001Okay, it's six o'clock. I'm going to call the meeting to order. If you would stand, I would like to introduce somebody to you if you don't know, uh, Pastor Ryan Lentleman. He is here tonight by invitation to pray for our district and y'all and us. as a a personal note, he might not remember my son Wes >> when you were when you were a youth minister. God bless you. And uh he mentored Wesley and one of his friends Ji break. >> JC's expecting her first baby. And Wes is living in the same area as her and they're both still serving the Lord. And well done. >> So if you'll lead us in a prayer, you're welcome to say something if you'd like to. Some of y'all may already be his congregation. >> Do I stand
002anywhere particular, but it's perfect. >> Is good. Anywhere you want to be. It's fine. >> I don't really have anything to say. If you don't have a church, come to mine. >> I'll pray. God, thank you so much for uh these men and women who serve our community through our school district. I just pray over each one of them and the families they represent, God, that you would bless them and keep them, especially at the beginning of the year. Um, I just pray that the year would live up to their high expectations. Um, that you would just make a way for them even where they may see no way, God, that you would u make a way. And just over our district, God, I pray for our students. I pray that um just that their
003home life would be better than it's ever been. I pray they would have an atmosphere for learning both at home and at school. And I I just pray they would succeed in all they uh set out to do, whether it be academically, athletically, or otherwise. Just pray you bless our students, for our teachers. God, give them grace, patience, endurance. Um God, for for u just such a high calling you've placed on their lives. I pray that you'd give them everything they need uh to succeed at it and to enjoy it. And God, we thank you so much for our administrators. Um, just how hard they work to make things run smoothly. And I just pray you continue to bless them and keep them. And God, uh, for our board, just pray as they make decisions
004that affect many of us. We just pray you would give them your wisdom and guidance and um, and we just trust you with our year, God. Um, we pray that would be a great one. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you, sir. You'll join me in the pledge. >> 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 aliance to the Texas. One state under God. One and indivisible. >> Thank you. You may be seated. All right, it's our one of our favorite times recognitions. >> All right, I don't believe we have any 226 awards tonight. So, we're going to go straight to campus communications.
005So, Mr. Cody, we're up with Barrow Elementary Galloway. >> All right. I know I have like 30 seconds to talk per Miller. So, here I go. Um, our first day back. Um, for the past two years, we just spent it having a good time with each other. We pick a theme, we do pictures for that theme. Um it gives them a chance to bond prior to arriving as a team where they're planning all their outfits and all the things. Um they had to pick a um pose that they wanted to do all of the things. So we spent the day just having a good time together. So I wanted you to see that. Um here's our first day of school. Um one special face on there is Clark Kohi. We got to spend our first
006day of school together at Barrow. Uh it was wonderful. Um and some highlights. We had one kid miss the bus. That's it. If you know anything about the first day of school, normally it's about 20 and we cleared the car rider line in 30 minutes. So, all of our parents loved happy. Um, one thing I wanted to highlight is all the things that we've planned and I I don't know why Ca didn't transfer to all of this. So, it should say fun or fix it Fridays and Derek Jams and a cute little saying, but um there was a lot of planning that went in this summer to plan these things to help attendance, grades, all of the things. So, um, if you go to the next slide, we are having our first fun or fix
007it Friday. Um, this kind of goes against, um, anything that we've ever done. Um, but at 1:30 every Friday, there will be no more instruction to every student at Barrow. Um, the students who have completed all their work for the week have no more than one conduct mark, no office referral, lunch detention, ISS, OSS, if they've had perfect attendance from Friday to Thursday, um, they, you can see all those requirements there. um then they will be able to go to fund and we explained it to the parent that's not it's not about money but every time your kid misses um school they're missing instruction and if they learn how to find perimeter on Monday but they're learning how to find the missing site on Wednesday and they missed Monday's instruction they can't complete Wednesday's and
008that's how we become two years behind so during that time that kids go to fund the kids who are going to fix it will be with their teacher receiving that instruction um because there's no time allotted in the school day for them to provide in instruction that is missed by students um so we're hoping for this to be a huge success. It's planned down to the tea and how they're coming in from the building from outside. So, I'm pretty sure it will go off without a hitch. So, that is one thing we're looking forward to. Our first one is this Friday. And then, um something really special we got to do. Um we did create the Derek Den, which is in one of our rooms in the school. Several people from the community donated lots
009of things. We have um baby wipes or hospital grade wipes that serve as um body wash and they can wipe down with those. We have hair products for people to fix their hair. We have ramen noodles. We have cereal. We have socks. We have toothbrushes, toothpaste, all the things. Um, but the most special one that we got, I believe, was um I don't even know the woman. I've never met her and I was not there when her kids went to school. But the message in the box said from a few Barrow students, expect a a pack every month. And they've sent a since July, they've sent a pack in August, a pack of ramen noodles. Um, and have scheduled it to be delivered throughout the school year. So, I thought that was super special. Um,
010but we've already served ramen noodles at lunch to a kid who didn't like any of the options that they had. Um, and we've definitely supplied deodorant to the fifth grade hall. So, >> good. >> Let's go, Principal Kenny. >> Uh, last time we've had one of these was at the end of the year. So, now we're doing the beginning of the year. Just wanted to highlight the first couple days of school. Uh, we have a new traffic pattern on the first day of school. It was madness. And since then it has ironed out and it's flown very smoothly with the new drop off being in the new uh student parking lot. So all the students are coming in that one entrance except for our bus riders which come in the side here. So put the
