001It is now 5:00 PM on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025. This meeting of the Clean Independent School District Board of Trustees is now called to order. The following trustees are present in participating. Susan Jones, vice president. Brenda Adams, secretary. Marvin Rainwater, board member. Oliver Mintz, board member. Tina Capedo, board member. Rodney Gilchrist, board member. and me, Brett Williams, president and presiding officer. For the record, a quorum has been established and is present. A recording of this meeting is being made and will be available to the public at a later date. We're also streaming this meeting on our cable channel 17 and on the district's web page. As a reminder, anyone wishing to speak at public form must submit their signup sheet at this time. Agenda item number one, public form. The board will now hear comments
002from those who signed up to speak. Per board policy, each public comment is limited to three minutes. I will ask the audience to please refrain from any public outburst and to maintain decorum. Parents, employees, and citizens are encouraged to utilize the district's grievance process to the fullest extent possible. Related policies are available on the district's website or upon request. Signed up to speak, I have Daniel Hayworth. Welcome. Thank you. um due to the growth of our our school and our our mission to make disciples for Jesus in our local community and provide a truly cost-effective option uh to our military population in our church which is over 75% military families. Um we set out to start to start a school that was a cost-effective specifically Christian disciplehaped disciplehip school. And so that's what we did
003and that's what we have. Um, one of the things that we've been searching and praying for over the past three years is a permanent facility for that school. We are at a 200 plus student capacity currently operating out of our church location here in Harker Heights, which is located right off of 439 and 3219. And one of the things that we've been praying specifically for is for an opportunity for us to move to a existing facility to avoid the cost of uh building from scratch. We've been raising funds specifically for this purpose as it will allow us to say yes to more families that are seeking a Christc centered education specifically in the community. That's the mission that we set out to accomplish three years ago. It's the one that I believe we've well achieved.
004The limiting factor for our school currently is just that we have simply run out of space. With the announcing of Eastern Hills Middle School specifically going to be closed, we have a great interest and would like to bring it to the attention of the board that we would like to be considered as a potential buyer or at least a leaser in the interim as the district tries to figure out what they're going to do with said property. Eastern Hills Middle School is located less than 5 minutes from our current location. would allow us as a school to continue to expand to serve the students that we believe God has called us to serve as well as provide an opportunity for the district to do something with a property that is either going to sit idle
005or eventually be sold off. And so I just wanted to bring that to the consideration of the board. We really believe uh that God has called us to help the families in the local area. for private schools. Uh we're a little over 50% of what the typical statewide average is for private school tuition because we know the areas that we live in. We want to serve. Uh we just want to help the families that are in our area that are seeking a Christian specific education. Um and we would love to be considered as the board weighs the potential uh outcomes of what could happen specifically with this property. Um, and if there's other properties that are within a close enough region that we wouldn't have to move our entire school across town, we would like
006to be considered for those as well. I thank the board for your time. >> Thank you. As we have no one else signed up for public forum, we're closing public forum and we'll now move into agenda item number two, close session. The board will now convene in close session for agenda item 2A, discussion of consideration of resolution of votes cast to directors for the tax appraisal district of Bale County for 2026 as allowed by Texas government code 551.074. Agenda item 2P 2B consultation with legal council regarding local innovation plan and district of innovation amendment process as allowed by Texas government code 551.071. Agenda item 2 C, consultation with the district's legal council regarding pending litigation, a settlement offer, or other issues confidential under attorney client privilege as allowed by Texas Government Code 551.071. Agenda item
0072D, deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property as allowed by Texas Government Code 551.072. Agenda item 2E, deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee as allowed by Texas Government Code 551.074. And agenda item 2F, deliberate a matter regarding a public school student in which personally identifiable information about the student will necessarily be revealed as allowed by Texas Government Code 551.0821. No voting will take place in close session. Any action the board wishes to take as a result of discussions in close session will take place after the board reconvenes in the open meeting. The time is now 5:06 p.m. and we are in close session and we'll go to the superintendent conference room. What time is it? The time is now 6:10 p.m. and
008we are reconvening from close session. No action or voting took place in close session. No action is needed. Um needed. We're now going to go to back to public form. Uh this meeting of the clean independent school district will resume in accordance with the posted agenda for today's meeting. Uh anyone who did not sign up for anyone who did not have the opportunity to speak during public form at 5:00 pm and wish to speak now must submit their signup sheet at this time. It has been the board's practice before each regular meeting to have an invocation and pledges of allegiance to United States flag and Texas flag. Tonight, the invocation will be led by Trustee Marvin Rainwater and the pledges will be led by Secretary Brenda Adams. Please stand. May we pray? Our father and
009our God, we're grateful to be here. We're grateful, Father, for the skills and the talent that you've given each person in the room and for the love that our parents and teachers have for the kids of KISSD. As we face so many challenges, God, we ask for your understanding and for your loving arms and guide us and direct us and help that everything we do may be to the honor and glory of God in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one indivisible. >> Thank you. You may be seated. A recording
010of this meeting is being made and will be available to the public at a later date. We're also streaming this meeting on our cable channel 17 and on the district's web page. Agenda item number three, public forum. The board will now hear comments from those who've signed up to speak. Per board policy, each public comment is limited to three minutes. I will ask the audience to please refrain from any public outburst and to maintain decorum. Parents, employees, and citizens are encouraged to utilize the district's grievance process to the fullest extent possible. Related policies are available on the district's website or upon request. For the record, we ask that all public form participants begin by stating their name and the city in which they reside. Once complete, your three minutes will begin. I have two individuals
011signed up to speak. And first, we have Beth Sudter. Hello, >> welcome. >> No, you're fine. >> Welcome. You're fine. >> Okay. Thank you. Am I okay to start? Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. My name is Beth Sudter and I am from Harker Heights. My children attend to Skipchaw. Um I have been here before and I hate to come back and nag and nag and nag. So I just want to preface this, but if there is a committee of people who talk about special needs stuff, I would love to be a part of that solution. I have ideas. I don't want to just nag. All right, I'm going to try to make it quick. Um yesterday the ambulance was called to skip chaw because my son that's nonverbal um with intellectual disability. He got his
012finger stuck in a toy is what they said when they called me and they couldn't get it off. I said okay did you call did you call 911? They said no. I said well do you think you should? They said uh yeah. Okay. So they called 911 after they called me. I got there after it was already off because I was across town and he's fine. Um and I asked them you know hey guys I'm really glad that y'all called me first. I appreciate the contact. Just please, if there's ever an emergency like this and you can't help him, I probably can't either. Just go on and call 911. And if anybody's mad at you for life saving or finger saving, that's their problem. You did the right thing. And then the principal's like, "Well,
