001daughter. It's 10:05. Roll call. Miss Thompson present is not here. Correct. present. We have for any public comments. No, we have the uh committ of November 8th and November 19th. Um, any comments about the minutes? Motion that we accept the meetings of the meeting minutes of the meeting of November 8th. I motion that we accept the minutes from the from our last meeting. We have a second motion and second that we approve the minutes November the 8th. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Agree. Yes. The eth we have a motion to approve the minutes of the 15th 14 November 19th. Rose Thompson. I move that the minutes for the meeting held on November 19th be approved as written. Motion. Do we have a second? Second. Motion to second it. Spear. Yes. M. Thompson. Yes. M. Bon. Yes. Yes.
002minutes of all meeting December last. Good morning. Um, and I would like to say um meeting off and say thank you to the board for all that they do. I know that um your time is valuable and you volunteer uh so much for our school district and our campuses and um just from the district as a whole, thank you so much for all that you do. Um I'm very excited to start off the student recognition this year. We have quite a few students that are going to be recognized and the principles have put in um a lot of thought and work into getting all of this set up. Um in order to move along swiftly, we will start with uh Miss King in Leach and that way she'll be able to get her student to
003his class. So, Miss King, if you're ready. Good morning. Thank you all so very much. First, we would like to start off by saying thank you RMA board of trustees for all you do. We see you as this helium that's allowing our students to rise and be able to do the things that we do every single day. I would like to spotlight today um three remarkable students of RMA. We have Skyla Mendoza, Jerica and um Jerica Sistenzia. And this is what Miss Perez said about these two young ladies that are outstanding um for in NCCER. These are young ladies in construction. Define the odds. Having young ladies interested in our NCCER core program is so exciting. It shows them that construction is not just for men. So they are defying the odds. They are young
004ladies of excellence. They are doing great things in our community. And the way that they're able to do this is because of what our board of trustees do intentionally to make sure we have resources, to make sure we have teachers, to make sure we have a facility. Because of you, these young ladies are able to soar here at RMA and we'll be productive citizens in our society. Thank you. And then, thank you, young ladies. And then we have Mr. Rudy. Again, we appreciate all that you do. He's able to do this and RMA here in Leach is able to be that remarkable campus that's defined. Mr. Jones from social studies said that Rudy has excelled at Richard Milbour Academy by being a role model for perseverance. Being one of the upper classmen, he is mindful
005of how difficult it is to focus on his academics in his early high school tenure. Coming to RMA, Rudy has shown day in and day out that it that if you want to achieve success, you have to put in the work and he does it exactly every single day in every classroom while being um by sometimes being around disruption um amongst his peers. He always makes sure to complete his assignment despite what's going on around him. He is a student that is going to achieve great things because he has that mindset and he has embodied our mission of empowering students to exceed all expectation and it starts with our board of trustees and all the things that you do um the meetings that sometimes I'm not able to attend but then great things happen on
006our campus and so we would like to say thank you so very much. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to honor my phenomenal students and we appreciate all that you do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay. Um next we are going to move to um Dr. Clifton who is the principal at Amarillo for her students. Hi. And we're on board. Well, a little smeared. Not sure how to do that but it doesn't matter. I'm not Dr. Kiten. I'm Cherylyn Morrison, the counselor here. Dr. Clifton is out uh ill, but um as a counselor here, I would like to present David Koulala, and we're recognizing him today for his work ethic and school spirit since starting with us this year. Uh we have seen David grow in confidence and maturity and he works
007hard in all of his classes and is always ready to lend a helping hand leaving a positive impact on our campus. So I'll turn it over to him. David, my name is David Kalala and I would like to thank the board of trustees for this opportunity to be recognized and for their service for RMA. Ever since rolling an RMA, I have received second chances and I have been given another second chance in working back all the schoolwork I had failed and all the missed opportunities to succeed. AASD had given many errors with how they handled my conditions and my mental problems. But ever since coming to RMA, I felt accepted and the teachers have worked with me for my problems, giving me actual ample windows to do my work. And I would like to thank
008RMA for the gargantuan second chance it has given me. Thank you, David. We appreciate that. We're proud of David and all of our students. Wanted to share this with the board. another success story and working toward graduation, right? All right. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Morrison. We appreciate um you helping out. Um next, we're going to move on to um Mr. Quintana in Corpus Christi. Is he there? He is. Uh hello RMA school board. Thank you for for uh this opportunity. Uh my name is Edward Canana and I am the principal of RMA of the RMA campus in Corpus Christi. Uh today I am recognizing senior Sophia Shaba for her outstanding scholastic performance despite her unique situation and the obstacles she faces daily such as having to walk to school about two miles every day
009and uh she hardly ever misses and school is the utmost importance to her and her and her performance uh shows it. Um thank you Okay. And we're going to do um a video of Sophia. She was um extremely nervous to be on camera and to be live. And um Mr. Canana and our SCCL and Corpus Ren and we they worked out devised a little plan so she could be recognized um but didn't have to deal with the anxiety of being on camera. So I think uh Miss Ortiz has her video. Can everybody see Sophia's video? Yes. Yes, we can see it. Okay. My eyes are clear. I need my high school. The small personality. The teachers are incredible. The time in my opinion will never leave me a much long time. The ability to work
010at my own pace allowed me to make up credits much more quickly than I would have finished traditional school study. The 4our school days all played well in helping to catch up and see on track. I know if I pushed myself I would never graduate soon. If I had enough RM I wouldn't be able to graduate on time. I don't think I would stay one in a larger more conventional school. The shorter school days a chance to focus in this city without feeling overwhelmed. I sure feel like I'm part of the community here not just a number and seeing thousands of other states. Okay, great. Thank you very much Mr. Canana. Um, next we're going to move on to Miss Brown and she is the counselor in Fort Worth. Um, Dr. Phillips had a family
011emergency today, so she was unable to be with us. Um, but Miss Brown has kindly stepped in and will be featuring her students. Good morning. Uh, my name is Miss Brown, Teesha Brown. I'm the campus counselor in the Fororth uh, location. Today, I will introduce three of our students. Taylor Keith, Brilan Bailey, and Trayvon Price. All three will be speaking on how RMA has impacted their lives. The students are on my cell phone due to the fact that we no longer have we have we do not have any internet at this time. So bear with them. Good morning. My name is Tyler Keith and I'm and I'm appreciative of how much RMA has impacted my life with life opportunities and staying on track with life and setting life goals. Good morning. My name is Brilen
012Bailey. R has changed my life and impacted me to be a better person. Good morning. My name is Tron Price. RMA has impacted my life, not only letting me be a part of their school, but making me a better person. And thank y'all because without y'all, I wouldn't be here. Thank you, RMA board. Thank you very much, Miss Brown. We really appreciate it. Okay, next we're going to move on to um Mr. Campbell at our Houston campus. Hello. Uh good morning. Um so today with me I have um our student council president um Zakora McGrath. Um and she's going to talk a little bit about um how RMA has impacted her life as well as why she chose RMA. Um again Zakura is a young lady who is very much so poised and active um
013on our campus. She is at every community event that we have. Um she's also a part of um two of our lady mentoring programs. One is sisters empowerment as well as the Noel um the Noel ladies. So um again she has been an exceptional uh young lady student as well as leader on the campus. So, I just kind of want to get want her to give this opportunity to talk a little bit about why she chose RMA and also how it impacted her life and also she loved us so much. She brought her sister in with her this year uh to come and be a student. Go ahead. Thank you. My name is McGrath and I'm president of student council. Today I want to tell you why I chose RMA. I moved from Missouri back
014in December 2023 and my school told me I wouldn't be able to graduate on time which was a bit discouraging but they recommended RMA and RMA has been such a game changer for me. RMA has helped me get back on track to graduate on time and I might graduate even earlier. RMA has impacted my life so much and thank you so much for this opportunity. Great job. Thank you Patrick. Um okay, next we're going to move on to Mr. Smith in Colleen. Is he on this morning by any chance? Okay. I don't see um Mr. Smith. We will um go ahead and move forward to Mr. Valverie. Um, our principal in Midland. Mr. Valvery, you're muted. Sorry about that. Uh, good morning board and good morning everyone. My name is David Valveri, the principal at
015RMA Midland. Uh, we have three students we want to recognize um on our campus. the first Joanna she has one of the highest GPA on our campus is a great student. Uh Christopher as well has one of the higher TSI scores and then Haime as well. Perfect attendance and high um TSI scores as well. And so we want to recognize them at this time. Hello, I am Yana and I would like to thank the board of trustees for this opportunity to be recognized and for their service to RMA. RMA has improved my education by allowing me to complete the material at my own speed rather than advancing to new lessons every day. My concentration has significantly improved since I start RMA and I was also able to inspire myself to finish my education sooner, which
016is what I've been hoping to accomplish. Thank you. Hello, my name is Christopher and I would like to thank the board of trustees for this opportunity to be recognized and further service to RMA. Since enrolling at RMA, I've been able to achieve my goals by getting back on task to graduate this school year. RMA has given me the opportunity to find success in my high school experience. Hello, my name is Haime Valenuela and I would like to thank the board of trustees for this opportunity to be recognized and for the service to RMA. RMA has helped me with excelling in education due to a troubling and unfortunate past that I thought I would never overcome. Due to the opportunity and chance our May has given me, my family is now able to see me graduate.
017Thank you. Thank you board. We appreciate it. Okay, great. Thank you very much. Uh we will move on to um Mr. VP. I would say your last name, but I don't want to ruin it. um with our principal at Odessa. You're you're muted, miss. You're muted. Good morning. My name is Vargas Panchail. Uh I'm the principal at RMA Oodessa campus. I want to recognize my student ambassadors. I have my group of student ambassadors. Uh let me can you come up? So I want to uh recognize my student ambassador J JC Palma. Hello. Okay. Hello. Next person. Sorry. You can't fix that. Dakota Fenner. My student ambassador Mr. Noah Pacheo. Hello. my student ambassador Emily Mahia and last but not least is Dakota Fenner. Okay, please. Okay, sorry. Thank you. Hi. Together. Thank you, school board.