011new route on there. U teachers so our students with no phones we in the past we your schedule's on skyward. Well they can't do that now. So we had to go back to old school handing out paper schedules. did that in the cafeteria. But then our late arriving juniors and seniors that have first period off came to the front office and that's that bottom picture of them getting getting their paper schedules there. Um and then just roaming the hallways, the newspaper did come on day one. So I stole some of their pictures and just you know worked harder not harder use some of their pictures, but they wrote a very nice article uh just opening the new building. So it's been a very great start to the year opening the new building. The students love
012it. Uh, so we're trying to make sure that they keep that love and keep that building loved and treated well. So, walking the hallways with them, getting them in classes, and I think there's a few more pictures just with them in the classrooms. And Miss Bowman showing off her health science lab. Her kids are in the actual classroom when the newspaper came, but they wanted a picture of the lab. So, just an exciting first. Now, it's been a full week, five days, and things are going very well. She's very positive. Just wanted to show off the new building with the new students. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. Junior high. >> All right. Sorry. So, we had an outstanding attendance of bout camp for both sessions. Um, we have a session in the morning from 9:00
013to 11:00 and then an additional session in the afternoon from 1 to 3. Um, we had majority of our students come out and learn how to be um the guides for their parents. This is the first year that they have done walk the schedule on the same day as bout camp. And I think it went off really well um because the students were confident which made the parents confident. Um they were like they already know what they're doing. And so it was it was a good thing for for our students and and for the parents as well. And then and so our cheerleaders performed um our students came in and learned how to do the school song. It was good fun. And then in the bottom corner is our athletic meeting. And so that brings
014out majority of our parents for seventh and eighth grade which also helps to get that attendance for those students as well. and then they walk their schedule. So, having it all in one day seemed to be a big hit for parents and students. All right. And then I just have some pictures from the first day in the cafeteria. Um it's really quiet in the hallways during the summer and we look so forward to the students coming back and their smiles and their high fives and their fist bumps. And um day one we had lots of pictures of sixth grade uh in the cafeteria, their smiles. The parents are eagerly waiting to see how they're doing. And so, um, we had a lot of positive feedback from students and parents on day one in the cafeteria.
015And you have some seventh and eighth graders as well, but their smiles bring that reason of why we're there. So, um, some more smiles of some new sixth graders and seventh and eighth graders. And then in class, so you see students working in their sixth grade classroom and then you also see our seventh and eighth grader having athletics in one period and how organized it is and how well they're doing with um getting them getting them ready and then getting them out the door to get that workout in. So um really proud of our coaches for for being organized and building that bout pride. >> Thank you ma'am. West Elementary Principal Bolton. >> All right. Good evening everyone. First slide or two, I just wanted to introduce the 25 26 staff of WCE for you
016guys. Our theme this year is oh the places you will go with kind of a travel theme. So those are our grade level teams and office staff on the first slide and the next slide is our pair of professionals, our specialists team, behavior team, life skills and our auxiliary uh services as well. I think they're looking pretty good. Next, I just wanted to highlight that we had a great meet the teacher. Um, normally Mrs. Walters is our person who organized a good parent um, like a a fair for all the different people in the community to come and parents to get those resources. But I just was so excited because they showed up without a lane and calling them. So, we still had a great resource fair and we have a wonderful new CIS um,
017person as well, Miss Andrea Adam Eastep. We're very excited about her um, taking Miss Walter's spot. But our meet the teacher was a huge success. Most teachers reported that all of their parents um came. We only had a handful and were like missing one or two here and there. It was amazing. I wish I had one of those uh counters because I just I don't even know how many people were in the building uh that night. And then the next slide um on the left I just had one picture to highlight. I wish I had so many more pictures because I just want to say thank you to all the community partners that have reached out and supported WCE this fall already. We've had lunches, snacks, uh energy drinks, coffees, all kinds of sweet things
018brought to us by the people listed here um that we're just so appreciative that the the community really recognizes that the teachers are working hard getting ready to school and they show it in their kind gifts. And then to the right, that beautiful display that we put on for our theme this year was actually done by local pastors JD Umber from the Victory Church and Kevin Martin who is from First Baptist Brazoria. They came and decorated that for us and put it all together, including the plane with the caricature of Miss Imis and I as the pilots, which I thought was too cute. And so I just had to show you guys just all the community coming together to help WCE have a great year. And then the very last slide, I just wanted to
019share our first day smiles from West Columbia Elementary School as well. >> Thank you. >> Now, Wild Peach Principal coming. >> Yes. So, there are some great things happening at Wild Peach Elementary. First thing I want to say is I am pretty proud of our campus. Um, Frober Farm had a competition where you could nominate anybody in the county to get a roar for the first day of school. And a Wild Peach had the most votes out of everybody in Brazoria County. So, for the first day of school, Proverbs delivered the dinosaur. So, I just happened that morning to say, I don't know if we're getting it. I don't know how that's possible because I've been looking every day and we've got a lot of tax. And then um later on the afternoon I had
020to run the office and get something and as I'm there talking to the the girls at the front, he pulls in and I'm screaming and call everybody and we just had a fun day of it. So >> there's the dinosaur. Um some pictures from the first day. So one of the things that we have started is we have started um yesterday the 20-day attendance challenge. And so every student that was in attendance yesterday received their first dog tag and we had a dog tag party with the a dog tag dance party where we played who let the dogs out in the cafeteria. The students got their dog tags. And so you see some of the students with their dog tags classes that have 100% attendance have that attendance matters um hanging outside of their classroom.
