001Board of Trustees. Please call to order. The presence of a quorum has been established. The meeting has been duly called and the notice of the meeting has been posted in a time and manner required. The monthly meetings of the board are designed to conduct the business of governing with the school system and the public. We are now ready to start. We do not have anyone for public participation. So we will move to [snorts] public hearing on the school financial integrity rating system of Texas first report. So we do have uh Casey Russell our chief financial officer is going to provide um her first first report go at it alone. Again the financial integrity rating system of Texas is how we get graded on our finances. And I think Miss Russell has some good news for
002the board to present. Miss Russell, >> I do. Hello, President Atkins board. Dr. Crawford, I am excited to present this report you've all been waiting for, the school first report. Um, I am happy to tell you that we scored a 100 out of a total 100 points this year. Um, this is related to 2324 data. So, September of 2023 through August 31st of 20. We're going to go through each indicator um and talk about what their requirement is and what we scored on them. The first indic indicator is about the financial report. This is the one that's going to come to the board in Janu. Um did we submit it on time? Yes, we did. In that report, did we get an unmodified opinion, which means it was a clean audit? They didn't find anything
003wrong. Yes, we did. Were we in compliance with all the payment terms of bonds? So, we make payments twice a year in fe September and yes, we made payments on time. Did we make timely payments to TRS, TWWC, the IRS? Yes, we made timely payments all throughout the year. Was our total net position greater than zero? So, this is a little bit harder to quantify what this means, but it's essentially like all of our fund balances for each different fund combined together with a few adjustments. And was that greater than zero? Were we in a good position? Yes, we were. Was the average change in fund balance less than a 25% decrease? Or did we have unassigned fund balance in excess of 75 days of expenditures? And yes, we did. This one wants to know
004about cash on hands and is it um sufficient to cover expenditures. In order to get 10 full points for this indicator, you have to have uh greater than 90% and we were at just under 150% here. All the previous indicators were yes, no, and now we're flipping into some points where you have a sliding scale on whether you pass it perfectly or you can lose some points if you're just under the indic, you know, where you're supposed to be. was current assets to current liabilities uh sufficient to cover debt. Uh we want to be greater than three here and so we are greater than three. So we get the full amount of points. Did revenues exceed expenditures? And if not, did we have cash greater than 60 days? And yes, we got the full 10
005points here. Did we have less than a 10% variance on budgeted revenues? This actually wasn't scored for this year. Um but it would have been a yes. Uh this one looks at long-term liabilities um for long-term solveny. So if you see to get 10 full points, you have to be less than 60%. This year we're just under 60%. Last year that 4% cost is two points and we scored a 98. This number will continue to go down as we make bond payments. So we will expect this percentage to be lower next year. Then it asks about the correlation between debt requirements and assessed property values. Again, as we see our debt payments go down or debt requirements go down and our values go up, that will continue to go down. So, we just need to
006be under four to get the full 10 points. This is Dr. Crawford's favorite indicator. We've got the administrative cost ratio. Um, in order to get the full points, we have to have less than 8.55% of admin cost to total budget. Sitting at 5.74 this year, which or for 2324, which is a decrease. So, we did get the full points there. The standard is adjusted for size. So, if you're a smaller school, your standard is going to be a little bit higher. So, ours, we're at the highest standards of school. So, we have the the lowest number there. Did we not have a 15% decline in student staff ratio? We did not. So yes, we passed this. Um, this one talks about pupil projections with ADA. Uh, we have to be less than 7% to get
007the full points and we were less than 1%. Uh, in previous years it wasn't scored because of uncertainty with COVID attendance. So that report that we submit in January, it tests does that report match what we submit with PS uh with a variance of about 3% and yes it does. We got the full points there. That report um did we have any instances of material weakness in internal controls? This would be a risk to our district to not be able to properly account for public funds and we did not have any material weakness. Again, the external auditor uh tells us if we had any instances of material non-compliance. We did not have any of those for the past two years. We're also required to post things on the website. We are compliant with all of
008those laws. So, we've got the full points there. Did we discuss changes to funding at a board meeting within 120 days before the district adopted its budget? Yes, we did. >> Quite a bit. >> H >> I said quite a bit. >> Did we receive an adjusted repayment schedule? No, we did not. Um and this is a new indicator. So, we did pass this for 2324. So in conclusion, this year we met all 11 indicators with 100 out of a possible 100 points and yes to all of the other required indicators. Uh so we received their superior achievement. Just a few other things, we have the superintendent's contract posted on the website. We also are required to show expense reimbursements to the board and to the superintendent and it's on this chart. Uh this is
009remember September 1st of 23 through August 31st of 24. So new board members will not be on this list. We did not pay or the superintendent did not receive any other compensation from an outside entity. >> It's illegal now. >> Uh no one received gifts over $250. I do have a a piece of paper that comes to you either guys to sign and the board also had no business [clears throat] transactions with the district. We're also required to show you the first quarter after this report. So this would be September through November 4. It's just to show I guess that you know this quarter the quarter after what they're rating is to what we expected it to be. Is it in line with all previous quarters? And it is. The final uh financial solveny questions.
