001Good morning. The meeting of the Tal Board of Trustees. It's called 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 the time and manner required. Good morning everyone. >> Good morning. Good morning. >> We don't have any public participation. >> Trina, do we have public participation? Thank you. Check. So, we will now have a safety and security update. >> We always look forward to this. >> Agent David Goodson is going to provide this today. Agent Milsagel had a a planned family uh thing he needed to take care of out of state and we appreciate uh one of our deputy directors and agent providing today's safety and security update. This is on your board monitoring calendar. I know some
002of y'all don't have that updated one yet. We'll be getting that to y'all here uh soon for this upcoming school year. >> Agent Goodson. Yes, sir. Good morning. >> Good morning. >> Uh, unfortunately for a couple of you, this is going to be a bit of a repeat from what you got Tuesday, but uh, there will be a couple extra things in there. Um, they're basically broken up into the things we've done for TEA, safety and security, and then also for the Texas School Safety Center. Um, first one is, uh, the behavioral threat assessments required by TEA through the safe and supportive schools program. uh Director Milsle and Lori Anderson met with all the principles uh and completed four 46 of these behavioral threat assessments and that puts us at 100% complete on those with
003no issues. Uh these were then uploaded into Sentinel uh which if you don't know is now the state's repository for all safety and security documentation. Um while we're on behavioral threat assessments effective August the 1st, all of those have to be completed in Sentinel and uploaded monthly before uh they were able to be done all at the end of the year by each individual campus and that is no longer the case. They are done monthly in and uploaded into Sentinel. Third thing is the intruder audits for 2425. Uh once again no F findings. Uh that's three years in a row thanks to the vigilance of uh all the folks on our campuses and these will be starting again in September. Uh we are waiting to find out who the guy's going to be. The the
004guy who has been doing them for uh region 7 has retired again and so we're waiting to see who the new guy is and we'll uh be meeting up with him in September. Uh on to the school safety center. Uh both the EOP and the active threat for school annex have been act uh updated uh per the Texas school safety center requirements. Uh this is what Dr. Crawford signed on Tuesday. Uh and they will be submitted when the portal opens in September. Uh the latest on the texttop pedestrian crossing, we're going to find out in October if we were awarded approval and funding for that project. Uh we provided everything that was asked of us and made the best case we can. for why we need it. So, we'll find out in October if that's
005going to be a good thing or a bad thing. Uh third thing, this is not actually up there, but the district vulnerability assessment, the DVA for our district, uh is scheduled for March 26th. That week, a few days into that week of 2026. As of today, we are 100% compliance with everything that they have asked for. uh by let's see we have completed all of our uh checks of every door in the district updated all the campus maps with all the things that they have required that we do again uh and by Tuesday we'll have all of our campuses food service staff maintenance and custodians trained on the standard response protocols. So that is your safety and security update. If you have any questions I will see if I can answer them. >> Thank you.
006Any questions, comments? I got a couple just quickly on the the BTAS. You had 46 of them. You said >> 46. >> What are Can you give me a little detail of who >> a behavioral threat assessment is done? Basically, if a good example is if you have a child brings a weapon or if you have a um >> a child who has made certain threats. Uh it depends on the level. There is there's a little bit of wiggle room in there as to whether you have to do one or not. I always tell the administrators on my campuses, if you think that you might need to do one, you probably just need to go ahead and do one. It's not that big of a deal. It's about three pages. It can get lengthier, but
007it's better to go ahead and do one and have it than to uh not do one. >> So, we had 46 of them for last year, correct? >> And and all all 46 of them have been done and cleared. >> Correct. And then uh on your um >> give me a second >> on your audit findings. There were there were no findings on the audit at all. >> Who does the audit? Is it an internal audit or is somebody from >> No, it's they that's what they call it. It's just a door audit. TEA door audit. Okay. >> Basically, it's just the the fellow comes from region 7. Um, and he'll usually do three campuses at a time. We walk around with them. Basically, he checks every exterior door. Um, and as long as we
008don't have anything that's dog down, standing open, not working, then there is no finding. And we haven't had any at all. Fact that we've done, that's about make 75 that he's done, and we haven't had any findings on any of them. the 6,000 campuses statewide are checked annually. >> Okay. >> Every door in the state of Texas, every school is checked annually. And that's that's part of this. >> Okay. Just two more questions and then on the I've noticed that uh central admin has cards. You can get into any school, I guess, Dr. Crawford, with your card and your higher level people with the badge. >> Um does one card work? Like if you have a a badge for let's say you're the principal at X school, does it work at another school or do