021And then some of our other students who weren't able to make it outside to the actual dinosaur because of safety in the location. We had Kota the dinosaur. I don't know if y'all remember when he came out, it's pretty popular. They got to ride on top of that dinosaur. And then to piggy um to go back with our 20-day um attendance challenge, we had a signing day for all of our students at our prek kindergarten orientation. So, our our prek kindergarteners had an orientation in the summer from 9 to 12 where parents left them at the school. We um they spent time in the classroom. They signed their letter of promise to come to school every day to be respectful, to be responsible, and um just being a what it means to be a Wild
022Peach Oiler. And so we have pictures of them signing their letters of promise. And these are from actual the orientation day. And then we have pictures I think from um when they came to meet the teacher, we had so the one on the right is from Meet the Teacher where everybody got in line to sign their letter of promise. And so it was one of the check off sheets at meet the teacher. The other pictures are from um first day and our color days um that we are celebrating today or this week started this week at school. Today was orange day. I chose not to wear my um bright orange dress and changed real quick, but tomorrow we have yellow day. >> Very good. >> Ah, thank you very much. Pastor Ryan, I can't promise
023you the rest of the meeting is gonna be this fun and exciting and you won't all defend us. >> Texting my wife like, "When is it rude to leave?" >> Never. We all would leave if we could. Thank you so much. >> All right. Very good. It's good to see everybody having fun and y'all are very excited. That gets us excited, too, and we appreciate it. Uh do we have any uh citizens to be heard? Mr. Miller. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. We'll start with our business items then. >> Uh we starting with the maintenance report. Mr. Justin, are you back there? >> I am. >> All right. Well, uh real quick, I want to give you an update on the current roofing projects. Uh Junior High and West Columbia Elementary. We are nearing completion
024on that. There's a few little things that we're still having to go through. The biggest issue that we've had is all the rain delays that we've had over 27 days of rain. And of course, you can't lay that down when it's wet. Uh it won't last a year if you do. So, they have to cease and desist, so to speak, and wait till it dries out, then start over again. So, anyway, that should be wrapping up in about two weeks. Uh following that, there's just some little punch list item things that we're going to be taking care of. Uh they'll have a little sheet metal skeleton crew there for the following two weeks just doing some last minute little changes of things that need to be taken place. We've come in under budget uh where
025there will be some contingency money coming back on that. We did use a little bit just for some unseen unforeseen excuse me. Uh but that's going well. Uh the E3 mechanical electrical I mean uh and lighting project has uh come along very well. We have a 90% completion meeting the week of Labor Day. Uh that Wednesday, we're going to make walkthroughs, just talk about the things that are completed, things that may have been missed or that we didn't see, and try to get that stuff knocked out. Lastly, with that being said, you know, we the two chillers for that project going at the junior high were slated to be replaced this November, uh actually over the Thanksgiving break. This afternoon we have taken a catastrophic hit from those chillers. We are collectively that's 360 tons
026of air conditioning. We are down to 90 right now. I've got guys over there working and when I'm finished here we're going to go back over there. We're going to do everything we can to get this up and get the building cool overnight. But I highly advise a riddle like we did for those of you that were here then when we had the West Columbia Elementary project. Matter of fact, I've already reached out and got three different bids. Uh the company that did the last ones is so far the cheapen cheapest and they are significantly cheaper this go around because chillers aren't in high demand as they were that at that time. We're looking at probably half the costs. They can mobilize and have that ready tomorrow. If they show up at 8:00, we can
027probably have things running by noonish. So, it may be a little bit of a rough start, but we're going to do what we can to get the building cool so that by the time it gets warm, we're in a position where we're starting the temporary up. >> And those powered up by diesel or by electric? >> Electric. >> Matter of fact, we're going to rob the electric from one of the old chillers to energize the the temporary. >> And then there's some flexible uh chill water lines that ties into the existing chill water piping. So, uh, that's otherwise we are in a bind. It's We're going to have a lot of hot parents and some angry Facebook posts. >> Yeah. >> No, it's too hot. >> Been there before. >> We can't go without air.
