001All right, we got everybody here. Uh, we'll go ahead and get started. >> You want to do the mission statement? >> Sure. >> All right, we'll get started with the pledges and the mission statement. >> Another pledge. >> Yeah. I pledge allegiance 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 flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. >> Sir, >> the board mission statement. Through high expectations and equitable opportunity, TMISD will focus on the whole child by providing a safe environment and high quality curriculum with diverse and enriching experiences. >> All right. Do we have any public comment? >> All right, we'll get rocking and rolling here.
002So the first uh action item we have is consideration and approval of order authorizing the issuance of one or more series of districts unlimited tax school building bonds in the maximum amount of $140 million levy leveling and adorum tax for the payment thereof delegating the authority to district staff to approve and execute related documents and other matters in connection therewith. >> Mr. President, members of the board, we have um two members of our team, one from our legal team and one from our financial advisors. If you'll introduce yourself >> and we'll move forward. Welcome. >> Good afternoon. Good evening everyone. My name is Lauren Ferrero and I'm from MCL Parker Horton and we serve as bond counsel to the district and we previously assisted by the district in its successful bond election. And so this
003is the first step after the bond election to go ahead and proceed with the method of sale that the district will undertake respectively. So before you you have an order authorizing the amount of bonds in which the board of which the the constituents approved up to the maximum amount. And what we're asking you to approve today is what's called a parameter order. Many of you are probably familiar with this type of sale from the past elections and the past sales that the district has conducted. You are going to authorize an an amount not to exceed um which is equal to the voted authorization of 140 million and the district in conjunction with the financial advisor. >> You want to go ahead and introduce yourself? >> Sure. Edardo Lopez. I'm here with specialized public finance. I
004joined Mr. asked team about a year ago and we represent the district as financial advisors and I think Lauren's done a very good job at summarizing our presentation here but I can go over a little more if you'all have any questions concerns about it I'm I'm happy to to answer any questions y'all may have >> and so over the course of the next year you have 12 months in which to act on this particular order you can sell one or more series of bonds up to the total of 140 million and you will be delegating to to Mr. Dantry and Mr. Carol in order to complete those sales. So, we wanted to see if you had any questions about the process. In the past, this method has proved to be very successful to the district.
005In fact, um your district staff has traveled to New York to to sell these bonds in the past in order to get the best interest rates for the district and its taxpayers. And that's what we're asking you to do as well. Another thing that I I'll point out here is that although the voters did approve $140 million of bond, uh based on the preliminary taxable appraised values, our analysis indicates that we can issue up to 103 million this August. That amount is not final yet. Once we get the certified appraised values at the end of July, we'll finalize those figures. We'll rerun the analysis, also take a look at the market conditions, and then we'll present a different and updated analysis to the board. And as a reminder, we're constrained by the attorney general who
006will only have 50 cents, which you are all familiar with. I see nodding heads. So uh with 103 million at our disposal, um we will be able to start on every project that the uh voters authorized us to do and that in the bond c education campaign we said we would do. We'll start the uh design phase of the projects that'll take a couple years to build the band hall, the fieldhouse, pavilion maybe not as long. Um we'll start on the smaller projects uh the sensory rooms at the campuses for sped students. Obviously, we've already started on the roof at the high school. That was an emergency procurement. will start working on all of the campuses roofs as well as the two campuses that we weren't able to uh put HVAC in which is the
007intermediate and the middle school. Um we'll start on the A facility. Um every one of them. Um, and then in year two, uh, we plan to, um, sell the other 37 million and be able to finalize the bond 26, which makes the bond 26 program so much easier than 23 is we're not buying property. Um, and >> goodness. >> Um, and and so, um, um, that headache, we will have headaches. uh but uh buying land um won't be one of them. Um in a further agenda item, uh Mr. Hernandez will be briefing you on steps that we're doing with both bond 23 and bond 26. But this is really a big step in moving forward with selling the bonds and getting the money um in our uh in our bond funds. Did I miss anything?
008No, I think the only other thing that I would like to point out is on on slide five, it's a brief summary of the timeline. Uh today will mark the first step into preparing and um moving forward with this transaction. And then from now until we price it on August 18th, I'll work with the district with the rating agency underwriters, bond council here. Uh and then finally after we price and we lock in the interest rate we'll close the transaction on September 16th which that's when it's expected to close and that's when the district will receive the funds. >> So regarding the bond rating the city's been in the news a lot regarding the downgrading of their bond or their uh credit rating based on the water issues that we're facing. Um, it's important for
009us to get a good rating, but we are since we are backed by the permanent school fund. We have I don't know if it's the highest, but it's >> You did it. >> Yeah. >> And and the city doesn't have that. So, it's apples and oranges comparing us versus the city. Good deal. Any other questions, comments? It is. >> Okay. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation to approve the order authorizing the issuance of one or more series of the district's unlimited tax school building bonds in the maximum amount of 140 million. Leveling an addorium tax for the payment thereof. delegating the authority to district staff to approve and execute related documents and other matters in connection therewith. All right, do you have a motion? >> Motion second. Mr. >>
010Chapa secondary votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Craig Chapa >> yes. >> Ryan Boon >> yes. >> Kim Boon >> yes. Marty Hum carries 40. >> All right, next one here is >> congratulations. >> Yes, thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Successful sales and really low interest rates. >> There you go. Thank you. >> Is the Fed meeting before the proposed sale? Do you know? >> There's a Fed meeting in July. I don't think there's one in August. And what's the September date? I'm not that far out. item. Okay. >> All right. >> I'm trying to get this. >> All right. Number two, discuss and consider renewal of an annual financial audit services contract. Mr. Carol, >> uh I didn't include the uh proposal in there, but it is it is boiler plate. It's
011the standard agreement that we have. Uh remember last year we used Lever Keynik for a while, but then they kind of got bought out by Green Growth. And so we're just going to go another year with green growth. And so all we're asking tonight is just to approve uh for our annual that requires us to uh perform every year. >> All right. Any questions? President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the attached engagement letter from Green Growth CPAs for audit services for the fiscal year ending August 31st, 2026 in the amount of $41,242 as presented. >> We have a motion. >> We'll make that motion. I move that we uh approve Green Grove Audit Services. >> Okay. Second, >> Mr. Boom. >> Pariaga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent.
012Rick Chapa, >> yes. >> Ryan Boon, >> yes. >> Kim Boon, >> yes. >> M absent. Four. All right. The next one here is report only. It's a preliminary budget update. >> Mr. Cal, >> emphasis on preliminary. Very, very preliminary. uh just to kind of keep going uh for next year. Revenue assumptions uh always always try to be uh somewhat conservative. I plan on uh once we tie down this year's ADA, we'll I'll I'll use that again for next year. Uh the tax values, we got a preliminary values, it was less than a 1% increase, so we're going to stay steady on that. Always use I always use a 98% tax collection rate. that has worked out pretty good. And just remember, we're in the middle of the bianium. So, we're in the sec we're
013going to go into the second year and that's what the legislature approved. Uh there's uh affecting TM there's uh just a few uh things that affect us in that go into affect the second year of the benion. Um of course, talking about the revenues, uh one thing that I really used to look to look at to next year is well, how did we settle up this year and how did things look this year? Obviously, we're still uh the pink the first pink submission is due next week for the summer. That's where we're going to finalize our ADA. Uh we're doing things a little differently now. Used to at the end of the year, we submitted all the whole year ADA. Uh now with the new way, we submit every six weeks the AD the ADA
014already gets submitted to TEA. They already have our first five six weeks. they kind of I think they copied our fifth six weeks now for the data but once the six uh the final six weeks data gets submitted uh we'll get a good idea but we are still same thing we're on a new system so we're still looking at some of the numbers right now I can tell you that the ESL bilingual dual language numbers are not picking up correctly they're not getting reported to the state I think we're coding them but we don't have something in the system it's not being it's not being uh uh sent to the state correctly I want to double check the early ed data. Uh and then going the other way, we preliminary we're showing really some significant
015increases in our special ed uh populations in our resource and in our self-contained and even in our mainstream. So, uh even bigger numbers are are good, but obviously we're going to check those and make sure those those are accurate, too. And it's looking really good on career and technology. Those numbers are are significantly higher than they were the year before. But we just want to double check and make sure that uh that that looks right. So once we get that first submission in next week, uh then I'll have a better idea of if this is what actually happened this year, I can use that to to project for next year and get a good handle on next year. And then like I said, uh tax revenues, uh we're we're in a pretty good place with
016Flint Hills. They're they got their big tax break a couple of years ago. Uh there's no no big significant changes to their valuation. So they're going to stay happy. So they won't be protesting. So no no worries about predicting no worries about Flint Hills. CC Polymers still, you know, just sitting there, but they still appear solvent. They're still paying their bills, which is very good. So uh hoping that will continue next year. Um and then uh you know, we got our preliminary values. Usually usually they're a little bit low when the when the certified values come in, but obviously just like we talked about uh in calculating what our bond sale is going to be when we get the certified values in July, that'll be the last figure that that I use to see uh
017what next year's going to look like. And then uh because we have very flat no significant increase in tax values, no increase or decrease, I don't expect any more tax compression. meaning uh the M tax rate I predict will will be identical to what it was last year. Uh it's not going to change. And then because the things that can affect it is our certified values that come in in July. And then once we send that data to TA, they will determine whether we need to compress uh our our tax rate anymore. I don't I don't anticipate that. And then what we actually collect also has an impact, but obviously we don't know that till the next year. But uh those are still things that are up in the air and could muscle maintenance could
018change uh that could affect our tax um >> uh revenue increases. The only thing that's affecting us next year is they are slightly increasing. They did increase significantly the special education rates uh for our funding, but they're also going to go up a very very small amount again for the second uh year of the bienium. So it won't be a huge effect. And they're they're also increasing the uh the teacher incentive aotment uh designations. They're going to go up a little bit but not not a significant amount. And then um obviously we're getting funded for the bienium for the two years. Uh we're still getting all the allotments that that were given last year. The biggest one is the teacher retention aotment which is where we get the $8,000 for our experienced teachers and the
0194,000 for the three to four years. So we will get that. That's the biggest aotment that we get. It's about 1.7 $1.8 million is what we get for that uh uh funding. And then just a reminder, we took everybody off the uh we did have teachers, librarians, counselors, and nurses on the teacher scale. We've taken everybody off the teacher scale except librarians are still on the teacher scale, but everybody else is placed on the uh the certified compensation uh uh pay grades. >> But let me ask this question. It's probably a Vanessa question. Uh and it's budget neutral because we'll be reimbursed. Do we know approximately how many staff is going to be moving to the 4,000 and the 8,000 that weren't on it last year? >> I don't know it off the top of
020my head, but I mean it's not it's not a big we had a really small >> our our teachers with less than 5 years experience is very very minimal. Okay, >> might be it might increase this year but last year it was very minimal. I don't know the number, but I can tell you I'm betting it was less than 10. It wouldn't. And then uh one thing too, I'm looking at this year, how this year's settling up, so I can see if there's any gaps in the budget, if there's anything that needs to be adjusted for next year, if I missed the mark this year. Um, we did adopt a balanced budget, which was great. I'm like, we're verifying the total refined ADA, but right now we're going to double check it, but right now
021it's it's down about 20 from last from what I budgeted, which is what what last year's number was, but we're still and next week is the first submission. Uh the second submissions uh in July, I think it'll probably be up for our July meeting. So, we also have once we come back, we got a couple of weeks to really scrub that data and make sure everything's right and make sure we're getting the maximum uh ADA. Uh then I'm I'm going to, you know, look at salary savings, look at look at how we're going to uh settle up this year so I can make sure that I can adjust it for anything that I need to adjust for next year. Investment income is still down and shard revenue continues to decrease. So, I got to take
022that into effect. And then I do have some estimated budget shortfalls. Subs is look like it's going to be more than what I budgeted. Uh security and then uh really the special education evaluation contract services that's really kind of blown up the budget this year. So I need to look at that, see how this year's going to settle up and see if we need to uh do any tweaking for next year. And that's it. So that was very very preliminary, very uh once we have our next meeting um we'll we'll be talking about um you know obviously we're going to look at everything to see what we can do if we can do raises at least guarantee maybe the teachers a step uh what we can do and we'll we'll be coming with more finalized
023numbers in in July obviously and then we get the values at the end of July and then we'll um we'll get this budget uh done. It's a little bit easier this year because there's no massive changes with the bianium. But really want to look at this year, see what's see what happened this year, plug any holes, fix any things that uh might have been off so we can get a better picture for next year. But obviously the number one priority, right, sir, is if we can give raises, we're going we're getting we're going to try to give maximize the raises, maximize uh compensation. So, so this is Steve Matri talking, not don't hold Philip Carol because we come at things a little differently. Um, he's a bean counter. Um, I have a very, very high
024degree of confidence in visiting with him and looking at some data that we're not going to have any kind of a deficit budget at the end of the day. Um, I may I may have egg on my face when we get the audit, but uh I would I'm very optimistic about that and um that's a huge priority in um balancing our budget, living within our means, understanding that there's just some things we can't control, but we try to. Um the second thing is um about half of our employees use um our insurance and those premiums have gone up and that doesn't impact everybody but it impacts a lot of our employees and and we recognize it. Now, there's obviously no way that our staff's going to see the compensation increases that they did last year
025because those were um um as many of our employees will tell me, well, we got the raise from the state, not from TMISD. And that's that's right. They they came from the state. But a lot of the raises, the $8,000 range, this the district um budgeted that increase without any reimbursement aotment because it was the right thing to do. Um, I'm optimistic, not as optimistic as I am about having a balanced budget, but as optimistic that we're going to be able to give some type of compensation increase to everyone. I don't know what that's going to look like, but I know that's the expectations that the board has, >> and we're going to work hard. Um, we're going to ask a lot of people in this room to stop spending. Uh, and sometimes that's difficult
026to do because unlike more traditional budgets where um when school starts, you're on a new budget, we have to do what, six weeks of school >> with with the current budget. And that's that's difficult. So what we what we ask particularly our principles to do is to only purchase things that we need to start school bare minimum um and then um wait till um the new budget. also um things that can be purchased out of bond funds. We want to utilize that. Um but that that's Have I said anything that makes you real uncomfortable? >> Not yet. Um, but I wanted to give you a um some some my interpretation of Phillips. Uh, I'm telling you, Philip Carol's the best in the business. He's the best um uh fiscal person I've ever had opportunity to
027work with. Uh, puts in a crazy hours, crazy hours here at the school district. We're lucky to have him. I agree with that. >> I'm glad you mentioned >> any other questions. >> Well, just a comment. I'm glad that you mentioned teacher insurance. That is important. >> It is very important. >> Very important. >> Um what we hope we can do along with compensation for our teachers. That that's important. And I'm glad that we did what was right with those numbers that came from the state last year because sitting in SLI this week, I learned that not all districts did that and they kept the money to just be able to, you know, function. So, >> yeah, you know, every district does what ultimately what's in their best interest and and not all districts look
028alike. Um but um I think um going from a $3.8 million deficit, which wasn't that long ago, um and I think Mr. Choa, I think that was the primary reason that um you wanted to be on this board. >> Correct. Fund balance. >> Yeah, >> it's crucial. It's important. I never want to be in a situation where we're circling the drain. Like they say, that should never happen. We should not be in that situation where we are praying that nothing breaks and nothing happens because we don't have the funds, you know. So hopefully we we'll have, you know, at least what two to three months operating, you know, and hopefully slowly we can build it up. >> That one district had what, $500? >> Yes. $500. You imagine that >> tough. Okay. Thank you, Philip.