013but that's not what happened." She said, "They wrote the phone simultaneously and she's doing this. They was calling 911 while they was calling you." And I'm just looking at her because I know that's not what happened. And this has happened multiple times, but thank God I had proof and a nurse with integrity today because that nurse said, "No, ma'am, that's not what happened. and what Miss Uter said is what happened, you know. So then she didn't really know what to say. And I'm like, y'all, we've had multiple multiple issues. I come up here a couple of times and I've seen that my son is in different clothes, which I understand there's accidents, but he's peeing through a nighttime diaper. How many times a day? And y'all are just washing his clothes here and not telling
014him when he's supposed to be on a potty schedule. We've got continual IEP problems that where we've had verbal agreements in the IEP that didn't actually get put in the IEP. And then when I keep asking about it, they're like, "Oh, well that's not what we said." It is cuz it's on recording. We record those IEP meetings. And oh gosh, there was another thing. I'm probably missing it. But the other thing is, y'all, I sat in a sixhour meeting on Friday with a man that I had to leave for assaulting me in front of my children. I got proof of that. um who bered me um non-stop, talked about things he shouldn't have. This meeting would not be stopped. I didn't even get to eat lunch. I didn't have time to go home to even
015get a lunch on the 30 break 30 minute break they did take. Nothing was resolved. Um the counselor didn't want to get involved and make a choice. So, they said they would table it. I left expecting it to be rescheduled. They went forward with the meeting and made decisions with my ex-husband who they told me and I have proof of that that they wouldn't even let him fill out the paperwork for that meeting because he only saw him one weekend in a month and they didn't feel like that was enough time to get correct information. But they let him stay and make the final decisions on these legal documents while I'm in a state of fight or flight trying to navigate not getting triggered by the abuse that's happening in the room. And that can't
016be in the best interest for my son to work that way. Y'all, thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> Next, we have Dena Vega. Did I pronounce that correctly? >> Welcome. >> Okay, so I'm Dina Vega. I'm from Harker Heights. So, I don't have a iPad or any Do I need to hit start or anything? Okay, there it goes. Um, I'm calling this afternoon. I have four children. Two of them have already graduated. Well, sort of graduated from Colleen ISD. I have two children who are currently enrolled in Ken ISD. Um, I'm a huge supporter of everything that you guys do, everything that you offer. Um, I definitely feel that KISSD has the most to offer students in the central Texas area. I work for Leander ISD and in comparison KISD just blows
017us out of the water. Um, with all that I advocate a lot for Colleen ISD. Um, community members aren't aware of how much we have and what their children are capable of achieving here. So today, for the last four months, my son has been calling Central Texas College. He was uh we thought he graduated with his associates degree in June. Um we found out today at 2:31 after 4 months of trying to get his associates degree from Central Texas College that he was a credit short. I don't know how it was missed in the graduation audit from CTC. I don't know how it was missed with the KISSD audit of his graduation. I have no idea. We have been calling for four months. My son called July August. He attempted to speak with Miss Turner
018numerous times. Two occasions he was able to contact her. She indicated that he was fine, that he would get his associates in a few weeks. It's typical. It takes a little bit of time. He emailed. He emailed. No response. September, he says, "Mommy, I don't know what else to do. I try calling. She won't speak with me cuz my son wasn't with me." I understood. We call together numerous times. At that point, she's unavailable. She's not able to speak with us. Okay. I called Dr. Hodgeges. Dr. Hodgeges, I was never able to communicate with her personally. Spoke with her secretary. They would investigate it. They would notify me. This is September. I call again. I call again. I'm calling weekly. I get no response. Today, I finally get a hold of Dr. Hodgees. I get
019with the secretary. She tells me, "Ma'am, I need to get with Dr. Hodgeges. I'm running out of time, so I'm going to rush it up." found out today he's short of credit. We have two days to get him enrolled in something. Here's the problem. My son has been pending this associates degree because he secured a position with a firehouse that would pay him a salary because he had his associates degree. He doesn't have it. Documents are due November 30th. tonight he would be here but he was a finalist for the Negret Foundation firefighter foundation scholarship which will pay his tuition and his fees for this fire academy. My son is now at a loss and I never once got communication from anyone. >> Thank you. Mr. Harper, I want to confirm there's no one else
020signed up for for public comment. Uh, so there's no one else signed up for public forum. So, we're closing public forum and prior to going to agenda item number four, information items for discussion. The board is going to take a brief five minute recess. Okay. Okay, the time now is 6:26 p.m. and we're coming back from a 5m minute recess which started at 6:21 p.m. We'll now go to agenda item number four, information items for discussion. Item number A, discussion of proposed district academic calendar for the 2026 2027 school year. Welcome, Mr. Baker. >> Good evening, President Williams, Dr. Davis, board members. Thank you so much. It's that time of year where we're going to bring forth to you a proposed calendar for the next school year. As you know, the Texas legislature requires us
021to have uh 75,600 minutes of instruction per year. Uh we have put together two draft calendars. Let me briefly describe to you our process. First, we ask for volunteers to be on a uh advisory committee. We put that committee together and we start holding our first meetings in August right as we start this school year. And uh through that process they put together some drafts. They we they bring it to various committees including uh our senior staff, our cross divisional meetings. Uh we we go back and forth and share ideas and then come together with a a consensus. Uh we take that consensus uh to two committees. We take it to a sitebased decision-making committee uh made up of representatives from across the districts in various different uh jobs. We also take it to our
022uh DEAC and they give us feedback on these final calendars. And then our last step is we we narrow it down to two drafts and we put those drafts out for vote which we have just completed. Uh we have an option A and B. You should see those in their notes. They're very similar because uh what we look for is we when we when we get our um uh feedback from our our stakeholders, we we try to look at what uh folks really want in the calendar and and we kind of ranked order that. And what we uh collected from folks is that students and staff want to observe the federal holidays. That was top in mind. They they really care about those federal holidays. They want to start after August 1st. uh they want
023their full week of uh break at Thanksgiving. They love the fall break and the spring break, of course, having those weeks off. We did want to shift some beginning of the year August training uh and spread out those P date PD days through the year. Uh that's important for our folks and learning services to help uh uh make sure the instruction is up to par and people are getting the proper training. folks like to be out before Memorial Day and then uh um they they like that last day of the contract to be for Memorial Day. I do want to say throughout this whole process, we're constantly in uh communication with our partners at Fort Hood uh and always make sure that they're okay with the drafts that that we are presenting and we also
024like to get feedback from them as well. So, we put together the drafts, we put them out for vote. You'll see AB. They're very similar and uh mainly the main difference is is a PD day in on February 12th um or to make that day an instructional day. We did want to add some extra minutes um because we know we have bad weather days and sometimes if you don't have enough cushion there for the minutes uh the bad weather can can u uh be problematic and forcing us pro possibly to have to add a date to the calendar. we don't want to do that. So, we built in some more instructional time to make sure we have a good enough buffer and we also um talked about increasing some of the professional development. So, uh
025with that said, with the vote, it was pretty close. It was 49% to 51%. We had about 1500 votes. Um I will say that onampus staff voted 53 to 47 for option B and our teachers voted 55 to 45 for for option B. So we are going to propose uh that we accept option B. Of course if you have any questions for me now I'd be glad to answer them. >> Questions from trustees. >> Madame vice president. So option A gives us the extra minutes for our fallback positions if we ne we need them. Is that correct? >> Option A gives us more extra minutes. Both calendars give us extra minutes. >> I know. But 76,580 versus 76,536. >> Correct. >> So I would think for the benefit of our students that option A would