009you have that unless clearance? Not unless you are u not unless it's coded for that. You can if you have a a need to be at that campus like you have some that are like that principal is a mentor for other principles or administrators at another campus. Yes, we can do that. But not as a rule everybody's badge does not work on every campus. No. And then the last one, can you tell me on the pedestrian crossing um because I haven't had one of these uh updates, where is it and how much is the text dot portion of it? Do you know? >> Okay. It's going to be over in front of Tyler High is where it's where the project is supposed to be. It's where it's supposed to be done. Um and as far
010as I know, it'll be completely funded by text dot. >> Okay. >> There is no part for us. It is completely we you either get the approval and the funding or you don't get at any >> so the the deal it's totally funded by them. There's no matching fun. >> The act the actual funding amount I don't have it on me. I think it's three quarters of a million. >> It's something like that. >> It was the lowest project submitted in the Tyler area if consideration of something of >> billion two billion. >> Two billion statewide. The amount of the total number of projects is $2 billion that people have asked for and there's only there's not near that much that's going to go out but ours is the lowest >> in Tyler. Um it's
011it's the crossing at Tyler High. It's a pedestrian bridge. I think it's about $4 million at UT Tyler. >> It's kind of a welcome to UT Tyler thing. I don't know exactly where that's supposed to be. if it's on old man or if it's on university. >> I think it's on university. >> On university. >> And the other one is the trail from the medical district to downtown. >> The one they're doing if it's approved for us. Is it going to be an overpass or straight across or what's the >> No, sir. It's it's it's a I believe it's going to be some type of a light. It's similar to if you go to UT Tyler where the apartments are across the the old Omen Road >> to where it's an actual red stoplight for
012pedestrians to walk across. >> Okay. >> And that's quite an ask because it is on a it's on the loop loop 323. It is considered a state I believe a state highway, >> right? >> Um there at the first time we submitted this, we were denied. We were declined, right? And I do believe there was some type of district commitment, but I think now it's it's uh going to be funded completely. >> I believe so. I can get you those numbers. I I don't I just >> Mills would have it on the top of his head today. >> Yeah, he would. >> That's all I got. Thank you. >> He does want to We do want to thank y'all for, you know, pulling in those letters of support and all that for that. So, appreciate
013that. Any other comments or >> just one just you got some >> again reiterate we batted a thousand this last year um on the uh intruder audits and other items that we that we share for and with the two masters that we have to serve and when it comes to safety and security which is I hope that they can get that fixed one day. You've got the safety and security side of TEA then you've got the Texas school safety center. Um, neither one of them are bureaucratically responsible to the other, but they al they both work in the in the governor's side of the org chart, which is just interesting that we have to play this little game and serve two masters. A lot of repetitive redundant data that we share with both of those
014in uh organizations. Is that right, Chief Wsworth? Yes, sir. >> Ain't that fun? >> Then there's T the TCL side of things that we also need to talk about. Um the DVA is this year for us. >> Yes sir. It'll be in March. >> The the theory behind this is is that the district vulnerability assessment that each school district will go through this >> every three or five years? >> I believe it's every three years. >> Yeah. So, if you want to talk about the 1,00 the 1,200 plus public school systems and charter schools that are also in in included in that, you hit about a third of those every year or a quarter. Well, no, a third. Yes. >> Um, every year. So, next year will be our year. We've had some region districts
015already go through it and we've gotten some intel on that about what they're going to ask for. Um, Mills, if he was here, would tell you, and I'm sure Goodson's going to tell you, Agent Goodson will tell you this, and maybe even Chief Wallworth, they will find something. >> So, we're just gonna go and put we're not gonna bat a thousand on that. So, and that's okay. That's what you're supposed to to find is if is there any and it could range from anything with >> y'all need to get your doors fixed to maybe there's some paperwork you need to put in place, some procedures, some policies, some trainings, things like that. So that's what we have found in speaking with other region 7 school systems and I believe Dallas might have went through it
016this last year. I'm not sure. >> I'm sure at least one district up there did. >> Okay. So just kind of want to give you a heads up about that. Once y'all, I'm sorry. >> Once y'all have that uh district vulnerability uh deal, do well, you guys will come back obviously and report the findings of that to us. But do they give you anything ahead of time that tells you these are the areas we're going to be looking at or is it just a blind audit? >> Well, like Dr. Carper said, we're we've been in contact with a lot of districts. I don't know that they will. >> They do have a pre they're going to meet with me. >> Yeah, >> Chief WSworth, some others prior to to kind of tell us what that's
017going to look like. >> Okay. >> I will say this, this is set up a lot like a an FBI um audit or inspection that we used to go through. Um it's because a lot of the people that are there are have that background. And so, yes, they will come in and they will give you, hey, these are the these are the main areas that we're looking at. Um, I can tell you that we are >> light years ahead of most places, >> most districts. >> Um, with just about everything that we're doing, >> uh, we're ahead of the game on the, uh, the door audits. um our you know our policies and procedures you know every time they change which is almost weekly Mills keeps right on top of it and it gets changed.