010Did we have any short-term financing notes? No. Did we have a general fund balance of less than 2% of expenditures? No. Did we declare financial exigency? No. Um how many superintendents have we had in the last five years? One. And then now how many business managers? This has moved from one to two. Finally, it asks you to make comments on studentto staff ratios, uh, rapid depletion of fund balance, and discrepancies in budget. And we already talked, we scored a perfect 100 on all of those. So, uh, the district is solvent and expects to remain so for the long term. With that, does anyone have any questions? >> Any questions, comments? >> I'll have I'll have a comment or two while y'all are thinking about what you might want to say or ask. So superintendent contract
011is on this website board. I've found that through re research that is not always a 100% compliance thing. Casey, how what happens if you don't put it on? It's just a yes no question. They could come back and just check. >> They could check. Yes. >> If it's on there or not. And it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot of that going on. >> I think >> because everybody would be fully compliant with that. It' be pretty easy to find that online. Correct. >> Okay. >> They maybe have some other things they're checking on, I guess. >> Okay. Um, indicator number 15. Can you go back to FI? >> So, that's the ADA projection. Is this where some districts get in trouble by being a little bit too loose on their projection, a little
012bit too high? >> Will you explain to the board kind of how we go about that? Do are we pretty tight about that? Are we pretty loose about that? Where do you usually land on that? We try to be realistic but air on the side of conservative because there's nothing worse than, you know, projecting too much ADA because that's going to drive your funding and then you've got personnel that's not going to be funded and then we wouldn't pass all of those tests of having enough of revenue to cover your expenditures. Um, so right now we do see a trend of increasing ADA and we're watching that trend. We're not, you know, betting on it to be a consistent trend until we see all the mechanisms in place for it to be considered a steady
013trend. So if you're if you're south of 17,000 on our ADA is I think you've you've in the last week or so we've shared that with other school districts as part of the Texas School Alliance and we know that our we've turned in upwards of 187 189 on enrollment on snapshot day [snorts] and then we start thinking about what our average daily attendance is along with that is somewhere in the low 90s. is is probably where we're landing right now. It was starting to creep up a little bit before CO. >> Then CO hit and then it started kind of creeping back up again. We're a little bit down at this point last year. But in saying that, if your if your ADA is around 189 or or 187 in enrollment, excuse me, and then
014you have a a 90% attendance rate, that gets you that gets you even higher than that 16750 >> is what I calculated last week. So, still we're within range on any type of enrollment or attendance dips that we may have. >> Yes. That's why we kind of lag behind the trend data so that if there is a dip, we can, you know, catch up with it. >> Good. Okay, good. Third question. Um, on indicator number 13, that's my favorite one that we always talk about. So, we're actually less than what we were in 2223, correct? >> Yes. >> So, 23 24, we don't really know what to what 2425 will look like until we wrap up the audit. Correct. >> Yes. And also they we read that they're changing this um this ratio. They're kind