026be more educational opportunities. If we do option A, we'll add three minutes to the school day. Uh that is and that is correct. That's just basic math that you're pointing out. We will get a few more minutes uh if we add. However, they're very close. There's only a difference of about 40 or so minutes between both options. >> Thank you, >> Madam Capito. >> So, and I apologize. So, calendar A and B, it was the committee that made those votes or we put it out to everyone? >> Yes, we put out both options out to the But we had gotten tons of feedback. We had originally started with several different options and we went back and forth with several committees, got stakeholder feedback from several different groups as we made the calendars and came to
027kind of consensus with option A and option B. Because to me, I think I'm favoring option A and not looking at minutes or any of that is the PD days is six versus five when I hear the leadership staff talking about that they need PD days. We have teachers who are coming into our system who are not certified or that we have teachers that are coming into the system and we're needing to grow our own with new curriculum and different alternative certifications that we need the PD days. And so I just want to make sure that we're being supportive of the staff who is wanting to help improve our teachers. I understand people don't always like PD days. I've been a teacher. I've been there. Um, but we know that they are beneficial and we
028need to provide that for them. Really, I was hoping to see a few more than just six days because if we have these gaps, our schools are needing and we need to grow these teachers so that we are getting good quality instruction um for that tier one. >> I'm sure Dr. Kraton would agree. Madam Secretary, >> so with the additional minutes in option A and the um adding of three minutes to the day, would that impact transportation at all? >> Yes. And we uh uh but and I don't want Mr. Heckenberg wants to speak to that. >> We would make the adjustments for transportation. Obviously, there would be changes, but in terms of significant impact, no. It would just adjust our bus schedule accordingly for for the remaining for the following year. >> Mr. Mintz,
029Mr. Baker, as I read this, it looks like we've option A gives us about less than an hour more over a year. Yes. So, not a substantial amount. And we've traded an instructional day for a PD day. >> Correct. >> Okay. All right. Thanks. >> Any other comments from trustees? Mr. Mr. Renwater anything >> is my understanding staff wanted option >> no staff vote well bar it was split it was pretty much split but option B in the end won 51 to 49 >> the vote classroom teachers was 5545 for option B >> any other feedback back trustees, Dr. Davis, my only question would be and and exactly I just view the calendar as a planning tool for for the uh staff and I just I just want to make sure we have a calendar
030that puts us in the best position to maximize student achievement, you know, and that's whether that's more professional development days or more time in the classroom. I I leave that up to you and your team, but I would just hope that the calendar does reflect that. Not doubting that, but that's just my my stance on it's a decision for staff in my opinion. Yeah, that is certainly at the forefront of our our minds. And so, please, if y'all need to chime in, uh certainly we had some discussions regarding. Obviously, there's there's a few ways you attack uh PD, professional development. Obviously, you have to frontload teachers. There are certain things teachers need to uh you know, partake in professional development prior to receiving children, frontloading, so to speak. And then there's also critically important that
031we have ongoing staff development. It's not a one-stop shop. You don't train teachers and then you abandon them. That you have to continue that throughout the course of a school year to check in to ensure um and so again team if y'all feel like you need to provide more more context with that. But uh I feel confident going forward again we can live with either calendar I believe but but please u add any context if you may. >> Thank you sir. We would most certainly always favor the opportunity to increase the capacity of our teaching professionals in the classroom. Um, which would be more instru I'm sorry, more professional development time. Uh, one of the challenges you see in the third quarter of the calendar option B is that we would be relaunching the spring
032semester. of course coming back with day uh January 4th and 5th to have an opportunity to support relaunching spring and we would not have a touch point for formal professional development again until the Friday before spring break. What often happens on the Friday before spring break is that professionals take that day off. Um, so then we would perhaps be going three or four months without having a touch point that we formalized in our calendar for professional development. Any other feedback from the leadership team on calendar? Dr. Kraton and >> you all know I always want more opportunities to build teacher capacity. Um option B also gives us an additional day of instruction for students. So, we were really torn between do we pro provide the additional time with the 168 days on option B or
033do we provide the additional day of professional development for teachers on option A. Um, as Dr. Davis mentioned, we can work with whichever calendar the board approves. We too just want to put students and teachers in the best position to learn as much as they possibly can implement that. give us an opportunity to do the observation and feedback cycle so that we can see that what they've learned has actually been implemented throughout the course of the school year and then be able to give them that just in time feedback to plan what our next professional development sessions would be. >> Any other comments from trustees or from staff? >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Baker. We'll now go to item B, which is discussion of the clean independent school district tax role for tax year
0342025. Welcome, Miss Fden. >> Thank you. The Texas Property Tax Code requires that the board of trustees officially accept the tax role each year. The appraisal value which is determined by the Bell County tax appraisal district along with our tax rate that was adopted in in August constitutes the tax role. The levy was received from the Bell County Appraisal District on October 27th. the uh freeze adjusted values from the appraisal district totaled $12.1 billion um of which we would apply our tax rate. Then there's an additional frozen uh taxes that are going to be collected at 1.2 million uh to give us a total levy of 107.7 million. Uh this represents a 4.2% decrease from the prior year's levy. Um, obviously due to the increase in homestead exemption and over 65 exemptions, uh, this does
035not take into account the 321 early payment discount that the district offers. Um, and it does not take into account any refunds and assumes 100% collection. Um, since it is a decrease, I do want to remind you that we are funded primarily based on ADA and so fluctuations in this tax appraisal value and the collections um, do not have a big impact to the district one way or the other. Um, we will look at the funding period each time and make any adjustments as we do go through the budget process. Um and just would ask that you um at the next meeting would approve the tax role of 107.7 million. >> Questions from trustees? Madame vice president. >> Any issues with this being placed on the consent agenda for the November 18th meeting. >> Thank
036you, Mr. We'll now go to C. discussion of House Bill 1481, student use of personal communication devices and implementation of elementary school cell phone lockers. Welcome, Mr. Wells. >> Good evening, Mr. President, Dr. Davis, members of the board. Here with you tonight to discuss a potential adjustment to our student code of conduct and some of our procedures, especially at the elementary school level where it uh impacts personal communication devices. A couple things I want to talk about tonight. Never turn it on, Mer. >> There we go. Uh, a couple things we want to discuss tonight is a review of the House Bill 1481, just to make sure we're all on the same page, the possible amendment to the student code of conduct. Uh, show you the lockable personal device cabinets that we would be be
037providing at the elementary schools, and then the timeline for implementation. So, as we know, uh, this summer in the 89th legislative session, uh, House Bill 1481 was passed. This is the bill that requires that all public schools prohibit the use of personal communication devices during school hours. We were doing this at the secondary level uh through the use of the yawner pouches. As we know, we did not have a method to prohibit that use at the elementary school. So, what we adopted back in August on page 12 of our student code of conduct states that the elementary school students shall not bring or use a personal device communication device while at school during the day. The second part of this on page 12 addresses the secondary students and it says secondary students shall not use
