001This meeting 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 present at this meeting of the board of trustees. This is our regular meeting and all items that will be discussed or voted on this evening have been posted as required by state law. As the 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
002or to solve the problem of individuals. Management 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 for your interest in the Marshall Independent School District. Someone would like to open us in prayer before we get started, please. Let us pray. Let us pray. Bow your heads, please. Heavenly Father, we pause right now to give you thanks today for the dedication and determination of
003all of us who are here today. All of your servants, Lord, who strive to honor you here. And we know, Lord, that the greatest wisdom always come to those who choose to follow, serve, and honor you. So dear Lord, be with this board this evening as we exercise wisdom and may the results of our decisions truly benefit the people of our community, dear Lord. And may this board of trustees always be the beacon of hope and promise and wisdom that leads in the way you should have us to go. In the loving name of Jesus Christ, we ask these blessings. Thank God. Amen. Amen. Amen. All right. We'll now have our pledges. will stand for the American flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
004which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Now the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God one and indivisible. All right. Now, we'll move along to our district achievement portion of the meeting. Dr. Yeah. I'm excited about this. We normally don't have a lot of late things in the school year to have kids come into the summer to visit with us, but tonight we do. So, I am going to ask a few of our students to come up here. This is our choir. Part of our choir. Only y'all know how big our choir is. This is a part of our choir. So after advancing at the region level last February, the following choir students meddled at Texas State solo and ensemble
005competition on Saturday, May 24th. So it was pretty late in the in the year. Each student learned and sang a class one solo, the most difficult level recognized by UIL. We are very excited. Students, what we want to do, we want you to do when I call your name out, you will just come up here and stand. And then um we have a certificate for you as well as a Chick-fil-A gift card for you to use. Whatever you want to go by there and pick that up. So at this time, Gentry Burns, one of our juniors. Is Gentry here? No. Okay, that's fine cuz Miss Hammers will get that to Gentry. Uh Jamaiah Johnson here? No. Jamaiah is also a junior. Nani Verentos. [Applause] All right. Next, we have John Chris Jr. [Applause] Um, and
006I'm saying their uh uh years because these these guys here are coming back to be a senior. So, we're very excited. Exciting. Um, then we have Jaden S. [Applause] Jaden. Thank you for coming through cuz he's a senior. We also have Julia King, sophomore. That's why your mom's here. Then we have Orlando Morton. [Applause] We will miss you, Orlando. Oh, you're so glad you're Then we have another senior Cadence Winds. Thank you. And Evan Zaragoza maybe show up tonight. All right. Well, we'll get that for him. And he's a sophomore, though. And I've seen him doing some stuff on Facebook, so I'm assuming he'll be back next year. But students, thank you all so much for the hard work that you all put in. The choir uh at Marshall High School has always been one
007of our our very best programs that we have and you all have continued that and so thank you so much for the work that y'all done. I used to take them down. But yeah, this is about six to eight of them and just right here. Got to go in and watch [Applause] where seniors, y'all have plans for a coming fall. What are they? Go to MCN. McNe are wonderful, right? Ready? Good job. Good job. Congrat. All right. Uh, do we have any public comments? No, sir. Okay. Moving along to administrative reports. All right. Administrative reports. Just a few. I do just want to get this out there and I will probably mention it on KMHT in the morning. Um, we have about 800 employees here in MISD and a large majority of those Thank y'all.
008I know y'all don't want to stay in here about Thanks for coming. A large majority of our employees have our um insurance which is through BlueCost Blue Shield. They are in negotiations with Christ right now, but if they do not agree to something by July 1st, I'm not sure what we're going to do. Nobody's giving us any whatifs. So, I am going to if if it's okay with all of you, I am going to talk about that on KMHT tomorrow just to make sure our general public knows what a serious situation that is. When the cable company argues with the local promoters Yes. going to blink first. Yeah. And then you don't get Fox anymore. That's right. So, um, did want to to get that out there. Also, I do have a a photo for
009our activity bus that is, uh, getting worked on. We still do not have the front and back. So, this is not a This isn't a fake bus. Uh, so next we'll be working on the front and the back. Going back in. I know. I know. But, uh, I love this Maverick Horns. You know, we took some um some votes uh, votes from principles and votes from board members. And this is the one that they ended up with. And uh as we get the front and back done, James Paige will get us that information. And we are hoping that will be to us well before football playoffs cuz we know we're going to have lots of trips heading out to to go to different places out there. Um no pressure. No pressure. We do want to
010use our new bus though. I was just going to say that. Um the track uh for our um track at Marshall High School at Maverick Stadium, they should be beginning on that on July the 1st. So, uh, looking forward to getting that new track put in. And don't forget, we do have a budget meeting on June 25th and we do need a forum there. Uh, that's the budget, um, workshop meeting. So, we hope that everybody can be there. Okay. Thank you. Um, we also have a read to ride update. I believe Miss Jackson's here to How are you? Good. Good evening. Evening. In the absence of Dr. Natasha Crane. I am Regina Jackson, elementary RLA coordinator and I am here to present you an update for Read to Ride. Uh, Green to Ride was established,
011launched in the 2016 2017 school year in a partnership with Mission Marshall and since that partnership started, Read to Ride has donated. Mission Marshall and other partners have donated over 1,700 bicycles to our deserving young readers. They have earned them. Yeah. Reading levels are steadily improving through encouragement and recognition. The Star Renaissance Star Reading is the assessment tool that we use to determine if the student has earned their bicycle. The Renaissance Star Reading measures a wide range of reading skills. It pinpoints each student's current level on the learning continuum. It delivers a clear snapshot of reading strengths and areas for growth along with targeted resource recommendations and it encourages students to take ownership of their learning journey. Mhm. The 2020 2024 25 2025 goals for the read to ride the com the students had to
