001Two hugs coming. [laughter] [clears throat] Appreciate it. And now Matt's got one coming. Thank you again, Mr. Ch. We appreciate it. >> All right. >> Thank you, Dr. Hman. Um, do we have our ABCs? Tell me your name. >> Sloan. >> This is Sloan and >> Kylie. >> Ruth >> and Ruth. And they're going to lead you guys in the pledges. So if you put your hand on your heart 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 aliance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. >> Pray with me, please. Heavenly Father, thank you for everyone that's here today. Be watch over them, guide them, keep them from
002sickness, and just be with everybody that's under the weather. just help us make our great decisions for the school and just keep your keep the school in the prayers your holy name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you. All the I call this meeting of the Levelant Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Summer Meetings Act. We have Crystal. Do we have any public speakers? >> Um, no, I don't have any. >> Okay. do not have anyone signed up for public forum. So that brings us to the audit. >> Hold up. Time up. Time out. You're welcome to be there. Hold on. >> No. It
003couldn't make it. >> I don't know if there's something >> on the revised email that you sent. >> Yeah. So, I'll pull the other one up. what what's been on >> is is everybody's revise not working. >> Um >> I I tested all of them this afternoon. They should be working. >> My revise is working. >> I mean like all the pages are there. How many pages? >> How many pages should it be? Like a lot. >> There's 18 in front of you. >> Sorry. Just a minute. Make sure you open it this way because I was having problems opening that way today. Sure. >> Go back to the >> instead of clicking on the >> body. Don't click on the side. >> Yeah. back to the >> I'm sorry. use the paper. [clears throat]
004>> It's It's right there. >> Oh, this is okay. The biggest changes >> that's the only that's >> that's the biggest change wasn't >> and then just what she's also in paper form that bound copy Hold yours. You're good. Gary, do you got yours? >> You got yours? >> Down is my baby. So, >> so far so good. I'm just gonna >> if if nothing else, you should have a bound copy. >> Joyce, you're you good? >> Yes. >> Sorry, Casey. >> No, no, you're good. Technology. [clears throat] All right. So, I am Casey Gast and I was the audit partner in charge of your 2425 financial audit. I am with bowlinger Seagars Gilbert and Moss and we are out of Leach, Texas. I've also brought David Griffin. He's one of our senior associates kind
005of showing him the ropes and how you know kind of seeing the audit from start to finish and this is kind of our finish. And y'all are actually my last audit presentation for 2425. So, um, to get started, you know, we usually come out on site, usually one day in the summer to kind of do some preliminary, uh, field work and try to knock out some items and then we we come back out to do your audit kind of early Novemberish. Um, so we were out here maybe 3 to 4 days on on the audit. So, kind of what what that means, you know, that's a pretty short time to still do the audit. You are required to do the additional compliance audit or the single audit. Um, so to get all all of that
006done in that short amount of time, you know, really isn't indicative of where the accounting records are. So everything that we asked for was given to us timely. Um, any any inquiries we had throughout the district, you know, we [clears throat] were able to handle those in a very very efficient manner as well. So that's what we've we've kind of come to expect with a lot of our our school audits even though we're having to do you know you're kind of my my midlevel and I have the smaller ones and the bigger ones you know but we have to do all the same things for you know like the tea compliance and stuff. So like I said we thought this was still a very effective and efficient efficient audit process again this year. So uh
007with that the district did receive the unmodified opinion or clean audit opinion. That's the one you want. That's what TEA is looking for. So what that means in this bound copy any information is free of any material statements and can be relied upon by outside parties. Um I did mention also single audit piece. So because you receive for 2425 over 750,000 of federal money, you were required that additional compliance audit or what they call the single audit. So any of those federal dollars, we have to go in and you pick a certain program depending on certain thresholds and we test that a little more um intensively. And what we did find, we we chose child nutrition again this year and there was still kind of a repeat finding on kind of getting those the timing
008of the approvals. So the approvals have to be done, you know, after the fact. There were some approvals, but they weren't done at the right time. So like I said, that is the BP finding, but we do have in our corrective action plan or your corre corrective action plan, I should say, that you've gone to C. Basically, we're not going to have to do all that paperwork and that approval process. So that should all all [clears throat] clear out from that perspective. So just so you know, that's that is what's in in the audit, but I wasn't going to go over it too much because like I said, it is considered a significant deficiency on your internal controls over compliance, but it's not that material weakness. When you it elevates into that material weakness, that's
009when you start, you know, getting dinged on your first rating and stuff like that. So we're not at that level. We stay at that there's no repercussions um that stand in point, but it is part of the audit process. Um inside your bound copy, I do have some kind of loose papers. So, I have one and it's kind of your three-year look of your um certain highlights of your financials. And to me, this is kind of just more a meaningful analysis because in a governmental audit report, it only reports on a single year. So, you don't really get to see any other data. So, it's just like, oh, here was your year. you don't really have a basis to kind of look and compare what happened last year or even two years out. So, I'm
010going to kind of go through this and go through through fairly quickly down these down these different categories or what I call kind of the highlights out of the audit report. So, the first section there is your cash and cash equivalents. Um, from a general fund standpoint, we did increase cash there by about 1.8 million. A debt service also increased about 1.1 million. And then our other funds, we kind of had a decrease there of about 460,000, but overall total cash increase um to get your balance to 17.5 million versus the 15 million in the prior year. From your receivable payable kind of standpoint um property taxes pretty comparable due from other governments that you can see that's way down. And really what that is is your er funding timing in last year and then
011you didn't have that this year. So it fell off. You had a big receivable at the end of last year as ESSA was winding down and so we didn't have any of that in the current year. Um all your other items, the other receivables, that's really just insurance payments for both years. So those were insurance payments that you were aware of but you did not receive until after the fiscal year. So we put them put them back into that year um as revenue uh due to other governments small amount there. And then from a timing from your state foundation payments, we did have an overpayment. So basically that's just saying the state said, "Oops, we overpaid you for 2425. You can keep the cash. We're going to roll that over to next year and you'll
012just get less cash for [clears throat] 2526." So we put that up in a deferred revenue. So you will get to recognize that as revenue next year. You just won't have the cash flow piece. So just a timing, nothing red flag on that. You know, this can u vary um every year to be honest. So from a fund balance standpoint, uh the general fund did um have a decrease of about 790,000. So you ended the year with 11.5 million. Uh child nutrition fund down a little bit to 727,000. Uh we always are watching the child nutrition fund because TDA doesn't want you to have over six months of fund balance or if you do you have to do a spend down plan. Your six months of of fund balance is about a million. So we're
013well below that. So we don't have to worry about doing that. But is something we watch just so we make sure we stay in compliance with TDA. Your debt service fund increased a little bit or about actually about a million to end at 5.2 on a fund balance. Other funds very small for total fund balances across all funds of seven almost 17.5 million. If we move into the next section there, we're only going to be looking at the general fund to kind of see, hey, what happened just from a general fund standpoint from our revenues and our expenditures on a local level. That first section there on under the revenue section, uh we did have an increase in local revenues. A lot of that was your insurance proceeds driven that you received in the year
014over what you had received in the prior year. So that was really the main driver because you did see a decrease on the property tax side, but like I said, having those insurance payments come in this year um drove up local revenue. From a state revenue standpoint, we had a slight increase also. And this is going to be, you know, usually once those property values decline, the state kicks in from the other side. So we did see an increase in your foundation amounts and also the available for school fund uh rate increased. So those kind of are the both both drivers there on our state revenues increasing. Uh federal revenues, you can see those were down. This is really just your SHARS payments when we're talking in the general fund. So we kind of saw
015that across the board. Um the SHARS payments have kind of been slashed across most of our districts. Um the last line item there is transfers in. Those are really going to be the indirect cost that some of your federal programs have that reimburse the general fund. So those are those amounts there to get us to 33.4 million in revenue versus the 32 million in the prior year. So overall an increase of about 1.3 million from an expenditure standpoint. That next section there on your instructionals, you did see, you know, a little bit of a decrease, but what happened is you bought four buses last year. So a lot of capital outlay from a vehicle side of things. So we saw saw that decrease but when you did have that offset these bus purchases in the
016prior year eser payroll and then also when you close that SSA all of those expenses came back up into the general fund or yeah so came back over to the general fund. So kind of those two I'll say so we have the salary kind of increases from the other programs that had shut down and then less the bus purchases from the prior year um from your general admin and maintenance and operation. the next line item there. Uh really in the current year we had um some hail damage and exterior repairs and then last year we had the security system. So those kind of kind of offset offset there to make that pretty comparable uh debt service standpoint. We did complete the bus surveillance um piece of that. So that was the last payment from your
017bus surveillance uh note. uh capital expenditures um up, but we did you had a lot of projects going on with in between, you know, with your kind of FEMA damage and some of that stuff. So, we had the roofing, the HVACs, the well pumps. So, a lot of a lot of things going on. I know we still kind of had some roofing projects and servers in the prior year, but we had a good chunk of that into 2425 on on getting all those up up to date and stuff. So, your other payments, you can see a decrease. This is with that SSA closing. You no longer have to make payments into the SSA because now you run your own uh specialed program. So that's where there's that decrease and then that's where you see the
018salaries come up into the general fund. Uh transfers out a small piece back to the child nutrition to get us to total expenditures and transfers out of 34 million versus about 34.5 million in the prior year. So overall net decrease of 790,000. So to your general fund, which we kind of saw up above, which gives you the 3.8 months of fund balance. So this is kind of where TEA um tells you the three to four months is kind of their benchmark. So that's kind of really kind of tied into one of the first indicators that they're watching for is really the the easiest one to pass is 75 days of operational cash is what they want you to have in fund balance. So y'all are there. we're not in jeopardy right now of of losing
019that um or losing on that first indicator. So, just to to keep in mind, but we have seen that kind of trending down a little bit there, but we're still okay for this year. Um the next several items there are just kind of informationational showing you, you know, ADA. We have seen the decline of ADA over the last three years. Uh summary of finances, um your state aid from there. Like I said, we saw a little bit of an increase from last year due to property taxes uh going down, which you can see in that next line item, the decrease in your assessed values. And then from the the next section, there's your debt service. We'll just kind of touch on on that briefly. You had a slight increase from your local and state revenue
020there. Really kind of some better interest rates and some increase from the state also. And then your debt service payments right in line with your amortization of what you're supposed to be making on your bond payments to still increase that fund balance by 1.1 million. [clears throat] And then the bottom's just really just a capitalization just telling you you have fixed assets net of depreciation of about 51.5 million or almost 51.6 million I should say. And then debt outstanding debt now which is just your bonds um since the bus was fully paid off the bus surveillance piece is fully paid off of 35 million. And then all of your bonds mature at this point at 203 and 2038. So no, it was a lot of information, a lot of numbers. [laughter] But that's kind of
021the highlights instead of, you know, flipping around in all these pages and trying to discuss that. I'll entertain any questions before I want to look at a couple of schedules with you. Okay. If not, if if in the bound report that you have in front of you, we can flip over kind of more towards the back. We're going to go look at the G1, sorry, page 49, title, page 49. And this is your budgetary fund from um just the general fund. So if you're kind of looking at it, you know, going kind of left to right, we have our original budget that we did right before school started. You amend the budget during the year and then we have what actually happened and then any variance from your amended to your actual. And so TEA
022will look at this and they're going to look at that expenditure section right there in the middle and they'll look for any brackets around one of the numbers. And then we do have some brackets around from your function 51, but that was just during kind of our our audit when we went through we had to reclass some items that we couldn't we couldn't necessarily capitalize and we moved them up to function 51 because anything that's in function 81 has to be able to be capitalized. So that's where you kind of saw a ding there, but so you will just get a letter from TEA, but no other um action will be required for that. But [clears throat] just know that'll come in a letter. And the other thing I like to look on the schedule
023too is the third line from the bottom. So you were kind of expecting um 4.6 when you deficit when you um adopted this budget kind of amended it to 5.3 but then actually we ended at 790,000. So a little better than where you thought you were going to going to end up in all all the doom and gloom that was going around [laughter] for all districts in 2425. Any questions? >> I'm glad of that, but how is that possible? >> Well, if you can kind of look, you know, like y'all thought you'd have a lot more expenditures in the instructional side, and then I don't know if if Teresa has more details on it on on where those are, but yeah, from the standpoint, it really looks like in most of your expenditures, you were
024well below um what y'all had anticipated spending in those certain functions. Teresa, do you want to elaborate on that? >> It was more of the I was conservative with um the absorptions. I didn't know how we were going to absorb from the year from 23 24 to 25 26. Um so we have absorbed better than what I anticipated on the budget and then we tried to really cut down expenditures throughout the functions. Um so that helped also. Then on the bus thing, I thought one of those buses was in the prior year. >> They were all >> There were four There were four in the prior year. >> They were all in 23. >> I thought we had one that was supposed to be bought. We had the money to buy it on the other
025year. Is that not true? >> That's how we I want to say we did everything for 2324. We didn't have any buses in this budget cycle if I'm not mistaken, but I've slept since then. So, I I can go look. >> I was thinking that. Is that not correct? Did we have when we supposed to buy a bus? We had a down payment um in the 22 [clears throat] 23 year >> and then we had a bus delivered late. Um but we might have paid for it all in last year's audit cycle. Might have just been on the >> I know we purchased the the special ed bus last year. Right. But I was thinking >> the one of the charters. >> Yeah. I thought three were in one year and one was in the
026year before. >> I don't remember >> because we were supposed to >> we were in line to get one get one and then we decided to get four. >> I know we did all of them at the same time and we did do a down payment. Um but I'm not 100% sure how they fell. the down payment was the only one that lasted in 22 23 [clears throat] and then um was paid for it in June of 24. So it would have been a 23. So everything got paid out in 2324. >> Does that get you >> quick math? Looks like >> okay >> 1.5 million less in instruction, 1 millionish less in facility acquisition and construction, >> 700,000 less in student transportation, 200,000 less in extracurricular activities, and then lots of nickels and dimes
027along the way. So, we didn't also we did we had budgeted um like 300,000 for buses or a fleet and we decided to push that out. Um and then we did uh budget um I believe it was 200,000 in facilities for other items but we started concentrating on just function or fund 198 just on the um storm damage. We didn't decide to do anything other than that. Um that was those were almost a million dollars just on those two items for sure. um staff shortage on transportation. We've never had a full full um bus buses bus drivers. So that helped also because we budget for a full crew but we didn't have a full crew [clears throat] there. And then in maintenance and trans maintenance also we were down custodians on some area. Um, >>
028so was that 790? [clears throat] All all of the storm stuff is complete. We're just waiting on the FEMA stuff. >> Yes, >> we have the awning at Capital. >> Yes. And I spoke to them and we're they're coming and doing a walk through for me. They're supposed to be here tomorrow. Who is >> um [clears throat] it's a guy from Amarillo that Greg Carol recommended. >> Okay. >> I'm not sure their name. >> That's the last thing from the storm. And then um FEMA, we're hoping that FEMA kicks in on the back side, but we won't be able to add FEMA to this. It'll be to next year. >> That's a big difference. Maybe he is. >> I mean, that's a big difference from what we were expecting, >> which is great. I'm not
029saying it's not great or any of that. >> It's just hard to believe how we got there. >> Yes. Great question. Like, what happened? [laughter] >> We did reduce a lot of expenses like they had to do some of >> Yeah. I mean, I know we cut lots of places. I understand that. But >> but four and a half million. >> Yeah. That's that's that's a big dollar. >> Yeah. >> I think your local revenues were over a million which maybe some of those insurance proceedings you weren't sure >> Yeah. >> what period those were going to fall in. And so that was kind of a boost in the the local too about a million. >> But that would have been the million from the insurance proceeds was already in the amended program. Oh, it
030was >> budget, right? >> Yes. >> That's why I was saying that came from >> property tax that we had to pay back >> from Southern Cotton. >> I don't I don't know where we are on that. On what? >> Property taxes from Southern Cotton Oil. >> Cotton. >> Yeah, that's already been settled out. It happened in this December one. Okay. >> Is that gonna be something else that >> No, >> it's a different >> Yeah, that one's settled out and paid back. >> So, what in December, you said? So, it's included in >> in this audit. In December of this audit, 2024. >> Oh. >> Or Yes. 2024. Yes. >> So, we paid the full thing back or we kept it or what what ended up with that? >> So, they never gave it.