018So uh like I said in here they we've we've done 100% of the things that they've asked for. Uh so unless they spring something else on us which they probably will and we'll fix that you know but uh >> yeah and and we've probably given today as much as we've ever given in a public meeting in regard to safety and security. So when the DVA gets released, we'll have to callull through that and what can be covered in executive session for safety and security because if there are vulnerabilities, you don't sit here and you present this out there and say that >> these are the vulnerabilities because if you're a bad guy, now it's public, right? So we will appropriately put it out there what we're supposed to put out there at the dis here
019and then you'll also per your elected official status what can be covered in there as well along with appropriate administration >> right >> of what's going to be vulnerability. So >> we'll look at a lot of that in exe not expose where we are vulnerable. >> That's right. >> Let me say I I'm very impressed with our safety and security department. you know, it's only what maybe four years old uh being implemented or something like that because I know it's after I got on the board. >> Actually, we're six now. >> Six. >> Is there before all this came about, we were ahead of that. >> Yeah. And you know, I'm I'm one that kind of scrutinized stuff as well. So, I I've been very impressed. I've been very impressed. I think that the people
020that we hired initially have established a very found sound sound foundation for our safety and security and we keep that standard. And I don't think we have anything to worry about. We are ahead of the game in most cases. >> Thank you so much. We appreciate all that you do. >> Job, Agent Goodson. Yes, sir. >> Good first time right there. >> Next we have public hearing on state compensatory education program review for 2425 presentation of report by staff. Um every year every year um this is part of the actual process when you when you uh receive state compensatory education funds you are to have a presentation along with a public hearing and consideration by the board. So Dr. Gropel, we're going to let you present this and uh if if Miss Russell as the
021CFO needs to provide any commentary, she can chime in. Dr. Gropel. >> All right. Uh good morning uh President Atkins board, Dr. Crawford. As Dr. Crawford stated, this is our uh annual state state comped uh program evaluation uh and public hearing. Uh just a a brief definition of what state compensatory uh ed is. Uh it's additional funding uh designed to reduce the discrepancy from our high at risk economically disadvantaged students um and ensuring that they have supplemental programs to help them uh walk across the stage as graduates of Tyler ISD. So you're statutoily uh as as Casey talked about uh at the last board uh board meeting uh there's been a change in the statute uh as how we can spend these funds uh looking at last year which is the report we're talking about
022today. Um you had specific amounts of direct costes direct costs versus indirect costs and you can see some examples of direct costs on your screen there. um looking directly at staff expenses, salaries. Um those direct costs are going to be what directly impact instruction in the classroom. Um indirect costs are going to be looking at um uh costs that are not directly associated with classroom instruction of our atrisisk students. You can see uh the estimated total spend there of a little bit over 11.5 million uh over over the last over last school year. um this the this number is based off of our um lowES population. So that number dictates uh the amount of revenue that we receive from the state of Texas um with state comped. >> So the the goal of state comped
023is to ensure that we have uh minimize the number of students uh that drop out. Um and so we want to look at some longitudinal data here. Obviously, we don't have the 20 uh the class of 25 there, but you can see the class of 23 uh and the class of 24. Um very high percentage of students making it across the stage, finishing their graduation requirements and and uh moving on as graduates of Tyler ISD. Just a frame of reference uh uh in in comparison numbers, the state uh in 2023 reported a graduation rate just north of 90%. Um so if you look at um o o overall, you know, we're 8 and a half% points better uh from what the state average is. Um looking at risk EBS, those numbers are all significantly lower.
024I think EB's is in the in the mid 80s um for a state average on um graduation rates. So, uh feel pretty good about our our success rate and getting those kids across the stage. Um and know that the state comped funds uh def directly support that. Um think about uh our rise campus that's designed um to be a dropout prevention program. Um and the success of those graduates as we look at that that graduation every year. Um that's that's a direct uh uh correlation to the the data you see on the screen. Um and and ultimately where our state comped uh funds go to help support not the only place but that's I think a great example of that. Uh as you know as we move into this this upcoming school year looking at
025you know the uh September one fiscal um we will get our our annual ratings. Uh they'll be released to us August the 13th and publicly the 15th. Um, obviously our our uh smart data guy has has done all that analysis and made sure that we our campuses know where we believe they're going to be. Um, has done a lot of data analysis and is actually visiting with every campus in the district this week um to go over that data and where he projects our campuses to be. um so that they uh they have a good idea of what they need to be working on day in and day out and how they tailor their not only their tier one instruction but their classroom intervention to meet the needs of those individual students. So um as
026you look at that we're going to we're going to our campus improvement plans, district improvement plans um will align to those needs. Um, we look at our tiered support model of of campus tiered support model and and ensuring that we're uh putting the the most resources uh at the campuses that have the highest need. And we want to make that those campuses of the highest need have have all the resources uh they need to help our students be successful. Um so that is our plan for this year. Uh to utilize those funds in a similar manner of what we've we've been doing. um feel like we've got a good good program working with some tweaks and and minor adjustments along the way. Um and these these state compad funds help support that and I would
