001Call the board meeting of the Gary Independent School District Board of Trustees. Let the record noted as a quorum of board members present. Absent is NAR. Furthermore, let the record show this meeting posted in accordance with Texas Act of Government Code Chapter 55. Now the pledge of allegiance to the United States of America audience participation Anybody else wish to sign audience? Okay, Mr. Hey, I want to welcome new superintendent Dr. Mr. in 2017 that that uh you got a very difficult job and uh when I walk you might have people will be upset your praises and you know back and forth uh I know firsthand it's very very difficult job so a lot of your first welcome to the great community of Texas and to the rest of you that voted for best of luck
002on the 25 26 school year. Uh it would be my hope that all our personal grievances stay at home and we learn we can pull together makes 75 the best that we can do. Uh I know for a fact your job is not easy. uh that the pay is great for me and uh I say that jazz but from just one person in this community educator and educating the family uh we'll be recognizing my son here in a little bit but uh but anyway just thank you for the selfless work you do uh we appreciate it at least the wy family appreciates it greatly and uh can't wait to support you guys at football and all the other events uh band and orchestra and wine play and everything else that my kids participate in. So
003just for y'all, thank you Dr. Welcome to Texas. Thank you very much. With that, we'll move on to superintendent report. Well, I'd like to start with student and staff recognitions before we should start every meeting, I think. And uh they're after all they're the reason we're here. So with that, um Mr. Hawaii and Miss You want? >> Yes. So, I want to talk about Lawson for a minute. You guys turn around, please. Everybody here. I want to talk about Lawson for a minute. He was one of three of our Tigers who took at the start last year and scored a perfect score on it. Progression is not our goal. Growth is our goal and it will always be that. But we do want to stop, pause and celebrate those who do attain something that's very
004very uh hard for anybody to attain on three. There's about 2% of the overall population of the state who can do what Lawson did. So with that, congratulations. Thank you. There's more. [Music] All right, come on up. Maddox Clers, come on up here. Not to be outdone by Maddox. Maddox is a young fifth grade student who last year on his fourth grade math test got a perfect score on Like I said, it's very hard to attain a perfect score on the star test is not meant to to be able to get that. So, it shows a lot of critical thinking skills and no doubt you're going to be very successful with that. All right, one more time for Max and Lawson. Now, I'd like to uh introduce a new we're going to be giving out
005on a regular basis whenever we have members of our incredible staff that go above and beyond. They make a big impact. And that's what we're going to call this award this year. It's a big impact award. I have two people who equally deserve this award. So, at this time, I'm going to ask Stephen, Michael, and Morgan to come on up here. I can't say enough our staff is and they all deserve this. But when we look at all the deserving staff, there's two from the top and they just rise to the top. day in and day out and that's even more is nothing short of a miracle getting every single classroom ready for the first day of school getting every device ready for every student and doing a roll out and I've heard zero complaints
006from anybody and for something that massive being the first time we've done it that's pretty impressive and so for for that I'm very grateful and we are very appreciative to have you here and thank you Thank you for [Music] lost. Yes, ma'am. >> Good evening. So, we have the financial report as of July 31st, 2025, the first month of the new fiscal year. Um, we'll start out with the statement position of our fund. We'll look at that um third column. I mean, I'm sorry, the fourth column, the ending market value for the general fund, the lower checking. We ended with 1,346,58464. I don't have my glasses on, so if I if I miss a number, please please tell me. Checking workers comp ended with $131,79243. The Lamar school fund checking account, $61,886.39. And the Lamar
007General Operating Investment Account, $1,583,237.84. and the Techstar general operating investment account $87759 for total investments of the general fund of $3,124,3781. Uh next in the middle we have the interest in seeking funds made up of our two accounts one at Lamar and one in Techstar. For OMR checking, it ended with a balance of $366,65.97 and the Techstar account 4,530,729.98 for a combined total for our INS funds of $4,897,335.95. Next, at the bottom, we have our construction funds. We have the 2016 bond at Lamar checking that has a balance of $8,38.85. The 2022 bond at Lamar $700,669111. And the Lamar checking 2023 bond with a balance of 8,681,22625. And then our Techstar for construction funds, we have a balance at for the 2016 bond of $19,513.73 and the Techstar 2023 bond 7,232,17659 for a total for
008our construction funds of $16,641,89453. On the next page is inventory of investments which is just the interest period accounts. Um on that we have our general fund, our Lamar bond checking and then the textar accounts. Um those total investments at the end total down at the bottom 22,748,4319. [Music] Um the next we have our property tax collection analysis as of July. and we're still finishing up that property tax collection for the previous year. Um, but in July for the first month of the fiscal year for the general fund, we collected $63,772. It's in that third column down at the bottom. And then the debt service fund, $188,386. [Music] Next, we have the budget summary ending in July. Um, total revenues for the month of July, $873,432. And then total expenditures in that third column down
