October 20, 2025 Part 1 - GISD Board Meeting

001school district order. Let the record show this meeting has been dy called and notice of this meeting is most important to the Texas Education Code. This is a public hearing to discuss the 2024 through 2025 financial integrity rating system also called Bur report. The board allows and encourages comments from the audience after the district's completion of our presentation. At this time, we'll begin the public hearing to discuss the 2020 2024 and 2025 first report. Thank you. >> Good evening. So, we have our annual financial accountability management report or the school first report. First stands for the financial integrity rating system of Texas or is kind of like a report card for the school's financials. Um, and each year TEA releases updated scores for the district. So the 2425 first report that was just released um

002is based on the 23 24 school year data um of which 22 different indicators actually one is not being evaluated so it's really just 21 indicators um are being evaluated. So for the 23 24 school year um Gunnar earned a C with a total of 76 points. um up on the screen we've got the comparisons from um the 22 23 and the 23 24 information and we're just going to go through the ones that were different as compared to last year. So on indicator number seven um in the 22 23 school year got about six points for 23 24 zero points was awarded and this is something that we knew was going to happen. and it was the number of days of cash on hand and current investments in the general fund for the school

003district sufficient to cover operating expenditures. And so our fund balance declined. So we um that was the first 10 points that we missed. Indicator number nine, did the school district's general funds revenues equal or exceed expenditures excluding facilities acquisition and construction? Um this is another one that we missed out points from and um next year this will go up because we did um have a we didn't have a deficit budget for the 24 25 school year. So we're going to receive the points automatic 10 points for next year. >> We knew this one was coming because we passed the test. >> Yes. Correct. >> Uh the next one um was good and bad. Indicator number 12. we uh increased from the previous year, but we didn't receive all 10 points. So, this one was on

004was the debt per 100 $100 of assessed property value ratio sufficient to support future debt repayments. And um as the value of homes keep increasing, we're going to keep earning more on this. So, this will increase um for the next one as well. So, with those two increases, we should be at a B for the next first report. And then the last one, it was an improvement from the year before. Was the administrative cost ratio equal to or less than the threshold ratio? We received all 10 points versus just the eighth on the previous year. >> Any questions on that? That's all I have. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Are there any questions from the board? >> No. Mhm. >> All what we expected. Good news on the administrator. >> All right. Are there any

005questions for members of the audience? >> All right. Meeting journ 603. >> Perfect. All right. All right, we're going to go ahead and move to the regular schedule meeting a little bit early. Um, good evening. I want to welcome you, welcome you and callust. Let the record show there for board members present. Dave Johnson is absent. Furthermore, let the record show this meeting has been Julap 551. Okay. will empower every student to attain an exceptional education that challenges them to exceed their own expectations and provide a foundation for success for success in life. for audience participation. All right. That's what I'm super upset about the ambassador program with the annual program of the ambassador academy that participated to become advocates for getting behind the scenes look at how we district governs the district how finances

006are by the state school district really power the knowledge you need to be answers to those tough questions you might hear out about. And so we're going to take 15 to 20 members 20 is the cap cuz we want to make this personal. We don't want everybody to go through but we want as many people up to 20 a year that are interested in coming into it. And the idea is to help these ambassadors with uh that can then speak on behalf of the ISD and just share the knowledge because a lot of people understand why it is. Uh some of the meetings are on here. For anybody who's out there who hasn't signed up, there's plenty of ways to uh get that information signed on our website if you are interested in that ambassador.

007This school year, all three campuses are going to uh try to get designated as local star campuses. What that does allows our schools and the council specifically to be able to better serve the military connected families able to have resources for those families. Even if somebody has retired from the military, came here, they still have needs. The students have needs. So, we want to better serve those men and women who have served our country. So, we're going to pull out purple starations. You can see more about that. Uh our campuses are already starting the student led parent teacher conferences that start schools. So this year every single one of our students is going to go through a parent teacher conference that is by that student by doing that our students to own their own education.

008The idea is that it's theirs and if they are in charge of something on their basis then I'm hopeful that our students will be better prepared to advocate for the want to lead our education. We have our strategic plan underway between now and April. We're creating that plan. It actually starts this uh started last few weeks when we did surveys. We got 35 surveys back. The school board will go team training on Wednesday. We're going to go through that whole process of deciding on a high level what we want the school district and be like in 5 years. Those are purposes we make. So that way we don't just work to get there. We actually have a road map to that success. And so that's why that work is started. Uh we have a 40

009member planning committee already selected that includes parents, teachers, administrators, students. There's six students two from each campus on committee and some business uh owners in the community. So there's 20 of them that will meet several days uh throughout the school year through through April. We did start Tiger Times newsletter again this month. Miss Boulder is here. I know that we'll talk more about it later, but she worked really hard making sure that come back out and we are very grateful to her and her efforts for that. Thank you. And um the next thing is the instructional rounds. Our team of administrators 22 classrooms 21 classrooms over 3 days. And the idea was what's going on with instruction? If we're going to spend our money, the hard tax dollars on curriculum, let's make sure the instruction

010is where it needs to be first. let's not go by the curriculum and then find out later that it was fine and we just needed to take instruction. So, we went into all these classrooms and we were able to see some fabulous instruction, small little things that need to be addressed at, but overall we have some amazing instruction going on. And so now we know that the the problems we're having with instruction is curriculum based. And so we're going to now shift and start looking at ways we can focus on getting some highquality instructional material into our school district to better serve our students. We did a survey after that and all two of the uh the staff involved in the process thought it was a very good process and they appreciated it. So that

011was that was good to see. We made some changes based on the feedback that some of those staff members get. Um, October, we have our strategic planning Tuesday. Like I said, we got a follow-up meeting on the 22nd. If you haven't already bought tickets for the gift bingo is this Saturday, the 25th. All the proceeds of this event go to help our students and our staff. Our staff members can get many grants they can use in their classrooms to do some really fun, exciting, innovative learning. And our students can get scholarships that they can use to go to the college of their choice. In November, we have our DEIC meeting. We'll start working on the uh the planning of the the calendar for next year. Strategic planning community meeting all day the 12th and 13th.

012That's where we take those 40 people and over those two days, we're going to work really hard at making sure we take the board's vision and put action to it so we can get the meat and potatoes out of our strategic plan. Then we have our November board meeting right here on the 17th. We have our gift meeting uh co-op meeting again for our special ed and then I'll be adding superintendent meeting update we have student staff recognitions. Okay, let's get started elementary school. All right, this month we're recognizing our September students of the month. So, if you are here in attendance and I call your name, please come to the front. Murphy Harris, come on. Murphy, I want to read something about you. Your teacher, this is what Mrs. Xine wrote about you. Murphy

013Harris has been selected as our kindergarten student of the month for September. Murphy is a shining example of what it means to be a positive role model. She consistently shows both grit and grace in the classroom, approaching each day with determination and kindness. Murphy is always willing to lend a helping hand around and is a true friend to everyone. Her compassion and kindness towards her peers create a welcome, welcoming and supportive classroom environment. She works hard on every task, showing enthusiasm and curiosity for learning new things. Her positive attitude and strong work ethic make her enjoy to have in class. Murphy, we are so proud of you and all your hard work in kindergarten. Keep shining. Next is Zachary Moore. This is what Mrs. Clo said about you, Zach. Zach is a hardworking student that

014is always willing to put in the extra work needed to do his very best. He is kind and willing to help a friend learn something new or something that is difficult for them. Zachary is a is friendly to everyone and a great teacher helper, too. His generous and kind heart makes him someone we can always count on to be there and ready to help at any moment. Zach always has a positive attitude and spreads this positivity around to others in the school, brightening their day. His smile so bright and very contagious. His determination, heart, and grit make him a true gunner tiger. As a positive role model in first grade, other students at GES are already learning many positive character traits from him. Just imagine how much more they'll learn from him by the time