038a personal communication device including cell phone smartwatch while on property and it shall be stored in accordance with the method of storage established by the district. These are both reflected in exhibit B later in the student code of conduct. What we're what I'm asking tonight is to is for your consideration is to simplify and consolidate this into one statement uh where we say all students shall not use a personal communication device while at school. Um and this and the device shall be stored in accordance with the method of storage established by the district. So we've taken the elementary section and the secondary section and combined it into one. In order to do that, we have to develop a a system of storing those devices for the elementary school students. And so what we have here
039uh this is what we would uh present and pro uh propose to change the wording on page 57 which is in that exhibit B in the student code of conduct uh towards the end. And what we want to say is that elementary students are not permitted to use personal communication devices such as cell phones or other non-schoolissued devices during the school day. All devices must be turned off and placed in the designated storage container in the classroom. Devices will be returned to the students at the end of the school day or when the student is signed out. So, I brought an example of what that uh storage device looks like. It is a lockable cabinet and it has full slots inside that are numbered so that the teacher can organize and make sure that the
040student right student gets their uh device back at the end of the school day. It does have a lock on it so there's keys that come with each cabinet. It does have a handle. It's not mounted in the classroom so it's it's kind of uh low impact on our classroom environments. Um, and we're able to then if we need to take these with us at the end of the school day. Uh, the teacher then is able to open the cabinet, hand the cell phone back to that elementary student, and they can go on their way. We did get some feedback from families after the start of the school year, especially elementary school families, that their students do use these cell devices for tracking, knowing where their students are, going uh to and from school, um
041when they get off the bus, making sure they know where they are at, what communicating with them, they call home, especially if the parents aren't there to to greet them at the end of the day. So, we do know it is important to have this available to students and let them bring these devices to school. uh but we have to stay compliant with with this house bill and make sure that the students do not have access to them throughout the school day. These cabinets would give us the ability to do that. The timeline for implementation uh we would like to come back uh for final approval on November 18th. Um November 19th then we would begin distributing the cabinets to the classrooms uh to each elementary school uh one for each classroom. And then that
042way when we come back after the Thanksgiving holiday, we would have the cabinets ready for use and in full implementation across the district. >> Any questions for Mr. Wells? Madam Vice President? >> Mr. Wells. Um, that cabinet, it looks awesome, but it's also if it's not secured to a established um premise in the classroom, it'd be so easy for somebody to walk off with that. I mean, I I'm just I mean, you have thousand cell phones in there, you know, and you have 30 of them or 22 of them. Um, it just be easy to be walked off with. though I would be more comfortable if that cabinet was secured in the classroom somehow to a mounted fixture. >> They they do have the ability to mount them to the wall. Um there are cabinets
043that are available. The the purchase price on these cabinets was $85 per per cabinet. When you step into something like that, uh it goes to more than $1,000 per per cabinet. >> No, I'm fine with the cabinet. I'd just prefer it be mounted opposed to just sitting on a pedestal or something. >> Sitting on Correct. Okay. >> It wouldn't get knocked over. It wouldn't It just be secured. >> We can look at look at how we could do that. >> Yeah, man. We can easily secure like by like secure chains to secure it, but still be able to remove it from the classroom in the emergency. That way we can pick the locker up and move out instead of taking off the wall. So, there's several ways we can secure it to meet that intent,
044but still be able to use these lockers. Sure, Madam Capito. >> He just addressed it. I was more concerned if we need to evacuate if it was mounted, how would we get out of the building with those devices? And so he just addressed it. >> Any other feedback for Mr. Wells from trustees? >> Mr. Rainwater, clean her so he'll get a good picture of it. >> Absolutely. You want to do it now or we can go outside do a photo shoot outside if you like the coach? So everybody's good with this recommendation coming back on the 18th. Doesn't call for a consent agenda, but I'm pro consent agenda. So does anyone have any issues with this being on the consent agenda or do we want Mr. Wells to come back and brief it again and
045show off the due philosophy on the 18th? >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wells. We appreciate it. We'll now go to D which is discussion of board policy ELA local campus or program charter charter partnership. Dr. Osborne welcome. I brought my water up here in advance. Good evening, President Williams, Board of Trustees, Dr. Davis. This is the first of three presentations that I have this evening, but fret not. No, don't even. Yeah, it's okay. I will be brief. Um, this first presentation takes us back one week to our approval of our op district optimization plan. As you recall, we are moving forward with the 1882 or Texas partnership with an entity will determine moving forward. But at Mayor Middle School, um, one of the first steps of course that we must take is the charter authorization
046process which requires us to adopt board policy ELA local. I think I have a slide for you. Okay, thank you so much. As you can see in your board packet, you have a draft of that policy for adoption moving forward. Um, this is an abridged version of the policy so that we don't have to go through it. Um, that policy includes the talking points or areas specific to the purpose of a charter partnership, application and authorization process, performance contracts, accountability and oversight. Of course, that is the key area for the board. That is where you would be stepping in and doing the accountability and oversight for a partner. Um the partner's autonomy and the necessary intervention if they're not meeting those areas that you outlined. And then the process for renewal and closure. As you
047recall, all of that information should sound a lot like my charter authorization process that I disclosed and described on I believe October 21st. This is the formal policy. Um, I also just want to remind the board this is a model policy from TEA. So, there are very few changes in that policy other than the identifiers for our school district. There was very few that we even had the authority to update or address. Next slide. So the recommendation from the administration is to move forward with this adoption of the policy in effort to move towards our charter authorization process. >> Questions from trustees for Dr. Osborne. >> What agenda. I'm sorry, Mr. Ray. >> I'm sorry. I may be one item ahead, but I thought I read somewhere in this that uh when these guys came
048in, they took complete control of our our budget monies. that is >> was that on a later u it's not covered today but there is a section within the policy about performance contracts and within the performance contract that is when the negotiations and non-negotiables will be outlined. >> Yes sir. >> Any other questions from trustees? >> Dr. Dr. Osborne, what agenda are we tracking for? >> My request would be consent agenda as it's a model policy and had very few changes >> and has been uh looked at by TASBY. Thank you, Mr. Harper. >> For November 18. >> Yes, sir. >> Any issues with this being on the consent agenda for November 18. >> Okay. Excuse me. Thank you. We'll now go to agenda item E which is discussion of clean independent school district charter
049authoriz charter authorizer mission and vision statements. Dr. Osborne. >> Again, in line with our charter charter authorization process, one of the key steps um to be eligible for 1882 benefits when we apply in March, as well as to set the stage and standard for the charter authorization process is to establish a clear mission and vision. Um, we looked at a couple of models from TEA as well as looked at iterations in senior staff of best fits for our district. Um, so these this is the option that we're bringing forward to adopt as our formal vision and mission statement. Um, I'll go ahead and read the one on the left. Through charter authorization, Colleen ISD envisions a dynamic system of public schools where innovation, quality, and opportunity ensure every student thrives in a high performing performing