029All right, that was the number three report only. Next one is discuss and consider approval of CTE furniture pins. Mr. President, members of the board, this is a this is a fun item and we've been talking furniture for a long time and a long time and I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Heranas. Good evening. Uh we've reached the uh point in the timeline of CTE construction where we need to go ahead and get the furniture ordered so that when we open up we'll have all the furniture in there. On uh May the 15th, we posted an RFP uh for uh proposals to furnish the uh the CTE building. Uh the bids were due on May 29th and we had two successful biders. We had uh school specialty and Texas Wilson. Uh in your
030your packet, you've got the uh the breakdown of the uh the ranking matrix. If you just kind of look at it quickly, the proposed bid, Texas Wilson came in about 160,000 uh less. Uh so they were awarded the max points for that. Uh the next two re relevant experience and capacity and past performance and related work. Um, Texas Wilson only listed in the last 40 years they only listed five school districts that they'd worked with. They predominantly have worked with large corporations and higher institutions. Um, school specialty on the other hand within the last couple of years has worked with over 75 school districts. So, we wanted the the importance of working with the knowing the the school's budgets and being able to fill our needs with the the furniture at a price that we
031can afford was important to us. The next two items, uh, the proposed co-op, they they match. They both went with Omnia. Omnia is the purchasing co-op that we want for this for our maximum return, uh, on the funding from it. And then for reputation, they they both matched. Other considerations, uh, Texas Wilson, a couple of things. Their overall umbrella insurance was significantly less, uh, than, uh, school specialty and they, uh, substitute some of the items that we requested. School specialty had zero substitutions for the request as a reason to move the matrix. Uh, so when you do the total points, uh, school specialty came out ahead. Uh, in addition, add additionally, school specialty is also offering a 1% supply rebate, which is going to be a little bit over $12,000 that we can use to
032purchase supplies for the CTE building. Uh, also here tonight, I have Miss Sylvia Martinez and Miss Data Martinez from School Specialty. if you have any questions for them. >> What I like regarding school specialty is um the collaboration they had with Mr. Alvarado and his staff regarding what what do the teachers want in in these rooms. Um and um without knowing they were going to get the bid, they they worked with us um and I appreciate that. Any additional questions or with the if with the board approval tonight, the furniture will get they'll get a PO tomorrow and the furniture should arrive here in early October, late September, early October to be installed. >> So, with all of our CTE options that we have, and TM has a lot, um we're very blessed. Um y'all
033have worked with all of those CTEs and labs and all of that. So, you know what all those rooms I guess we Okay, awesome. >> In the interest of time, I didn't uh I didn't publish, but if you look towards the back of it, there's renderings for all the classrooms for the for the furniture that they'll provide. >> Will there be other furniture or equipment purchases that we'll need to >> Yes. the very next right the very next agenda items is >> the next item is going to separate us >> from other CTE >> it's a it's it's a it's very impressive item >> this furniture bid is for all the offices all the office furniture and all the classroom furniture Any question? >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation
034that the board approve the cooperative Omnia purchase of furniture for the CTE building through school specialty for a total of 1,288,15.34. Right. You have a motion. >> I'll make that motion as pres. >> Second. >> Cha. >> Paulya votes yes. Leo Gonzalez is absent. Rick Choa, >> yes. >> Brian Boon, >> yes. >> Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Human is absent. >> Awesome. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. That's it. I'm proud of it. >> Next item here is discuss and consider approval of CTE industrial mechanics lab equipment bins. Mr. President, members of the board, Mr. Alvarado, if you could come up and um um join Mr. Hernandez. Um this is um a a really exciting purchase for our CTE building and our kids. And um Gabe, you want to kick it off? >> Sure. Uh so um
035before we started the CTE building we felt that the biggest need for our kids considering how close we are to the energy resources here we've got uh you know several refineries we've got wind turbines we've got electrical everything yet there is not a single program that we know of in our area that hits all that in one shot. Um so reason being is we're about to find out. Um so the uh basically what we've done or what we've is uh we went to Coastal Bin College. They have a lab there on the Alice campus that has the trainers for everything. uh electrical, wind turbine, hydraulics, um every single almost every single piece of equipment you might find in a uh refinery or in the energy uh position, electrical, so on and so forth. And we're
036going to buy that entire lab just exactly as it is in Coastal Bin College um and put it into the new industrial mechanics u room in the CTE building. So what do our kids walk away with? They can either walk away with a level one certificate um which gives them basic electrical basic pneumonics and basic u um electrical and um wind turbine. So the hope though is that they're able to get their complete associates in that program in which they're get somewhere around 11 micro credentials that allows them to work anywhere they want in the in the energy industry. Um and there's no school that even comes close to having that. Uh so what we'll do is uh related classes will work their freshman year and then it is pretty much an online program and
037then Coastal Bay College sends their professor in and they work on the actual trainers uh when it when the professor is there. Hopefully a couple years from now once that we get to like probably year two uh we'll be able to hire our own person. Um it's just not cost effective to do it for just one semester or one class, one year. Um besides we have we have to advertise it now that we're going to get it. Um so it'll be I'd say our kids will be you know leaving here making be able to make 30 40 bucks an hour easily if you're willing to climb up on the top of a wind turbine. I'm not but then it's it's it's a lot more. Um but it it'll be something extraordinary for our kids. Um
038Patrick, do you want to talk about price? >> Uh this is well I'll a little bit about the equipment. It's very specific equipment. It's uh manufactured through Armatrol. Uh it's a soul source vendor in Texas. So we had to reach out to tech labs uh to get this quote. They're providing a tips quote. So this is through a purchasing co-op. Also uh this equipment is very specific. It will it for training our students in electrical specializing in wind turbines and solar power and then also for hydraulics and fluid transfer uh is the equipment. Uh it also comes uh the price also includes a one-year for access to their uh their dig digital libraries so that they can access the software and programs for the curriculum on this. So we're looking at about $470,000 for this
039equipment. Again, very specific equipment for this training, but it'll set us apart, as Mr. Mayor Matri said, it will set us apart from all the other programs. >> I think more importantly though, when a kid finishes their program, then they're good to they're going to find us. >> Yeah, that's important having our kids job ready, you know, when they walk out the door. And that may not be the end to where they, you know, but at least they got a starting place and they go out and start making money and and start their pathway to a career. So that's important. But you mentioned the digital library and it's we get one year. >> One year >> and then what about after that? >> We'd have to resubscribe the year that fee is at this time
040the yearly fee is >> uh $4,310. >> The last page. >> Yes. So, I see it says installation and orientation. Who's going to move all this equipment? >> The dome. Brand new. >> It's going brand new into the building. Yeah. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah, we haven't gotten it yet. >> So, it'll come install it. >> Okay. >> And then train the tables for it to go on there. >> Okay. >> What's the lead time on this? >> Same thing. If we purchase now, it'll scheduled to be here in October, early October. >> And the kids will start this program when? >> We'll be able to start in January. >> So the uh the level one certificate is only a three semester course, three semesters. So if you know, we can get even a sophomore
041uh ready to go and you know, a junior ready to go. Uh the associates of course is going to take probably about three years um just because of you know kids got other things to do band and and everything else. It's going to be hard to fit all of that in their schedule. Um for a freshman and associates applied associates won't be a problem. They'll be able to you know finish and and uh be job ready with those 11 micro credentials and they'll be they'll be good to go. >> Coastal Ben's going to teach it. >> Yeah. Uh yes. This is I mean this is impressive when you see names like Allan Bradley and PLC and that is true industry direct industry stuff. So that's that's impressive. >> I I don't know I'm not familiar
042with those. >> Yeah, we use those in the refiner. Allen Bradley is a major um like compressors. Um >> so to the way from what the post is they'll come up and put a problem into it and the kids will have to problem solve their way out. >> Yeah. So this is like logic stuff too. This isn't just mechanical. This is like logic first out. What shut it down? How do we That's impressive. >> Yeah, these kids will definitely be a step ahead of everybody else. >> That's the goal. >> Exciting. >> Very exciting. >> And it will be our number one. Like we talked to kids at the beginning. I want the job that pays this >> tech right now making anywhere from $60 to $80 an hour. Monster medals, right? >> Yeah, master
043medals. >> That's good stuff. Very impressive. Okay, any other any other questions, comments? >> Okay, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the cooperative tips purchase of Amatrol lab equipment, tools, online curriculum, installation, training, and freight for a total of $473,110. >> All right, we have a motion. I'll make the motion that the board approve the cooperative tips purchase of amateur lab equipment tools online curriculum installation training and freight for a total of $473,110. >> All right. Second >> second. >> Pariaga votes yes. Gonzalez is absent. >> Rick Chapa >> yes. >> Brian Boon >> yes. >> Kim Boon >> yes. >> Marty Himemen is absent. And I will reiterate both items four the CT furniture and five the um industrial mechanics lab um are funded by
044bond 23. Awesome. >> And again this is another sign of which impresses me about everybody in this room all of our faculty is y'all are always thinking ahead. And I I think that's to be appreciated and we don't stop enough to appreciate that. But this shows again that we're not just going through the motion. So, thank y'all for that. Y'all deserve a round of applause for that. >> Uh, next one here is discuss and consider bus purchases through cooperative quote by board number 722-23. Mr. President, members of the board, this purchase is part of bond 26. Um, and we're able to do this and um, reimburse based on the election order that you previously did, Mr. Hernandez. >> You may recall this uh, handout I did at the April board meeting and it showed the
045uh, to be compliant in uh, 2029 with the seat belts, we need to purchase 19 buses. And with bond 2026, we want to break that purchase up. And in 2026, we'd like to purchase six of those buses. I'm requesting that we get five uh regular ed buses and one special needs bus. Uh we're going through a byboard. We're going through all the co-ops tonight. We're going to use a byboard quote uh with Thomas bus to purchase these six buses. >> They will have >> What's the delivery anticipated? Again, if we can get a PO uh tomorrow, which Philip assures me we can if the board approves, uh we will probably have the uh about four of the buses by uh the end of July uh 1st of August. >> Cuz I know we struggle with
046AC. >> Yes. >> Um up until probably Halloween. >> So quicker we can get them the better. >> Yes. As soon as I get the PO tomorrow, I'll get a definite uh >> So we have 19 routes, correct? uh with special ed. Yes. >> And so we purchased four buses with 23 money >> or three four buses. >> Well, uh two two of them were the small buses. They they weren't route buses. They're the activity buses. >> So two regular and two and now we're purchasing six. >> So we're making a dent in that promise of 17. >> Yes. >> Okay. And by 28 they're all replaced. >> That's exactly right. >> Next year we're going to go for seven next year and then six the last year. >> Hey, good job. >> Any questions?
047>> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the cooperative byboard purchase of 572 passenger Thomas buses for the amount of $83,500, 139 passenger special needs Thomas bus for the total amount of $156,500 and the buy board fee of $800 for a grand total total of $960,800. >> All right, we have a motion. I'll make the motion that we approve the cooperative byboard purchase of five Senate passenger Thomas buses for the total amount of 83,500 139 passenger special needs Thomas bus for the total amount of 156,500 and a byboard fee of $800 for a grand total of $960,800. Second that second, yes. Leo Gonzalez, absent. Rick Chapa, >> yes. >> Ryan Boon, >> yes. >> Kim, >> yes. >> Marty Himemenz, >> absent. All right. >> Thank you.