015he's a fifth grader. We are so very blessed to have him in our class this year. Keep showing great and great, Zachary. I'm proud of you. Next we have Vivian Brownian here. J Castanada. All right. This is what Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Clton had to say. Jade is a shining example of responsibility and kindness in our third grade classrooms. What makes Jade stand out is her willingness to help others. Whether it's a classmate who is struggling or a friend who simply needs encouragement, she's quick to lend a helping hand without even being asked. Her positive attitude and cheerful spirit brighten our classroom each day. Most of all, Jay displays the grit and grace it takes to be a Gunner Tiger third grader. We are so proud to recognize him. Next up, we have Mackenzie. Right

016on time, Mackenzie. This is what Miss Martinez had to say. Mackenzie is truly a bright light in our classroom. She is such a wonderful friend to everyone and always makes sure that no one feels left out. Her kindness and inclusiveness shine through in everything she does. Mackenzie is also incredibly helpful. Whether it's lending a hand to a classmate or working hard on her own assignments, she always gives her best. She leads with both grit and grace and I can always count on her to set a positive example for others. Mackenzie is a true leader in our room and we are so lucky to have her. Last today we have Eli Haney. This is what our long-term son Mrs. Bo had to say about Eli. He consistently demonstrates the qualities of an outstanding student and role

017model. Eli is kind and respectful to both classmates and teachers, always treating others with compassion and encouragement. He is eager to volunteer whenever help is needed, whether it's assisting with classroom tasks or contributing to school activities. In class, Eli participates actively, engages thoughtfully in discussions, and always puts forth his best effort. He approaches challenges with a positive attitude, grit, and never hesitates to try again when something is difficult. It's a joy to have Eli in class. His kindness, dedication, and enthusiasm make a positive impact on our school community every day. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Thank you very much. So, I'm not the middle school principal, but uh Mrs. couldn't be here tonight, so she asked me to fill in for her. So, we're going to um go through uh our student and staff recognitions. Um

018for our middle school students, we are proud to recognize Audrey, Brett, and Maddie as our GMS students of the month for September. They consistently demonstrate kindness, responsibility, and a strong commitment to learning. They are positive role models who make Gunnar a better place every day. Congratulations on making a big impact wherever you go. So, can I have Audrey, Rhett, and Maddie? Are you guys here tonight? Congratulations. Get a picture real quick. Good job, guys. Just do mine a little backwards. We're going to go the big impact. I'm going to start with our teacher because you know Miss McGgoy when I told her that she was going to be our big impact award recipient this month she was like please can I talk about my kids can I bring about my kids and and what she

019does with the theater program if you haven't been able to go to a play or one of the musicals you're missing out. So, if you see that being advertised at any point, uh, which we'll have more in the spring coming up, please, if you get a chance to make it, I can sit up here all night and talk about her awards and accolades that she's done, you know, that she's had over the past four years. And when you ask Missy about it, she's like, it's not about it's not about me. I can't do any of it without the kids. And so, which which touches me. I mean, it's a very important piece of her life and what she does. Um, if we had Miss McGoy in every classroom, you wouldn't have to worry about a

020thing, which we got. We've got wonderful educators in every classroom. Um, but she is she is truly special. Um, and we're very blessed to have her. A few of the things that she's done since she's been here, she's led both middle school and high school theater programs, multiple district championships, and regional appearances. She's earned numerous best performer, all-star cast honorable mission awards. She's established the Gunner Texas Despion Troop. uh guiding students to qualify for national festivals and earning inductees into the national thespian honor society. Uh Miss McGuire also directed several musicals including the acclaimed Broadway productions and contin continuously promotes excellence and leadership in our students. I think if you ask any of her students um what she means to them is she's just a tremendous leader in the theater program. So probably Mr. Martin

021told me that I could talk about my kids. I said, "Can I bring the whole cast?" And he said, "Can we keep it to three?" And I said, "Yes, that was fine." Um, but I do want to um I'll I'll say in advance and my parents are here, they'll tell you I talk too much. So, I'm going to try to slim it down cuz I think I love too much. But that's just how passionate I am about what I do and the kids that I work with. Um, but uh I'd like to talk to you all about the transferable skills of educational theater. It's what I teach all the time. And so to do that, I'm going to highlight three students who I feel have mastered who will exemplify some of those transferable skills. So

022the first one is Savannah Ay. You'll come up please. Savannah is a senior this year and has been part of our theater program since we started her freshman year. She was in my technical theater class that year and helped paint and stencil over hundreds of pieces of wallpaper that we put um on the show. It took 28 pieces of of packing paper that we painted first and then stencled hung for them to rip it down in this glorious moment of of insanity. And anytime that we did the show, we had to paint a new fresh 28 pieces of packing paper. It was a ridiculous job. The objective on my board, and I quote stimult no child was injured in that, but after all of that, she did it. She didn't leave me. In fact, I

023convinced her to join the ensemble that year and she became part of the award winning ensemble of creepy women that year. And then she hasn't looked back as far as in terms of being on the stage with me. I promise her I won't put her as another play and I did a lot of her roles as in Russious Matilda and especially last year in our play as an sister. uh she uh just recently um helped to um lead our ensemble in Hades Town and I think that to date that has been our strongest ensemble work that we've done. So we're very proud of that. She's helped lead each production no matter what role she was given with kindness and grace. Savannah is also actively involved in band and leads a color on the field this

024year while also holding a job and still making it to rehearsal. So these kids do a lot. Um, she is the heart of our theater program. It can often be filled with a little tears at the end when it's over because she just doesn't want it to end. And I love that about her. I will be in tears when she takes her final bow. She knows a tiger. Um, but we love you. Congratulations, sire. Come on up. You can't miss him on stage or the football field or probably anywhere he will go in life. But my uh blend in when you were clearly boring to stand out, sir. Um a few of my director friends around the state actually refer to him as the big guy. One of them sent me scripts over the summer

025saying you should read this one. It would be great for your big guy. So he will know you. Uh, I like to think that I've creatively creatively casted him for several roles and argued with him that it's not really tight casting. Uh, we just use what we have. Um, Caleb has also been with me since the beginning and participated in just about every opportunity I threw his way and forgiving me when I cut him out of a show his freshman year. Uh, he made us laugh as uh, Mr. Warwood and Chip Tolantino made us cry as Mr. Shawn, our very first district win at the middle school level. and um he took on the role of Orpheus in Hades Town, which if you don't know is probably one of the hardest, most vocally challenging roles

026even for those on Broadway. Um he handled it um with um like like he always does. Then showed up for the last performance sick. And if you're my age, you may remember the year that Jordan played in the finals sick. He had a fever, but he still did it because there was no other Michael Jordan, right? And there was no other Caleb Syler to fill in for us if he could not go on. So, he went on his last performance. I was I was a nervous way. I wasn't sure if he's going to make it. He was we we went with the meds in and and he went out there and gave the most beautiful performance that left me in tears at the end. Um but that's just what he does. He doesn't complain. He

027had a beautiful performance and I think he was sick for the next two days. Um but that's the kind of leadership that speaks volumes about the kind of person Caleb is. He stays pretty throughout the busy throughout the year with football, basketball, and tennis, I believe. Yeah. >> Yes, I think so. He's in the top of his class and already receiving football offers from a variety of prestigious schools. But he has always made time to learn his lines, even if it's at the end, and to make it to rehearsal. He's always learned productions with strength and strength and a maturity that is not always easy to find in teenage boys. He usually always trusts me when I ask him to do something a little out of his comfort zone, and I know I can trust

028him to take care of business on stage. I can't wait to see what the next two years will hold, and I look forward to the characters he will create. Thank you. and talk about Sarah Holl. This is Sarah's second year in my technical theater class, but this year is the first time that I put her to work on a production. Last year, we graduated most of our technical theater team, and so we were kind of wondering how this was all going to work. Um, but she I was really uh curious to see who was going to emerge as the next leader for that team and I was a little worried. Uh, we were heading into the last few rehearsals of Hades Town and she said, "Boy, I'm going to be there. I'm going to be