015of changing the denominator. So it could you know apples to oranges in the following years. >> Okay. >> So we'll see. >> And you do think that denominator may be that the size of district or >> uh the our denominator for expenditures will get higher. So our percentage could go even lower because our admin cost will stay the same but the denominator will get bigger. >> I got you. So if we're lower than this, then obviously that shows that our expenditures go back towards closer to the towards the campus, >> not towards the superintendent office functions or whatever technical terms that y'all y'all use in finance. Who's included in that? >> Thank you. >> Um, >> accounting, payroll, uh, school admin in the sense of Dr. Gropel, Mr. Jones. Uh, HR, communications, superintendent. Um, let's
016see. >> Athletics is not >> athletics not bilingual is >> bilingual. Bilingual is in my shot in that in that. >> Mhm. >> Okay. >> Yes. Huh. >> We looked into it today to see all the people who are included. Anyone with a function 41 or 21 is included. So, it would just exclude curriculum, extracurricular, >> campus level, campus level, administration. Yeah. teaching, >> but everyone else it would be in. >> Okay. Yeah. Because I know there there's folks that wonder that from time to time. We don't hear a whole lot about that in Tyler because we do try to operate as lean as we possibly can. Every now and then somebody likes to get online and say X, Y, and Z need to be cut because of this. But we we we've done that
017over the last year >> so that [clears throat] we could potentially look at funding some transformational initiatives that we have maybe coming towards us this this uh this not this year but this coming year. Correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. Did I speak code enough for y'all on that? [clears throat] >> That little project that we did that where we kind of cut back a little bit on some stuff so we can maybe fund some other initiatives without penalizing some other campuses etc. So, we'll continue to try to do that and this that number may even continue to go down even further in a couple of years when it's lagging behind. Okay, >> Mr. Las, >> thank you, Madam President. Just couple quick questions. Um, is there a way for us to get a report on
018the function stuff like uh coded 41 or 21 whatever it was? Is there a way for us to get an actual report with the code that tells us function 41 spent 1 million bucks or 10 million bucks? Is there a way for us to get that >> to see what all is actually allocated to the administrative cost? And um the other thing too was on the um deal that the soup was talking about us being pretty conservative on projecting our uh I guess it's a daily average the ADA. Um do you report that like daily, yearly, monthly? How does that get reported in? And then I guess they verify they match it up on our actually PES report to see. So if we reported for example 90 90 90% attendance rate and it came back
019that we were at 95 attendance rate they're going to give us more. >> It's actually so the that test was a bianial report so we submit what we think our ADA is going to be for two years and so they're kind of tracking to see did we tell the state something accurate. So that's what that report is. But as far as the ADA goes, we submit our NRPs reporting what our average daily attendance is. And I think with our new EDFI, I think it is reported daily. >> It's like real time. >> Yeah. Okay. >> It used to be like twice a year and now it is real time. >> I thought it was like twice a year or something like that. But now it's real time daily. >> Yes. That is that was a
020new they they piloted it last year and they've transitioned I believe everybody onto it this year. Uh that was part of the state trying to be more efficient with their budgeting for K12 public ed. >> But they don't update our summary of finance until we do our PE submissions. When we do the the fall submission, we'll do a resubmission. Then they'll update our summary of finance with those accurate ADA numbers and we'll see what our funding is. >> Besides a report by function, which would be interesting to look at so we could see how all of that's allocated. used to get back in my first go around on this, we used to get a list of the top 50 compensated regardless of school or admin or whatever. Do you guys still do that at all?
