Annual Board Meeting 6 13 2025

001probably >> testing. One, two, three. Yeah, it's the uh it's me. It's the uh >> Bluetooth. So we have a speaker up there. Okay. >> I have a speaker in here that is my feedback. >> So what that means is I might not hear very good because I'm going to be listening to what everybody else hears and I'm used to listening. Okay. Because yeah, there's >> not we also that's all right. See if we have a quum. Uh Mer, are you with us? M >> and >> can you mute please? One second. You have a quum for the call to have any public comments? >> No public comments, sir. information. We have two more members are going to be here with them hope next 30 minutes to an hour [Music] items >> first item is

002the first one is Paul. >> Yes sir. Good morning. And this um item is for our federal grants. So in accordance with ESSA, we're required to provide a uh opportunity for public comment um before we um submit the applications. And so that's what this is. There is an attachment of the ESSA consolidated grant that we're applying for. It includes title one, which is improving basic programs. Title two, which is supporting effective instruction, and title four, which is student support in academic enrichment, as well as the special education consolidated grant, idea of a B and um title four and title two because of the smaller dollar amounts. When we complete the application, we roll those up into title one. So, all the monies are combined with title one. And for the most part, we've used the

003funds um similarly for the past two years. And so if you look at the chart, title one this school year, $486,963, 82% of that is going to be for staffing, which is the um community student community leaison at each campus. And then we also have the there for summer school as well as academic software compliance software and then targeted professional development with travel. And then title two and title four are the ones that are rolled into title one and their dollar amount to 37,504 for title 4, 57,121 for title 2 and those combined to pay the salaries for the DIC's the district instructional coordinators and then if additional funding is needed that's also coming out of the staffing part of title one part A. And then title three is a very small dollar amount 19,806.

004So we um opt for a shared service arrangement with region 20 to receive professional development and um access to information from region 20. ITFB is a another large grant. We we're receive it to go up this year. So we're receiving $261,683. 88% of that is to staff the um special education associate teachers and then there's quite a bit we've been increasing that amount so it's 11% support services which is ether therapy for counseling auditory services speech services um for the special populations of students and then again there's a small amount for targeted professional development child support >> Jim just for the record which one of those do we have to maint F >> and that by >> and then Perkins five is the last one. Um it's a small dollar amount as well 16,794. So

005we also offer a shared service arrangement with region 20 for those funds. And so Mr. Showers works with the representative of region planning for CT programming professional development things like that. And you know the we have to do we have to they can't because they're paid out federal. Yeah that's the first one title. So 82% probably of that $400 500,000 goes to the staffing of the student community based on the maintenance of effort. Yeah, I mean it's required then because they're federally funded, they are limited to a specific job duty which is rep representing the students, making sure that they attend, making sure that they maintain their grades, calling parents, calling homes, um connecting with community stakeholders, things like that. >> Thank you. >> And they can be used very limited for other communities. um

006controlling lunch and things like that but very limited. So with that um the recommendation is just to review this information and then approve for you can change some of the items but we will um with approval uh I plan to submit the application before the end of June because then I can now continue um if we get before July, we can have it by otherwise you have to wait to start in September questions, comments. Thank you. Welcome. You'll have to move me forward since you disconnected me from everything. I'm sorry, Mr. Clemens. >> I apologize. >> Is that better? >> An agenda been routine nature has been reviewed administration. So we are uh approved for a consent agenda for this meeting but we have to approve this policy for next year in order to >>

007that is agenda next year. Is that correct? >> That is correct and that will happen at a >> action. Yes. Yes sir. >> We have no no action. This you have this as you want to swing it. So you have this as an action item that's in okay I can't again all I can see is what you're showing. So uh >> so as long as >> objection these items will be adopted. If there are no objection these are >> there are no objection. >> Okay. No objection. Yeah, sure. But it was sent to the end. It's there. But actually open it up. You like me to go ahead and move forward the website? >> Sure. Uh good morning everyone. Um we have uh with us today uh if you all remember some time ago we

008brought a contract to have our website redesigned um and so uh it's actually going live today I believe and um Carl and I had a chance to vet it uh the last time and I think that we could agree that it was pretty pretty impressive and changes that have been made by thanks to Carrie. uh she worked with Mo to give him the information and um and they've kind of did the designing together. Um and so at this time I would ask Mo to uh share with us um the latest and greatest version of the RMA website and kind of you may want to start out showing us what we had mo and then where we're going so that board can really see the difference. >> Fantastic. How's everyone doing? Good morning. Morning. Morning. All

009right. Let me know when uh am I able to share now? Can you guys see my uh screen? [Music] I'm trying to share. All right. Everyone seeing the screen? Okay. Hello. Can you guys hear me? Fantastic. All right. Well, thanks for the introduction. Uh, pleasure to meet everyone. I'm Madupe. Um, Verk. One of the things we were tasked to do was to simplify the website so that folks can uh find it useful, userfriendly, and more importantly so that uh it's engaging, right? So when people come on there, they can have engaging content. And the thought factor was that we wanted uh to utilize AI quite a bit in the back end so that we're not constantly waiting for the administrators to come up with uh how they format content or how they design content or

010how they even push out content. All of those can be automated through the uh backend uh um services that we we've added to this application. This is the former site you're looking at. Uh one of the things is you can see that it's it's useful. Uh the challenges here is to focus, right? Where do you focus your eyes? How do you know what to do, when to do it or um and the flow was a bit more uh you know overly simple if you will so that um it's it's quite difficult to just engage the portal at this point. So what we did is we took all the contents here working with Carrie and the team to understand the requirements and to understand what was needed and we uh result the result was uh let

011me expand my screen right quick. Okay, the result was this portal you're now looking at. And what this does is it allows the user to focus on a number of things. One is obviously the menus jump right at you. you can see what what they're telling you. You can go right into them and uh you know you can um the first thing that they uh Dr. Anson wanted was I want people to enroll enroll. So we put that at the center of the focus right for folks to enroll um on the portal they can also go into different uh content uh as we begin to aggregate content for the school which is videos of students communicating their passion about the uh school and so on and so forth. We can have those in the background

012here running uh on the flow. We also had uh a scrolling. >> Oh, you'll be recording those stories for us, correct? >> Yes, we'll be helping you guys record those. Yeah, we have a a production set up here that So, that's correct. Uh we also have here, you know, this is the bar of where we we were told that uh you guys always need to have a banner of some sort where folks can quickly go and get the latest and greatest information. That is also here. Uh under here is um a replacement for where you apparently there's some key links that you have to have ready to go for your users to see when they come to the portal. These are those key links we've provided for you guys here. Um and I'll explain I'll

013come back to that in a minute here. Um this banner you're seeing here is AI generated. So now the admin can come in there and put a a couple of verbiage and tell it tell our tool and I'll show you how the tool edits what to do. And um and and we'll be helping with a lot of this. By the way, I keep saying admin, but I mean in the event that you know we have to train some folks to just use this easy to use application to update content, we'll be able to do so. Uh you know, it will generate this kinds of image. So this is a contrast to the kind of image that is cluttered and and just difficult to understand, right? So you know that's that's the goal of that. The

014enrollment again, you see where it jumps right back at you. So, you can go from the link we've provided you here, but as you navigate, the site is also here for you to move through and uh and navigate through. Now, if you're signed, if you're not signed in, I'm signed in right now. If you're not, it will bring you to these two links where it doesn't even feel like you're signing in, but really you have to register to move forward. And each step of the registration sends a message to the uh team and the administrator to say this person has started the application. This is the stage they are in the application. And um it also tells the uh the user where they're at so they can continue the process. Again, automating this process was

015pivotal because um you know uh Dr. Anderson didn't want folks to to lose track of where they at number one, but more more importantly to complete the process. We also have the events here. As you can see, this was a replacement for some of the things we had uh where you know I'm I'm you know this kinds of stuff, right? kind of cleaned it up a little bit to be more uh you know succinct. So you put those kinds of information here. You go into the banner, you show you show the users these kinds of things so they can see they can see your stuff. They can understand they can go to the appropriate link. Now why did we do this? We did this because we didn't want this model uh concept is you see

016it across the site for everything and we because we can now edit this component uh at one go and everything in the site automatically is updated without having to update pages and pages and designing and custom designing pages. In some cases, uh you what you're seeing here, the AI actually takes the information and we've trained it uh the LLM to actually uh extract data from this information and make it readable for the user. So you can attach an image and the image data is extracted and the user can then subsequently use it. You can also expand this to full screen if you wanted to. So that you know now it looks like its own site like this is the whole site itself. So the user can actually interact with this content. Uh and then when

017you close it, you go back to the normaly of the site. The calendar information is also very uh uh straightforward. You can go in here to see what's going on on the calendar. The events, you click on this, it pops up the event that is happening. You can actually read and stuff. Now, there's something we just finished yesterday that we're going to add to this. I don't know if anyone uses Calendarly here. Um, so we built a feature uh because you guys also have a mobile application that we we're built along this site that calendarly feature is going to be in that mobile application for you guys. So people can actually schedule when they want to visit you know or or see calendars availability calendars of of folks they want to have meetings with. Um

018so now uh so that's that and then you can see also information on the calendar is also displayed here uh as you go. So you can actually look at, you know, on on a on a, you know, on a date basis or you can go into the actual calendar and enjoy what's what's being posted. Uh extra information. This is just some extra information. Again, if you go into any of this extra information, notice that it pops up in the same modal concept. And and why we why did we do this? We just keep wanting people to get used to how the information is pushed to them in this format so that their eyes gets used to used to the process of it. Right? So, um, and once they're used to it, then they can come

019back to the site and find it easy to use because they know they know where everything should be, if you will. Uh, the map, >> well, also because you clicked on transcript and one of the things that we've asked Mo to do is to because it used to be that you student wanted a transcript, they had to go on print out a form and that was it. It was just a PDF of a form. Now they're able they're going to be able to request the the the transcript electronically. Correct Mo if they >> Yeah. So so so so if you look at this um so I'll come back to the map in a minute. So if you look at what we have now so we have this thing called forms now. You can get to

020the phones from anywhere. And this is important to note because all that all this means is this this link you see here is is what well it will be your link the school link will be what people would just need to have well is what we tie to other properties for them to know when they when they get here it'll be bringing up the transcript. So you can see here it says transcript request right. So which means if if your well let me explain differently when a user comes here and and what's important is we took all the fields that were required by the transcript field form that you the school uses today and we put them together here and then we told AI that uh do it in a way where uh we can

021have steps to it so that we don't lose track of people people don't want to fill a long form so they don't get disinterested or whatever. So that's what this is. Now you can see that the transcript is this. So you go through the steps. You fill out all the information and uh you know uh this is this is the same transcript form your school uses today. So that's what this is and when they complete this form it sends an email with a request to the admin saying this so so person has requested their transcript and this is uh they would like to blah blah blah. And you can see the other forms here. So, so if I come here and and I just came here for transcript and I and I'm like I want

022to I know I want to do some other applications. Why did we do this? We did this thing forms because we feel like I know the way I think. I I don't want to go find some other parent link to now find what I'm looking for. I just want to be able to know where all my forms are and go to the right form that I need based on my interest and then fill the form. So that's why we put all of this here. So if you click on them, you see the alumni update form, uh the RMA Texas school bullying form. All of these forms are here again with the next next next and that's AI where we applying AI to be able to to to do the flow correctly. The COVID now this

023thing is dated Dr. Adam. I don't know if you guys have an updated version of this. I don't I don't know if this 2020 means something. >> It actually can be removed. All right, Christina, that's that was done away with. So it can actually come off. >> All right. So, so maybe ask that question. And then the and then the job search filter. So you have the job search filter here where people can come in here and then again you don't you can get this from its own link from employment. You remember that you saw that employment stuff or you can come into forms and get it. And then when you come in here you can go to next. You see the job preferences, category, grade level, blah blah blah. uh and then u you

024can attach your resume and the resume is extracted into a text but also sent as a as a PDF so you can have it and why are we doing that we're doing that because we can use the text to do analysis so at some point when we talk to the school the school may say we want to be able to catch these keywords in the resume that we're looking for for talent so we don't have to go through a million resumes so that's why we're doing this here >> mo I was at a conference the other day and some organizations s are now using AI to screen candidates. >> Yes, that's what that is. That's what I just showed you. So, so we have a backend engine that does that, but you do that by

025extracting the text of the resume and then you use the keywords. You train your we train the LLM based on what the school is interested in. So, you can just send us an audio or type of some text that I need a candidate that is strong with A, B, C, D, and and has experience with blah blah blah. And that information then is used by a AI engine to go through the resumes and see who's best fitted for that job. Now, um I would recommend not to not to limit limit the search to those AIS just because you know we don't we don't want to be part of the issue of obsoleting good candidates just based on logic. All right. Um we have the map uh map uh uh school location information here where you

026can go through here and see the actual address of the school. You can also go in here. Uh the tool tips will provide you that information. And if you wanted to navigate, you can click on there and takes you to the Google map and you can navigate to the school. All right. Any questions about that? >> Are we able to add the school telephone number for ease? >> Yeah. Yeah, you can. We can add we can add phone number. We can add anything to this. And maybe that's a good time to show you how the editing works. So if you go here, if I click on the edit mode for us, the admins that or whoever you appoint or deputize to do so. This is where they will go to edit that information. You can

027see here that we can we have the address. We can easily add a field for uh phone number and so on and so forth. But this is where you edit the addresses uh seamlessly. And we can add whatever whatever other properties we need to add, we can add them. And they will show up on the tool tip. They will show up when you come in there on the uh they will show up on the uh on the tips. They'll show up in here along with all the information. >> All right. So, um Deepo, are you on the call? Can you take a note of that, please? >> All right. Um and then the board members, um we're doing something here. Um and I don't know. So this right now goes to the email if you