029there." And so we sat down, I think the day before the last rehearsal and went through the entire show and I told her exactly what to do, where I want to light, when I want to light, when this work should start, when it should stop, when to all the things. And then didn't meet with her again until our last rehearsal. And then she knocked it out of the park. So, I left that last rehearsal like, "Wow, Sarah, that was amazing." Um, she did everything that I asked her to do after only having to tell her once. Uh, she couldn't make one performance, so she trained her back up and I didn't even have to do that. And that ran smoothly as well. So, amazing. Uh, that kind of leadership is is amazing. One of the

030things I love most about Sarah on performance days were she would kind of follow me around a bit and can check on me and what do you need and how can I help? And literally, that's what everybody wants to hear when they're stressed. Yes. Uh the tech team and the individuals performing those tricks on stage are the true unsung heroes of our shows. We had a performance a performer um who forgot to put her batteries in her mic pack. Audrey boy and uh her mic stopped working in the second act and so I'm I'm pushing her off like motioning her to leave off stage and we sent message to her. Audrey told me she got backstage. She didn't know what she was supposed to be doing, but she saw Sarah running. So, she followed her

031and got those lights the the battery changed and she was back on stage in less than a minute with a working mic. It was amazing. And that's what we need. So, that type of quick thinking, resourcefulness, her consideration for me and the cast, I could go on, but that's what makes Sarah, in my opinion, the star of Hades Town without even stepping on the stage to perform. We couldn't have done it without you, and I hope you'll be back and do more shows in the future. Heat. Heat. All right. Ready? One, two, three. All right, I have one more student recognition. I told them to be here at 6:15, so I apologize for that. Can I get Vivian Brown to come up here? Congrats. Smile. Just do. >> All right. This is what Mrs. Price

032had to say about Vivian. Viv is new to our Gunner family, but she has jumped right in. She's a good friend and cooperates with all classmates during group work. Viv works diligently, always giving her best effort, even when the work is difficult. She doesn't whine or complain, but sits and works until she has completed the assignment. Viv, we are proud of you. We're glad to have you at gun elementary. Chopping down. Thank you. All right. My big impact award is Mrs. Valerie Leon. Mrs. You can stand up here. Those of you, most of you know these ladies, but those of you that don't, they are the ones that actually run the elementary school. They tell me where to be and when when to be there and and what to do. So, they keep me in

033line. Uh just some some background on on them. Um Mrs. Leighton has been in the front office for over a decade. When I I so when I first got here last year, she was doing two to three jobs and she'd been doing a great job of that for for a decade, which was amazing to me. Um a campus really needs a receptionist, campus secretary, and a data clerk. And she was doing all of that. So, she's phenomenally efficient in what she does and we couldn't do what she does without her. Um, Mrs. Watson joined she was a um our permanent full-time sub and she moved into the receptionist role last year and the roles evolved cuz as I said there's three jobs and we have two people. So they've been working with me through some

034training we went to on breakthrough coaching which helps us to leverage our office staff and kind of elevate them in terms of how our office functions. And so we've been working through that and um it's made me incredibly efficient at what I'm doing this year. And so I'm so incredibly grateful for them. They have the best attitude. Um, they're the first face, the first voice you hear when you call the school. And I'm I'm really glad it's not my my face and my voice that it's an initial impression for people when they come here cuz I'm kind of a slow once you get to know me. These ladies are just amazing. So, I really appreciate everything that I couldn't do my job without you. Heat. Heat. Okay. our middle school back towards any things that

035she miss to say about you. Our big impact award this month goes to Mrs. Jenny Bullard. Mrs. Bullard goes above and beyond to support students with dis dyslexia, creating a welcoming and empowering environment where every learner can thrive. She was up for any challenge, even when we asked her to take a section of STEM. As she sparks curiosity, inspires innovation, and encourages students to reach their full potential. Beyond the classroom, she leads with heart as the National Junior Honor Society sponsor and head of our Sunshine Committee, spreading positivity and cultivating leadership throughout our campus. Her work in managing both our campus and district newsletters keeps us connected, informed, and united, making her an irreplaceable part of our school family. Thank you, Mrs. Bullard, for your unwavering dedication, your leadership, and the light you bring to

036our campus every single day. Heat. Heat. Next, Mr. But first, I want to recognize everybody else, but she works tirelessly to make sure that guys have everything they need. She's a person day in and day out. We all see it. You are exceptional at what you do. This last week, I wanted to uh write in a float and it would not have happened if this man didn't step up and make it happen. And so not only for me but for the kids. We're very grateful to you. So, let's try with it. So, um I want to take the opportunity to give the impact a word to three amazing men I get to work with every day. Um our transportation department has they're they're blessing. Every single one of them drives with us and their family.

037They take care of our kids and to me um they are just they're priceless. So, Steve, Nick, and Rob, if you would please come join me up here so I can say something about you. like to be recognized and I'm that person. So they go along with everything and they are awesome team players. It's a privilege to work the best of the best. We have the transportation department struggle. It's hard to keep bus drivers. It's a huge responsibility. It's stressful. And if you don't have the support in your district, why do you want to do it? Because it's a stressful job to begin with, but you've got to have support there to back you. And um our district, we do. We have amazing principles to support them. And they create a fun atmosphere on their

038buses for their kiddos. They're always smiling. Um they go with the flow even when I say, "I have an idea." I learn from my husband and I get from them. Um, and they rode with it and they put on a blow up bus costume and walk down Highway 29 at 86° weather in a place and it was awesome. Robbie um he is um he's willing to kind of do whatever they are willing to do whatever I ask. I think I hear end countless times, how can we help? How can I help? And it means the world to me. And they know that I reciprocate that and I it goes both ways. We support each other and we take care of our kids. We communicate and I know that if I need a trip driven, cheer

039needs to go someplace, band needs to go someplace, Nick and Steve have stepped up for years and they take our kids wherever they need to go. Theater at the beginning, they don't hesitate to step up and take care of our kids and it's huge. Um, it really is huge. And 3 years ago, I touched base with Bobby and he year after you drove, we were driving here for for a year. I said, "Hey, what do you think about doing some maintenance on some buses and he stepped up and he's a retired airline attendant and I don't think our fleet has ever been safer than it is now because that man lives in this community. He's best in this community and he loves our kids. We don't depend on outside companies that are there for the

040money for the check to get to take care of the bus. It may or may not work when we get it back. I know Robbie's going to do everything he can to make sure that bus is running safe for our kids. And that is that's like the weight of the world off your shoulders to know that the guys can radio in and say, "Hey, I my bus is making a noise." And Rocky's like, "When you park it, don't shut it off. I'm going to take it to the shop." And he's on it. And he communicates with me daily. these guys. The communication we have is just it's amazing. We can joke together. We can make fun of each other. We can dress in costumes. We just we make it fun. We make it fun for

041our kids. And even today, Nick got to sit through 8 hours of best safety training with our little elementary. Tomorrow we may not show up, but I So, um you know, it's just you're only as good as people you work with. And these guys um they make me a better person and they definitely help me help this transportation family work. Without them, our kids um our kids would definitely miss out. So, I appreciate you all very much for all that you do every day. And I uh I look forward to drawing our department and seeing what you don't. Thank you guys very much. Can I say something about you guys? Sorry, Brett and Eli were since we moved here and it does mean the world to me to know that they're safe on these buses

042and that they're with you guys. Um, we did just currently move I think the last switch bus driver. I don't know for sure, but um it does mean the world that the nurse has to be at work really early, my business electrician has to be at work really early and it just it's good to know that they're going to be safe um before and after school as well. So, thank you Principles, could you come on up and we'll come on up here. Stand front and center over here, please. Thank you. We can see you. All right. We have amazing principles. Um, everybody here knows they put their heart and their soul in what they do every day. Um, I have a a way of thinking that's different than a lot of people, and that's that