021>> We don't haven't been asked for it. >> I'd like to have that. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else? >> Mr. Nome. Well, you know, I I think that considering the transition we made uh recently with our new administrator, uh I think that everything seemed to be consistent in regards to what we're doing. Uh seemed like we never missed a beat in regards to it and that's that's great. uh we wanted to make sure uh that there was a smooth transition with the finance especially and I think we we done a good job from the way it looks. >> Thank you. [laughter] >> Thank you. We appreciate you. Do we have any public comments about the finances? Speak now your piece. Okay. the coord we did the where am I is that the
022staff report you >> that's me back okay >> so the quarterly investment report um not a whole lot to report here uh the interest rate is down about.5% from this time last year which is what we expected we budgeted 3.5 million in the prior year and we budgeted three million this year so we're right on track with what we expected uh Any questions about the quarterly investment report? >> Questions? Okay. Financial executive summary. >> Financial executive summary. This one we're looking very similar to last year. Uh so there's really nothing to report. We're right on track with where we need to be. >> Comments, concerns now. Thank you. We [laughter] >> will now go into executive session. and give me a loud. Okay. The meeting of the Tyler SD board of trustees was previously called
023to order. The presence of a quorum have been established and the meeting has been duly called and the notice of the meeting has been posted. We don't have any business com coming out of executive session. So at this time as we usually do, we'll begin with a prayer and a pledge. Mr. Nuome. May we bow. [clears throat] Our most gracious heavenly father, once again we want to thank you for being the God that you are. God, we thank you for watching over Tala ISD and blessing us to go this far in our district this year and the success that we've had thus far. Lord, we continually pray that you [clears throat] watch over our teachers and our students on a daily basis as they're in the classrooms trying to provide a foundation for education that
024will take them to higher heights in days to come. God, we thank you for our administrators and staff that support our teachers and students on a daily basis. Pray that they can continue to be supportive and provide them with the things they stand in need of so that they can provide the foundation in the classroom for our students to continually grow. God, we are thankful for how good you watched over our district and allowed us to be successful. We pray for our board that we will always make decisions that will provide policies that will provide the foundation for our [snorts] teachers and students to continually be successful in producing outcomes that we're all pleased with. Pray that you will continually be mindful of the our needs within the district as well and that we can
025continue to work together as a board to try to accomplish all those things that's been put before us. Christ's name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee Texas. One state under God one and indivisible. >> [clears throat] >> Thank you, Mr. Nuome. At this time, the time that we all been waiting for, special recognition. Good evening, board and Dr. Crawford. We are going to begin the special recognition part of our meeting by announcing our December district students of the month. The elementary student of the month is Torian Howland, a second grade student at Jones Elementary School. And
026the [clears throat] secondary student of the month is Ameliano Rosales, an eighth grade student at Bolter Middle School. At this time, please join us in watching a video about these two outstanding students. The heart of our hometown beats [music] strong in Tyler ISD, where students are reaching goals, breaking barriers, and shaping the future. Their [music] journeys may look different, but together they are showing us that next is now. Let's celebrate their achievements as we continue leading the way in Texas education. [music] With holiday [music] cheer in the air, let's meet our elementary student of the month for December. I'm Tori Hall and I'm the district student for December. >> Toriian is a joyful and curious learner who brings energy and kindness to the classroom every day. He asks thoughtful questions, [music] tries new challenges, and
027helps classmates along the way. His love for learning, especially non-fiction reading, motivates everyone around him. All you need to do is just act well and listen to the teachers. >> A natural leader, Torian models the seven habits with excellence, [music] especially habit three, put first things first. Always completing important tasks before free time. With big dreams of owning his own pizza chain [music] one day, Torian's curiosity, work ethic, and positive attitude make him truly deserving of being the elementary student of the month. Torian keeps [music] me in check. Literally, he always makes sure that I am on track and teaching correctly. He will always call me out if I forget something, which I [music] love. Torian keeps me accountable. He helps other students. He keeps he keeps them in check, making sure that they do
028their homework, making sure they're staying on track, and making sure that they're doing the correct thing in class. >> [music and bell] >> Now, let's spotlight our district secondary student of the month. >> My name is Ameliano Rosales and I am the district secondary student of the month. >> Ameliano is a standout student, athlete, and leader in Viking Nation. He has earned a honor role every year since the sixth grade. He continues to push himself academically, taking [music] high school algebra as an eighth grader. He has been named student of the month each year and athlete of the month in both seventh and eighth grade [music] at his school. >> I see myself going to college, going to the University of Pennsylvania, and I see myself starting a business. is they have a really great