028>> I've already told Justin to make it happen. He's >> I've got the wheels in motion. I just needed to let you guys do and just kind of get a blessing on it. So, >> do you have the money in your budget to do it to maybe get reimbursed after we can vote on >> potentially? I haven't dug that deep. I've been focusing on trying to get the thing going rather than the back end. >> Okay. >> But I'm sure they'll be >> We don't have a choice. People have to be cool, >> right? They and I know a lot of those students that that's their their sanctuary. They've really got no place to go at going to school. >> Yeah. >> With that being said, I'm going to get that going. uh they're going
029to start getting everything together this evening and hopefully their crew shows up early in the morning when they can hit the hit the road and be here earlier and so the earlier the better. That's what I'm pushing for. >> Sounds good. Thank you for taking care of that. >> Other than that, I don't really have a whole lot that I can think of. My my mind is kind of cluttered with all the chaos going on. So, if there's anything that I'm forgetting to tell you, I apologize. And if there's any questions y'all have for me, fire away. Have you got any questions? >> Thank you, sir. All right. >> Thank you. I'm headed back to the junior high. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> All right. Safety and security. M. >> Not a whole lot
030going on. Just to give you an update on the radios. Majority of the radios are in. We're waiting for the full load and the uh uh the apply or the extra things that come with them so that we can get those out on the buses and on the campuses. Um we the Sentinel's up and running. Everybody's uh we've already even had people doing threat assessments already to start the year off in the new system. So we're working out the bugs with that. Uh one of the one of our new requirements that we have to do. Um we've already been we have a exterior or campus visits that will be coming up uh this semester. So the the campuses are getting prepared for those. as far as our intruder alerts and uh just ironing out all
031the the uh little safety and security details that go in starting up the school year with with a lot of parents and people on campus to to start off with. So things are good. Not not a lot going on in the safety and security world right now, but that will change soon. Uh next this coming up month, we'll have to to submit our EOM to the state for approval and I will give you an update on that once once that happens. But that's all I have. you have your uh submitt from from chief in your folder. There wasn't anything for the last month. So that's about it unless you have questions for me or chief. >> Anybody got any questions? >> Can I say something about lovely officers Sanders and the junior high line? I
032I did the beast Friday. She is doing she is killing it and and y'all your whole staff was. I have to it was not fun but we did it. In record time. >> In record time. It was It was good. It was scary, but it was good. We did it. >> But she was kudos to her. I mean, she was out in the parking lot doing her thing in the heat, so it's pretty rough. Yeah. >> Always good to hear good things that are happening. >> All right, we have an instructional update. Who's got that for us? >> Have three pieces of information for you tonight. The first one is a staple packet in your maroon folder. Uh first page at the top left corner has texaschools.gov and then on front page you'll see this
033is a rating for Columbia Bori ISD. But in the stapled packet just to take you through this is the accountability ratings that came out this week um or last excuse me were made public last week I believe. Yeah. So uh the first page I have for you is the page for the district uh as a whole. You can see the overall rating as a C scoring 74 out of 100. Uh to the right has changed over time. So you can actually see uh the progress and the scores since actually since 202122 but it's more specifically just looking at the last three years. Uh the next page is Columbia High School. So that is the rating for Columbia High School scoring a C rating 77 out of 100. And of course to the right you can
034see uh the the the change over time keeping in mind the change in the C college career readiness standards and certifications. uh and you can see the the the little dip in scores for the high schools is directly related uh to that which was the basis of the lawsuit >> the the yeah the lawsuits that have now been uh dealt with. Now the next page you can also see that the high school scored a 77 but you also see on the next page that that they did receive an academic achievement uh distinction in reading and language arts. What that is is each of our schools is put into an accountability group, meaning looking at all of the dynamics and the statistics of the schools. They place you in a group of 40 schools that are
035similar to you, most similar to you. And then when you score in the top 25% in an area, you receive that academic distinction. So that means Columbia High School in the growth in the scores in uh uh reading and language arts is in the top 25% of their group. So kudos to the high school. Looking at the next page is West Bry's Junior High. Uh you can see the junior high score to 76 out of 100 overall C rating. And to the far right you can see their scores over the last three years. Uh if you do turn the page, you can see that the junior high also received an academic distinction for academic achievement in social studies, meaning they were in the top 25% uh in their uh ability group or accountability uh peer
036grouping. The next page is West Columbia Elementary. See, they scored 72 out of 100 for overall C rating. uh to the far right you can see their threeyear history of scores. >> What's the what if down there to 212? >> The what if is there there was a change and so when the when 2122 uh came out you had the actual scores and then there was a what if if the new standards were in place what it would have been. Then uh the next page is Barrow Elementary. You can see that uh Barrow Elementary scored a 77 out of 100 for overall rating of a C. To the far right, you can see their academic history over the last three years for accountability. And then on the next page, you can see that Barrow did
037receive a distinction for postsecary readiness. Now, you might ask, how in the world does an elementary school receive a distinction for post-secondary readiness? Well, one of the things that we talk about is when we talking when we get our testing back and you look at our scores and we have students that that are u if you want to call it acceptable and then the next one is they meet the standard they meet the grade level standard. So when you look at the scores at Barrow then the number of students who are performing at the MET standard that meets standard is how you receive that postsecary red. So, Barrow is in the top 25% of their peer group for that and and missed a couple of the other distinctions by a couple points. So, overall pleased