043if they're not successful, nobody's successful. So, we do everything we can at the district to make sure that our principles are successful in what they do because what they do is take care of our kids day in and day out. The safety of our kids is important. It's the most important thing we have. They make sure whenever they get to the schools that our kids are safe, feeding our kids is important for our principles. They wouldn't make it where they need to on time. And also, instructing them is important. And so, they make sure lesson plans are developed and they make sure things are are happening the way they're supposed to happen. So, if you would join me and in thanking our principles, I'd appreciate it. The governor, state of Texas, office, governor, educators, equipment,

044our next generation of leaders the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. It is through a quality education that we place students firmly on a path that leads to a lifetime of excellence and achievement. Quality educators are vital to a strong, prosperous state, and this is true of the devoted principles throughout the Mosar State. The Texas education system depends upon the leadership of capable principles. They cast a vision for their schools and work tirelessly to realize it. Principles are not only a source of inspiration for their students, but they are also visionary leaders for their teachers and their staff. Utilizing excellence and communication skills, skilled analysis, and clear policies, principles are an important component of student success. Each year in the month of October is set aside to honor the hard work of our dedicated

045service of our principles and to recognize the invaluable role that they play in our education system and in our future. The Lonear State owes a debt of gratitude to these men and these women who represent the best of Texas education. At this time, I encourage all Texans to educate themselves about the contributions principles have made to our great state. Principles drive excellence that ensure a better and brighter future for all. Therefore, I, Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim October 2025 to be principles month in Texas. And I urge all Texans to observe the occasion and appropriate ceremonies and activities and testimony thereof. I he signed this on September 2025. Thank you. Thank you. That completes our staff recognition at this time. If you want to stay for all kinds of interesting Heat up

046here. Thank you so much. So, the full financial report is included in the workbook, but it's I'm just going to do an update and hit the highlights on the financial report, and it's going to be broken down kind of in the same sections that y'all are used to. Um, but a bank account update is what we'll start with for our financial um accounts. The total ending balances for all 12 accounts is up there at $22,300,799.58. The material changes within those accounts that are all listed out, I'm just going to hit those real quick. Um, our general operating investment account increased by $2.1 million. And the reasoning behind that is we got our payment from TEA and TEA changed our payment class to a payment class of three which means we no longer received like throughout

047the year the small amounts like last September was about 22% of our a lotment. This year for September it was 45% of our aotment. So we received a large portion of that. um our 2023 bond account decreased by $373,441 and that was just due to the the um regular bond payments that we had out for the upcoming construction. And then the other highlight that I want to point out for the accounts is the total interest earned for the 12 accounts equals $69,110.54. Um on to the tax collection update. um it's still early in the year so we haven't been receiving the property tax revenue um that will generally start to come in and um a little bit in October, November, December, January, February is when we really see those increases. So to date we've received

0486.43% of the budgeted revenue and no expenditures for that so far. And then the last one for the the budget summary, um we're about a quarter of the way done with our fiscal year change starting July one. We're um a quarter of the way done. So, I'm just going to highlight the accounts. It's all listed out in the report, but anything over most of the functions are at 20 25 27% expenditure right now. Um any so anything over 30% is just all year right now. And that's the curriculum and staff development. We've had um 61% of our budgeted expenditures there. And that's what you want to see. we're we're spending money on our staff development or staff for our curriculum um for this year. We don't want to wait till the end of the year

049and say we want those impacts now. So that's right along what you should expect to see. And then our maintenance and operations um we have expenditures at just under 56%. Um and we are watching that. But another reason for that is we have at the beginning of the year we've done POS to encumber a lot of the money and that is reflected within those expended accounts. the POS are counted in those expenditures already. So, um >> so we're growing for that amount. >> Yes. Yeah. Um and then the overall um this so that those are the two those are the two by function levels that are over the 30% of expenditures and then just the budgeted revenue. Um we've collected about 34.7% of what we budgeted revenue. For those of you who are watching said

050to hear the numbers, we changed this format. Luckily, this may be more meaningful. Would you guys see the numbers? Let us know what you think. Elementary school. Um, gym have been moved out. and the gym schools all the things down there in some crazy when the kids are having recess also right now on schedule is absolutely completed in place. The uniform are installed into that area now. Um and they're all complete. Um, so, uh, middle school gyms done. We also got the main parking lot parking lot. So, when the band's out there practicing, they can actually see the field striping that's on there. Um, so it helps them hit their marks. That's all we got for any questions. All right. mistakes go back to that page and your workbook. This this coming week is an

051important week for us because every two years we do a realignment. So I'm going to cover all pay special attention to that high school. That's what we're going to use for our realignment numbers. Something close to that. Uh right now 489 in the elementary, 282 in the middle, and 386 in the high school. Total is 1157. For uh your purposes of understanding where we're at for funding, remember we based it off of 1150 ADA, but then we also had their 93% of their attendance. So that would be a 1072. So we're well over that number right now. We can speculate about UI. They probably going to go up, but we'll know more. So, principal updates. All right. So, our attendance since our last board meeting has been 96.27% 27% attendance. Year to date, 96.63%. Um,

052I handed out a little short slideshow to go over the next part of my presentation. First page, uh, first two pages are campus need the summary of our campus needs assessment and our campus improvement plan. Um, so with our team, we kind of looked at I'll just kind of highlight the needs that the CNA found uh for our campus. We need improved vertical curriculum alignment and instructional consistency. Uh, expanded technology training support systems. We got a lot of tune a new technology and our teachers are still learning how to use some of that stuff. Uh, more structured mentorship for new and als teach teachers and a better scheduling system to protect prime instructional time. that drove our campus improvement plan priority act uh areas of action under student achievement. Um strengthen reinfluency and math problem

053solving. Provide differentiated support for students in special programs and at risk. Continue improving vertical alignment and assessment practices. Refine intervention systems to target skill gaps. develop a formal formal mentor program for new and all start teachers. Expand professional learning and instructional design technology and data use. Uh maintain safe support climate and reinforce character education which is something we'll be exploring through our uh district educational improvement committee. Uh expanding student leadership and family engagement opportunities. uh working on bringing watchd dogs back to elementary is one of the things that we'll be we'll be doing this year. Uh strengthening our onetoone device implementation with with consistent support and followup as we work through those um those new things. Um all right. Now the next part I want to talk about is House Bill 3 gold 2.50. Is

054that later? >> It's later. >> I'll save that. >> It's a teaser. All right. Um over the last month we actually today we had our celebration of learning that used to be a schoolwide assembly that we had um in the morning every every quarter. And moving to the 4 day we looked at different ways where we could be more efficient with our time but still have the same impact. So we held those during lunches at each grade level and invite invite parents to that so they could eat with their child. And then during lunch as we do the presentations at grade three levels, we recognize character traits of grit and grace. And we also recognize our readers or champions. Those are our students who logged 675 minutes of reading outside of the school day in

055the first quarter. Uh we also had our book fair since we last met. We set a a record for gross sales in just 4 days. Mind you, uh we set a record last year. This year we brought in $21,793.76 uh of which we netted a profit of over $6,000 that goes directly to our library. Um we also had grand friends day the same week. That's on purpose and that helped with our with our trouble there. Um that was a a great success. We had massive turnout. Um some things we want to improve on on that. Uh next year's we're going to have uh some PTO dads come and bring their side by sides and golf carts and help with our parking when we have those big events. Um let's see. Um Dr. Yos mentioned instructional

056rounds. Uh we identified a problem of practice and developed a momentum plan. Uh our problem of practice is was surrounding student discourse. And so for our momentum plan, we're implementing over the course of this semester and into next semester um bringing a a framework for how students are to respond called uh the seven steps to a lang a languagerich and interactive classroom. So that's a researchbased strategy. It's very simple. Well, a lot of those components are already in our classrooms, but it gives us a common language and something that we can we can um work towards objectively to make sure that we're demanding high responses from our students and encouraging uh expressive language and having our kids be able to get up and speak. Um the studentled conferences were a great start for them to