027be subject to any questions you have. >> Any questions, comments? >> I got couple questions on the TA accountability ratings. We're going to get two two years worth, right? Not just one year. So, we'll get last year's and the prior year because we've already got 2023 data. I guess >> that is correct. >> And that's going to come out in August. >> Yes. >> Well, we just totally ignore the I guess the year that's already passed and just focus on last year's stuff as far as the classification. >> We we presented that la this presentation last year regardless of ratings and that sort of thing. >> But we will get to you'll get both letter grades on each school. August the >> the 15th. >> 13th. >> I don't remember. >> We get it the
02813th, but it becomes publicly available on the >> 15th. >> And we were able to to work with TEA on those that were embargoed to use Dr. Crawford's words uh to confirm what we had calculated was what they had calculated on their end. But we've been working with the knowledge of where our campuses were. uh >> that's on the 24s and then on the 25s we with uh some of the tools and research or not resource excuse me resources that we have we're pretty tightly aligned with projections. >> Yeah. >> Uh and and have those available for us and we'll probably put a little something out tomorrow at convocation because the campuses already know. So tomorrow convocation I might be able to speak to some of that um because the accountability is here locally not
029in Austin, Texas even though it is warehoused in Austin, Texas. So them getting to release it as opposed to us releasing it when we want to release it. Think we can maybe do a little preview of that tomorrow >> on the um you remember you said some stuff on them rescoring a lot of stuff like what they were doing in Dallas and we did some of that to try to get a true uh reflection of what the grades were actually. Is all of that done? Do they have a cut off? Are you >> okay? >> They're done. Okay. And it's rescoring on writing >> writing. Yeah. the extended constructed >> grades it because they used to go into Craigslist and they couldn't find enough people to hire off of Craigslist, experts off of Craigslist to
030grade them. So, they switched it to AI and it's there's a human component to that that you can actually go in and because AI is not perfected yet and so they get they do have enough experts to be able to employ to review that $50 a test. >> Yep. >> Bucks a test. And so we do allocate budget to Dr. Kuridan. We do an internal review of the things that we think could potentially score a point or two because sometimes they'll go down there and AI will score it as a zero. >> You're more expert at this than I am. But then they may come back and a human may come back and score it as a >> uh we've seen it. We've seen a three-point discrepancy and in rare cases most of the time
031it's one to two points different from what AI would grade something versus what uh a human might grade some. But we have had some examples of uh a one to a four um out of a 10-point scale on on resubmitting uh grading for for >> campuses. Forget uh forgive me if I'm wrong about this, but 32% of the ones we submitted this year came back positive in a rescore. >> Yeah, we had 32% of the ones we submitted were rescored. That's that's about Now I've I've seen as much as 60 plus percent in a school district and some of the the the the superintendent groups that I'm a part of now that's them saying that but Dallas I think was in the in the in the low30s. It looks like districts that look like us
032doing this. You get about a 30% return rate on that. >> So when you get the return rate where it's positive it's 30% better than what we thought it was. Um, do you they do the new scores? That's what they're going to use the ones that we paid for them to recheck. >> Correct. >> And what happens if it goes the other way? Let's say we pay and we get a lower score. Do we get to still keep the score they gave us or do we got to go with >> keep the higher of the two? >> The AI. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So, it's a it's not a Bless you. It's not a loss deal for us. So, like we pay, we scored lower. Now, we got to take that lower. >>
033It's not high stakes. Um, >> it it's it's beneficial if it's beneficial. If not, they stick with the AI grade, but I think it's fair. >> If you think think about the other 68% that meant that the the human that graded it agreed with the way that AI graded it. >> Yeah. Um, one last thing I'll say to that, I I think in one instance, it did mean one is it was it one kid? >> Yep. one kid's score there actually meant how many points on a district on a school on a campus's rating >> two points uh for a campus's overall rating was based off of one student uh and and a rescore on their ECR uh made a two-point uh gain in the campus's overall score >> and it has to do with
034the demographic of that student correct >> correct >> yeah that that was >> Mr. Jones's boy. >> That was a good thing. >> Yeah. I mean, it's it's if you start to think about batting averages, it's like going up there and getting a base hit that >> Mhm. >> when you you're deep into your your season and you've had I don't know 600 at bats that you get an at bat at the back end there. There's no way statistically speaking that that should be that impactful to get one base hit to elevate your batting average by how many points? Two points. >> Two points. >> Yeah. It's pretty. It's >> Yeah. So >> that's a lot. >> Hey, it's that's the that's the game we're in. But >> I always look look at this from
035a batting average point of view. You shouldn't be at that point. We should have got the work done before that. We should got a bunch of base hits before that to make so it's not that impactful. So if you want to look at it from that way. >> Okay. >> I just had a question regarding the report. Uh all this funding is for high school, right? No, it's a K12 uh funding. It's just it's targeted to ensure kids graduate, but it is not just for uh high school students. So, we have funding through all all grades on on on that. They just have to be targeted as economically disadvantaged or at risk of graduation. >> Wow. Okay. >> How real time is the last I'm sorry. How real time just publicly speaking because you presented
036the 23s and the 24s. We just graduated the 25s and we got the summer school grads finished last week. >> How real time is that data going to be ready for us as far as graduation rates go? We wait on the agency again for an entire year. >> Yeah, typically that that the way that is reported from the agency, it takes a we we will get that as a part of our uh accountability for 2526. That's that's lumped into our gumbo on that >> Dr. Cho. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, we'll know it when we start working on it because we're not going to call that a trend yet because we had a little bit uptick and again when you start talking about the amount of batting at bats you have had a little