050learning environment. That would be our vision for charter authorization. And on your right hand side, that would be our mission. Through charter authorization, Colleen ISD is committed to ensuring all students have access to highquality, innovative schools by approving and holding accountable charter partnerships that elevate learning, expand opportunities, and optimize facilities across the district. You'll note in these statements that there is nothing that speaks to turnaround partnerships. Um, I do want to remind the board and remind the public that charter authorization and Texas partnerships can vary in not only the type of partner you establish the partnership with. We talked about nonprofits, we talked about government entities, we talked about institutions of higher education and they can also vary in the type of school that you initiate as a charter. We are looking at a turnaround
051campus in particular, but we could pursue a charter authorization for a innovative school, a redesign, or even a new campus. So, the guidance from TEA is that this policy be very big picture and just establish a why and a how for charter authorization. >> Questions from trustees. Dr. Osborne, what's the what's the request agenda wise? >> The recommendation from the administration is to move forward with this item on the consent agenda on November 18th. >> Any issues from trustees with November 18th consent agenda? >> Thank you. Uh so we'll now go to five action items for consideration. A consideration of turnaround plans for Eastern Hills Middle School, Maynor Middle School, and Palo Alto Middle School and public hearing. Dr. Os Dr. Osborne, but let me state this. I may be saying it earlier, but as
052a reminder, anyone wishing to speak pertaining to the turnaround plans for Eastern Hills Middle School, Mayor Middle School, and Palo Alto Middle School should submit their signup sheets at this time. All comments must be related to turnaround plans. Dr. Osborne. >> Thank you very much, sir. And as you see, the team that has worked on this is here and they have shifted in the event that you have any questions. Um, you've had an opportunity to take a look at that 125 pages of documentation. Um, I do have just a few slides to condense and talk through what is inside of the turnaround plan. And like I said, I will be brief and then we want to make sure that we afford the board an opportunity for questions and provide a little information in in advance
053of any public questions in the hearing. Uh thank you. Uh just a quick recap because we know every time that we present this information, we could have firsttime public viewers. Um so just taking us back in time in 2025 we received three sets of A throughF accountability ratings from TEA. Um 2223 23 24 and 2425 came out in April and then two sets in August. Um based on statute we have three campuses that were required and are required to develop andor implement a mandated turnaround plan. Um, also just want to remind everyone that a turnaround plan is initiated after two years of unacceptable ratings. So that would be two Fs or three consecutive D's that equals one F. Um, we have three campuses. Um, Eastern Hills has two consecutive years of unacceptable ratings. And then
054PaloAlto and Maynor Middle School have three years of unacceptable ratings. Again, this is going to be a very abridged uh discussion of what's included in the turnaround plans at a very high level. You'll also note at the bottom it says November 21st. That is a week later than we've been discussing for the entirety of the time we've been talking about turnaround plans has been November 14th. Um TEA did provide a new deadline. However, we stayed on course. Um we were completely on track. So with the timeline we had outlined, we just stayed the course and we're prepared to submit in advance of the 14th which was the original date. Step one in the process of development of the turnaround plan is describing the current reality at the campuses that included each campus utilizing a new
055or their old diagnostic for the effective schools framework. We had a campus that had diagnostics done this year and then our other campuses we had one within the last three years that we were able to utilize with a smaller diagnostic done by the region. Um with that diagnostic we're able to determine our current reality at the campuses in five key areas. We've talked about the effective schools framework previously. Um area one is strong school leadership. Area two strategic staffing. Area three, culture, four, instructional materials, and then area five is effective instruction and support of teachers in the classroom in their delivery. Um, what you'll notice across all three plans, and I have it outlined here as well. Um, is a common thread. Um, it's common across our campuses. And when I say common and current
056reality, this was beginning of year. I would say that anybody behind me or the campus principles would say that they are beyond what they're describing here because of what's already been implemented. But at their arrival at their campuses as new principles um or the onset of the year, there was a lack of leadership clarity in roles and responsibilities. Um there was a lack of implementation of culture and instructional systems. um they've described inconsistency in PLC implementation, use of data as well as implementation of highquality instructional materials which you also know as our curriculum. And last but not least, you'll see noted noted across the campuses is the impact and negative impact specifically of lack of teacher certifications and high turnover. But the intent of developing the turnaround plan is not to stay in the current
057reality. And that's why I notated that we're beyond that current reality at this point. Um, every campus leader and their administrative teams help develop the vision or future of what they see being established at their campuses. So, a very clear vision of excellence is outlined in the plans. This section in the plan is easily six to 10 pages for each one of the the taps. I'll go through each area. At Eastern Hills, it's been very important to start a clear and transparent leadership framework where non-negotiables across the team is is being addressed and happening. Um lead leadership at Eastern Hills is interested in making sure culture is consistent and more importantly aligned with the core values of the campus. Um, they also have a vision for fully implementing PLC coaching as well as data and
058feedback and a specific emphasis on the implementation of our curriculum within classroom instructional delivery at Mayor. Mr. CS envisions that every leader and every teacher is aligned with their mission, vision, and values. They've done a lot of work under his leadership since the summer to make sure what excellence looks like is well defined. In addition to that, he is focused on ensuring that his instructional leadership team is calibrated and out there doing continuous feedback and coaching walks. And he has a specific interest in making sure the community whether it's people in the community, parents or his staff and students are engaged in the excellence at the campus under the leadership of Christina Harris Palo Alto and they are fans of Christina. We went out there this week and talked to the staff post optimization and
059they are they love their principal. Um they have an interest and focus on instructional leadership systems and feedback, an interest in increasing the accountability for student expectations and culture and a specific emphasis on consistent use of data in response to what's happening in the classrooms. The taps also all require us to outline what are our standardized systems at the district level. That first stop, first base, most important thing is curriculum instruction and assessment. Guaranteed and viable curriculum is number one. And I can say in this area coming into this year, we've enhanced our approach in essentially everything related to curriculum instruction and assessment. uh board of trustees, you'll recall that one year ago, uh going into the 2425 year, there was a transition from autonomy with curriculum to standardized curriculum. Um so we've taken an
060additional step from that and updated our curriculum in mathematics with I Ready. Uh that was implemented in this school year. And just to make sure that it's clear, what does it mean to be standardized in curriculum? That means that there's a common scope and sequence, specific activities. You could move one student from classroom A and move that student to classroom B at a different school and ideally be within a few days of instruction and the same activities and because we have mobile kids in our community, this was incredibly important. You'll note there at our camp campuses with a tap um in grade 68 we're utilizing I ready for math savas for RLA. It's also important to note here that both of those curriculums are state board of education approved. There is a very rigorous process
061for approving curriculums uh to be s be approved by the SBOE. Um they have a rubric. They look at uh the implementation at the teacher level, the access from the parent side. Also, those curriculums have to be 100% TEACS aligned. And there is a very short list of middle school math and RLA curriculum. So, we do have two uh SBOE approved curriculums in math and RLA. We're utilizing SAS in science. In social studies, we're utilizing McGra Hill. I want to point out one of the things that comes as information from our curriculum vendors and that's the recommended number of minutes in RLA and math. Our recommended number of minutes per week is 500 and you'll see on that next line we're providing about half of that. Um that is one reason PLC is so important.