057get used to uh talking because they're they're at the elementary level. They're very used to adults talking for them. So, that's something that we're working on. Um, that's all I got except for the house bill stuff. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thanks. We'll do the uh the can plan during the action items. So, just give the update. >> All right. So, here are the updates for the middle school for this month. The first nine weeks have been completed. students have done a great job completing assignments, staying on top of grades, and excelling in our fall sports. Um, Mrs. Swanch says she is very proud of all of our teachers for hosting studentled conferences. Students were tasked with taking their parents through their student portal, grades, map scores, and behavior progress. We had about

058half of every grade level participate. Um, our governor Middle School movie night um was changed and will now be held on November the 1st at 5:00 p.m. This is our first community event of the season and we hope everyone comes out and supports our student council. Cross country at the middle school just finished up their season with both boys and girls teams doing a great job. Boys ended at a at second in district. Volleyball competed in the district tournament this past weekend and our seventh grade and eighth grade are both district champs. Seventh grade went undefeated all season. Football has three games left and our combo team beat Salina last week. Enrollment at our middle school is currently at 283 students and our attendance rate is at 96.7%. We had our perfect attendance drawing where

05910 students were selected to get Sonic drinks who had perfect attendance. And in classroom happenings, Mrs. King hosted a clear review game for students for their upcoming science test. Mrs. Morrison has been testing out force in motion using a variety of objects. And Mrs. Hogan is gearing up for Red Ribbon Week and College and Career Week. All right. As most of you know me, we wrapped up a busy homecoming week. And so for high school principal, that is I was able to relax a little bit this past weekend. So I thought it was I thought it was a tremendous week. I thought there was a lot of um participation by most of our students, staff. A lot of work goes into that. I know I was going to try to thank everybody that had an

060individual part in that, but I would miss somebody. But it it it takes a as they say, it takes a village and community and it's just it's a tremendous tremendous week that that my family in particular looks forward to and really cherishes those moments that we get to have in a small town still. So um for anybody that had a part in that, we appreciate that. So as Dr. Enino said, our total enroll enrollment is 386. I'll break it down for class. We have 106 in the 9th grade, 113 in the 10th. um 89 in our junior class, then we have 78 in our senior class. So, as you see, it continuously grows as we start getting down um into our lower our lower grade levels. And I think that's a trend that's going to

061continue to rise as as you'll see over the next few years. Our ten uh tenant rates at 96.1. Um and for us, that's that's pretty good. We're staying we're staying uh pretty steady. We've actually gotten a little better in the last week or two. Um I don't know what you know we're we're really trying to make sure we make contact with parents um students on a weekly basis and I think that's made a tremendous difference to put a little pressure um back on back on the parents a little bit. Um some classroom highlights Carly Beavers I don't know if you saw she was named Toma athlete of the week and with being named that also comes $1,000 scholarship so she will be awarded this Thursday at 8:45 in our gym. um takes some Chevy dealers

062will come and give her a $1,000 scholarship. So, if you're able to make that, you're more than welcome. We'd love to have you there. Um Kylie Gortmaker was also named the Herald Democrat athlete athlete of the week this past week for her performances in volleyball. Um Gunner band, we performed in our UIL district marching contest in line this past week. We didn't perform like we wanted, but um if you'll see like our numbers are are down in our in our band right now. Um, we're having lots of conversation on plans action to try to increase those numbers. Um, I think our band directors u have a pretty solid plan going forward. We're just going to make sure they implement it and we continue to grow that that program. But if you'll go see or it

063may be small in numbers, but those kids, they're passionate about it. They put a lot of work in it. It it to be a successful band takes a lot of work. Um, and I think these kids have what it takes. And so we're going to continue to uh give them the resources needed, support them so we can try to grow grow our numbers. Um physics class, Mr. Phys physics class, they've been working on Newton's law. They've got a fan car lab that they've got battery powered fans and they're racing cars there. You know, you'll hear me talk about Mr. Eat's physics class a lot. It's project based learning. Um and so if you come to the high school, they're probably out in the hall doing something. Um it's pretty interesting. If you get a chance,

064um, swing by and come see that, too. Coach Burles's class, they've been reading Frankenstein, exploring symbolism and complexities within Frankenstein. Um, Coach Lindsay's class did a community service project for us the other day. Um, I got pretty frustrated and uh upset the way that our parking lot looked with with trash in our ditches. And so, um, Mr. Clunch and um, Ron, I said, "I we need trash cans." that I've been asking for 4 years. Mr. Klein said, "Well, let's get on it." Um, so now we've got trash cans spread across our parking lots. Our students have no um reason to throw any trash. And I'm not blaming it completely on our students. I don't want to say that. There is the windmills and we do pick up stuff in the ditches room. But going back,

065Coach Lindsay's class did bad. They went out there, picked up our dishes, picked up our parking lots. Looks great. Um, they got rewarded with some Sonic burritos this morning, so they're pretty fired up about it. So, and I think they'll be well to do it again. >> It was not by the way. I saw them out there. I was very proud to see the kids. >> Well, and they and they didn't b they didn't complain one bit. They just roll up their sleeves and do what we ask. And that's the type of kids we have throughout. So, that's pretty impressive. >> Yeah. >> Um, our student shout out this week is going to Haley Fischer. She's being reci recognized by Coach Grant. He said she's always spreading kindness and being positive. And then um I

066mentioned homecoming earlier. If you were at our game Friday, our king and queen this year was Kare Rainer and Micah Fischer. Uh we had a wonderful court in general. Just a great group of of kids. And I told them probably in my four years, uh if if trying to round them up and gather them for all of the the events we have and getting ready for Friday nights, this was probably the most respectful group to do it. Said yes, sir. And we got on with it. So it was just a good group. uh football uh homecoming game Friday defeated house 6615 that puts us 3 and 0 in district 6 and1 overall and then we're traveling to Blue Ridge for a big game Friday potentially could be moved to Thursday there's a lot of weather

067coming in so we're trying to work on that right now so we will have that out information out as soon as we can but we potentially could be moving to Thursday to try to get those in I know a couple in our district have already done that so Dr. We'll get that information out as soon as we know. All right. And volleyball, they also went 2 and0. They've been playing extremely well. Had a chance to come to the gym and watch them from the time that they started. And now it's a young group just like football. Um, and our coaches do a great job getting the most out of our kids, put them in great positions, getting them ready to play. And so they're also very fun to watch. A young group uh that's currently

06825 and 11 and 10 and0 in district. Seeing another district championship for us. and so super proud of them. Last few things. So tomorrow, tomorrow night's senior night. We have five seniors on the volleyball team. So that will start at 5:00 p.m. We're playing Leonard at home. So if you can come out and support those girls, the seniors, they they go all out with their tables and decorations. It's it's unlike anything I've ever seen. It's pretty impressive. JB Blue will play football will play Blue Ridge here probably Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. but right now Thursday host the bells Friday at 4:30 and then we have our gift auction and bingo um fundraiser 5:00 p.m. Saturday. So that's all I have. So any questions? >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. We're starting something

069new. We have a crossover that launch working on these quick update each month. So you have an idea kind of work around some things going on. Softball field is getting brand new fence. I've been told that they're going to have that uh finished by the week. Um the old the bar that door got blown in uh about a month ago. That door's been replaced. So it's all good. Um at the high school high school um hall is newer hall was just kind of dingy and and not great looking. Um Ron has been working tirelessly on that. Um it it looks like a new building on that side. has done a lot of repairs. Um the doorway is going into the auction where they have windows and we got framed in with so it matches what

070the rest of the building looks like renovations over there to to get the high school uh up to spec. say start really really good over there building elementary issues repairs done this week that should start Wednesday and then they got some uh water damage and uh reloations going on that's going to happen this week once they get started it should take about 2 weeks for them to finish all that um and then we also Vinnie, if you're out and about, you'll see him out around. He came to us from St. Houston State where he was a carpenter um with the university there. Um he's already made pretty big impact on a couple of the projects he's worked on. Um he had replaced stuff for one of the buildings out here through and fixed a leak