038with where we are and we already know that uh where our our work is at. Uh the high school, we know our we continue to work in that CCMR area. Our problem is we like to do what's best for kids and give kids opportunities and let and let them go where they want. The state doesn't really want it that way. The state wants them to be in a in a program of study and take these specific courses, meaning you don't get to take this and take that. they they they really and so I will tell you um we get hurt that we don't do that as strictly as we should for accountability. The other piece of that is that you know we have chosen to go 100% in dual credit. We do teach one class
039of uh um what am I AP uh and so the fact that we don't have kids testing and do that hurts us on the accountability aside as well. It keeps us from scoring as high uh in the academic world. Uh you know when it comes to dual credit just because a kid takes one dual credit class doesn't mean their college and career readiness. They have put you can take one AP class and be that way, but you can't take one dual credit class and be that way. It's college and career ready, but you take a college class and you're not college and career ready. You take an AP test, then you are. That make sense? Again, those are some of the accountability things. Again, everybody everybody puts you trust that everything's just even there's some
040things that hurt you, but at the end of the day, we're going to do what's right for kids. We're going to keep uh doing that. So, just wanted to to bring that about, but we're very pleased with where we're at. We'll continue to work on the CCMR and the programs of study and the pathways and we've uh Mr. Miller I think has told you when we did the um uh looking at what we do CC CMR wise uh school in the district as of end of school today we have 2,912 students enrolled in CBISD which is a number way above what in the planning estimate that we use for budget we are uh we are exceeding those numbers right now so we're in a good spot so if you look at this the one pager
041has should have the numbers on the top. There you go. So, if you look at the column to the left, that's West Columbia Elementary. As you can see, you have your grade levels of K, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth. Uh, if you look down the middle column, you'll actually see the teacher and the class. And then if you look to the far right, you'll actually see the number of students, if you want to call it, they have in their home room. if you want to call it that. As you can see in the kinder area, we're at 22 and 24. First grade, you can see we're at 25 to 26. Second grade, you can see from 24 to 22. Third grade, 23 to 21. Fourth grade 21 and 20. And then the fifth grade
04221 and 20 as well. So, um, if you were if you're looking at that, uh, you know, back in the day there was the 22 to1 ratio and you could ask for class size waiverss. Um, we're a district of innovation and one of the things we put in the district of innovation is that we we're going to exceed that 22 to1, but we will provide the numbers to the board. We will share that information with you. So, this is the information share. uh if you look at that if if I would tell you that if you're looking uh 25 and 26 and first grade's probably a little strong and so you know the question before you tonight is we're not taking action but would you like to see us work on a resolution for that
043resolution means personnel so uh you know If I take you to the middle section at Wild Peach, again, preK first. Uh you can see the teachers classroom down the middle. You can see a preK uh anywhere from 20 to 18, 16 been on class. Kindergarten 17, 27, 28, 28, first grade, uh 23, 22. Um when it when it comes to some of these classes here, we we do have partnerships and so the numbers may seem low. Uh but it's due to the partnership and how that class is organized without getting into specifics of what qualifies you for to those classes. I will tell you that uh at the kinder level of 27 and 28 and 28 is a little strong as well. >> Bless you. >> Hire a teacher. You going to be looking for
044four of them. Uh to the far right is Barrow Elementary. You have second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade. You can see the numbers in second are from anywhere from 20 to 18. Uh third grade uh 19 to 21, fourth grade 25 to 22, and fifth grade uh 26 to 23. So looking at the elementary um in the past these would this would been something that I would have gone ahead and and done based on these numbers holding true we would have gone ahead and done it. uh we've kind of operated a little differently this year and so meaning we're not going to take any action until you you have greenlighted additional if we're within the budget meaning positions that you already approved that were in the budget when the budget was approved
045I would have operated on those but anything additional that we're going to do again you're not taking action tonight it's just a verbal to say yes move ahead or don't move ahead you had a kindergarten teacher with those numbers, you still have 20 kids in each class. >> You'd be down to 20, but you wouldn't be a So, okay. >> I mean, you just about have to do that. >> Yeah. >> I mean, that's still a lot of >> little kids. >> Great. >> That can barely tie their shoes sometimes, >> right? >> Or wipe their honey. >> Yeah. Now, just because we want to add a teacher doesn't mean we can't. >> No. >> Right. Meaning it's going to be a process. But the process would be if if we can't find a a
046qualified teacher to bring in that meets our needs, then we have to look at some type of additional personnel setting that would allow us to do that. It may be two instructional assistance of some type. It it would we would have to work on a plan if we can't find uh the teacher. They have do they have some in the in place right now? Is that kindergarten at Wild Peach or do we have do we have anybody? >> Where are you? >> Does wild peach have any assistance in those large classes as of right now? >> We have uh pairs that go in to provide the instructional support but it's not all day. >> It's not all day. >> Okay. >> They have to move >> because they have to meet minutes for other students.
047>> Okay. So yeah, the the information I gave them at the beginning of school was do the best you can, make the best plans you can, be prepared for it, and uh we would present the numbers at the board meeting, but we would not be taking action to add anything additional until the board greenlighted that position. >> What about that West Columbia Elementary first grade? Y'all have people in place to >> We're in the same situation as they are. >> Okay, I'm just double checking my brain on that one. Okay. >> Meaning it's meaning it's early and there's things you can do to control your settings. >> As the school year advances, you lose those. >> Can't necessarily do that anymore. So >> with those numbers, if we added another first grade teacher, that would
048bring that number down to 20 as well. >> Correct. Okay. So, I'm assuming everybody's okay. Just a verbal nod. Okay. >> Okay. >> That's too >> at the secondary level. We're not we're not asking you to add anything. We're just you're just looking at numbers again. Uh so as of the end of the day, you had 684 kids enrolled at West Columbia Elementary. You had 304 at W Peak. We had 348 at Barrow, 682 at the junior high, and 894 at the high school. So total of 2912 that's the end of school today. >> Okay. So 2912 that that's >> that's starts with this year and then we care we you'll have people move in and out stuff like that. And so if you'll remember your your attendance, your ADA is what's driving your is