009at the bottom, total expenditures, $898,838. On the next page is the debt service. Um, total revenues $188,386 and zero expenditures. And then for the food service fund, total revenue is $26,599 and expenditures of $30,873. And that concludes the financials unless y'all have any questions. >> Thank you. With that, we'll move on to uh communications over to start. monthly for superintendent report. You'll see something like this. I keep this short, but if you have any questions about anything I'm reporting on, feel free to ask questions about it. Um, in front of you, you have a badge that was given to you so that that way you can go and use the benefit that we've been given by the local golf course and that's employee discount rate to able to negotiate the law enforcement rate for all
010of our employees this past few weeks. So, feel free to use that. had a t-shirt in front of you and that's our district t-shirt. Our save for the month. We're proud of this. Small town, strong bond, big impact. And so we're really proud of the uh the idea that we're going to stay small as far as relationships go. Make them meaningful and have a big impact in the lives of our students. And then the athletic passes are envelope your name on it right in front of you. Make sure that you take those with you or use those throughout the year so we can support our athletes on success. On the updates page, uh we have a new at the end of tonight we'll have a new director of maintenance and operations, Cody. Cody, you will
011stand up. Cody comes to us most recently for he's been working at for 7 years and before that he was at Dallas ISD. He's been uh his focus has been construction and maintenance simultaneously. He's had to do things like building higher stairwells in these tall buildings because they didn't have a way to get the kids from the top levels down if if they needed to. And so he's his background is extensive and we're really happy to be bringing him on and I think you'll be pleased with the productivity that he provides to that department. >> Welcome. I appreciate it. And then we have our financial aid happening in the next couple of days. Monitors will be here tomorrow and Wednesday. Uh just so you're aware, we will be running around here taking up all of
012our time. And then our community meet and greet, as you saw, is going to meet next week with me at the high school cafeteria from 5:30 to 6:30. Encourage anybody that you see around the community to come on out and listen to me talk for just a small few minutes. And then I'm going to open it up to questions and answer them. And then also people have feedback and they want me to take notes and be a good chance for our community to express their concerns with me directly and open for the and then you'll look at it. What I like to do on these is always give you the month permanently in two months out and these are things that will directly impact me being away from the district or travel or things that
013you'll definitely want to be at. And so you'll see on here we have four meetings tonight. uh community meet and greet events are on here for August. Then skip into September, we have student on the 1st uh district safety and security meeting. We have three board members who are part of that committee. So if you think it's few Dave and Scott and Right. And so that is all here for you to attend. It's 5:00 p.m. on the 3rd. We have our small midsize legislative meeting that I'll be going to at Sam Sab. That's the 5th through the 7th of September. District Educational Improvement Committee. Uh in this committee, we'll meet every other month roughly and it's made up of teachers, parents, business members, and our community. And um what we do is we look at
014what are the goals of the district, how are we attaining the goals of the district, and then we develop the calendar for the next year or two together. Then we'll have our board meeting in September the 15th at 6 p.m. That'll be at the middle school. We're moving it to a larger venue so that way we can have more students and more staff member recognition on a regular basis. And then I will be in Washington DC from the 17th to the 19th for the national superintendent certification course that I'm doing there. >> In October we have homecoming week the 13th to the 17th. Don't forget to participate in homecoming tailgate. at 6 pm at Kyber Stadium on the 15th. And then we have our board meeting for October on the 20th. And finally wrapping up
015the month, we have our gift says bongo. That should be bingo. Bingo and a like bingo but different. More fun. Come out and see why it's more fun. And that is now we move on to page one sec. Page 15, you'll see that our elementary enrollment as of last Friday was 487. It's down from what we projected. 281 at the middle school was barely down from what we projected. And 389 at the high school, that's almost what we projected. Total enrollment right now is 1157. What what did we budget on? >> We budget on less than that. I we looked at that the other day. I didn't get you that number. >> That's fine. I probably should ask for but I I figured it was less than the project. >> What we can do is
016go ahead on every one of these reports. What what we can do going forward cuz that's a great thing to always look at. We can tell you what number we buding for and what attendance rate because it's not just the >> it's out rate. >> Yeah. That's right. So, we'll tell you that and that way you can you can know what we're doing. Settle up with the statewide purpose. And we don't have much of a construction update for this month. We are finish up the punch list that we have at the elementary school right now. We are waiting on those shade palm trees. When they get here, they'll either be helicoptered in or craned in. Either way, it'll be mid to late September at this point. We're also having some delays with the playground equipment.