031So that first they um the appraisal district issued a payment back and then they shorted our payment for the difference. >> So we never received that. >> So it was like we never received it. Correct. >> But they ended up getting the money back essentially. >> Yes. Southern Cotton Oil got their money back. Yes. >> Okay. >> It's it's a >> Yes. >> wash. >> We never saw it, >> but we had budgeted that way as well. Correct. >> Technically, no. We budgeted that we were going to get that revenue. >> Yeah. I think that's >> we were budgeting because it didn't happen till like November. We didn't get the notification that we were going into appeal for it. >> Yeah. Because they didn't decide to do that till after. [cough] [clears throat] >> Yeah.
032Yeah. >> So in this year's budget >> but in 2526 we did not budget for. >> Right. >> Correct. >> That was not included in our property values. >> Right. >> And that that will be correct. That will be true. >> Correct. [clears throat] >> That should be a wash. >> What's your question again? >> Pardon? What's your [clears throat] question? We did not put it in this year's budget and we will not see it. >> We will not see it and it was not budgeted for. >> Yes. >> We reduced our property tax from last year revenue from last year by that amount. >> Yes. >> [snorts] >> So, between facilities, acquisitions, and construction, and instruction, there's a $2.5 million swing right there. And then you've got 100,000, 100,000, 200,000, 700,000, 100,000. Just adds
033up quick. >> Mhm. Any other questions on that? >> And I think derailed you. >> No, that's good. That's good. Have all the discussions we need. Um, if we'll flip to page 59. So, this is a new schedule. When I came and met with with Carrie and everybody, we kind of decided, hey, let's look. You you kind of have four different funds in your general fund. Um, you have the opportunity center and athletics fund, the capital expenditure fund, and then your [clears throat] main general fund, which is kind of your M piece. So, this is like I said on page 59. And if you're kind kind of looking at all that, and we can kind of look down at the very the very last line again there, you can see kind of with some transfers,
034our opportunity [clears throat] center and athletics fund kind of even out there. Um, but the capital expenditure fund, you know, you spent 1.1 million. So the pieces um from revenue on that is going to be insurance proceeds plus a little bit of FEMA and then there was all your capital outlay on all the projects done. So if we were really looking at a sense of our general fund what caused the deficit probably most of all if you're looking at all these pieces is capital expenditures. So getting those capital expenditures even offset by your uh revenues that came in that was kind of the driver of the of the deficit in the current year. So I thought this was kind of a, you know, your general fund, your M side was really a break even. So
035just kind of a different way to kind of look at your general fund because it kind of gets coingled when you kind of have those four different ones, but the standard requires all just to show one general fund, but we are allowed to put additional schedules in the back if we want to break that out. So like I said, this is a new schedule this year that we thought would really reflect the district's position a little more on where those dollars went. So [snorts] >> does that this is a new schedule for us. Does that make sense to everyone why we have it and is it helpful? Essentially, we monitor these funds separately throughout the year, but then in the audit, they all show up in one column. And so, this is kind of how
036those numbers get added together. >> Yeah. Because I think even when you do your budgets, you've got the four different budgets, I think, also. So, >> that makes sense. [clears throat] >> Yeah. Um the only thing that doesn't make some sense on this is the net change in fund balance both the opportunity center and the athletics fund should go to zero. It >> it it should but kind of how the the financials work and I can make it reflect that if you would rather that and we can move those those transfers in and out get eliminated when you roll up to the g the main general fund. So if you would rather reflect it that way I definitely can. I was just going how the fund was set up in the in the financials at
037that point. >> [clears throat] >> I think my understanding is this is actually what happened. That money got transferred over. So this is what happened. >> Yes. >> It's more of maybe it looks like those funds made money and >> they were supplemented by >> don't make money. They just essentially were overfunded from the general fund. >> Yeah. The general fund moved those over. So I can show however I mean [laughter] whatever makes the most sense to y'all. Any questions on that? >> Plus or minus ended up at 700,000 when we planned for for >> Yes. >> a lot. Gotcha. [snorts] >> Gary, is that clear as mud? [laughter] >> It's just math. >> Yeah. Let me throw some more numbers at you. Do you have a question, Gary? >> No. Okay. >> Maybe later.
038>> Okay. Okay. Fair. And then the last schedule of of the audit report, just real real quick, is on page 60. Just a couple pages back. It's kind of side to side. Here it's your your property tax um schedule. So this shows everything that's been outstanding um over the last 10 years and prior um kind of [clears throat] by year. And so um also shows you kind of those tax rates, what your property values um have done and then the current levy and then what's remain and then on the far right what remains um outstanding. And a trend that I didn't really know to look for or expect to see, but I saw across most in all of my districts is in that 2025 line, the outstanding taxes were higher than we've previously seen in
039prior years. And I think a lot of that is some just hardships, you know, you know, from the economy and stuff like that that some of the taxpayers didn't, you know, aren't aren't able to pay potentially. You know, we saw a lot of that with the COVID time. Um, so it was it was kind of something I didn't really think about. Then when I started presenting these audit reports, I was like, "Wow, 25." You know, your collections are still good. Don't don't get me wrong on that. But we did see a bump in that increase in 2025. And I mean that that was the only thing correlation I could see is just from an economy standpoint that everybody's taxes were a little higher or went uncollected for the year. But uh, so you have a
040you you didn't cross so you have about a million outstanding, you know, out of all of all of your years still. So just kind of like to point that out because tea is watching this one too based on looking at your assessed values and and your property tax collections. So I said just just one little note and then the the last thing I have is thing I have is a handout another little handout. It's the benchmark that was in the front should have been right behind the the three-year one. And once again, this is justformational purposes. And what this is showing is just keep in mind this is for 2324 data because that's what's out on TEA's website, but it kind of shows I believe this is your football district schools along with some of
041the surrounding communities. And kind of just going over some of those highlights because we get asked sometimes, well, how are other schools compared to ours? So, these are kind of some of those trends we see that are kind of key. It kind of shows a general fund balance, uh, general fund expenditures, what the months of fund balance are, expenditures per student, the tax rates, the changes in the assessed value, the outstanding debt, and then the debt per student. And then at the the very bottom kind of has an average of all all the districts together. So you can kind of see um where these districts are. So I was looking at board. It's a text right there. Interesting. >> That's so interesting. I haven't seen that before. I love that. That's so cool. >> Just
042gives a little a little different spin on looking at at the numbers. >> I haven't seen that before. >> Well, like I said, I really appreciate y'all having us tonight and we really thank Teresa and all her staff for all they do. You know, getting ready for an audit and going through an audit, it's not an easy task. But we really appreciate it. So >> any other question or Teresa >> or David, you can ask him something. >> I know that you did all the work. So >> Okay. Um Teresa just as I talked to Casey [clears throat] earlier on page 33 she's going to make one adjustment to the typing there >> before submitting it just so it ties the paragraph typing ties to the >> Good catch. I overlooked that. >> Other than
043that, do we have a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> Mike makes a mo motion. Joyce seconds. All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> I guess that makes your audit season complete. >> I am complete. >> Time to move on. What' you say? You're moving on to corporations now. >> Uh, electric cooperatives. >> Electric. Hey. >> Yeah. Enjoy that. It >> is. Did you say your name? Yes. >> Yes. You know any of my people? >> I know. >> So, I get that one a lot, but we're not. We're probably related somewhere, but not immediate. >> Okay. [laughter] >> Cuz he was involved in schools. I think somehow he was a something. And then >> So, we used to coach against each other. >> Okay. Yeah. [laughter] >> Yep.
044Yep. I get that a lot, but I'm Thanks. Sorry. Thank y'all. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Okay, you should take us to our public hearing. >> Thank you. And I'm going to present from here because uh I want the public to get um so in converting this over to PDF to put in your board book, you actually don't have the links that take you to all of the reports. But a few things to keep in mind on the annual report and public hearing um is that all the data in this report is old. Everything's 2425 and a few of the things are 23 24. Therefore, we won't spend a lot of time reviewing the numbers because they're all old numbers. numbers we can't do anything about except for now we can make them better.
045Um, and I do want to I'm not going to get out of here, but if you go to the Level ISD website under resources required postings, every one of these reports is already available to you and the public. And the requirement is that once the taper is released, you have 90 days to present it. So technically, we have until March. When I talk to the service center about where do you get the report about um violent uh crimes that students have committed, she said, "We haven't even done the presentation yet." I said, "Well, we're going to be way ahead of y'all." That's right. Way ahead of y'all. So, we'll go through this and if you have any questions, if I can't answer the numbers, Dr. Hess is ready to give them to you. >> Yep.