049what's driving your numbers. And that's from the first six weeks, right? So you got 2912 kids enrolled, but how many of them are coming to school? Get your ADA. But if you notice, if you just do 2912 times 92%, you'll see that that that ADA number is way above the number we use for budgeting. So meaning you should feel comfortable by the numbers. We're in good shape when it comes to that. If we can hold an enrollment close to 2900, we're going to be fine. But remember, our goal is still 94% attendance. Just because we have more kids, doesn't mean that that that goes away, right? So, so if we can come in if that 94% attendance will be extremely good. >> What's the transition for the Damon School District? >> As of right now,
050I think everything's been fine. >> Good. numbers were what we discussed pretty much. Good. And then the last thing I have for you is that um we do we have started uh at the at the high school our learning frameworks course. We do have three sections of ninth graders taking learning frameworks. I think we're at 63 kids total in those three sections. And so we're off and running to a good start there. So that's turned in already. >> So it will be a it will be again it's our pilot program. Miss Bailey is in the classroom. The fall semester is is dual credit learning frameworks for the college. The college is actually supplying the adjunct professor who actually went to high school with aton high school. So interesting. Didn't they know that till yesterday? And
051then uh and so Miss Bailey will be in that classroom every day because remember those kids face to face every day. Uh Miss Bailey will we'll tag team with with our adjunk there. And then in the spring semester we'll be switching that over to college uh BIM which is business imaging and multimedia uh dual credit and and high school credit as well. And so uh we we look forward to a successful year. So as far as the instructional report, that's what we have for you. The number is good. That's exciting. Want the number to be up. All right. The financial report, Miss Julie, what you got for us? >> You have the financial statements for July. And there's a packet in front of you. Um, not much to say. Our expenses are about what we
052figured they would be. Um, >> they don't have a packet. >> It wasn't attached. >> Oh, yeah. It's in the board. >> I'm sorry. It's in the board. >> Oh, >> I'm sorry. >> It's in board book. >> Yes. >> So, it's in board book as extras. >> Yes. No, it's fine. >> Okay. Under the quarter. It's under the quarterly investment report. >> There you go. >> Take a minute to find it. It's okay. [Applause] Yeah, the the other financial report is not there. I don't see it. >> There it is. There >> Jennifer's fixing to fix it, I think. >> Oh, there it is. >> Tiny. I don't like it. >> I know. There's my context. >> Yeah. If you if you if you go to the left and you see like where the
053agenda is, there's a little tab that says extra. If you click on the extra and you open it up, you'll see the check register for July. And you also see the financials that Julie's talking about. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's just so like when you when you when you click on the meeting to the left, if you click on meeting quick view, it right underneath that there's a tab that says extras. >> Mine does look different. There's weird again when I got to agenda >> tools and then you hit extras and then financial report. >> There it is. We should have come to learning academy and learn how to use our iPad board. We're only about a little over 8% through the year. Um the actual expenses, it's about normal for a month. and the amended
054budget, those numbers, they're still the same as as they were last month. We didn't do um we haven't updated the actual budget for um the teacher raises and the 3% raise that we gave just because we're still still waiting on guidance from TEA on how that's going to be implemented. So, you won't see that in September. But so this amended budget is is the new budget but not with raises in there. >> I guess once they get paid, we'll know then where it goes. >> Well, they get paid on September 10th. So you're going to see you'll see. >> Yeah. Yeah, for sure. >> So then what what's going to happen is under as of that in the consent agenda when you get down to it, if you look there, you're going to see the
055one pages that we talked about. Okay. What Julie's talking about is the actual budget that she's working on in the district, meaning the one pager you've approved is done and it's in there for you to approve in the consent agenda. But what she's saying is on her side, it's not all in the system, meaning the framework's there. But she'll put the the meat and potatoes in and those but those are budget amendments as well. So in the next board meeting, you'll see a long list of things coming forward with when she does that. >> Anybody have any questions for Julie? >> D, you good over there? >> I'm fine. >> Okay, >> hold on. I'm by myself. >> Wait a minute. Every now and then, >> are we gonna Can I mention the tax rates?
056Yeah, if you would like to. You bet. >> Okay. So, I did talk to Dwayne at Samco about our um our tax rate for INS for our our debt services um just to kind of see with our um tax roll and the numbers that we have what our tax rate would be because we were talking about the disaster pennies last week and so last year our INS rate was um 2889. this year. He thinks it's going to be 0.2561. That's a difference of um a little over three cents on that. And then our M last year was and just from the original compression and they're still working, they'll still do that in legislation. They're talking about compress even more, but right now it's at 6169. So that's down 5 cents on the M side. So
057it's down it'll be down a total of almost a little over 8 cents. Um if we don't do the disaster pennies. If we do do three disaster pennies, we're our our tax rate still going down 5 cents. Um, >> so that's something that, >> you know, if we're going to to do disaster pennies, we have to >> get a resolution for y'all for the next board meeting when we'll actually be adopting tax rates and start planning um getting the ad in the newspaper showing what our tax rates are going to be and things like that. So, I just I wanted y'all to have these numbers so that you can be thinking, are we going to be looking at the disaster pennies? If so, how many? That kind of thing. >> You said INS was 2561
058this year. >> It's going to be >> Yeah, we'll be we'll be adopting that tax rate in September, but he just gave me numbers early so that we could see >> if >> Yes. if we should, you know, >> make sure I'm right. 6169. >> Yes. >> 6169. >> Yes. >> Is everybody in that conversation about the pianies? Did y'all get that? >> Do we need to decide about that or just >> No, you just you just need to give me direction. Anything else y'all want to ask? Any Julian more questions or anything? All right. The quarterly investment report that should have been attached as well. >> It is. >> Okay. So, for the year you can see um It's on the last page. We had a little over 2.3 million in investment um interest
