001meeting of the Marshall Independent School District Board of Trustees is hereby called to order. Let the record show that a quorum of members is present and that this meeting has been called in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. We wish to extend a warm welcome to everyone who is here at this meeting. This is a regular meeting and all items that will be discussed or voted on this evening have been posted as required by state law. As MSD board of trustees, we are pleased that you have joined us as we celebrate achievements, set goals, listen to reports of the superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personnel appointments as well as make policy for the district. We are not here to make management decisions or to solve the problems of individuals.
002Management is the responsibility of the superintendent. This is a meeting in the public, not a meeting of the public. You are our guest and you are welcome to observe and listen. If you wish to address the board in the public comment portion of the agenda, please fill out the public comment form found on the back table and return the completed form to the superintendent secretary. We are pleased that you've taken time to join us this evening and we thank you again for your interest in the Marshall Independent School District. Uh Miss Fischer, would you offer prayer for us? >> Yes, sir. I will. Let us let us go to God in prayer. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for this day and Lord God, we thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve this
003community and we thank you Lord and we ask your blessing upon all of our staff and teachers, the new ones and those that are returning in our school. And Lord God, we ask that we use the gifts that you have given us for the good of all of our teachers and staff and students. We thank you Lord and we pray that we may listen to your spirit in our hearts when difficult decisions come and they have to be made and we ask you Lord to give us that spirit of discernment and encouragement and encouragement Lord and dear Lord this evening we come before you with heavy hearts Lord lifting up one of our students Estani Caba we ask for your divine intervention and a miracle of healing, Lord, because we know that healing can be
004found in the hymn of your garment. Lord, stretch out your loving hand over her and breathe life and strength back into her body. Guide the hands of the medical professionals attending to her, Lord, granting them wisdom, skill, and insight as they work toward her recovery. Lord, we pray for Esther's family and friends. And we ask for your peace and strength to surround them during this difficult time. May they find comfort in your presence and in the love and support of all of those around them, dear Lord. And Lord, we surrender to your will because we trust in your plan and your unfailing love. May your healing power be manifest and may Estavani be restored to health and vitality if it be your will. Dear heavenly father, we pray this prayer in the name of Jesus.
005Thank God and amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you very much. Okay, now we have our pledges. We have people here to help. >> We do. We need to see Cooper Kenny, one of our fourth graders. Kenny, one of our second graders, and Kalia Tennyson, one of our first graders. Come on up. >> Hey guys, how you doing? Stand right here. >> Come on. All right. And we're going to turn right face this way towards that flag. And will y'all start us with a prayer? Are you ready? Yes, sir. Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under indivice for all. That's fantastic. Now you're going to walk right down here by Mr. First. Go down there by the Mr. Beies right there. And
006then y'all can start this way. I wish to Texas. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Let's see what we got here. Um, we have for you. Oh, no. This is great. We have Cooper Kenny. Here's your award. This certificate is awarded to Cooper King student at San Stem Academy for being a pledge leader tonight. And you also get a kids meal to appreciate. >> Thank you. >> This is awarded to Mr. Lane Kei. This is from you also student at Sam Houston Stamp for being an excellent pledge leader and you also get the kids milk and let me see Kalia Tennyson you did a great job awarded to you a student at Sam Houston STEM Academy right there and you also get a free meal from Golden J. [Applause] Okay. Is it time for achievement? Yeah. Yep. >>
007All right. I'm going to stay down here then because we have been waiting to give out these awards for a little while now. Student achievement. Our JOTC unit Texas 200024 has been recognized as a distinguished unit for 2024. In addition to received the Silver Star Community Service with Excellence Award 100%. You all deserve that. This honor is only the top 5% of units nationwide. [Applause] >> This places our cadets among the top 42 out of 8. >> Wow. This is our leadership team and I am going to call you all to come to the front and you're going to get a certificate and then um you're also going to get a is it a ticket to the show? All right, Anthony Alvarez. Stay up here so there you go. Thank you so much for all
008that you've done. Next, Elijah Hampton. [Applause] Thank you, Teresa Lopez. [Applause] for us. Carson Watson. [Applause] >> Got to get into the show. >> Austin Lockwood. [Applause] Thank you, Hugo. Sanchez Garcia. Thank you so much, Ashley Torres. [Applause] Thank you so much. Amazon Bronco. Thank you. And Mo. [Applause] All right. Now, as you can see, there's still two sitting here. You're probably wondering why. Additionally, these two students were leadership winners at leadership camp. Allora Green. [Applause] Just a second. We'll go back to Green. The Distinguished Graduate Award, which includes academics, leadership, peer reviews, and inspections. Distinguished graduate awards presented to those cadets who achieve a ranking in the top 10% of the class. >> And last but certainly not least, Mr. Randy. >> This I'm going to talk about him. Thank you. Randy R. The