028want to contact the board member. So what we've done is we've we've we've added this form that when you click on that link now in the future it would uh I haven't added it here. Um oh or have I uh no I have not. Well it's going to take you to a form and that form is going to be what you will use now to send the email as opposed to just going to the uh to this. So you're not going to be using this anymore. is going to go to to a form and the form will ask for your name, email, blah blah blah and then uh the message and then it takes that and the reason we're doing that is because Dr. Anderson wanted to make sure that there's no bots sending emails,

029right? Because as it is now u you can have a a robot sending a bunch of emails that is not a real person. And um and then we have the chatbot. The chatbot is this. This is where you can ask uh you know um uh tell me about uh RMA or something like that that I'm not see if I can spell right and it goes and it has this uh little funny looking avatar and then it brings up RMA public school network school blah blah blah. So you can ask questions to this thing. What it does is it uses our logic to go into our data set and uh takes the data set which is the configuration of the site and and finds the best way to answer these questions but we can we we

030train it as we go obviously so that it gets better >> and what if they asked how do I enroll would it then take them to the length of the form >> well let's check it out you might not know that now we have to train it better but uh how do I enroll Okay, one more. We've got a lot to do. So, we appreciate just want to give an overview of the website. And so, at this time, we appreciate you. And we're going to move on to our next agenda. >> All right. And we're going to jump off here. Thanks, everyone. Cheers. >> Oh, any questions? I'm sorry. Any questions? Uh, >> all righty. Thanks, everyone. >> Have a good weekend. >> Dr. Next on the agenda. Really enjoyed his presentation the last two

031years. Look forward to that. Dr. Are you with us? Captain B, are you there? >> Yes, sir. >> Morning. How are you? >> Good. How are you, Dr. Anderson? Good to see you. >> See you. Good to be seen. Well, we'll turn it over to you as always for our district climate and culture survey results. >> All right. Excellent. Thank you. Can you all hear me loud and clear? >> Yes. >> All right. Um well I'm Steve Bgeoa of AHART Solutions and um we've been working with um RMA for for multiple years and this is the the third year of a three-year study. So everything will be similar. Uh and I'm going to be looking at more year-to-year comparisons as opposed to campus to com campus. And if I could I'll share my screen and

032start the presentation. All right. So, I should be showing my my board report now. I just need a a thumbs up and then I'll go so I'm not uh sharing something I don't think I am. Um perfect. Um so, I'm going to be going through the the three parts um staff, parent, and student. Uh focusing on year-to-year change, but also some by campus. uh and then I'll finish up with some recommendations based upon uh all three of of the the surveys. U so first of all the the staff and this whole section is staff. So you you'll see it clearly labeled here. Uh participation is always important. Um and and you can see a little lower this year than than previous. I think 2024 was high for all three services or surveys, but this one

033definitely dropped as far as participation. Then we have by year and campus or group. And if you look at 2025, this is very important um because um we want our groups to have 10 to be confident uh to generalize the findings. And we have a few um that are getting a little low, particularly Pasadena and Midland where we might think about an asterisk there. Can we generalize from those findings? But we we want 10 or more typically, which is what we've had in the past. So this is the structure of of many of these slides. We have the current year um to the left and then the the three-year and the and the circle in the middle would be an average for the threeear. So that's how we'll be interpreting this. Uh anything with colors

034uh indicate that this value is significantly above the the mean score for for this analysis. And then the same thing here. So that's what those mean. Um and I'll start by talking about this year and then the comparison then I'll move on to the the next topic. Uh so this is a single item on environment um perceptions of staff members and you can see that there's some uh pretty big differences uh by campus here um which suggests different perceptions of staff mindful that these are relatively small groups of of staff members. Um so be looking for um are there consistencies of school across some of these slides. Uh overall there is a drop u for for the staff members um in 2025 from from last year on this item. Um the next item is safety.

035Um do the staff perceive it to be a safe environment? Uh so you get some some of these similar differences. Um, but notice that this is in blue and this is in red. And statistically speaking, um, these other ones are relatively basically the same of to each other. They're close to the mean score, but that you have a couple of outliers. Um, same pattern, a drop in perceptions of safety from 24 to 25. So, that's something to look for on on all these items. Um, staff perceptions of of student kindness. This is always low um at at a high school level and and it's low here as as well. Um and and it's something to to to look at closely because that that value for 2025 is is low. I think you're going to see

036that the staff perceptions in general are going to be um much lower than the parent certainly and the student. So uh I guess I'm starting with the bad news first and then it gets better. Um but but definitely there there's a drop in staff perceptions this current year from last year across all of these items. Um perceptions of bullying once again over three years for RMA it has dropped and this pattern we're seeing on basically all of the slides and we're seeing this pattern as well. So there's a lot of consistency here. uh disruptive behavior um similar and and and we have clearly there's a perception of staff that this is is a problem. Um and and it seems to be a growing problem. um the the campuses are actually statistically the same even though

037the bars are different but it takes into account sample size why why those are not significant differences but but overall you can see the three-year trend um intention to return and this is always interesting because um we I just showed you that there's a a drop in perceptions of campus culture but it has made no difference as far as staff members and their intention to return to RMA. So, uh I would look at real uh attrition and and I'm not privy to those numbers, but but is there an attrition problem? That would be something to in investigate. But as far as their intentions, when they took this about a month ago, their intention was to to return and that number is very stable AC across all of our AHART solutions surveys. So, so this is

038about what what we would expect. And in fact, these are a little bit on the high side. Uh net promoter score, we're familiar with that. We we've discussed it every year. Um and I I think it's the it creates the biggest statistical spread for any measure. Um it's a very stringent one because we're looking at zeros through sixes. That's a big category. It comes right out of the business world. So um there are a lot of comparisons here but you can see that we take the the percentage of promoters subtract the detractors and we get the net promoter calculation. Um this is a staff survey and of course we're looking and hoping for a positive number here but you can see that one of the campuses corpus which has been at the top on the

039other analyses um is positive and then we have some some negative numbers here uh as as well. Uh let's look at the year-to-year trend. Um and and it's really been up and down. Um even though 2024 is a negative number, it's uh d it represented a big improvement from 2023. Um but then we we have a a low staff perception. So that that's clear from all of this. Uh and you can see that um 58% of the current year would be considered detractors, meaning they scored the campus on recommending as a place to work 0 through six. And you'll notice on the other analyses that the net promoter score will be just simply recommending um RMA from a student and from the parent standpoint. Uh but the staff as a workplace um uh that that's

040a number that's definitely of concern and you'll notice that the AHART average and this comes from thousands of responses nationally. We tend to get a positive response from staff. 31 has been our average for for quite some time now. um we want to look for drivers of of these results. And so I I analyzed all of the qualitative comments uh from staff members and um it's grouped by positive comments and then areas for uh improvement. Um so the the there were a lot of positive comments on um the desire to help students grow um that there was a supportive culture. So, so all of this is mixed and it's a complicated story. Uh, leadership does does come up on both sides of this and so some did have a positive uh response to leadership and

041remember that they're thinking about their leader more than the district leadership. Um, so there's a campus to campus difference. Um, the staff values the their perceptions of autonomy and and flexibility. U mission alignment. I think a lot of a lot of the staff are there because they agree with the alignment and serving this student population. Uh and then and they did mention opportunities to grow professionally. Um and then we're going to end on the suggestions or I just is there a comment there? I heard somebody No. Okay. Um so the negative descriptions or suggestions if you will. Um these are sorted from most frequent to least uh as far as these. So there so there is a a waiting on on these categories. But there were mentions of of poor leadership, lack of professionalism, uh

042campus and central office leadership. Um staff perceptions of of student discipline. Uh lack of consistency and even unsafe environments. um appreciate undervalued um they talked about communication and this will come back in the parent surveys as well um inequity as far as workload. Uh remember that these are for everybody who's a staff member across response or RMA. So we're we're not talking about just a teacher survey. So that could be something about this. Uh and then they're suggesting infrastructure issues and this is campus to campus. Um but uh they brought up facilities and technology and resources. Um so that's the first uh section of this and and it does get quite a bit better as far as the parent perceptions and we want to wonder why is it that the the staff had a relatively

043negative experience and then we're going to get a different story a very different story from the parents. Um, so unless our our question, I'd rather go through all of us and then uh take them at the end if that's okay. Um, >> all right. So, the the parent survey um we'll start out with the same structure. You can see a little bit lower in participation um this year than than last year. Last year, I think there were a lot of efforts behind the scenes to get responses from all three groups. It was definitely the highest, but we dropped off a little bit here. I I sometimes look at that or I do look at that as potentially a lack of engagement if those numbers are dramatically lower. And then you can see the campus to

044campus and I mentioned that the target is to have at least 10 uh per group so that we can trust them at the campus level and we certainly can here. These are decent numbers um that that we can generalize as far as what parents are saying about canvases particularly in 2025. Um we asked uh a few questions that that um are about parents and and why their their child is there or what are their goals and you can say that these these items are relatively stable. um about 2/3 are saying their goals are higher education and that really hasn't changed across years. Uh the same for trade schools. Really none of these. So this this shows that there's stability as far as what parents want and expect uh for their child. Um interaction with staff

045is is is similar is remarkably similar from year to year. Um but they're suggesting that staff is engaged. um there is a perception of of self-taught which makes sense because it uh you know if it you know any mastery based elements um they're going to perceive that but the but uh it is I think remarkable that they're relatively consistent year-to-year um the parents um areas for focus that means what would they like um RMA to do in the future to to get better u and very consistent communication has has been the top one for the last three years and actually always follow the same pattern. Academic instruction an area of focus um relationships and discipline but very very stable parent uh perceptions from from year to year unlike the staff members uh suggestions for implementation.

046So these are more specific suggestions for improvement and you can see that across the three years extracurricular options uh would be the top one and we just gave them these choices here and they're they're they're selecting uh ranking them basically. Um, moving on to the greatest advantages, and this is really important from the marketing standpoint, and these top three categories are relatively similar. Um, and and so, but I'll look at 2025. The flexible scheduling of of classes um the align with their uh their goals for the child. So that's the most important, but they also value uh the small size and the accelerated learning. So this is really not changed. Um location is is a factor for some but not many. So it mainly has to do with the the the program itself. Um this

047is a little bit more specific because it has has individual items. It's not just a general item on leadership. Um but the first thing I I see the parents perceptions are relatively low compared to what I typically see. You know when parents evaluate uh the effectiveness of of school leaders it tends to be between 80 and 90. Uh and so I I wonder how much exposure these the parents have to to leaders to to even evaluate particularly at the high school level. uh we seem to see more uh families who know the leader in in the younger grades. Uh but this hasn't changed much item for item and again this is combining all schools across um RMA. Um and this is a breakdown by year and I shared this type of a slide a year

048ago. So it's a heat map showing those same items. Uh and then an average which I think is helpful just to get a feel for this. But there are definitely campus level differences. Um, and they do tend to align with the the staff. I recall that Corpus Christie was very high across all of the staff uh items and and and it's it's similar here and some of the lower ones were low by parents too. Um so that this heat map I think is is instructive um to see areas potentially for uh professional development but there are definitely marketked differences um at the campus level in in parent perception of leadership. um school culture. Um this is similar to to leadership in that these are lower than we typically see. Um for school culture and and

049parent perceptions. Um there's very little yearto-year change here. So these have been stable. So you've essentially seen the same thing three years in a row with little change. And my recommendation is is going to be how do you address this? How do you and and a lot of it could be parent education? How do you inform them about the culture? And it also could be the culture itself, but these perceptions are are low. Uh and a second slide, um just different items. Uh some of these are higher um as far as they're they're not experiencing bullying for their child. Um diversity, that's a high number here typically for parents. Um their perceptions of the environment are uh relatively high. Uh, and then this kindness is is low for everybody with high school students. Um, parental

050involvement. Um, these numbers are not low or high. They're exactly what we tend to get and and particularly for high school, they're not bad at all. Um, parents tend to be more involved at the elementary and and middle level. So, so these are I wouldn't say they're they're concerning. It's what what you get with with high school parents, particularly when you have many older students. uh net promoter score. Um once again, this always gets your attention because, you know, suddenly we're looking at very high uh perceptions uh that they would recommend this. So it it it feels like they they they they see a program that is needed and it works for their children and others in in similar circumstances would would benefit from it. And and so these are really encouraging numbers from from

051parents. uh lots of pro promoters here across the campuses. So so this as a board I would look closely at this and you can see we have a couple of negative uh net promoter scores but most of them are very very strong. Um and then when we look at year-to-year um once again um lot lots of promoters across years and and and it does appear yes that this year went up from from the previous year. So that is encouraging. Uh the a hard average is 46. So so it's slightly lower. Um but for high schools, uh this is this is a a good score. Um we tend to get higher ratings from elementary. So so parent perceptions, it's a win. And I told you from the beginning that we're really getting three separate stories here.