046So these are the sections of the and actually um [clears throat] I listened to a presentation by Lee Ford and they're are very reputable consulting firm in the state and um I've always thought this was called the taper report and the taper is the main part of the report but actually this is the 2425 district annual report. So these are the things that you are required to have in there. One is the taper report and we've looked at that and it's posted on our website and it shows student data, it shows our uh ethnic data, it shows our teacher data, it shows graduation data, it has all of that for years prior. Um, and you can see down here at the bottom here's the link that will take you straight to actually it's the website
047that has all of these um programs in there. All of these reports these are the sections that are required in the annual report. The taper and it has to be presented as presented by TEA. the PI's financial standard report that is a report that is actually two years old because the new one comes out in January. So we don't have the 2324 is not I mean the 2425 is not yet available. the district accredititation status, campus performance objectives, that's from our campus improvement plans, the report on violent and criminal incidents on campuses, student performance in postsecary institutions, our progress toward board adopted house bill 3 goals, and you should include the taper glossery so that people who want to uh investigate can do. So because we use a lot of u jargon in education. So
048the taper report is compiled by tea for every district and campus using pings student assessment data. And if you click on this that it will actually take you to the taper where the taper is posted. Hope I can get back. Uh the taper includes a wide range of information on the performance of students in each district and campus in the state. And it's good to see those comparisons because sometimes we're not pleased with where we are, but sometimes we're ahead of the state or ahead of the region. And so we're quick to um be critical of our work when sometimes we should be really proud of our work instead. and we always want to get better no matter what. We just always want to be better. Um the table provides extensive information on school and
049district staff programs and student demographics. The taper um these are requirements. The accountability rating is in there. Um can you tell me our level end's accountability rating for 2425? for the district. >> C. >> Okay. Um it's that's also reported for each district in each campus. Um you have to list the taper report for the district and you also have to include the taper report for each of the campuses. on the front page of the um taper report is where it shows the special education determination status. I printed one copy of the taper and it's talking about this one line right here that says the special education determination status meets requirements. >> Okay, should be >> good job lacy. >> Sorry, just one second, Don. Everybody should have a copy of that first page in
050a hard copy. Page one it says scores are is a C and meets requirements under one. >> Okay. So that's what um is required to be reported. The next two, the armed services vocational aptitude battery test, the ASVAB test. And actually we are giving this now as just an aptitude test at the high school for students to um get a little direction about what do I want to do when I grow up. And um the 2025 distinction designations would also be on this same page um if there were any to present. Next year it's probably going to flow over to the next page. Um the taper continued. It includes and I'm not going to read all of these all three performance rates for star. It's reported by assessment grade subject and by enrolled grades by
051meets grade level or above. The taper includes school progress, annual growth, accelerated learning, and that's House Bill 1416. And what we're doing to help kids be successful on start and academic growth, which is a combination of annual growth and accelerated learning, is not reported in The taper also includes bilingual education, English as a second language. It's disagregated by all of those different um categories. We are a number two. B is bilingual education. Um two is what we are. No, we're actually number three. bilingual education a transitional late exit program that's the bilingual program that was set up in our district um and if we have to serve students our bilingual students but our teachers are not certified by in bilingual education which is very normal for us because it's very challenging to find bilingual education
052uh certified teachers then you have to serve them in an alternative language program. That's the ALP. And our alternative language program then is ESL because we can get ESL certified normally consistently, but bilingual is a challenge and and it's not isolated to level either. So that's um a little information about our bilingual ESL. Um it includes star performance, annual growth and accelerated learning. Star participation is also reported on assessment participants and those who were not tested. [clears throat] And it's reported for all tests by subject area and for accelerated testers. The taper gives you all the star data you would like. After star data, it includes attendance, graduation, and dropout rates. That's reported for 2324 and the graduation profile for 2324 graduates. And there's a a bullet at the bottom that says uh 2425. were
053not reported at this time. So they're not even included in tapered. Instead, the most recent years are 23 24 and 223. Uh same for this page, college, career, and military readiness, which is one of our house bill goes. So we review that um frequently. um our CCMR related indicators which is the TSI um students who have participated in com uh completed college prep courses um AP results which we don't [clears throat] do we have any very few >> like three from last year it's very small number then our SAT ACT results and any other postsecary indicators This data like the page before is two years delayed. The table also includes student information, staff information like our turnover rate that you're going to hear later from Mr. Robbie Cadell. Um program information and that's [clears throat]
054the table report. Those are all the things that are included in the table report. Do you have any questions on that specific report or do you >> or Mr. Kase >> do not? [laughter] >> Okay. The next report is the PI's financial standards report. This is also an older report. It shows revenues, expenditures, dispersements, tax rates, and fund balance. Um, and it also shows uh for the district and then by campus expenditures by object, by function, and program expenditures by program. Teresa, do you have anything to add to that? >> It was two years ago. >> You what? >> It's two years ago. [clears throat] >> Does anybody else have any questions on that? And then the district accredit accreditation status. Each TEA each year TEA assigns accredititation to each district in the state. The
055most recent is 2324 and Level ISD is accredited. Um the next thing that is part of the annual report is our campus improvement plans and those are posted on the website for you to see um performance objectives. [clears throat] The next report is a report on violent or criminal incidents. I am proud to report that leveling has zero but it is also an old report. Uh the next report is student performance in postsecary um institutions and this report is not available until later this month and it is available on the thcb website and that is the Texas higher education coordinating board um which the college reports to um progress on the district in each campus toward meeting house for um meeting board adopted house bill 3 goals. And uh we've included our last report in
056there as well. And it's included here. There it is. If I can get my mouse there. And as soon as it comes up, you're familiar with seeing our goals. And it was last updated June of 2025. And the taper glossery, as I mentioned, it's you're you're encouraged to include it because it's hard to understand all of the legal ease in education. The [snorts] um taper will be posted on the district's website. These are the rules within two weeks after this meeting, but they are actually already there. Paper copies will be available or can be available if anybody requests them. And for more information, you can contact me. Does anybody have any questions or want more information? That is our annual report. >> I'm gonna take you guys through this really quickly. Thank you, Donna. >>
057You're welcome. >> I'm gonna take you guys through it really quickly. Again, front page, we are a C as a district. And then special education termination, like she said, is meets requirements. Everything she just went through is in this report. Um, and if you see it highlighted in pink, that means we're below the state. Green that means we're at or above the state. Um, there's a lot of pink on this page currently, but I can tell you our elementaryaries and our middle school are the ones that are predominantly pink right now and from last year and they are killing it this year. I am so incredibly impressed with the work that's being done. Um, I can tell you if if you look for Donna, she's on a campus almost every single day. Classrooms, PLC's, she's
058in there with principles, they're working their their tails off. Um, and so I don't necessarily feel like this is where we are, but this is where where we were. And so we'll go through it really quickly. third grade [clears throat] reading, 73% as a district, 77% from the state, and the region's right there in the middle as you can see it on that first page on the back page there. And then the next highlight is meats. And then the last one there for for third grade reading is masters at 15% just right off of the state average currently. Third grade math 66 to 71, 41 to 46, 16 to 19. We're just I mean, we're right there. We're right there. We're pretty close. You look at reading for fourth grade, again, we're knocking on the
059door for what the state average is. And you go down to fourth grade math, again, we're knocking on the door yet again on all categories. um one or two percentage points for a 100 kids is probably five or six maybe maybe seven kids scores bringing us up. So I'm we're we're pretty close. As you move down to um move down to fifth grade math or fifth grade reading, fifth grade reading is kind of weird. It starts at the bottom of that first column, but it's on page four at the bottom right here on the bottom of this of this first page. And that's 62% 77% the state, 44, 58, 15, and 30. Go to fifth grade math, 58 to 74, 35 to 47, and 10 to 22. Fifth grade science 59, but we're above the
060state average in meets and masters. Fantastic work by our fifth grade science team there. Sixth grade reading 56 to 77. You go down to sixth grade math 52 to 74. And then you get over to the high school and um you see a lot of green at the high school. And of course, algebra 1, biology, history, all subjects, lots of green, which means we're at or above the state average. The next section, it talks about all grades. All subjects. And that's at the bottom. And in tiny tiny print there, it says page 8 of 34, but it says all grades um at approaches grade level or above. We're at 67 to the state 75. All grades ELA 69 to 76, all grades math 61 to 72, and all grades science 74 to 78. As you
061remember on my superintendent goals that are kind of officially unofficially some of our board goals, these are the ones we're trying to bump up as a whole. Percentage points. Going to the next page. Seventh grade reading. Seventh grade. Oh, sorry about that. On the next page, um, we're on all grades, social studies, uh, 69% to the 77 at the state. I do like our chances there with the LMA curriculum that I know the middle schools put in. Third grade, um, third graders overall for reading and math, they start combining them at this part of the taper. So, reading and math scores put together. Um, and then reading and math including EOC, reading including EOCC, and math including EOC. And again, we're just below the state average in those. Then it goes to fourth graders, reading
062and math, reading and math including EOC, re uh reading including, and then math equal. Uh the next the next section down is again it's continuing with sixth grade, seventh grade and eighth grade just reading and math and then including DOC's. And we turn the page again right where I wrote on there by hand growth by grade level. This is showing how much we grew by grade level. And while it it's still behind the state in a lot of these areas, the high school again shined out with a lot of green there. But we do have a ton of kids growing by grade level. And then at the bottom it says percentage of students who did not meet in 24 but made significant progress to meet at this at this point in 25. Um huge shout
063out to grade four ELA reading. um 45% of those students made it. If you turn the page, goes to English one, English two and and algebra one. Um those kids who have not met the prior two year but did meet the next year. um where it says in tiny print again on page 14 of 34 this is our bilingual education uh English as a second language this is they how they scored compared to the state again 66 to 75 for all grades um and all subjects reading 69 to 76 math 61 to 72 and science is actually on the back page even though the heading's on the front page it's 74 4 to 78. Social studies 69 to 77. And then all grades, both subjects again 56 to 65. And that's school progress or annual
064growth. And then accelerated learning again that's the kiddos who had not passed the year before but they made uh they they had passed that next year was 27% to the stage 33. Um, go ahead and turn the page. This part is participation in the STAR. And I feel like it's kind of redundant. I'm not sure why it's in the in the taper. It basically says how many of how what percentage of your kids took the STAR um 100%. So, turn the page. I've always wondered why that is in there. All right. Two years ago, 2023, 2024, this is the part that Donna was talking about. It's two years old now. Um, attendance rate was 94%. Uh, just in case you didn't know, um, the TXSE, that means that's the high school equivalent or what a
065lot of times it's called the GED. When it talks about that in the, um, taper report under the class of 2023, under the class of 2024, it says receive the TX, the TXSE, that's the Texas high school equivalency exam. Um, but we are above the state average for attendance rate. We're above the state average for chronic absenteeism in a good way. We're above uh the state average and dropout rate. We're above the state average in four-year longitudinal and um basically our kids come to school, they stay in school and they graduate on time. That's a wonderful thing. We turn the page. We're on 22 of 34. So this section that says RHSP DAP R FHSP all those letters basically that's what graduation plan they are on. So it's the recommended plan the distinguished plan the
066fundamental plan the foundational plan all those plans 91% of our kids graduate on approved graduation criteria and the state averages is 89.5 our region averages 89.3. It's another um huge feather in our hats there. Turn the page again right where it says page 24. Um this is the career college of military readiness the CCMR. So if you look at that again it's two years old status two years old but um two years ago we were above the state at 96% to the state's average of 81.8. That's fantastic. College ready. We have 90.1% of our kids ready for college as opposed to the state 70%. Um, English language arts. So TSI test, a lot of kids have to pass the TSI to take some classes for dual credit. So the TSI, we had 88.7% passage and
067the state was averaging about 69.5. TSI math, that's 90% to the state 63%. uh TSI graduates in both subjects 87% to the states 57. Um the AP exam we just don't have we we push dual credit more than AP to be honest and um I agree with that to be honest with you. So we only had 2% to the states 21 but our kids take dual credit. Associates degree 4% to the states three dual credit courses 40% 44 40.4% 4% to the state's 25.1%. Uh on-ramps, that's the high school run through the Longhorns and we don't do that. We don't we don't support the University of Texas Longhorns onramps program here. So that's not going to go through us. Uh graduates under the advanced placement or the advanced diploma plan, we had 6% to the
068state six. So that's great. So if you look at C career or military ready 36.4, four. We're right there with everybody else. Really, we're really, really close. Approved industry on page 25. Uh, approved industry based certifications, that's 29.8 to the stage, 34.9 graduates with level one or level two certificates, 7 to the states 1% graduates with completed um workforce readiness at 6% to the states two. And then US armed forces enlistment um zero two years ago uh that that changes and fluctuates every year but also we have to send out a report or a form to the military and they have to send it back to us. So that's also really difficult to get that. If you look at uh CCMR related indicators in the taper on page 26 of 34 at the bottom two
069years old data yet again there it is again the TSI reading TSI math TSI both as opposed to the year before completed and received credit for college prep classes. Um we're just we're just better than everybody else there. 47.7 is fantastic compared to the region at 45 and the state at 26. Um, you get down to AP, again, we're pushing dual credit. We push dual credit. I put DC and then I put the greater than sign for Carrie because I know she's a math person to AP because I knew that that would be mathematically correct. And then on 27 page 27 um ACT SAT um we had tested of [clears throat] the of the students tested we had 79.5% pass to the state 79.1 and the region 74.5 and then um if you keep going
070down the average ACT AC act ACT score amongst all graduates we are just behind in a couple areas there. Um, this piece down here that Donna was talking about again was the post-secary indicators. How many kids graduated and enrolled in a higher institution? So, any subject, English, math, science, social studies, right above that. It's right below that. We don't have 22 23 year uh data. We won't have that until this year. But we do have the prior year at 61.5. And uh that's pretty good. Um total students, this is our total student breakdown. Uh at 2425 was 25 266. And this is how many kids we had in each class. If you look, grade 11 was a big grade. It looks to be our biggest last year. Um that's our ethnic background of all of
071our students, males and females. And then other student cohorts as far as economically disadvantaged, non-economic uh non-educationally disadvantaged. If you keep going down to the asterisks at the bottom, career and technology students, 89.7% of our kids are involved in career and technology education to the state 74%. That's so good. Um our special education is 22.6%. So 22.6% 6% of our student population in this taper was it is a special education and that's to the state's um 15%. So that's a big that's a big difference and a lot of our a lot of our schools in our area are seeing that number. um students with disabilities by type. Uh students with intellectual disabilities at 57% of that 25% and um the state's average is 48%. Turn the page. There's two skinny narrow columns on page uh
07231. Skip down to page 32 at the bottom there. This is our uh educational staff information. So teachers, uh, 45% of our staff is made up by teachers. The state average is 48%. But if you go down to educational aids, where it has the minus there, 19% of our staff is made up by the educational aids, and that's probably due to the increased uh the the large level of special education students we serve. Um, so that's not an abnormal number. It's not one to be concerned with. If you go down to teachers by years experience, it looks like we're heavy on the top and the low end and we're kind of lean on the middle. Um the six to 10 and 11 and 20 years, we don't have as many as we do as 1
073to 5, 21 to 30 and over 30 years experience. Number of students per teacher, we're at 13.3 and uh the state average is 15. Uh last page on page 33 of 34 talks about um experience of of campus leadership. Uh we've got some great experience at average years. And then if you keep rolling down to average year by salary, we're behind the state average. [snorts] Um and that's just our geographical area to be honest with you. Um teacher turnover rate 26.1 at the 25 2425 year state average is 18.8. And then um kind of at the bottom there the teachers by program bilingual we're behind. Uh and percentage wise from the state but that's because we don't that's because we don't serve quite as big of a of a population. and then career and technical
074ed, compensatory education, special education, and other got larger staffs because we serve a larger population of those um students. Any Sorry about that. Any questions over the taper over any numbers? Go back over do some homework. Thank you, Donna and Dr. Hman. Uh, let's move to the consent agenda. We have some minutes in the consent agenda. Does anyone have any questions? Do we have a motion to approve? I'll make the motion to approve the cons. >> Brook makes a motion. >> Gary seconds. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay, easy enough. Gets us to Teresa. Okay, let's go into financials for December. For financials for December, it was it December is a slower month. It's half a month for us. So, the expenditures there for fund 171 was payroll and then um supplies for um
075project orders for the LOC. And you will also see that the revenue is increasing. So the supplies that they use for orders is generating that revenue slowly. So you'll see that there. >> Do you have questions for 171? >> You're going to go back and adjust for the title of the audit for next month. >> Okay. And then something happened with the current budget on the other financing sources that no longer ties to the budget. >> I don't know what I did. It's right on 199 coming out but on the going in >> on one one >> but it's the budget side right >> it's the budget side I think I I changed I flipped it instead of I entered it in current budget instead of prior year actual. I think those are my flips
076there that I'll come from. >> And then we're behind on payroll. Is that going to be permanent or a timing difference? >> It's We're going to be behind. Um, we budgeted for more staff on 171 and we only have one staff member that comes out currently out of 171. Yes. So, I'm short one job coach. Is that correct? I'm short one job coach. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Right. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Yeah. Where? Yeah. >> Did >> you say the job coach? >> Not athletic coach. >> No, not athletic coaches. >> Job coach for LC. >> I'm down one, right? >> Yes. >> That's why it's payroll is down. So, are you budgeted for two and you have one and I only have one? >> Are you going to get two or >> go with
077one? >> That would [clears throat] be Are we going to rehire that other job coach or no? Are we looking at it sorting? >> I think we're looking to I think it's it's the position's open. I don't think it's >> I don't think it's posted. >> No, the >> Yeah. No, I'm sorry. The job that's open is not a that's a teacher position. I I do not know off the top of my head if we're going to So, I know I'm just short one on my financials that we pay out. Makes sense. Any other questions on 171? >> Okay. >> Hey, so Priscilla was a job coach >> and >> that's the one that's >> she's resigned. So, that's the position that we want to turn into a teaching position. >> Okay. >> So, that
078that's where I'm confused. And we do have that one posted. >> Okay. >> Yes. I'm sorry. I missed it. >> No, you're >> the high school. >> At the high school. Got you. >> Yes. >> And that comes out of 1991. >> She was a job coach and came out of 171. But if we're going to switch it to one, if she's going to switch to a teacher, we're going to switch it to 199. Yes, >> that's what I said. >> Oh, sorry. >> So, this [laughter] this is permanent that we only expect to have one in this role, >> but that bottom line salary will be the same because it's going to come out on 199 if you can get it hired 187. [laughter] Okay. 181. Uh major expenses there are press box meals,
079um arbiter pay which is for the official payments, uh football supplies, meals, b uh boys basketball supplies and fees, first aid, cross country meals and fees, volleyball supplies, tennis meals, girls basketball, um supplies, softball supplies, baseball supplies, power lifting, and laundry supplies and repairs. Do you have questions? >> This one got messed up too on the budget for >> the trans with all of them. >> I didn't transfer them and tie the audit yet either on the prior year. >> I think I did that. I I know I did. I don't think I know I did. >> Do you know why we're so far away? If you look at it, >> my prior year, same as other finances, is the same number. >> It is on this one, but it's not on the other one.