029business [music] program over there. And I think that um the business program can really help me [music] strengthen my career and strengthen what I want to do as far as [music] money and stock market and business and just making my own business. That would be a dream. [music] >> He leads with confidence and compassion, heading up Boltter's top ranked stock market team, serving as a peer leader in sources of strength and giving back through his family's community volunteer work. [music] With his academic drive, athletic talent, and empathy for others, the future is truly limitless for Ameliano. >> He is not only uh academically, he's a leader in his classes. He also is an act is [music] athletic. He gives back to the community. He's part of our sources of strength team. Um he gives tours
030to new students. He basically is probably one of the best that Boltra has that can display and also verbalize everything that we're working for. >> Let's honor these remarkable students as we celebrate the outstanding achievements happening across our district. Their success stories remind us of the strength, dedication, and spirit that define Tyler ISD. This recognition is proudly brought to you by Christa's Trinity Mother Francis Health System, partners in supporting the bright future of our students and community. [music] And now we'd like to invite the board to come forward to hand out these awards. And at this time, we would like to welcome Tori to come on down and get his award. [applause] Come on. >> Great job. Yes, >> and y'all are allowed to go up there and get a closer picture if you need
031to. Let's give him another round of applause. Congratulations, Torian. [applause] And now we would like to welcome Ameliano to the front to receive the secondary student of the month award. [cheering] [applause] >> Congratulations, All right. All right. [laughter] Let's give him one more round of applause. >> [applause] >> This year, we expanded our artwork selection for the district Christmas cards and chose six pieces created by our students for a mixture of Christmas cheer that you can see on the screen above us. Let's welcome these students to the front and congratulate them for their creative work. The ornament by Camila Vasquez, 10th grader at Tyler High School. Come on down. [applause] And from Tyler Legacy High School, we have Home by Samantha Hernandez, who is a senior. Come on down, Samantha. >> [applause] [clears throat] >>
032Yeah. >> [applause] >> Next we have A Savior is Born by Camille Lash, a 10th grader at Tyler Legacy High School. [applause] >> [clears throat and laughter] >> The next one is We Don't Need Roads by Alexander Kaismore, who a 10th grade student at Tyler Legacy High School. And he's also getting ready to go to a concert. So, he's all dressed up and ready to go. >> [clears throat] [applause] >> For Santa's card, we have Hazel Asencio, who is a 12th grade student at Tyler Legacy High School. Come on down, Hazel. [applause] >> [applause] >> And from Three Lakes Middle School for Peppermint Pink, we have Adeline Mchuan, who is an eighth grade student, and I don't believe that she was joining us. Okay. And then we also have chosen artwork that you can see
033on the frames on the wall over here to your right. And we would like to recognize the following students. And if in the audience, please stand from Tyler Legacy High School for their creativity in articulating a futuristic theme for the district card. Micah Harris, nativity ornament. Hannah Damp, glimpse of the future. Vivana Yamos, the interstellar secret Santa. Lahy Cullum, O Christmas Tree. Piper Dunnw, A Spacemous Story, and Crystal Leon, The Old has passed away, behold the new has come. And we have more Christmas cheer. This year, we are proud to spread our students creativity as far as the Texas Capital. and the following students helped create an ornament that is currently on display at a Christmas tree that is in the House Chamber of the Texas Capitol during the holiday season and it is beautiful.
034We would like to recognize the following Tyler Legacy High School students. Cameron Lumley, 11th grader. Come on down. [applause] Yeah. Yeah. It's like 3D on the inside. >> [applause] >> Next, we would like to honor Ada Stadinka, a ninth grader from Tyler Legacy High School. [applause] And I still don't know how y'all got that Christmas tree in there because that is a 3D Christmas tree that is inside that ornament is really cool. Also helping to prepare the ornament is Knox Teeller, a senior at Tyler Legacy High School. Come on, Knox. [applause] [clears throat] And rounding out the group, Sloan Teeller in ninth grade also helped with the ornaments. Now, we would like to recognize our elementary district teacher of the month, Maggie Thompson from Remy Elementary School. And here are a few comments from her
035principal. Mrs. Thompson is a phenomenal reading teacher who pours her heart into creating opportunities for her students to succeed. She is intentional with her planning, consistent with her routines, and always is looking for innovative ways to make literacy meaningful. Her classroom is a place where kids feel seen, challenged, and supported because she makes sure of it every single day. One of the most special things about her room is the dining room table she uses for small groups. When asked why she chooses it, why she chose it, she shared, "Some of my family's best memories were made around the kitchen table, and I wanted to bring that into my classroom for my students as well." That statement captures exactly who she is as an educator. She leads with heart, purpose, and connection and creates a learning