062So the first teach that teachers are providing to kids the instruction is tight. Uh we make sure that we're supporting that by providing unit focus documents so teachers know what should be used. There's no additional fluff, no Apple le. Um here's what you should do with the allocated time that you have because the recommended recommended time is actually double. Um this is why we stand by the need for 90minute blocks in math and reading. uh we are we see ourselves moving towards that but definitely reinforcing that across middle schools in the next school year. When it comes to assessment, we have several district created assessments that are outlined in the TAP. Um we have a common structure across K12. Uh but specific to the DNF campuses, we provide two progress check assessments as well as
063a benchmark. So that's three assessments per quarter. Um those are STAR styled assessments. We utilize lead forward resources. So we pick questions that are aligned with the frequency of the STAR and the rigor of the STAR and the the style and type of question of the STAR in our benchmark assessments. Some of those assessments teachers can look at in advance and then some of those assessments they only get the blueprint but they don't get the questions. Um after assessments we also provide assessment analysis support with our dis's our executive director of which way which way there she is of accountability and assessment goes out to the campuses and supports campa um supports the leadership teams with disagregating and making instructional decisions about moving forward. In addition in our tap we've outlined our approach to professional
064learning communities. Um, we've had PLC in some forms in Colleen ISD up to this point. Um, but I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the board for the dollars allocated for PLC every day in math and reading in middle schools. I think it was to the tune of $1.8 million. And sometimes when I go into a PLC, I say, "Hey, this cost a lot of money. We got to do the right thing in this environment, not just for kids, but also for the stewardship of the money that's been spent with this time. Um, in the PLC's, we've revised and enhanced the structure and protocol. You'll note there that our math and reading teams meet every single day, 45 minutes. So they're having an opportunity to talk about the lesson, rehearse the lesson, refine and
065pick and select the questions, disagregate data, uh unpack the teques, ask questions. We don't believe that kids should be practiced on. Um that's a phrase I use very often in in my coaching conversations. PLC is the place to practice whether it's figuring out what should be in your lesson or how you're going to teach the lesson. I'm certain the question you have is how do we know because we're not always there in that PLC. Um our PLC's are led by either an expert teacher, so lead teachers at our campuses, either our CIS or CIC or an administrator. In addition to that, as an executive leadership team, we go out on the CNI side as well as the school leadership side and observe and support the facilitation of PLC and provide feedback. Coming into the last
066few sections of the TAP, we've we were we were asked to outline our leadership and capacity building processes for staff at every level. So that include executive leaders in learning services as well as our principal supervisors. You'll see there that we work we've worked with state approved providers of technical assistance like relay graduate school of education or region 12 has been extremely supportive in the get better faster model. Um as an executive leadership team of about 15 people. We go out to campuses do walks in classrooms observe and support PLC and then debrief with principles. Um, we also have a weekly meeting in learning services in our many departments, whether it's student services or school leadership or CNI. Um, our principles are also getting monthly coaching uh with me. I have one-on- ones with each
067person on my team to drive the metrics and improvement of our systems. Looking at our principles and school leaders, it trickles down. Um, our principal supervisors meet weekly with their principal cohorts. That does not count all of the phone calls, questions, stopbyss that are also happening. There is a support cadence that's defined by the number or the tier of our campuses. So, some campuses get a weekly visit, some campuses bi-weekly, some campus campuses Monday monthly. But on Mondays, um, our principal supervisors at every Monday at 2:00 meet with their supervisory group to reinforce where we're going and what needs to improve and where we're shining. Um, that also looks the same way at our campuses. Our campus leaders are uh conducting instructional leadership teams, operational leadership team meetings, huddles, and then week I'm sorry, monthly
068professional development in their specific PD areas as their data defines that PD is provided for teachers. We also include PLC as a capacity building area. That's critical to what we're seeking to do. Improve the capacity of teachers through that collaborative space. teachers get differentiated coaching. So, a master teacher or a teacher that's proficient in tests may be getting a different number of walkthroughs and coaching cycles will be getting a different number of walkthroughs and coaching cycles from a struggling or a new teacher. Um, we also support through student support services with CKH and classroom management, student centered culture, as well as our departments for special programs. I'm going to skip monitoring because we have a lot on monitoring and I've already talked a little bit about special populations. A question that has been asked is
069how do we monitor all these things? There are 30 pages of stuff. I think my answer first is we've been monitoring all of these things. um when we came into the school year all the way back to uh May when we did our initial trainings, June when we did our pre-leership launch, July we initiated our leadership academy and then support on campuses during our inservice was the leadup to what you see here. Um, we have weekly, bi-weekly, and quarterly cadences for support as well as check-ins. And sometimes that is redirection. Sometimes that is feedback or critical conversations. Um, but a lot of times we're seeking to make sure that we're shining a light on the great things happening, putting principles out in the PLC and showing their exemplars. We're giving out trophies right now for
070walkthroughs. Um so we have some systems of structure um for cadence of monitoring. I talked about the Monday huddles with principal supervisors. Uh we have coaching dashboards. Every Monday morning I run a visible scorecard with my team and we talk about walkthroughs. We talk about campus visits. We talk about PLC. We talk about use of minutes for and I ready. We talk about attendance data. We talk about AIP plans for we talk about what's going on databased. So there is a very tight cadence of conversation happening related to best practice and expectations. When you look all the way down to the end and I just want to talk about this because it's really uh one of Dr. Davis's anchors for what we're doing and we already planned it coming into the year, but I think
071it's been extremely successful in having a eye on what's going on after assessments. And that's our quarterly data review. Um, and it's almost closer to every six weeks. We do it after every two progress checks. We have our staff from our DNF campuses present their data from progress check one or two or progress check two and the benchmark and they present that information as well as an action plan and they have gotten very fancy in their approach to their disagregation, how they're looking at historical data, how they're looking at standards, grade levels, teachers. Um we have some very detailed conversations about seeking to improve. Next page is resources. Uh what we've outlined in the tap includes resources for professional development. I've mentioned region 12 and the work they're doing with us and I believe this
072is our third year of get better faster for one of our cohorts and second for the other. Uh we've also brought in relay to do training on leverage leadership where our big rocks are uh data driven instruction print PLC as well as observation and feedback. That cost that you stay see there was the cost per campus. And a question we've had previously is well are we doing all these great things at all campuses? Yes, those all happen for all school leaders and all administrators through cross divisional. We've come to some consensus about how we might approach stipens at our turnaround schools. You'll see there a stipen of $20,000 for the principal, $10,000 for dean and assistant principles, and a $7500 stipen for campus instructional specialists and coaches. Um, I know that there are positions that