080So, that's why I couldn't figure out what happened. >> I did that. Yes. >> Um, >> were we asking? >> Do you know why our contracted services is so far over this year compared to where we were at last last year? >> We've already spent almost 80% of our budget. No, but I wonder if it's tiny because we're already even over from our year end. So I'll I'll >> What is What is the [clears throat] contract service? Contracted services would be more most of your officials. Um extra trainers if we need extra trainers, your EMS um for football season. What else? Um off the top of my head, those would be my major ones there. Gate workers, >> chain workers, all. >> What did we budget last year? >> Huh? At the end of the
081year, we finished the year with 84,000 expended and right now we've already expended 91. So, >> but the officials did go up in in cost. >> They did go up some, but not >> not 60,000 for the same timing. No. >> So, we need I need to look and see if it's timing or actual expenditure. >> That's not even covering all the basketball officials and >> No, >> you've got softball and baseball. >> So, I really need to look at that. >> Sure. Quality's gone up. [laughter] >> Yeah. Quality quality officiating. Gary can attest >> only if we help. >> Hey Ly. Ly. Has the has the quality officiating gone up with their price? >> Oh man. Don't get me. [laughter] So last year we had two trainers on staff. This year we have one.
082So is the cost of of those. >> So it should be less less instead of more. >> It should been less. But unless we're are we contracting trainers, >> we've only contracted twice. >> Yeah. So, I would have to look at actual data for that. I'll get that. I'll look at that because that's interesting. Any other questions for this? Okay. So for fund 199 the major expenditures there would be for supplies supplies for the campuses band art and then a renewal for wreath for um supplies for yearbook floral a lobo tech and culinary arts and then function 12 would be um books for capital ABC and then district a district renewal Um for function 34 would be fuel and then parts and supplies. Function 36 would be van supplies fields and meat fees and meals.
083Cheerleading supplies and meals, barbecue supplies and barbecue supplies and fees, choir meals and fees, bus driver meals, and then UIL expenditures. Um function 41 was legal supplies, travel, postage, um TASBY renewal and then news press and then dues. Um pest okay function 51 is pest management um baseball and softball field uh field stuff. um carpet replacement for middle school, utilities, uh maintenance, repair supplies, ground supplies, and custodial supplies. Um function 52 would be the renewal for our AED services. And then function 53 would be our internet contract with service center, mileage, and then um ENA services, which is our VIP services. You have questions for 199. Do >> you want to talk about what we did on the baseball and softball fields? >> Um, those are >> Yes. And those are your yearly your yearly
084tuneups for them. So, spraying the rye and then redoing the mounts if needed. Um, >> cutting it in. >> Yeah. just your Yeah, it's your just your regular stuff and that's a yearly stuff. So, you'll see that expenditure yearly unless we need more more clay or redoing amounts like all the way to the bottom. >> That's expensive. >> Yeah, that was one of the cheaper ones. Just saying. And we have somebody come in and do all about >> Yes. Texas comes and does it. Yes. And they come and they do the spreading and everything for that. >> Do you have any questions? Okay. Surf fund 240 is going to be our food service and the major expenses there are just going to be the food service management payment of SIP and the food processing fees
085and the food processing fees at the end of the year we get reimbursed for those. So those will be an expenditure and then we submit our claim for all of those fees and then TDA reimburses us for them. For which ones? For the food processing fees. That's a new This is a new thing that they're doing this year for fund 240. That's that's a new thing this year. We get reimbured [clears throat] for those. And then fund 599. The only um activity there was tax or tax revenue and then TEA revenue collected. You'll see the bond payments coming out next month. >> Question. >> Yeah, just one second back to the 240. >> Um we're still missing that um general administration percent actual budget. >> Okay. Right here. >> And then I it's totally teeny
086tiny, but it's going to cause you problems all year. Your indirect cost. I think you got a typo in there. it on the prior year actual according to the audit anyway or or maybe the audit has a typo but it's on the audit. >> Yeah. which will then change your fund balance. >> Okay. And then prior month we were reporting 326,224 on capital outlay and now it's 320. Is that something got moved out of there? Is that some audit entries that got moved out? >> Yes, those are the audit entries. >> Um I think it was like the $6,000 or something like that. >> Yeah, >> it got moved out and it was made into supplies if I'm not mistaken. That was an audit entry. Okay. And then um we're spending about the same on
087contracted services, but as a percent of budget it's way lower. Is that an expected savings or that'll catch us eventually? >> Okay. So um so you're saying that on contracted services we're spending about the same >> the same as we were last year at this time but as a percentage of budget we're significant we're basically >> on contracted services but if you look at our supply food supply it's higher because it's how we they invoice us. So no there's not a safe make sense. No, sorry. >> Okay. So, whenever they invoices, they invoice us percentages. So, some a percentage is for contracted services. So, and then a per and then the rest of the percentages would fall under supplies, foods, food and materials and then paper goods would be on the very bottom. So yes,
088the portion for contracted services is down, but the food supplies is higher. >> So object code 63 is lower or higher than last year. >> Gotcha. And the object code the budget for 62 is higher than last year based on how they're charging us. >> Yes. Well, yeah. [clears throat] Well, >> so I don't see us having a savings. >> Okay. So, you just think it may be moved around from how we >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And it's how it's it's because now we're C. So they're now we're only seeing that breakdown differently. Okay. On our end and you should be good because it doesn't matter object code. It merely matters function. >> Correct. >> Okay. And then I think you finished 599 and you have a similar problem in uh debt service payments.
089The audit has 3,444,222. [clears throat] Okay. Any other questions? Okay. And then capital capital projects the only thing that was changed is how the audit changed um in adjusted entries [snorts] but expenditures didn't really change. It was just how we did the journal entries moving some of those expenditures into function 51. We had it all in 81 and some of it got moved to 51. What Casey was talking about earlier, >> some of it was repairs rather than actually adding on to the life of the building. >> Yes. >> So, is that why there's I know this a demo question. >> I got Are you sure? Is that why there's zero on function 81 on this? And yet with what she was reporting, you're in the three and four millions on facilities acquisition and construction.
090I I guess I have trouble being up in the millions, three and four millions on that. But on on this on function 81, there's there's just nothing. >> Function 81, it does show that we did spend the three 3.8 million. You going to show compared to our audit. So this is how it's going to be reflected. I'll show you. This is where she added the new schedule at the end. That way we can compare one year to the next. >> Page 59. Okay. So this is our capital expenditures. >> So what I'm showing is the 3.8 million >> is right here. Right. So, what I'm wondering is how come when you're looking on this >> Oh, because they're two different. So, this one right here >> Mhm. >> is going to be 199. So, it
091would be this bunch right here. And then the 198 would be this one right here. So, it would be two different. So, that way we can keep track of what exactly entailed for the 3 million. >> Gotcha. And instead of us putting it all together like right here, put it all together. You don't know what what each fund expended. >> Okay, >> gotcha. Thank you. >> You would have been a good teacher. >> There's that position open. >> My own kids. It's enough. Okay, >> Teresa, one more item on the fund 198. Instead of it being other financing sources, it's federal revenue. I'm going to get it. Okay. And then I had some questions on just some followup on prior month follow-up stuff. >> On what? >> Um, prior month. >> Mhm. Okay. Just prior
092questions that were lingering. Did we ever get the asbestous testing scheduled? >> I have not. No, I have not. To take away from our list. That's what we're doing, right? To try. >> Yeah. Something we can get rid of. >> Okay. And then along those same lines, did you ever were you ever able to go back? I believe in my notes I have that we paid 11,000 in September for annual asbestous testing, monitoring, whatever it was. Were you ever able to go back and see whether Carver was included in that? No, but I can. >> And the 11,000. >> It was on the list, but we shouldn't have done it. >> No, we shouldn't have done Carver. >> But it was on the list. probably just >> and the one that >> misunderstanding because they
093probably just had it on their list. >> Okay, >> I need to double check. I don't think Carver was on their list. I remember that math coming, but I will >> and maybe they didn't test it, but maybe it's included in the charge. And maybe just taking it off the list of the charge doesn't change the charge, but >> making sure what they did, what they charged us for, and what they wrote are all three the same thing. Okay, >> with that one removed it should >> it should have reduced it. >> Should have reduced it. >> Should have now maybe missing something too. So >> might have just been district like a amount for us. So we'll see. >> And then lastly um but also related to Carver where we received that 195,000 or
094$200,000 from PRC roofing and that included the Carver charge that they said they were not going to charge us for. They didn't they that's why they came back and not charged that change order. We had a change order of $101,000 or $110,000. They didn't come back and recoup that >> in order middle school. >> Mhm. [clears throat] >> So, we had to change order for the foam panels. >> Yeah. when they were doing the roof >> in in exchange for >> in exchange for just >> the emergency repairs. >> Okay. So then just the two SS questions. >> Yes. >> Okay. I'll get those and I'll get those answers and then I will email you all so I won't forget. >> Any other questions on the financials? [clears throat] Gary, you're still good. >> Okay.