036environment where students feel at home while growing academically. Let's welcome Miss Thompson on down. Congratulations. [applause] >> Congratulations. >> [applause] >> And rounding out our recognitions for this evening is our secondary district teacher of the month and that is Christina Kohl's from Three Lakes Middle School. And here are a few comments from her principal. Coach Cole's work ethic is defined by early mornings, late nights, and an unwavering commitment to her students and players. Whether it's lesson planning, staying after school to offer extra help, or running practices, she does whatever it takes to help others grow. She shows a prepared, consistent, and passionate, modeling the discipline and integrity she expects from others. Coach Kohl's pushes her students and athletes to go beyond what they think that they are capable of. She is tough when she needs
037to be, but always fair, and she knows when to switch gears to be a mentor, a motivator, or simply a steady presence. What truly sets her apart is how well she sees each student and player as an individual and not just a grade or a stat. Coach Cole's impact doesn't end with a final whistle or the last bell of the day. For many, she is the reason someone kept going, the reason someone believed in themselves, and the reason someone dared to dream bigger. Come on down, Coach Kohl's. [applause] >> Congratulations. >> [applause] >> And that rounds out our special recognitions for this evening. We could I might take a picture inside though. Yeah, they're at the [laughter] >> security. Tell everybody to make their way to the hallway. >> As you're making your way to
038the hallway, we still have a meeting. As you're making your way to the hallway, it's plenty of photo ops out there. Going to scoot him out. Oh, here comes I move that this meeting be adjourned. [laughter] >> Really? It's going to be real quick though. >> It should be cold. And they still >> merry Christmas. >> Yeah. Merry Christmas. Okay. As we continue on, we have um business legal finance consent agenda. Does anybody want to pull any of the items from A through G? >> I had a question about G. >> Okay. What is your question? >> Oh, want me to ask it now? >> Uhhuh. >> Uh, okay. Looking looking at the proposal for the purchase of the Chromebooks, I didn't really have a problem, but I thought normally we would have bids and
039we did not get any uh Did we get any additional bids on this? Normally we get a list of people that bid for it and we see that from the select and then we know which one we selected. Uh there weren't any additional information this time. >> Mr. Jax, since you're man in the hub tonight, can you explain that since this is coming from your shop? We did get for HP laptops, Lenovo laptops, and Dell laptop or Chromebooks and we selected the Lenovos because they were the lower price. >> Yeah, and I appreciate that. But normally we have that as part of the documentation and that's why I I pulled it basically to >> M's not on. It could be because um in the year of ESSER, we did utilize those funds for Chromebooks and
040there is the requirement to put that documentation in. We did like an RFP for it. >> With uh general funds, that requirement isn't there. We still went above and beyond to do that evaluation to make sure we were getting the right price, but it wasn't an actual RFP. >> So, that's why it wasn't in the packet. >> Okay. That I appreciate that because I was a little confused in in regards to that. >> A little background on that. This is a little bit extraordinary to actually start the that purchase process at this time. However, we have been notified with that through that vendor and those products that there is going to be a 15% increase in pricing if we were to wait until after January 1. Is that correct, Mr. >> That's correct. February. >>
041And how are we going to store those once once they do arrive? [clears throat] >> The vendor we're going to pay for them. The vendor is going to hold them in their warehouse until for delivery in April when our normal timeline, but the warranties will be held off and won't start until we receive or take. >> Okay. One other question in regards to I know it's a maintenance contract with almost a half a mill. Uh how do we do on combooks? Are we are we managing them pretty well? Do we have a lot of damage or a lot of maintenance or a lot of losses or you know how how we doing? Do you know? If not, you can tell us later. >> Yeah. I mean, I Joseph can answer that question here. >> A
042lot of loss. No, we don't. The maintenance you're talking about, I'm assuming is the four-year warranty, right? >> So, they come with a one-year just manufacturer warranty. We purchased a fouryear what's called accidental replacement warranty, which basically think of a bumper to bumper warranty. Kid drops it, breaks the screen, tears the keyboard up, spills water on it, it's all covered under that for four years >> and that's what that warranty is. Otherwise, they just come with a one-year just parts parts warranty. So, we purchased the accidental replacement warranty with each one of them. We keep them for four years and then we replace them at the end of four years with a new another one with a warranty on it. >> Okay. Are we having very many incidents like like you described in >> Okay,
043that's that's what I was I mean I don't have the number in front of me, but I could be happy to provide you. >> Okay. We do we send a lot of them back >> and the company comes around, picks them up, repairs and brings them back to us. Well, I I felt like you probably did and that justifies the warranty, I think. So, I was I was just a little concerned about that. >> Yeah, the sophistication of the reconditioning of those Chromebooks certainly something that's pretty impressive when we decided to do this what, five, six years ago. >> That was something that we were always concerned about. And uh again, Mr. Jax, how many how many are we replacing just about every cycle? So we have a fleet of about 2400 24,000 product devices.