037bit of uptick in an increase in pretty much every one of those dropouts and graduation rates even though it's significantly higher than the region and the state. >> Right. >> Yes, sir. So, we should be able to get that data and work on that um as quickly as we possibly can on dropout recovery. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay, there you go. >> Just a question about compensatory money is from K through a K through 12, correct? And it's for at risk students that we know that are having difficulties or challenges. So, we know that African-American students are having difficulties and challenges in reading and math. So, are we putting any extra monies or any extra programs or any extra things into that um so that we are ensuring that they can get some of the
038help that they need? >> Yes, ma'am. So, we look at uh some of the uh curriculum offerings that we have at some of our highest need campuses. I talked about our tiered campuses. So, um areas where we see significant disproportionality in how our our students are performing compared to the district. Um we commit uh more of our instructional coaching staff to to work with teachers to improve the tier one instruction uh as well as look at afterchool programming and to tutorials um to help close some of those gaps for some of our our most struggling students. >> So do we have any data showing um some of the results or when they first got in when they left? I don't have it in front of me, but I can get I can I can get
039you some uh information about about that the closing of the gaps in those in those uh specific areas. >> Hit your uh back button on your slide >> that one. >> Nope. There you go. So, lift indicators. Remember, we identified those kids as lift kids. Lightning improvement for Tyler. So, the ones that you're speaking of predominantly are uh our risk loads in our district um are concentrated in a handful of campuses. We know where those are at. Um that's where they get that additional support. They're they're part of the tiered system that we have. >> And those tier one campus, I don't mind saying that out loud. Who is it? >> Uh we it changes it changes from year to year. So you have uh Jones, Dixie, uh Austin, Pete, and >> Valter, >> that's
040right. >> Yeah. So those are the five tier one campuses that we're focusing on for 2526. So com committing additional resources and supports at at those campuses based off of what the data >> you can get out of of the tiered. >> Yeah. Or would be or would be an example of one that was in tier one uh support last year that's moved to what we call tier 2. um a different level of support based off of their academic performance in the 2425 school. >> Same as Ramy. >> Yes, sir. Ramy is also an >> and Remy was is still our highest risk load concentration in the district. So you can get out of it. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Questions. Okay. I'm sorry. >> One more. When you do this presentation next time, is
041there any way to put like the total amount of kids that we have this money focused into? About 11 million bucks, right? So, five, 7% of our overall budget, I guess. Is there any way to have like a number how many kids the money's going into, you know, and then a demographic breakup of those kids? When you do the next one, not obviously, I don't want that answered now, but when you when you do the next one, if you could break it out that way for me, it helps because everything's else is disagregated that way for us. We can definitely give numbers for the the students that um affect the amount of funding that we get >> that generate that funding. >> Yes, we can give that number for sure. >> Right. >> Thank you.
042>> Okay. Thank you. >> At risk consists of like 27 different indicators of how a student qualified for it. So like the at risk like as like it's generic but it's all encompassing how the Right. But when you get your funding for is the the 11 million bucks that we get for this, they've got a number that says it's this many kiddos that's tied to this funding. Right. The the fact there's Right. Right. That's what I'm looking at is we got a thousand kids or 500 kids or four kids, whatever that number is. I like that portion of it, but then also disagregated in the way it's usually presented, you know, uh whether it's social, economic, black, Hispanic, white, that portion of it. >> That make does that make sense? >> I mean, rough. Yes,
043we can get that for you a little bit more detail, but if you're looking at a 60 to 65% and you're looking at 185, that's a nice number. Even though it was 18750 last year, you're looking at 12,000 kids generate that. >> Okay. Mhm. >> That money. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> That's >> so almost $100 a kid maybe. >> Yeah. That's >> But is it is it weighted ADA or is it actual enrollment? >> I'm not I don't want to >> Okay, we'll figure that out. I mean, that's I hate that stuff. But anyways, that's that's where you're looking at as far as 60% 65% which is I think is what we're identified at as at risk. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. We've had board comment. Any public comment if you want
044to comment? Thank you so much. We appreciate you. budget update for 2526. >> So, as part of the um uh calendar and the and the schedule that requires us per state law, we do have Casey Russell, our chief financial officer, here to provide some some tidying up of any budget information that we may have uh to stay on schedule with state requirement for that budget calendar. >> Hello. >> So, this is going to be the second update um at the end of August. we will uh provide this to you for adoption. So um if you go to page eight, I will use the right page numbers this time. This is going to be a summary of the budget and we're going to go over this quickly. I don't have a PowerPoint with all the increases
045and decreases like we did last time from last year. There was some slight changes. Our property values came back higher than we anticipated. And so what that did was it changed the formula a little bit. And the main thing on this page is the revenue is up $2.2 million. When your uh property taxes and state revenue, they have an inverse relationship, but it's not perfectly inverse. And so when property values went up and the state revenue went down, it it resulted in an additional $2.2 million. And where you're going to see that in the budget is mostly in increases in salaries for this year and next year. So that is um helps us with some conservative future estimates. We're going to uh just kind of go through 9 10 11 12 through 14. These numbers