052Um as far as the drivers of some of these um um these results um the positives um were reflected um before but the this is again sorted from high to low. They valued the flexible and self-paced. Uh they perceived the staff to be caring um and and they're seeing that their their students are improving in academic um outcomes and in motivation. they they value it as a positive environment and a safe environment. Um, and they value the the class sizes. Um, and then on the the negative side, the and they're they're talking about communication. And once again, these are sorted from high to low. Um, so parents are um pretty forthright about communication from the campus andor the central office and they mentioned both. Um there there are some differences school to school as far

053as leadership. They mentioned turnover um and I think they're they're not just talking about leader turnover but turnover across um RMA. Um they do have safety concerns um as well. So they they kind of have both sides of this. It's a safe but also they have concerns. um some express concerns of academic rigor and uh general organization and followup which um it connects to communication. So these are areas for improvement uh support services um it it it did come up about special ed um services and and needing to address that for some families. Um and then and then I want to transition to to students and um this is kind of a combined story very uh I wouldn't say it follows the the staff or the parent it it it it's unique but per as

054far as participation a really good year again and um the method of of giving these to to students is working that's a strong participation um you are getting some good numbers uh of students when a campus is is low in participation. Um that to me is also a proxy of engagement and um some type of an organizational flaw that they that they're not getting responses. So again, I would look at that to see why we don't have feedback. At the same time, I would be wary or cautious, I would say, about what what these students are saying because we're only generalizing four students here or eight and the others are are are solid numbers. uh same analysis and you can see there there's differences by campus and these patterns are are starting to look very

055familiar as far as which which campuses particularly corpus is at the at the top here. Um but this is is definitely a pattern. uh year-to-year you are going to see this type of a a drop uh from last year which you know was a very strong year from from students but this is about welcoming environment and so student perceptions have have dropped um from a year ago um perceptions of safety um this corpus has a large sample size um so it's heavily weighted in this and in this actually but there is a this is a a meaningful drop in students perceptions of safety. So it dropped um from a year ago. So the pattern hasn't been established but it seems to be dropping at least right now. Um the perceptions of bullying um these numbers

056are relatively low and but but they're in fact very similar to last year for for your your student population. Um, student kindness is always low with students, but it does tend to get a little bit higher with high school students. So, this is concerning. Uh, we tend to get our lowest, you know, in the range of 20 or so with seventh graders, but not high school students. So, it's something to look at. And this is a big drop from a year ago. So, there so it points to some cultural issues at at campuses. Um, but for high school, these numbers are are pretty low. Um, disruptive behavior. um similar pattern. This is not a significant drop and that's why it's not in red or blue. So essentially these three years have been identical but you

057can see some meaningful differences in campuses but be mindful of the number of students behind some of these numbers. Um the net promoter score for for students um they're almost always negative um for for students and they tend to get worse as students get older. Um so you can see a lot of detractors from your your student population. Uh it is helpful sometimes to look at the um the calculation but just looking at detractors tells you a lot as well. Um and then you can see you have some some promoters in the in this campus from the student perspective is is very high. Um but again look at how many students are behind that and it doesn't look like a lot of students there. Um and then year-to-year um we do see a a drop.

058So so the net promoter score tends to support what the whole survey shows, you know, and so if we see a bunch of dropped scores, then you're you're definitely going to see a drop also in net promoter score. So it was encouraging a year ago and and then it definitely dropped this year. Uh the Average is 14, but this is across all grade levels. I would say that our net promoter score for high school um is around zero honestly. So so but but not a negative number. So that is definitely a concern. Um the students h had some very positive things to say as they typically do and this is again rank. So they value the scheduling, the self-pace. Um they have supportive teachers, very patient. um they consider it a a safe environment compared

059to their their previous schools. Um and and they're and they're have pure distractions and and they like to uh to be able to to catch up. U so these are all what we would hope to see and what we have seen in previous years. These comments are all from the current year and I should have said that before. Um and then the negative ones um they're noticing some leadership um as far as being responsive, organized. Um students mention mention that some of their their work is repetitive. Um so that that might be worth some some followup as well. Uh some inconsistencies from teacher to teacher. Um these are some pretty descriptive terms, loud, chaotic environments. It definitely depends on the school and the classroom here, but they definitely noted that. Um, they mentioned outdated materials

060and and some lack of support. Um, so so that would be the the survey and I I thought that it would be helpful if I did a bit of a summary. And so this u so I want to um give you my takeaways from this in the form of recommendations and and then I'll pass it on to to questions. But based on the staff responses, um, uh, I recommend, um, consistency across classroom for classroom management. Um, looking at some of these campuses with low staff perceptions and and target those because there's definitely campus differences. Uh, communication and trust on the campus level seems to be behind a lot of the low scores. Um and then there are committed staff members and and we need to address you know why NPS is dropping um and and

061so I think looking at the lower campuses on that score would be very helpful uh for parents. Um, as always, communication can be improved. Um, safety concerns, there there's enough of them that it's that it's worth worth look particularly by campus. Uh, visibility of leadership. Uh, and I'm talking about campus and district leadership. Um, extracurricular options as you saw was consistently a recommendation for three straight years. uh from the students um they did mention um behavior and uh perceptions of discipline. So that seems to be on their mind. Um they they brought up as I mentioned just a few minutes ago concerns for classroom quality and leadership. Um but they do value the the flexibility and to reinforce those. So they're they're there for a reason and um I I think that the support of

062teachers can't be understated. Um the teachers want to be there with with that student population. I'm going to back up. I accidentally hit that. Um and then consistency across campuses. It's something I've mentioned every year, but that seems to be a perception of of students as well. Um this is the third year of of three years, and I think you all are very wise to keep the same survey, and I always recommend that if we do this again. Uh but we're shifting at AHART solutions and really focusing on a index that we've developed for staff, parent and student that gives you comparison data because right now your level of comparison is this year to last year to the year before or comparing the nine different campuses at RMA and we have a large data set

063and we're recommending to all of our clients that they use our index so that you can compare to to our national sample but also to other camp schools. We work with a lot of credit or recovery campuses uh in Texas and so we can compare apples to apples. So we'd recommend rather than designing your own survey, use the one that we have that has that comparison. Um I wonder the process that you have to review data and I'm I'm particularly interested in what you do with the campus leaders. Are they reading the data? Are they looking at their comments? Are they setting goals based upon this? cuz there's a uh some really valuable information here and it's not valuable if it's not used or acted upon. So I I hope that if there's not a

064a process there should be and we recommend that. Uh and then using um you know selecting more narrow goals and putting resources there. Um you can't boil the ocean. You can't look at all of these, but select some strategic goals across RMA and then use uh this type of a survey, hopefully a heart solutions to track those goals. Um, and thank you again for for giving me all this time. >> Any questions? >> Okay. Again, not sure you know for how this is used or is interesting. Some instances you have to say car as usually people believe that are not a very positive. I think it's probably pretty common across the board. What have you >> side like someone to discuss with how we collect data the collection process >> for this? Okay. >> I

065don't want to do that today. I have to say on a side note >> and yeah we'll we'll be sharing this at the principal Dr. Wood and I may get you to join in on that particular piece as well. >> Okay. I I I would love to be part of that. And and if you need anything else as far as breaking down the results, you know, sometimes I create campus folders, meaning you so each principal gets to see their own data and read every every comment and so you share them with individuals but not across all the them and that might be another way to get the because we have we have three years of data so a lot they could chew on. >> Thank you, sir. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you all

066and have a have a great day. >> You can. >> All right. Bye. >> The agenda is community education and volunteer programs. So he was first report. >> Norman Derek, are you with us? Yes, I'm sorry it was a little bit hard to hear. So, um I am here. Um I know some of the uh RMA Education Foundation board members were also hoping to join. So, they might be joining us uh any minute now. But, um hello everyone. It's so great to see you all. Um again, we definitely um are making some more headway with the foundation. Um so as we look ahead into 2025 2026 I thought it was definitely important to bring um all the board members together from both the trustees and the foundation. And so, um, I think we have some

067updates as to what's been accomplished and a little bit of a summary and then, um, where we're at, um, what our projections are going to be for next year. So we do have five board members currently and so each board member does know that they are responsible for committing to a financial responsibility whether that's from their company from their own personal giving or helping to secure corporate donors, grants or sponsors. So that puts us at 25,000. Um we did have some mini fundraisers. That number is actually around $1,000. I think many fundraisers are very important because it's serving two purposes. It's actually serving um community awareness, creating awareness for the different schools, for the district, and for the foundation, letting people know, hey, we exist, help our students, answer questions, really just be ambassadors and

068create that awareness. And then the more mini fundraisers we do, that number will increase. We did host the annual reverse teleathon here in Corpus Christi, bringing in um raising over $8,000. Um the corporate partnership, I have it broken down because part of it was attributed to one of the board commitments and part of it was attributed back into the corporate partnership account. So that total was 7,500, but that's how I divvied it up. And then we've submitted a total of $44,250 um grants that are currently in review. I know at least one of them has um an announcement date coming up in August. And some of them don't provide that information. We just keep checking the portal or keep hoping we receive an email. So in total revenue, it's over 16,000. Total committed is 20,000.

069And then of course that total and review number is still the same. Uh do we have any questions regarding the recap um on the finances? We have established banking as well. Um the IRS determination letter although approved in April was just received this week. So with that in hand, we're able to pursue partnerships, grants, and other funding opportunities even more uh ferociously, I would say, because we want to raise a lot in a short amount of time um to hit all of our goals that we have for next year. So we can move on into the goals that we have for next year. Oh yes. And so um we did we were able to do another check presentation here in Corpus Christi. And so I think these um these public um news uh segments are

070very important. Again, um we're always going to be the foundation always knows that one of our jobs not only is to fund raise, but is to create community connections and bring awareness to the RMA schools itself so that we can help drive new enrollments, drive alumni engagement, and drive parent engagement as well because you have to have all those things for both of us to be successful. So, okay. So, we'll go ahead and just take a quick quick look at that. And one of our um the validictorian actually got to be interviewed and again just really intentional about um showcasing what RMA is all about and creating that awareness. Hurricane season starts June 1st. Are you ready? The forecast three main storms 11 will be hurricanes. Five being major category three or stronger. GF Coast

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072we are keeping all of the tradition alive, making sure everyone can proudly fly the largest stripes. Michelle Hoffman is live in your neighborhood. >> That is not the same video. >> I have to refresh the page. >> Let me refresh it. >> Oh my goodness. >> Yeah, it's third time. >> I know. shutters for hurricane over 50 years of combined experience. We offer a wide range of quality products to protect your home or business. Don't wait until the storms begin. Visit us to ensure your protection. Stay safe this season with GF Coast Hurricane Shutters. This graduation season, many high school seniors across the coastal ven are running the risk of not walking the stage. I'm Alexis Scott, the neighborhood news reporter near the Bay Area, learning how some students can't afford their cap and gowns.

073And one school has raised money to help. Graduation should be a moment of pride, but for some students, the price tag is just too high. At Richard Mburn Academy public schools Corpus Christie some seniors facing serious financial challenges almost had to skip out on walking the stage this year. >> It's a very challenging thing especially with you know the price of caps and gown. >> Cash is a graduating senior and is one of the 39 students looking ahead to the milestone. However, he wasn't sure how he would afford his cap and gown. That's until the school's newly founded RMA Education Foundation stepped in. makes me feel like there's someone in my corner rooting for me. >> The foundation was able to raise more than $8,000 to help someone in the class of 2025 receive their

074cast. >> They didn't know for that stage. They didn't know if their parents were going to be able to provide that $100 for them plus hassle. You know, it was a big thing and a big um obstacle for our >> But the funds don't stop there. The foundation plans to put some money in a student emergency fund year round. The fund RMA says will help eliminate obstacles some students face, including transportation, housing, and other setbacks. >> This is so meaningful because it it shows that, hey, we're going to help support the remove the barriers and work hand in hand with the campuses to support our kids and give them just that full circle support. For students like Cash, the support isn't just about money or caps and gowns. It's a chance to finish strong and

075walk into the next chapter of his future with pride. >> I think it's so worth it and to graduate if you don't have stage to say, "Here's my diploma." >> RMA public schools have plans to work with other local organizations in the Coastal B to help boost their efforts in helping students near the Bay Area. I'm your neighborhood news reporter, Alexa Scott, Christics News. So, I think that was a really great um highlight and showcase of um what we have done and what we're planning to do. Um, the only thing I think would would add to that is to be able to connect people with more ways to give or get involved. And we're just not there yet, but moving ahead into next year, we're looking at getting our own uh website established and really

076having ways for people to donate year round and have that followup on stories like this um so that we're not missing any opportunities. Okay. So, um, looking ahead, we want to hit the ground pretty hard to really get that, um, budget up and running and operational and to actually be able to fund all the programs that we want to fund and are working to outline. So, the top priorities will be to establish a timeline for the board commitments um to be collected from members. The next thing to do would be to organize an um a big signature event. Um our board members did share that in Midland Odessa the golf tournaments are causing too much expenses versus revenue. So we're going to reassess, but we are definitely looking to figure out what type of big

077signature event can we hold. And we've already discussed um different roles. Um we have at least three um committee members committed to helping iron this out, including um one a new prospective board member and our board secretary Ivonne who is on the call. And together um with these these two individuals um I we have some past event fundraising experience. Um just this year, Miss Tesa led a fundraiser in Corpus Christi that raised over $60,000. So, I feel very confident and in capable hands that we can create something that's going to really um bring together the community and bring together those fundraising dollars. The third thing is going to be to like I said, we don't have a website presence. We don't have an online system that allows for online giving or any corporate giving or

078any donors um to give. at the reverse teleathon. It was amazing because we got to find people we didn't realize were already connected to RMA and we want to circle back to them because they want to do something bigger with us. There was an aunt of a student that works in a law firm. Um there was just a lot of different uh connections. We got to connect with an alumni. Um, so we want to make sure that we circle back and create um, options for them to give year round and not just at one event. We're also going to be establishing the corporate donors prospect list. Um, I just got commitment today that I do have a meeting with HB public affairs next week. um that public affairs office covers the Khen campus and so