018Thank you board. Appreciate. Thank you. Thank you school board for yourselves. Appreciate it. Okay. And then um thank you very much. We appreciate you, Odessa. Uh and last but not definitely not least, we have uh Dr. Butcher with um Pasadena. Oh, there we go. Hi, good morning. I'm Dr. Future. I'm the principal over at RMA Pasadena. This is Angel and Paul. and um picked them today to be our student representatives because they are both extremely hardworking. They are kind and represent everything that we hope for all of our students at RMA. They have solid graduation plans and big plans for the future. Go ahead. Okay. Hello, I'm Angela. I would like to thank the board of trustees for this opportunity to be recognized and for their service to RMA. The reason RMA was a solution
019for me is because I wanted to choose my own path for graduation and start my college journey sooner. After RMA, I do plan on going to college and studying electric engineering. And so far, the plan's going great. Great. Hello, I'm Paul Goa and I would like to thank the board of trustees for those opportunities to be recognized and for the service to RMA. Arma has impacted my life by helping me graduate on my own time. Graduating from RMA will allow me to go to trade school and to study plumbing and then further my education in university of studies of architecture. Thank you school board. Okay, thank you very much. Um this will conclude our student recognition portion of the board meeting and again thank you for all that you do. We greatly appreciate you. public
020hearing who's driving this next. Oh, Mr. Mr. And I couldn't hear. I'm sorry. I guess I'm up with the annual report. Is it Can I go ahead? Yes. Okay. Good morning everyone. This is the the hearing portion of the the board meeting um that includes the district's annual report and the district's annual report is required by the Texas education code. It will include eight um sections, the largest of which is the Texas academics performance reports which provides information regarding our uh our performance on the star assessments as well as graduation rates and um uh attendance rates and dropout um dropout percentage rate. So there's a wealth of information that's included in the taper that we'll be reviewing. Um and again similar to previous years um there is a temporary restraining order that's prohibiting the actual
021A tof rating that districts and campuses are receiving. Uh we um so it does not appear on the the actual taper reports for each campus. Um but so we can continue if you want to scroll down. to page 24. This is where the actual district report um begins. The eight sections are listed there. The taper is the first section. We're just going to run through it section by section. The taper does, as I mentioned, it includes a wealth of information. uh the accountability information, star performance, star performance broken down by um the assessed grade levels, the assessed subject areas as well as special populations including the emergent bilingual students and the um special education students. And then it also includes our attendance rates, the graduation rates for fouryear, fiveyear, and sixyear um graduation periods. And
022scroll down. Um it also includes the college career military readiness. Um several CCMR indicators for that are also highlighted. and then basic student information, enrollment account, um enrollment count by special program areas. So all of this is included as well as staff information. Um, in addition to the actual PDF tapers or taper reports that are included at the end of this um, annual report, the district does compile um, year-over-year data. And um, we review that um, by the district level as well as each campus. And if you scroll down, this is the district level. So it um starts back to as far back as 2015 and goes through the current um or the previous year 2324 and our ratings that we um are received at that time. It is colorcoded so that you can see
023progress or regression from uh the prior year and then it's broken down by different categories. So, it does include the star information broken down by subject and special pops and then it also includes the CCMR uh accountability data as well as the graduation data and then the basic information for enrollment and teacher staffing. So, we review this, we look at our trends um and see where we need to improve. At the bottom is a brief version of the the improvement planning process. So it um highlights different areas that we're concentrating on as far as student achievement specific subjects that we're working on. This year we're going to increase our the results or performance for the English language result English language arts classes which for the high school it's English one and English two and then
024uh specific student groups that we're working on. Um and just to note the red highlighted or the red font on the report, those are the different um stage or the intervention areas that tea highlights and identifies campuses for. So we do have an equity gap on the first line under star achievement that we're working on and that's the gap that uh we encountered which is over 10% between the performance of African-American and white students on the star test. So we're working on that. Um but the red highlights are just some of the the um tea identified program areas. Um the second highlight just to mention it is the results driven accountability which in in addition to the state accountability which is a tof accountability there is a federal side of accountability which is the results
025driven accountability and so we review our data with uh those that program area and uh create strategies and interventions to improve our our um progress on those areas. So just to mention that going down um this does give you a breakdown and a visual representation. This is the star results which for this year it's huge. Um we increased the overall star results by uh to 56%. So it's a 12% increase from the prior year. And year overyear you can see the trends have trended upwards for every subject. We did drop a little. So it does highlight the co year and the drop in in um performance after after uh we came out of COVID. And then the star redesign is that little light blue shaded line. Um, so that was after the STAR um was
026reorganized and the test questions um were updated for um rigor and so we did do well on transitioning through those different times throughout the the longitudinal review. Um but it does show that we are increasing year-over-year for all subjects and then overall for the district. Um and this um this summary is provided for the district as well as each campus. It's included in this report, but I'm just going to highlight the district information for today. And if you scroll down again, this is a visual representation of just the the special populations of students. So the top graph is the sped star passing rate which you can see it has increased significantly as well as emergent bilingual passing rate also increased quite a bit. And then something the next slide something we're very proud of is
027our um college career and military readiness it has gone um from below in 2018 which was 5.6% 6%. We are now at 70% this past school year and we are um our our goal for this coming school year is um to achieve an 80% or higher. So we have increased the opportunities for students uh on college career military readiness. they are actively participating and it is um showing in our star results as well as our other accountability results. And then if you scroll down, the next few pages are just the same information, but it's broken down by um each campus. And so we can just um filter through those, but it does show for the most part improvement similar to the district level where the star scores have gone up for both overall and special
028populations as well as the college career military readiness. And the jump this year, um it's the largest it's the highest passing rate um RMA has received. um since I came on board which was in 2014 and every year we've continued to increase. So, we're looking forward to the results for this year. And I think if you scroll down, the next section is on page 66. And that is the the required financial standards report, which is the 2223 financial actual report. And the board has reviewed this information prior actually back on November 9th, 2023 is when this was reviewed um initially and approved by the board that we just have to also include it in the in the um annual report. So it does show all of our revenues, expenditures, dispersements, and then our net assets.
029If you scroll down please to page 71. Accreditation status. It's on hold for 23 and 24 be 23 24 and 24 25 school years because of the the uh issues in litigation. Um so we are required to uh submit the 2223 accreditation status and the accreditation status um there's four four identifiers which can be accredited um at the high end to not accredited or revoked at the low end and tea um identifies these uh status as um part of what they consider is the academic accountability ratings, the financial ratings, and the data integrity as well as the program area deficiencies that were identified and that have been um corrected. So all that's reviewed by TEA and they assign a an accreditation status for us. So in 2223 it was accredited and on the next slide
030it does show our actual accredited status with TEA and as soon as the courts release A to F ratings I'm sure we will um be also accredited for the current two years. Section four the next page is the targeted improvement plans for each campus based on all the information that we've reviewed. so far and in years past the targeted improvement plans have been um quite a lot. They've been overwhelming. They've included a lot of information, a lot of um detail uh breakdowns of uh star performance overall um by groups. Um this year TEA revamped it. So if you go down to the next page for each campus, it's just required to answer four questions. These are going to be submitted after board approval today um in ISAM to TEA, but the first um question was
031just the campuses had to select an improvement strategy. And so all of our campuses did uh select the instructional leadership development through the Texas Instructional Leadership Program. And then once we decided the improvement strategy, um we are reviewing all of our uh um funding sources, um we did receive a um effective schools framework school improvement grant. So, we'll be using those funds, but the campuses needed to just review where they were with the strategy and what um additional funding they would need to implement some additional strategies or activities that they are planning uh for this coming school year actually through the 2526 school year. And then the third question was districts just had to highlight the curriculum that they're using just for the English language arts as well as uh for math. So for math
032it's Carnegie learning and then for um and these are relatively new. We just adopted this um curriculum I believe two years ago. And then the Odell education is for the reading language arts. And then just to ensure that the campuses are involving the community and the stakeholders on their decision making um we also are providing tea with dates and meeting times and activities that the the campuses have on undergone to involve the stakeholders and involve their faculty and staff on these decisions that are being made. Um and recently uh Dr. givens did require all the uh campuses to conduct a campus public meeting to discuss their targeted improvement plans. And then as in addition to that they um had to um administer a survey to um the participants and have it available so that uh
033parents and other stakeholders could identify um the targeted improvement plan and their understanding of it and the goals and strategies of the campus. So we're looking at all that feedback as well. But the next few pages are a target and improvement plan for each campus. And upon approval today, um these this information will be uploaded into um TEAL and ISAM and submitted to the submitted to TEA. But those are the targeting improvement plans um for this school year. They are very brief compared to prior years. And then on page 83 is the next section which is a special education determination level. And this is huge. Um this year we are identified as meets requirements. Um and if you want well um the determination level just so you're aware um is based on the district's results
034driven accountability which is that federal side of accountability and its indicators in the special education program area as well as the federally required elements which include the state performance planning and compliance indicators data integrity and then our corrective actions or our uncorrected non in compliance. Um but anything that we've been identified for in prior years, we have corrected and implemented corrective action plans. So that along with the financial audit um audits uh identify our um determination status. And so if you scroll down to the next page, this is the first time since I've been here that it's actually showing mess requirements. So Dr. Lambert and her special populations um team have done wonders. Um this has been needs intervention, needs improvement for year after year. So for us to actually um identify as meeting the
035requirements is a huge success story. I just wanted to mention that. Next section is the report on violent and criminal incidents and that's also required to be published by the Texas Education Code and it's the number and rate of of violent criminal incidents that occur on each campus and then the findings uh from evaluations if any conducted by the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Community Act and then the descriptions of school violence prevention and violence intervention policies and proced procedures used to protect students. And at RMA, there's a bulleted list right there that identifies all of the the activities and strategies that we implement to keep our students safe. Um, it's including school security officers. It's training for the school security officers. It's the behavioral threat assessments that um occur on campus. It's installing the campus