073are critical to the work that happens at our turnaround schools and our first layer of stipen program. So, we call this phase one. We're looking at that core instructional leadership team. As we move into the next year, we will discuss um whether it's counselors, our MCL, our teachers and aids. Those are stipens to come. So, this is phase one. On the right hand side, we've outlined instructional materials. Previously, the board had a question about whether funds would be allocated after the turnaround plan or did we allocate some things before the turnaround plan. Everything that you see on the list thus far are things being implemented with the exception of the one at the bottom. Um that is a turnaround plan specific implementation. Um we plan to bring on a uh entity to support us with
074manpower and decreasing the ratio in our effort to support kids in their intervention. um they'll work with students in our ACC class or in the second half of the double block that we're planning to implement in January. Um so that is for uh tutors and they serve about 30 students per campus in math and reading and there are four tutors per campus. Okay, land in the plane. Last but not least, the turnaround plan asked us to outline where are students going after the school actions that were determined through our optimization process. So you see across the top those look different. Eastern Hills was determined to be a closure. Mayor Middle School will move forward with a Texas partnership and PaloAlto Middle School will move forward as a closure. Um, you've heard us say on multiple
075occasions the plurality of students, which doesn't mean majority, it just means the most. Um, you'll see that Nolan is outlined as the campus getting the plurality of students from Eastern Hills. On the far right side, Patterson is the the campus getting the plurality of students from PaloAlto. And then you have listed there the other campuses that will be receiving students. In the middle, uh, you see kind of a short a bridged definition or overview of the Texas partnership process. On the TAP questionnaire, what it asked us was whether or not we had a operating partner selected, and we don't. And then the other option was, well, what is your plan for selecting a partner? So, what you see there is our plan outline that I've gone over with the board. uh we've disc we've started
076discussions. We've had an entity come in and speak for the board and then we've talked about filing the intent to apply for benefits which I did yesterday and launching the call for quality schools in December. So just some of the inclusions in the TAP plans at a very high level. >> Questions from trustees. Mr. Renwwater, >> Dr. Dr. Rajburn is Mayor going to pick up 225 students. >> Great question. Yes, sir. >> Why? >> So, the the enrollment zone changes for Eastern Hills and it when it closes, those kids will be a part of the mayor enrollment zone. >> Wow. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. Madam Secretary, >> Dr. Osborne, is it possible for us to get those slides? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. And my second thing, in the development of your turnaround plans,
077125 page deep, uh, front and back. Um, did you have a team? >> Yep. I have a I have a I have a um Emmy nominations list here to read. >> Okay. Because I was just trying to see >> Yes. >> how this all came about. >> Great question. Um so we initiated the plan by through study uh and I have to thank uh Don Seals who led the I guess educational process around the effective schools framework for our school leaders as well as the their thought partner that they brought to the sessions. Um I talked about us having Monday and Wednesday workshops in the board for three hours Monday Wednesday. We did that for about four or five weeks. um getting the school leader portion of the plan written and that's really the portions
078you see related to current reality and future vision. Um the other portions of the plan were done by the individuals behind me as well as others. Um so the CNI and A so curriculum instruction and assessment team wrote the portions of the plan related to PLC related to curriculum instruction and assessment. um the school principal supervisor supported the development of all sections um specifically because they see those things in action. Um so I was talking to one of them today and they told me that all the way to the end of last week they were refining and adding in support of their campus because they thought there was more that could be there. Um our team from state and federal programs of course supported with the identification of instructional materials and how things get paid.
079uh our principles wrote portions, administrators wrote portions. I have to thank the secretaries that participated in this process and ensuring that we had invoices and accurate amounts to put in front of the board and out for the public. Um our assessment team I've spoken to as well. And I also need to thank the crossf functional team um because we did a lot of stuff in our cross cross divisional team which is about 25 of the executive or above leaders to really prepare what does it look like to close a school and those components are included in the tap as well. And I I know this I mean I sound like I'm getting an Oscar and I know I'm going to forget someone. Um, but it really was a joint effort from the first time that
080we rolled out the timeline to everyone doing the things all the way up to be here today. And that's why we didn't change course when we got an extra week from TEA. >> And my last question, when you mentioned the six week quarterly monitoring and the teams that come in and present to each other. >> Yes. >> Are these the DNF campuses or who are they presenting to? >> So, great question. So they present to the executive leadership team and learning services. There's about 14 of us. So that could be ED um of our multilingual services, our principal supervisors, our curriculum team, myself. Uh we are the audience so to speak. We provide the feedback. We ask the questions. The administrative team comes and does that presentation. So the principal leads that discussion with the
081support of their dean um potentially their CIS or CIC. They bring a trio, sometimes just a duo, and they talk through 25 standard slides. We provided them with a template of how to disagregate and discuss their data and then do their action planning. Um, it is it is really a phenomenal effort to see. It's not an easy lift, but it definitely allows us to have deep conversation about strategic moves in response to data. >> Yes, ma'am. Any other questions from trustees? Madam Pito, we're good down there. Vice President, >> Mr. R. So, you look like you're in >> thought, >> I I cannot thank my team enough. I just turned around and said, did I forget anybody? There has been so much work that's gone into this process and putting it in a document is
082one thing, but the execution of it and the monitoring of it is another and that is happening at a really high level and I'm just very proud of everyone. >> Thank you. Uh there been no further questions. This is an action item. Trustees Mr. Gilkers. >> Mr. President, I move to approve the turnaround plans for Eastern Hill Middle School, Mayor Middle School, and Powder Alto Middle School as submitted for submission to the Texas Education Agency, TEA, as presented. >> We have a motion by Mr. Gilchrist. We have a second by Secretary Adams. Any further discussion by trustees? I >> have one thing after >> further discussion. Um, I just like to make sure our general public as well as our parents know that there is a survey that will go live upon approval of the
083turnaround plans. We do still want the feedback. It must be included in the process and we're interested very much in our parents perspective. That will be live on the website as early as tomorrow. >> Dr. Osborne, I'm so appreciative for you for having that comment because what I have to do is we have to have a public uh public comment section. So, look at Mr. Harper and make sure we don't have anyone signed up. But at this time, if anyone is signed up to speak uh specifically related to the turnaround plans for Eastern Hills Middle School, Mayor Middle School, and Palo Alto Middle School, now would be your time. Okay, there's no one signed up, so we've got a Yes, sir. Mr. Raywater, >> may I quickly say this really isn't a turnaround plan. of
084restructuring beginning with the uh instructional materials >> to the operational aspects of the building and then central staff. It's a complete restructuring and just a lot of work as you I'm sorry as you know as >> any other comments. So there's a motion on the floor. Uh, there being no further comments, all those in favor I'm looking at Trusty Gilchrist. She's giving that look like maybe. >> Okay, you're good. I was making you g that look like maybe I was forgetting something. So, we got a motion by Trusty Gilchrist. We have a second by Secretary Adams. There being no further discussion. All those in favor, show of hands. We have seven in favor, none in opposition. Thank you, Dr. Osborne. To you and your team for all the hard work on on getting this thing