079we're gonna continue to work with um corporate donors like that. Of course, Atmas Energy is already on that list. Um and we I want to go ahead and create a strategy that's for each individual market. So, some corporate donors can give to cover the entire district and some corporate donors are more localized. So making sure that we have a plan for each to be effective for the foundation and for the district is very important. Um a lot of um donors they want to donate um and they want to know that their where their funding is going and they prefer it to stay local. So, we have to work extra hard to craft that message that um by giving to our foundation, we're going to make sure that the immediate need in that community is addressed

080and then roll over the funding into the general fund uh for the foundation. So, making sure that that's clear and uh transparent is very important, but it can be a little challenging at times. And then um this has already been ongoing, but we're going to continue. Um Miss Janice um she's on our board. We're going to be hosting weekly and or bi-weekly grant planning sessions. Um she's helping to write and submit grants. We're collaborating together. And then our next strategy will be to expand our grant plan to really target the community foundations that exist in each market. So, for example, in Corpus Christi, there is a grant coming up. I believe it's August. Um, and it is for operations. A lot of operational grants do not exist. A lot of the funds raised so far

081are earmarked for other programs and not the operational fund. So, that um grant is worth 10,000. And so we're going to try and seek out other opportunities like that that exist in every single u one of our um school cities in each market. Was there any questions regarding the priority list or comments to see we're heading in the right direction? questions, no comments. I suggest that we take a 15 20 minute break. We've got a couple board members eating here. This next part of the uh agenda is important here. Miss Arand, we thank you for your presentation and we appreciate >> I'm sorry, Jennifer. I thought you had the projections for next year on there. That was just a recap, but I thought there was the I'm sorry. I thought there was the projections. >>

082No, just a recap. >> Okay. So, I mean, I was really hoping to go over the projections. Um, our contract does end on on June the 15th, and so I know we do need to do some work to figure out. >> I did share with them in close session the projection. So, we they all >> Oh, okay. Okay. Well, I did have some um board members here. You know, we want to may perhaps maybe see if we need to revisit theou. I don't think it was ever signed between the foundation and the district. And I think the voice the um the board members, you know, they do feel that we do need some time to really um commit to the fundraising aspect now that we have the designation. We have had one orientation, one board

083meeting, and so we still feel, I think, a bit in the infancy of getting everything going. We have a strong plan ahead, but we are trying to figure out what's the best path moving forward. Um, I don't know if any of the foundation board members wanted to jump in. No. Uh definitely I agree with what you're what Adriana is saying. We do we are in the infancy state of of uh in our foundation and raising and we do have plans uh to you know help uh improve and grow the work that we're doing. So we do need to uh you know pretty much just make the commitment to uh do the work. >> Yeah. and and we will continue to our plan is to continue to work with the foundation. Um, of course, Adriana and

084I will have a few uh things to iron out and once our board gives us the okay, then we'll move forward. >> Okay, thank you all so much for the time and this opportunity. Um, Janice and Ivonne are on the call and they they did the many fundraisers. I just want to thank them and uh for being so gracious to stepping out in the community and representing the the school itself and the district as well as the foundation. And thank you all for the work y'all are doing. We're really looking forward to 2025. We know we can hit that 150,000 um projected budget goal and I'm I'm honestly pretty confident that we can exceed that. We have um three more board interviews that are scheduled for this um this month. Uh three new three new

085members. Well, one is completed. So, looking ahead, this board operates very differently. Every board member understands that their role this is a fundraising board to help meet the needs of the district and provide things for students, teachers, and campuses. So, expansion of the board is a critical um priority as well. And so I will be looking forward to updating on how that goes. And thank you Dr. Anderson. Um I will be speaking with Mr. Marquez today. >> All right. Very good. We thank you all. Thank your board members that joined us and we hope you all have a great weekend. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. I think you're next up, but I think we need to take a break. Give our board members a few more minutes to get here. Have you checked on the

086ETA? >> Uh Mr. Neck said that he was on his way and should be arriving here around 10:30. And then uh Mira is also on her way and said that she would be here around the same time. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Uh both Mr. Neck and Miss Pearson said they would be here around the same time. Estimated 10:30 >> 20 minute break. >> Sure. >> Okay. that our hydro has dropped significantly this year. Um this is our first year uh without having a full year of esser revenue which was part of the co. Our local revenue primarily consists of -ate which is a program that provides discounts to schools and libraries to help them afford telecommunications, internet access and internal network infrastructure. The way that the program is designed is that we pay for those

087services up front and then we receive a reimbursement percentage from USA um as part of that program. And the next slide, RMA spends most of its operating expenditures on instruction. This slide shows the breakdown of functional expenditures for the 23 24 and also 2425 expenditures. This represents a breakdown of our expenses for the general fund and also our foods. Next slide, please. Uh just to go over some of the things that we've been doing this year with technology. Um we have contracted with a new technology company uh by the name of technology lab. We had previously been using vector choice. uh they had been with the district for quite some time since I had been here and uh we looked at uh for the past four years we're looking to replace better uh to to

088help improve our technology responses. We're hoping that technology lab will be that company. uh they do schools across the country and so we're we're looking forward to working with technology lab uh office systems. Uh last year our our Xerox office uh contract was running about $90,000 per year to $100,000 per year. And this year, uh, our contracts ended and we had a $1 buyout on all of our equipment. And so what we chose to do as opposed to go back and, uh, purchase new equipment for this next year, we have decided to do the $1 buyout on all of the copier equipment and then just put all of that equipment on maintenance program uh, which reduced that number to uh, a fraction of what it was before. So, uh, significant savings going into, uh, next

089year with our our office equipment. Um, that'll just buy us some time till we can make, uh, a decision about what we want to do going forward. Uh, new computers, we purchased new Dell laptops across the district as we do annually. Uh, we were able to keep up with that. We did use some ESR money at the end of last year to to purchase those computers and we distributed them throughout the the district this year. Classroom digital displays. Uh in the past we had always used uh smart uh displays in all of our classrooms. This is an older technology that required uh projectors and screens and uh speakers and devices and we've we're in the process of replacing those thanks to a T-class grant. Uh we're able to replace uh at least six of these

090uh display devices at each of our campuses for the four core classrooms and a couple of uh distance classrooms. uh big performance this year uh was a cyber security audit. This was due uh in September of of this past year and we uh completed that audit and uh it was accepted by the the state and so we're we're all clear with cyber security and we're in pretty good shape there. Next stop, safety and security. Uh this program throughout the district has just exploded. Uh so with the TEA Texas School Safety Center, uh you can see all of the items that we track there. School safety standards, emergency operations plans, intruder detection audits. Um we we came up with that tea sentinel document repository. Uh this is a something new that the state has just come

091up with. Uh they've been developing over the last couple of years. uh but they went full uh full-blown into it this year. And so with that, we track on our website or on their website, the Sentinel website, uh door sweeps, drills, intruder detection audits, all of that is is done through the the new state uh system where we do all of our reporting uh required training and presentations and postings. Uh these are the other items that we have to keep up with on a regular basis. Standard response protocols, standard reunification methods. So those are all uh items that we we keep up with with the state. uh school safety audits, uh campus emergency operation plans, crisis management plans, uh staff skill surveys, campus hazard analysis reviews, uh committee databases, uh drill logs, all all of

092those things we do on uh either a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Um, and then some of the contract renewals that we had through safety and security, uh, AED123, they monitor our defiills and provide us, uh, CPR training for the district. Cascadia Global Security, they provide our armed guards, which are requirement by the state nowadays. And um we also have a a doctor that we contract with that uh keeps all of our protocols up to date for EpiPens and um Narcan and and those types of items. Next page. Uh some of the filings that we had to do this year. Um, we completed the basic plan updates and cyber security annex which we turned in Texas school safety conference. We'll attend that. Uh, we attended last year and we'll do it again this year. Uh,

093prepare for September's TEA visit. This is a new visit that the uh, TEA has uh, pushed out to all of the districts. Before we did safety audits on a a three-year basis. So RMA would do uh three audits per year and so we would keep up with our our three-year, you know, audit plan. Uh going forward, the the state is going to to be doing a district vulnerability assessment. We've gotten our review is going to be um September 1st through the 5th. So we'll be preparing for that going into the new year. Um we must be one of the first schools if not the first school uh to be audited as this is a new program and uh it's like the first couple of weeks of school. So >> some random or do they audit

094you all? >> All of our campuses will be audited uh through that those five days. You know they'll visit every campus and and we have a schedule for it. Now we do prepare for this. We have St. Stacy Weaver who does our safety audits. Uh she does a year and then we have Mary Lou who works with my department uh who goes out and does an individual audit on every campus at the beginning of the year to make sure they're okay. Uh normally we we fare very well with this, but this is all a new program for the state. So uh hopefully we'll we'll do well this year. uh campus audits complete. Those are the ones I was talking about with Smith Weaver. And then uh the on the uh intruder detection audits where they

095the ESC's come around and uh visit our campuses once once per year. Uh we only had one finding this year as you guys know. We presented that to the board. It was in Houston. uh we are no longer in the uh location that created that issue. So uh we're hoping next year we're shooting for 100%. We've we've missed uh one one finding, you know, and in at each campus or one finding per year for the past two years, which is is killing me 100%. Uh next slide. And then once again, these are the the school safety audits that I mentioned um with school safety pros uh Miss Stacy Weaver who goes around and does that. Uh we have to have a a state uh approved person do those audits and we're currently in the process

096of of uh getting our our Mary Louas uh signed up to to do that. So, she's working through the process getting approved. So, hopefully going forward, we'll have our own uh auditor to to keep us up to speed. Next slide. Uh compliance with drill logs. Uh we're we were at 100% with this. Uh we use our raptor system. This is all digital now. Uh we've kind of made that transition over those last two years. And so, uh we're 100% there. Next slide. is our uh intruder detection audits. Once again, we only missed one. We have one finding at one school this year and so we're doing our best to finish that up and I think that's it for me. >> Well, and I'm getting ready to do go over our academics for last year and

097I'm really excited. But before I I know I'm gonna go fast, but I want to thank all the principles because we have principles on this on this meeting and all teachers and all the staff because it's them who are actually as they say boots on the ground doing the work. Um to get that in there. All right. So um we are right now an 80. Um we we have been verified by TEA but we have not been certified by TEA. Right now our district is an 80. Um uh that's our score. It was verified by TEA back in October >> lawsuit. >> That's because of the lawsuit. Yes, >> it should be because they TEA won the first lawsuit for the 2223 rating. So that was released and so they expect the courts to suit

098and say you can release the 23 24 day now. I think they're saying September, Jim, was it by September they expect to release them. >> That's what I believe. And uh we we talked about the official one at our last board, but this is just what shows our accountability. It is 20% graduation rate, 40% CCMR, and uh 40% star performance. Uh our graduates this year we had a 295 graduates. Um this is Yeah. Oh, you got the PowerPoint. >> I do. Yes. Um and so by campus, this is how many graduates we had by campus. And this is uh endorsements. Uh 96% of all of our students had an endorsement. Uh this is one thing we're working on, not just on quantity, but on the quality of our programs and the graduate uh diplomas that

099our students are receiving. And again, we've grown. 75% of our graduates uh graduated with a distinguished diploma, which is the highest level of diploma that the state of Texas prefers on its graduates. Uh 96% of our graduates earned a CCMR credit. That's career college military readiness credit. And I'll talk about that a little bit later, but that's just a profile of our graduating class of 2025. Star performance, I will be honest, we we dipped this year with our star performance. Uh we had over two 4,000 tests. Um our approaches for the year was 33% and our domain score was a 57 for domain one. Uh we are already working on how to improve that performance for next year. Uh we've done a very or we're in the process of doing a very thorough audit. I

100think you have to look at what your weaknesses are in order to make your improvements and we are currently doing that. You >> know as one of the things I share with Dr. Gibbons too that is again and students said it in survey consistency. Uh I think that having a consistent staff at these campuses plays a huge role in in in academ. Next is uh just a brief overview of our CCMR. And I do want to reiterate when we came and I say we because I have my partner in crime, Mr. Showers. I know he's out there somewhere. But when we all we always say we when we came to RMA it was less than 5% of students graduated with a CCMR credit. And so since 2021 when I came in in in the February

101we now have 96% of our seniors have a CCMR credit. And I just have some highlights. 93% of our seniors had a C CCMR credit from Texas College Bridge. Texas College Bridge is our our umbrella, our big uh foundation. And I want to give a shout out to Miss White, our new uh uh counselor coordinator, because she really has implemented the vision that every student is supposed to take Texas College Bridge. Um and then over 50% of our students have it in something else other than Texas College Bridge. So over half of our students have multiple CCMR credits. So it's not just one, they have two or more. So uh again, that's because we're making one embedded. And then we we we we showcase the other programs. Okay. Uh and then another huge huge uh

102and again shout out to Dr. Lambert, 100% 100% of all of our graduating seniors who were special ed had a CCMR credit. So I again these are huge highlights and again I this is a team effort and I just have to give credit uh where credit is to thank you. Um again 96% of our students next slide had a yeah and that way you can see but look at that we have five schools where 100% of the graduating seniors had a CCMR credit. You know if we were talking about star that' be 100% on star performance. That's how impactful this is. Uh in our Texas College uh bridge program, we had over 6 and uh 12 students or successfully passes. And then we have all of our campuses have a memorandum of understanding. Uh I