046didn't really change. The department budgets might have slipp shifted slightly based on new estimates that we got, but nothing worth noting. We're going to go to page 15. This is where we'll see the revenue. If you look at line 5812, state revenue foundation school fund. Last time I presented, we calculated this to be 85.2 million and now it's showing 82.3. So that's that decrease. And where we're seeing the increase in revenue is at the bottom 5711 current year property tax levy. That went from 82.4 million to now 87.5. So it changed the percentage makeup of our funding to um have more come from less come from the state and more come from property taxes. So, one thing I wanted to note uh on the next page, page 16, um we had previously said that our
047tax rate was going to remain flat, 6669. That is actually going to be 65 cents. Now, based on these new values and the INS rate is now going to go from 2431 to 1950 for an overall tax rate of 8450. Last year it was 88 cent. So this is a decrease in 6 and a half cents. So a lot of people will say, "Oh, well the tax rate went down, but the values went up, so my taxes are still going up." But actually, the average amount that a taxpayer will pay is going down $360, I think. So it is an average decrease. The next page, page nine, or sorry, 17. This these are going to be the increases and decreases. There were some changes here based on what we talked about those increases in salaries
048and uh future projections but nothing nothing major and some estimates that came in and some um requirements from the legislature that we included in here. Um the final page uh page 18 this is going to be the debt service how we came up with the INS rate. Um the only thing that changed here is going to be that state hold harmless that comes from the formula that's based on values. And so nothing really to note there other than the INS rate did go down. So do you guys have any questions? >> Questions comments? >> I'm good. I've asked her enough. >> Anybody else? >> I I'll make a comment. Um this has been a difficult budget season because of how um compared to others whenever the state has provided some additional revenue. Um part of
049that is is because of compression that's now been going on for four sessions now I think where they where they actually cap school districts on what you actually can realize in values going up. I think we're capped at 2 and a half% or three and a half%. I >> I don't want to tell you wrong. >> Um that's a big debate that's going on right now for for other municipalities as well. So I know when people's tax bills that it is the largest. It is the school taxes that make that up as well. But you're starting to see some counties not here. You're starting to see some cities. I don't know. I haven't looked at their budget yet, but I think I've saw what the county is proposing. Um, but like Harris County I think
050went up something like 12 to 14%. I mean just something overnight just so they didn't really have an impetus to cap that and to compress that. So that's one thing the legislaturator is working on as far as your total tax effort per a community uh and what that looks like. And so I I think that when folks in in Smith County start talking about Tyler ISD, Smith County, city of Tyler or any ISD, you look at your total tax effort and you compare that to other places like a Waco or an Abene or Amarillo or just like we do with accountability to see what what's going on in those communities as well. At least that's how I look at it. I know that's how the county judge looks at it. Uh Judge Moran at the
051time, now Congressman Moran and I had robust conversations about total tax effort. Um but this has been a difficult season because of the nuances of how they funded us. You know, they did not provide a basic allotment increase and they did provide teacher raises, but lo and behold, left out of what normally qualifies for a chapter 21 teacher consideration like DIAGs and um >> counselors, nurses, >> counselors and nurses, they were not included in this. So there are some districts in the state that are not providing compensation increases either this year or next year or both uh for some of those that we just described. And so that was one thing that did come out uh through this process here recently that there were some classification of employees that were kind of I won't say
052left out, >> but we we were able to scrape through and figure out a way to to include the nurses >> in this compensation increase. Not saying we were trying to be mean about it. >> Same thing with police officers, >> right? >> Mhm. >> Um and and trying to set oursel up for a two-year plan and not just a one-year plan, an eitheror for next year. And I'm not promising anything for next year, >> right? >> But when you do these bienial types of budgets, that's what you got to plan for. So that's why it's kind of been a little bit more of a a ratification uh for what was already been presented to you as well. So, um I think we've got one more budget adoption to to to go through, right? The
053actual big budget >> August the 25th. >> Yeah. >> 5th >> and that that in that agenda item, it will be a ratification to make sure all those things I just described are in there. We will be set for that. After that, if there's anything that happened, it would be an amended budget. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Just to come in in regards to that, those individuals that were not receiving funding from state as far as an increase, the few that I've talked to have definitely been appreciative of what we're doing to give them an increase this year. You know, it it and it helps to retain our staff as well. You know, when you consider increasing the teacher salary and the people around them, you're not increasing. You get a little disparity between
054the the individuals that hold those positions. So, I can honestly say that I think they're appreciative of what we've done to make sure that they got an increase of some type. >> Thank you, Mr. N. We've had to do a little bit of a reminder to staff, uh, certain classifications of staff about some big bumps that they received. Um, we were pretty conservative during COVID and we didn't go out and just, you know, overly hire a bunch of people. We did a lot of work on roofs and windows and HVAC with a little bit of stopping work in there as well. But what four years ago we did the big brackets >> of staff and so there's have to be some reminders in there that we're in good shape on that. I will say this,
055we did a we've got I've got a TASBY study on my desk on salaries. Um, every time that the media gets a hold of these things about starting teacher salary, we always get our stuff approved first and then XYZ district down the road loves to do theirs after us and we're going to give them $25 more than Tyler gave them. Average teacher pay in Tyler ISD in the region. Uh, in region 7, the average teacher pay is actually the highest in the region. So, that is a a piece of information that y'all should be proud of. Uh even though t starting teacher pay may be $25 less or $100 less than the district down the road when you start looking at average teacher pay which means what you have more veteran teachers teaching our kids.