017I found out today two playgrounds are getting a lot more equipment out there and it's all being built in also but we will get it once we get it put in that we are under budget on these projects the three projects are coming in about they said 5.5 million under but the ISD has purchased things with bond money as well and Gallery doesn't have that on the book so right now Alice is trying to figure out what we've spent what they've accounted for so we can get a number of what it is we're going to have left over. And those projects, if you'll remember, are possibly admin, just some renovations at the high school that are desperately needed, especially to the restrooms. Okay? >> And then, uh, possibly some fleet or transportation. >> And then
018maybe some athletic, we'll talk more about that, but maybe some athletic upgrades to fields. Okay. Excellent. All right. Our next one is accountability. Come on up. She hand us back. She hand us this one right here. That's probably right. [Music] I can my fingers as she's getting situated. I'll start. I want to first say that we should be very proud of our students for taking their time and being so devoted to an exam that does not reflect just how well we're preparing them for life. It it projects and shows how well we prepared them for an exam. And for that they're doing very well. U they've improved in every area over 2024 and in most areas over 2023. So the trajectory is is very good for our students overall and uh the direction we're heading
019needs to be maintained. We'll shore up some of the holes and some of the gaps that we previously talked about, but we shouldn't uh we shouldn't be in panic mode right now at all for academics. It it's going the right direction. Is it by any means up to the standard of excellence that we all have? Probably not. But we're going to look at those things and we'll adjust small adjustments to make sure you get better. Okay. So, we're going to look at um your package. We're going to take a look at the first page. You guys know um it's been a little bit since the state came out with accountability ratings, but last week they released the 2024 and the 2025 ratings. Um so, we're going to take a look at our overall real quick.
020If you look at the first slide, um the overall rating for Margarita, everyone, the overall rating for our district was a B. We scored an 84 overall. Um, and if you look at the next phase, we'll move over to GES with a an overall rating this year of an A at 91, which is a great job. Um, our middle school, same thing. It's a overall rating of a C. Um and we'll move on down to the high school with an overall rating of an A um a 91 which gave us uh a distinction at the high school level in the top 25% um in academic growth in that particular area. So if you flip over to the next page, we're going to kind of do a little bit of a deeper dive. you can look
021at the next graph and it will show you what our overall ratings were from 2022 to 2025. So the first one is just a graph that kind of shows the um how we scored each year. Um so we are making progress. Um we're not where we want to be, but we are definitely trying to uh you know overcome some of those uh challenges that occurred between 22 and 23. Um and we're on the right track. I feel like as we keep going. So, we'll take a little deeper dive into each campus if you flip the pace. We'll take a look at GES and I'll take you more specifically to not only what the overall rating was this year, but also from 22 to 25. And you can see the increase. Um, we were uh 90
022in 2022. In 23, we dropped to 82. Um, 68 in 24. And then we were back up to 91 this last spring. So we're definitely uh making progress there. I'm I want to add one thing here. We might have some things. Even though it's an A-rated campus, that 68 is on there. That D may require us to submit some things to the state should it happen. Know this being just some paperwork and and we're going to keep doing what we're doing. We're an A-rated campus. It's all a test. Elementary and middle school is all a test. So if you have a couple of teachers get sick, maybe miss the the memo teach to teach or go out regular to teach them, it really impacts us because we're still a small size district. So one of
023the things to keep in mind how they get our overall rating. So it comes from the three areas, the areas of student achievement, school progress, um and closing the gaps if you notice on that page. Um and so you're going to see that for the district and the campuses. And so that's where the score comes from. Um, and so what they do, whichever is stronger between your student achievement and your school progress, so if you look across the board there, that's they're going to take that. And so the school achievement or school progress, whichever is higher, counts um toward 70% of your accountability rating and the closing the gaps is going to count um 30%. Moving on to the middle school, um our overall overall rating in 22 is an 88. uh in 23 was
024an 81, 24 was a 79, and 25 was a 75. Um they have the most difficult of all the campuses up to this point. They had fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. So they test more students than any other campus in our district. Um and so they they just have a little bit more pressure on themselves to um to look at that. Fifth grade is actually since it is moving to the elementary school is going to help a lot um at the elementary level as well because it's going to give us an opportunity to have another grade level that's tested on that campus um which will help us with our our growth performance from there. If you flip over to the high school, the high school overall rating in 22 is a 90, 23 was