103wanted to say just last was it last week was just the other day, right? It was this week. We were at a uh conference because as you all know we are uh Corpus is going to be at early college campus. We got that lasso grant. Yeah. Um and uh we just left uh yesterday. >> You never trouble and um just >> Yes. He left the left the urban farm and came And so we're we're really excited. We're in the planning stages. We got to meet everyone. Uh and so we're we're really looking to grow and we even had opportunities where we might be able to allow other campuses to be a part of that program. >> Okay. And then we had our uh um DSI. We had 448. And last but not least, and I'm

104about to uh uh we had good success with our TSI. again uh 13 I mean 17 students getting a CCMR credit just because of TSI testing and with that I move on to Mr. Shers on Mr. Charles you >> yes I'm here good morning everyone to the board trustees Dr. Anderson colleagues I just want to share some more detail as it relates to college career military readiness and our CT programs thanks Dr. given for giving a a brief overview, but we do have some great highlights as it relates to momentum across the district for college career military readiness. Again, Dr. Given already have mentioned the growth that we've seen uh over the past years from 5% in 2018 to now over 85% um overall CCMR accountability indicators. She mentioned briefly about one of our key

105highlights this year was our pre-planning for RMA Corpus Christi. Um, superintendent office just recently signed the final paperwork needed to officially consider us a designation for early college high school there for our Corpus Christi campus, which is a major win. That simply means that all students starting the 26 27 school year will be afforded the opportunity to take dual credit courses, make sure they have workforce certifications with through our partnership with Delmare College. And so that is just significant. Not only will our students be graduating from our RMA Corpus Christi campus with workforce certifications, high school diploma, but also they will have the availability to have an associates degree when they graduate. Also, one of the key um points I want to share is our college readiness. Over 425 of our seniors um graduated and

106had access to our Texas College Bridge programs. This year, Dr. Given gave a highlight the number of students that took TSI, but we strategically this year, historically, we give two district-wide administrations. This year, we did three. making sure that we boost access for students to be able to be prepared, to be able to move on after they graduate and embrace college opportunities. One of the things I do want to highlight on slide three is CTE continues to serve as our foundational pillar in preparing students for life beyond graduation. Over 84% of our students was enrolled in at least one CTE course. That is a significant gain from past years. We are especially proud of the increased number of course completion. That means our students are taking the courses and they are completing the courses. We

107had significant gains through the support of our sped department under Dr. Lambert, our emerging bilingual and sped students um had a significant increase in those students taking CTE courses and completing those particular courses. Big shout out to the improvement in the percentage of students that are enrolled and taking and completing CTE courses. On slide four, this is also another big win. students with industry certifications. Over 300 certifications was earned across programs this year. I want to pause and give thanks to the board and our superintendent for really supporting one of our largest programs CT programs which is our NCCER certification which made up 70% of all the certifications our district was um able to afford students the opportunity to earn this year. Our NCCR program continues to prove that students has a high interest in

108high skill, high wage careers. The data reflects that these students are now leaving RMA with credentials. That means something in the workforce that we are preparing students to be able to leave RMA and be able to gain employment opportunities through their NCCER certification. Huge win. We have other programs that we are seeing students gain certifications like our EKG phabbotomy medical assistant and Microsoft Office certifications but again NCC makes up 76% of all of those certifications we gave out this particular year. Also um on slide five, our last principal retreat meeting with all the principles, we saw a huge opportunity to implement an initiative districtwide. On the fourth Friday of each month during our fourth term, which is our last um nine weeks of school, every campus hosted career exploration events, which we call future focus

109Fridays. They bring in college recruiters, industry professionals, military representatives. Instead of being able to find ways to take students to these things to make sure students are exposed, we bring the things in in in house. And every campus hosts what we call a future focus Friday, fourth Friday of each month. principles, counselors, seals, um, all pull together and find all of these different organizations, military and colleges to come in and do presentations with our students. And we look forward to that being one of our big implementations for our 2526 school year. >> Showers, if I may chime in on that, I I think that this is a win for RMA students. When I go to campuses, Dr. Gibbons heard this hundred times. I asked students, you know, I asked how many seniors and then I

110asked them what are their plans and unfortunately we have seniors that don't know and I said that's unacceptable. I said we can't just give the student a high school diploma. We've got to make sure that they have somewhere to go whether it be college or military. And so I think that this initiative that they've come up with is is applaudable. Um, and I I I hope that we see higher numbers of kids with a future uh plan postgraduation. So, thank you for for for creating this. >> No problem. And and again, Dr. Anderson and board, the goal is to make sure students are knowledgeable and exposed to all the different colleges, trade schools, all the different industries, all the different careers that they can start right after graduating high school. and some opportunities are for

111students to have while they are currently in high school. So, we want to make sure that our students have that type of wraparound service experience, making sure that they well knowledgeable of all the options they have after graduating. Our next slide. Again, I can't be I can't show no more excitement than I am that I have in regards to being able to start the planning for our Corpus Christi campus to transition to early college high school. Dr. Given just shared how our district leadership team just was in training this past Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday there in Denton, Texas. Our principal, Mr. Q received the training and we're now in the at the part where we're going to be receiving some assistance and support not only through TEA but we also have partnered with Educate Texas.

112We have a consultant that's going to be walking us step by step through the strategic planning of our early college high school. And I say planning this coming year 25 26 we have a whole year to plan how we going to brand this. How are we going to get the the city of Corpus Christi to realize this is another great opportunity for students in Corpus Christi? How are we going to recruit new students? It's a whole opportunity for us to not only just rebrand our our campus there in Corpus Christi, but also by virtual uh opportunities. Some of our other campuses can take advantage of these dual credit opportunities. got two minutes, just showers. >> Okay, not a problem. And lastly, >> lastly, we go all the way down to the last slide. Um, again,

113what we've seen with CCMR, CTE, we continue to um cultivate a culture of readiness and career, college, and military at every campus. CCMR at RMA is no longer a mandate. It's a movement and board. I truly hope that y'all are seeing the impacts that our CCMR is making across the district. Thank you so much for your time. >> Thank you. >> Good morning. >> Hi. Um my first slide just started off with just um giving youall an awareness of the amount of students that we serve in special pops. Um, so, uh, important for you to know between our ESL students are sped, we have about 2% that are dually identified, meaning they're both an emergent bilingual student and a student with a disability. And we're serving 191 students in section 504. Next slide, please. Um,

114and again, this is our our team. This is who are doing the work, right? And so super important for y'all to know that our special education teachers are supported by certified associate teachers. Um it's they're important for compliance. Our instructional um coordinator and our transition specialists and of course our school psychologists make up our team. Um and we can go to the next slide. Our instructional um uh um coordinator has created and implemented a sped teacher handbook. This of course has been super important in uh compliance and um just how we are serving the students um in that each new special education teacher he's providing hours of training with them and we also do a weekly um check-in and this has paid off um as far as in what you think about compliance and us

115serving the students. Next slide please. ESL uh teachers um they soared this school year. um we put out an initiative that um we wanted to increase our parent engagement activities and we all know about the research with that. We we increase our parent engagement. We um that gets the parents um asking the students um what's going on at school at home, right? And so we have to bring open the doors to the school to um those parents um especially the parents of our emerging bilingual students and make sure that that that same content is accessible to them as well. Um so they have uh beyond the parent engagement part, the ESL teachers have been meeting with the um ELA teachers and um pushing out a a weekly newsletter and sharing strategies um and how to

116better um increase the um academic progress of our emerging bilingual students. Next slide, please. Super excited about the parent engagement activities. Of course, Corpus always does it. uh Corpus and Lick. Uh Corpus brought in uh the author of Coco um who is al also a former teacher and um she came in for the parent engagement part. Uh Love campus um took our emergent bilingual and a um some um students with disabilities to Texas Tech for a field lesson. And um our ESL teacher in Luk has partnered with learning inc. They actually help our um our emergent biling any student but our emergent bilingual students um fill out their FASA forms and um help them access PEL grants. And so uh that happened uh on the love campus uh for every emergent bilingual student, believe it

117or not. Okay, next slide please. Um and I just wanted to mention section 504. I don't think you hear me talk a lot about it, but we do have 191 students as um talked about earlier. Um and so we provide them accommodations and plan monitoring. And so um what that looks like on campus is every teacher is knowledgeable about those students accommodations and um and the principles drive that work. Okay, next slide please. This year we are focused on graduating um our special education students. We did an increase of um 30% of um graduates of sped graduates, students with disabilities. And so we we um are able to monitor monitor that by tracking the graduation um rates and those students pretty um closely. Next slide please. We also have our transition specialist and um she

118partnered with student services um to if you remember from last year we had a transition um meetings on the campuses and so we opened up the door on the guidance of Dr. given and um added a job fair component to that and so that was super successful. We plan to continue that on um into next year and um we've gotten some positive um feedback regarding those uh transition and job fair collaboration. Next slide please. All right. Um what did I want to tell you here? I wanted to let you all know um that uh we we in sped we are just making strides right and so we were able to reduce that results driven driven accountability rating and we're actually a one which means we meet requirement that was we had not done that in

119the past six six years and so um and TA has been super complimentary about um the strides that we've making we have made in the sped department and I could not do that without my team so next slide that please. All right. Um we want to just looking ahead, we want to make sure that we are continuing that component of family engagement and um continue to focus on the graduation and post-secondary success. Something I did want to quickly note with our students with disabilities, we're legally required to um know what they're going to do postgraduation. And so we are able to report out on that um for our graduating um seniors. And um that is it for me. Anybody has any questions? >> I want to uh kind of give you so I actually have

120been in those meetings with parents uh engaged ones that I applaud you. It's it's really nice to kind of see what their questions are and concerns and it's always about where what their child future. But the great thing is that the learning environment for them has um and every year since I've been on the board, it's always and this goes for for quality programs, it's always been just better and better. So, um I love the parent engagement and the family engagement that we've done. Um you know, Corus has done a phenomenal job and and thank you for that. >> Thank you, Dr. Lambert. I appreciate you so very kindly. Jim Paul, >> enrollment attendance is next. Um with the understanding that enrollment attendance has been difficult across the state of Texas this school year. Um

121so looking in detail at RMA image remember that I sent the board a email with an article that Dr. C sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh shares about absentee is among students at home region. So what's present or what's showing is at the top left um that chart is average attendance compared to enrollment and so while the average enrollment has increased during the current school year which is a positive indicator of growth in community interest the average attendance has slightly declined reverting to levels observed two or three years ago. So it's at a currently at a 75% attendance rate. Um to the right of that is the average total enrollment compared to retention. So the

122average retention has remained steady at 60% over the past several years indicating that we have a stable core of students who choose remain year-over-year reflecting a baseline level of satisfaction with RMA. And then the bottom left is the student interest in enrolling with RMA. This is our student onboarding system online application. I'm looking at those uh measures and although um student interest in RMA continues to grow as evidenced by the steady increase in enrollment application over the past several years, the average enrollment still falls short of pre prepandemic levels reflecting a broader trend seen both statewide and nationally. >> And then gives us that all the student interest. How do we engage student interests? >> And that's when they go into the student onboarding system and just begin an application, show interest in an application,

123start an application, and we follow that through different steps in that onboarding system to fully vetted application and enrollment. So, just starting out with an interest, hey, and we've really gotten better at that this school year. um seeing which students are actually just beginning to complete the application. As long as they put a contact um number or email address, we'll follow up with them. We saw you were online. We saw that you were interested. Is there any questions you have for us? Can we help you fill out the application? What have you. So the registars and the principles have been doing that very well towards the end of this year at each of the each of our campus. And then the bottom right is the just the taper information, Texas academic performance report indicators. There

124are a year left, but according to taper, um, RMA continues to show signs of recovery after COVID. And while chronic absenteeism remains a persistent challenge, there are notable improvements in overall attendance and dropout rates, signaling signaling positive momentum in student engagement and retention. And the next slide is just a comparison of student demographics. So top left is enrolled grade level by year-over-year. In grade nine share, grade nine share of enrollment increased by over 6% while grade 10 remained stable at approximately 30%. And after a period of decline, grade 11 rebounded to 24% in 2025. In contrast, grade 12 dropped sharply from a peak of 27% in 2023 to just 18% in 2025. So, we're getting younger kids, the older kids. Um, from 22 to 25 on the right hand side is the ethnicity. And from

12522 to 25, student enrollment increased from 64% to 69% um for Hispanic Hispanic population reflecting an ongoing demographic shift. Um African-American enrollment remained stable at 16 while the white student representation declined from 17 to 12%. And then the bottom left is gender. And so in from 22 to 25 the gender distribution shifted slightly with male enrollment increasing from 50 to 55% and female enrollment decreasing from 50 to 45% suggesting that a growing v majority and then as far as special populations which Dr. Lambert just reviewed, but from 20 2022 to 2025, emergent bilingual um student enrollment uh rose from 11% to 16% andstead enrollment increased to 14%. Economically disadvantaged enrollment declined slightly from 90% to 47% over the same period. That's attendance and enrollment. Next is student services. with Jim. >> All right, Amy. >>

126Hey, good morning. I'm excited to share the impact and progress of the student services department at RMA for the 2425 school year. Our focus remains on removing barriers, building support systems, and equipping every student uh for lifelong success. As student services plays a critical role in fostering student wellness, academic success, and future readiness from nutrition to attendance, behavior support, and community connection, student services is committed to supporting the whole student. Next slide. Uh, our chartered nutrition uh program continues to make a measurable difference, serving over 35,000 meals across the district, ensuring students have the nourishment they need to focus and thrive. Breakfast meals include a whole grain item, fruit, milk, and fruit juice in compliance with the Texas Department of Agriculture. Uh like all schools and families, RMA saw an inflation of food prices. But