071out there with that and he's already helped with some of the stuff over the high school also. Um so far has gone from one to three in the last month. So that's been a huge huge help. That's all I got. Okay. House 3 update is next. All right. Here we go. All right. I kind of geek out about this kind of stuff cuz it's data and I I just there's so many different ways to look at data. So this is just kind of the way I looked at it for this house build 3 goal related to math for first and second grade. So on your first slide you'll see our target for our end of year this year 2026 is that 68% of our first and second grade students will be the equivalent equivalent of

072meets or masters on their math proficiency. So what we did was we looked at our beginning of the year math data for first grade and second grade. First grade was at 52% meets or masters. Second grade was already at that 68% meets or masters number. When you average that on a per student average or scale it for the different weights of the grades, the average right now is 60.9% meets her masters beginning of year. Uh I provided some additional data on that slide about interventions that are being provided. So all students receive uh universally designed highquality tier one interventions, but some of our students require additional supports where they're um pulled more frequently to teacher table for interventions. So currently, and it varies by unit depending on skill, but currently we have 46 students in

073those grade levels who are receiving what we would categorize as tier 2 or tier three instruction. So about a little over a third of our students, which matches up fairly well with the number of students that did not meet on the beginning of year MAP test. Um some of the intervention resource or the resources that teachers use for intervention are listed there for your review as well. Um, and then on the second page, I like to provide some year-over-year context because I think it's important to look at how the second grade performed this year, the year before, the year before. But I also think it's important to look at a class of students and kind of track how they've been performing cuz really that's the product that we're delivering is how much are we growing

074these kids over time. So if you look at this this uh data here the first section you have the class of 2037 which is your current first grade class and so you have their beginning of year map data from last year when they were in kindergarten most of them first came to us 44% of them were at meets or masters and then this year that same class in first grade 52% of them are meets or masters so that's a 8% growth Um, and these are nationally norm. So if all things are equal, completely average teaching, that number really shouldn't change. So that's just a testament to the high quality instruction kids are receiving and how amazing our teachers are at really meeting the individual needs of our learners. Uh, if you look at the class

075of 2036, that's our current second grade class. We have had MAP for a few years now, which is really nice to be able to compare. So, we were able to actually go back to when when those second graders were in kindergarten. Their first few months in school, they took the math test, they were at 48% meets or masters. Last year, as first graders, they were at 68%. And then they're holding steady at 68% meets or masters this year. Um, so that gives you an average yearly gain of 8% growth into the meats or 8% bump into the meats and masters category uh for our first graders and an average yearly gain of 10% uh for our second grade class. So I think it's important to have that context because we are moving kids up. Um,

076and I I think that it's reasonable to expect us to have around a 10% 9% gain this year, which would put us at that 69% above our 68% goal. >> Any questions about that? >> Thanks. Thank you. Appreciate it. And our house bill 3 update this month goes in looking tied with CCMR looking at our percentage of growth that we want to have in our dual credit of coursework. Um and so currently we're looking at trying to make about a 2% increase annually from 50% to 65 by 2029. And so um it does jump there at the end when we start making larger increases when we have different things and structured different things put in place. Um and we'll talk about and why 50 to 69 it's it's attainable obviously but we also have different

077pathways you know for our kids. We're going to look into our CT pathways what our local community needs are specifics for industry based searchs. And so that's something Dr. knows are and I are going to look into. I'm not the principal that's going to sit there and tell you, you know, try to force college down everybody's throat. It's not I've got two different kids myself want to probably go that route and the other already tell you no, it's not happen. I'm going to go to work and so looking at different avenues and pathways um but that goal specific is to increase our enrollment in our gold credit courses. So we're looking from going to 50 to 65% by 2029, which I think we'll do. Um, and as we expand and work with Grayson Community College

078and their different um, areas um, that they offer dual credit courses, we'll we'll define that and I think we'll we'll hit those goals pretty easily. >> Any questions on that? >> I'll give you an update, too. Wednesday, we're going to Grayson County and I'll be meeting with the folks there and seeing if they can offer us more uh, beneficial course offerings for our students, things that they uh, they haven't traditionally offered us. we're just going to expand and see. We're going to ask about more >> cuz one of those things we have to narrow is we have kids that are going to universities all over the country. And so one, you know, so why would a kid take a dual credit course from Grayson that's not going to apply and they can take with them

079and so we're going to have college nights. We're going to have different we're going to explore with our parents with our kids that they can come in and we're going to narrow down our focus. Do you want to go to these two or three universities? What what pathway do you want to take? What's your career goals look like? and and and make sure that they're offering us the courses that our kids can apply going forward with university. >> So that's huge. Yeah, that's been a long it is. And so I it's it's dual credit courses are beneficial. They're cheaper. You can get them done earlier. You can you can get into your your major courses earlier. Um but it doesn't matter if you're just blowing your money and wasting your money and and we're not

080on a certain path, right? We don't want to graduate students with a bunch of dual credit and then to not have any idea what they want to do in college or with their life because that puts behind their peers who have time to decide that and figure that out. So we need to be careful and very purposeful. Not everybody has to have it. And if you are getting it, what's this look like in order to get to college? Are you going to use this this coursework? >> Thank you. So the uh the last part of the updates here uh before we move on to board member reports is the uh upcoming meeting dates. It's on your agenda. The only one I see missing is this Wednesday we have our team of eight training. Other than

081that all the way through May your your dates for board meetings are there. All right. Item six board member report facilities committee update. Okay. Yeah. So, we had a October 1st meeting with our facility planning committee and I think there's probably about 28 to 30 some odd people in there. a good cross-section of the community and we discussed all of the items that we thought as a school district we needed to look at for renovations, for updates, for building. We were very uh fortunate to be able to come in under budget for our first round of bonds. With that said, the $78.8 million bonds that was passed in 2022 has roughly $8.5 million remaining still. So with that $8.5 million, we want to be very purposeful again, focused on how do we use these monies

082to best meet the needs of the ISD as we are preparing to potentially grow. And so that that's in the conversation we had. And uh we asked all 17 people that 17 people of those that were there completed the survey form. And the ones that completed the survey, we took all the results and the highest consensus was to renovate the six restrooms at the high school. The six restaurants at the high school are in desperate need of repair. Um, and I would say that um that was my number one recommendation as well. And I think all but one or two people had it as their number one priority once we explained the situation and the gravity of it. That project could start this next spring and be done before students come back to school in

083August. It may start in the commons area right outside of the the gym before the students go on their their summer break. So there might be some renovations out in that area before they get started, but most of that work will probably be completed whenever they're not in the building. Uh some of it may not be. Uh number two is a strong priority and that's the old elementary innovations. As we grow as an ISD, the district is going to need an administrative office that can grow. We want to be able to have a a place like this to be able to welcome our community and be able to show we have storage closets filled with momentos and souvenirs and memorabilia from this ISP which is fantastic and nowhere to show it. We don't have a

084home for the admin building really. And so we want to consolidate that'll also bring some members of our admin team that are in current classrooms and spread out the district which will bring them all back to one area. It's about free and learning space as well. And that was a strong priority number coming in number two. Just to clarify, elementary is the old sorry that is the the one on the original street. The one behind me, >> sorry. Yeah, that is correct. And and that project would start pretty soon if we do that one. And that one would take a little bit longer. They're looking at us having occupancy at that building by November or December of next year. So, a little over a year from now. We're not taking it all the way down.