009outstanding leadership award. This is presented to those cadets who demonstrated leadership ability in all areas of evaluation. Schools only send their best potential leaders. Therefore, the task is even more difficult. Congratulations. [Music] Here we have something else you need to do here. First of all, I wanted to let you know that is it both outstanding >> dorm inspection. So also >> you also have the outstanding dorms. >> All right. We also want to have Master Sergeant please come up. This proudly recognizes our one and only Master Sergeant Brian Cumberland as South Regent 8 instructor of the year. Right behind you got your [Applause] squeeze in this get a picture five short people in the six short. >> Go Air Force. >> Okay. I'm going to be I'm going to be Good. I do want to
010say just on a personal note, if you are in Marshall anywhere, anytime, you're going to see these people. They help our so much and we appreciate everything that each one of you does. [Applause] All right. >> Congratulations. >> And y'all do not have to stay for the rest of it if you don't. >> Congratulations. Thank y'all. does a really good job. I got to get this. >> Did you give me the >> Oh, there. >> It did. might need this. All right, here we go. >> They work. I used them in my yard. The extra mile. You can tell this is my first one of the school year. >> Our extra mile award. So for our extra mile presentation this month for Marshall High School, but we have Houston. You can tell again it's our
011virtual engagement. So sorry. All right. From Sam Houston STEM Academy. Outstanding service to our students in the classroom. I'm going to read to you the nomination for Livingston County Transport at Sam Houston. First of all, I would like for Lauren to please stand beside me. How are you tonight? How are you? Good. All right. You ready? Miss first grade teacher at STEM Academy has been chosen for the extra mile award because she truly embodies what it means to go above and beyond her students. Her impact is clear in the remarkable student growth shown in her data and through her recognition as a TIA master teacher. Beyond the number, she pours her heart into meeting each individual child's needs, building strong relationships, and setting high expectations because she knows her students will rise to meet them.
012She sparks a love for learning through hands-on activities, project based learning, creative classroom transformations, and by nurturing her students as readers, even guiding them to all become published authors with a copy of their own and her classmates first literary work at the age of seven or eight as momento and inspiration. She continuously challenges herself professionally, reading the latest and best practices into her classroom to engage her little learners in meaningful and exciting ways. and finds joy in sharing them with her team to utilize the classrooms as well. Miss Luc, will you come up here, please? We are so blessed to have M love as a part of our STEM family, especially our students who are fortunate to experience her love from the biggest fan and supporter in their success. Thank you, Lois, for going the
013extra mile for our students at Sam Houston. And we also as a district have cut for you. Thank you so much. Mhm. We we took care of it. [Music] >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Congrats. >> All right. Do we have any public comments, Mr. Scott? No. >> Okay. No public comments. All right, we'll move along to administrative reports and the first is the superintendent report. >> Yay. >> Yes. Yes. I was trying to tell you we have had an amazing start to this week. Everyone I have talked to has said this has been just an amazing um first week. Uh got the kids all home safely on Friday and I think we got most of them back here today which is fantastic. Yes, you all may head out. >> Yes. Thank you'all
014for coming out. >> Thank you'all so much. We appreciate it. Um, I do want to uh let our general public know that once again MISD has done a fantastic job on our first report, which is the financial integrity rating systems of Texas. I want to thank Miss Susie Bird and her whole team for all of the work that they do. And I also want to say that not only did we pass, but we received a superior achievement which is equivalent to an A and the district score is 100. So it does. [Applause] >> Yes, it's fantastic. Very excited about that. And um other than that uh we are just rocking and rolling uh into the second week and so far everything's going well. >> Great. Okay, moving along to the consent agenda action items. Our
015normal items are on there as well as a few that we discussed on Thursday that we moved to the consent. >> Entertain accept those as presented Thursday. Second have a motion by Miss Marshall and a second by Mr. Lewis. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Matters requiring more discussion action. Item one is to consider and approve the revisions of the local policy EFB instructional resources library materials. Dr. Crane. >> Good evening. >> We would like for you to consider improve our which is our school library advisory council um within our local policy. So according to Senate Bill 13, school districts are required to establish a school library advisory council upon formal request if one of two things. If the parents of more than 10% of enrolled
016students or the parents of 50 students, whichever is fewer, submit a petition. So, Marshall ISD is recommending to elect um to establish a a school library advisory council upon formal request as allowed by Senate Bill 13. Um the district wants to adopt the local policy language aligned with this option in EFB L2 and will establish a slack in compliance with the state law if and when the statutory threshold is met. A written request or a petition for this council may be submitted to the office of curriculum and instruction. >> Okay. Have a motion on that. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Have a motion by Mr. Huffines and second by Mr. Medina. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Item two is consider and approve the revisions