095>> And if you want to come in anytime, we can talk about it and we can explain it if you want in detail. >> I'm not opposed to that because I know that's a lot. >> It's hard to soak in just because of the difference. >> Because that's a big difference. >> Yes. And then I was like breaking down with it just just in function 34 it was less in in payroll and then about 150 and less in fuel. We had less buses running so less fuel was expended and then 285,000 in capital outlay that didn't get expended there. So there there's an explanation to all of it. It's just we would have to break it down. Well, I think what was uh confused me was at at previous meetings we've talked about how things
096were put in that >> uh function that where we it hadn't been paid for yet and we were we were figuring out how we were going to you know and there were just there were amounts in there that it's like it wasn't really in there but it was in there and So, all of the amounts that we presented in fund 198 that you're seeing there, they have all been paid for. The only thing is that we're paying for it with our savings account, with our fund balance, hoping that FEMA and insurance comes and repays us and we get the difference and we are allowed to put back our money into our fund balance into our savings account. Um, but all of those items have been paid. Um, so we're we're good there. I think that's
097one thing that I forgot to talk about during the audit is if you look at the assigned balance to cap X, it went up and the unassigned balance went down. And that's counterintuitive to actually how we ended the year on regular operations. We were essentially balanced or yeah, essentially balanced. And our capex were a million dollars short on the storm damage from what insurance we should have. Some of that will be deductible and the rest we hope to recoup from FEMA at some point. So, we're a million dollars short in capex, but our capex fund balance went up. And that's a combination of it went down. We used some of that money. But then many years ago, the board uh took us an approach that they would like anything over a 100 days of fund
098balance to be put aside to capex so that we are saving for god forbid the next storm or other facility expenses that we need down the road. So, it was a combin It looks like it went up and it did, but it was a combination of we used some and then we put some additional funds back since we were able to basically be balanced and overall our expenses went down. Therefore, it cost less to cover the 100 days. So, we were able to put more over into capex. Is that >> fair? That is fair. >> Does that make jello sense? sort of. >> Teresa, would you give me one more time? There was a number in staff savings and then fuel savings and then capital outlay. >> Oh, staff saving was about 250 and then
099fuel is 150 and then capital is 285. Thank you. >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> and then another 250 in capital for function 51. So those other numbers were just out of function 11. That was function 34. The numbers I gave you 250, 150, and 285. That's function 34. >> 34, >> which was a savings of 600 and something thousand difference was because of all those things. Gotcha. I'm not knocking what you're doing as far as the cushion goes, but the big cushion the same for this budget. [laughter] >> I like your question. >> Um, I was conservative, but I wasn't able to be as conservative. >> We talked about that, remember? >> Yes. But I wasn't a I was conservative, but I wasn't as conservative just because I >> just for a closer look. I
100mean, that's that's the only thing. I mean, >> yeah, >> it's >> this one's going to be a lot closer than Yes. >> Yeah. >> Just because we weren't I was unsure of how we were going to absorb from coming out of Esser, I had to be able to be conservative. Um, my conservative was a little on the high side, which I'm still okay with. I rather be on the high side than the low side. So, >> it's just one of the things that's hard to explain. [clears throat] >> Yes. >> When we're asked, >> you're talking about the total $4.2 million. >> It's hard to explain. >> Yeah. I think a a good a big chunk of that, like she said, is the is the decrease in instruction and then not having to um
101planning on having to do a fleet, a bus, but didn't do a fleet. And then after that, it's 100 here, 100 here, 100 here, >> 200 here, 75 here, a million at um facilities and acquisition, construction, and then we got additional revenue coming in. Um, and now this year we have disaster pennies and then next year we have planned. >> But, >> and I know it's hard, >> but when you're looking at some budgets that are a million dollars, it's kind of it's easier to see how we're saving 68,000 there if your budget's a million. So, it's just being conservative when >> I totally get what you're saying. going like going to your fleet thing. >> Yeah, >> cuz we had this big discussion before. >> We don't want to get in a bond. >>
102Yeah. >> Correct. >> So for cushion is enough we could have covered. >> You see what I'm saying? Yeah. >> I mean it'll have put us one point. >> But a lot of things hit differently too. We didn't know how we were going to do with our property values not passing or if they were going to pass. >> So we weren't a lot of things. But you see what I'm you see where I'm going. >> Absolutely. >> Totally get it. >> It's one of those deals where you're >> you want to save, but you don't want to get in the bind either. >> No doubt. No doubt. Cuz we need good vehicles. >> Mhm. >> And so we're still looking to get help from FEMA. >> Yes. We still have the >> which will put
103us >> they should cut us back >> even better picture than it even looks tonight. Right. >> Correct. >> Yes, we should be in conservative eventually conservative guess of how much we could possibly retrieve from FEMA. >> Um I am asking for our deductible which is a 650 and then our non uh recoverable depreciation which is another 600,000. So about a million dollars from FEMA. That's what I'm I'm trying to get. There's no promises. It's still working. >> It is. It is hard. There is one lady in charge of the whole thing. I think I told y'all this a couple months ago. One lady in charge of giving any amount over 300,000 and she has to personally approve any amount over 250 or 300,000 whatever it was. And that she is it that is just
104her for the whole for everybody. that FEMA covers. So, it could be a year, could be two years. Um, I just settled one at my former district that was 15 years old. So, I don't want to I don't want to bank on it. I know. I don't want to say that. Sorry. Look at [laughter] >> you. Really disappointed me there. >> Hurricane Ike. Hurricane Ike was It was >> Well, we are where we are on this. >> Yeah. That is where we're at without it. >> Yes. So, if we hopefully get and then I still have to get our our nickels and dimes from the insurance company, too. So, like they haven't really covered. We're looking at Hbacks and all the little things that we worked in house. Those are nickels and dimes, but I'm
105still claiming them. >> Yep. >> And so, that's what we're working on. Now, >> anything we fixed in house, we can we can bill for. So that's a ton of stuff that she'll be billing for based on our hourly folks who we employ and their time. >> And then invoices that we for supplies or anything that you would see expended on our regular budget that's going to be reimbured too. So and then we're going to I'm going to claim with FEMA. I'm going to claim for administrative cost also. So hopefully they cover that also. Any other questions? Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the financials? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. Trina makes a motion. Mike seconds. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. Budget parameters. >> Budget parameters. This
106is onlyformational and this is very very very preliminary like there's not enough information to build a budget on. Okay. So it's the same thing we were reviewing last year of how we come up with revenue in a budget and expenditures in a budget. So um just for overview we ha um looking at enrollment enrollment has declined it declined 150 seats this year um that's a lot more than the 2% that I had that had projected for 2526 which is scary it's a million dollars so that's that's something we're facing right now um and then our PES snapshot um we see our economically disadvantaged population, our at risk, our special ed, all of those different type um student pops generate different type of funding. Um so that generates more um our student transfers out have stayed
107the same for the past five years. Um and then our average daily attendance right now it's at 94. We budgeted at 94. Right now it's like 94.5.05. So we're right at what we budgeted. If it goes any lower, then we're losing additional funding on top of the 150 student no 98 students that I didn't budget for. And then property um insurance um anticipating an increase. Uh we were we did good by saying um we decreased this last premium for 25, but I'm anticipating an increase because it's very rare that we see a decrease. Um and then our collections, we are hoping that we get a valid property study um for this current year and that would be two in a row. And so we would would be good there. not looking at facing any state
108revenue reductions, >> then we could just go back to every other year. >> Yes. Instead of every single year. And then our our um state funding staying the same. There's no increase there. Child nutrition, we are looking we're going to stay C. Um, and then this next year is going to be our first year on our food service management company. So those rates could possibly change. They could increase or decrease depending on what our bids come in at. Also, our taxable value um we depends if it increases or decreases. And then if we do a vader or we don't do a vader, if it passes or it doesn't, um we are at a compressed rate. So we will be compressed additionally um regardless. Um so currently we have it at um 6922. That would be
109our compressed rate um this coming year. But right now we're budgeted at point 8022. So that's a lost of a lot of pennies for maintenance and operation. Um and then federal federal funding the loss of loss of students means the loss of federal funding because it's based off our student population. And then increases. So like if we're looking at pay raises that means changes in payroll. So we our payroll increases our expenditure increase. So we have to realize all of these revenues are decreasing but our expenditures are increasing. So we have to be cognizant of that. Um and then C campus budgets looking at um per pupil aotments based off of um students or activities looking at those aotments for each campus and department budgets. So th this is really more of a brief overview
110and just to make sure that we do know that we're going in with 150 students less. Do y'all have any questions or do y'all want any different information for budget purposes? If you had to just close your eyes, [laughter] go Vader. It I'm not asking you to hold it to my po point that I'm getting to is that are is this information are we all on the same page. So if you had to close your eyes, I'm not holding you to it. Okay. Where do you think the deficit number is without the Vader? It's a total wild guess. Almost four million. >> Okay. >> What? >> Why have Pardon? >> Why are you going to ask if we just passed if you just saw an audit that saved that we were only $800,000? >> No.
111You've got a lot of things stacked against you. >> Okay. I thought you were going to say why. >> No, but what I'm saying is what you've communicated on these 10 page, six pages is about $2 million. And so if you have in your head four million, then we need to get the other two million on these pages. >> And it's easy. I can do that. I can tell you why. >> Part of that is your tax stuff. >> Revenues are going down. Staffing's going like staffing expenses are going to are higher. It's going to be higher next year, too. Um, I mean, I wrote down some things like obviously putting in raises, which you mentioned, but there's no number in there. So, if you have a number in your head, that's not on here.
112Raises the Vader could and you've mentioned it, but not valued it. Um, you know, you're going to probably budget an extra SRO. >> Um, you're looking at doing the tennis courts. >> Hoping I can get the >> this one. Um, >> and the field, >> the football field, whatever will net out of that. >> Correct. >> Um, at one point we were talking about needing to replace some vape detectors. Whether that falls in what you've already got [clears throat] >> a fifth function outlay >> kind of budget your mark there. >> Um, we talked about at one point selling some of the extra buses. >> I know. And that scares me. I'm a hoarder when it comes down to that stuff. But that's what we'll we have to make a plan because I rather hold
113on to stuff. >> We'll get with Rodney and Tina and we'll make a plan. >> Yeah. Because I'll be a hoarder and I'll keep them for a rainy day. And so if I'm understanding our southern cotton oil discussion earlier, if I'm looking at last year's budget or 2526 budget and comparing what will change to 2627 is zero change because we didn't include it and it won't be included. >> Correct. >> Okay. [clears throat] And we talked about the turf. Um bad debt. That's should be another 42,000. >> Yes. >> Positive. >> So we found 42,000. at a fourish. >> Um, but making sure that we're going at the same pace as you and obviously not >> so can see the picture instead of just getting hit all at once. >> Right. >> Okay. >> So
114that we're not thinking, oh well, we know it's bad, but we've looked at $2 million and then come July it's a $4 million. Where did that come from? >> All the little extras. Okay, I can do that. >> And not to the dollar by any stretch, but the big stuff to kind of get you >> just to be aware and if it don't happen, it don't happen. If it's possible, it's going to happen. >> Well, raises are going to happen. Increases are like >> and you know insurance is going to happen. Taxes are going to happen. So what we have here the enrollment decline of 300 something thousand property insurance 100,000 loss of the disaster penny. So the 11 pennies times the amount that you put in here is 1.6. So you've got $2 million.
115So we're at a that's two on top of the 200,000. [clears throat] So we're at a 2.2 is what I see. So we're on a different page. >> Yes. I'm seeing other items, but then this is my world, so I'm like, "Okay, yes, I see this. I see this coming." So, yes. So, just we're we're with you. >> Just Yeah, just jot it down. If you see it, it would help if we see it. >> Okay, I'll do. >> Any other questions, concerns, suggestions on the budget parameters? Obviously, we're a long way from the finish. >> Get more kids in here. >> [snorts] >> be a close, but >> Okay, >> next item is the board of trustees election. Okay, so our board of trustees is our general election. We're only having one election this
116year. Last year we had a special. So, this election is going to be for one single member district for district five and then two at large um seats. And this is going to be held on May the 2nd. Um and then we are going to partner up with the city, county, all of the entities. Um, and Jod Rose is going to be the one that's going to administer at the election office. So, this is for three three trustees. Any questions? Do we have a motion to approve? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> Mike makes a motion. Joyce seconds. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. Thank you, Teresa. >> Oh, no conditions. Just that we're having action. Now, I'm here to present the summer school calendar. And I
117think we've already discussed this. Summer school will be held at middle school, high school, and Capitol Elementary. It will be provided for students who are not successful in the STAR so we can help them be prepared for the next time they um face the STAR test and for students who um do not meet attendance requirements and um credit recovery at the high school as well as um intensive remediation to take in of course test retakes. In addition, migrant will have a three-week program at the middle school and bilingual grades, the students who are prek and K who are going into K and first, no, preK and K. The second, if they're in preK and K this year, they can go to summer school this year. Um, but we have to have at least 10 students
118who participate in that to offer the program. Um basically the program will start on May 28th and it will run through um June 25th at most campuses. Elementary will stop on the 18th of June and the migrant program will also start on the 18th of June. And we've already shared that any students who are not successful on STAR will be um strongly encouraged to participate in summer school. Cordially invited. >> Cordially invited >> that's been shared on social media. Is that >> has that gone out any other places? Parent notification. How how are we pushing >> on parent square as well? >> I think it's been shared in class meetings at middle school. >> We shared it at um our awards assemblies with parents that were in attendance there and and with the kids all
119in that same group. Kind of walked them through what that would look like. And I think there's a little opposition in from parents on that, but really we want everybody to get on board. We want our kids to do well. So we want kids to be focused. We want parents to help their kids be focused. We want our staff to be focused so that our kids perform. That's what we want. And then do we notifi or is it just a an assumed if you fail star then you need to show up or do we make notifications then when it happens? >> We contact parents they get an invitation. No, we don't come. We contact the kid, but normally that's through the parent with phone calls, letters. Um, once we get that data in May, June,
120depending on when it becomes available to us, >> we start testing April. >> Mhm. >> Yes. >> And we'll get them right before right close to the end of May. So, be a lot of phone calls. >> Right. Right around the time we're >> April 20 or we get it May 20. >> Right at the end of 7thish. Oh, so it is after >> school releases, right before we need them back. >> It's very It's always very close. >> It's tough. Now, here's what happens. Like, so if if a kiddo doesn't pass, they're required to do a certain amount of hours for each English and math subject. And what that does is it takes them out of electives throughout the school year. They have to spend nine months in an additional math or an additional
121English class. So, what this does is when we send them to school in June for uh the summer learning initiative, then they're allowed to come to school and be in normal electives just like their cohort throughout the school year. Because I'm not I mean, you may not believe me, but kiddos don't come to school for an extra math or English class. They come to school for those electives. There aren't many out there like me that died for history class and would have taken two or three if they could have. And so, um, those extra those extra classes that they can take are are a huge attendance boost. It's a huge morale boost. And we want them in those classes. >> And we're calling it summer enrichment, not summer school, >> summer enrichment. So, if they