048>> Uh, next one here is for uh first reading only. Discuss and consider revisions to DEC local. >> Mr. President, members of the board, this this um has been a lengthy process of uh discussions with the um executive team on um three policies that we felt um needed taken to the board um and given an explanation of why we think it's in the district's best interest to change it as they are currently written. I'll let Miss Riggs take it from here. Good evening trustees. Uh board policy DEEC is our board policy regarding compensation and benefits leaves and absences. The first change that we'd like to make happens to be in the clause under availability which is on page two of seven of the policy. Um currently policy states that at the beginning of the school
049year our employees are fronted 5 days of state leave which is required by law and then our local policy says that we front them 5 days of local leave as well. So on day one when an employee starts or even if they don't start they have 10 days of leave that they're able to utilize. We would like to change policy that states our local to make changes to our local leave. And really, we're not taking away any leave. It's just a matter of timing. We'd like to make our local leave available when our employees have worked one full day um in their positions. And the reason for that is we've had occasions where we've onboarded employees um they're they're act they have access to their 10 days or for whatever reason for another they never
050start and then they end up resigning. And so we have now paid them for 10 days and we're not able to recuperate the any of the days that we've fronted them. And we feel as the fiscal stewards of the district that we need to find a balance as to how we can give our employees their benefit but at the same time make sure that we're protecting the district's assets. So that is the first change that we are requesting as um is the availability of the leave. >> So so let's let's take this and discuss it a little bit. They'll still get five days from the state even if they don't work any uh right now they get 10. They get five local and five state. Um but there has been not a lot but enough
051enough to get our attention of people that um have gotten the benefit and hadn't come back to work. The other variable that I want you to for full transparency is the the issue that even though I'm going to make the recommendation, it bothers me that um we could have a a female or male on maternity leave and um they have the baby this time of year and they're out of sick days for whatever reason, um they're only going to get five days of leave versus 10 if if we change the policy. And I and I want to make you aware of that. It's it still is not going to change my recommendation and you can you have the autonomy to do what you think's in the best, but I wanted you to consider that. Did
052I get that right? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. You can't you can't build language that that avoids that. >> Well, we can we can keep it what we have right now. >> No, but language that avoids to where extenduating circumstances would give them the 5 days sooner. >> I'm not sure if we vetted that. Do you know if if that's why this is first >> FMLA protected leave then? >> Yeah, that's what I was about to say. >> You know what I mean? Because that would be if they had a birth of a child that'd be FMLA protected. >> Yes. If they were >> that's just something to think about. But maybe that is something that we >> So, so that's the beauty of first reading. It it you're not adopting policy and it gives
053us an opportunity to bring that question back or that answer back to you. >> Yeah. No, if someone's on FMLA, I don't think that they should have to come. Well, first of all, if they're on FMLA, they're unable to come and fulfill that one day, right? Because they're not even released to come back to fulfill that one day. So then the variable would be if they're on either intermittent or FMLA leave then the five days would be fronted to them so they wouldn't lose anything. >> Yeah. If it's if it's from a licensed physician all that legal language. >> All right. Let's research that. >> Okay. >> Yes sir. >> I think that that's the best first option. Right. The second question I have though is is there still an opportunity for teachers to donate
054locally? >> An emergency, >> right? >> There's a you have a committee, don't you? >> Yes. It's for those that have a catastrophic illness and they use all of their leave and then we have something else called extended sick leave. um if they use that leave and they still are going to be out due to the catastrophic illness, they can request with medical certification for sick leave pool to be enacted. We have a committee. I pull the committee. It's usually assistant principles from every campus and the principal from ACC. Um we talk about the individual and their illness. If they agree to the pool, then we do send that out districtwide to see um if anybody's willing to donate. >> Awesome. >> Good. The other two you're going to like. Not that you don't like
055this one, but it it's much more employer friendly. >> Yes. The next one is under medical certification. Um, number one, it currently says the employee if the employee is absent more than three consecutive work days because of medical illness or illness to the immediate family, they are required to bring us a medical physic uh a doctor's release before they're able to return. We're going to be a little bit more flexible and we're going to extend that to 5 days. They can be be out 5 days before we ask for medical certification in order for them to return. >> And the thought process behind that one. >> So, one of the things that is really hard for us is when somebody has a death in the family. >> Um, and it also kind of goes in
056line with the next policy that we're changing, which is discretionary leave. So if they have a death and they're out for more than three days of personal, our current policy says that you get docked regardless of your leave status. And we >> Okay. So this is time bereavement leave into this too. >> It kind of we're looking at >> I have a very difficult time asking someone who's lost their spouse, kid, hey, you know, we're going to dock it two days because I mean a week is still a short time. >> Yes. Again, I would look in the language that separates because you're talking medical leave, >> right? That that that means they're sick as opposed to >> they're leaving for brief. >> Correct. We also have some that they get the flu or what
057have you and sometimes just 3 days isn't enough and so it is hard for them to go to the doctor, they'll get the excuse and then they just don't get better. So then they're out again. So then we're requesting more leave. So, we just feel the 5 days um in general for medical, but we're also thinking of that bereavement piece. It's just better for our employees than the 3 days. >> So, that's the reason we're making that. >> Sometimes you can't even get into the doctor within 3 days. >> Yeah, that's true. >> These days, >> we we Miss Riggs also took the time to see what our neighbors are doing. >> Um and we're we're consistent with their policies. Yes. Um and then the last change has to do with discretionary use. So for
058our personal leave, like I mentioned earlier, our board policy currently says discretionary use of state personal leave shall not exceed three consecutive work days. This is a policy that we follow um with Fidelity. Um it's not a very popular one. So, if you're out for more than 3 days for personal, like I mentioned earlier, regardless if you have leave balances, whether local or state, after the third day, you get docked. So, we have allowed employees to be out 5 days. Um, they're paid and they're able to use their leave on for the first three days if they have leave available, but the next two days they're doctorred daily rate. And so the change that we're proposing is that we add a clause at the end of that that says unless the superintendent grants an exception
059based on the factors considered by the employee supervisor. So in this manner the employee can request an exception from Mr. Van Matri and he can look at the impact on district operations, whether we're able to get a sub, different things like that to determine if on a case-byase basis he can make an exception to the rule so that our employees can use their leave. This won't be in any situation where we give leave to our employees. Our employees have to have the leave, but at least it'll allow them to use their leave. >> Well, I appreciate that because one, it allows your discretion. I mean, there's not everything is always black and white. >> You got a grandchild being born in Washington State. >> Sure. >> We're not going to keep >> That's right. I
060I like the flexibility. Um and then I just know most teachers end up when they retire, what they have so much sick leave that they never use because most of our teachers do come to work and don't they just don't use their sick leave. So, I appreciate that. Yeah, these are all good. I mean, employees are our most important thing, right? Absolutely. So, I I think the biggest factor outside of parents, giving them the, you know, some benefits when you can is always good. So, we'll bring it back and we'll research number one and we'll go from there. >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Great job. >> You're still out. >> All right. >> Okay. Next one here is discuss and consider a resolution of the Tulsa Midway Independent School District Board finding a public
061purpose in compensating employees during the district-wide late start in immediate closure due to severe weather. Mr. President, members of the board, it seems like this is a redundant request. Uh but we we have to have your approval in order to do what we want to do. Miss Riggs. So, um, yes, this is a housekeeping item that last week of school, we had some, uh, we had a lot of rain. Um, as a result, we on that Wednesday before graduation. Uh, we had to, in the best interest of our district, um, do a delayed start of two hours. Um, due to the rain, there was also some electrical issues at the intermediate. So, we ended up having to cancel school for the day. So, this would allow us to pay our non-exempt staff so that we're
062not in any violation of uh Fair Labor Standards Act. Good. >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the res resolution of the Tlosa Midway Independent School District Board finding a public purpose in compensating employees during the districtwide late start and intermediate campus closure due to severe weather. >> Do I have a motion? Make a >> I'll make a motion um that the board of trustees approve the resolution as presented. >> Mr. Chapa second. >> Paulago, yes. Leo Gonzalez, absent. Rick Champa, >> yes. >> Ryan Boon, >> yes. >> Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Okay. All right. Next one here. >> Can we read the resolution? >> Oh, read the resolution. Okay. All right. Here we go. Resolution of the Tulso Midway Independent School District board finding
063a public purpose in compensating employees during the district-wide late start and immediate closure due to se severe weather. Whereas Tulos Midway Independent School District is a public school located in Corpus Christine, Oasis County, Texas. And whereas on May 20th, 2026, due to safety concerns related to severe weather conditions, district administration implemented a 2-hour delayed start to allow for safer travel conditions for students and staff. Furthermore, due to the loss of electricity at the intermediate campus, the campus was closed for the day. Whereas menu ISD board policy DEA local allows all regular employees to be paid for their regular duty scheduled if the board adopts a resolution or takes other action establishing such purpose and parameters. And whereas the district's board of trustees is authorized by Texas Education Code section 45105 to to expand funds to
064the district for purposes necessary in the in the conduct of public schools as determined by the board and will maintain sufficient control over expenditures to ensure public purpose is accomplished. And whereas the board finds that paying the salary of personnel during the district-wide delayed start is necessary to maintain morale among district districts workforce to reduce employee turnover, encourage the safety of all stu employees and their children and fair treatment of employees who could not arrive to work on time due to the affected school operations associated with the anticipated IC travel conditions. uh to avoid the unnecessary expenditures associated with the payment of overtime should not should non-exempt employees be asked to make up the missed hours and to reduce administrative costs. And whereas the board finds that the use of public funds to pay salary
065of personnel during the district-wide delay and intermediate closure on May 20, 266 serves a substantial public purpose. Now therefore be it resolved that all of the above recital are adopted as findings of fact and are incorporated into made and made part of this resolution for all purposes to lod shall pay all applicable employees where who were unable to drive on time who are unable to arrive on time and all employees located in the intermediate who are unable to work due to electrical issues on May 20th 2026 midway shall pay all non-exempt employees for the hours they would have worked due to the decision to delay the start of the district or due to the intermediate campus closure due to severe weather. The board of trustees hereby determines these payments serve public purpose, retain sufficient control
066over expenditures to ensure public purpose is served and finds the district will receive a return benefit. Be it further resolved that the superintendent of schools is authorized by this board to take such further actions necessary and appropriate to implement the intent of this resolution without further bond action. Approved pass on this 15th day of June by the Philos Midway Independent School District. One question I have reading this >> is icy, >> huh? >> The icy part. >> Yeah, I saw the icy part. It should say wet conditions. But when it says here uh be paid if the board adopts a resolution or takes other action establishing such a purpose or parameters. Is there some way we can make this to where you don't have to adopt the resolution every hope so I don't know something
067to ask the one >> I will get with legal to >> because it says we adopt a resol or we take other action establishing a purpose and parameter. So maybe we can have a policy that has this in there. >> I'll be off for that. >> Yes. something. >> It sounds like it's something where we bring it to the board one time maybe like at the beginning of the year. >> Yeah. And the IC needs to be changed to severe weather with travel conditions. >> All right. Good job. >> That it that's it. Okay. >> All right. The next one here is report only to Tom TM bond 23 and bond 26 update. Okay. Let me start by I've given you a um a budget couple pages. I want to I want to reference this
068because um this is more of a a micro dissection of the $170 million. Um Phillips is more of a a a macro a much broader categories, but this this breaks it down. Um, and so we both, he keeps his budget and I keep mine, and then we get together and we reconcile. And there'll be times, um, that that I haven't caught an expenditure that I'll have to, um, I think the last one was I forgot to pay the architects. Uh, uh, and so, uh, I I was getting real excited. We had more money than we really did. But um this is broken down into nine categories um with all the categories that you'll recognize. Um most of them are fairly completed with the exception of obviously the junior high. Um even though we have spent
069a bunch of money for design and land um and CTE um that's why the the majority of the 170 million is still in the bank. Um at the end of the day a little over $9 million for the natiatorum. Um the CTE center um including furniture is almost 39 million. uh the junior high with um everything we've I've updated that um construction cost when we when we started this budget that $85 million was at 70. Um athletics was a $5 million uh had $122,000 for the high school elevator. um safety and security 5.5 million infrastructure um including the high school HVAC and the primary air conditioning um a little over 11 million um transportation 1.1 and then some miscellaneous expenditures that are uh identified there. The largest being um the band equipment uh for a
070total expenditure of 170, 308,000. Um our revenues of the bond uh and we've sold all the bond 23 bonds is uh 164 million 625,000. We've incurred um over uh 5.8 8 million in interest um for a total of revenue of to date I'm a little behind on the interest of $170,441 and with a balance of $133,000. Um there could be um an IRS implication because of the amount of interest that we've earned. Um Philillip, you want to carry the ball with this? what you've done and we talked about >> arbitrage >> where the IRS you're selling tax tax exempt bonds so the the interest that people are earning on the bonds is not is tax exempt so uh they look at it like well if we invest this money if we earn too what they
071consider there's a formula we might have to return some of our interest savings back to the IRS uh so I we've obtained a firm that specializes and the arbitrage calculations. I've sent them everything of all the interest that we've earned and everything that we've done so far. And so they're doing their analysis to see um if we have any potential where we have to uh pay any money back to the IRS um because we're earning too much interest on it. I think there's several factors that go into it. I am not an arbitrage expert. That's why I these people to do it for me. Um, but we'll we'll know here pretty sure they can I think project out. A lot of it has to do with how fast you spend the money. Um, and we're
