. So we're saying here fourth grade class because that's typically that's where our 22 to1 ratio is exceeds that we will not be required by tea. uh instead uh Dr. Leos can report the occurrence to the board and ensure that local oversight and transparency. So that gives us the ability to have flexible student this time. I update the 22 to1 ratio of students to teacher and a classroom prek through 4 and I need to the next one. Make sure you guys agree with it. Oh w anticipated there may be a time of the year we don't have enough we have our best children if that happens you
103moving on to the next one talks more about the treasure and hosting facilities. Okay. So, um what we want to do is to not because we want to preserve our teacher and allow them to have that real time adjustments. You know, if we say we got service for a year in advance that they start looking at their data and their assessments and they need to make changes quickly. So we definitely want to have that opportunity for them to make those real time adjustments. Um so we do not want them to be required to post a fixed semester long instruction plan. Uh it ensures that they can remain flexible and adjust um instruction for student mastery where it's needed. Um we are very transparent. Go on our website right now. You can see a list of
104all of our resources that we use. It's an active Google doc that I update every time we purchase um another resource for the district. So, we're as transparent as I think we need to be when we start getting into the dayto-day uh having to make our teachers say this is exactly what we're teaching. They're following the teacher resource system already. That's where they're getting their plans from. Um and this this allows too much uh rigidness for teachers. The next one deals with our contract extensions. Now this is where every 2 years go back that's Number one is business. So it's expensive not because each other. So this is time to go out. And we can decide that I was going to say the very last one deals with our attendance for credit% rule. Um our
105purpose here is to support unlimited learning and based on academic mastery of teams rather than physical seat time. I don't know how many of you think when they say you got your seat time, right? So that seat time traditionally is not academic in nature, right? So we can't replicate what's happening in the classroom. So what we want to do um is support a different kind of learning situation where they're getting credit based on whether they're mastering those skills or not rather than physically having to be in the seat for the seat time. So we work credit based on a student demonstrating mastery. Obviously we're not going to student who's not demonstrating that they are to be physically in a seat for that seat time. So this exempts us from the 90% rule. Um it allows
106us to be a little bit more flexible in our scheduling um and using a more non-traditional learning model that prioritize their competency over just physically missing right cuz that's really 75% rules. So a student can't miss everything but they are above 75% that we can say they just need to sit and learn the content and allows us our teachers to be able to say on that subject your questions on this plan without any questions I'd ask that you all approve the plan for district renovation 216 motion Okay, we got a second. Got a second. All those for item 8 just to be clear. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? This page consider approval of logic investment pool authorized investment. Thank you sir. Got separately logic investment pool and it's a money market together.
107They have good interest rates. long investment as a very interest. So what we're asking you to do is allow us to do business with this with the first line and the second is sign contracts and actually move money to where we can get more interest and I will take investment officer training regularly. So we know those are the yield versus the risk and so we know there's a very safe interest pool and it has a long history of very high interest rate compared to all the others. So we ask that we can first start a business with another two that entertain a motion. We got a motion. Got a second. Got a motion to second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Item 8G. Consider approval of application participation in the local government investment
108cooperative project. That's what I just explained. That's the second part of the approval of the money to that account. Motion motion. Motion second. Say I need item passes. This moves to item 9 recess session the world executive session the following section 517 discussing land 51074 discussing personnel 5176 discussing city and the time is 1812 Uh well You're over here.