122don't come, then they'll have to go to those um those hour those required courses, enrichment courses throughout a 9-month span. And it's it's not as um just doesn't enhance the the regular school. >> They know this, right? >> Oh, yeah. Yep. Well, and we've already started putting putting that information out to parents and students so they're aware of what the expectation is in Level End. Y >> um this um agenda item is for your approval. [snorts] Donna, I think on page two where you're talking about campuses and it says testing during the week of the 24th technically covers it, but I think that's last year's date. I think it's the 22nd. >> I'm sorry, where? >> Under campuses, the very last sentence, EOC testing during the week of >> Oh, it may be. I don't
123have a calendar in front of me. Is that the Monday of that week? June 24th. >> I think Monday is the 22nd. According to this other blurb over here under star free retest. >> Say that again. >> Is June 22th. >> June 22nd is a Monday. >> The 22nd is a Monday. >> Okay. Then before we publish it, we'll change that to the 22nd. >> And then can you We're talking about serving meals at Capitol and middle school. Is that correct? >> Correct. >> So what about the high school kids? Um, high school can go to middle school if they want meals. Normally the high school kids don't stay for lunch. >> What about breakfast? >> Uh, they can get a bus if they need it. >> But we're not doing buses to How do
124they then get to the high school if they've got to be at the middle school for breakfast? >> Uh, if we have kids that want to be bus back from high school to middle school for lunch, we'll bus them back for lunch >> and bus the other way for breakfast. >> Correct. And are they aware of this when they sign up for buses? >> So you're dropping them off at middle school, eat breakfast, and then go to high school. >> Normally, I mean, it has always been our practice in the past. We don't serve meals at high school because the high school kids don't participate. >> So, we're paying a lot of staff to not serve very many meals. >> That's true. >> Um, if we find that there is a need, we could possibly
125take some sack meals >> over, but we'll wait until we see that there's a need. that >> uh and likewise the summer feeding will be offered at middle school and capital for the whole month of June. >> Not just the dates listed here. >> Uh all weekdays the whole month of June. >> So even after we're finished with summer >> even after we're finished they offer for the rest of the month. >> Okay. Part of summer feeding >> and that's normal. That's our normal protocol. Is that attended? Is that attended well? >> Uh after summer school? No. >> No. >> Uh very few. >> But it's required. So you have to continue to to offer it. And and any child, even if they're not in summer school, any child 0 to 18 can go and
126eat >> during Yes. during summer feeding program. >> They don't have to be from Levland ISD or anything. >> Correct. Any any c any child can walk in and eat breakfast and lunch during June at middle school or capitol. >> You're about to see the husband kids. >> I'm not feeding Grayson. >> That's just a second. >> I bet you are. That's >> so Donna, how does that relate to the public, the community? >> Um, we share that information. It's advertised at each campus. Um, I know we also send out the flyers with Bill's backpacks. Um, so that they all have that information. It's also available through um when you call 211, which is services in the community like 911. Um, it's also available that way. It'll be in the newspaper. So, I don't know
127that we send something home with every kid. Do you? No, we share it on Facebook. We can add parent square if we need to. >> Rodney, will you put that on your radar when Steve gets those flyers in >> to send them my direction? >> And we're also sending them home with our end of the year backpacks. We send them all month for May. >> Good. Okay. Any other questions? Do we have a motion to approve? >> And I will make that one change to the 22nd. Sorry, I thought I caught all the mistakes. >> Approve the second. >> Okay, Gary. Next motion. Mike seconds. All in favor? Any opposed? >> Thank you, Donna. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Well, we just finished testing today, so more data to come soon. Sorry about that. But
128we just have enrollment. We went up a few in some grades and down a few and we ended up with two extra kids. So, we're just right there. They come in, they leave. So, that's been fun. Um, but good. Some sweet new faces. And then our attendance, um, it was getting better and now we have the flu and co >> and so that is so exciting. Um, and it is starting to creep into my staff, which is even better. Um, so we're we're trying. We're gerxing, we're washing, we're Cloroxing, we're everything we can do to keep that up. But, um, man, sickness is is real right now for our lowimmune little children who have never been in school. Um, other than that, we just have some we've just really been testing. Um, and welcome back
129to school. Like, hey, you forgot this is school. So glad you came back. So, uh, we had some glow day reviews and reviewed prek did like a whole day of reviewing letters just to, hey, get back to where we were. And then this was from December. I don't think I've seen you guys since then, but we of course celebrated the 67th day of school because why not um because it is everything every day for me. And then after that, we just we don't talk about it anymore. So, it's like Bruno. And then uh we had a pink miss and the band came and performed for us. And really January has been real quiet. So, we've got Ly's limo coming up for those attendance kids. We got Paul's assemblies. Um, and then, uh, we're going to
130celebrate Texas in March. So, we're just getting the ground running with lots of curriculum right now. >> Really enjoyed the, um, Watchd Dogs post that you guys [cough and clears throat] had. That was really cool. >> Yes. >> All the dads that came out. So cool. >> I love that day. I love Except for You're going to have to come back for Watchdog Days, >> like for for the kickoff. Oh, >> right. >> The big dog. >> Be the top dog. >> Big dog. [laughter] >> I love it because I'm standing in the hall and we're having dad's uh donuts with dogs and this just happened this week. Yeah. Yesterday. This happened yesterday. Um, but the dads, um, they're all just so friendly and happy and they're like all buddies and shaking hands and their
131kids are seeing that interactions. Moms when they walk down the hall have a mission. They've got to be somewhere. I mean, there is not really a lot of that going around, but the dads, you know, everybody's just carrying their coffee cup in. They're just so happy to be there that this isn't their normal. Um, and so it was really cool to see. It >> was really neat. really really very well attended. So >> well done. >> It was good. So next next kickoff. You're you're the top dog. >> Anything else? That's really all we got. Sorry. >> Okay. >> Testing's just getting wrapped wrapped up at the schools right now. >> Hello. Hello. So, we'll start off with enrollment as well. We lost one second grader um who moved over Christmas break. So, we are
132down one student um there. I didn't put attendance on here, so I looked back. Teresa's last report had us at 96.53. So, that's um right about where we want to be. Knock on wood, we haven't been sick much yet, but >> I know just I shouldn't have said it out loud. Um so we have also been testing but um I want to move back to the first week in December. So we when they first switched that star platform to Cambium several years ago, can't even remember. Um we tried it. We wanted to do the practice test on Cambium. We tried it and um it was different than what we usually do. We usually do that released benchmark or release test for a benchmark. So we try it then. Um, the test was weird. I mean,
133it was just different. You get everybody gets the same first 10 or 12 questions and then it tracks you into a high, medium, low, and then if you score high enough, you can go back up to the high track. And, um, so it's just really hard to interpret. Um, you can look at the questions, but you have to look at the questions one by one by one, and you can't cut and paste any of them because it's all very confidential. And so there was just a lot a lot going on there. So we didn't do it for the last several years. But when we found out that STAR is likely to become beginning, middle, and end of year, we thought, let's see what this looks like. Um Terry let us know that there was the
134opportunity to do an interim test in the fall and then another in the spring. So we decided we'll jump on the fall one. And so that first week, we came back after Thanksgiving break. We gave that test to um third and fourth graders in the math and the reading language arts. And I just wanted to show you kind of what we saw. So if you look on that page, I'll just go through the first one because the others are are design or put together the same way. But that's third grade math. And the top graph there, you can see that we were at 34% masters predicted to be masters. So it gives you a prediction of where this student should fall. So it's not all the standards that have been taught. It's just the ones
135that should have been taught by towards the end of the fall semester. So 34% at masters, 52% at means, and 61% at approaches is the prediction that it gave us for math. And so I wanted to compare that to what happened last year when we gave that full benchmark test in the spring in March. Um we got very different scores. So on the left is that benchmark we gave which predicted we would have 6% at masters which is significantly lower. Six I'm sorry it's tiny 16 is that what that is? Yep. >> 16% at um meets and 55% at approaches. But when we actually took the real deal star that's the next slide our graphic there we were at 20% masters 47% mates and 76% approaches. So, we are working on interpreting that data and
136making a good decision because we'll give a benchmark um in March again. And we're deciding whether we want to do it with that interim or if we want to give the whole release test. It's always been real important for us because third grade have never tested before for them to really get the feel of it because I mean there really are tears. It is hard. It is long. that stamina that it takes. We want them to have that experience. This is a little shorter and um not quite as just doesn't take quite as long, but other than that um the question levels are still very high and um and we are able to get better data. So when we look at it now, it can be uploaded into Edgehaporia and with Edgeaphoria, we can see
137the data the way it makes sense to us. We still have to look. But it it's really interesting as we start digging in to see, you know, these if you sort, you know, lowest to highest scores or highest to lowest scores. You see this pattern of students getting all these questions, getting getting them right, and they just keep going because they're getting all these right. And so they keep going. But then you also see this sixth or seventh highest scorer didn't get quite as many right. went down to a different level of test but then came back up and scored as high as some of them who went straight across. So, there's a lot of unknowns. Um I'm visited with Ashley Nelson at the service center about trying to get my head around how that's
138working and it really is um an understanding. They they've allocated certain points to certain depth of knowledge questions. The more difficult questions mean okay, you're on a roll. You you can do some of these high things. And so they put some of those in each piece. And so helping us get our head around it was the first step. Um but it's still a lot. And so we've gone through that in PLC's. We are still going to work together to decide do we want to give the full benchmark or do we want to try this again which is going to give us the best data. I mean I'm hoping that 34% masters is right. Right. So I'm I'm hoping that that we really are right there but it's just concerning because it doesn't match what we've
139seen. Um and so we're just not 100% sure. part of me wants to do both because then we can really see, but we don't have the days. We're already having to combine lessons to get everything taught. So, we've still got some decisions to make there. But, I just wanted to share that data with you and and talk with you about some of the things we're working through. You'll see it was very similar at fourth grade math. It was very similar at third and fourth grade reading where the masters was high. Now I will say I have um a lot of doubt concern about the reading simply because there was not an extended constructive response. Students were not asked to write um last year when we gave the benchmark test they did write. We scored them
140and you'll see that our masters in reading there we predicted we'd have 13% at um masters in third grade reading and we had 15%. So I think our teachers know how to score it. they do a good job of scoring that. If we decide to go with the interim, we will include some kind of constructed response so that we can make sure um that we are getting the information we need there. Um but lots of things to think about, lots of ways to dig in and disagregate that data. We um have finished our NWVA testing, but I think we're going to share that next time, so I didn't include it here. But this next slide, I think it's the fifth slide there that um I wanted to show you is just kind of how we
141communicate that data. So there's um other pieces like I said we have done our NWA and that bottom graphic there on the left is a new as of last year piece that NWA NWA added and it's a a projected star range. So you can see for instance on that little graphic there that this student you can see he went up. So that's great. We're excited when when NWA goes up, but you can see he is teetering right there between meets and masters. His projection is right there. And so that's something we look at, but it's also something that we share with kids. So Mr. Daniel and I do one-on-one conversations with every student. He does third grade, I do fourth grade. We bring them in during library or computer time to come into our office
142and we talk to them about those scores. And we show them that graphic and it says, "Look here. You are predicted to you are right here on the bubble. a little more work and you're going to be masters. I have no doubt you can do it. Um I put a copy of that letter there as well. This is the conversation we have today. I had a conversation with Miss Runkles. Here's what we talked about, what I love about school, what's hard about school. Um and mostly that I love them and I believe in them and here's what I think you can do. And we ask students to commit. I'm going to work hard. I'm going to do my best. And then they sign if they can commit. And I've never had one not sign, so
143that's a good sign. um and then I sign that I believe in them and then they take it home and they bring it back signed. And so it's an opportunity for us to have that one-on-one conversation. Um this year we're going to add that piece about your projection on the start interim as well. Um and we are so we're starting those earlier. We used to wait till after the benchmark, but now that we've done a test, we can say here's what that projection was. And then talking about summer enrichment, we are going to tell kiddos. So depending on what that next practice test tells us, we're going to have a lot of good information to tell you if you may need summer enrichment or if you're predicted to to do great. And so we'll have
144that piece and we can tell students there as well. Um I will tell you that when I shared it at those awards assemblies, we were talking through um the purpose in that summer enrichment. So I loved that um Dr. Birdwell brought that to the admin team and said he wanted to do that at middle school and we all thought we all want to do that then. Um but helping kids and parents know that the last thing we want to do is to send you to the next grade not prepared. We don't want you to get there and struggle. And so we talked about here's our masters and what it means our meets our approaches and did not meets means some of those holes are so big that you would really have a hard time moving
145on to that next grade. And so we want to help that. And so we had that communication as well. And then there are also two samples of letters that teachers sent home um sharing the NWA scores, sharing those um interim scores just to make sure that we are keeping people as informed as we possibly can. Then some great things going on on our campus. Um Miss Utley does such a great job with our guidance lessons. She always has a really good theme every month. Um, and I wanted to share some of those. You can I don't know what y'all can see on your copy, but you can see these believe in yourself, you know, out there. Um, I can keep trying. I'm capable of doing hard things. I'm talented. I'm loved. All of those things.
146And then the picture on the left is some kiddos just admiring each others and pointing out their own elf um as they were looking at those in the hallway. I caught them doing that and thought that was a great picture. Um, the next slide is our GT program. We did presentations before Christmas and kids did a great job. They did a um map across Texas and they traveled. They planned a trip to all the monuments and then they researched them and each one told about a different monument and you can see I'm pointing now. We're headed down to and you know how far it is from Leveland and all of those things. And then we um do the the um project where they create a business and last the last couple of years, Miss Alexander
147has had them do u research food trucks. And so that very last Thursday before they quit food trucks on the courthouse lawn, that's their field trip. They go down and they have a certain amount of money to spend and they have to decide what they want to buy and and then they investigate the menus and the offerings and they decide um what kind of food truck they would like to open and they um create that business model. Next is some DI practice. We are excited about our two teams that will be participating in DI in February. They were doing some improv there and um they get really creative. That's lots of fun to watch. Our student council um is doing a great job this year. They collected cozy socks. We wore cozy socks to school
148that day and they collected those and took them to Hickory House and played bingo and um shared cozy socks with some of the residents there. [clears throat] Here's our robotics team at practice. They were supposed to have a um overview at Texas Tech on Saturday. That got it's going to be virtual. That's not nearly as much fun. Um, but it's just the overview where they um she'll Miss Sanders will have to pick up her mat at another time, but they'll get that information and they are already hard at work. It seems like months ago because it was Camp Capital is our big um November, our big fall family night and we had a great turnout. We always have such good turnout and we are flashlight reading intents. Every student gets a book to take home
149with them and they get to grab a flashlight and read that intense. We're making um trail mix over here, learning to measure, all kinds of fun things, face painting. We had a really good time there. And then just last week, we had family reading night for our January family night. And so that's there, too. And you can see the other things that are coming up. I put Wind in the Willows, even though I knew it would be afterwards when I got to share that with you. And let me just tell you, it was fantastic. It was so good. It was a oneman show. I didn't realize exactly what it was going to be and he was fantastic and then he took some questions afterwards and the kids were so good. How'd you learn those moves?