036videos and the campus monitoring systems, the metal detectors, the front door buzzing system, the raptor system, which is a visitor signin uh system, the detection canines that are utilized throughout the school year, um the safety drills that are occur each month, the student code of conduct that is published and available online, the crisis management plan, the quick reference guide, um is an immediate resource for classroom teachers to follow in every emergency. And then the district website includes bullying and reporting systems to help students and families report um incidents of bullying. So all that said, next slide, we have the indicator indicators that were required to report um no incidents occurred in the during the 23 24 school year. So, we're at a zero, which is very good. And then the next section is the postsecondary
037inst um institution report. Um we're required to add that to this public report as well. And it just shows the prior year graduates, which this is for the 22 23 graduates for each campus. It will provide the number of graduates um from the campus and then of those graduates which students or how the number of students that went on to a two-year public college or a four-year public college. And so it identifies that number for RMA. U the majority of our students that do attend college um they start out with a two-year college. So that information is presented there and we're winding down. Section eight is the House Bill um three goals for career and military readiness and it is provided on the next slide and that I believe Dr. Given is going to review
038with the board and um part of the public presentation. Hello everyone. Can you all hear me? Yes ma'am. Okay. This is a review of our progress with House Bill 3. House Bill three is college, career, and military readiness plans are required to include annual goals for aggregated student growth on CCMR readiness indicators evaluated under the student achievement domain and annual targets for students in each group evaluated under the closing the gap domain. The HB3 goals reviewed today are based the ones that were adopted uh February 17th of 2023. our CCMR goals. I'm sorry. Next slide. We'll be looking at college readiness, career readiness, and military readiness. This is our overall. Next slide. Overall in 2023 we adopted a goal for 2024 of 60%. I am very proud to say that we have definitely exceeded this
039goal. We 87% of our graduating seniors uh had a CCMR credit and then we have it all break broken down by uh demographic group. every group exceeded every target. Um, and so last year it was at 65%, this year is at 87% and that's a 22% increase. This is um for college readiness. Uh the foundation of our college readiness is our Texas College Bridge program. It is not our only thing but is definitely the foundation of our district. The way we have scheduled things, every student in this district is required to go through this program. It either satisfies their senior academics for math and language arts or it will satisfy their elective. Okay. Our goal at RMA is to give students multiple choices, have a very rich and robust CCMR uh program which Mr. Shers
040will talk about later. for uh students with a college readiness uh credit in CCMR. 82% of all of our seniors had a um credit receive their CCMR credit in college readiness and that includes like mostly is Texas College bridge but it is also any dual credit courses that they might be taking and that is a increase of 22%. Last year it was 60% of our graduating seniors. This year is 82% of our graduating seniors. And then um next is for career I mean for CTE um with last last year it was 28% of our seniors uh had a CTE graduate with CTE credit. this year is 53% of our seniors have a CTE credit which is a 25% increase from last year. I want to stress that most of our seniors graduate with multiple CCMR
041credits. As a district, we can only get one credit per student, but we look at the student. We want what's best for the student and we want them to have multiple CCMR credits. Okay. This is an overall. We did not have any reported uh for college for military. So I didn't put it up here. Um so again this is our overall performance for uh our overall performance for CCMR was 87% of all of our seniors. Uh little secret, we're trying to get to 100% if y'all don't know that. But you know it's a little secret right now. So far we are. So far, all the seniors who have graduated, so far we're on on on path to have that. Uh this is the overview of all of the campuses from uh last year. Uh CCMR
042uh again 60% was the stated adopted goal. As you can see, all but two campuses made it. We had two campuses with a 100% of all of their seniors achieving um a CCMR. Uh, and again, we want that to be all nine of our campuses eventually. As you can see, we have quite a few campuses that are in the 90s. So, I'm just going to go through the next slides or each campus. So, Amarillo is one of our outstanding campuses with 100% of all their graduating seniors. Um, re had a CCMR credit. Makes the math real easy. We know we meet targets when everybody graduates with a CCMR credit. Uh, Corpus Christi was at 91% of all graduating seniors with a CCMR credit. Fort Worth was 89% of all graduating seniors with a CCMR credit.
043Houston was 97% graduating seniors with a CCMR credit. Peline was 80% of all graduating seniors with a CCMR credit. Love was 52% of all seniors graduating with a CCMR credit. Midland was 82% of all seniors graduating with a CCMR credit. Odessa was 57% of all seniors graduating with a CCMR credit. Pasadena was 100% of all seniors graduating with a CCMR credit. Uh and then again as a district that is 87% of all of our seniors graduated with CCMR credit and again I want to stress that almost all of the 57% of the uh students with a CTE also had a had a Texas college bridge. Again we want multiple uh opportunities for our students. Thank you Dr. given on I'm just curious the ones that I imagine because they're so close on the gap. Is
044it just students that are entering into our school at a later time that are maybe not able to catch up to the CCMR? No. What gap are you talking? Are you talking about the academic gap, the star gap? No, no, the CCMR like for them to get the CCMR credit. I mean, so it's very it's a very short percentage that we have to capture, right? Um, is it mostly I imagine that it's children or or students that are just enrolling later on? Well, like I said, right now we're on goal for almost every senior to do it. So, it's about scheduling. Scheduling is huge. It's very huge. Sometimes though, when students do come in, they've already have like what they need to graduate and they opt not to take the course. They're like, "Well, I
045already have my, you know, my my my uh fifth fourth year uh language arts. I already have my fourth year math. I don't want to take it." And and we can't force them to take it if they already have all the requirements coming in there. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm just wondering like if there's something we can do to kind of push that message a little bit further along for I don't think it's pushed. I don't think people know about it. Oh, yes. Well, they'll know they know about CC. No, our our our students do once they are there. But I'm thinking like incoming students basically. So that way we can kind of maybe have them in a little earlier and well Texas College Bridge the way it works you can only right now this year
046is the last year juniors can even take it. Next year only seniors will be able to take it. What we're trying to do with Texas College Bridge which is our foundation program and we got through this Crimy Grant is make that a requirement. just building in like it's just building to the pie. So they don't even know like I told one of the counselors they shouldn't even know that they're even CCMR is even involved. They're just satisfying, right? They're just satisfying their academic requirements to graduate. And then we have a really robust CCMR, you know, things that we advertise as CCMR, CTE, like our NCC classes are probably one of the most popular classes we have on campuses because they're actually building stuff. And then we have all of our pathways and those things we
047advertise but in the background is you know our Texas College bridge. Okay. And like I said right now what we get the push back we get sometimes is the already pass. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's what I kind of figured that it was just a m an aspect of how far and but we're we're we're trying to get really nice. Thank you. Thank you. for the comments, questions, and then just slide down real quick, Jennifer. Um, the remainder, which is several hundred pages, is the actual PDF version of the the taper reports, which were highlighted at the beginning of this um annual report um year-over-year. So much of the information that's there in the in the graphs and charts that we provided is included in the taper. Um they are um also attached to this report
048in their entirety. Um and then after the board meeting by February 3rd, we're going to um as required upload the um information onto our district website as well as a glossery of the terms. Um but that goes on for several hundred pages. So if you want to scroll down, Jennifer, I think it's three. Those are all the taper reports. So there is a lot of information to review that the that we review as a district. We try to streamline it um so that it's easier for the districts to or the campuses to review and implement uh improvement strategies. But just to reiterate, I mean the gains that we've done this year um as far as the star performance, CCMR, um all the all the indicators were just a significant increase. Um and the fact that
049uh for resultsdriven accountability, special education uh came off and now meets requirements is another huge success. So the 232 24 school year was um very impressive and we're hoping to continue that for the 2425 school year. So if anybody has any questions, I think it's 380 is the last page of the the taper um information. And that's a quick review of the required annual report. So if anybody has any questions, um, please let me know. Other than that, y'all have a wonderful day. Thank you, J. Thank you. You're welcome. We're down to information items. Dar you available to talk to us about the education education foundation update. Let's see Carolina. She's muted. What about now? Yes, we can hear you. Okay, wonderful. Well, um I'm really excited. Um there's so much going on. I provided
050a lot of different information for all of the different aspects. Um but let's go ahead and get started on just everything that's been um secured on the filing side. Um and looking at our road map, we can see that we started this project in late August and so we have already um completed the state formation. We've obtained the EIN number for the foundation. Um we've been able to onboard five board members and we're continuing the search for more. Um so our next steps in terms of um making everything official will be that um the foundation board members are going to come together this month in February coming up next to approve the bylaws and that will enable us to submit the official federal filing and that will be the last step in obtaining the 501c3
051status. Um, so, um, everything that we need in terms of paperwork, getting everything set up for the foundation, including a memorandum of understanding between you, the school district, and the foundation that is set up uh, ready for approval as well. And then um I will also be um continuing to search for more board members uh specifically areas like Fort Worth, Colleen, and Pasadena. There's still several conversations going on and each board member is committing to a $5,000 uh contribution through fundraising or whatever capacity that comes from them. So they do have official board member agreements in place stating as such so that everybody is on the same page and understanding that the their role is truly to be uh a fundraiser for the foundation to help support the goals and objectives of the district. So
052I can u any questions so far it is a lot of steps to cover but the road map pretty much gives all the highlights of what's been completed and where we stand and then I can move on into the financial side of things. So I have created a grant overview. Uh, so the grant overview does identify about $130,000 of available grants that I do believe that the foundation would be eligible for. There was just a little snippet there of um a lot of the deadlines are rolling. So that does give us the opportunity to apply uh for those. Um, we are already with five board members. That means we have a board commitment of $25,000. I have been working with uh school personnel to gather information on item itemized costs of different items so we
053can prepare uh uh the budgets for the grants. And so, thank you to the staff. Everybody's been wonderful in providing the information so we can outline um a budget. So the budget is still in development and it is getting closer and closer to being um established so that we can reach those goals set forth. So we do have an event planned already for a fundraising event. We're projecting that this event can raise $10,000 at least. We're going to host a reverse tellathon. Um we're this is um this is version one of the flyer but we've up since updated it. We are going to be calling upon different law firms to come and have a legal battle during the reverse teleathon by the hour and they're going to be responsible for calling within their own networks
054to um help raise money for graduation uh cap and gowns mission graduation. Uh I do apologize I'm under the weather today but um everything is well underway. Um so the legal battle we will be calling for sponsorships. We will be going um utilizing social media. The projections for this have been this event specifically have been anywhere from $7500 to $12,000. So, by securing additional sponsors and getting these attorneys in to call on behalf of RMA, I think will be really great, not only for PR, but obviously to fill um some seed funding to really get the foundation up and off the ground. So, that is underway for March the 21st um here in Corpus Christi. If it is successful, which I'm sure that it will be, then this is an event that we would like
055to replicate in other communities such as Houston and Odessa for starters. Um, and then I just want to say thank you to the Corpus principal and to the Corpus um, community liaison. There's been a lot of people that have a hand in getting this organized and put together. If any of you board members would like to be involved, there is the opportunity both virtual. If you'd like to make calls and raise money for mission graduation during one hour on the 21st, we can I will get with your board uh secretary to send that information. There's just a link that you sign up and everything that you uh you raise, there's a way to track it to know like who uh who who raised that money, right? So, if you're calling for that hour, we would