059earned. 1.6 of that was bond bond money almost 1.7. So about six a little over 600,000 in general fund. Um we ended the year in most of our larger investment accounts a little over 4%. which is about average. And we still had the majority of our money in uh Texas class. Any questions? Greg, you looking for a question? locked up for a minute. Back in business. >> You have a question? >> Okay. All right. The bond report. >> All right. So, did I put that in your folders? >> It's all colored in. >> Yeah, it's all colored. So, uh, if you're if you'll look at that, um, just to kind of give you an update on where we're at, again, uh, the numbers have changed a little bit for you. Um, on the you see
060under C construction cost, you got phase one, two, one, two, and three, which is the complete project. Then you have your other four areas uh from architects, your testing, technology, and then FFN that that go into the building. All the way to the far right numbers have changed a little bit. You see the number of 600,000 that's in yellow that I call budget slack. That is in the meeting withdrawal model and look at our budget. That is the number that we believe is going to be left in the construction budget at the end of the project. meaning money that we gave them to spend that's not going to be spent. to the far right under the additional projects that uh in the green you see the three million uh dollar number. That is the number
061based on the allowances and um um areas that we had for them that would be special projects meaning we would have to we both had to approve to spend those as of today looking at at the end and again we're very close to the end of the project we've identified that $3 million will be there out of the AR architectural engineering account I'm I'm thinking that 200,000's going to be out of the testing uh budget approximately 631,000 out of the technology budget 790,000 out of the FFN budget 492,000 which brings you to a total of a number of close to 5.1 million that I think is going to be available uh plus the $600,000 that uh would would come at budget close when everything's done you add the variance meaning the total bond uh was
062for 79 million but the total of our construction budget was 76 uh 76.7 if you add that 2.2 million in then as of the end of July if you add uh the interest number which is a little almost 3.4 four. You can see um that that gets us even higher. You add what's left in the junior high bond that gets you to right at 11 million. You can look at the the projects that are approved at West Columbia and the junior high $4 million for roofing brings you down. And as well as the Wild Peach Water Well project, 400 $495,000. I'm estimating that you're gonna have $6.5 million left in project that we need to spend. Below that, all of the things that are are in blue uh are things that have already been accounted
063for and done. The things that are in yellow highlight have not been done yet. So, we do know that we gave Justin uh to proceed with uh looking at the roofs uh for our other build, our remaining roofs in the in the pro to look and see what that number would be. Uh we think we're close to having some information on that. We looked at the A barn the A barn drawings are 100% complete. uh in the next couple of weeks, I think September 12th, uh we have a meeting where bids will be opened on that and so we'll have uh Drala be able to put a a number together for us there. So by your se by your September regular board meeting, I would think we would have numbers on an a barn for
064you to make a decision if if that's what you so choose to do. >> Hey, on the CHS roof ABC I we have >> Well, have I have no idea. Yeah, we haven't done you know because you know what we talked about is one of the reasons that we were we got good pricing on WC and West Brad junior high is because of the overlay we were able to do. >> What they're doing now is to look at the the remaining roofs we have in the district and see if they would qualify for that same procedure. What we do know is if they don't qualify that procedure that's going to be a whole lot more money than what we have available. If they do qualify for that same product within in the 30-year warranty, then
065they're probably going to be able to address some of those needs. >> So, how does this all work with just like what Justin was talking about with the two chillers? >> So, the two chillers, I mean, the two chillers are part of the E3 SEC code loan project. Okay? And so they're you're not going to the we'll have to find money bringing in the temporary. >> Yeah. >> We'll have to find money for that, but the chillers are part of that that $5 million SEC loan project. [Music] The hope would be they'll get here quicker than November, >> right? You know, >> we were planning on them being here. So we had a, you know, that was the idea. I mean, the plan could be they could show up in September and sit in a
066yard somewhere. And so we did. If that's the case, now that we're in that situation, we need him to come home. >> I guess Justin's got his finger on that pulse. >> Well, he hasn't E3 has no idea that our tellers went down to junior high today. So, that's after he gets that taken care of, the temporaries in place, then we'll work with E3 to see if we can speed that process up. Okay. >> Because Yeah. Clear a little bit. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, at the end of the day, I mean, you're looking at your decision on the act barn, you're looking at the decisions on roof. Right now, I have no idea on the roofs. I mean, because like we said, if it doesn't qualify for that, that money is not going to
067come anywhere close to covering up that kind of project. But that gives you an idea of where you stand, right? As far as the bond project, you can see uh we're basically to exterior other than the main gym entrance which will be ready October 1 and that new whole area will be ready October one. Um you're probably looking somewhere time in November by the time all of the flat work and fencing and concrete exterior concrete courtyard are done. So we're getting close. >> That's good. got a tour of band hall. It's looking good over there. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, just just, you know, you've got you've got some money. You need to you need to decide what our priorities are. And again, >> you know, with priority one, priority two, priority three, and start
068knocking them off in that order or at least reserving that money for for those projects. >> So, when do you think we'll have any results back on the roof? I think I think in I think the September meeting is going to be a big one for you. >> Okay. >> Right. Where I mean it might be one where we want to talk or maybe we want to have a if if I get the information before we have a special meeting or something or I I can I can give you the information. I I don't think there's any doubt. I mean the major things we have a barn the roofs and and and Griggsville Turk track. I mean I think we know what those are right. And so the idea would be in September is that
069it would be nice to have some amounts to know what can what can we get done, >> right? And then on that on the roofing part of it too would be to these are the remaining roofs that haven't been touched and and to put those in a prioritized order, right? Of of you know where the highest need is as well. Okay. Is that it for the bond report? >> That is it. >> All right. Does anybody have any questions or comments about priorities? You think about it for a little while. >> Justin's information will help us though. we'll know what's the worst and what's the better and and all that and then we can decide. Okay, we'll move into our action items. Um we're going to talk about the compensation handbook. In order to discuss