127with the help of the supply chain grant that was carried over from the previous year, which covered over $55,000 in food costs, plus the mindfulness of ours and support staff, um CMP expenses ended the year under budget, and our income was 20% over budget this year. Our student and community leazison are on the front lines every day communicating with families, identifying barriers to success, and connecting students to crucial resources. They also support attendance recovery to ensure students meet the 90% rule mandated by the state of Texas. Attendance is a key predictor of student success. This year, campuses celebrated perfect attendance through pizza parties, popcorn parties, highlighted students who earned perfect attendance on the campus monthly digital presentation, organized spirit weeks, and uh hosted college visits to boost engagement and motivation. We know that success extends

128beyond the classroom. Through the efforts of the seals and principles, partnerships were created with local businesses, healthc care providers and colleges expanding access to services like financial counseling, career planning, and health resources as required by TEA. RMA continues to monitor and address the needs of our special populations groups such as Mckin Veto, foster care and pregnancy related services with the assistance of the student and community leazison, registars, our PRS teachers and principles. The special population of students that offer or sorry special population of these students are offered community resources and homebound services after pregnancy. Army saw an increase in suspensions with nearly 1500 um total suspension days and a decrease in expulsions from the previous year. The academics team is working to identify root causes and develop more supportive interventions to reduce these numbers. Uh

129this year we hosted a career fair with the support of special education department at each campus inviting colleges, local employees and military branches. Uh these events helped students explore options, build employable skills and envision a future beyond graduation. So as we look forward and remain dedicated to supporting students throughout uh through innovative communitydriven strategies that meet their evolving needs. Um thank you for supporting our missions and for helping us ensure every student has the tools to succeed. >> Amy questions then Christina and last but not least will be Carrie. >> So let's let's start with a snapshot of this year's hiring and recruitment. Uh we received over 1,200 applications averaging 11 applicants per posting. This is a strong indicator of our visibility. Uh to compare rural or other dropout recovery charters typically will receive less

130than five applicants per posting. Uh our average posting duration dropped to 34 days uh which equates to a 19% decrease in our time to fill. This is a significant improvement over the last year and well below the Texas charter average of 42 to 50 days and the industry average of seven. You'll also see average dates posted by campus sites like Corpus Colleen and Amarillo at the shortest timelines. Uh we do currently post on TASA Schoolspring with the region centers talent ed and LinkedIn and we'll continue evaluating which platforms yield the best K9 guidance moving forward. Next slide please. Um for our key workforce improvements this year we saw meaningful progress in our workforce health. Our retention rate increased by 10% meaning more of our staff are choosing to stay with us. uh at the same

131time as they near each other our attrition dropped by 10% and our fill rate improved by 5%. Meaning not only were positions uh filled more efficiently but more staff stay. Uh we have at this point in the year we had 23 fewer separations compared to the previous year. Um, and these aren't just HR metrics. They reflect strong leader a stronger leadership, clearer expectations, and a culture where people feel supported and want to stay. Next slide, please. When we look at our retention by role, the data reinforces it progress. Our teachers stay with RMA for an average of five years. This is more than double what the industry standards listed. We also we're also well above the average for our registars central office staff and our student our student community leaison overall our district average and

132our trend towards high retention with driver stability across all our so for our complaints um our approach to resolving complaints continues to build trucks this year as previous years 100% of our complaints were was sold at the lowest level and no appeals were filed. Every response was handled within policy timelines reflecting consistency and respect. Looking at the five-year trend, we've maintained low complaint maintained a low complaint volume and all of these complaints have been resolved appropriately. Uh this is a direct result of the district's communication or I'm sorry, the district's commitment to transparency, responsiveness, and respectful resolutions. Okay, next slide, please. Um, at RMA, 55% of her teachers are certified. That's 15% higher than the Texas charter school average of 40%. Um, even compared to Austin ISD affiliated charters at 59%. We're competitive, especially given

133our statewide reach and focus on dropout recovery. Um, Texas law does not require certification for most charter teachers, but we do continue to prioritize it anyway because it means more qualified and experienced workforce and better outcomes for our students. And then this year, just some some key wins in the HR department. Um, we hired and onboarded 104 full-time staff and 48 campus substitutes. We maintained and continued to run our 403b and 47 retirement plants which supports a long-term financial wellness for our staff. We implemented intershipwide tracking application document which attributed to the shorted the shortened hiring timelines. Um we tailored several different accommodations for staff and we modernized our background our background procedure uh to better align with with today's needs. Um, each of these achievements contributes to a more efficient compliance supportive work envir

134and a and a supportive work environment for everyone in our bank. >> And that's all I have. >> Christina, >> good morning. Um, the first slide this is a list of some of the initiatives um that we focused on this year with RM school district. Um, just to highlight a few, each campus had a monthly calendar with four events scheduled for each month. Um, and those were covered by the principal, the counselor. There was also a monthly follow-up meeting to discuss community connections, updates, or any assistance that they may need. um RMA went fully digital with our graduation programs this year using a QR code which um seems to not only have been much more efficient but it also saved quite a bit on um expense for the district. We've also moved to a digital

135uh business card platform and that also saves the district money. Student interaction and involvement was encouraged through various contests, our refer a friend program and um various other items that we put forward in order to encourage um referrals and um interaction and engagement from students. In addition, we assisted the um education foundation providing district data, all their marketing materials, setting up their social medias, and attending the events. Next slide. Um, we try to focus on student center initiatives. Uh, we cultivated and established our relationship even further with TBCSA and also Texas lawmakers and the state board of education members. Uh, TBCSA highlights, as you'll see in the picture, RMA extremely often and frequently on their website and in social media. um requesting different videos and um student testimonies to feature at conferences as well. Next

136slide. Here's the information for us on our referral sources. As you'll see, um we had 3,214 students actually start an application. Um and with our referrals, 20 2,913 listed a referral source. Word of mouth was 19%, student referral was 11%, our website was 13, and Google was 13 with 31% of our students selecting others their referral source. Um, I wanted to focus and you can read this at your leisure. This is um the new website and all the key pieces that it brings. Um, we're extremely excited about the transition to the new website. And, um, at the bottom, you'll notice this year we increased our total website views by over 50,000. Um, and that'll do it for me. >> Thank you, Gary. Questions? And if not, uh, that leads us to e the strategic plan.

137um if it be okay I think most of the stuff in the strategic plan has been presented the postgraduate outcomes and everything of that nature if the board has no objection I would invite you to look at the strategic plan pieces and if you have questions we can entertain them but I think that Tammy's given the financials I think Carl has given the safety and risk mitigation so instead of going over it again uh I think save time the board let's a board member objects go ahead. >> Yes. >> All right. Thanks. As you know, the uh 89th legislative session ended on May 28th. Uh the bills passed. Um I wanted to just go through the bills that were passed and what had impact on RMA. Um, and so, uh, if you would, uh, I

138would start with the, uh, uh, you can go on down. I would start with the biggest bill, which was House Bill Two. Uh, we were able to host, uh, Dr. Buckley at our graduation this year in Colleen, and so we thanked him publicly there. Uh but that was the $8.5 million school finance bill uh which is going to Tammy will be talking about it in her presentation uh which could possibly have a million dollar impact on the RMA budget um going forward uh if all falls correctly as as we run the uh numbers. Now were those the me were those the mo numbers? I keep hearing this mo case. >> Yes, mo case. Yes, >> mo casey. Um they did run. So the the legislature published funds and then MOC also did funds based on

139your student population and what you're currently getting and then what you will get um after in 2025 uh 2026 and then also the next year as well. >> So was it similar to the state runs? Okay. Because they at the conference I was at the other day they were talking about the the the Casey runs are more accurate. >> There's a lot more detail. >> Yeah. >> Yes. A lot more detail. So, uh, which would put us around that, uh, that, uh, surplus. Also, uh, teachers for school districts under 5,000 students would get $10,000 pay increase. Is that correct? It's two steps. >> Yes. So, I don't think it's up to 10. I think it was broken down between five and and eight. >> Okay. Was the final? >> It didn't. Yeah, it didn't go

140that high. But yes, in in our district it would be broken down between um zero to uh or I mean three to up to five years. If you're over five years, then you would get that higher amount. >> Okay. So 5,000 or 0 to three >> Okay. 4,000. Okay. And then if you're over >> and we're basically going to be a pass through for that. Okay. >> Like the district itself is not going to hold on to any at that time. >> Yeah. there's a a lot of questions um as to how teachers will qualify for it and then if they leave us what happens to the money um so there there's a lot of that um that still has to be answered but um yeah it's broken down between district size so and there

141you have it the school funding a lotment for basic cost u which they call it the ABC I call this an inflation rider u because that's kind of what it's like it's going to come with $106 per pupil because one of the big arguments previous was that schools still have fixed expenses. You know, if you have a thousand kids at a campus, there's still lights, there's still, you know, insurance there, and those are fixed cost. So, the state passed part of this additional $106, which can be used for transportation, hiring retired teachers because, as you know, we have the TRS um what is it called? TRS >> Search charge. Thank you. Uh health insurance, employee benefits, payroll taxes, TRS cost, as well as utilities. So all of that and then there was um also the

142um teacher uh additional state aid for regional insurance cost differentials because everybody knows insurance is rising. I think Tammy we we've had some of that last year right with the flood insurance out in corpus. Um and then as you can see teacher certification incentives, teacher and staff retention aotments um which will be built into this the formula uh for uh APA funding. Um also built into uh that was some safety monies. Uh what was it? >> 500 million. I think it's $55 per kid. Is that about right? Uh you can go ahead and go up and um Okay. And there's the school funding. uh for teachers. Actually, I had it in here. Uh three to four years would be $4,000 because we have 5,000 students or less and five years would be 8,000. So, that's

143that's how that would work. And as you can see, there's a support staff retention aotment of $45 per ADA for non-teers and non admin full-time and part-time positions. Keep going. I mean, I'm sorry. Uh and then also um there are some other things third grade and literacy. I won't go through those. We carry on. And then there you can see the basic aotment uh increased uh to 6,215 plus future increases from golden penny yield. Um and Tammy, you want to talk about the golden penny yield >> that the the charters get a piece of that, but that's mostly relative to ISDs. So it just it just flows through um a certain percentage that charters get really doesn't predate to us as much as it does ISDS. >> They get a bigger chunk of it. >>

144Um but we usually didn't get any from the to the charters. Yeah. So it was a little penny thrown to us. So um we take all we can get. Uh and then the biggest push was for charter school facility funding. And so basically increased it used to just be $60 million for charter schools to scramble over and we would get a little piece here and there. But now they've actually built in a formula and I believe it's 06 uh that for each student. So ABA is multiplied by 06 and so that'll help uh tremendously. So if a kid was with us the whole year we would get $372. was it come out to $372.19 which is good because originally when it was the six 60 million you could have had 100,000 kids you going to

145still get the same amount of money. So as enrollment increases or decreases facility funding increases or decreases. So uh that's good. The teacher incentive aotment uh is something that uh we are going to be implementing. Um it's been out a while and we kind of keen hard about it, but uh a superintendent said it at a at a a round table said that uh it did miracles for their district because that's money that the state gives that follows that teacher. And so those teachers are only likely to go to districts that are going to give them they're not going to walk away from 20 $30,000 to go to RMA and leave this bucket of money. So we need to be a school that's in in in in uh line to be able to say yes

146we will provide that same bucket state can pass the state just passes it through to the district and then we pay it to the teacher so it follows them next okay and uh there's some CTE for PE and uh CCMR outcome bonuses for in special ed which we would do really well because it was 100% of our special ed students. So that would that would help us uh tremendously as well. Um and then the adjustment sped uh the sped a lotment uh has been changed as well based on the need for support services because in the past it was just an amount and uh that amount was what that amount was and as as I've seen on those check payment lists that I get uh the cost of sped services is certainly increasing. It's not

147getting cheaper. So, uh, we're grateful to the state for that. Next, anything else, Miss? There are some other things. I'm not going to go through all of those. Keep going. No. Now, there are some other Keep going. Yes. Right. Yeah. There are some crazy bills. As I told the board yesterday, there's House Bill, Senate Bill 10, which wants to requires the Ten Commandments to be hung in a poster format in the schools. There was also the cell phone bill that the legislature passed about banning cell phone, but it's at the governor's desk. Some say the governor may not sign it. Um, and some say he will. So, we'll see if he signs it. Um, we already take up the kids cell phones, so it really wouldn't have an impact anyhow. Um, but there will be

148if it's pass if it's signed by the governor, schools can mandate that students leave cell phones at home. So, that's how far that bill goes. >> Pardon me. Actually, uses an example. about the right cell phone. >> Um, and so that's the House Bill 1481 that you can see there. I'm I think um Oh, and then one that affects the board. If you go back up, Jennifer, that House Bill 210 basically just says that um if a board member is a family or a relative or has a a vested interest in another party that the business uh that the district can't do business with them as a vendor. >> We put that in our policy. >> Yes, because we do the audit where we have to disclose that too. When the audit comes out, you

149all get those forms and you have to uh verify that that wasn't case. All right, you can go ahead. U and there's let's see uh the restriction on freight shipping cost for instructional material. Um that that just one um and I think >> that was really it. >> Oh, Senate Bill 569. Dr. Given is working with Joe Hoffer's office about the virtual school U and so we will be bringing some more information about that. I know she has the flexible option day on the agenda. Um >> they've already passed it. >> Oh yes. >> Yeah. Okay. That was right. That was last session we had it on there and so so we will be uh bringing that Senate Bill 1619 use of EP pins. U you know we we already are on that uh ship