056be able to track and see and provide actual reports. If you're in Corpus on March the 21st, we do need seven helpers. We have to we'll be bringing in five to 10 callers every hour for 5 hours. So, getting everybody um inside, giving them their welcome packet, their script, and all the steps to get them set up and going and calling. Um, but uh if you're not available, we do have plans to rely on some volunteers that I'll be recruiting. Um, and then I just want to thank uh thank Miraa as well for helping uh navigate this uh event and and like I said is it's taken a full village to pull this off, but I think it is going to truly be really successful. Any questions on the fundraiser? So, I'm going to jump
057in. So I my first question was how is it a reverse fundraising and then it hit me right it's when we're doing a teleathon they're calling in and I'm like oh we're calling out. Um so the biggest challenge from when we when we met was actually getting volunteers in place. So you guys are available during that time. It's a really good way I'm hoping we are hoping to get the press in to kind of show a little bit more uh of what's happening happening down in Corpus. Um, but the Teleon itself, like Adriana has mentioned, has been able to raise like $12,000 each and every single time. Um, so it's really promising. And so our goal is to kind of make sure that we're asking legal groups basically to cover and sponsor every hour. Um,
058and it may be that somebody doesn't show up and we have to jump in and literally call our our our call us for a donation of $5, $10, $100, whatever it may be. Um, but it's it should be a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to it. It's just an easy way that we can go ahead and kind of move this particular fundraiser and then move it to the other areas as well or to other schools as well. But, um, Adriana has done an exceptional job and getting this together and getting it up and going pretty fast, I would say. And that it is it is kind of a short timeline now. I think I'm down to the sevenw week mark. So any support there is a separate caller letter that I will also
059send out to uh to you all that you can share with other individuals if they maybe want to come in and call to help us raise funds. Um we're really t it's the it'll be the end of the school year soon so we are targeting we're calling it mission graduation to help supply our students with caps and gowns. They will have a little bit of um information. The letter looks really good. I just received it on Thursday. So it is it is very clear to the caller of regarding what their duties actually are. So we will we'll have the goal is to have five to 10 callers an hour and we are going to ask the law firms to bring callers but as if anybody wants to be a caller within your own networks or
060yourselves that is also an option. The more callers the more dollars. So, we definitely want to make sure that the all those spots are filled, which uh we will be work I will be working to get those secured. And again, thank you to the corpus team and I'm looking forward to having this like as an outline like I said to replicate in other areas. And then our final update is just that um we were able to onboard the new foundation board members yesterday. We had a meet and greet with Dr. Anderson and Carrie. It went really well. I was able to provide them with additional resources and tools to help them track and plan out um the ways in which they're going to support the foundation either through um helping with the teleathon, a golf
061tournament in the future, making connections to the area foundations and the communities that they serve. And then um Atmas Energy um Brandy is the a board member now for the foundation. She's the public affairs officer there. She and I will be working together to plan out um a public spotlight um in the area in the areas of Lebec, Midland, Odessa and Amarillo and that's where her the service territory of her company and one of their pillars is education. And so we will be planning out um how we're going to present to the community that their partnership with RMA and they will be doing a check presentation. That amount amount is still yet to be determined, but she and I will be getting together in February to plan that out. We'll get a press release created
062and work with the campuses and work with um Dr. Anderson and Carrie to figure out the best way. We want the communities to know what's happening and really put the foundation and the work of this of the district front and center. So, I'm really excited for that. I think it's going to be really great for us to really help others see and other others want to contribute as well. Good job. That concludes my section. Um, again, any questions about the road map? Um I am still continuing to search for more foundation board members. Um so if you have any recommendations um people referrals or if you have any referrals regarding um community foundations in your areas or that you may know about. We have a Coastal Bin Community Foundation. They're very supportive of education here
063in Corpus Christi. So I'm going to be looking at that grant. But if you know of community foundations in the other cities that I may not be aware about, I would love to learn any more information. And um I also just want to do a special shout out to all the staff. They have been sharing information with me so we can create strong grant proposals. I'll be getting with Dr. Given and Jim soon. And then Miss Amy Woods, she provided me some strong insight um as well. So I just want us to thank everybody for helping us make this possible. You questions for questions, comments. No, thank you. Adriana the charter school association. Oh yeah. So, um, just really quickly, I'm going to send you guys an email. Um, it's basically we're still we there's
064two big aspects of, you know, uh, that are kind of happening right now, but the biggest ones that we should focus on is the Oh, I just lost them. It's basically the gap on getting uh funding basically for facility funding. So, there's a bill that's happening. They're going to be voting on it on the 28th. Um, and that's basically to be able to give us more funding for charter schools, which currently we don't have. Uh, making it like a gap of almost 1,600,200 basically uh per student um for facility funding, which would be very very very very helpful. I'm sure Carl will be really happy about that if that passes. Um, so one of the things that I'm going to I keep saying to our board is advocate. I would say even then like there's
065a whole senate basically or a committee sorry a committee that is um that is made for education and now it's changed basically the committee has changed from being um K to 12 to now K16 basically so we it's all education higher education um so I'm going to send you that link over to that you just can write your representative and just kind of introduce yourself or even to find out if you ever have a chance to meet with them uh do go out and extend yourself and let them know that you are in the community, you're there for them. Um, but, uh, you know, urgently, I think that's just a simple email of introduction and letting them know that you appreciate their support for the bill. Um, because that's going to be Oh, that was
066on the 28th actually or no, it's happening soon actually. They're going to still they're still working on trying to pass that. So, um, that's it really. But yes, that's the one we're all looking out for and kind of advocating making sure that we do get that funding for charter schools. The other thing to look at as well is now with the with the funding of um of uh private school tuition basically being paid. Just so you know, charter schools, private schools do qualify for um other extracurricular activities, tutoring, uh things that would basically qualify us to offer other students. and we can uh be able to gain from that particular bill as well. So, I'll send you guys you guys get the Monday minutes by any chance for you. You guys get them? No. Okay.
067I'm going to forward them over to you. Um I'll for Jennifer to forward to you along with the link of the of who is on our committee. Um but it has all the information at a glance basically what's happening and it's a really quick summary. It's really nice. So, I'll get that part. That's it. And at this time, I'll provide my uh report to you all just giving you the um normal updates for where we are um as a district. And so as you can see um our enrollment as of uh January 23rd was at 1535 students um and as you can see we have the pending parent completing uh the application 158 registar accepting applications we had four and the counselors to enter a start date with four. So, we have um 55 students
068that have pre-enrolled with us and we're waiting for them to show up. We have um part of Dr. Given team calling uh students that are uh waiting to that we're waiting on and you know um some we may be able to get in touch with others we were second choice and they got into their primary uh location. So, it may be a very various factors but uh we are certainly working to try and reach out to all of those students. Um and so the total potential enrollment with the 158, the 8, and then the 55 will be about 1756 students um that we would be at. So um our uh Mr. Clemens and I had conversation this morning and one of the things that we shared with him is our enrollment has been fluctuating uh
069between about 15 uh low 1500s to about 1540. Um it's been up and down. I was at the Pasadena campus yesterday and Dr. future stated it eloquently. She says, you know, we get five kids in, we lose two or three out. And so, um, you know, it's kind of just fallen in that in that range. Um, according to, um, uh, Tammy's to GM's information, excuse me. Um if you look at this time last year um we were um around 1366 um at uh January 17th of 2024 and this year we're at 1535 uh which is down from the 1596 uh that I reported at the last board meeting on November 8th. So that's where we are as far as enrollment. And you can see uh on the exhibit one um it it gives you the
070um which is on page 393 um it gives you the uh breakdown by campus uh of where we are. Currently um it's no secret um all but one campus is is operating at a deficit. um the eight of the nine are operating at deficit with Odessa uh barely holding on to a surplus with about 70 kids. So um that's the situation in that regard. Again, we're working very diligently to try um you know, whatever we can. We're we're pleading with principles and Carrie to work together. We've got the website being reinvented. were trying to streamline the uh application process to get kids in. One of the things I realized after leaving Luka and talking with um uh two of the staff members there was that um you know if a parent is on a cell
071phone and trying to fill out an application, it'll take them all night. I mean that that that packet is is is very long and even just to fill out the basics. I tell you firsthand, if I was a parent trying to get my student enrolled and I do it on their cell phone, they wouldn't be in any school. But our packet is no more tedious than other schools. But somehow uh we got to find a way that just the pertinent piece on the cell phone could be done. Um you know we don't expect parents to go to Kholes and print out or FedEx and print out an application to fill out for us because you know that that cost them you know $15$20 to do that. And then we have computers and laptops at our
072campuses. But at the same time, you know, a parent that's a single mom trying to take care of three kids and having to work does not have the time to leave work to go up to a campus to fill out an application so the kid get in school. So um you know and and that may be the difference maker for a kid wanting to leave the ISD and come to RMA or whatever it may be. So we are um I've had conversations with Carl and Sylvia and Dr. Gibbons and team. So we we are trying to uh figure a way to make that a little bit more uh parent and student friendly. Um as far as the financials, Tammy will talk about that. Um as as far as where we are um at this time,
073we are operating um even though we have more students this time this year than we did last year. uh still have a deficit as I stated that eight of the nine campuses are operating at a loss uh due to low enrollment. Um and so and as you can see the vacant positions uh there on page 390. Um we have um three uh positions vacant um one admin secretary position uh vacant, one poor elected and one associate teacher. um uh as well as registar and LSP. So that's where we are. Five campuses are at 100%, four at 90%, one at 80% and none at 70%. One of the good things that came about in case some of the board may not know is that this uh past month back in December I believe the uh federal
074government passed the windfall elimination provision GSO um uh provision where now uh you know it used to be if you got any kind of government pension from the city, state or federal, you could not get your full social security. And so unless you had 29 or 30 years into social security, you would have had to pay 29 or 30 years into social security to be able to get your full. Um, and many people that were in in education probably didn't because some districts pay into just TRS, others pay into Austin is the only ISD that I know. I think Wendom may also uh pay into TRS and Social Security. So, if a teacher had spent 20 years in Fort Worth ISD and then came to RMA and worked and paid both, they wouldn't be able
075to get their full social security uh because they wouldn't have 30 years in social security. Um, but now if you have your 40 quarters in social security with the repeal of the the weft and the GSO, if you have four quarters uh 40 quarters of social security, you can get your full social security and your full TRS. So let's say that you only have 10 years in social security and you've been in education all the rest of the time you still get your full pension that you require. So that's a plus for RMA because now people that are on the brink of retiring like teachers that may only have 10 years to go, they can come to RMA, they could work and they could then get their full social security and TRA. So that's a