056>> So >> because they make more money as as you as you're here longer. So and and that and the data does show that year 10 on we're really really competitive when it comes to teacher pay. So come to Tyler ISD if you're a veteran teacher. I'm glad you said that because I've already heard that about down the road being starting salary being higher. Okay. >> So, yeah, the average teacher pay we're the highest. Okay. >> And it's funny is you probably hear from >> from uh those that are veteran teachers that are the ones like, can you believe that XYZ is beating us? And they're probably like in year 12 or 13. It's like, well, they're Yeah. So, we're very competitive in those those brackets. >> I can add to that. Okay. Good. >>
057That helps. >> Good. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Now to our consent um consent agenda items. The first one is consider approval of board meeting date for proposed for purpose of adopting budget and comp and proposed tax rate. Any discussion on it? >> We just approve A through B. I do have an adjustment on the student code of conduct for uh an adjustment in C. >> Okay. >> So, we can pull C and do the rest. >> We'll pull C. So, could I get a motion for AB? >> I move we approve item items A, B, D, E. >> Wait, he's second. Okay. >> You ready? >> All in favor? I I >> Anybody opposed? Okay, we'll move on to the motion carried. We'll move on to discuss C, approval of student code
058of conduct for the 2526 school year. I've got a supplement to include for your student code of conduct in regard to cellular phones, electronic devices, something that uh one of the trustees caught prior to the meeting so that you could actually go in and look at that. Mr. Jones, uh, put that microphone in front of him. [Music] >> Yes, sir. Just speaking to the second uh the second uh assessment uh therefore violating the uh cell phone policy. Um the change just included uh parents had to pick up uh the cellular device if when it was confiscated. all of the other steps listed out outright and so needed to make that language the same so there would not be any confusion whether or not I on this second one I get to um you know send
059somebody else for uh the device. So that that is the change there and there's a gray box that is in there that's all inclusive but you know that lessens the argument and the confusion to list it at each step what the way that's supposed to play out. Okay. Okay. And just concerning what we I think we had had before there was a charge on the first time but we eliminated that and moved it to the second time as opposed to the first time. Right. >> Yeah. A little compromise on that right uh for goodwill towards the board's das for the das of the board >> and the and the greater good of the community. Um something for y'all to consider. Obviously, we can adjust as needed with your your stance on this and giving us
060direction. >> Uh even a post adoption, y'all could direct us how to do that. We don't need to bring it back to you. >> Um so, there's that. >> Yeah. >> I will say that three of our four middle schools were uh Dr. Grop, you can speak to this. >> We were already charging. Yeah, that's a >> and I know that was the discussion that y'all had at the last time was are we gonna, you know, is it fair for that whenever that with So, obviously they've they've purchased the phone. You you brought that up, but Dr. Gropel, three of our four middle schools have data for us from last year and using the same methodology we're proposing. What do you have on that? >> Uh, so Hubard collected $50 in cell phone fees last
061year. Uh Moore was $395 and Bolter collected $820 in cell phone fees. >> Yeah. And you may ask why was Hubard lower. They had a pretty good fidelity to to it. We we monitored that as well. Uh you asked Three Lakes, we gave it was not a district standard. It was for them to be able to utilize that. Um, Three Lakes actually used it as the high schools and if it became super super disruptive, there was just a discipline attached to it. Correct. >> Without a charge. Um, obviously this is what we're proposing for a district-wide um, uh, policy to be made. Now, so you would actually have all four mandated participate in the district policy per state law. Same thing with the high schools >> mentioned that the policy is in line with >>
062Yeah. Uh, Mr. Jones just echoed what what you're discussing there uh in the handbook was was a part of written in the policy that was approved on item uh E. So just it's just in alignment with that. >> the parent pickum ensuring the parent parent pickum was was already listed in the policy. >> Did those three middle schools have a first time offense fee? >> I think >> I I believe they did. Um, I'd have to go back and review that, but I'm pretty sure that they they required a firsttime fee. Um, and and they worked with families. I mean, if if if the $15 was an issue at one time to to pay it out over over installments if needed, but it they didn't have any issue of somebody not being able to pay
063to get their phone back. >> I know we have more high school students than well, I don't know, than middle school students. Probably not. >> I don't know. I mean, if you add all four. My point is is that are the high school principles taking away that first time $5 offense and these kids just getting their phone taken away. Is it going to are we are we doing more work? I don't I don't know how to say this. Is it going to cause more people to not care? I'll let Mr. >> I don't know what what are the principles saying like what is this are they principles >> this is this is up to the admin of those schools >> yeah the principles are are fine with uh the policy as it is is written
064and as >> right now >> yeah as it's written in the student code of conduct um and to to speak to that I think it shows good faith that you're trying to give them an opportunity to get accustomed to the change >> and you make a mistake okay we don't we don't find your parent pickup and then after that uh then you know what the uh what the policy is and what our practice is at the particular school. And so if you choose uh to bring your cell phone uh to school and misbehave with it or violate the policy, then you pay the assessment to to get it back. And so, you know, it's it's just like any other thing where there are choices. If you don't want to pay the 5, 10, $15, then