044We we keep them for four years. We replace 5,000 of them every year. Keep the cost low. We go into a certain school. They get those devices. They keep them for four years. At the end of four years, we pull those out of circulation, replace those with new ones that we replace every four years. Five 5,000 quantity. We take those ones that we pull out. and put those on the shelf to use as spares for summer school, special products, things like that for the year that they're out of warranty. Then to that fifth year, then we sell them to a reseller. >> So 20% >> Okay. >> per year or reconditioned >> or so, except for the ones that are severely damaged, etc. >> Yeah. >> Okay, that makes sense. >> Everything you want to
045know about Chromebooks and more. >> Okay. Could I get a motion? >> I move we approve items A through G. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> Anybody opposed? The motion has been carried. >> Curriculum instruction consent agenda. Do we need to talk about the calendar everything or >> I I would like to make just a brief comment about the calendar. I won't go through every day start date etc. Um there was one adjustment that we did make on page for your reference on page 133 of your packet. If you look into October >> 134 >> I was looking at the table of contents it is on 134 maybe I'm >> I got >> okay 134 everybody has found that if you look into October there is the the um October 12th
046date that's Monday that is Columbus or Indigenous people's days whatever you want to call it um that was going to be an actual staff development day. One thing we did learn from our survey was that parents and staff asked about the potential of us having that day off because that is a day that some daycares if you have younger children um actually are off that day as well. So it is a bank holiday. It makes a little bit more sense for us to be able to do that. The one thing the superintendent does not like is a three-day week. So the superintendent decided to go ahead and provide a three-day instructional week there. uh much to his chagrin to be able to do that. It was just going to be two four day weeks. So,
047uh we also did hear some from uh band and football and cheer about if you take that Friday off, then we don't really get the day off. But being a former athlete, those are the best days when you actually get to play a g a game the day that you actually don't go to school. You kind of feel like a collegiate athlete that day. But I guess most of our band and cheer and football parents don't feel that way. So, we uh actually will go to school that Friday as opposed to having that day off. I think we've had that as homecoming week some week before. And see, Jennifer's over there. She going, "Oh my gosh, it's so difficult on our girls because we don't think about things like that." So, anyways, we gave up
048a little bit. That's the only adjustment that we did make from the calendar that was presented to you back uh a month ago. >> Okay. >> Great comments. We appreciate those comments. We cannot accommodate a lot of those. There were some comments about 4day work weeks. We've had that discussion prior. That's not going to fit in the the district the size that we have. We we believe in kids going to school every day of a week. Um that's about the only other comment that I really did see. There was some ask about a real fall break. Um a whole an entire week off in the fall. But then I also somebody said that's also called Thanksgiving break. Um but at the same time trying to meet every requirement that we have to make it sound
049instructionally as our priority beginning with the end in mind and then saying that that Memorial Day is a something that that folks like and trying to not have as short of a summer as we already have. Um that was something that we we we try to value and protect. >> Okay. Any other comments? Can I get a motion? >> We do agenda. Mhm. ABC >> second. >> All in favor? Did you get that? [laughter] >> All in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? The motion carries. And now for future business. >> Y'all don't get too excited. January 22nd, 2026 will be our regular meeting. Could I get a motion to adjourn? >> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I oppose. The meeting has been adjourned. >> Merry Christmas everyone. >> Have a
050safe Christmas.