025an 82, 24 was an 89, and in 2025 um was a 91. Academic growth is one of those areas under school progress if you notice that we're going to continue to work on um in all of the areas. All right, the very last page um kind of breaks it down by test and exam. So if you want to take a look at how we performed overall um in each of our areas, it's broken down by um reading, math, science, and social studies. Um so for the district on all of our tests we had an 83% um at the approaches level at meets we had 55% of our students um meet that level and then 19% at our mast's level and then you can see the breakdown of GES GMS and ghs any question specifically [Music]
026Does it help to track these over like track of co work over time instead of just looking at these as a snapshot? >> It does and that's where star the challenging part starts is year over year growth and not through your growth. We really want to capture through your growth. So we're going to be reporting a lot of NWA math scores and you'll see the beginning, middle, and end. And you'll see student growth that way. But yes, we'll track this cohort as it progresses. But keep in mind as they progress, there's different teachers, different factors, so many variables. But you'll see that that cohort that's low will stay low and we'll try to grow and we'll show you that or we'll show you that stacking. We haven't grown and we got to try to figure
027out why. That's definitely one thing we look at. Great question. You definitely want to, you know, the the goal is always individual student growth and, you know, the students taking ownership of that and, you know, us helping them learn to set goals for themselves. You know, we want each kid to be able to grow to their ability. So, this is an overall um grading, but our goal is to dig down um and help each kid get to their full potential. On a side note, um I know that we talked a while back about the lasso grant and we didn't get that in the first round. Um but we actually at the end of June uh were approved and so that's something that we're working towards this year. So we're going to be focusing specifically on
028math um this year. That's awesome. >> Any other questions? Let's go ahead and have Eric come on first. All right. [Music] So, I took a page out of Mrs. Qu's book and have some visuals for you guys to follow along with. Um, our enrollment as of today is 491. Our attendance for the first 7 days was 97.37. I also noted the Friday attendance of 94.8 there as well. That's something that we'll we'll track throughout the year um as we meet as a calendar committee and review 4 day. We knew that was a possible thing that might help our attendance not coming out Fridays. So that's something we'll continue to look at elementary. Um, we opened a brand new camp campus as we talked about the room cutting. It takes I mean it takes a village
029to raise a child and it sure takes a village to open a campus and I mean things are going off without it really um from the the user end of things the experience that kids got day one was phenomenal. I thank everyone that had a hand in that because it really took everybody coordinating. Thank Dr. Enos as well for coming in and helping secure some things, some loose ends that that were left and getting it done to make a quality safe uh experience for the first day. Um, Mrs. H did a great job talking about accountability ratings, but I definitely wanted to brag on my campus a little bit in this area. Um, so I have I have a different maybe a different view than she had for you guys in terms of the history
030of accountability ratings for GES uh from when the individual campus letter grades started coming out in 2019. And so that shows you the overall grades. So GES had the highest uh highest overall score in the history of accountability system. Um so that's a huge celebration. Uh also uh our student growth was an or sorry student achievement was an A and our academic growth which is really me and Suzanne's focus is growing kids was the highest that it's ever been out of 92. So you know we firmly believe that if we focus on growing kids the achievement is going to take care of itself if we do it consistently year in and year out. also closing the gaps. Um, that's that's the federal category. That's the 30% that was the highest ever in GS history and
031that has to do with all of our different demographics regardless of your circumstance or walk of life that you come from and make sure that we're growing all of our kids. So, that was another celebration. Also, we didn't have any staff turnover except for a new principal from 23 24 25. Um, so you know, we didn't do a lot in terms of mandating curriculum or or really even digging into vertical alignment a whole lot and Suzanne's focus this year. So you say, how do you go from a D to an A in one year with the same people? Um, I rely heavily on Mrs. Bracken in terms of putting people in the right spots. One, two, really focusing on uh building a safe, supportive, and collaborative culture. We have tons of veteran teachers. good great
032teachers. And so our philosophy is to remove obstacles for them um and and encourage them to take risks, try different things, and communicate as a team and share ideas. And so that's really all we did in year one. Um we're really excited about the vertical alignment planning that we have cuz that's really just going to bolster that all the way prek through 5 now. Um and so that's going to help us raise that relative performance. Um, I feel very strongly about that. And then I also included our spaghetti with hot dog. Third grade did that um where they um did a little study and then we got to bring that to life and and have the kids come and try something different uh kind of outside the norm and the kids always get a kick
033out of that one. So I wanted to include that as well. Uh Dr. kind of covered our uh facilities updates. So, we're going to be getting swing sets for each playground, which we're very excited about, a climbing structure, another climbing structure for each playground. Um, as well as basketball goals for the the big hit as well. So, that's all that I don't think you probably need to put in for it. So, this is we have money for that. Thank you. [Music] >> Okay. So, um I heard you guys just a little postcard just greetings from our middle school. Um we are off to a strong start. We like Dr. said we have 281 kiddos. Um 80 in sixth grade, 93 in 7th and 108 in eighth. Um so that's our highest student population right now