076win for us as far as a recruitment tool to help people that want to be able to get. So, but in the past, like I have social security and TRS. In the past, I would have only got a third of my social security because I got a government pension, but now that's no more the case. I'll be able to get food from anybody else that's been in RMA for, you know, 40 borders, which is 10 years, would be eligible. So, u just sharing that. And then on the page 391, you see our experience. Um, as far as certified, um, what we have 51% which is dropping because it used to be around 64% last year that we had of certified teachers. Um, but this was a conversation uh that I was um I can't remember
077now. I think I was in uh at a conference. I think it was the Dolly conference. But but what happened was the talk was that this is is truly shifting all across the country. certified teachers versus and and looking at state. A lot of states now are basically taking making people teachers putting them paying for their program for their for them to become certified. So they basically have a grow your own where these te these people have you know uh may have a degree but then they're putting them in a classroom and then they're helping them stairstep to get their certifications their teacher certification. CCID just the pro I'm not mistaken to be able to hire educators or associates. Yes. And they help them with their bachelors and their teacher certification. So that's becoming a
078real trend um in in in in the hiring field. And so as you can see um there's the years of experience u at RMA and professional years of experience. So, it's becoming time. Um, as far any questions about any of that information? We have really good staff. I'm I'm always very like in talking to them and just I mean they're just amazing and really knowledgeable and have quite the background honestly. Um, so I think we do a great job. And I did want to uh just share with you some updates. Uh, Miss Pearson touched on some of those. On January 14th, the 89th Texas legislative session did start. Um that basically the state um legislature has officially began the process of of passing laws. The this only happens every other year. So so it is
079a very important time. The big issues that most of us are are are worried about are the uh education savings account, how that voucher program is going to look. um you know, the governor has made known that he feels he has the vote the votes uh to pass um the voucher system this time around. And the other big key that we're waiting on is what will the fundings be because uh you know public schools have not had an increase in funding and what is it now been three years um that there has not been an increase uh in funding for schools and so we're all eager to see how that plays out as well. Um also as you know um the current president is pushing to withhold funds for you know any schools dealing with
080teaching politics, gender or race. Um there's a big push. I don't know where that'll go, how that'll affect um you know it was said that the federal government provides schools uh districts about 11% of their their their uh revenue. Um and so if that's withheld and how does you know how does schools adapt to that? Um that's that's a big key. And then also another federal issue is the whole ICE deal with the immigration. Um I've heard several superintendent down near the valley and some other places that have said that um you know and even in Houston. I see I think I was having a conversation with some people in Houston and said that uh some of their predominately Hispanic uh schools um the enrollment is uh really being hurt because of kids afraid to
081come to school. So those are issues that will uh certainly hinder uh the future of of all students in the state of Texas and across the country. Um we did have some campus closures due to inclement weather last week. I just want to share with you all Colleen Corpus Christie Houston and Pasadena. Dr. G which one was closed for two hours. We had some with delays. I want to say Amarillo was closed for two hours. Okay. Amarillo. So, they were delayed, so I didn't put them on here, but Colleen, Corpus, Houston, and Pasadena were all closed for a day or two due to uh the weather. Um, I wanted to also share with you um just the governing board member requirements. There was some name tweaking. Uh Jennifer can explain that. Did you want to
082share with them the ones that changed and Yeah. So on the um required training modules and this might be more for um our um members who have already gone through um their first year um and the modules did change just the name I know that they remained no they're the same modules they just remained a lot of uh the information so they renamed um the charter now used to be sold Um it's still the same concept, still the same modules except for everything. It's just choices. Um and then we didn't have uh a change in what is the accountability and it's just again the same thing just different name on paper. Um and then of course you know we have the Texas Open Meetings Act, the public information act and then what is now um
083what I think is the most thoughts. Yes. The most notable uh notable change is the other category which will now be evaluating and improving student outcomes. Um and so everything has stayed the same just a name change. Um I don't know if you had noticed that but it had happened um part of T uh CSA the conference that we all went to and I know that like I regarding the modules and so um very very um minimal change on that and I will say that um the um uh that that's a good thing for the board because that evaluating and improving student outcomes that allows you to go to more things academic. uh like if you have a desire to know some more about the state testing and where it's going to go or how
084accountability in the state uh exams work for our schools that allows you the opportunity to attend those sessions and uh and so instead of other because what would happen in the past is you could go to these others like you go to extra uh school finance or extra accountability for public funds and then Becky or Jennifer now would have to sort out those others and put them into, you know, for next year and all of this kind of stuff. So, it'll make it a little bit easier. So, now you can go to some accountability things and it works out. So, I want to share that with you. And then the last thing I want to share with you is on page 394, which is the 89th uh legislative session priorities for the TPCSA, the Texas
085Public Charter School Association. They have three key areas that they're looking to work on this year. Uh the first is to increase facility funding for public charter schools. And as you can see the problem there. Facility funding for Texas charter schools has been chopped at uh a cap, excuse me, at 60 million since 2017, driving a charter ISD funding gap of $1621 per student. And so they want to remove that in uh remove or increase the cap on facility funding for public charter schools. Their second priority is making the teacher retirement system fair by way of aha. It wasn't intentional, but they someone discovered, I think it was a superintendent of charter suit that discovered that charter schools were paying more into TRS than traditional public schools. And so, as you can see there, um,
086contribution. So, we were having to contribute more to our teacher retirement payments than the ISDs were. And a superintendent, I believe, found that and brought it up to the attention of TPCSA. And so they want us we should be paying contributing per employee the same amount as the ISD uh contributing per employee. And then the last thing was to achieve clarity and parity in the education code. And just talking about uh the disadvantages any disadvantages that may uh have in uh in the in the Texas education codes that may be uh disparing to charter schools. They want to drop get those corrected and repaired and make adjustments to those that uh they feel are impacting or well hindering uh the operations or the advancements of charter schools. So might there be any questions for me
087about anything? Thank you. Financial reports. Tammy, good morning. Uh I have included um some of the information relative to the December financial statements on that information page. Um as of these December financials uh we have acrewed uh 87 out of our 180 days of state revenue that we acrew for the fiscal year. And looking at the chart on the next page, uh we can see this is our enrollment data by month and um it is provided here for the past 3 years. As of this report in December, the highest day that we recorded for uh student enrollment was 1,520 students. And on the following page, this is our ADA uh also associated with the month of December. uh we are at 75% attendance which is slightly less than this uh same time last year um
088and also the year before our budget was uh set at 79% ADA so we are just slightly under that target and on page 398 this chart represents our foundation school payment revenue this is the revenue that we receive for attendance and um it's bumped up against the um amount of revenue that we budgeted. So we budgeted 15.4 million and we are with our current enrollment we are recording revenue of 14.13 million. And then on this page this chart shows our days cash on hand. Um, this calculation is done by breaking down our expenses into a daily amount and then you divide that by your cash balance at the end of the month. Um, and as you can see from this chart, we have 98 days. Um, if operations were to cease today, we would be
089able to continue to pay our current expenses for those number of days. Um we have used some of our cash balance um to fund the portion of our campuses for Midland um Houston and also Amarillo and Fort Worth. So um you could see our cash balance has gone down uh from previous years but we are using uh the excess cash bal balance that we have for the projects that we have currently going on. And on page 400, uh, you can see through the month of December that we have, um, $8.7 million in expenses and $8.5 million in revenue um for all funds in the district. And on the following page, this is our Yeah. Right. our administrative cost ratio. Um, this is comparing functions 21 and 41, which is considered our administrative costs. uh we
090bump that up against our total costs for the district and right now we are um getting four out of 10 points for this indicator. And on page 402, this is our estimated charter first rating. Uh if the fiscal year was to end today, uh we would score an above standard with 82 points. um in addition to losing those points on the administrative cost ratio, uh our budgeted to actual revenues um is off by more than 10%. And then also our debt service ratio is also higher than the threshold. So we're losing two points on that indicator. And then on the following page, this is our income statement, and this reflects the loss that Dr. Anderson uh was speaking to earlier. Uh we're halfway through the fiscal year and our overall expenditures show that we are
091below that mark at 47%. Um our revenues however are only recorded for 10 months out of the 12 for the fiscal year. So therefore we should expect to be somewhere around $9.2 million uh for the month of December. And um as you could see we're um a couple million dollars below that. And I would say this is is the primary the primary cause of the deficit that we're seeing. Um if you look at these expenditures, we could see that um functions uh 21, 31, and 41 um are slightly higher than we would like to see. Um and most of these as I researched are due to payroll expenditures. Um we did have some turnover uh this year and it's hard to predict where people are going to be uh on uh at a salary level
092when they come to us for new staff. So we do have fluctuations that are reflected because of those uh uh salary variances. And then function 61 down towards the bottom is higher um because there are a few consulting services that um were not a part of that didn't make it into the budget by the time that it was approved. Um and so uh would the board allow uh for next meeting I can bring a functional amendment um we probably would be closer um you know to approaching that 100% using the expenditures for function 61 uh bringing that so that we can increase uh the budget for that function uh going forward so that we don't go over what the board had had previously approved. So, if the board is fine with that, I can do
093that at the next meeting. That's really the only one that looks like it's it's coming close to what we budgeted for the year. Um, and for reference, if we look back at December of 2023, uh, our deficit was 464,000. Um, in December and in 2022, it was a deficit of 284,000. And in both of those years, we both had uh we had the ESSER funding still. And this year is our first year without ESSER. So, we're just trying to to figure out how to get everything in line uh without that additional federal funding that we had for the past three uh past 3 years. And on the next page is our balance sheet, which reflects our assets and liabilities. Um our net a assets reflected at the bottom of the page is uh 14.7 million
094and this number represents uh 345 days of current operating expenditures. And on the next page um is our ADA that goes back to uh 201617. This was something that um Mr. Clemens asked for at the last meeting. Uh so I put together this chart uh by campus um just to show what our numbers were for each campus going back to 201617 instead of seeing it overall by district. This just kind of breaks it down a little bit more for your review. And on the following page is the summary of finance which is dated December the 10th. Um this report reflects the 6 weeks attendance period for cycle 2, which is the attendance from September uh 23rd to November the 1st. So there's always a lag with the summary of finance um and our funding um
095based on the reporting data. Does anybody have any questions? question. Thank you. Carl, ready for facilities update? Uh, is it morning or afternoon? Yeah. Good morning, board. Uh today uh we want to offer a beginning of the year updates on current relocation initiatives in Amarillo, Fort Worth, and Houston as well as um we have an upcoming uh Midland lease renewal that we want to bring to your attention. So if we could go to the next page, please or a couple of down. One more. There we go. So um currently in Amarillo, our lease expires in Amarillo on 6:30 2020 2025. Um we have no extensions left on that lease. So we need to decide um as as a district whether we want to renegotiate that lease for one year, 3 years or a 5-year extension.