065don't violate the policy. Um so these are choices that young people have to make. And so, uh, that's part of our work, uh, as the as as educators. >> And my whole point was the admin. They're all going to be dealing with this. Absolutely. I just want to make sure they're >> on board. >> You know, they're comfortable with they're going to be the ones doing this. We are not. We're just approving it. So, you know, that >> we certainly appreciate the concern because we share we share that concern. We know it's going to be a challenge and uh it's going to take uh like at Hubard, everybody rowing in the same direction and everybody buying into um what our uh what the law says. Actually, >> in the spirit of Senate Bill 12, parental
066rights, I think with parental rights comes responsibilities >> as well. So, we have not taken that out of this policy even though it's a completely different state law. >> Yeah. >> 1141, I believe, on the House bill side. Or is it 1481? I don't know. I get confused all the time. >> Do what? >> 1481. I don't who knows what 1141 was. 1481. Um, that's going to be something that needs to uh coincide and and and work side by side with us is is on the parent end of it. >> Yeah. Um, we do have some trepidation. Some of us old guys that have been doing this since the early 2000s. Uh, we were laughing yesterday at a superintendent meeting in Dallas about uh, shirt tails being tucked in. It wasn't just a Dallas thing
067that I was having to go through. I'm sure Tyler had the same thing going on as well. And that's back when they had tall TE's and those tall tes would go down to your shins and we were trying to get them to tuck their shirt till. Tuck your shirt in. Tuck your shirt in. Tuck your shirt in. Tuck your shirt. And then discipline. Um there's going to have to be some some uh some work on this. Um and there's going to have to be some finesse and there's going to have to be some sensitivity and we're going to have to train our kids to do things a little bit differently. Parents going to have to get involved with as well. I will say what we've presented to y'all is a nice little happy medium if
068y'all can go for it. There are some other districts that are really really going heavy on this thing and maybe we need to consider this down the road, but there are some districts that are saying that confiscation of the cell phone if it was used obviously in a criminal act. >> Yeah. because that becomes evidence. But even things like bullying, even things like uh uh filming a fight >> that that is held until the end of the semester >> or arranging for a fight to take place in the restroom or whatever. >> So, you know, we'll kind of keep our eye on on on all of this to see if that's something down the road that we need to get to. We hope we don't have to. Let's let's all play nice in the sandbox
069and follow the policy that um that we have in place so that we don't have to get down there. >> And in 2013 at Steuart, we were taking $5. So inflation has come and we still taking >> it's been a while. I I I think that it it it shows that we're being considerate. But with the first defense, having the parents to help to be involved and not pay is very important, I think because at least the parent is aware of the situation and we didn't charge them any money. But the second offense, I think we definitely should and it should be a parental pickup and involvement because they are the ones that will make a difference. The children won't make any it doesn't matter to them, but the parents have to be involved with
070this for this to really be effective. So, I think this thing is going to pass because we have to pass it regardless to be in compliance with state law. I still think I I like the tweets y'all made, the no money on the first one. I think that's a good step. I still would like to release the phone to whoever picks the kid up. Um because sometime it's not the parent or the guardian, it's one person who's giving all the kids a ride and they're usually on the kids' pickup list. So I hope if that's not in here that we'll at least give them greater disks for that me and Dr. Gropel correct and Mr. Jones could possibly maybe give some commentary at the appropriate time uh in FNG as well because he does manage
071a lot of of the grievance process as well. Okay, now we will go into executive session. >> Just a quick question on the grievance days. No, that's okay. Um, if I may, on the grievance day soup, are we extending those days from 20 from 10 on the grievance section, the level level one and level two, they extended the days from 15 to 60 and then from 10 to 20 on level two. Is that done to stay in compliance with something or is that something we locally? >> Yeah, we didn't choose to do that. that is actually um done as far as from Senate Bill 12. >> Senate Bill 12. >> Yeah. The parents bill of rights and uh you know >> we we'll roll with that. Get obviously you get ch you get chances to
072resolve some of this stuff informally, but this extends the the window of it to become formal if if so choosed. So y'all y'all might get to have some more fun as well. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Yeah. We'll now go into executive session. >> Hey, uh, [Music] we got four. Okay. The meeting of the Tyler SD board of trustees was previously called to order. The presence of a quorum have established and we do have some information coming out of executive session. >> All right, let's see. Okay. So, we're on E item E lawyers. Is that correct? >> On the 11 C 11. >> Turn your microphone on, please. >> Okay. 11C. Yeah. So, in regard to item 11 C on our agenda, I move that the board authorize the superintendent to execute the necessary
073paperwork required to finalize the pending TEA and S O cases referenced on.