150[laughter] Because he was he was very animated and he only had two props and he used those for a boat and for trees and for all kinds of things. Um anyway, they had really great questions and he was very engaging. We had a good time. Um got your cart family art night. All kinds of things coming up here in the next um month or so. Joanna, can you go back for just one second? Tell me again what the name of the new system you were using to test. >> It's the Cambium platform. It's what Star is given in. >> Cambium. >> They're called interim tests. >> And that's the platform that um Star is is. It's that same platform. Um if you want to play around in it, texasassessment.gov, you can see all the release
151tests if you want to. you can get on and you can you can give it a shot. And then do you obviously the state has not come out with their full version of what they're redoing with STAR but do we expect it to still be a full test or more like this cambium >> on the middle beginning middle and they're going to call it SST which is student success tool >> and it's going to be a shorter test >> from from what we know now. I mean it could change tomorrow, right? >> For sure. >> But they'll be shorter tests. The first two will not have constructed responses, but the third the end of the year will >> Oh, so we're going to surprise them at the end practice. >> Yeah. Like I say, that
152that's as of today. That does [clears throat] not come out until 27 28. So there's a lot of time >> because AI can only grade so many essays. [laughter] But but I will say on on the AI deal if if a student is borderline to the next performance level they are getting hand graders now off of that >> and surprisingly the scores go up with hand graders >> like shock don't have 50% of third graders >> start >> yeah there's something wrong with the the um well if you've seen the prompt there's something wrong with the prompt as well but there's also something wrong with AI if 50% of your third graders across the state don't get it I mean get an absolute zero that's that's not a >> that's a rubric >> that that's
153yeah >> the rubric that was put into it didn't wasn't correct >> right but if you read the if you I mean the prompt itself is like nuts as well asking a third grader to read a very um very nonliteral fable and then compare what this character did to a girl who's at soccer practice and how they attacked their goals differently. It It was It was It was just mean just It was just ugly. Yeah. So anyway, but now we know and um we were in third grade classes today. Um Donna was there visiting um doing our um walkthroughs and um we had a third grade teacher who said, "I'm so excited because we're added this unit. We had skipped it in years past, but we added it. I'm so excited. it's um fiction because
154we haven't done fiction since wind in the willows back in August and anyway we're having that conversation and she said and then the next coming up is a paired passage and so we're because it could be drama and poetry or it could be you know and all the different ways but she was she was literally think I mean trying really hard to make sure we are we are comparing as many things as we can and then we're writing about it so that we if they're going to throw us hard things we're going to get ready for hard things. So, >> so in theory we are doing the same star test this year. >> Yes. >> And next year. >> Yes. >> And then who knows, >> right? >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All we
155know is it'll be a bo and ei for right now. for certain for right now. >> Session before that. >> Oh yeah. >> So it could be anything. >> We'll have the 90th legislative session before that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. We are um actually woo woo. Our enrollment is up one from say this. We are back up at 236. We lost a couple, but we gained a whole bunch, like eight since the last deal. So, we are sitting at 236, which is a great number. [snorts] Um, my second grade teachers don't think it's the greatest number, but we're making it work. Those little classes are packed. Look like sardines. Um, our attendance, we're still pounding on the attendance again. Um, my parents hate me, and it's okay. It's just become a joke. So, we were
156up 2% in November. We didn't move in December, but we did not go down. And that's my goal is not to go down. And we had awards assembly the other day and and I was walking up there and one of the kids said, "Can we leave early?" And I said and they went, "Never mind." And I said, "Good." And so I said that afterwards and I said, "What is our goal?" And they went, "98%." And I was like, "Okay, so we're not leaving early." So the other day Teresa had announced that what all they are and and still half a point and we're going to be up there with capital. So we just keep saying we've got this. We've got this. 96 is good. We've got this. So we have all kind of bribery if
157they make it to 98% what we'll do for them. And the other day my I had a class that was texting me every day. They had made the whole class had been there every day until Friday morning and one little boy missed. And >> sadly, peer pressure sometimes works. I just go natural consequences. You weren't here, your friends are going to say something, you know. So, um, but I did announce that they have made it four days in a row. So, it was fine. Um, so that has been our big things. We have been testing. We have been doing all the things. Also, those are not the fun things. The fun things are the pictures on the next couple of pages. November was busy. We do a turkey trot. Coach, you got to scream out
158to coach. That's where they built that building around him. He knows more about it than anybody. And um that was when I came last year. He said, "We do a turkey trot. Are you good with that?" And I said, "Sure. What are we doing?" And he said, "Well, you need to go buy some turkeys." I said, "Like, really? We do turkeys?" And he goes, "Oh, some turkeys." So, we bought turkeys and I was all nervous and he came in that the day before and he goes, "Okay, you're going to kill me." I said, "What happened?" And he said, "They just called." Cuz I know most of you know that he refs on the side. And he said, "They just called me and they're like had two people get sick and they need me to come
159in tomorrow and ref." And I went, "Sorry about you." And he went, "What?" Cuz I never tell him. I was like I was like, "I don't understand turkey trot. You have not explained it. This is my first year. You will be standing on that field, sir." And I said, "The minute the last person crosses the line, you could jump in the pickup and leave, but we are turkey trotting tomorrow. It's a straight line. They get a turkey." I was like, "That's all you had to tell me." I stayed at the end. I held my hands up. They were pass me. I was like, "Oh, well, sorry. You you stayed, so woo." This year, he didn't ask. He's kind of cut down on some of that. But those are my winners. They were so excited. You
160would think I heard one little boy go, "My mama said, "If I didn't get a turkey, we weren't having one for Thanksgiving." And that mom was laughing. She goes, "I was really just joking." And I said, "Well, there we go. We got a turkey." We did come back with our Thanksgiving lunch this year. And there's a couple of pictures of it. It went really, really well. And I will say attendance that day was not good afterwards because they all were leaving. And I turned around and looked at Morgan Combmes and she said, "Parent involvement, Shauna, parent involvement." And I went, "Okay, cuz they're leaving." But it was great. We had We were packed. Second grade, of course, that always the the ones. We were so packed. We had gone down the hall and put them
161in the classroom. So that was fun. They enjoyed that. Um December, we had lots of dress up days. We had like Cindy Hulu versus the Grinch. We had all Every day was a different thing and the kids could participate in it. Our third grade went to um the tech game. Nope, that is wrong. Our fourth grade went to the tech game. So, there's some pictures of it there. You see, they were really excited. They loved it. We had programs in December with um our our students. And then we also had choir come and they did a program with us. And so that was really neat. My kids really did love that. They had sang to us first and then they came back and did the little play with our kids. Um, Miss Ree, bless her
162heart, she is one of those that loves the fruit and so she made a big huge backdrop and we got all of the kids p or all the classroom pictures and all the teachers pictures. There's a a thing of it in the corner with our um there's no place like South and the kids thought that was really funny. So, we have a lot of awards we try to celebrate. We're working on that. If you'll ask Miss Donna, that's part of our um lasso grant is celebrating those wins. We're trying. So um we have kids that are at were at the awards assembly. We also have started a possum award and so it is a weekly award that you get a little paw trophy that you pass around in a certificate. We announce it in Monday
163morning. Um, our very first one that got it was Ashley, our cafeteria manager for letting us do the Thanksgiving lunch because she was kind of not so excited about that, but she did it. So, um, and then if if you notice, Miss Turn is in her Grinch costume because it was Grinch day and so she did it and I loved it. The kids thought it was funny. So, we've been trying to make sure that our teachers realize that we're excited about what they are doing, too. Um, there's a lot of events coming up. We did our testing. We have um we just did picture retakes. We are doing the Miracle Network again this year. So, we'll go to that lunch in um I'm sure you all are aware that every year for longer than I've
164been around. South has been that that um gathers money. Last year we won the elementary for our region and I think they've done it for the last couple of years. We raised um a little over $36,000 for them and um just doing little things. It's never anything big. We last year we did a bottle flip contest and we did rock paper scissor contest and you paid a dollar to get to do it and they did it. We have the pie in the face where they put the pennies in. So, um they asked me if we wanted to do it again this year because one of the girls that's always in charge of it has left us. There's just one left there. And and I said I'm good with that. So, they're going to do it
165again this year. We're doing a parent steam night tomorrow night. We're excited about that. Um, of course, our counselor week is coming up in February, and we can't forget that because we couldn't run without Miss Combmes. And we have the Hungry Day on the 3rd. And then, um, we are trying something new this year called the Steam Bookf Fair. We don't know what it is, but it is called the Steam Bookf Fair. And, um, Miss Harkkins asked if we could do it instead of the regular book fair, and I said, I think that would be great. And so, we are going to try that and see something new. We did, we are bringing the NED program back. It's the yo-yo program, our goodies with guardians, and then um spelling bee and then it'll be time
166for a di competition. So, just like everybody else, we are busy questions. Thanks, guys. >> Thank you. >> coach Leon. >> [snorts] >> How you wonderful people doing? >> Um, we'll have summer enrichment for the athletes too this summer so they can come get [clears throat] stronger, learn some more stuff. Uh, basketball games, we changed them from Friday um to tomorrow because of the weather. Want to make sure everybody's safe. Um, there will be no powerlifting. It was at Friendship as well on Saturday, but we moved it to the 31st for weather. Um on the 24th, we had a softball scrimmage. Um but we canled that till Monday, but we'll check the weather. If the weather's bad, then we'll cancel that as well. Um uh next up, we have the the girls are third place
167currently right now. Um they they've done a great job. They're playing tomorrow, battling for second place. Also, the boys are third place in district. Um tied up. big game for those guys tomorrow. So, um, Coach Bell, Coach Dret, they've done a great job with the kids and, um, they're they're playing hard and and doing a great job. Uh, we got boys golf coming up on the 30 30th and 31st of January. Um, and we also have JV tennis and in big spring on the 29th will be JV tennis. And then varsity will be um the 30th in Levik. Um, also want to shout out the cheerleaders. They did a great job. They went to state, got to watch it, and they did an excellent job. Do a lot of things I wish I could do
168um as far as being athletic, but they did a great job to the coaches and and the cheerleaders. It was really cool to see um them represent Loveland. So, um great job to them. We also have indoor track meet um for selected a few of our kids that would be uh indoor um the 23rd and 24th at Texas Tech. So, it's really cool. Um a lot of great athletes get to go and and do that. So, um it's really cool for our kids to go see and and and get a great experience. Um and then we had two kids commit um over the over last week. We had Kaden Brogden and Kaisen Nibblet committed to go to uh Harden Simmons. So, get to uh you know uh continue their education while they get to play.