072only a little slow on 23 because of the junior high, but once we start constructing that money is going to going to get spent. U but, uh, we'll keep you all updated as soon as I find out uh, what the arbitrage uh, impact will be. uh we'll have to start backing some of this interest back out because it won't be it won't all be available for us to put in. >> Is the formula on that for each year standalone or do they factor in the prior previous years because >> and I know it doesn't kick in until it it doesn't kick in until like the third year here. It's it's not something that kicks in immediately. Uh but they have all the data and they can kind of project, you know, cuz once Virginia construction
073starts going, we're going to start making those big uh construction and progress payments. So that that will go down uh pretty quick. Uh but we are we are earning some interest right now because that over, you know, we still got from CDs and the pools, you know, we still got I've still got about 120 million still in the bank. Uh, like I said, most of the junior high gets go that's going to take care of that. >> Any questions? You're completely up to date on bond 23 budget. >> Okay, Patrick. Also provided you a a little cheat sheet with the uh the projects. I'll go over quickly the ones that we are ongoing right now. Uh, the primary project, even though we're substantially complete, we've already reached a year uh on the warranty and we're
074out of the year warranty. Uh we had issues with the uh insulation on the uh in the boxes uh coming undone and Lennux repaired it all. Uh they sent entire new panels. It was a factory uh defect on how they uh secured it with the glue. It failed. So they replaced all those panels in good faith. Perry Mechanical is extending uh another year warranty on the panel. So if we have any issues, Perry Mechanical will pick up the tab to replace anything. Uh during the life or during the one year, we had issues with some control boards. Uh we lost a couple of motors. Of course, Lennux and Perry Mechanical covered all that. Uh but we're still monitoring uh three units that we've had hiccups with them. They haven't failed or anything, but they've reset
075themselves uh a couple of times. So that's why I mentioned that that we're not fully closed down this project because we're still monitoring a couple of units. >> Sorry. Yes, ma'am. >> After our extended warranty is gone, what are we doing after that? >> If the if the insulation fails, pay >> or if anything goes wrong with >> Well, we still like the compressors are 5 years. So, we still got multiple years, but as far as like the actual box in the beginning, uh the warranty ends in a year, but that's why Perry's extending that one. Anything else? Any other repairs? If they're out of warranty, then it would be our responsibility to get them repaired. >> Okay. >> And just based on the issues that we had with Linux, I got with our team,
076our architect, um our mechanical u company, um and we don't think we're going to go with Linux as we replace the units. We're probably going to look at a different uh package unit. Well, I think one of the big issues because we're going to be at the end of the day, we're going to be in a really good place, but we have to do everything possible to stay in a really good place. >> Yeah, that's what I was saying. >> And that means being proactive with routine maintenance and building in a budget to where we don't get in a position where we have so much deferred maintenance that we have to look at another bond because we don't want to do that. Uh we can't do that. We can't do that right now. >> We
077can't do that. So, um, we're, um, it's a big deal to protect our investment. >> Yeah, that's basically where I was going with that. Making sure that we're >> Do you all build PVM plans, preventive maintenance plans? Do you all build PVM plans like trip testing and all that? Checking wiring. >> The wiring not so often. It's It's mainly the the biggest thing for us to get the most out of this is washing the coils. Our our environment is so corrosive. So yearly uh cleaning of the coils, it gets the most life out of it. And of course checking, we have a company we pay to get the filters. And while they're doing filters, they do inspections on the belts and they report to us. If there's any loose belts, anything out of the ordinary,
078they'll report to us. In addition to right now, we currently don't have anyone HVAC. We just lost lost our HVAC guy, but we're looking to get two people on board. >> You have any systems that have like two motors like like you you know what I'm saying? how you switch motors and >> um so like the >> run one to failure you run one for six months >> the chiller the chiller number one has two compressors uh and then the multi-stage units and they're sequenced to alternate so that they're live they stay within that couple of hours of a of each other running so you don't run one completely dead >> so I guess spend a dime to save a dollar >> yeah don't don't pinch pennies to spend dollars >> correct All right. Um,
079good questions. The high school, uh, HVAC project, uh, CHS has about two more weeks uh, to replace the, uh, air handlers. I think we have 10 left to replace. They were scheduled to replace five this week, but because of the weather, they called last Friday and canceled the crane for this week. So, they'll resume progress on lifting units uh, next week. Currently, they're up there, of course, when it's not raining. They're up there working as they uh when they connect the new air handlers are connected with temporary piping, flex piping. Uh so they'll go up there this week when it stops raining. They can the hard pipe and start insulating the pipe. Uh start running the uh the control systems and everything. So there's plenty of work for them to do. Uh ideally uh we'll
080have all the units installed probably by the end of June. Uh all the units will be on the roof. As far as getting the controls and everything, it'll probably be closer to August before we complete all the testing and balancing and get all the controls certified and everything with the uh high school HVAC project. The Natiatorum modernization, it is substantially complete. They're working on a couple of key things right now. They're working on the testing and balancing of the HVAC and then they're commissioning all our equipment, the uh pool heater, the uh filters, all the pumps, the motors. They're uh commissioning those. We have a third party that comes in and inspects them and make sure that they're all uh performing as they need to. >> Padding is July 22nd. >> The uh paddic bench
081is a is a system where it uh removes the uh chloromines uh the uh corrosive chemicals that come off the natorium. The chloromines hang hang out about a foot off the water and the paddic system is is a vent system that will uh suck those out and throw them outside to minimize uh corrosion inside the nitorium. Uh EMA was the uh the mechanical company that designed the paddock system for our facility. And once they started installing it, Coach Alanise, I give her credit, uh said that that was a bad design because it had too much duck work that could be uh hit by the the students and they she didn't want the students to get hurt and she didn't want the system get damaged. EMA uh came and looked at it and I found out
082that today, this morning, that they're eating the cost of the redesign and they're redoing it uh because they absolutely agree with Coach. So, I'm glad Coach caught that for us. >> All right. Um so, they're moving along with that. Uh the uh roof uh crossover uh top crossover ladder is uh they're still waiting on that to install. So, we installed that new we made a new uh added to the building for the mechanical room for that houses the HVAC and there's a roof hatch in there. So, you there's a ladder now that you can go and get on the roof of that and then there's going to be another ladder that extends from the roof of the mechanical building to the top of the natitorium because previously we had to take a 30-foot extension ladder
083leaning against the side of the building and crawl up there and I didn't have any very many volunteers to uh to crawl up that ladder. So, uh, now we'll have a safe way to get up on roof and inspect the roof once we get that, uh, ladder installed. The PA sound system, uh, it was received back in October and it's been sitting in a box, uh, since then. When they went to install it two weeks ago, we found out that it had a programming defect. They had to ship it back to the company, get it reprogrammed. So, we're looking at about four weeks before we get the sound system, PA system back, and it'll be fully installed. And then it's just a little bit clean up cleaning up outside. Uh we're going to put fences
084around the uh the air conditioning uh cooling coils. Make sure that you know the kids can't get in there, anyone can get in there and damage or hurt themselves because it's high voltage in there. So we'll get that fenced off. So very close to finishing up the auditorium. Moving on to the CTE building. Uh work is continuing. It's uh it's moving along quickly. We've got the space has already been conditioned for about two weeks now. Uh this past week, AP uh completed the transfor transformer setup and we're ready to turn the power on. They've already set the bill up or the account and everything set up. Um but right now they haven't turned it on because we're they're finishing up a lot of electrical work and it's not safe for them to energize the power.
085But when they've got everything tested and ready, we'll just flip the switch and we'll we'll go on to the power. Um right now, uh substantial completion is is scheduled for September the 25th. Uh with the approval tonight of the furniture and the equipment, it's scheduled it should arrive and will be installed in October. Uh and then November 3rd is the first day of student uh instruction, the new facility, the day when we come back from the October interession as we hope to move in there. Uh in your addition to your packet, there's a couple of pictures of the CTE building in there from today. The first picture is the exhibition hall. U and you can see it's it's going to be a beautiful facility. Uh in there you can see the overhang for the robotics
086uh and the drone facility. Second page is is a picture of one of the the gang restrooms. Uh beautiful tile, beautiful lighting. Uh that is not the floor. That's that's a protection. They've already poured the floor and it's that speckled flooring, but that's a covering just to protect the floor while they're finishing to install the equipment. And then your third photograph shows the uh forensics uh uh classroom. The mill work in there has already been installed. It uh it's a very specialized equ uh uh mill work and to store it was going to cost us quite a bit. So, and it's on the second floor and they were ready for the install. So, that mill work's already been installed in that room. beautiful mill work and they're doing a great job. You can see it's
087all covered and protected. Um and then finally the the last of bond 2023 is the uh junior high construction. Uh a couple of big things today. Uh we released the uh the uh oh I'm sorry that's a different one. I'm going to jump to 2026 for the junior high. Uh the final plat paperwork has been was submitted to the city on June the 5th. We're waiting for either approval or if they have further questions. They've already uh rejected us twice with further questions and we're hoping that this should be the the final submitt and get it approved. The architect, Lenz Architects, is working uh to provide the uh contractor with civil plans by this Friday. The idea is that the contractor will be able to bid out the utilities and the foundation work. So, we'll
088be able to start working on getting electricity, water, and sewage to the new site because the contractor is telling us that they need water at the site before we start doing the foundation work because it would be too expensive to truck in water. So, we'll be able to get rolling on that. The architect is scheduled to provide 100% uh plans to the contractor by July 2nd. And with those plans, we'll be able to submit for city permitting and start bidding out the work for that. So, normally you would bid those all out together, but uh both the contractor and the architect are working hard to try and get this project rolling, and that's why they separated out the civil so we can get some movement out there at the site. We have a meeting with
089Mr. Van Matri this Wednesday uh to go over all that uh the uh the plan and get a better timeline uh for the overall junior high platting and construction. Any questions on bond 2023? All right, moving to bond 2026. Uh, a couple of things. The RFQS for the architects went out today. They were in the caller times uh in today's paper. They're also posted on our website. Uh, the date that they're due is July 10th. Uh, we'll have a committee review them. uh we'll make recommendations and then at our ne probably our next board meeting July the 20th uh you'll uh interview the uh the firms and then we'll select the projects and then we'll go from there for the uh bond 2026 projects the high school emergency roof repairs Hbert's already began installing the
090safety equipment and preparing the site for the roof repairs uh the roofing materials were ordered the same day that we signed the contract and they're scheduled to start arriving next Monday. Uh but due to the weather conditions that we've had, they've modified their plan of attack a little bit. The original plan was to take we've got three large areas. They were going to remove the entire roof of one of those areas and then re- roof it, but because we're getting so much rain, they don't want they want to limit the risk of damaging the inside of the building any any further. So they'll take smaller sections, a couple hundred square feet at a time, remove it, and then completely install it so that we don't have any water intrusion into the building. Uh if for
091some reason we go into a dry spell, then they can go back to their plan. But with the forecast we have right now, they're just doing that out of abundance of precaution. Um the Mosquite ISD pavilion on May the 28th, Helis took us up to uh Mosquite to tour the pavilions uh for their district. inadvertently we we saw probably about I guess three of the pavilions for that district instead of just the one. Uh once we saw Mr. Aria was on the trip uh initially when you walk up to the pavilion you're just overwhelmed by the size. I mean it's covering an entire football field. It's about 60 ft which is almost six stories uh tall in in the middle of the pavilion. It's a very tall structure. Uh we learned a lot from that
092trip. Uh one of the things in discussing Mr. Van Matri um we it's a very basic structure and if you look there there's some pictures on it uh at TM we don't do anything basic so we're going to look to uh make our pavilion a little bit stand out a little bit more make it a TM structure >> you have any comments from >> No I think I mean uh coach and Mr. event matri team did a good job cuz I was fascinated with an indoor facility, you know, and then they looked at this and it really is the way to go. And with all the new rules coming in and batting cages that dropped down and they had kids out there playing soccer and we stayed on one end, filled that neighborhood got close
093to us. It was so huge. It's like, by the way, I went on Google Earth, Patrick, it'll fit. I did the >> It'll fit. >> It's 200 foot by 400 foot, so it fits. So, uh, >> it was Yeah, that's first. Yeah, I did. When I got to the office, I measured that. But it was impressive. I think it's a great another shows another uh >> full study went into all of it. And you know, ours will be definitely I know we'll do it right to where >> our youth activities will be able to utilize it and people will be very happy with it. >> Want our band being able to use it and get >> the band is huge. >> That is huge. That was one of the things that was really big about
094it. >> So are batting cages built into the plans? I mean, is that something? Yeah, they drop down. It comes down with the package. >> I know when we built the dome, if you go look in the dome, there's there's structure for that. We ran out of money. >> Yeah. >> So, I think it would be important if we can do that. >> Yeah. >> Does it fall under the budget all this? >> I believe so. Yeah. >> Then we're also going to have a baseball lines so you can drop a netting system down the middle. There's different ones, but the one we were looking at down the middle. And so you can basically have a softball field with the lines drawn from the end zone and on the other edge you have a baseball
095field. GP has it in their indoor right now. I got the idea from it. But um teams are doing that so they can have multiple practices. JV freshman, JV varsity, self varsities can practice while the varsities at the turf field during their athletic periods. >> Yeah, I appreciate that. That that's good. Um because when we designed the dome, that was one of the things, you know, you can see the soccer lines and stuff. So that's that's great. >> If you look at this picture, you can see the uh batting cages are suspended right there. And then they also have three they can section off into three different areas. So you could do soccer, you could do baseball, you can divvy up the facility to do multiple practices. >> So what about the Unfortunately in South
096Texas, we have wind. What's the architectural consideration on that? I mean, any any see any problems with >> No, since it's not a full >> It'll be a windstorm structure. Of course, you look at the uh the the next page. I mean, it they're massive beams and uh it'll be designed to be it'll be windstorm compliant. We'll be certified for this area. The other thing I was asking is, do you know the metal panels uh because of our corrosive environment, uh we'll we'll get the extra coating, make sure they're protected. uh you know if we could do a different type of and go away from metal uh to and go with something vinyl coated to get the maximum life out of it. We're going to look at that. >> Yeah. You talked about the southeast