070it, we'll need a motion and a second. Would someone like to make a motion to consider the 2025 2026 staff compensation handbook? >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion by Jackie. Is there a second? Greg seconds. All right. Now we can have some discussion. >> Okay. So, this is in the same format you've seen it in the last years. It it starts off with uh the teacher a lotment hiring schedule that you've approved. We had two different meetings to to get that taken care of. And then after that, the only changes are putting the the librarians counselors group into a pay grade that fits within this model. meaning we didn't change the minimum, midpoint or maximum because their salaries will fall in that range somewhere. But that that was the only change made to this
071document. Other than that, it would be the same exact document as you had from the year before. >> We basically put the librarians in a different cer in their own category. >> Well, they're with they're in their own category, but they're within a pay grade. Okay. And there'll be several other different jobs within that pay grade. And so what we do is we have a pay grade and it may have, you know, it'll have the positions, it'll have the days worked, it'll have the the minimum, mid point, and maximum salary that they're supposed to be within that pay grade. >> And that's what the attachment is down there, the different highlighted areas. We've been talking about this, so it's not new. Does anybody have any questions or comments? Okay, I have a motion by Jackie
072and a second by Greg to consider and to approve the staff compensation handbook for 2025 and 26. All in favor say I. >> All opposed? Motion carries. All right. We've also talked about our future power provider. Uh so to continue the discussion, would someone make a motion? >> I'll make a motion that we consider the future power provider agreement. >> All right. James made a motion. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All right. Janna seconds. >> Okay. That's a move in target, too. >> All right. So if you look at the first attachment which is the attachment has today's date on it 819 25 when you open that up uh you'll see that uh and the these are this is working through energy by five which is the same group that we're
073in contract with now that helps us uh uh get these agree get this agreement. If you'll remember, we're in contract right now through June of 2034 at a little over three cents kilowatt uh for electricity. Uh this agreement would pick up in June of 2020 2034. Uh if you so choose, you can see that the the prices did fall. Uh the recommendation is to go with the 31 month offer that's at 69 cents. Um if you go back and look at the information that I brought to you last month, the 31 month was uh at a little over 7 cents and so it's fallen under seven cents into the six range. Uh if you if you do compare the 12-month and 24month rates, those two rates actually went up. And so the 31 month has
074actually fallen down from above seven to under six. If you if you go look at the first attachment in that group from our TW from our electrical agreement in 2016, we were actually paying seven cents in 2016. So, uh, if you want to consider, again, this is so several years away now. Have no way of knowing what's going to happen, but as of today, that looks like a no-brainer choice. Um, yeah, >> we just have to shine our crystal ball and decide if we want to do something or >> Yeah. Again, when we entered into the contract we're in now, we had no idea either. and it's worked out. But you know that's that that's a forecasting meaning what I'm telling you is you're not you're not making a decision that's going to break the
075bank. Any decision you make if you so choose to do that it's not a bad decision. It's still a great decision based on the information you have today. >> You said something about three cents. But >> right now we right now the contract we're in right now we paid a little over three cents >> because we made it several years ago. I can tell you that I I have worked with a couple of districts that have worked with Energy by five this year. So, and they're they paid 9 cents and 10 cents this year respectively because they were up now and to get in. So, I can I I know seven cents in eight years versus nine cents today. I I would just I would argue that that's a smart decision to do. Again, don't
076have to do it. I won't be sitting at the table and probably some of you won't be sitting at the table then either. Uh you know, so it's just it's an option. Again, looking out for the best interest of the district. U you know, I'm just bringing the information for you to make a decision. Cool. If >> that's something you'd like to do. >> I mean, but we're basically doubling the cost. >> You're doubling? Yeah. Yeah, >> but again, you're doubling it, but you're back to what you were paying 12 years ago, right? >> I got you. >> How difficult is it to get out of >> Once you sign it, you're >> in 31 months isn't terribly long. Remember the contract we're in right now, it's 96 months. >> Basically, future boards, not >>
077have to find money like we did. What do y'all think when you look at these trends on this report? It's all going up. >> I mean, >> yeah, >> again, yeah, when you who knows, right? >> Who knows? >> But still not a bad number. Basically puts us back where when did we sign the other contract? You said >> we signed the other contract uh 20 20 2018 maybe. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Yeah. It was in 2018, but it didn't kick in till 2024. >> Yeah. >> You know what I mean? So, yeah. >> So, this is an old contract with this energy for schools confirmation. >> Yeah, that's the history. That's the history. We We agreed to that one in 2014 and it started in 2016. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah, I attached all
078those so that you can see the history. >> Our future selves will probably thank us. >> Anybody have any questions? We have a motion and a second. So now it's time to decide if we're going to vote to consider this future power provider agreement and sign it away. So all in favor say I. >> Nobody opposes. Okay. >> I think we're going to be watch and see a good thing. >> You're probably going to see that power is like 25 cents. >> Yeah. >> We'll see. >> Supply and demand. Okay. So, the next thing is our consent agenda. There's the minutes from August 5th special meeting, a budget and uh budget amendments and donations, and approve the 2526 Bora County adjunct facility agreement on the Brazoria ISD. Anybody like to pull anything from that to
079discuss? Okay, I need a motion to accept the consent agenda. >> Motion to accept the consent agenda. >> I second. >> Thank you. Motion and Greg seconded it. All in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. >> I. All post. Nobody. All right. That leads us to close session. So we'll adjourn for close session to consider employment of professional personnel, discuss the resignation retirement of professional personnel, discuss the performance of personnel, discuss superintendent board goal setting, and consider the superintendent's contract addendum. So,