150there. That's why we have the doctor um and so on so forth. Um and then uh Senate Bill 27 excuse absence for mental health appointments. There was some legislation on that. Uh and I think and I think that is really safety a lotment. Uh I think that Senate Bill 981 absent students at risk uh prayer which we talked about. Okay. I think those all were made. So I think >> questions >> on the sales funding. Do we know what the details that we used to debt service or do your construction or in your all? >> I do know if you're two years of poor performing, you won't get it. I do know that if you if a district has two uh consecutive years of good performance effort leave, you won't get it. You won't be

151eligible for but >> we should be able to use it for the details aren't really out yet. Um we've been able to use it for all sorts of facility funding in the past. So I can't imagine different from that. But a lot of these details, they're just really not they haven't made it out from yet. >> Same turns out there at what point six or what number estimate is the biker ought to be heavy. >> Yeah. And I I will say this too that I misspoke on when I talked about the I called it the the rider inflation rider. That's not ABA based. That's enrollment based. That money is going to be built off of they'll do snapshot which will probably be October and you get that money based on the enrollment. So that inflation

152rider is not going to be tied that we did because I think I said that originally but it's an enrollment uh dollar amount for that a lotment basic cost yeah a lot basic cost formula so it'll be based on enrollment >> and it's this was in for special education right? No, that was just for that was for like your insurance and healthare and payroll taxes things >> because those are the more your fixed costs once you start you got teacher you know and then that's fixed so it would take some takes some pressure okay anything else >> I just heard a rumor last week that somewhere in the stack of bills with the bill that has a writer on it that if it's signed the writer doesn't have anything to do with the bill require

153ire PA to do an investigation of a commissioner in PA or whe that's true or not true it's time to tell I don't know and there's a lot of probably all these bills that's been sent to the governor a lot of them may not get signed because of things like that writers that senators were trying legislators trying to get pushed through and uh and and it worked. So other questions then um next item business is you want me to carry on ratification. >> So where are we down? >> Uh we're at the approval of contracts now. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So we're action items. >> We're at action items. >> Then you want to go down. We have uh one to be ratified which is time clock plus uh which was for 2859 which

154was signed by me. That isn't necessary. So you have to pass that one. That's how we pay the employees the time clock uh software that we use. Any questions? Well, I'll make a motion that I do the board approve the contracts list instead of one and ratify the contracts list. >> I second motion safe. >> Yes. Very neat. Okay. Um on page 208 you'll find um the 202425 adopted budget and also the 2526 proposed budget for budge 420. This is a general fund. Um we have estimated for our budget that our attendance funding will be based on 1,215 students. Um that is an enrollment of 1555 students with 78% attendance average. Uh this will provide revenue of approximately $15.6 million. Um additional sources of revenue are rates uh lease revenue and also bank interest. Um

155to provide a little bit of context um here for these numbers, our um current summary of finance is 1,120 um ADA. We have budgeted approximately an 8% increase for next year. We feel like this is a realistic but healthy goal. Um our 2526 ADA is within 10% of our current ADA numbers. Our current aotment for students um based on those runs is 12,885. That is what we're using for this budget. Um, compared to 2425, our a lotment of that amount of 11,624. Um, we've talked about it a lot today, but after House Bill 2 um from the 89th legislature, we expect that our aotment will further increase to $13,835, but that has not been built into this budget at this time. Details are still flowing. um still waiting on final information. So we based it

156on our current fronts instead of that house bill 2 increase. We've decreased our overall expenditures in fund 420 by nearly $200,000. Um we can see from each um of these different uh functional expenditures um how much they went down um between instruction, curriculum, uh leadership all the way down. Um, we had the sharpest uh decline in function 51, which is our maintenance. Um, we did not budget a lot of campus improvements for next year. Um, and then, um, that took a took a big chunk off of that. And, uh, for function 53, there was also a big decrease there. Uh, we are going with a new technology vendor that Carl Smith's been talking about. So, there's that decrease. Uh and we have opted out of that refresh for printers um this and copers come back

157this year. Um function um we did refinance those uh loans for forward and Amarillo with a little bit of a lower interest rate. So we can see that reflected there. Uh the CMP function uh down there at the bottom where it says 0. We're expecting a little bit higher increase there just because that supply chain has been exhausted. Um and we are um we don't have any of those funds to use next year um for the C program in that area. This uh budget does not have any up to as household 2 information comes down. Uh the teachers will get the obligated staff increase that was mandated by that by that. Going down to page 209. Um this is the proposed budget for fund 240. This is our um food service program. Um we've estimated

158revenues at 70,000. Um as indicated we spent the entire subing. So um we recognized all of that income in the 24 year. Um we estimated maybe another small rent that we might be able to get full year off. Um these expenses um it's all one function. Um but just to elaborate um on what goes into those food services um have about $124,000 for food. Um as Deami touched on, the inflation is still there, food prices. Um about 22,000 for supplies and also equipment. Um 16,000 for um technology software for meals plus um we have some money for permits and licensing and um a little bit of um campus travel. The 2 um $1,000 that you see up top there is the loss that would be absorbed in fund 420 um which was also shown on

159the previous are there any questions about the details >> questions a motion to fill the board. I move the board approve budget and proposed by two. Second, >> yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Yes. I'm going to turn this over to Jennifer. This is her uh negative about all the amendments for the bylaws and the changes for the address. As you all know, the uh new office address will be the Fort Worth campus. So, there's some logistical things that will need to be taken care of. So, I'll turn it over to you, Jennifer. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. Good afternoon. So um we are requesting to um approve the third amendment articles of incorporation um and like Dr. me Dr. Anderson mentioned is um those the changes in those articles um and I will show a

160sample here shortly. Uh we did update the list the address listed for the board of directors. Uh we do want to make sure that all of our information is consistent throughout all of the systems that we have to use and all of our uh government documents. Um so the first update was the address for board of directors and then of course we also updated um our roles within our board. My understanding is this is a structure that we had in place uh before and our current bylaws and our current articles of incorporation did not reflect that. So the change was made here. So as you can see number one is um our board president and we now have the address of our um the new address that we are using for our central office. We

161have our vice president with the same address. We have a second vice president, our secretary and treasurer. Uh these same changes were made in article four of the articles um which just is the same again reflecting the changes that we made throughout our government documents and also reflecting accurate information >> and this hasn't been yet or >> I'm sorry what was that? >> We have not submitted in No, this is only to approve the edits. Um there's a whole process but this is just the first part that we need to take. Um down here you will see um the we just made some uh minor edits where we've showed that this is the third amended articles of incorporation if approved. um we have kind of um established a time frame as to when the previous

162articles of incorporation were amended. So it kind of keeps a um a log if you will of what changes were made and when. And then we just updated um the current articles to reflect our current board members as well. >> Question. >> Any concerns? Um, I guess I've >> elections. Yes, >> I have loved serving as your secretary. I think this year we have a as board member uh my responsibilities have gotten quite heavy and I just don't feel that I am doing the necessary uh to be a board secretary at current moment. So with that said, would we we remove the vice device and then just go back into the board member position in there and that be? >> Uh yes. So what we can do is um based on um guidelines and also

163um >> yeah so based on guidelines and um conversations that we've had with legal counsel just to make sure that if we were to submit this um TEA and uh secretary of state would not um not approve them. So we wanted to make sure that it was something that was acceptable for everybody. Um we do have to have a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer at minimum. The fifth position uh can be any other position that we deem necessary. >> Okay. >> At the moment. Um and then of course any changes that happen must be reflected at some point with the amendments. So we can definitely do a different option. All right. >> So, that being said, if we're going to make different >> Yes, we we would circle back on these.

164Um, and so the next I believe the next four topics all tie into the bylaws. >> Yes, that we can we can all do that afterwards or if we want to um bring this back to a different board meeting, we can definitely do that as well. >> Right after. Okay. Yeah. So then I will skip all of >> Okay. >> Of course. >> Do we want to go into close session? >> What's after? >> Yeah. Yeah, we would just they would go and their discussion about their board elections and what position and it just makes it easier instead of having discussion. >> Okay. So then >> fine I just like have just one executive session one close session and I uh pre have that the only thing we have to come back to deal with

165based on so we want to take >> so is this anything anything we that we're going to take some action on and we won't say some part of the action than going >> I don't think we're going straight to our elections and then discussing this publication one time to deal with everything. That's okay. >> And I know we have >> at least one other ride to deal with it. So, >> well, I mean, you to I mean, you discuss the role openly. That's what you all want to do. I just >> No. And I was also going to suggest um the um bylaws and the articles can be circled back to a different board meeting if there's any other changes that we need to make after discussions or after the elections. So then I guess

166we'll table all of this. >> We definitely can and we can do Yeah. >> So then what's next >> after all of >> a little bit of somebody asked for some be out? >> Yes, I did. >> I looked at all that good part of that back. I don't know if anybody on the board. >> Yes. >> And that's my problem. I just pitch >> updates. >> Yes. So I after taking a look at it, we definitely do need to update. Um yes, we definitely do need to update them. >> I wasn't really sure whether we were adopting something that previous board had approved. >> Yes. Yes. >> They've been sitting waiting. >> So if it's been waiting for action three or four years, I'm >> No. No. It was approved. >> It was approved.

167They were submitted. it. They just have not been amended. This this happened. I remember Becky was the one that >> was about two years ago >> because it used to be two secretary. You remember that we had assistant secretary and then it went so that was I think what >> 2001 >> I think. >> Yeah, she was I was here. Miss Thompson I know was here. >> Yeah. So, what do we want to do, Mr. Clinton? >> I'd like to just >> We definitely can. >> I easiest be just to >> We can do this or >> Oh, whatever. >> Well, we have to update it too, right? >> Oh, we would I would have to update it. Um, so we can circle this back for the >> July meeting. >> Well, they can or

168you can come back when it meets over. You all can approve them. I mean, it's >> I would suggest that we take this into a close session when we come out with >> Okay, that's fine. >> The original suggestion. >> That is okay. Yeah. So after all of the um action items that are related to the articles and the bylaws, uh we are at action item H and that is Carl. if you want to grab lunches and keep working. But would that be okay, Mr. Just to let everybody get the mic real quick and >> Okay. Yeah, we're on the move. You want them 10 15 minutes. What What do you suggest? >> Uh just Yeah, 10 minutes. Everybody can get their lunch and just work through half as many while people eating. I think

169it's so at the same time I think everybody has one in the gym like my mom >> right >> 127 So the the administration will be pres presenting the board with their selection for an architectural engineering service uh proposal for the RH5's engage projects on a task request basis. administration will also uh request the delegation of authority to superintendent or his design to uh negotiate the contract. So, our our contract with uh our architect expired in December of last year and so as we move into uh the possibility of starting up some additional projects uh and and also there's always things that that crop up where you need to serve with an architect or an engineer. Um we're proposing that we uh add PBA Douglas uh as our architect. In the past we had used

170the services of Maron Mock uh our principal in charge at Marlon Mock with Monty Howard. We need to go services there and Monty uh successfully helped us with our Pasadena project, our portrait project. uh the original Midlands project. Uh so we worked with Mont for a long time and he's changed BMS from uh Mormon M to TV Douglas and we're just asking for uh agree on a contract with CBA Douglas uh and Monty will will be our our principal in charge. I can say after reading these 600 pages really thoroughly I'll I'll move that the board selected firm TP that was most highly qualified provider of architectural engineering services for the RMA 25 projects on a task request basis and delegate to the superintendent or his authority to negotiate a contract but present I second

171a motion. >> Motion second. >> Yes. What page is this? >> This is page 356. >> Okay. Um so with now that we have an architect selected uh we have a a task request uh for them. Staff requests that the board approve uh AI B221 task request for architectural and engineering services for architect Douglas for the RMA Fort Worth renovation project including possible delegation of authority to the superintendent or his design to execute uh the task request. So, as the board has uh requested that we move forward with renovations and Fort Worth, uh we'll require an architect put together work that we can put out to bid >> um for that project so that we can get uh contractor service for that project should we uh approve or decide to go forward with it. questions,

172comments. >> Um, since we do we have to vote on this considering that it's already covered in the first, wouldn't it already be covered by first? Uh, >> this is for them to begin the work. the the the first one the first one is just to select an architect and then the architect can only do projects that we assign to them and this would be the first project that we would assign to them and this would be necessary um not only to put the the project out to bid but also to get financing from the bank because the bank requires documentation and then plans for for a project. I move that the board select TVA Douglas as the architect of the forward recreation project based on the uh demonstrate confidence and qualification further delegate authority

173to the superintendent or the discipline to negotiate an agreement for a reasonable fee. The task requests were approved by legal counsel but an agreement cannot be reached for a reasonable fee. In the superintendent site, it is our city may rank and select other architecture peers based on this demonstrated confidence and qualifications and negotiating agreement for a reasonable fee in a board approved by local council for the board to consider adding future. Second vote. Yes. >> Yes. >> This is 366. >> Okay. Um so as RMA evolves as an organization we dilately working to deliver consistent facilities management throughout the district ensuring all of our sites remain safe and healthy. Additionally, we aim to lessen the burden on educators by shifting the responsibility of building um management to the c the central office to bolster our

174facilities expertise and enhance planning and operation efficiency. We plan to engage Jingo Facilities LLC, a comprehensive facilities management and consulting firm to uh oversee RH facilities. So with that, we're asking the the board to um approve the contract for Jingo's facility management and grant Dr. Anderson and I the the ability to finalize the negotiations. We did we did get them down 30,000 from where they were 36,000 from where they were. The last contract is for three years. >> How much this contract? >> Three years. This is a threeyear contract. >> Is that what >> the last one was? >> So this is a contract for three years two one year auctions. >> And how much is a contract per year? >> 650,000. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Well, so then my question is are we spending