097wind. You know how we get southeast wind. Do you offset the the what are we calling it? The the athletic facility. It's the >> field house. Fieldhouse. Do you offset the fieldhouse? It it gives us a lot of opportunity to do a lot of good things like we their team can get really creative and make it amazing. So, >> one of the other things that we learned from their mistakes is their their band tower was too short. The band director needs to be up higher to see all the movement of the bands. That was one of the things that they would change if they could redesign it. >> So, it'll be a beautiful facility. >> That's exciting. >> All right. And then the last thing on bond 2206 was just the uh the approval tonight
098of the six buses. Uh we'll get those POS and get them ordered tomorrow morning. You're up to date projects. Thank you. Great job. >> Exciting. >> All right. Next one here is report only as well. It's Warp Path Academy update school year 2025 through 2026. Okay, everyone. So, this is an update on how we did this year uh with our warp path academy. Um so, we have our current IH partners. If you remember, we use Texas&M Kingsville for our 442, Coast College for most of our CTE and Delmare College for our medical. So these are our total enrollments for um for Coastal Bay College. Um what you'll see here is fall on this side and spring on this side. Uh so what you'll notice is that we've had um you know a pretty consistent uh
099amount of students going to uh coast college now for our CTE purposes. Uh so the fall of 23 is when we kind of really hit it hard. uh we we've had u you know u 130 kids and then spring of 24 we've had 115. So as you can see your investment on picking up the tab for our students has has really gone very well. So uh these are our grades. uh you'll see the total of enrollments, how many A's, B's, and C's our students are are are uh so you see that they're being very successful um with uh with their grades. Uh we have a lot of students who are who do remember this is a a different u kind of course. This is our cosmetology kids, our welding kids. So they are being um
100extremely successful. So this is&m Kingsville. Um once again this was the preirst year the 7 to 14 uh with spring of 23 and then all of a sudden you see the massive jump um from the next school year. Uh this is a a big credit to to coach Fig and and our team about talking to kids about the importance of college and the importance of uh furthering your education. And now you see that we've had 258 students, 525 classes. Um, and then we've progressed to where we're almost at 600 or over 600 classes taken at uh Texas University of King. Same thing for grades. Uh, the very first year you had seven enrollments, 14 classes. We had five A's, three B's. Uh, so that's eight. So you'll see that it's dropped because those are the
101kids have dropped. Um but for the most part you see that our kids are being successful um in our courses. So these are our phabbotomy and EKG numbers. As you can see um we have like blown to top off this thing. Um we were almost at our own graduation like they'd have to have one just for us. Um so uh what you'll see uh with our next year is we're we'll have some students graduating with their their third and fourth certificate, their patient care and their uh certified nursing assistant, their CNA. Uh so this number will continue. It is by far our most growing program. Uh we have uh students who are you know at stay after they graduated. Um they had a job. What was >> Audi was hired? He interviewed on Wednesday, second
102interview on Friday, he'll make $20 an hour. Um, he did go take the medical assistant that we didn't offer currently and that's what helped him get that extra. And then Casey Miles uh interviewed and because of his two cert certificates, he will make uh 18 an hour. >> And this was like the week after they put on their cap gown. >> Yeah, >> they were out the door. So, it is highly effective. you we are still looking for I mean the medical in this area we're still looking for a bunch of more kids um now being offered to offer the third and fourth certificate uh we will be kind of lights out um with this amount of students um like I said we're we're kind of unmatched in this area so we always want to
103compare ourselves to the traditional student uh so what you see here is these are students at Coastal Bin College if they were to come in their freshman year these are 19 or 18 year olds, 19 year olds, they're just now starting college. Um so the percent um is, you know, that they pass that as 75, we're at 79. Um with the exception of this one year here, which is I don't know if you can scroll, the fall of 2024 was the only year that our kids didn't perform as well as a traditional high schools I mean high school graduate. So, yes, we do have 14y olds, 15 year olds, 16 year olds taking classes, but they're still doing a lot better than their uh traditional counterparts for Coastal Bin College. And remember, this is most
104of the trades in our in our area. Okay, so our highlights for&M Kingsville, we have 57 students achieving the academic excellent award, which requires them uh to get an initial grade point average of a 3.5 with taking a minimum of 66 semester hours. Um we have 23 students receiving the distinguished award, which means they had a 3.65 with nine semester hours. And this one's really telling uh 10 prestigious awards. They took at least a four, they were a full-time student. They took 12 hours and they got a perfect 4.0. No. >> U so we had we had 10 of those. Um just go >> highest in the area. >> Yeah. By a lot. Um >> so we had 44. Um did same thing in this new slide, but it's the same type of demographic. 44,
10523, and five. Delmare College, we had 15 students who had a perfect score on their phbotomy exam. We had the highest amount of certifications of any high school in the area. I think if we counted correctly, if we took everybody else, we're like maybe what 10 12 short of what everybody else produced altogether. Cost coast college uh we had automotive students. We had two students who earned both their level one and level two certification. 12 students are cosmetologists who are licensed now in the state of Texas. They walked out. They have a job. In fact, they they got jobs before they even graduated. Uh law enforcement, we have eight students who learned their level one certificate. Many of them are on the path the these these kids graduated as sophomores and juniors with their level
106one uh certificate. They are on track to get their associates degree in law enforcement. The Coastal Bay College has a program where their associates uh leads right into the uh at um Sam Houston, the best criminal criminal justice uh school in the area. That automatically transfers whatever they take over because they have a deal with that. So if they really wanted to go, they could go to Sam Houston. welding students. We had uh 13 students who earned their level one certificate. Um so this is I think you got to understand the the difference between the level one. We have a lot of students who got their IBC as well. That means they are able to go weld with their credential. These kids finished college work so that they could also get their certification. So there
107are two separate things. We have more kids who got their IBC but didn't fulfill the college part. there was two additional classes they needed to take. We are making very sure that they do those their freshman year. Um and if they fail, we'll catch them. Associate of arts degrees, we had seven kids complete a complete associates, which is crazy. Um one kid uh completed an associate degree in science. We're now at eight. We project this number next year to be well over 20 uh now that we've caught her juniors because we just figured out how to do this at the start of the senior year. >> Yeah. September. We had a meeting and said, "Oh, let's try And so we did and that's what we got. We got eight kids to graduate with uh with
108their full-blown associates. Many of them are now on track to to get the next step. Okay. So next year we start our new partnership with Southwest Texas College in Yaldi. They have an associates of business with the level one certification. Like why you? Well, because they are able to take one of our teachers who just has a regular bachelor's degree and teach classes and they don't charge us for that. Um, and so that's going to be Coach Gavon. He'll be teaching these classes and our kids will graduate with a level one certificate. Um, they will also go towards an associates. So many of our kids, most of our kids, in fact, like by their junior year, they should graduate with their associates in business. Um we are meeting with Blind College to talk about level
109one. This is Blind in um College Station. Uh there is a new the state of Texas and their infinite wisdom has decided to change certifications again. Uh so the plant a uh piece that the state has uh done has decided to label that a tier three certification which means that um for the most part if we have 10 kids who graduate with that floral certificate you're only label count two of them towards accountability. Uh so it's a way for the state to say this is not a high high need high u income area so we're going to do something to make sure that you put them in something else. So luckily for us we did a lot of research u blind has a plant science pathway that is not just floral but it's also the
110science behind plants which helps with you know the the whole entire a industry. So students will be able to get a level one certification out of that. As well as game design, we are moving towards because we're scared. That's for no other reason that this might happen with a lot of our other IBC's. We're going to try and push that every kid graduate not just with an IBC, but with a level one certificate from a community college. Um so seniors will now be able to obtain a medical assistant patient care technician we talked about in the earlier slide. um we are revamping our facilitator role in the classroom. We have decided that um maybe a pair professional is not enough in that classroom. So we've moved on to a full-blown teacher in that classroom to
111make sure that our kids are staying working the entire time. Uh we've also, if you know Coach Fig, she works like 90 hours a uh a week. We've decided to uh you know move some personnel around without any additional cost of the district, hire a new war path coordinator so we can split the alphabet in two. Um that'll provide us some oversight that we need to make sure that things are getting done as we expand, you know, as we expand. We've done this job just doing the three schools. Now we're adding four two more degree plans and now um industrial mechanics. So there's going to be a lot more. Um, we've also added another academic advisor. Um, so this will help. We've, uh, we've kind of heard your concerns over that. So, the way it'll
112work now is the alphabet will be split in two. Um, and each kid now has three people responsible for them. One person is a traditional counselor that's responsible for that kid's overall well, emotional well-being. So, you know, kid comes crying, they they help them with that. Uh they'll also be able to help them with college admissions. Um and our 504 program will be run through that person. But if you want to think of it, it's the emotional side component of that child to make sure they get taken care of. The academic advisor is somebody who deals just with credits. They are the person that's going to oversee their transcript, making sure that everybody is graduating on time, but more importantly integrating what's happening at the college level with the high school level so they can
113all graduate at the same time. And then you've got the third person, the War Path Coordinator, who makes sure that that kid's graduation happens from college. Uh they make sure that they put their them whatever courses they might need and what order whatever order they may need. they still have to remain um contact with the IICH to make sure things are getting done. Uh so that's how we plan to tackle that uh that problem. We're also moving toward multiple concurrent enrollment classes. Uh so this will hopefully allow kids to get a taste of college without them even noticing. So what do I mean by that? For instance, in your health class, there's a whole piece that's about goal setting. Well, that happens to align very much so to EDUC 1300, which is introduction to college.
114So, by integrating that, the kids will get a small taste of college. We'll also do the same thing with Spanish 2. Spanish 2 is actually harder than elementary Spanish at college. So, they'll get the the credit for Spanish uh through Coastal Bing College, and they'll get eight additional hours. So any kid going uh to uh school that has a foreign language problem, they'll or final language credit, they'll get that credit through them. We'll do the same thing through speech and the same thing uh with um what's >> art as well. >> That's it. >> Any questions? >> Comment. >> I love that. >> I'm Thank you for addressing. You know, we like you said, we I I had some concerns with >> we're getting so big in and the things that we offer, which is
115great, >> but we got to remember that counselors are still >> needed to take care of our emotional needs for our kids and crises that they deal with. And then, >> yeah, all these things you just said were really good. I like that. Yeah, because I kind of felt like we were we were doing this and we were at the end of our stretch >> and um we are getting really big and so just to reiterate that I >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Do we have a teaching pathway for one of our kids that wants to go into education? >> We have the pathway right now where there's only two kids in it. So, it is probably going to end up on the uh the chopping block uh for for the next year, but
116we do have it. Um it's just there's not that many kids in it. >> Yeah, I understand. >> At the conference this week, um or last week, it talked a lot about that's how schools are feeding >> into growing their own and bringing those kids back to work for them. um all the schools are in the same bind as as ours of not being able to hire teachers. So, that's a great way to feed those kids back into education. >> Yeah, we started our first class uh this semester or this year. >> Um and it started with like 11 kids and then it dropped to two >> because 11 dropped to two >> and I think it was more of a I don't think it's anything against teaching or anything. It's just the >> it's
117the profession. It's the opportunities that we are providing in nursing and everything else uh that that kind of >> in that. >> So, you know, I just want to, you know, say thank you to y'all as well. You know what I mean? We uh we we ran the numbers for this senior class. Um posted on Facebook. I can't tell you how many people have reached out to us be like that's crazy. Those are crazy numbers. Um, you know, but thank you guys for taking giving us the opportunity to provide this as, you know, free for our our kids. Um, you know, it's it's it's made a a massive difference. You went from like I don't know probably make you say maybe 60 hours of college taken to college hours. Now you're close to 3,000,000. >>
118Yeah. That's that's nuts. Uh so, you know, we are preparing our kids for the future. Um, you know, we we want to ensure that every kid has the opportunity to make something of themselves. Um, and you're providing that opportunity to say thank you for that. >> Well, the end like the end of year celebrations we had with CTE brunch and then the uh uh the college signings for the three schools that we partner with. >> That was so neat. And there's a bunch of kids involved in that. So, thank y'all for >> for doing that. Thank you. All right. Next, uh that was report only. Next one here is sixth grade initiative at TM middle school. >> Mr. President, members of the board, uh quite frankly, we have been very disappointed with our sixth grade
119star performance. uh three of the past four years we've seen a dip in reading and math scores from what they did in grade five to what they did in grade six. Um the new junior high was designed to help fix that. But um as you'll see in one of Miss Tyranny's slides um we can't wait. So, having said that, rather than continuing to do what we've always done, we've got some really smart people in this district, and I'm uh really really I I can't tell you how impressed I am with Miss Tyranny and her team. Um, I threw this out there, Adam, not even a week ago. Was it a week or It was last week, wasn't it? last night >> and um uh you're going to see what they've accomplished which I think's >>
120short of amazing. >> Miss Tierney. >> Yes. Good evening board. So um the sixth grade initiative has to do with what you have seen online has been our theme for the year. Facilities and kids under construction. We are still a work in progress and we're aiming to get better. Um so the rationale for this is um you can just scroll it. Yes, there we go. Um, as Mr. Ran Maitri said, the transition to middle school presents unique challenges that impact student success and engagement levels. And as parents sitting on the board, I'm sure you have gone through that transition having a sixth grader and then again to 9th grade. And those are some very, very tough years. I know for my kids personally, they were also very tough transitions. Um, and the reason that is
121is because they're not developmentally ready. And so what do we do when we see when we put children in a situation that they're not ready for? We see a drop in attendance. We see increase in behavior issues and of course then that affects them academically. And then we see the dip in star scores. This is not a problem that's unique to TM. This is a problem that is statewide, country, nationwide. It is just it's what hap it's what happens during transition years. Growth is coming. As Mr. Rit said, UTM junior high school will allow for fifth and sixth grade campus to ease the transition in for those students. So um the purpose in separating seventh and eth from fifth and sixth is to allow us to continue an upper elementary model for those sixth graders.