012reach 10 months to a year in their reading growth. We communicate student reading growth and progress with parents. We implemented a mid-year check-in to determine the progress of the students and also added incentive this year. Mission Marshall had some volunteers to come in and they were helping students that did not know how to ride a bicycle. They were helping teach them how to ride a bicycle. So, we were really excited about that. this year uh the finalized qualifying students using star reading data from the end of the year the m on May 9th and the uh bike distribution was held during the week of May 16th through the 21st and if you want just some pure joy come out and watch them so fun just one just one just all you need is one it's
013a lot of fun the 2425 battle for this year the district has a goal of 85%. Our goal this year was 85% of students earn a bike. We re we reached that goal and passed it. We had 88% of our students reaching a goal. So now that's very good. We are very excited. So we're looking towards next year if we need to raise that. Very excited about that. These are other supporters, parents, teachers, other community members that have helped us and also help mission Marshall encourage our students to read by purchasing bicycles or providing volunteer time, whatever their part, we we are so grateful and thankful to them. And we we are encouraging our next year third graders. We bought it. The second graders came outside to watch so they could see what they would
014look forward to next, what they would have to look forward to for next year. I've had the opportunity to share this project with lots of different groups and it is amazed. They're amazed. It is and it's it's a it is such a joy to be able to share. It is such a joy and I look forward to it. I just wish we could do it on every grade level, Mr. Huffine. something some kind of because it is just wild the uh it the laughter the joy and the students really work hard they say people have asked us oh they I'm sure they don't they don't make those gains I'm sure they do thank you for coming thank you all right moving along to our consent agenda action items and we will entertain a motion on
015move. I'll second. All right. We got a motion by Mr. Huffines and a second by Miss Marshall. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Matters requiring board discussion and action. We discussed all of these on Thursday at our agenda review meeting. Make a motion we approve as presented. Is that all the items or just one? on on the uh well on our consent agenda. We just did that. Oh, sorry. I'm sleepy. That's fine. But since I wasn't here, can I ask what was the name of the gentleman's name for the TASBY board? The guy from Sabine. Yeah, Sabine. That's been on Tony Raymond. Yeah. Okay. I was just going to say it on K tomorrow. I thought you were making a motion to just do all of them.
016So, there you go. You already discussed them all. Yes. But Mr. Tony Raymond is up for re-election. reading seven seats. Okay. Tazzy board. He's been on it several years and so we were endorsing him again. He wants to do that. We're going to support. Yeah. I think he's got it in the bag. Nobody else is running. We're going to support him anyway. Okay. But we need a motion to do that. So, Mr. Palmer, would you like the motion? I would. Okay. Mr. Palmer. All right. Motion by Mr. Palmer. Second. Second by Miss Marshall. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. Item two is consider and approve the donation of furniture. This is to several other school districts that we discussed on Thursday. Have a motion on that. Some
017move. Have a motion by Mr. Palmer. Second. Second by Mr. Lewis. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed. Any abstaining? That motion carries. Under education, we will consider and approve the region 7 ESC contract for 2526. That's just our normal com. Yeah, we did not add anything new to it this year. So moved. Make a motion. Have a motion by Mr. Huffs. Second. Second by M. Marshall. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? And motion carries. Moving on to finance. Consider and approve the standard engagement with Knuckles, Duvall, Hallum, and Company. It's our standard agreement that we do. There's a little bit of an increase bird, but other than that, it's the same agreement that we normally do. Have a motion on that. Make a motion that we approved.
018Second. Have a motion by Mr. Lewis, second by Mr. Huffiness. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Motion carries. Item two is consider and approve the region 7 regional purchasing cooperative resolution. Have a motion on that item. So moved. [Applause] Second. Motion by M. Marshall, second by Mr. Lewis. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Motion carries. Next item is consider and approve the workers compensation renewal. Have a motion on that. I'll make a motion we approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Huffiness, a second by Miss Marshall. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Motion carries. Item four is consider approve the math path summer 2025 tuition. Again, we discussed this on Thursday. Miss Hammet, we have a motion for that.
019So move. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Palmer and a second by Mr. Huffines. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Dr. Lang, how many people do we have taking doing that right now? 18 in it. Is it 18? I don't know. Do we know the number? 28 total. 28. 28 more or the total? Total is total. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. That's great. I was talking about I thought we had like 18 new ones. All right. Anyway, all right. That motion carries. Item five, consider and approve the amendment to the contract for the roof overlay at Marshall High School and M Marshall Early Graduation High School. Mr. Mr. Chill Coat explain some of those changes on Thursday as well. I move that we accept it as presented. Second. Motion by M.
020Marshall and a second by Mr. Huffines. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? That motion carries. We'll now adjourn into close session pursuant to Texas Government Code Chapter 551074 and 551 071. [Applause] Say it right at the beginning. [Applause] All right, we are back in open session and we need to take action regarding the personnel matters as recommended. Do we have a motion on that? Make a motion that we approve. Motion by Mr. Lewis. Second. Second by Miss Marshall. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Motion carries. There's no further business. We are adjourned.