096Um we've also purchased property at 2400 Southeast 27th Avenue. Uh at that location, uh we've completed demolition. Um construction documents are completed and we've gotten uh a con a contractor's bid for that uh project. um in working with Frost Bank, they were uh working on an appraisal to uh move forward with the construction on that project. Uh after doing three different uh appraisal approaches, um they used a cost approach, a sales comparison approach as well as an income capitalization approach. And in all cases, um the uh cost for construction and um improvements uh came out to about $2.5 million, which was about a million less than our uh estimates that we've gotten from the uh our estimator, the architect, as well as the bid that we got from the contractor. Um, so with that said,
097we're currently working with Frost Bank to refinance the property um that we purchased. The original construction loan was uh interest only and so uh that was for one year. We're at that term. So we're going to have to uh extend that. So um we're working with Frost Bank on that at the moment. Uh, next page. And as part of the uh the terms for the uh refinance of the project, I included those on the uh presentation for the board to review. Uh the um interest rates have come down considerably or not considerably, but they've come down a good bit since we uh started this process. And um as you can see uh we would be looking at like 6.7. I think when we first started the process it was at like 8.7. So uh interest
098rates are moving in a good direction. Next page and I'll just we can just flip through these. Uh these were some you know I continue to show you the just the project um where we're at. Uh one of the things that is putting our appraisals off is the fact that with this uh project uh because it is zone 4 uh is FEMA zone 4 which means high high winds and tornado activity that uh we'd have to have a storm shelter built built into it. So that's increased our costs a bit. Next page. And one more. Um, currently in Fort Worth, our lease expires on 8:31 2025. And, um, at that point, we do have a month-to-month clause with, uh, the power of B, which is the the landlord there. Um so we will need to
099decide um to negotiate a one-year, threeyear, fiveyear extension at this location. Um we have purchased property on Trail Lake Drive and Woodway Drive uh for a new campus slash or a relocation of our campus and our central office. Um as built drawings have been completed, the programming phase has been completed. architects are prepared to move forward with uh design and construction documents. Um however, we are currently working once again with Frost Bank to refinance the property purchase. Uh the original loan was an interestonly loan. Uh which brings us to the next page, which are the the terms for um renegotiating this uh loan to buy us I guess some some time until we decide what we want to do. Um, go ahead to the next page. And just once again, this is a a picture
100of the property. Um, moving down to the next page. Uh, this was some design work that our preliminary design work that was put together during the programming phase. And this was on the um central office side. uh some of the programming work that was done there. So you want to and then at our Houston location, our previous lease expired on December the 31st, 2024. And we have um closed out that lease. And as you guys know, we are in our new uh location off of 500 Century Plaza. Uh construction is complete. We have received a temporary certificate of occupancy. We are working with the contractor um to complete the punch list and um so that we can move to a co um or certificate of occupancy that would be permanent uh with the E designation.
101We're also working on branding uh at that location. So, I hope you guys en enjoy that. That was a a fun project. Um, go ahead and move down. This is the uh outside of the building prior to our moving in. And go ahead. This is what the the classrooms looked like before we started moving in uh furniture. And this was our our science classroom there uh before they moved in furniture. And of course, just one of the the restroom shots. So, next, um, believe it or not, we've actually been in our Midland location for 3 years. Our current lease, uh, expires there on 531 2025. Um, we currently have three options to extend available in our lease, uh, three-year extensions each. and we're working with our broker to um get that finalized. Uh that leaves
102us with 9 years remaining on on that lease. So, we'll execute or move forward with uh our new lease uh in June of this year. And um that'll leave us, I guess, with with the nine years um to to go on that lease. And then uh didn't include here, but we've also uh gotten some feedback back from our insurer uh about our Lach roof project. um we had some damage there and so we're going to be moving forward with a roof repair in love as well as part of an insurance claim and that's it for me. Carl, yes. On the Midland project, Jack, how are things going with the church? The relationship uh improved dramatically after we got through construction. uh haven't had any any issues as of late as probably within a year or
103so. Um we did have some students with some very large trucks backing their um backing up into a cinder block wall that we had to have a a discussion about, but I think that was um on our side and we got that taken care of. Thank you. You bet. Any other comments, questions? I think we're okay. Want to take a moment on today to give a thorough overview of our CCMR. CCMR has become a very popular term. we've we've begun to hear it more and more over the past years and so just wanted to give a more deeper overview of our CCMR. I know that Dr. Gibbons as well as Jim Pollock shared some information about CCMR but wanted to really share with the board today the and put really some emphasis on the tremendous
104remarkable growth that we have seen over the years with our CCMR. Our goals remain the same. Um, Dr. Given couldn't have said it better. We are committed to making sure all of our students graduate prepared for either college, career, or military, or all three if they wish. We want to create the culture on all of our campuses that students have options where they're able to understand the different pathways whether they focusing on after graduation college whether they focusing on graduation after graduation career because of some training that they received through RMA or whether or not we expose them to different options for the military. Uh back in October, I was just on a training um a regional training with the state, countless of independent school districts and charter schools across the state. And in that
105meeting, I was I was asked out loud in front of the a big audience of people, what is RMA doing to be able to receive such tremendous growth with CCMR? Next slide, Jennifer. And one of the things I just summarized with them, it it it was it was easy to share um is through the triple key strategy, we have over the years um defined what pathways students are have opportunity to take. We made sure we added the right programs and we continue to um develop and strengthen um partnerships across the the state. Now I really want to give a a picture next slide of where we've come from. If you're looking at the slides back before COVID as a district, we was just literally at 5% of our students with a CCMR um graduating prepared
106for either college career or military. And then COVID, we of course COVID happened. And then we really as a district started putting emphasis on CCMR really mapping out a strategic plan of um where can we go and what we can do. Um given all the hiccups and and burdens that we saw in the past and in 2021 is really when we started putting some things in place. We redesigned our master schedule. So we're offering more CT courses. We identified some quick win programs. We end up making sure we develop partnerships with all of our community college. And as you can see, by the time um we're going into 2024, which includes this fall semester, you see the tremendous growth that has taken place in four years since we really put emphasis on CCMR. And if
107the state was looking just at our CCMR, just at our CCMR, measuring our campuses just by CCMR, we have all of our campuses as A campuses except two campuses which are B campuses and they are not far behind from becoming a A campus. So really wanted to give a salute, round of applause to all of the staff from the district level from our um board because a lot of programs that we presented, you approved and allowed us to invest in those particular programs and so we have seen the impact of those investments um as we continue to grow. Now some of some people might want to know next slide Jennifer the why. What are some of the things how this happened? And I wanted to share some specifics to kind of make to make it
108more make more sense of what we've done and what we continue to do. We talk about Texas College Bridge that is such has become such a successful program in so many different different ways. We had over 380 students this past fall um that was enrolled in that particular program. Even with our TSI testing that still continue to gain more momentum, we're still doing the TSI week where as a district all nine campuses take out time, identify which students um meet the benchmarks for English and math and we administer the TSI test. 270 students participated in TSI testing this past fall. One of our biggest programs and it's is it's is growing is have seen tremendous growth is that NCCER. We have the NCCR program at all nine campuses. As a district, we not only invested
109in getting our own faculty trained as um the instructors teaching those particular courses. But we have positioned RMA for the future. at at any given time we can use all any of our campuses because we have credentialed all of our campuses to be able to teach this training to the public. So if we ever want to position ourselves and allow um the public to come to our campus to get any type of training through the NCCR program, our campuses are official NCCR testing locations and we have the staff to be able to do that training even for the the public, the general public and help for with workforce readiness skills. also our CTE courses. You know, this past um fall semester, all of our CTE teachers participated in uh professional development through region 20. Um
110so many changes happen with CTE. The state continues to change and make um changes not only to the curriculum, but what programs can be students can receive and get certifications from. And so we added even more courses to our master schedule, giving students more opportunities in professional communication. We added um one of our first the district's first advanced classes through our AP computer science. Computer science, we had students actually taking computer science and taking the certification and test after they do that particular semester program. construction management. We we saw a huge need through labor market analysis that construction management is huge which is what our NCCR program falls under. So we have students not only getting that certification in their first year but they also going through the whole pathway for construction management. We saw
111a need um especially at our love campus for family and community services through articulation agreement with uh South Plains. Our students not only are getting their high school credit in those particular courses, but um students that does well in that program are also getting a college dual credit course through South Plains. We added forensic science. We saw a need for students to be exposed to forensic science. We had a couple of science programs already, courses already, but we wanted to expand and give our student body even more options through forensic science. And of course, uh, we still under the leadership of Dr. Ducha there at the Pasadena campus, we are revitalizing our printing and imaging program as well. And then programs, you know, we talk about what particular programs. We are our fifth cohort of
112students that's doing the medical science, health science at the Delmare College. That has been just a a tremendous um benefit to our district. We have limited costs when it comes to affording students those opportunities through grants. Um, Delmar College is affording our students to be able to earn three certifications, EKG, phabbotomy, and medical assistant. We seen a a a huge increase in all of our CT enrollment. Over 635 students this past fall was enrolled in CTE courses with a 77% um completion rate. And I'm kind of really excited. Uh we we kind of been keeping this a little to ourselves because the initial planning um is just now beginning. But through the lasso grant um Dr. Given leadership and and uh Jim, we submitted um for the lasso grant and we are now beginning the