122Um it'll allow smaller learning communities. So re research shows that smaller learning communities enhance student engagement and academic performance by fostering a sense of belonging that is crucial during these transition periods. It also allows teachers to build stronger relationships with students which significantly boosts their confidence, connectedness, and is essential for students navigating the challenges of that tough sixth grade year. However, with the building not quite ready yet, why are we waiting? If we know this is an issue, why are we waiting? That was the question that Miss Ramry posed to me. And the challenge was to create something that um that would benefit our students next month. So, um, our sixth grade initiative is to create an upper elementary sixth grade model. I apologize for the wording. I think when it was downloaded, it kind
123of threw everything off, but um, we're going to create an upper elementary model for sixth grade. So, imagine kind of running a school within a school. Our sixth grade will still operate like fifth grade does with a couple of modifications because we are still leaning on a seventh and eighth grade middle school schedule. Seventh and eighth grade will continue on to run um a regular 8th period day bell schedule. Sixth grade will go back to an upper elementary model and some of the design of that and what that's going to look like means that they will have a 90minute block for math to enhance student learning. Math as we know is one of those foundational skills that we cannot skimp on. And them transitioning to sixth grade means their time is being reduced by nearly
124half. We were running a 53 minute period and this will allow us to go back up to a 90minute math block period. So it allows us for to have extended instruction for deeper understanding. We get to increase time that they spend for conceptual mastery and for us to provide intervention support. That's always been an area that's been lacking at our middle school due to time constraints. We will also be allowed to have a 90-minute reading block. Um, so again, reading literacy is a multiaceted subject content area, right? It's reading, writing, vocabulary, everything gets thrown in. Listening, speaking, and it's one of those things that you can never have enough time for it. So, when they transition from elementary to middle school, their time drops. um in literacy and so we're just going to give them
125some more time back. Um and in doing so we we plan to see the effects in all the contents. This will also give students an opportunity to have a consistent team of teachers. So they will stay within a team of teachers. The elementaryaries they call them pods. We're going to call them tribes. And what that'll do is it'll build trust, communication, and student support. So they all the students will see the same tribe of teachers. and the tribe will see all the same group of students. Um, we can do all this while still maintaining all the opportunities of the programs that middle school allows for. Um, so one of the new things that comes out of this is because of the setup and the way that things have to run, we're going to have a
126program what we call kaleidoscope. So when students transition into middle school, they get to choose between band, choir, theater, art, STEM. Now, we're going to offer STEM and they really don't know what they're choosing, right? Because it's their first taste at having everything. So, if the student chooses band, they get to stick with band. If they don't know what they that they want to do band yet, then we're going to let them explore all the other electives for nineweek periods throughout the year. And then going into their seventh and eighth grade year, they already have a taste of what theater is like, of what choir is like, of what art is like, and what STEM is like. So, it really gives those programs an opportunity to sell their elective and then really capture those students
127and then they'll go into the upper middle school grades knowing I really do like this extra. >> So, let me ask this will you know our our band students um are as well as our other students but I'm just picking on band they're really talented. >> Yeah. is the reduction in time that they're going to be in band in sixth grade going to impact their their ability to play well in seventh and eighth. >> I met with Mr. um Delosa this morning actually to just to kind of let him know of what was you know what we were talking about to make sure that and just to kind of let him know um some of the changes that was going to impact that wasn't a concern that he brought up to me. the time change
128in going from a seven period day to an 8 period day is roughly in their time period it'll affect them by about 7 minutes. So it's not such a huge impact. Um one of the benefits is that we we weren't sure you know what this was going to look like for Ben. But he was we were able to keep them in band all week long every day still seeing the band director. So it I think at the end of the day they're not going to see such a huge difference. Good. >> When we when we when the new middle school opens and we have the two campuses, are we going to start getting our fifth graders? Well, I guess my biggest question is, will the fifth graders be able to participate in this extracurricular stuff
129like theater, um, band? Yes. All Okay. Okay. That's awesome. That's only going to benefit our programs. >> Not athletics. There may be a pre-athletic in sixth grade. >> But um they'll be the the the new middle school will be much more uh will look much more like the current intermediate which is an upper elementary. The seventh and eighth grade junior high will look like a little high school. That's when they're going to have six and seven passing periods. And >> I just wanted to make sure we weren't going to have fifth grade on campus and they're like isolated and can't participate in anything. >> No, >> they'll have the same opportunities. >> I'm sorry. I know it hasn't been. >> Um, so what are some of the benefits of this? So benefits for students, we
130aim to see growth in multiple areas. First of all, academic success, success, those key foundational areas of literacy and math. Students will now have 90minute blocks. Um, social emotional growth. This is one of the these transition years sixth grade and 9th grade especially sixth grade are very very difficult for our students to navigate. So by keeping them with the same consistent set of students that they see as friends throughout the day this gives them another area that um for them to feel more confident and build stronger relationships with. We expect to see enhanced readiness. Our teachers are used to a middle school model. they can now help prepare these sixth graders with those organizational skills and structure that they need to make them successful. And we hope to see students are more engaged um active
131learning, promoting interest, and then they still get the benefit of being at a secondary campus and seeing all of that while still having the teachers and that tribe of teachers who's there just for them. Um benefits for teachers and you can go ahead and double click And then at the bottom, last second to last one, benefits for teachers and um parents as well is improve communication. If I asked you who was your child's kindergarten teacher, I bet you know who they are. If I asked you who was your child's seventh grade social studies teacher, I bet that's a little bit more difficult. So, this is a way for for these sixth graders to have a team of four teachers, one reading, one math, a science, and a social studies who are there for them. And
132teachers are going from having 120 students a day to having maybe 60, right? 67 65 kids. And so that increase in communication between parents and teachers is going to be a big benefit. It's going to be consistent expectations, consistent procedures, and consistent support for students throughout the day rather than having seven bosses. They're really going to have those four main ones who all have the same sets of rules because it's easier to collaborate. We're going to have consistent um conference times and then al as well as providing teachers with the PLC time so they can collaborate across their content and within their tribe to support those students and then of course increase attend attention because they have fewer students to focus in on because they're spending more time with them throughout the day. the relationships
133will be better to where the kids may have build a better relationship so that they're they feel it's it will be easier for them to go and ask questions to those teachers instead of feeling like oh I'm dumb if I'm going to ask this question. >> That's awesome. >> The passing periods will be greatly reduced in the hallway. You won't have 925 kids all moving. uh you'll have twothirds of that. The p the sixth grade parents, the rising sixth grade parents right now are scared to death of what's going to happen in mid July. >> It just is. >> This they're going to embrace this and this is going to ease a significant part of their anxiety with their kid transitioning from an elementary to a secondary. and it's going to pay huge dividends academically
134for us. >> There's a cost one teacher we had we had to add uh an FTE for her to make make the plan work. But I think that's money well spent. >> Well, that's the success of our either the success of our kids or to stay stagnant of right where we are right now. Right. And we're moving everybody forward. We've got to move them forward. >> I am curious, Mr. Choa, you're a a a traditional middle school. What What's your initial thoughts on this? >> Uh I need to be very careful how I say this. Do we have new teachers in sixth grade or are we keeping the same teachers in sixth grade? >> I'm not sure the staffing, but I know that training is a priority with transitioning someone from teaching in a 50minute
135block to a 90minute block. We do have one of our new assistant principles that I think you're going to assign to the sixth grade that is coming from the elementary. >> So, Miss Moren was um previously the um the instructional facilitator at the elementaryaries she's worked with at the intermediate and the primary. So, it'll be a good pos she will be in a good position to have someone who understands what that looks like and what the classroom should look like and provide support. But I can't I couldn't tell you who's actually staffing that. >> And I guess second question is how many walkthroughs did we do to assist in the classroom? >> I don't have that number. >> I'm going to just but it's very important. uh a matter of fact that was one of
136the things one of the workshops that I attended that the only way that you're going to prove in the classroom is that the administrator assists these teachers with whatever they need. If the teachers need if they need a lot of help, whether it's with classroom management or curriculum, whatever, we have to provide an administrator or instructional coach, whatever, to go in there and help these teachers if they're drowning. And if a teacher is not doing well three years ago, two years ago, and last year, I think we need to take a good look at that. You know, I you know, it we got to make some tough decisions. If if that teacher is not is just not doing the job, then I hate to say it, but we've got to find somebody else. Because if
137that administrator spend time working with that teacher every year and there's still no change and that teacher, you know, the class maybe 30% of her students is doing well on the star and 70% I mean, we really have to look at that. It's a tough decision. It's it's it's it's not easy, but if we're going to make improvements, we've got to do that. And you know, that's why, you know, I know that when I worked there, there were some teachers that were there. And I'm just going to leave it there. I I don't want to >> What's your thoughts on the model? >> I on the model. Again, here's a here's a situ. And again, I I just I got to be very careful here. If a teacher's not cutting it in 55 minutes, you
138think that teacher is going to cut it in 90 minutes? That's again, I don't want to It's tough. I I I'd rather talk to you in close session. I hate I hate to put this on >> Yeah. I don't want to I don't want to put you on the spot. I just >> No, it's not me. It's >> I I just think that um with the proper training and the proper oversight um with an 11year-old kid um 90 minutes of math and reading is better than 53 55 um with all things being consistent. >> Well, I know I few years ago, well, not even a few years ago, it's been longer than that now. I sat on the sitebased committee at the middle school prior to getting onto the board. We had the same problem
139at the middle school. >> Um yeah, Miss Audius, >> um I have no doubt that this can be put into place and become successful with what I saw done years ago at the middle school with the same problems we were facing at that time. And even changing this model now will will probably will probably help with that. >> But to go back on what you were saying, um, we do mentor our first year teachers, right? >> And to what extent and how much? >> Yeah. I don't I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that they're mentored. They do have a mentor to go to for that. I don't know what that I don't know what that looks like. Um, but like I said, when we did it back then, it worked.
140I think whatever gets put into place if it's not working we under construction right and we just change. >> One of the things that makes me so optimistic is around April of last year they came to me and they said we want to do this algebra for all initiative. this was not Steve Van Matri's idea. And I said, "Talk to me." And because normally out of a a group of 250 kids, you may have 40 to 50 that have shown the cognitive ability to take algebra and be successful in the eighth grade. And they said, "We want to we want to um accelerate in the seventh grade and take the eighth grade star. and we want every eighth grader to take algebra 1. Extremely reluctant and nervous all year. And the data came back that
141it went through the roof. 92% passing in in the eighth grade. Um seventh grade taking the eighth grade test was higher than what they had shown the previous year. Um, so we're going to have about 20 kids that are going to go to ninth grade and has haven't passed the um algebra EOC. So subsequently, Mr. Alvarado has a challenge that the whole population of his algebra 1 cohort for accountability is going to be retesters. But that was an initiative that I think is similar to this one uh but a lot less risky. >> Thank you. >> All right. That was report only. The next one here is a strategic plan goal number one graduate readiness profile. Uh this is aligned with our um strategic plan. Um this is one of our more uh important goals.