175that amount on facilities to justify the cost? Like if we were to if we were to look at the cost of it individually, >> we used to do that and it was way more. We did that prior to the um to our contract union of the civil containment company and uh it was in excess and Tammy I don't recall >> like 800,000 >> it was considerably >> prior to campa >> we were spending more because remember we ran the numbers >> been here for a short time before that but Jeno came on relatively right >> yeah but remember we ran the numbers you you ran the because remember we all sat down and you ran the numbers of what we had spent. I'm not necessarily convinced that the expenditation now we have fewer and better

176facilities we're improving all the time what we had to maintain at that time all of our HBAC need to be replaced we got even brand new facility that's falling apart we have a lot of things I'm not necessarily opposed to concern. >> So, do we >> I would I would like to think about making a short enough term to give us combined to figure out how to come up with a proposal to pay for this uh related to our size and our revenue. So our revenue related last time we had a 5-year contract and during that contract we our state revenue dropped 30 40%. And we were locking some contracts that call for more money. I think as we talked about years ago, the contract in Houston contract to our uh student enrollment and our

177are how much money somehow related. >> I have had that conversation with vendors and uh that what I'm discovering is some of the things that they pay for are fixed costs. So they pay for all of the uh fire and safety expenses on all all of the campuses. uh landscaping uh janitorial services and while the studio population may fluctuate up and down those you know it's the square footage of the building doesn't change the the yard work doesn't change but what we can afford changes >> so we can what we can pay for and if we have to reduce st or when we mow the yard once a month instead of once a week Well, I I I don't want to hold the process of now. I think we need to have a start a

178contract and we need to spend some time hire a consultant to do whatever figure out committee whatever figure out how we can relate this because I do know when we took it out to be uh CBRE came back at over a million dollars. Um, and I I think given the cost of inflation and all of that, I think for them to be able to lower their price was would impress to me. Um, but we can we can work on a shorter term contract or an envment based contract um, and see if we can get something done. But have been with them five years and them not increase the price. I think that itself is pretty stable because we'll get you know >> so with um so would you like to approve the contract for one

179one year and two years? I'm not sure if at the rate we move forward on some of these projects that we don't need two years to do it. That's all about me us all of us and uh >> so when Senator Jingle decides to >> yeah and we may come back and we'll extend to 15 years but I I still think it needs to be tied >> to ABA our whole operation is but silver and uh I understand I've been a vendor as a venture I'd rather not do that all vendors can fix cost but have a hard time missing the paper plan the bill sometime >> right >> that was >> yeah I I think that's where I stand too is just we saw the the budget by this past year and it was

180quite it's just hard to justify but I know that's needed I'm not sure specification the right word but uh and I I see what Mr. was saying that you don't really see where you know what the future is and pause would ask for to fix spots on something. Um >> well I would use carpets as example I was just a wall with maintaining the old carpets campus was a wreck and we moved in a really fine facility and so it's got to be cheaper to maintain the start looking good looking good than five but so do you want us to go back for one year or two on this since I don't think in a year that we would come up with a proposed how we think this should be funded. I mean even that

181then we got to negotiate find someone. And Daniel was the facility funding will that be used on on facilities was the jingo with the increase the facility funding. >> Not that I've seen you over that jingle for five years >> and now they decreased the cost by how much? a 30,000 we negotiated now if you $30 back since you didn't negotiate if you went back for a two-year contract where you take that company >> I think they two years >> with a one-year option they go back two year one year option >> I'd be okay with two and we have to give them >> six months notice before the end of that two years if if we really think we're going to go back out of Yes, we think we have a better solution or

182a a better solution for us. One that we we can afford at this time in three years. Instead of being up to,500, we're down to consider the state of the nation United States and the state of our school. I would suggest that we negotiated the contract even I'll set that motion. So, um, then I I guess we have a suggested motion just add in the council to >> for us to negotiate a contract. It'll >> just approve. >> Okay. >> For two years. If Jingle says yes for two years, it'll be fine. Okay. Yes. >> Yes. Yes. for it. All right. >> Did we vote on this? Did we finalize the vote? >> Yes. >> Roll call. >> Sorry. >> Did we have a roll call on this? A complete roll call? Yes. Okay. >>

183Thank you. path between >> this is page 446. Now let me say this about this is one of the very few security companies that can provide security to all nine counties. So if you all don't go for this one, we may we may not have security, but this is one of the few um that can provide security for all nine schools. And they arm security and they they're doing it at $29 an hour whereas most companies want well over $30 an hour for security. >> And for they want 50 to 75. >> Yeah. and and we kind of negotiate negotiated a part of the contract with them is that uh if we have a security officer, they'll start at or the the price is $26. Um, and then it was security office sort of saves

184over for an additional year and do the full 10 $1 raise for the security office or um so even though we we say we're going to do $29 per hour, it won't apply to every officer uh every year. it'll it'll start at a lower rate and that there's built-in um you know uh rates for them should they decide to stay. Uh which we felt was important because it's it's difficult for our security officers to take these jobs. They don't get paid during Christmas. They don't get paid during uh the uh spring break. They don't get paid during the summer. So uh having the builtin uh raise if they stay over a year worked out really well for us. I think too >> they make relationships with our schools as well. I've seen that where they're

185known by our staff and our students that they feel an obligation to our school. >> Yeah, >> that's important. >> So with that, RMA seeks to extend the existing partnership with Stadia Security for an additional three years. Uh we've been with them since 2022. Cascadia has consistently delivered outstanding services and support enhancing the security posture of our campuses and assisting our central office. their uh commitment to excellence and consulting and retail have significantly contributed to our overall um operational efficiency and and I'll also add in uh part of their services as all of our doors are uh barcoded and our security officer goes by and checks all exterior doors two times a day. interior doors uh during every class period and all that information is documented and we're required to turn that into the state.

186school. Did you say >> yes? I'm going to approve the contract authorized superintendent says it need to move forward with their custo security offices through the 2017. >> I'll second >> yes. Then we have the proposal. Again, if you recall last board meeting, Jennifer discovered that we have to uh the board has to vote to be able to use the consent agenda and that was the last meeting of the school year. So the next um board meeting will be the new the first board meeting of the new uh school year on new July 20th or whatever that is >> 24th if approved. >> So uh we're asking the board to approve the use of the consent agenda for the school year in which Mr. Clemens and I will meet and we will work through and

187agree on what we feel should go on the consent agenda and then Jennifer will send out the consent agenda agreed on by Mr. Quinn and I to the rest of the board and you would have the option to say I would like to take this off to discuss further before the meeting. So if you feel like that we have to do this annually rather than doing it permanently and then acting to answer it. >> Yes. >> I think Jennifer said by the secretary of state is >> yes so it is suggested suggested to do it yearly. Um and of course a consent agenda might not be used at every board meeting but doing this at least once a year. You have the option to use a consent agenda as you see fit throughout the school

188year. >> Move board adopt the rule of law to utilize the consent agenda process from this school year board meetings. >> Second motion second. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. You said you you prefer to go to close session for the office discussion. You can postpone it until those two items after close session. >> We already Mr. Clemens want to go. Oh, that's it. Right now, we have more. >> We have the schedule. >> We would have the schedule. >> Um, after that, it would go into close session. >> We don't. >> Yes, M. Clement, Miss Pearson is requesting to go ahead and approve the board meeting schedule first. So, move it in. Okay, we have a >> All right. So, up on the board, I asked Jennifer to work because we kind of sometimes got

189out of succinction. We It used to be third Friday or and then it started being Thursday and not Friday. Well, this Friday and this so we tried to just keep it. that there was some board meetings that we couldn't avoid because of reporting requirements like the financial audit and the taper report. Um, so we had to kind of float the schedule around on that. But we tried to keep it all on Friday unless the board prefers Thursday, but I'd like to keep it all consistent. And to me, um, Fridays just seem but I know sometimes you all have to travel and you may want to not be traveling on a Friday. So do you all want to do a Wednesday or Thursday? We do Sunday morning. I mean, whatever you want. >> Sunday. >> So,

190but I prefer we just keep it on a set date or a day of the week instead of the fluctuating between Thursdays and Fridays. And so, what are your thoughts? This is what we propose on this calendar here. I asked the central office to look over it as well to make sure that you're comfortable with it. board members. >> Yeah, I'm okay with that. >> I'm okay with that. >> Do we have I guess a motion in there that would say flexibility or change it. >> We didn't put it in there to modify, but you can make that motion Friday. We can make a motion and todd if you make that motion. >> Yeah, >> cuz I think we used to put an asterk up under the schedule that used to say can be modified

191by the board. Yeah. >> Uh well, we do have this uh statement here um at a time. Yeah, >> at a time. So, I mean the I think the date would also count as as time >> if y'all are in agreement of that. That's a statement that we've always used. >> Yes. >> Once I put these dates on my schedule, I can't make that >> and I as soon as this is approved, I would send it out to you all and and Austin as well. Yes, it's only a day difference. >> It was only a day difference. Yes, we met uh November 8th last year. >> Yeah, normally it's the last week of October. >> September. >> So, I think that the November meeting seems just a little bit early for the audit. I just

192we're always cutting it to the last. So Thanksgiving was that last week in November. So we actually have two more weeks after that. Correct. [Music] >> For work. Yes. >> The annual report will be due the 27th according to statute. Um so I don't know if anybody >> you want to move >> that now is conveyed. >> You mean move it to like the 14th week? the week after. At least maybe the week after >> like the 14th. >> The 14th. >> Yeah, >> I would prefer we leave it at least that week um after like the 14th or the 21st. Um I know well the 21st is the last day we're in the office so that's coming close. But wait to get the auditors, you know, to get the reports out. We just wanted,

193you know, because I think the once before we last year it was the 8th, but this past year was >> it was so but we'll put the 14th was a week early >> and that may have been >> I think there was an extra um >> Thanksgiving was such an odd time. >> I think there was an extra week. >> There you go. There was Yes. >> Messing with my calendar all year. >> Yes. >> So you'll change it if No. >> If no objection Yes, I will change it. >> Okay. Y >> are you okay with your hand? >> Yeah. >> Any other dates that we need to look at too? And then of course um just we also added the May >> Yes. No, we'll change this here to the 14th. Um, >>

194I like the May. >> Okay. Okay. So, we log in the May meeting as well. >> I did not. I heard my name >> January very important meeting. Okay. >> I remember. Yes. Yes. It's on my calendar. >> And I will deliver. >> Okay. I will deliver >> May 22nd. My >> my daughter's gonna be graduating that day. So if we can look at another day because >> Oh. >> Yeah. That's >> You want to do that? Thursday. >> Thursday. >> We'll move that one to Thursday. >> I think it's pretty. >> So, it would be May 21st. Any other changes for >> Did we want to discuss the location? >> Uh, no, because that kind of fluctuates. Yeah, we'll >> as as the meetings come up. Okay. >> Okay. >> I'd like to get

195one in Corp. So, next year I think would be a really good nowhere else. >> Our March meeting was supposed to be it was scheduled to be in corpus, but then we moved it to virtual last minute. All right. >> Okay. So, with our November um meeting uh being moved to November 14th and then our May meeting will now be Thursday, May 21st. Any other changes? Any other issues? >> And we're all good with the annual meeting on the two today. And if it's not necessary, we'll modify it. >> Yes. >> Once we create the virtual space. >> Yes, we are. >> I I'll say I like next year it not being on Father's Day. The same >> and I was going to actually suggest that it just fell. >> Right. schedule that May one

196on Mother's Day. >> I would not. >> I I heard nothing. >> Do we have a motion to accept this calendar as present motion? >> I the board adopt 20256 RMA board schedule. >> Motion second. >> Yes. Thson. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> I'll bet we did. >> I don't know. >> Sundays. >> Yes. [Music] session. >> It's 12:49. [Music] >> No, because they're all here. Can you just turn off the camera? comments. Good to see everybody. >> Is there any way presentation uh We are coming out of the session. Uh we have a couple of action items resulting this close session. First motion relating to Yes. >> Yes. Um Yes. For sure. Okay. for a three-year period beginning with the T uh TRS calendar year beginning in September of 2025. The superintendent bonus

197incentive will not be offered and the superintendent TRS contributions will be reimbursed per pay for three years. I second the motion motion second person >> I think that um it's it's a no for me not and not because I don't like if I explain okay Yes. >> Yes. >> I vote yes. Vote yes. >> Next item coming out of this election of officers. Do we have a motion or any officer nomination? Well, I'll make a nomination. I nominate um Bob Robert Clemens as president for next year. Um Mr. down as vice president. Miss Pearson will be a board member um in the last position which currently is is entitled second vice president. However, those bylaws might be changed. And then Miss Thompson, I would nominate her as treasury and I would nominate myself as secretary

198for this next school year. >> I second motion. Have >> a motion. Second for officers. Can any uh Motion second vote. Yes. >> Yes. >> I watch for you since your glasses between me and the winners smell. So somebody takes a shot. >> I know this is >> no >> public comments. Do we have >> Are we gonna circle back to the bylaws this meeting or are we going to do that at a following meeting? >> We're gonna do it at a policy meeting and bring it back at the following. >> Perfect. Perfect. All right. >> Well, Mr. Clemens, no public comments received. >> No public comments received. I suspect um way things are going that the first public comments we ever have will be mad. >> Oh, >> thank you for the head heads

199up. >> Okay. Okay. Meeting adjourned. >> Yes, we're Yes. I >> Perfect. Thank you so much. They're