017of the local policy FD for admissions. Dr. Langley. >> Uh, yes. Um, this is really, uh, what I'm going to do is recommend for FD local, to be changed in wording. Um, and what I'm recommending is, um, a student enrolled in a private school, including a home school, shall not be eligible for concurrent enrollment in the district, nor for participation in curricular or extracurricular activities. >> Okay. have several items on this. This is the first. >> I move that we accept it as presented by Dr. Langley. >> Second. Have a motion by Mr. Marshall and second by Mr. Huffiness. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Item three is considering approve the revisions of the local policy FE on student activities. Okay, this one piggybacks on the
018one that I just read on FD local and um because of the legislature meeting and and making these decisions, we needed to add this one in as well. So, under FM local student activities, it says for eligibility of a private school student, including a homeschool student, to participate in a curricular activity, CFD local, which you all just approved. Okay. Make a motion we approve as presented. >> Second. >> Have a motion by Mr. Palmer, a second by Mr. Medina. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Item four is considering approve a resolution with that states the pro prohibition of you that out of non-enrolled students from part participation in UIL activities. >> Yes. And that is what this is titled. Resolution of the board of trustees of
019Marshall ISD prohibition of non-enrolled students from participation in UL activities. Um it's uh one and a half pages long. Um not sure if you actually want to read through all of that, but uh it does resolve what you all have just voted for. And if you are in favor of this, Mr. Burrus, you will sign and Mr. Palmer, you will sign. >> Okay. Move that we approve. >> Second. Have a motion by Mr. Puffines and second by Miss Marshall. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. [Applause] Number five is consider and approve the revisions of the local policy FNC, student conduct, personal telecommunications/ electronic devices. Mr. Jilo. >> Yes. I would like as a revision to FNC for you to consider that MISD will dispose of an
020electronic device that we have confiscated after 90 days. Uh after the confiscation, we will notify the parent or guardian and they can pick it up at uh the next school week, the beginning of the next school week. Any devices not retrieved after 90 days will be repurposed or disposed. Uh once again, we will notify the parents before this. It's >> 90 calendar days. >> Yes. Make a motion we approve as presented. >> Second. Have a motion by Mr. Palman, a second by Mr. Medina. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Moving along to education items. Item one is to consider and approve the 2526 MISD student code of conduct. Mr. vote. Uh, as we went over Thursday, the major amendments to the code of conduct this
021year as a as according to TASBY will be that a student shall be placed in in school suspension for vaping for the first offense for a period of 10 school days. Uh, this is a change from a mandatory DAP placement for the first offense. Um, they have also extended ISS. It is not sub subject to any time limit. Uh this is a change from 3 days consecutive. Now you can place a student in ISS for up to 10 days. After the 10 days you can do a review and you can assign more days if you if you choose after that review. Uh they have also made some discretionary expulsions now mandatory. Uh these are any of the elements that can that are uh that contains the elements of assault on or off campus. And then
022the possession of a personal communications device. Uh after the first offense, we will charge $15 after the second, third, fourth offense to receive your phone. >> I move that we approve the student code of conduct for MISD. >> Second. Have >> a motion by M. Marshall, second by Mr. Huffines. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Moving along to finance. Item one is consider and approve the custom electronic pole sign. Mr. Chilco, I would ask you to consider and approve Leon signs to install an electronic marquee for digital videos and advertising events along 59 uh where the current uh sign marquee sign is. Uh once again, it is a viewing area of 7 by 14 ft. Uh, this does include demo, survey, 5year parts, and labor
023warranty. >> Warranty. Going to look good. >> Mhm. >> Make a motion we approve as presented. >> Second. Second. >> Have a motion by Mr. Palmer and a second by Miss Fischer. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Item two is consider and approve the 2526 MSD compensation plan amendments. Yes, we added one uh line as a concession stand worker. Uh once again, we do have an RFP that's open for an outside source to provide concessions for stadium events that will not be scored until September 1st. So until that time, we do have a few subvarsity games that we will run inhouse with these concession stand workers. Okay. >> Have a motion on that. >> Move to approve. >> Second. Second. Have a motion by Miss Fischer
024and a second by Miss Marshall. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Item three is consider and approve Roach Howard Smith and Barton property and casualty insurance 25 and 26. Miss Bird got my favorite word you're about to say. >> Decrease. >> I know. I I was proud of that. We we would like to uh recommend Roach, Howard, Smith, and Barton for our property and casualty insurance 2526. Um this is a decrease of 67,36905 in our premium and the premium is going to be1,465, $222.86. >> The same coverage from last year. it is the same coverage and um the reason it it it's lower is because across the state the property uh insurance hasn't taken as big a hit as it has the past few years
025and our um our now our automobile coverage did go up just a little bit but not enough to to get us back to that same point make a motion that we approve second have a motion by Mr. Lewis and second by Mr. Medina. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? The motion carries. Item four is considering approved participation in the political subdivision alliance of Texas interlocal agreement. >> And the what the PAT interlocal agreement is is it allows the district uh to continue insurance coverage through renewals without having to go out for an RFP every year. And we've been very happy with um consider all in favor please say I motion carries no business. Thank you.