142It deals with um student performance. And I'll let these two young ladies take it over. >> And I think this ties in very nicely with what Mr. Alvarado was presenting and what Mrs. Tierney was also presenting. Um, I know it's been some time since we've we've met and discussed the strate strategic goal number one, but I can promise you it wasn't due to our commitment to the initiative, but rather it was a pause in implementation because there were some things that we needed to to figure out. We we have all the tools, but what do we do with all these tools? But just to kind of rec uh recap the 2028 uh district goals, this is goal number one. And what our goal says is that 90% of students will have met the standards in
143the TM TMISD student readiness profile which includes academic, social, and emotional and college career readiness. And so the purpose of this uh readiness profile is an intentional focus on providing learning opportunities for students that will ensure that TMISD graduates are life ready. And I can tell you we're already seeing evidence of that. But how do we capture that evidence? So what is the TMISD readiness profile? So this year we've instead of like the three, we've actually divided into five areas. So we're looking at the academic skills, uh the social and emotional, leadership and character, college and career readiness skills, and then we've also added the innovation indicators which is for technology. Um, we're also looking at measurable data and activities opportunities to develop in each of those areas. Data, we talked about this in the
144past, will be collected at the beginning of the year and the end of the year. And we're going to start this in preK. Can you go on to the next one? And so, like I said, it wasn't because we were not committed to the initiative, but there were some things that we still needed. We have been working on this for two years. I can tell you right now we have identified our um anchor targets and we've also identified those progress u markers throughout the different grade levels. But what we needed we needed a consistent system to collect beginning of the year and end of the year readiness data across all the grade levels. We also needed a platform because I remember when we came um last year from the beginning, one thing that we did
145say is that we did want to add one more thing to our teachers plates. Um a lot of them are still implementing new curriculum and so a lot of this stuff that we're looking at, we already have it. They are already doing it in the classroom. So we didn't want to have one more thing to add to their plates. Can I go back down? Um we also needed um a reporting tool that would support the teachers, the campus and the district leaders kind of like a dashboard so that we could oversee all this um data that we're collecting and we needed to ensure that implementation was sustainable and so that it was something that we could launch districtwide. So we've been we've done some research um and this is just a vision. It's a draft
146of going from our vision to implementation. So, Miss Audias, you know, taking all of our um goals from our strategic plan. This is what we're looking at as identifying each pillar with um what are the characteristic traits that will identify how the student is ready in academic. These are the traits or the markers to identify that this student is meeting our social and emotional indicators. And then of course we have their leadership and character indicators. And then of course our college career technical readiness indicators and our communication. So I can tell you we have all this data. We are collecting this data. But how do we get all this data into one platform and disagregate it to see the effectiveness of each of these indicators? So we have been um working with um Otis. Otis
147is a um a vendor that specializes in this type of work. This is what their main focus is is on creating a graduate um a profile of a graduate. And so Mel and I have we've had what a couple couple of meetings. And so >> I kept asking >> this is our way >> to bring all of our um all of our platforms that we have. We have map in the lower grades. We have circle in prek. Um we have STAR in the um in the upper grades. Um we have we're getting ready to implement character strong of course we have all of our CTE courses. And so with Otis, if you can go to the next what we like about this platform, it it houses all of these uh vendors, all of these platforms.
148And so what it does, it's able to pull, it syncs in with with their platform. So we can even pull information from DMAC uh and so it'll disagregate the data and show us, you know, whatever we need to know for that particular student. Um it links in with Clever and so in Clevver we already have all of our other um platforms that students are using on a daily basis. So, it's kind of like almost like our holding cell. And with within that cell, we are adding all of the different programs that we're using. And it's going to be able to pull the data to identify if we're meeting the metrics for academic readiness, if we're meeting the metrics for social and emotional, if we're meeting the metrics for technology. Okay. One of the good things
149about this is that uh with GT we piloted um some of the students looked into their career and at our GT showcase they were able to at the primary level um they were able to do presentations and so with Otis you can upload all those artifacts. So by the time they get to high school they'll have their presentations they'll have a digital portfolio so students can take this with them. And so again, so here is like a roster of your student. This just just to kind of give you an idea. So here we're looking at the college and career readiness. So based on our indicators, this will let us know if Arnold has what's his status? His status right here would say that he is college ready. So based on all of our uh indicator
150indicators that we have listed, it'll identify whether Arnold has met all of those indicators to identify him as being college ready. Um here we have the student who will be identified college and career ready. So, this is also using um all the when we we're coding our CCMR and identifying whether they've met their uh their point. It's going to be able to pull all of that information into this platform. >> So, how do you I'm sorry. >> Go ahead. >> She pointed at me. >> How do you measure? >> So, some of these are very objective like you know what classes they've taken and passed but like the social social uh engagement and or whatever that >> we could do is you could have rubrics. Okay, so working with our counselors that you could also
151do like for social and emotional a survey, a pre and a post survey. And so you I you gather that information and then it would be uploaded and you could disagregate that information. So we're not going to have it's not going to be like every year. What we're going to have is like our anchor markers. So we're looking at the end of elementary >> transition >> you the transitional years the end of elementary the end of middle school and then of course your growth. >> Yes. But in between you're going to have like your little progress your progress markers to indicate whether they are on the right track to reaching those transitional uh years that we've set. >> And also with your character strong which the counselors are now going to have access to. There
152is certificates of completion. So we did a lesson on uh responsibility. So each student will have some sort of certificate that we can upload here. >> Oh, makes sense. Okay. >> And if it's communication, you know, already our teachers, students are doing reports, you know, so they'll be able to upload their artifact um as evidence of, you know, meeting that particular uh readiness skill. >> So what's the plan if they don't? And is there going to be like a red flag for a kid that's like just completely falling off and not meeting any of this stuff? What would be our plan? >> Our goal is that we would intervene before we get to that point. >> Okay. >> So, that's going to be look looked at also. >> Yes. Okay. And so, um this right
153here, this is I mean we have wheels now on this um initiative. Before it was kind of just like the body with no wheels, but now we have traction. We're moving. And so, there's a 30 this is a 30-day sample implementation plan. So day one it's a kickoff and so we will get together with our um admin. So they're going to be the first ones to kind of go through the training and so it just kind of goes through the whole process of rostering getting together with technology and you know making sure that all of our programs that we need to put into Otus will it'll be able to sync and we'll be able to retrieve that live data as we go through this process. Um, so this right here is just our 30-day sample
154implementation plan. And that's one thing I really do like about this um, partnership with Otis is that um, you know, they're ready to go. And so they've been able to provide us um, a plan and then also they've also given us like three other um, school districts. Please, I want you to call them. I want you to know our working relationship with these other um school districts. So, that was another thing that we're like, okay, you know, this is this one's real. We've talked about other platforms, but nothing that compares to what Otis can offer us. Okay. And that is the end of our presentation. Do you have any questions for us? I'm excited because this has been like, you know, it's been a struggle to get it going. Like I said, we have all
155the tools, we have all the data. Um, we just needed a place to house it so that we could disagregate the data and see if we're actually moving in the right direction >> and without putting more work on the teachers. >> More work on the teachers. >> That's awesome. >> And moving away because they don't have time. >> Yeah. They they can't handle anymore. there's there's so much put on them. >> Um but if and that's the important thing too, you know, my line of work data is really important, but if you don't get the date in the hands of the people that really matters to, you know, if it just stays up here, >> you know, or in a boardroom, it doesn't >> it's not effective. What you know, what good is it? getting
156in the hands of the teachers and the people who can see >> hey this kid's struggling a little bit or you know >> I think it's it it brings it to a place where you can actually identify trends you know like it if this is working and so we're really excited about that and it also provides a dashboard at uh for the admins and for the district level so you can see um the progress that you're that we're making in those five pillars and >> the fact that students can upload digital artifacts Yes. So, go ahead and start keeping track of all the organizations that you're in. You can upload that. Keep track of this uh presentation that you did on college career readiness. You can upload all of that stuff instead of writing it
157on the back of your door, >> right? And trying to remember the night before you fill out an application. >> Yeah. >> So, this is I mean, this is awesome because these young kids that don't even know what's being created for them at this time, this is a footprint of their education. >> Um, so neat. It is. And every kid has like their own profile so they'll be able to log in. It has a picture of the, you know, the student and everything, all the work that they've done. So, we're really excited to get this >> going this this school year. And I don't know if we're going to just implement like a couple of grade levels kind of like a pilot and then once we get a grasp and then we add more and
158more. >> So, you've been kind of a phase in process. Yeah, >> I remember when all this first started and I was like, "Oh my gosh, how are they even going to do all of this?" Right. >> Um, pretty cool to see it to this point. >> Yeah. >> Very good. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. That was report only. Next item here is discuss and consider approval of Midway Middle School baseball and softball programs. Coach, >> good evening board. Um, tonight the reason I'm here to present to you guys and ask your approval of the implementation of middle school baseball and softball. Um, you know, sat down with Mr. Van Matri and we kind of talked again always trying to think ahead of what what our students need and what could be
159beneficial, you know, for for our athletes and our some of our programs. Um, and we felt like the imple implementation of middle school baseball softball, you know, could help. you know, with the addition of these programs, we'll provide um increased participation, you know, opportunities for student athletes and also help with the development pathway from our high school coaches, uh working with our our seventh and eighth grade baseball softball. One of the big things, you know, we we really need to focus on I think, you know, we got we know with the softball program, you know, one thing I I talked with coach about was recruiting more girls. I think that was one of the issues we had with our la probably the last two seasons. We're losing girls and we have to find the root
160reason of why we're losing those girls to to playing softball. I think us getting into the middle school early, creating those relationships with them because they will be coached by the high school coaches. Um, it'll c a minimal cost. Right now, we have uh I I gave you guys a kind of a more indepth financial report. Um, but just going over it. Uh, there's already an established co-op. So, I talked to Robtown. Robtown was kind of heading it. Uh Rusty Rusty was he's now going over at Engleside, but they're still in our co-op middle school. So he'll still be running it. So we're already entering an established schedule. They have one. They've been playing it for years. They really wanted to add us because they've been playing more smaller schools, uh more of the John
161Paul's, you know, Falf Furious, and they want to get away from that. So right now, we would be in a co-op with Ingleside, Robtown, uh TM, Kingsville, and Beville. So those five teams right now are looking to add another one um hopefully. And so um uh we'll be slated to play about nine games this first year. This is going to be a pilot year um with costs. Obviously that's the biggest issue always with cost. Um the biggest issue is we already have all the equipment. I'm going to lots of money for them in the general supplies for baseball softballs. That was kind of the biggest uh issue our coaches had. Um but most kids have baseball pants, cleats, they have all their own stuff. Uh we will provide a shirt. Uh Coach Miller said they
162usually just buy a t-shirt. doesn't even have a number on it because when they go play, there's usually one official. Sometimes the official doesn't come, then a coach is calling pitches from behind. It's a 1-hour game slot for them to play, drop dead at 1 hour, and then they're done. It's just getting our kids acclimated with our coaches uh to kind of create that vertical alignment. Um not losing our kids to other programs is a big deal here. When I when I first got here, that's been my biggest deal is keeping TM kids in TM. And I feel like we've done a really good job of that. I can probably name one kid off the top of my head that I know lives here and and and plays for another school. Um, and he's been
163that he's been there since before I got here. So, other than that, I feel like we're keeping kids. We're actually bringing kids in. And I think this is another way for our district to continue to do that. Um, with our facilities we're getting, one of the big things with the pavilion, we talked about earlier of having those batting cages in there, having the bas bases lined, we can have those practices already when they're busting them over. they'll practice one time a week and they'll play one time a week and we can adjust that season. Probably the biggest issue I had with it uh or just just not not an issue, but one of the problems we talked about as all the head coaches uh was was middle school track and we we can't allow it
164to kill middle school track. So, we work around that where uh and even Robstown, you know, they're big on it. They have to run the track workout and then they can go to baseball and they're only practicing. So, they're not missing any practices. They're not missing any track meets. So, that's going to be my big push is that we don't hurt any other sports by doing this. Um, but continue to grow our kids to be multiport athletes. Um, so, uh, again, minimal cost. The really is the cost is is, um, we're going to transport kids with our buses. Coaches have CDLs. Uh, we'll have a CDL coach driver for that. And then meals. Um, I have a plan for meals already to kind of m minimize meal money. Um, I think our kids are a
165little spoiled of meal money here, so we're going to help with that a little bit. Um, and that's again we we will open an activity account for those middle schools. They they actually have one already and they fund raise really well. I think I put in there our girls seventh and eighth grade. They fund raise about $18,000 this year that goes into their activity account. So that will be able the softball program will be able to get into those funds because it's for middle school girls. Um so um I'm asking you to to u approve it and uh thank you. So, um, let me add a little, um, surprisingly during the bond campaign, this was a question that was presented to me more than any other question is, um, what about middle school, baseball, and
166softball? Um, and what I said was that um, I would um, have discussion with our athletic director um, and if we could afford it, I'd bring it to the board. I think we've had those discussions. I think we can afford it. We're bringing it to the board. The second thing more importantly is the this seventh and eighth grade cohort um along with fifth and sixth and ninth grade algebra girls are our most at risk group of kids. When we can keep them involved in a school sponsored positive activity, good things happen. And then the last thing is um I can remember and I'm old. I can remember the first time I received a jersey with my city name on it. I I slept in it. And I know kids are um have changed. Parents have
167changed. But I still think that there's a bunch of seventh and eighth graders that are going to go to bed wearing a Tosso Midway t-shirt or jersey for the first time. Uh for the cost, I think it's such a win-win for our school district. >> I think it definitely we don't have um not all families can send their kids to play travel ball. So for those kids that are not playing trouble ball, I think it is huge for seventh and eighth grade to for them to be developing skills that young. Um because that's where we get we get into trouble, right? Um and more than half of our softball team was on the track team this year. >> So that's that's can be easily done. >> Well, I'm glad you said that because I was
168thinking the same thing. um by the time you get to nth grade it's too late I mean to start and our some of our kids can't play travel ball they don't have the money to do it. So if you give them that opportunity in seventh and eighth grade you got a chance right >> they can come in they know how to >> they know some of the fundamentals. So that that's good. Um the other comment I'll make is thank you for looking into the track. That would be horrible to see a track program decimated because sometimes it's a little more fun to go hit a baseball than it is to run around a track. That's hard, right? So, that that's good to hear. >> The only concern that I would have is um you know,
169we're asking our high school coaches and I know we can say, man, they don't mind doing it. they want to see the program, but not giving them any extra stipen money that that I I would maybe reconsider that a little bit. Yeah, there there's um so my stipen budgets there there's there hardly any room for for to budge but um in talking to those coaches and like dealing with Rob like talking to the other other districts that have it um a school like Robson has three sub two sub varsities and a varsity we don't right now we have with both of our programs have a varsity and a sub varsity so this is kind of adding that third team we have four coaches on each side so that's where it's a pilot program. I said
170there is room in the future cuz I've talked to both of them about that and that that's my biggest issue and you know this you know form ad first thing coaches ask well do I get paid for it that's just the nature of coaches nowadays a lot of coaches back in the day used to do it to do it but you have to you have to compensate the coaches so um there is a plan in the future to hopefully compensate if we grow that program on the numbers that put 20 kids a team I we don't know there's no way of us to know how many softball girls are going to come out come out I mean You never know. I I just shot for, you know, North Star to have that many kids, but
171we could have, you know, eight girls in seventh grade and not, you know, we might have to combine our girls to play cuz some of the That's why they they really wanted to create a a cohort with the 4A more 4A schools because when you get to the bin bolts and the fouls, they're playing seventh and eighth grade girls combined because they don't have enough numbers. So, with us playing with that group, um, and then the other positive is the the street down the the school down the street doesn't have this and it might light a fire. We might get some kids coming over cuz I've had a lot of parent interest reaching out to me about it and I just haven't been able, you know. I don't know. We'll see. So, um, I think
172it'll create a buzz for us. Uh definitely um in that aspect of of getting keeping our kids here and then obviously when when people move to to come here because of our facilities and what we offer on top of academics that we've seen all night now we're offering so much in that. >> Well I mean if kids aren't given the tools they can't be successful and if like I said if you can't play travel ball like Brian said you're behind by your freshman year and you're not catching up because those kids have been playing year round since they were little. most of them. Um, so to give those tools and make those kids successful also at the high school level, that's only going to build our program and build confidence in our athletes. >> And
173you might catch a kid or two that like you said aren't haven't been played as much and maybe only played little league and then they they can't afford to play travel. They get to know our coaches. they get in there that vertical alignment arc from coach Moody to coach Delejon and all their staff are working with those kids and they now I can capture that seventh grader and they're not getting the influence to go somewhere else cuz that mean let's be honest the travel the the transfer deal was is real in sports right now especially in high school UIL I went to athletic director conference I went to multiple race of pay to talk to like three different things where they're talking about that we're we just started a new PAPF system that's implemented through
174rank one there's brand new questions on there trying to cut back on the transferring because it's so bad and rampant. So, um the the parents nowadays have a loophole. The loophole now is they go to middle school. So, if you transfer to middle school, you feed directly from 8th grade to 9th grade, there's no PAPF. So, if we can stop that here, and I think that was historically what was wrong at TM was we had so many kids going to other schools at middle school, we would lose them with PAPF. Now hopefully with us offering so much the brand new middle school we're about to have the the facilities we're going to have there on top of middle school uh baseball adding it softball um it's just going to give parents a reason to want
175to be here. >> Will we have room will we have room at the new middle school for say like infields if we for future >> the GMP is only for the building. It doesn't include football, track, tennis, but there's a plan to provide that funding um during the course of construction. We cannot have a seventh and eighth grade campus without tennis courts, a track, and a football field. We >> No, that's right. But is there it on the footprint >> for baseball and softball? No, they would have to go to the high school field. >> Yeah. Now, now the football field is going to be turfed. >> Uh, but don't never play a game there. >> Uh, I say never, but that could be uh part of the baseball softball complex for him. >> Yeah.