085uh across the finish line. >> Thank you so much for your support and approval. Well, >> appreciate you. Okay, we'll now go to agenda item number six, discussion of future board meeting agendas and trustee remarks. We'll change it up a little this week. We're going to start on to the my far left. We're going to start with Trustee Gilchrist. >> Um, I just want to reiterate um and thank all of the staff and Dr. Osborne and her team and all of you that did that. That's a that's a heavy lift and um congratulations, but now we really still got to do some more work. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um parents, we do need your feedback. Um you got to help us to finish it. We started it. Now we got to help
086you got to help us bring this thing across the finish line. Thank you, >> Mr. Rainwater. I I just would say in consideration of the tremendous amount of work that we have to do and the challenges we're facing that we really need some highly skilled, competitive, knowledgeable, strong, experienced administrators at the building level and central level. I say that to say we need to do everything possible to pay our teachers and our staff as much money as we can as quickly as we can. Thank you. >> Thank you. Madam Vice President, I'm going to jump over you then I'll come back and get you. Madam Capito, >> I'm just going to echo um Gilchrist and just thank you to everyone who has been working so hard on this and um please always make sure that
087you let us know how we can support as a board um in providing the resources that you need to be successful. >> Trusty Mintz. >> Mr. President, I just uh regarding upcoming agendas. thought I had seen it in a previous draft, but I apparently I must have misread it. Follow up on DAP. We are a long time coming for that one. Um, with the transition to a new facility, it might be an opportune time uh to look at how we consider how that runs. So, I'd like to start that discussion sooner rather than later. And um my other my other thing is summer school and I think we are due to get something on that in the near future, but I just want to make sure those don't fall off the radar. >> And we'll
088just take a quick pause there. Uh Dr. Davis, do you want to uh address that real quickly? >> Sure. With with DAP, actually that was going to after the optimization of board took action last week. That was actually going to be on on this agenda, I believe, and and um talked to the board officers at a meeting to remove it. as we talk through, we're going to be discussing the team as it relates to reimagining DAP, if you will. Uh, so when we bring that to the board, as it looks, uh, potentially talking through some potential changes, we don't want Adam to get too far down the road on certain things and we reprogram that based on some concerns or what have you. And so that will certainly be forthcoming to to the board. Thank
089you. >> Anything else, Mr. Mintz? >> No, sir. Thank you, Madam Secretary. >> I have two things. Um, kudos to everyone involved in the um, process of getting the plans on paper and the journey begins. The real hard work begins. And so I want to encourage everyone, our parents, our staff, our students, the community. Um, this is a journey that we've never taken before and we definitely need to be concerned about our mental capacity, our well-being, how we take care of each other, how we shoulder the work, and how we recognize and honor and celebrate every success you can find. Celebrate it along the way. It is so critical because it's a heavy lift. as one of the other board members said, um, in regards to the agenda, I had someone inquire about the STEM
090program. So, they're wanting to know the numbers of students who are going to be impacted with any of the consolidations, the closures. Um, and so I did say to them that we would bring that up and get more information on our STEM programs. I've not heard anything about it. Madame Vice President, >> I'd just like to say that uh Veterans Day is coming up and unlike Memorial Day, um Veterans Day is to celebrate all those men and women who have served their country honorably. Uh and we have a lot of those um members in our staff uh here at KISSD who continue to serve um their community through education. So they served their country, now they're serving their community. And I want to say thank you to all of them. Some of them are Purple
091Heart recipients. Um and um so my hats off to all of them and I hope that we celebrate them largely as well uh when it's Veterans Day on the 6th. Um so thank you all for your service again and uh and again thank you to everybody who's worked so hard on this program that we're going with this turnaround or restructuring or getting better um optimizing our whole district really. Uh thank you all very much for the heavy lift. >> Madame Vice President, go ahead and tell the the trustees because it's a team here to about the agenda. I'll let you just tell them. >> So before us, we do have the agendas and we put it in our our packet so everybody can see what's going on. But um we don't want to be remiss
092and asking you to put your input in like Mr. Mintz did and Miss Adams did if you want something on that agenda. Um we're not We're just trying to consolidate the meeting so it goes a little faster. So please review those before you come. If there's something you want to be you see just please ask so the superintendent and the executive committee can work together to try to meet those needs. >> Thank you. U I just want to say kudos to the staff everything that staff has done and continues to do. And I'll still from Dr. Davis he made a comment to me said just get a we just need to get some small wins. Uh but I don't want to underscore every win whether small or big is important to the organization. Uh and
093so let's just keep stacking those up every day. Let's just try a little bit be a little bit better uh every day and don't think that the small thing that you did didn't have a tremendous impact because every win counts and so uh let's just continue to do that. Dr. Davis, anything you've got? >> Yeah, always again just thank you to the staff. Uh we know it's a heavy lift and we will get after it again and thank you to the board for your your unwavering support and I have no doubt we will move the needle and get it done. Have an excellent team and so look forward to to again taking our rightful place in region 12. Thank you. >> Okay, we're keep Madam Capito happy. We're going to move to agenda item number
094seven which is close session. We do have >> Yes. >> Okay. The board just just want to make sure because I would I would get us out of here. Uh the board will now convene in close session for >> Joey Moore. I need to call all of them again. Correct. I know you're coaching me along on this. >> I'll do it to be safe. You're pausing. So I'll do it. The board will now convene in close session for agenda item 7A. Consultation with legal counsel regarding superintendent contract as allowed by Texas government code 551.071551.074. Agenda item 7B consultation with legal council regarding local innovation plan and district of innovation amendment process as allowed by Texas government code 551.071. I don't need to call seed. Do I Dr. Davis? >> I'm fixing it. I already know
095we've we've gone over those. So, I'm going to >> go into >> Yes. >> They'll be the same on both. They're the same on the top and the bottom with the exception of the superintendent contract. >> 2 a >> Brett's up here just butchering the script. We're going to make it simple. I'm going to call him and uh we'll call him. Um, agenda item 7 C, consultation with the district's legal council regarding pending litigation, a settlement offer, or other issues confidential under attorney client privilege as allowed by Texas Government Code 551.071. Agenda item 7D, deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property as allowed by Texas Government Code 551.072. Agenda item 7E, deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee as allowed by Texas Government
096Code 551.074. And agenda item 7F, deliberate a matter regarding a public school student in which personally identifiable information about the student will necessarily be revealed as allowed by Texas Government Code 551.0821. No voting will take place in close session. Any action the board wishes to take as a result of discussions in close session will take place after the board reconvenes in the open meeting. >> Gotcha. Okay. And also discussion of consideration of resolution of votes to cast directors for the tax appraisal district of Bell County for 2026 551.074. Thank you Mr. Go, Chris, cuz I heard you saying that and I was like, what is he talking about? Um, so I think we have everything called trustees. I apologize. I promise you I will get this figured out uh sooner than later and it won't
097be so choppy. So, the time is now 7:34 p.m. and we are in close session. The time is now 9:38 p.m. and we are reconvening from close session. No action or voting took place in close session. We'll now move to agenda item number eight. Madam Capito, >> I make a motion that we adjurnn. >> We have a motion by Madame Capido. We have a second by by Trustee Gilchrist to adjourn the meeting. All those in favor, show of hands. We have a unanimous vote of 70 to adjourn the meeting at 9:39 p.m. on November 4th, 2025. Thank you.