085We're saving the walls where we can. We're putting a few walls up. We're making the restrooms usable. We're creating a nice entrance way. We're going to concrete the the front entrance so that way we have a nice parking area and room for growth. There's we're over You might say that's too much parking. Well, we're going to keep expanding that building and make that our our home for good is what we're hoping. And so that's why we're going to build that out. And we will currently be able to take the east side of it and leave the west side still for the church that's in there cuz we don't need all the space yet anyhow. So, we would only be doing the the one half with that renovation. And that would be about $3 million, 3.1

086million. And that would be second priority. The third priority, modern priority is Tiger Lane extension and turf projects. We all agree that we have so many rained out softball baseball games. We we agree that it causes the flooding on the field cause major problems and costly repairs. We're repairing it constantly and spending lots of money for it. So, uh that is good to to look at that. We have the funding for it. We're currently getting bids for it right now. We're getting a few bids. We've actually changed the layout of the Tiger Lane extension. We're thinking about buying some land and going behind the softball field and going out onto Kuroot. That'll get all the traffic off of Preston and allow people to actually have a a go through. Well, we're going to take that

087and go through our land for about half the original price and and be able to cut between the softball baseball field and kind of there's we already have a gate opening and a culvert already under foot. we'll just use what we existingly already have existing there. Save some funds for now because it won't be a permanent solution no matter what we do. So let's just go ahead and save the funds now and use those funds other places and um so we have some pricing being done by by Gallagher um and our architect on that currently that won't take long at all to do and the immediate impact of that will be uh we felt we won't have all the the traffic congestion twice a day and by coming through our land that's going to be

088on our road so we'll open it up for mornings and afternoons only or at special events. And then the last priority you see here is fleet vehicles, which we only have really two suburbans we put students in. We we desperately need that, but it's a last priority. And then the enclosed home stands, that's more important than the fleet vehicles, so we're already pricing that out. It would keep the students from playing underneath it when we have games. It'll also create much needed storage space. We currently have high value items for athletics sitting out getting weathered, but we can store them and secure them. And that's very important that we do that. So, so the priority there we actually go to closing the home stands and it's relatively inexpensive and they'll be uh for safety purposes

089I want to start getting it done pretty soon and then the fleet vehicles will be absolutely last and to be clear that's not part of the bond. So if we had any money left over I would be coming to the board and asking them to repurpose bond funds to be able to finish and buy those fleet vehicles with them. Did >> I summarize that all right? >> Yeah. And though it was a good uh it was good session and good representation and what I appreciated about the process was the uh participants asked a lot of questions and offered up ideas as well you know and felt a little sorry for you cuz you came in there with you know rough orders of numbers and quickly people like you really it's going to cost that much

090to do that so well yeah let's let's see if we got it uh sized right first and so it was it was it was It was a very productive um and engaging meeting. So uh and it was good to to get feedback from everybody there and see what the the net results were. And I don't think anybody would argue with kind of the prioritization of what uh the projects any questions. Okay. So what we're doing now is getting prices. is I have Gallagher here to provide any other insight that they have or answering specific questions you might have but uh they've given me rough estimates sometimes already they've given me rough estimates of pricing already um to get everything we have highend price we might barely be over 8.5 million at this point we don't

091know exactly um that's why we're we have a priority list and that's why we have contingency built in and everything shouldn't take all the money but if it does that's why we prioritize and we have a of of what items need to be done first in what order. What do you guys have to add? I would ask sound like you did a great job lining it up. U we walk all these facilities and look at these different things. So I think we've got a fairly good handle on what's been priced and that kind of thing. I think that some people saw the price tag of 1.1 million for six restaurants at the high school. shocked by how much that is. And I want to be very clear, we're creating an 80 acre planting restaurant out

092of the gigantic women's restroom on the side and still providing a nice restroom for them. We're expanding and doubling the size of the men's restroom by the facilities cuz currently you go in there and really it has two journals because there's no space to stand by the third one. There's not enough space in there for what we have. Um, and then the boys restroom over by the auxiliary gym is his own classroom. And all the restroom is there's a huge empty space in the middle. It's just not laid out right. There's just expenses cuz they're not just taking off a commode and putting a new one right where it is. We're having to redesign what's there because it wasn't really laid out the first time. We want this building to last us years to come

093and be functional for years to come. That's why when you see that price tag, that's why it's kind of high is because uh where we can, we'll reuse all the piping and plumbing we can, but where we cannot do that, we have to to do it the right way. Interestingly, uh cuz we were talking about the Tiger Lake, we originally were talking about going all the ground. So, it was interesting that one of the things that was thrown out there is do we need to cut? So it's like uh investigation on that that seems like I mean again it would be our road and would be something we could open and close whenever we wanted. So that seems to be again the best use of what we want to make the most of the funds

094we have. So and I am currently using um some bond money before this because of safety. And so right now we're currently getting estimates, excuse me, to fence off some areas where students are walking and there's no fencing. And so our our school safety standards are very clear. If students are moving from class to class, an adult needs to be with them if they're out or we need to have high fenced areas or 6T unscalable fences. And so that's what we're doing. And so there's about eight places around the middle of high school where we need sessions of fence built put. And so we're pricing that out right now. It shouldn't be too costly. It's it's mostly chain fence. But while we're at that, we're going to go ahead and fence off the beginning of

095that Tiger Lane extension and the pass through for where uh right behind the stadium, you'll see another fence come up there because what we have now, anybody just step right over. So, question for those of us not on the facilities committee uh and the rest of the community as well. Do you guys have any docu diagrams or things that we can show in a meeting before we love to see exactly what it is that's being changed just so that we can communicate to the community when we're out there what's actually being done a little bit better. >> We'll have that on just about everything. The turf projects, not so much. You'll see a little overview of what it'll kind of look like, but for everything else on here, there will be diagrams whenever I get

096done work with the architects. In two weeks, we sit down with the architects to talk about the admin building. I'm not going to just sit there by myself. I've already have people who are an admin working in the office are going to join me and we're going to develop that together so it functions for everybody because it's not just the superintendent office. And we'll do the same thing at the high school. The restrooms will be getting people from that are actually at the high school to come in and work. And then when we get those diagrams, we'll share them. We'll put them on the website. We still have a bond website. and we'll be adding these things to that so we get regular updates there and then we'll continue our our board updates as well

097with the second and final phase of this partnership. >> Yeah. And yes, it was really more of a needs assessment and prioritization conversation with rough estimates of what to take with the ideas. Okay. Once we kind of understand this, he was doing he'll get some more details and then obviously share that with very high level. There's things we don't know like asbestous testing and mediation different things. You just don't know until we're in there and we've already been able to get some asbestous reports back on some of the projects and we know we don't have to evade and so the costs are already going down in some areas. >> Great. Do we still have I know we still have a small amount of 2016 bond funds remaining. Those can be assessed as well. >> Yes,

098they can. And there's 9,500. Is that right? >> Yeah, it's like 8 8,000. >> Okay. It's below 10,000. >> And we talked about closing it out very soon. Yeah. We want that. >> Yes. Okay. Wednesday 5:00 we are going to teach you. We're going to change location. It says admin office there. We're changing it here because we need a little bit more space than what we originally planned and we have the screen technology here because the facilitator needs to be able to talk to us about all the things that are important to see it. So right here on Wednesday at 5. >> We are we are providing food. Appreciate. All right. Item seven, consent agenda. Does anyone wish to pull any items from consent agenda for discussion? Is there a motion to adopt the consent

099agenda items A through E? >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor? Any of those? All right. Item eight, regular business. The board will consider discuss or take appropriate action regarding the following. Item eight is consider approval of the 2025 to 20 2026 campus improvement plans. Okay. Mr. Davis already said his so we'll go ahead and we'll go with the high school. >> Sure. She in your Um, not much to it. I know with the district improvement plan, both campus or all three campus improvement plans, it's a lot to look at. Um, our campus improvement plans are going to line with the district um coincide with with those goals. We'll just have different objectives and different um measures that we'll that we'll go off of. Um, one of the things that we'll focus and the

100key objectives that you see at the bottom and one I'll focus on. It kind of aligns with House Bill 3 that we talked about a while ago is the future ready. Um, develop a comprehensive plan to help students recognize opportunities, implement a mentor program. Um, engage all students in career pathway development, increase student participation, mentor goal setting, and then raise parent awareness and improve post-secondary goal pro progress. we'll see that as a constant um among everything that we want to do if we keep the focus there. Um I think we'll have our kids prepared for once uh they leave our walls of the high school. And so some of those other key objectives, I'll kind of let you look at it. I'm not going to read it word for word unless you want me to.