169So, um great job to those kids and their parents and um all our coaches and and and their teammates too. Uh, and then lastly, um, we have people that come speak to our kids. And so I just want to give a quick shout out. Um, Dr. Hesman came and spoke to our kids. Um, Dr. Birdwell came and spoke to our kids. So, um, it's really it's really awesome to to for our kids to hear people that are successful in our community. Um, so I just want to give them a shout out. And y'all are all on my list, too. So, uh, I'll I'll be texting y'all so y'all can come talk to our kids. and they love to hear um from you guys and and everything that you've done. So, uh if there's any other
170questions, do you have any other questions for me? >> No. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate y'all. >> Thank you, coach. >> All right. Sorry. Good fundraising. Um go back to it. [snorts] Student fundraiser report. We have high school theater club. We'll be selling double good popcorn to raise funds to start a theater activity account. Popcorn prices will range from 11 to um 23 $230. That's that's their I think that's their net profit maybe. I'm not sure. They'll be selling popcorn um the week of the 23rd of February. So, uh, if it's the same popcorn that most those theater departments sell, it's it's like designer popcorn. It's really good. Um, also with theater, they'll be selling, um, the world's finest chocolate bar. Still, I think I have about 40 at my house. I'll be selling them
171for $2. All right, moving right along. You good with that? uh Hopkins County Credit Union. We have um Hopkins County Credit Union is going to put in half a million dollars to help uh reduce replace the turf at the football stadium. Um I'm super thankful for them. Uh it's just preliminary. We are working out the fine details and once all the beautiful details are are all sorted out and and and they're all designed, we'll be putting out some renderings. But um obviously with Teresa and talking through our financials for next year, this is a huge weight off of our shoulders and we're really really excited to partner with them and they were very excited to partner with us and that's that's a really huge shout out. Um just some of the parameters if they do
172this for us then over the next 10 years then um no other financial institution can can put any signage up. But I really love that he that Russell and his wife were like, "Look, there's other there's other areas to for other people to put their signage up. Just no other financial institutions." And I thought that was pretty cool of him to to be open to that. Um, obviously some signage changing uh an an arch over the entryway for the home side with Hockey County Credit Union. Um, the white bar at the bottom of the of the scoreboard, there's nothing there. Hockey County Credit Union there. and then their emblem on the football field in four different locations is the preliminary plan depending on if the uh turf company has any issue with it. And then
173coach Leon and I have have a plan for the old turf. Um we have we were going to put it in that old mechanic shop at the high school and continue to reuse utilize re revitalize that that space um for a girl's weight room. And um this is some cool stuff and I know that Mr. ax is we we've all kind of been starting to talk about that and um but this company that's going to put in this turf will move that turf over there for us for free um if that's the one that we end up using. So, lots of good stuff coming down the pipe. Legislative update. Um I didn't put it on here, but Senate Bill 11, I put it in your board update. Um we have to make a motion on
174it next month. And so Senate Bill 11 is the prayer in school. And um the way that it's written, it it just it it creates a space just for prayer for just that period of time. And so a lot of school districts are saying no, we don't want it because prayer can happen throughout the day and they're afraid it's going to be pigeonholding that. And so there's a lot I mean a 100% of region 17 is their superintendent are saying that's that's not the right call. We need to be able to be able to pray outside of just a one one time frame. So um we'll talk more about it but um 100% of the superintendents in 17 all last month were saying it is not a good idea. Um also our [clears throat] our
175attorney is saying it's not a good idea. That's kind of loud enough for me. >> Um >> there's also a lot of religious um leaders. >> Yes. >> Against it. >> Religious leaders as well against it. And that was in the the the action item that I put in your in your board update of what it would say comes from religious leaders saying this is how it should be worded because it's not it's not thought through and it's not done right. So I appreciate that. A ton of religious leaders have have weighed in on it too, saying public schools, this isn't it's not a it's not a good look. Um, moving on. First look, 2627 school calendar. over 50% of our um of our employees voted for calendar C or calendar three depending on which
176um which one they looked at which which uh which form that they voted on but calendar C puts um puts some extra days off in those long long stretches. was in our DAT committee, we talked about um there being a lot of uh long stretches in February and in April where a three-day weekend to kind of take a take a breath and keep going is a good idea. So that February 13th date is one that we talked about taking off in that April 8 16th date. currently this year we're in school those days or they are work days um for teachers and so teachers felt like breaking up long stretches would help morale and in that in that DAT committee and um in order to do that we would add some PD days in the
177summer and there's plenty of professional development opportunities our principles are aware of and um that's the one everybody kind of voted on over half of our of our staff voted on that Any [snorts] questions? >> This is just preliminary. It is not ready for approval. Is that correct? >> Nope. >> Okay. >> You guys, as as long as you guys are talking about that, I don't like to give you guys something you haven't seen yet. So, this is your first look. Next month, we'll vote on it. any questions? I'm sure we'll be talking about it more in the future as more details become available, but man, what a gigantic deal it is for Hop County Credit Union to support us in this. >> So impressed with them. It's just cool. >> Anybody have anything they
178need to update on the board update? >> The only thing I [clears throat] saw um region 17 is or TASBY in conjunction with region 17 is putting out the spring workshop. Is that something? Sometimes we go it's on February 25th. Is that when we're >> That's what I was going to look at. >> No, it's the week. It's the Wednesday after that. >> So, if we can all make the 20th to the 22nd, um it can be a team of eight training. >> Yeah. >> So, it's on your >> I've never been a team of eight training. >> It can be this this 20th through the 22nd. If we can all make that, they'll count that as a team of eight training. >> Is it really? >> Mhm. They're accredited to do that. >> But
179Matt's ify on it. What did you say? The 22. >> 22nd. >> What' you say? 22. >> The 20th to the 22nd is the visioning conference we're going to. >> Oh, I can't wear shorts. >> You can wear shorts if you go. >> I'll take I'll take the punch from Bob. He's not. He'll be fine. I'm telling you combinations. [laughter] >> I know you're driving. >> Got to share those legs with the world. >> Okay. >> Do I need to register or hold off >> for what? >> That workshop >> for the 22nd or the 25th. Do you want to got y'all want to go to the Wednesday conference as well? You will have got back on Sunday and then this one's on Wednesday. >> It's not board meeting day, is it? >> No, board
180meeting is the 18th. >> This isn't the No, no, that's different. >> I have [snorts] something else that Was it any good? >> Not really. >> It's essentially coming up with what we want the um Joyce, help me out. It's essentially talking about what we want TASPY to advocate for us. >> Coming up, what is important to us locally? Does it involve magic markers and oversized stick on things on the >> No, it does not [laughter] >> usually what we're doing, >> but sometimes it involves horse. Basically what it is is that they nominate or ask someone to be the lack representative for >> the region and we get points. This is 6 p.m. >> So that's the same thing I already had on here. >> Yes. >> Okay. You do get points. >> You
181do get points >> and a meal. It's at 6 p.m. >> Oh, yeah. And the scholarship also >> If they offer it last year. >> I didn't think so. >> We won it the year before. >> Carrie did. >> Yeah. >> You guys tell me. You want to go? >> I'm down for a pork chop if you are. >> Okay. I'll go. I'm already I'm already going by my calendar. I just didn't know it was the same thing. >> Deal. >> Coming back from Austin on Sunday, it'd be a tough deal to turn around on Wednesday. >> It's in your folder. >> Maybe I left it in my blue folder. >> Did I leave it in there? >> [clears throat] >> Yes. [laughter] >> Magic. Magic. We have two things in here. >> Oh, two
182things. >> I think it was a Christmas. >> Are we ready for Rodney? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay, Rodney, you have the floor. >> Yes. Okay. Just personnel items on page 171. We have five new teachers to bring you out. Some are not as new as others. Some are retire, rehire. So if you'll notice uh on the right hand side I have their their contract type and it's we always put that they have an addendum uh so they have a contract with an additional sheet of expectations and those we always put those with alert people uh but we have John Hope and John Black that have an addendum with their contract and that's the retire rehire addendum. So, uh, and that basically is just outlining that, you know, the, you know, there's no
183guarantees that the district is going to pay for your rehire search charges and penalties and just some language like that. So, I just kind of wanted to point that out. Now, Randy Bales, uh, she has an addendum, but she's in an alert program. Okay. uh Liliana Quo, we've got her from LCU and uh she's a graduate fully certified along with Christian Carter and Christian's wife Lindsay, she teaches and coaches for us at the middle school. So, we're really glad to have all those back. And the next few pages, that's their biography. And uh if you have any questions about that, we'll just kind of move on to uh page 176. And that's just your basic information. >> Christians wants been at Coronado. Yep. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay, great. >> Yeah. I tell you what,
184it started with Dr. Birdwell and then Mr. Black. They uh they kept after >> There you go. >> Loved. So, uh >> and Rodney did too. Rodney made a bunch of phone calls, too. I appreciate >> Well, you know, you scratched my back. I'll scratch yours and all that stuff. So, they got one of our teachers mid- semester. So, hey, >> they owe us one. [laughter] >> We don't Hey, we pulled that card out. They didn't they didn't fall for so uh anyway uh we're glad to have those those folks here. >> Oh yes. >> Uh just some basic information with resignations and uh of course some of those folks that we just hired or taking some of these folks spots right there. uh some auxiliary new hires, change of assignments, and some retirements. And
185we're losing some, you know, some big shoes with some folks have some big shoes to fill with Randy Adam on the grounds. He he was our jack of all trades. Great carpenter. And then PW, our electrician, I tell you, our HVAC. Yeah. So, uh, all of them are big shoes to fill, but as far as retirements, you know, those are some, uh, well-earned retirements. The next page is, uh, just a report I've been bringing you guys for quite a few years now, and that's just our teacher turnover rate. Dr. Hesman, he touched on some of the uh percentages in his taper report. And uh so what uh you know that that top middle box uh the most recent information we have is from the 2425 school year. And so really it's the spring of 24,
186the summer of 24. Uh it's what happened before last year. And uh so you can see what our our percentage was 26.1 compared to the region compared to the state. And then I just have arbitrarily developed these other 10 comparable districts by size and and location. You know obviously is bigger, friendship's bigger, but you know they're pretty local. And you can see in the highlighted yellow where we range and uh uh I I I was curious about 26.1%. And so I I' I've been doing some figuring over there. And uh so the 24 25 school year, that was the spring and the summer after fifth grade first moved over to middle school. And you know, we lost a lot of folks that spring, a lot of folks that summer. And I kind of broke it
187down. Uh I mean, we we lost over 50 teachers during that time. And and middle school had the bulk of them. They had about 23 of them. And uh so that that was a that was a tough time. And people left. And uh but that doesn't reflect this past year. That reflects that year. So uh uh some other interesting things that I've I've jotted down that y'all don't have uh just our the number of teachers. So 2019 that far right column we had 223 teachers and 2875 kids. Uh there's no data for the 2021 because that was after we came out of COVID. But for the 2122 school year, we went from 223 teachers in 2019 to 2021, we went to 219 teachers. And I'll just focus on teachers. And then the next year 2023
18822 23 went 216 teachers. 23 24 teachers. The [clears throat] 24-25 school year 193. and we're currently sitting at right about 178 teachers. So over all of those years from 2019 till present and we we've absorbed uh you know 45 teachers [clears throat] and uh uh and that's a lot but our enrollment in 2019 was 2875 and the most recent stuff we've got from our PES coordinator is we're at 2386. So, you know, we've lost uh almost 500 kids during that time, too. Uh you mentioned something about our student teacher ratio, student toteer ratio. So, in 2019, uh it was 12.9 and 2122 is 12.5. 22 23 is 12.4. 23 24 is 12.5. the [clears throat] 2425 it was 13.3. We started kind of seeing some with our absorptions our student teacher our classroom sizes
189were going up and then kind of just basing our current number of teachers and our enrollment we're right at 13.4. Uh all of those figures are below the state average. The state average all of those years is 15.0 to down to 14.6. So, we've been fortunate leveling in. We've had uh we've had a pretty a good student teacher ratio that's been below what the state has. Other other districts are putting more kids in their classrooms than we are, but you know, we're absorbing teachers and uh you know, the classroom ratio is going up and and we don't have a choice. So, so anyway, that's just is a lot more information than what I usually give, but I thought it'd be maybe interesting just to let you guys know some of that stuff. And all of
190that stuff's in tapered and uh so any questions? >> Rodney, our district's improvement plan says that we want to get to 15% by 2027. Are we doing anything to actively get there to manage that? >> 15% what >> on the suit teacher student to teacher ratio? 15% turnover. >> Turnover. >> Oh yeah. I mean to me we got we have TIA out there and that's one of our strategies is to really promote that. Uh so we've got some strategies in place with TIA. We're actually going my secretary and I were working on a new onboarding program with Frontline and hopefully that'll be able to help us recruit some folks a little bit more efficiently. Um, you know, >> I met with teachers just the other day and I said, I want I want Levelman to
191be the place that you want your friends to come teach. If you can't recommend it to your friends to come here and teach, I want to know why. And I've had some really good, really, really good responses to that. But for the most part, they felt like um I've had a lot of people just say, "We're glad you asked." And so, um, I've had a really good really good response to that. And I think, man, our our principles build campuses where people want to be there and our teachers, their their PLC's, they're kind of on fire right now. Um, I I mean I'm I'm on most of the school staff um email lists, so I get a ton of emails, but I read them and there's a lot of good information coming out, a lot
192of positivity, and I know Rodney and I have talked about the positivity and the climate and the culture that we're trying to build as a as a district and our leadership team. We've talked about it and uh Lyall talked to us about all rowing in the same direction and I think we are I think we are and so and I'm not saying we weren't in the past but I feel like for the last five six months I've been here we've been rolling in the right direction. >> Yeah. >> So I'm hoping that there's just that overall culture and climate that will help retain and then also recruit the good ones. And we've even talked about it when we have teacher openings. If you know somebody who's going to be good for that, give me their
193cell phone. I'll call them. We'll call them and recruit them actively because we want we want people to want to be here. It's it's been a good message that we've been having good responses from. I >> I think we're going to see the benefits of that culture and that that that change. I mean, you know, the the the adults in they affect the culture. It's not it's not the kids. Kids are kids. And there's been a lot of positive change, a lot of I think some of the negatives that have been driving people away. Uh there's been a lot of effort to fix them and some of the decisions been made with, you know, fifth grade coming back down. I think that's a positive thing. uh you know leadership and you're every one of these
194folks. We have great leaders. We have some great leaders that aren't here but I promise you people they want to stay with good leadership and uh we've got them right here and right there and you guys. And so to me I think we're going to see the benefits. Will we get down to 15%? I I'm looking at that chart and 18.1's the the lowest and it's Pampa and Pampa's usually, you know, higher. And what's crazy, you look at Cooper at 20.3. Uh, you know, they're typically at the very bottom and uh so people are having turnover everywhere. And uh but uh I I think we've got some things in place that are tangible things you can touch the money, but we've got some things in place that are is just that affects morale and attitude
195and environment and culture that I think we're heading in the right direction. You know, when I was going to LCU to get my certification to be a principal, I just remember just one of the textbooks, [snorts] I couldn't tell you who wrote it. I wish I'd been smart enough to come up with, but that it had a list of motivators that make people want to do what they do. and salary was like number eight >> or nine. >> Yeah. >> But number one was always appreciation. And I think with the culture and the I'm listening to you and I'm going to do something with what I hear. >> Yeah. and just the positivity that's in our district now and and on our campuses uh where people people stay >> and it's not I mean everybody
196take a pay raise but it's not the pay raise that keeps them >> you're not going to get rich if you go to another district that pays more you're still not going to be rich >> so right >> so you know they're not paying $100,000 million. They're paying 2,000 more than we are. So, >> but they don't believe in me. >> Yeah. >> That's That goes a long way. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I tell you, you can it's palpable standing out in front of those schools. It's palpable. >> Mhm. >> And you you can feel it from ABC to high school. You can feel it. >> Yeah. and um maybe a little less to middle school because they don't want you to know. But but you know when they turn into to normal humans in
197high school, it's it's so funny just the little tiny conversations you have just fist bumping those kids on the way in in the mornings. Last last week before you got there had a kid come in and he just he goes, "I just love that you're here." And I was like, "I just love that you're here, too." And it's just it's so nice to see it. last week. Oh gosh. I was at ABC on Monday last week and this kiddo, he's she slipped and she fell as she was getting out of the car and one of those teachers ran over and picked her up and brushed her off, you know, put her backpack on her and got her coat zipped up and you could see mom was about to do it, but when she saw the
198teacher do it, it was just like it was such a perfect example of what we do at school every day. And whether they're 18 years old or they're four years old, tripping out of the car to get out, our our teachers are being led by these wonderful people. And they're just they're just loved. They're they're loved when they come here. And so when they're loved, it it makes their jobs even more um enjoyable because the kids know it. And if you ask the kids, again, the middle school kids won't tell you this because they're too cool still, but if you ask the kids, they know they're loved. >> And and you see it standing out there again like with the principles, my gosh, you stand out there and again, other other than this guy, >>
199you're you're chopped liver standing next to those people out there who are chopped liver. They do not care about you at all. They'll walk right by me. I may get one one hug at one of those places, but man, this guy stands next to him as a former principal and they're loving him and they're loving those people out there because of what they do. And and I think that our teachers feel it, too. It's a great question. I could I could write a song about it. I love it now. It would be a terrible song, but I could do it. >> You know, there's no magic formula. It's there's no secrets. It's it's I'd say it's it's it seems simple. you know, and we've identified the problems, we work toward trying to solve them, and
200then just taking care of people. So, I think I think we're going to see now next year will reflect all the absorptions we did over this past summer. So, it may be it may be high, but we absorbed a lot of positions just to try to get our budget down. So it probably won't be 15% next year, but it's going to be a reflection of people of we through attrition. You know, as people left, we just didn't re Well, we we we also had some that we asked to leave. So >> okay, >> good discussion. Thank you. >> Thank you'all. >> Okay. Anything else before executive session? >> Okay. Time is 9:14.