034in 8th grade. Um also want to talk about um accountability ratings um as it pertains to the middle school. Um we are also extremely excited about vertical alignment and our staff development days that will be added in with the um 40 week. Um, we have all singletons on our campus and we also have a large number of coaches. Um, and those PD days are just going to make collaborative planning so much easier for our campus. So, I'm thrilled um to be incorporating that for next school year. Um, we also started tire home rooms. So, every kiddo is placed in a teacher's classroom for tire time. And, uh, we still have grab and go breakfast. So, those athletes can still get food during that time. U, but they're going to be doing prescriptive tutoring, enrichment activities.
035Um we'll also be with those failures that we did have, we'll be pulling them to do that um mandatory uh tutoring for them remediation, but um or that accelerated instruction um but also just really focusing on our math scores and looking at the growth. We had tons of growth last year. So we just need to harness that into that one day test um and you know figure out why we're kind of missing the mark on that. Um but we have a plan in place and we're super excited about it. Um, we have staff this year that are incredible. We've had staff that are incredible, great teachers. Um, so it's just giving them time and giving them time to collaborate and prepare for the for the year. So, we're very excited about that. Um, I put
036some quotes on the back just of kiddos and teachers about what they're excited about for this school year. Um, there's a lot of excitement just having fifth grade no longer on our campus. I miss those teachers and I miss those kids, but it's just kind of a lighter feeling at the middle school. If you come by, the lunchroom isn't as crowded and um we just have some more space to spread out. We've got to utilize the fifth grade wing and put some STEM classes and some STC class expanded down there. So, we've got to do a lot of things with that wing of the school that we're we're, you know, gearing up for and hoping that we can utilize. >> Thank you guys. [Music] I don't have a fancy postcard. Sorry. Enrollment 9th grade our
037enrollment was 108. 10th grade is 113. 11 92 and 12th grade is 77. So our seniors are our lowest class by far. I think um looking down in the in the younger levels, I I doubt we have any under 100 going forward. So, um it was total was 390. We did lose a couple today. Um so, we're at 388 as of 4:00 today, but I don't anticipate, you know, you'll have some coming, you'll have some go. So, we're going to hope around that number 380 390 all year. So um wanted to highlight our AP lit our AP lang teacher was coach coach Blesison. She was a first year teacher last year knowing head first in the classroom. She was unbelievable. You'll ask her about coaching or her or teaching and she's a teacher first. Um
038which all of our coaches I I feel that think the same way. But she uh she took that on first. It's not a a lang if it's taught correctly is a more difficult subject than your build credit courses. She took it on head first. She loved it. And so I'm just going to read a little bit about her. The AP lane scores in 2024. We had 15% of our kids pass in 2024. And I think we uh I should have written it down, but I think we had 30 something that tested that year. Um this past year, she had 52.8% of her first two months pass. Her lift in 2024 was 64% and then this past year was 89%. So she's done an incredible job in in those classrooms. She's retained all those juniors that
039have come back to take that senior level. So, um, we're very blessed to have her in the classroom. Great. I know as H touched on this a while ago about the ratings, but I'll also want to go back and preface in 2022, there was a pink coding error, right? >> And so, if you look at relative performance, you look where we are, probably the the score would have probably been somewhere in the low 80s at that point. And so, what Dr. greenhouse has been pushing and what we look at is I want to see the growth from 23 to now and our continued growth and so that was what was exciting to me as I saw and looked at our reports from 20 23 24 and 25 is the continuous growth um and that is
040due and I know Mr. was touched on this as well is getting the people in the right position. Um we do have the best teachers and I think you just got to find what seat they need to be in and let them go. And so I think we've done a good job with that and I think um it's going to continue to uh to grow. So we're we're super excited about that. But I want to shout out to our our kids and our and our teachers as well. So this is a little interesting. I was going to touch on this. You know, everybody was concerned about the cell phone man. Um, our kids obviously know before they even got to us. We went over it. It has probably been the best start to a school
041year that we've had. It's very interesting cuz typically in the high school high school cafeteria during lunch, it's pretty quiet cuz they got their hair, their phone, they're doing their thing. This time they can be on it. Come in our cafeteria. Now, we might have connect four games with big go no cards. Um, we had kids making animals and you don't typically see that. They're on the high school and high school games. interact with each other, the social aspect of it. I think overall they're just happier kids to be honest with you. And so that's been an element that's changed. It's been pretty exciting for us to see. So get a chance, swing by and do their place with them, but I'll say that's during lunchtime's not here. I'm also going to give a shout