113initial planning uh with the hopes that we can transition the Corpus Christi campus into RMA's first early college high school where those students not only will receiving their high school diploma but have the pathway to receive uh associates degree before graduating through our early college high school there in Corpus Christie. Also, um we continue to really put emphasis on military because now in the past that was not a part of what we could get credit for. The TA had suspended that option, but now it's back. Um our counselors are tracking um students that are transitioning and enrolling in to any of the branches of the armed forces. Um, some campuses have already this past fall started their ASVAB testing. We know that not only is AVAB's testing good for military enlistment, but also it allows
114students to see what career exploration, what career options they would be good at. So, we are um investing in making sure that we have partnerships with all branches of the armed forces and making sure that we give students the opportunity to do ASVAB testing. I mentioned before the partnership with region 20 and the professional development that has taken place. Not only were we um allowing our CTE teachers to get that professional development but um on some instances we was able to identify our associate teachers who have who supports our CTE classes and they was able to be able to get some of that training as well. Um through partnership we we partner with organization Sterling Empowerment and I'm going to use Dr. Brucher there at the Pasadena campus for example have already met with this
115particular organization that that's doing college and career uh navigation and exploration with students. We had a meeting two weeks ago. That organization after meeting uh with us walked out of our campus went around in the community um partnered with three banks and got banks to be able to sponsor books for every one of our students at the Pasadena campus going to be able to offer them financial literacy and general employability skills. So, what a great partnership we have with Sterling Empowerment, who's going to be partnering with all of our campuses um sooner or later and doing the same concept. And lastly, I should talk about partnership with TPSA. We already have students at our Odessa campus that are have been practicing the past couple of weeks with the Odessa law enforcement uh police department there.
116And we have students that'll be leaving next week going to compete for regional competition in law enforcement. is that is through our partnership with Texas Public um safety association TPSA and I did say last but there's one more partnership that we just recently developed and that is through um printing and imaging association uh Mid America just established that particular partnership for our students that's in graphic design and printing and imaging through that partnership students going to have access to industry resources have access to mentorship, uh, internship, scholarship opportunities, as well as we'll soon be seeing groups of students compete in industry competition through, um, printing imaging association. Next slide. And lastly, I just want to kind of leave if we had to say where are we going in the future with RMA. We can continue
117to focus our strategy on the triple P developing and identifying what pathways is meets the needs of our students, what programs can we add that we currently do not have and what partnerships could we need in order to give our students bigger exposure and and better equipped to face um post-secary opportunities. Again, we really want to highlight the the district achievement um for the growth we've seen in CCMR. And we are definitely looking forward to making um our Pasadena, not our Pasadena campus, our Corpus Christie campus, our Corpus Christie campus early college high school in the future. And with the continued support of the board, superintendent, the academics department, and all the campus principles, counselors, CT teachers, associate teachers, NCCR instructors, Lahy Dotty, everybody, we will achieve 80%. All of our campuses by time we
118go into the 26 27 school year will have 80% or higher CCMR um for their campus. That's my report. Any questions? Oh, just congratulations. Congratulations. Let me share too with you all. Mr. Shaw is is the uh presenter at the state CTE conference this year in San Antonio. So, um I've asked, of course, I'd like everybody support him, but I've asked Carl and Tammy to show up and support him because in San Antonio. So, congratulations to Mr. show was just he's gonna write a book next. That's amazing. like just seeing the jump from zero to 86% and then not only that but that's one of the things that I brag about in our community too is that and going back to what you said like you know all our students leave out what more than
119just a high school you know education and for people to kind of change that persona what RMA is and now really RMA's becoming a highlight in our community Christie um and as we come in to model so much so that other districts are changing their model based on RMA and that's really because of you guys. Um, one more thing to kind of just uh throw on there with the foundation that just starting off as well. Um, they are needing reasons and what to support and how to support you. So, keep that in mind as well. Uh, because that's what their job is to do basically. But, um, I'm super proud. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Mr. Showers, I'm giving you a standing applause. Thank you so very much. Thank you.
120Thank you. Thank you for all that you do. and CC one program that I've kept my eye on and you've done a fantastic job. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Thompson, for your feedback. The printing is here in Houston, right? Pasadena that's Yeah, remember that. Okay. Struggle. It's been a struggle. It's been a struggle. Yes. But if you do need support on that, this is where I do have the marketing aspects that I can put in with associations that they can shadow. is out. Okay. Last information Adam career and transition affairs you would All right. Good morning. Um can you all hear me? Yes. All right. Thank you. Um thank you. Um I've also got uh Kate Driscoll here with me. she is the special education transition specialist and she's going to be speaking about the
121transition um night side of our career fair. So, if you can go to the next page, keep going right there. Thank you. Um so, RMA is partnering with local businesses and trades, military branches, and colleges to help um RMA students make important decisions for their future. Each campus is hosting a college uh and career fair in collaboration with RMA special education department um their transition night. As of today, we've had five campuses. Love, Amarillo, Fort Worth, Pasadena, and Houston host their career fairs. Um we have our um other four coming up. Corpus Christi will be in February. Odessa, Midland, they're scheduled for March and Colleen um they're scheduled for May. Uh next slide. So, um, our goal with the campus career fairs is to help students plan for after high school, give them ideas of
122jobs, training needs for specific roles, school options, and military information. Uh, we also wanted to build partnerships with local businesses to address students needs for jobs. Now, um, we hope that with these partnerships, we will ensure that school continues to be our students top priority. and um we just don't want to put our uh students in a position where they're having to choose between work and school. So, we're hoping to build these partnerships and so that these businesses also support our May and the students um attending school on a regular basis. Um as mentioned, uh we also have partnered with our special education department. Um they hosted transition nights u last year. Uh Mr. Driscoll, do you want to mention that? Yes. Um, excellent. So, transition is, uh, transition planning, um, is a federal and
123state requirement for students with special education services, um, that are over the age of 13. Um, I mean, besides just being good for our students, research shows us that students with disabilities who have an idea of what they're going to do after high school, um, and have participated in activities and discussions on how to get to those goals are more ac more successful. And that makes sense, right? So historically transition was one of those areas where RMA special populations was struggling. So when Dr. Lambert came on board with RMA, she created my position as a transition specialist to develop our transition services program um both instructionally and um on the compliance side of that. Last year, like um Amy said, um one of the most visible parts of this building phase was uh the transition
124events that were held at each campus. And when Amy um Wood was charged with bringing a career fair to each campus, um she and I talked and it just seemed logical to combine these two events so that more students could really benefit um from all of the uh vendors and people that were um were coming to um to my event and to her event and just have one big happy uh family together. So that's kind of um where it came from from you know the sped side as well and um I think it's been really successful so far. Next slide. So we've invited um school or trade schools and trade businesses um to uh visit with our students. We've had Ogal school cos of cosmetology, Milan co cosmetology school, Lincoln Tech, um universal technical institute,
125welding technology, um programs, CDL driving schools, and we also had the fire department recruiters. Um the really cool thing about the fire department was that it was all women. Um so to show our, you know, female students, you don't have to be a male student or male to be a firefighter. So we thought that was really cool um for the students to see. Um next page and um something I wanted to highlight here. So um the young man on the bottom right hand side standing with Dr. Clifton, he was actually an RMA student several years ago. So it was just really fun to see him interacting with our current students. Um talking about his role and his job that he's doing now. he works for uh Frank's uh plumbing and so talking about the uh
126training he's gotten, talk about the positions they have available and the um onh hands uh training that they do for for them. So that was really cool to see and we got um him and Dr. Clifton in contact with each other so that way um she can reach out to him just to you know get an RMA student perspective on that. All right, next next slide. And of course, we um u we invited two-year and four-year college programs. Um we've had Texas Tech out, Amarillo College, Sanino College, uh Texas Westland University, Grand Canyon University, South Plains College, Texas Southern University, and Houston Community College. Again, these um colleges are talking about whether it's a 4-year program, two-year program, their certification programs. Um they've talked about the application process. I even had one reach out and
127say, "Hey, I have a student who is um trying to apply, but they need help getting their transcript." So, um just making sure that get what they need to, you know, further their education. Next slide. And then here's just some more of our uh students visiting with recruiters. Um that top picture is Sanino College at Pasadena. Um the middle picture that was at le Texas Tech and um Texas Tech on the top uh right hand side as well talking to students at Amarillo. And then next slide. And of course we wanted to invite the military um all the branches so that way if we had any students um interested they can make those contacts. So of course we had the army, air force, navy and the marines. All right. And um the biggest portion was
128inviting local businesses um because I know a lot of our students have to work to help support their families or even if they have student or children themselves. And so it was really neat to see our students applying for jobs on site. So we've had restaurants um Domino's was at um our last one. Uh Mighty Car Wash was there. And so it was just nice to see our students. they were sitting there applying um filling out applications and from what we hear several of them had received um jobs from those events. So that's always nice to see. Next question comments uh from the transition support side um for services of after high school for our students that have disabilities. Of course, we were inviting the Texas Workforce uh vocational rehabilitation counselors um for each area.