176No, that's a good point. >> I mean, I know baseball's got depth, but like you said at the very beginning, um, softball lacks depth and has been a problem the last few years. our baseball and it's really cyclical with 4 to me. I've always felt that way. It's it's like this year we had a really low freshman class in baseball. They only had they had three teams probably last three years. They only had two teams this year. So it depends on the classes that you get when you're in 4. That's what you >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thanks, coach. >> All righty. >> Any other questions? Any other questions, comments? >> All right, Mr. President, members of the board, it is it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the TOSO
177Midway Middle School Baseball and softball program as presented. >> All right. Do we have a motion? >> I'll make that motion, too. I move that we approve the middle school baseball and softball beginning with the 202627 school year. >> All right. Second. >> I'll second that. >> All right. Just chop a motion second by Cam Paraga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez is absent. Rick Chopa, >> yes. >> Ryan Boon, >> yes. >> Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Human is absent. >> Thank you. More opportunities for our kids. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Next one here is uh report only. Intruder detection audit findings. >> Mr. Hernandez. >> All right. I just have to read this. Uh the top priority of Colossal Midway ISD in the state of Texas is keeping students and staff safe every day.
178On May 19th, 2026, TA conducted an intruder detection audit at one of our campuses. The audits test whether a campus is accessible to an unauthorized individual. This audit conducted as part of Governor Abbott's school safety directives for all school systems following the tragedy in UValdi seeks to help districts identify how campuses can improve safety for students such as ensuring exterior doors are locked. The audit provides us an opportunity to create a safer learning environment for our students and staff. We are working closely with our district's school safe uh school safety and security committee to ensure that we are training our staff and securing our doors for the protection of everyone at our campuses. The support from the state and conducting the intruder detection audits is just one of the many actions we are taking to
179ensure our schools are safe. We know that this uh we know that this work does not end. Um and we appreciate the board's support. We acknowledge that parents and community members are likely very interested in the details the audit uh that the details of the audit results. However, it is in the best interest of the students that we do not share this information to the broader public as it could lead to compromising important campus sec uh security information. Specific details of the intruder detection audit will be discussed in the executive session. Tlosa Midway ISD is committed to providing a safe and secure learning environment for our students and staff. >> Thank you, sir. All right. Then we have the last one here or not last one but the next one is report TASBY summer leadership
180initiative conference 2026. Anybody from the board that went want to report? Yeah, I just one thing um there were several uh classes on CTE or presentations. Um and I can tell you we're in a really good spot. U >> you love to hear that. >> Yeah, I do. It was really neat. um you know Katie and Katie had a a good presentation on it but there were there were other schools uh that presented as well but and that's where I something clicked with me which I'm sad to say I'm a former educator and I'm like God we have a teacher pathway so thank you for the information on that that was one thing but um but that was the one thing that stuck out to me was that like I mentioned before that our kids
181are not they're not just taking classes to take classes. Um, one, we're saving a lot of money >> for our our families. >> Uh, but the next thing is is that they're job ready. >> They're certificate. They're walking out with certificates and um, you know, some of them can actually go start making money while they're starting to work on the next the next level, what they want to do in their career. So, that was good to hear. Um but yeah, congratulations on where we're at with that. One of the things that I do um have some questions on that came up. They had several courses on AI and that's something I don't know that we've really talked about. I know that y'all are looking at it >> and dealing with it. But that that's something
182that kind of intrigues me. What what are we doing as a district to deal with AI? It's a big >> it's coming whether we want it to or not. Right. And the questions that came came up, they made some good points was, you know, how do we protect our kids >> and teachers >> at the same time? Um, how do we not hold them back to where they can't have it as a benefit as well, right? Um, I know that I had a conversation with a student. Um, and I know our teachers are are using it to help vet, say for example, you have an English essay that you have to write. Well, did the student write it or was it did they get too much help from chat GPT or whatever, right? And um,
183so that's a balance too, right? um what tools are we, you know, are we giving our teachers, you know, to use AI to both protect the student and, you know, make sure they're not >> what do you call it? Academic uh >> dishonesty. >> Yeah. >> Used to call it cheating in the old days. I know there's a politically correct word now, >> but anyway, no, it was a really good conference. I even learned what arbitrage was, Philip. >> What's that? >> Arbitrage. I went to a uh class. Can you do the calculation? >> He's going to do the calculator. Yeah. >> I got half of it. >> Hey, I can help. >> I got half of it. >> GT will do it for you. >> Yeah. No, I don't know how to spell it,
184>> but I know how to say it. Um, but yeah, no, those are very beneficial. But thanks for coming. >> So I' I'd have to say that um being a board member and sitting in here, we're we're in a quorum all the time and we very rarely break outside of that quorum um as a group. And so when we go to these conferences, we're able to do that. And that that is just really really nice to sit and talk about your families. um not it just be about well it can't be about school business when you're you're outside at a conference doing that kind of stuff. Um but just to have that little bit of time because people think that we just sit around and talk and do this and that. We don't. We're always
185in a quorum. We're not able to do that. Um so going to these conferences definitely helps with that. Going to dinner um we have a little bit of time to get to know each other better and I I always cherish that kind of time. I think it really builds uh relationships on the board um which are important. Um the classes um I wish I could attend all of them because we are we do sit in there. We do learn. People think oh well do they even go to class or whatever. We do >> and um a lot of us try to go to different ones so that we can um come back and collaborate and talk about things. Um, but to listen to y'all give those reports tonight after just attending SLI was huge because
186it was like, oh, red, you know, flags going off of or the light bulbs, not necessarily flags, but the light bulbs going off of, I'm getting it. We're doing it. And, um, I sat in a lot of the classes being thankful that we're with TM. Um because I heard a lot of other school districts not have a lot of positive things to say about their school districts because there were so many issues that probably need to be fixed. And um I've sat in there when there were times that there were a lot of issues that needed to be fixed. And it was very very nice to sit at SLI knowing that our kids are graduating successfully and they're ready to go and um that we're doing the best that we can do for our kids
187right now and we're looking to how we can even better them in the future. So it was very very nice. I really enjoyed SLI and I'm very very thankful that y'all allow us to go get that education because I think it's it's big. >> We're learning from it. >> Yeah. And I attended several classes, many many classes. Many as good. Um, and I guess the one that stood out is um, we're it's a it takes a team with the superintendent and the board working together and with administrators and working and rowing the same way. We we've got, you know, again, there were several several um, school districts that that were not in the same playing field that we that we are. I mean, like I said, we we enjoyed uh being together, but you know,
188it several sessions that I went to, it came back to, you know, working with the superintendent and the board and with the staff and just over and over and over and it it's it's very important. It's very important that we work together and we are aiming to the same direction. You know, it's crucial. But kids >> I did I did u say I attended several sessions and we'll continue you know so >> well just let me say this thank you >> they'll they'll tell you that um there's maybe been one or two admin meetings where I haven't said this but most of the time they'll hear me say it's the best board I've ever worked with. Good. >> Well, we appreciate that. >> Appreciate that. >> But with great leadership, it makes it a lot
189easier. >> I already had my turn, but I want to say one more thing because it something triggered me. >> When y'all do a hard job, >> uh, if you go and sit in some of those classes, it makes your head spin what the state requirements are and the federal requirements and the way things change. It is it is a mountain of information. and what you all do. Uh, I applaud. >> Y >> thank you for what you do. There's a lot to keep our kids where they where they need to be to stay compliant with law and the financial stuff, curriculum, all those things. So, thank you. >> Yeah, we >> Yeah, >> Senate bills and House bills, we sat and um got a lot of information on that Friday night. No, Wednesday night.
190That was the first night. Wednesday night. >> Good information that we get. Thank y'all for sharing. All right, next item here. Okay. Uh yes, discuss and consider approval consent agendaformational items. First one here is check payment register financials budget amendment enrollment regular and special call board meeting minutes. >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the consent agendum agenda items as presented. >> Have a motion. >> Make that motion. >> Second. >> I'll second it. >> Chapa oraga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Chapa >> yes. >> Brian Boon >> yes. >> Kim Boon >> yes. >> Men is absent. 40. >> So I guess I'm going Nobody else is going to Dallas this week. You're solo. >> You're the much smaller >> conference. >> Okay. >>
191Thanks for going. >> Yeah. No, I'm looking forward to uh so next is closed session. The board will convene in closed meeting as authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act to discuss items allowed by the Texas Government Code Chapter 551.071, 076, 082, 0821, 083, and 084. Anybody need a break? All right. Say, what do you say? 8:55. 7 minutes. >> All right. 9:47. We're back from closed meeting. Is reads or any >> action resulting from close? >> Yeah. Uh I'll just uh make the recommendation. There's just one. Mr. President, members of the board administration recommends that the board of trustees issue an educator dual probationary contract for the 2026 20227 year as presented. >> Have a motion. >> Thank you, sir. >> Who makes a motion? Second. >> Mr. Chapa seconds it paraga votes yes.
192Leo Gonzalez is absent. Rick Choa, >> Yes. Brian Boon, >> yes. Kimboon. >> Yes. >> Marty Men is absent. Borro. All right. We have future meetings. July 20th, 2026, regular board meeting. And now we do. We have a motion to adjourn. >> I move that we >> I make that motion. >> Too much. >> Mr. Chapa seconds. Paraga votes yes. Neil Gonzalez abs. >> Rick Chapa? >> Yes. >> Brian Boon? >> Yes. Yes. >> Human is absent. 40. Great meeting everybody. >> Thank you.