042out to Stephen Michael, Miss Florenceini as well. They initiated one. It is not a small feat in the two or three districts that we've done that. It is a meeting. um they rolled it out so efficiently. Our kids, they were in and out, got them, didn't miss much class time, and so now our kids are being able to utilize Google Classroom, their dual credit courses. So, they did an amazing job. I I wouldn't want that that job, but they did a tremendous job with it. So, it's once again, I like to thank them for that. And then also, Stephen uh has put brand new computers in all of our CTE labs. He told me today that they can run whatever we're probably going to throw out even in the future as we grow our CT
043program or computer programs. Um there's some pretty uh high-tech machines. So we're excited about that. Past week highlights our students and teachers. I appreciate the first couple days, first three days. It's not about the curriculum being the first two or three days. You've got a new set of faces coming into your classroom. The main thing that we need to focus on is building relationship with those kids. Um, and so it was exciting to see all the different um, daily activities and ice breakers and stuff that our teachers were doing with our kids to get to know. And so I think that just lays the foundation from the beginning that the relationship, you know, we care about the kids as a person more than what we're worried about. Obviously, we're worried about the educational end of
044it, but if they don't trust us and don't believe that what we're doing is in their best interest, then we're not going to get much out of them in that end. So, um, really pushed that the first few days. Uh, football traveled with Bishop Lynch last week for scrimmage. Each one of our teams competed very well and so I'm excited for another successful year. I think it's going to be a fun run with a bunch of young kids. Volleyball traveled to Nunville. They had their first tournament of the year. They went 4 and2, got into the gold bracket, but they're playing five and 68 teams as we do. Um, you'll know you'll know this. We we go compete against the best because it's going to prepare us for the long run. So, uh, this week
045upcoming events, we have volleyball tomorrow versus Aubrey at home starting at 5 JBs. Um, they're in a volleyball in the tournament at Farmersville from the 21st through 23rd. The times will be released on that pretty soon. And then we have a football scrimmage this Thursday at Ben Austin starting at 6 p.m. That's all I've got for you. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Next, we have a updated facility rental and usage handbook on page 17. We're starting standards that way people who want to use our facilities know what our expectations are. And that way they know what the fees are right up front. And so it's it's good that we update handbooks like this just so that we're good partners with our community should they want to use our facilities now. They
046know what's expected, how much it will cost. That's there to take with you and read over as you would like. And then we have our attendance procedures manual next. Similar similar to the uh facilities, we just need to make sure we have standards. That way everybody knows exactly what time we're doing, what what is an absence, what's you know what's excused, what's unexcused, uh what is the state allow us to allow students to just go for and not have to dock on the day. And so all that's listed through here and that is available I believe it's our website. All right. Yeah, it's available to the community on our website that starts on page 27 and goes all the way through to the end. Can't read the number because there's something on here. So, those
047are the two handbooks I wanted to review tonight. Then we have upcoming meetings and events. September 15th, board meeting 6 p.m. at the middle school. We have, as I said earlier, homecoming week in the tailgate. And then we have board meeting scheduled for October, November, and December all at the middle school, October 20th, November 17th, and the 15th of December. All good. Um item five is the board member report and the only thing to report on is Natalie Bernard has submitted her resignation and family have moved down to Austin. So we'll talk about that executive session likely resation as of now she's submitted her resignation. Item six is consent agenda. Um does anyone wish to pull or discuss those items individually? [Music] Can I can I do a highlight real quick? If you look at
048C, it's 10,000 donation from McDaniel heat. I just like to make sure that everybody's aware who's donating funds to our ISD. They don't do for the recognition. God knows they do it because they want to help our school district, but I'd like to make sure we shout them out. So, real quick, um C on here is $10,000 donation from McDaniel Heat and Air. And that was done for that cheerleading room that was put in by over the summer. And so we purchased it and they bought it back from us to donate. And then also Bobby Wilson um as a parent gave $2,200 to the girls basketball team. Is that right? Girls basketball team. And I don't know what specifically was for, but we appreciate that. Question motion to accept the agend. [Music] All those in
049favor say I. I. Any >> oppose? Pass. Regular business. Item 7A. consider approval to delegate authority to obligate the school district under TEC chapter 49 to the superintendent. So we are considered a property wealthy district. In that there are some uh obligations that we have throughout the year that we need to decide with tea. Are we going to buy attendance credits? Are we going to um settle up and give them money separately our money that comes in the e funds? And so we have to make all those decisions and they require you to obligate me to do that on your behalf. And so that's what this is. It's just you saying yes, I can act the best interest of the ISD alongside Alice to make those decisions. So I have to get approved after present.