129And so that was kind of a a good basis to start out because then they could come in and do individual meetings with students um who could benefit from vocational rehabilitation, whether that's services for post-secary school or employment. Um they they really do it all. Uh we also invited partners resource network um which is a statewide uh organization that's an kind of an it's an advocacy organization but not advocate in like a adversarial kind of way school and parent. They really work with all sides of um you know our committees helping parents better understand helping schools better communicate with parents and families. Um so uh their resources um are amazing for both the schools, the special ed teachers and um for the for the parents as well. And then we also um the colleges that
130um were attending um we tried to get some of the office of disabilities and student services representatives to come out as well um so that they could talk with our potent our students who um had disabilities and were um hoping to have some sort of support while um they're attending college as well. So that was very successful and I um I let's see the picture on the left here. I think that's love. Yeah, cuz we're outside. Leach um that's Texas Workforce um VR counselor for the Leach area and then our partners resource network um there I'm thinking that's probably Fort Worth um on on the right. Yes. All right. So at this time I just want to thank you board for your support um for our staff and especially for our students. Um and thank
131you to uh Mr. Bon for attending our Fort Worth um career fair. So, thank you for being there. Again, our next one is Corpus Christi February uh 12th. Um so, if you're available and you want to attend, it's um scheduled from 6:00 to 7:00 in the evening. And um it should be a lot of fun. So, we hope you can join us at one of them. And um thank you again for all you do for us. Thank you, Amy and Kate. We appreciate Action item. This time uh we have few contracts to approve uh and ratify. Um and so most of these are going to be uh uh things for uh graduations and then we have uh Dr. Gibbons principal retreat as well. So, uh, there's a contract for the Love Civic Center for their
132graduation venue in the amount of $1,040, uh, for the principal's retreat, which will take place in February in the, um, in the KMA near Ka, right, Dr. G. I got Ka. Yes, sir. So, near KMA, uh, the principles will come together um, and this will be paid out of uh, school improvement funds in the amount of $16,220. Then region four service center, they do our teacher incentive, a teacher uh instructional leadership. Um and so we have to pay for those services. Nothing's free. And so it's $13,950 even the service center trying to get us. And then last but not least, the uh Amarillo graduation venue in the amount of $1,800 and 19 $1,890. So at this time ask the board to uh ratify those as they've been signed and approved so that we can continue
133with moving forward with operations. I move the board to ratify the cont uh the contract listed under exhibit number two. Second motion statement. We will approve the contract as presented. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Robert. Anything else? And we have um that's off of contract, right, gentlemen? That is correct. And it would be close session at this time. Okay, we're going to close session. I'll need some guidance location. Excuse me. Before we go into close session, I'd just like to make one comment with the special ed department and the information that we got from the taper report and the report today. Uh we can see how much work went into that. If you've ever worked on the on the grounds, you know that they worked hard. So, I'd just really like to give a special thanks to
134the reports that they just and the interaction and the documentation that we got from the taper report. They worked hard. Thank you. Okay, at this time we're going to close session discussion to Texas education 551 74 personnel matters deliberation on the appointment for evaluation assignment duties list employee comparison We are not able to hear anything. I'm sorry. I didn't have the audio. Can you hear us now? Yes, ma'am. It's a board appreciation month and yesterday I came to this camp. know uh today's Wednesday I came to the campus to see how it looked before the board I came to spot and so I was walking around and Mr. Campbell was off campus and I ran into this young lady, Miss James and uh she and I started talking. It was brought to my attention that
135she was a 2007 RMA graduate and now she's back working with us as the SDA. Yes. And so I wanted to introduce her to the board and just ask her to kind of share her experience and what you know how life has been. Picture my Oh, I love that. I didn't. Um, yes. I graduated from here in 2007. I came from Westfield and I came due to credit recovery to get my credits and I was like, "Oh, well credits. I'm go back to Westfield." I'm here. I enjoyed it. And also, I came back to Yeah. Long-term sub 2017. And I think that was the best decision I did because when I came back, they had like a rep from City University of Seattle to come to talk to the teachers and that's when I got
136my masters in education through RMA and then back again. Third term they say, right? And um and now I already received my second masters in marketing. Oh, my MBA. aspect. So, this is a product and Carrie, I want to encourage you to get with Miss James because this is a story that we need to put on our website to share um these success stories. So, I would and you know, I would u um u indulge you to um get with her and and get that story posted. And the funny thing was this is where the old Houston campus used to be in this building before they moved to the church. I interviewed with Mr. Campbell. He was like, "Yeah, we gonna move back to Well, he said he say back. He said need to be
137moving. And he show like Yeah. I was like I came from over there. So it's like going back to where I started out the dayare back. So yeah, welcome back. So I want to share that on behalf of and and and you know these are the things that the board is so instrumental in because without the board doing the roles that you all uh do and the previous boards that that uh you know that were before you um it makes success stories like this all the time and the students that were recognized today and and and their accomplishments. you know, um, sometimes we get caught up so much in the business aspect of things, we forget the human side of the student aspect. And every time I go to a campus, I love to hear
138good things that our students are doing, their plans and and their struggles that brought them to RMA and how they're doing so much better. And so, um, and this board appreciation month, we want to thank all of you. We want to thank Mr. Clemens who came back once was a a business partner in RMA and saved it from from the fall of grace and and and revived it uh back to the board president to Miss Pearson whom I had the opportunity to meet when I was in corpus. just astonished me and her work with the Chamber of Commerce there in Corpus Christie and her connections and and and all the expertise and and experience that she's brought to the board as well as Bale who I slapped upside the head uh uh years ago and
139didn't even realize it uh that he and Dr. White and I knew some of the same connected people and so um he here brings a new and fresh approach and his business experience and education as you know substituted services and tutoring uh and he continues to add value and then of course can't forget the godmother of the board Miss Rose Thompson who who uh keeps us together who has been inside and out of RMA for many years and brings wisdom and expertise and so we're certainly grateful for her. And then of course, and you're muted, Missed. You're muted. This mug was given to me five years a I mean 20 years ago by Richie Milburn Academy. Long time about five years. So I was five years 20 years ago. Does that make sense what I
140said? This is a five-year uh employee of the year mug. Uh been 20 years ago. Yeah, it was in 2005. So yeah, that was 20 years ago that I received the mug. Thank you. She's not a military veteran. She's an RMA veteran. And so and then of course Mr. dynamic who's not present u one of Fort Worth's um prominent attorneys and uh he is certainly brings his expertise he I call him the great negotiator of the board he negotiates the middle ground for everyone and so we certainly appreciate him and so at this time we have a little gift for you uh that we'd like to present uh to to you guys um and so um we have Pearson They're employed. That's pretty nice. Little spider though. Mr. We can't thank you enough. But as
141a small token of our appreciation, we thank you and hopefully um this is something that you all can use and enjoy that you all can enjoy and use for many years to come. And again, we appreciate all that you do. I know I'm you all's only one employee, but the buck really stops with you all because at the end of the day, you're responsible for all of this. So, these decisions that you approve, that you make, and that you review, and that you challenge and question, uh, does make a world of difference in our ability to be able to support students and staff and the communities that we serve. So, happy board appreciation day or month and thank you all for all the Thank you. Thanks. Uh there is a video that all of our
142campuses put together for board appreciation month. It's a fiveminute video. Everybody's just saying thank you for all that you do. We do have a really Look at Thompson. I know. Yes, we got one video. We got one video. Uh, Jennifer, we can't see it on the on our screen. One second. I'm pulling it up. Okay. Can you see it now? Yes. [Music] inside because of Thank you for helping us reach our goals. Thank you for supporting our school. [Music] school board for the opportunity to serve these students here and also help change lives. I want to say thank you RA school board for providing great opportunities for our students. We should all thank the RA school board for allowing kids a second chance to be here and those they want for the future. I just
143want to thank the RA school board for giving kids a chance that I didn't get to have as a as a troubled teen. And so I really think it's a admirable thing that y'all are doing allowing these children to work at their own pace and their own problems and just you know have somewhere safe to come and themselves. I'm thank you all for everything. [Laughter] I [Music] found now I congratulate all about board members and what you do for RA. Thank you to all of our Thank you RMA school board for your dedication and commitment to our schools. Thank you. Thank you school board for our NCR 11. Thank you board for all you do. We appreciate you. We appreciate you. Appreciate you. Thank you for all that you do. Thank you. Hi, I'm Miss
144P and on behalf of RMAS, we want to thank you. Thank you. We are the unveil student ambassador. On behalf of our school, we would like to thank the school board. Thank you for giving us thank you. I like RMA because I'm encouraged to reach my goals. I love working at RMA because it gives you a better environment to other. Thank you to our school board members for making a wonderful place to learn. I love our city. Thank you to our school for supporting our school board members for all that you do for us. That was good. board members. Thank you guys. Thank you all that attended virtually. I hope you all have a good weekend. Mr. Cleman, you can adjourn. [Laughter] I'm just going to leave. [Laughter] What's the information? You probably me. I
145am. heard me twice. Just ask for public comments before you leave. Any public comments? No public comments. Anything public comments? No public comments. Okay. Again. Officially have have fun, Miss Thompson. Okay. Thank you. Bye. Thank you, board members. Don't get in trouble. I'll try not to, [Laughter] you know, trying with me is no effort at all. How's it going? Days