101I didn't figure you did. But if you have any questions, I know it's a lot to look at. Is there any questions or concerns with what you see? There's a lot. Yeah, I did read I did I did read it. >> And then there's timeline obviously timelines, progress measures, who's going to be responsible for the progress and monitoring of all these goals and objectives. So you'll see that in there as well. >> But if you have any questions or concerns once you get through it all, um, let me know. All right. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. So, we'll go over the middle school campus improvement plan. Um, at Gunnar Middle School, our 2025 2026 campus improvement plan is going to focus on empowering every student to achieve success through innovative instruction, strong community

102partnerships, and a safe, collaborative um, and supportive environment. Our academic goals include raising our STAR performance by increasing the meets and the M's levels by 5%. Um, and ensuring at least 90% of the students pass all state assessments. Um, so that would be in the approaches category under that. We're enhancing instruction through digital integration, inquiry based learning and data driven interventions like map testing and student le conferences. Um, we're also expanding our mentoring, career readiness, um, and leadership opportunities to prepare students for life beyond school. Our commitment to social and emotional health remain strong with programs that promote kindness, safety, and belonging for all students. Um, and finally, we're going to continue to invest in our staff through professional development and collaborative planning, ensuring that Gunnar Middle School remains a place where students and educators

103alike thrive together. We're building a culture of excellence, innovation, and community pride. So you have any questions, you can direct them to Dr. Enos, and it's academics. I might be able to help you a little bit, too. I'll be glad to answer questions you may have over any of the cab. I know there's there's a lot of work, right? A lot of work to put together. >> It is >> and a man in long term. And you'll see that our own principles are going through the same CIA process that's focused on the the data. We're going to have the committees together and we use a lot of that whenever we build our plans for next year as well. >> They do that as a leadership team together. >> They do it individually on their own

104campuses. >> Yeah. >> They bring that data with them. >> Okay. >> Whenever we work over the summer district level, they're involved in the district of these assessment. Okay. Well, that if there are no questions, I would ask that we approve the three can plans as presented by Is there a motion to approve campers plan as presented? Second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? Any questions? Item B consider of the ELLL program he's been overseen our ER bilingual program and I'm excited to see where this this program goes over. Okay. I'm going to share our emerging bilingual program evaluation for 2025 2026. Each year we're required to evaluate our program to measure the effectiveness of our ELLL program to support our linguistic and academic goals over our emerging bilingual um students and continuously improve

105our program. Um so we currently offer ELLL support, English language learner support at all three campuses, preK through 12th grade. Um our ELLL program of instruction is designed to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. We um have a ELPAC committee which is our language proficiency assessment committee which consists of an ELELLL rep, teachers, admin and a parent representative. And we utilize this um assess this committee to recommend the most appropriate programs for our English language learners. And we meet annually to excuse me. We meet annually to review all of our ELLL students and their programs and to make sure that they are placed correctly. Uh a real quick snapshot of our EVs, which is you might hear me say ELLL's EVs. EVs are emergent bilingual, English language learners. We have 100 emergent bilingual

106in our district. 68 of those are at the elementary school. 21 are at the middle school and 11 are at the high school. Out of those 100 students, we have two um denied services, which means that parents did not provide permission to the school district to support um instruction through our English language learner program. Um they are still required to do our tail pass assessment each year, but they are not receiving direct support from our ELELLL program. Now, we have 98 ESL students that are receiving um support at the elementary level. We have a contentbased model which requires all certified all teachers to be certified in ESL um in if they have an ESL student in their classroom. At the middle school and high school level we have it is called a pull out program

107model which provides um language arts instruction by certified ESL certified teacher for their language arts instruction. Okay. We also um track our long-term English learners, our English proficient students, reclassified students, and monitored students. So, we currently have two students that obtained English proficiency by scoring advanced high on the TEOS in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. We had two students that were reclassified at the end of last school year. Um, which means that they um were they scored advanced high on all four um domains of listening, reading, speaking and writing on their TP pass and they also passed STAR as well. We have eight students that are we we are currently u monitoring. Federal law requires districts to monitor our EB students for 4 years after they exit the EB program. So the two students have

108that reclassified they will be monitored for the next four years. Um after that um we after they are considered gened students um we just put into place supports with the gened teacher as well as Mrs. Marcato and myself and we just monitor those students. We also um administer our TEP pass assessment each spring. It is an assessment for students um who are learning the English language and we in kindergarten and first grade it is um they are rated holistically in the classroom and second through 12th grade they have online testing and they're rated based on um if they are beginning intermediate advanced or advanced high in their language skills and in order to exit the program like I said earlier they have to achieve advanced high and pass star in order to exit the Okay,

109our 2025 Telos composite store score. So this is a um an average of all of the listening, reading, writing, and speaking. So in grades K through 4, um 20.5% of our students were rated as beginners, 41% were intermediate, 30.8% were advanced, and 7.7% were advanced high. grades five through eight, since they were on the same campus last year, we kept them lumped together. Next year they'll be on the elementary. 0% were beginners, 35.0% were intermediate, 65% were advanced, and 0% were advanced high. For our 9th through 12th grade, we had 0% beginners, 44.4% intermediate, 33.3% advanced, and 22.2% high. Um, and then the next table talks about their yearly progress. So from kindergarten through 12th grade, 33.27% of our students progressed one proficiency level from 2024 to 2025. 1.6% of our students progressed two proficiency

110levels. 1.6% of our students progressed three profic proficiency levels. And 63.63% 63% students stayed the same or they were a little lower level from the 2024 25 school year. Um so our current initiatives that we are currently doing is we will continue to use interventions to support our ELLL learners with the addition of Lexia which is an online language program that they use um to help with their language objectives. We also are considering ways to help improve instructional strategies for our emergent bilingual in the Gened classroom to help address the learning gaps of our emergent bilingual students in comparison to the rest of the student population. We're also considering ways to decrease our number of long-term EDS in the program. Um it's really challenging once they get into high school to get them to take

111the Telass test seriously. So, we really need to try to build capacity in those students to be able to take that a little bit more seriously. Um, we're also going to provide staff training for one of our um spring uh professional development days and sheltered instruction observation protocol which is SCAP training um which will enable teachers to incorporate the English language prof proficiency which are called ELPS with fidelity into their instructional practices and their lesson goals. And then at the elementary school, Mr. was talked about seven steps to a rich language classroom which we will start doing um especially with young children it's really important to foster um that student dis discourse and it will also um help them with their language skills as well any questions so with that I would ask that you

112would approve our plan as presented by Mr. Is there a motion to approve the ELLL program evaluation? So second right any discussion? All in favor? Anything C consider approval of to adopt a resolution 02-2648 school pilot and staff compensation. Resolution 2-26 allows the IC to be able to uh compensate our teachers for the days that are intended by the 4day school week. It's just uh this right here is ensuring that we're not required to provide anything else besides this. Show that we're not getting public funds, >> right? So, the board can approve this and it'll take care of the uh any of that that may come up over the next threeear pilot. So, I'd ask that you approve this resolution as I'm presenting them to you. Is there a motion to adopt resolution 2-26 4day

113school work week? I'm sorry. School work week pilot and staff compensation. >> So move >> second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 8, consider approval of the revision to C local policy annual operating budget. So we need to make two changes to C local. we have to update our fiscal year from September 1 to July 1. And that's one of the changes in it. The second one is we need to be able to create a fund balance of 90 days or 3 months. That's what the state wants. And so that's going to be in our force policy moving forward once we um approve this board policy update. Proceed. So, I'd ask that we uh approve the policy update as presented. Is there a motion to approve the

114revision to C local policy annual operating budgets? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. Board will now adjourn to executive session pursuant to the following section of the Texas Open Meetings Act. Texas government code section 551 072 discussing land 551.074 discussing personnel 551 551.076 discussing safety and it is 746. Yes.