050Any questions, comments? [Music] A motion for item 7 A second. Got a motion second. All those in favor say I. You 7B consider approval to add superintendent Dr. Brenyos says a sign to all the more national bank accounts. >> I ask you present to accept that as present make a motion to a motion second. All those in favor say I. >> I posted item 7 C consider approval of House Bill 3 goals board monitoring calendar. If you look at page of your board book, you'll see that we need to adopt the goals next month. And then after that, there's a continuous monitoring calendar year for you. And every year we will present a calendar to you. So that way you can see academic growth where it matters most. And that's preK through third grade. And
051so we will be sharing out I say we on principles we'll be sharing out the academic growth of the item that's listed by you. So we don't share the whole thing every month. We take bite-sized pieces and tell you for the whole year here's what we're going to do or here's what we did do and here's the growth we see. And so next month you'll see a whole bunch of numbers. I'll explain it to you that we have the third grade goals and we have sub goals for prek then kinder and then first and second are grouped together. So you'll see lots of goals next month, but we'll discuss those more then. Okay? >> And then you'll see they go 5 years. So we'll approve the goals for 5 years. And after about 3 years
052or four years, we'll go ahead and not wait till they go out. We'll go ahead and renew the goals so that we can extend them and have continuous improvement. So tonight, I ask that you would approve the monitoring calendar for our school board academic growth goals. Take a motion for item 7C. I'll make a motion to approve. Got a second. Second. We got a motion second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 7D, consider approval of an ELLL waiver for GISD first grade teacher. So each of our teachers have to be ELLL certified because we have a push in program, not a full out. So we ask that our teachers provide services for our English language learners in classroom. If we don't have that provided then we have to do a
053waiver for the state allows it for a year. That teacher is currently getting their their ELLL certification. So for this year we ask that you approve a waiver so we can submit it to TPA. I'm not any questions. I'd ask that you approve that as presented. >> Second motion second. All those in favor say I. Uh any opposing motion carry? Item 7B consider approval to adopt a resolution to establish non-b businessiness days for public information act. We get 10 non-b businessiness days for pas every year. And if you'll look on page 67 and 68, you'll see the 10 days highlighted that we selected. And we do this so that whenever we're on breaks for things like Thanksgiving or Christmas or spring break, those days don't add up while we're not even seeing the BIA request
054cuz whether we're here or not, we have to respond in so many days. >> So that's what this is here for. If any questions, I'd ask you to approve this as presented. >> Got a motion. Second motion second. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Item 7F, consider approval of region 10 contract service for 25 to 26. If you look at page 69 and 70 of your handout, you'll see that the total amount is of contracted services with region 10 for the school year is $92,81146. It includes every item here except for the one that's on the second page that says no by it. that was omitted and we've entered contracts with region 10 to provide the services that you see listed here for that amount. So I'm asking uh for you to approve
055the amount that we'll expend for these services and then amount $19,81146. Any questions? I'd ask them to approve it. Questions? Take a motion. Make a motion to approve. Second. Got a motion. Second. All those in favor say I. >> I. All post. Motion carries. 7G. Consider approval of the memory of understanding with the juvenile just education program. So we don't often send someone to JJ A. It has to be a very serious offense. However, if we don't go ahead and uh enter into a memorandum of understanding, then if we have to send somebody, the the cost is astronomical and will quickly exceed the $7,500 this cost us for one person. >> We only exceed it for one person. This right here, $7,500, but then we pay $120 a day. Uh but it's astronomical we don't
056have it. So we enter this agreement so that way should we have a student commit one of the most egregious crimes and send them there that we can quickly get them on the campus and not have a financial obligation cause it. So I'd ask you this question. >> Is it still set up that if we don't use it in year one year two they wait? >> I have no idea. I can look and get back to you. I'll find out. I believe that >> I didn't I did not see that inou But I can find out what it's very likely, right? >> We have it that's come up like well, but yeah, check. I don't think it changed the fact that we need it, right? It's there insurance policy. Yeah, >> we'll reach out and
057we'll have an answer to you as soon as they let me know. >> She approve as presented. Second motion second. All those in favor say I. I. 7H consider a nonchapter 21 contract list for policy DC. We got we removed some of the uh faculty and staff that were co-op that was on our list because we're not the fiscal agent any longer from this. And then we added the director of maintenance and operation to the list. And that's on page 81. Those are the changes on here. This needs to be approved by the by the board annually. So I ask that you would approve the list as listed there on page 81. Slow motion. Got a motion. A second. Dr. Harris got a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppos 7? I
058consider approval of the 2526 compensation package. Okay. Alice did a great job on this. Thank you very much, M. Re. Look on page 82. Uh, that's where it starts. 85, excuse me, is the teacher salary schedule. You'll see there's an extra column in there now for the TRS. That's the teacher uh retention aotment. It's listed separately on here cuz it's funded every year, every other year by the legislature. If they change the funding amounts, we want to quickly as an ISD be able to change that here in this column and it's clear to everybody that wasn't something we did. Whether it's increase or decrease, that's something the same us. So that's why it's listed separately. The amounts in here are pretty much the same except for the step raises were given to 0 1 and
059two years of experience. We went ahead and gave them the step raises >> so they got something and then the four and $8,000 of those a year. You'll turn the page the librarian schedule was increased by was the 1,600. Is that right? >> So it was not changed. It was to say the district based, but the library was they did receive the $1,000. >> So, >> no change to that. >> No change. >> Just the way it looks a little bit. And then we have u the next several next two pages. You'll see that what we've done here is increased the the scale of each of these positions by $1,000 because you voted to give each one of these positions $1,000. And so they're still within the same scale at the same level. So their
060their potential earnings wasn't reduced by giving them the raise that we extended to them. Hope I explain that in a way that makes sense. >> And so take a minute to look at that and there are any questions go ahead and ask. If not, I'd ask that you approve this as we presented. I should mention that you'll see this come next year that we have to by House Bill 2 reduce your step 01 and two teachers if they're not certified already. Means that they're getting an alternative certification or they're getting emergency certification by TEA then we have to reduce their amount. It doesn't say by how much. It just says they have to make less than the teachers who are certified. >> So we'll have conversations over the next year how we want to do
061that and what it looks like here at work. Any questions? >> Motion move approval of the 3526 compensation package as presented. We got a second. We got a motion second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? [Music] 7J. Consider approval to adopt the adopt the 25.6 tax rate. >> The proposed rate was presented a couple months ago. Tonight we get to approve the proposed rate that has already been voted on. Um the INS rate that will pay our bonded debt is 48 cents. That was calculated with Alison uh region 10. And then our M rate of the M this is the maintenance operation rate is.7072. The total advalorum tax rate for the 2526 year would be 1.1872 for $100 valuation. So I ask that you would go ahead and adopt this tax rate for
062this year. Any discussion questions? >> Our our debt rate was the 51 cents, right? >> 50 cents. Mhm. So it came down 2 cents. All right. >> Would you like We can discuss that bill if you're curious. >> No, no, no. I I know you were talking about it. I'm good with that. It is less than a motion. Make a motion to approve the 2025 2026 tax rate. Pass second. Got a motion. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Passes. 7K. Consider approval to adopt. adopt the resolution regarding Senate in Paris. So the this last legisative session was all about removing some control from the local school districts. The nicest way to say one of those things is to just uh this list here you see 25 items that were in Senate Bill 12.
063A lot of them made sense. It's not only difficult for us to uh get through as a district, but we're going to do our very best and we're sending home all the communication that is required in this bill and everything, but one thing we have to do before the start of before September 1st is to adopt this resolution as an ISD saying that we will do these 25 things. We can read through each of them if you'd like to or if you've already read them ahead of time then we can adopt them as present any questions comments second. All those in favor say I opposed item 7K passes item eight. Um at this time the board will now turn to executive session pursuant to the following section of Texas meeting active government code section 55172
064discussing land 551.074 discussing personnel and 551.076 076 discussing safety. Time is 6:57.