001All right, let's call this meeting to order at the Deion Board of Trustees. It is May 19th at um 6 p.m. We have our forum. Everyone is present. Um we have new members here that we're about to swear in and Derek on the square. There he is. Hello, Derek. Hello. All right. So, we are going to have our invitation. Um I am going to Is there anyone that would like to lead us in our prayer tonight? Any volunteers for that? Would you like to do it? We'll have Heath do that and then we'll have the pledge right after that. Father, just be with us as we go through this meeting. Just let us make good wise decisions for all the people that's affected. just be with us as we're going into summer and keep all
002the students and staff uh out of harm's way as they can come back and fulfill another year. Amen. And I'll add prayers for Gordon ISD. They have had some some bad damage from tornadoes. So we'll keep them in our prayers. And now Logan Sherard who will lead us in our pledge. I pledge algiance 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. As you all know, Logan is our valictorian. He had an incredible speech at graduation. We enjoyed that very much. Um, so now we're moving to our student spotlight. We have our band state cars and Mr. Miller will be introducing each one of them. Um, first we're going to have Logan, our valid Victoria. Hey,
003lead. That's great. Um, each one of these had to play a class one solo memorized except for Laura. Lors did not have to be memorized because of the difficulty level and the extent length. I've asked for them to prepare a two-minute excerpt each of their solos. They will be playing in Flugerville this coming Saturday. Okay. So, Logan, would you introduce your solo? I will be playing Birchbrook by Mark Ford. [Music] [Applause] Next, we're going to have our sophomore, our only sophomore, but a sophomore. A young girl, this is Elena Bennett. Tell me the name of your solo. My solo is being run by Mark. [Music] Down. [Music] Thank you. Our next one will be Zalen Bane. And just a little background behind the MIMA here. This is actually his Mima. He got this on a
004scholarship. And it was one, you probably tell him better than me, but it was a scholarship that he had to spend for his college. and he got to pick percussion instruments because that will be his major music performance. And so he won a $10,000, wasn't it? $10,000 to spend on whatever he bought himself and he's gracious enough to let us. Yeah. And the solo I playing, it's called the fairy hymns. It's an arrangement of two hymns by Brian Mueller. It's like a jazz interpretation of them. And I'll be playing the first one in the bleak midwinter. [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] center in the middle. All right. And this is Laura Sterlin, also a senior, and she's our only wind instrument they got picked this year to go on. And again, she did not have to memorize
005hers because hers was like eight pages almost. But Jill repeats almost a 10-minute solo. She did an absolutely fabulous job. Lots of ratings. Would you tell them about your solo, Miss Lauren? Um, I'm playing Partners. [Music] Yeah. [Music] I'm going to start that. I'm so sorry. Little nervous there, Miss Relax. Before the state judges really [Music] Not much. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank you to all the students that came and played today. We're so excited to get to hear. Wonderful. If it's okay, we'll open these get this out of here and then You need somebody to hold the [Music] break you. I don't even know what it is. I serve the cost. They got it. We just learned a lot about y'all's relationships. Let's um we have no citizen participation. Let's move to administering the
006open office for our new members. Um this is a big welcome to NJ Stewart. This is his first time to be on the board. Welcome back to Josh Mayhem and welcome back to Terrell Casey. We're very excited to have y'all. Um I think we'll have all three of them stand here in the front. Judge Morgan has been kind enough to come and administer the oath for you. We're going to have you sign. Yeah, we're going to have you repeat the oath and then you're going to have to sign in just a moment. You'll each raise your right hand and I will say I and repeat your name. And that's when you'll repeat your name and we'll follow along with you. I repeat your name. I Terrell Casey. I Josh Man. I am J Stewart. do
007solemnly swear or affirm dolely swear that I will faithfully execute the duties that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of school board trustee of the office of school board trustee for the daily independent school district for the dillian independent school district of the state of Texas of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend the constitution and laws of the united United States Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state and of this state of this state. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. [Applause] Y'all will sign those. I will end up. We appreciate coming and doing this for us. Here you are. Make sure you put
008your name in the first Thank you, Judge Morgan. We appreciate You come to drink. Nice to see all y'all. I'm going to go back to the farm. Don't touch anything. [Music] Okay. Now, we're going to reorganize um the board and then we're going to sign our conflicts of interest and our release of information and ethics for members. And Dr. Mer has that for us. Okay. So, I'll start off by saying that I have um um truly been proud to represent the district as the board president for the last two years. Um it's been more difficult than I thought it would be. It's a heavy load, but I have appreciated that responsibility given to me. Um but as I stated last year, uh I only be doing this for one more year. So I am very
009happy to be passing the baton on and that weight on. Um I have dug around in the past. Um I swear I had some literature that said that you had to serve on the board for at least a year before you could hold office. I have dug and dug and dug. I have found nothing that states that not on tea, not on TASBY. Um I'm sorry everyone, there is no out. Everyone is eligible for officer positions tonight. So with having said that, I would like to nominate someone who has many years of experience and 20 years experience as um president. I don't know if they're willing to accept this, but I would like to nominate Josh Mayan to be our new board president if you are willing. [Music] I wasn't really expecting it, but if
010that's what the board wants, then it wonderful. So, we have that nomination out there. Are there any other nominations for the position of president? I'd like to nominate. Okay, we have uh Josh and Heath. Are there any other names that anyone would like to nominate? Okay, so we'll take these in order. Um Josh's name was cut out first, so we'll vote for his name first. All those in favor of Josh Mayan being the new president of the board of Dun trustees, please vote now. Okay. Um all those that are in favor of Keith being the new board president, vote now. Okay, congratulations. I'm going to continue to reorganize the board and you'll take your position. Okay, so did you get the numbers and everything? I got the names. Okay, I guess we don't have to
011put that. Did y'all see? Can you hear me? Yes, I will. I know. Okay, we can't hear you. Did you see my vote? I see you. Lisa. Okay. We're moving on to the position of vice president and we are now taking nomin nominations for that role. I'd like to nominate. Okay. So Derek, if you're willing to hold that role. Okay. So Derek's hand is not there. Are there other nominations for vice president? Okay. So since there are no other nominations, we do not have to vote on that position. So Derrick, you are the lucky winner of vice president. All right, I'm done. [Music] Okay, so the third position is for secretary and we're looking for nominations for that position. Terl is willing to fulfill that again and I think Dr. Marble would appreciate that. The
012proximity is very convenient and it's very convenient. She's she's useful in many ways, but It is nice to be close. I value you in other ways too. Carol, are there other nominations for the position of secretary? Okay, there are no other nominations. So therefore, you are the winner of that position. So thank you very much. Okay, I'm going to get out of my chair and I'm gonna let you take over from here. You're the secretary. I bet you keep those. Okay. All right. Okay. Congratulations. All right. We're proud to have you. We're proud of our school. Thank you very much. So thankful that it happened to Gordon and not daily. Oh, aren't we all? All right. I have to come back and get my goodies. Hold on. Uh yeah, when he opens this one, when
013you open that, it's going to go to his email. Okay. You just need to got Josh. Yeah. I I'll have your form here for you. I'll have your form here for you to sign when you're here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Are you helping me get the Do you understand? to do something. The computer, the internet has been so slow all day. Did You want to show it? You [Music] might get on. Sure. Yeah, but I guess we're to I guess we're ready for the consent agenda. Bear with me. I know Josh and MJ all might not have a chance to read the previous minutes. He just looks all relaxed. He is relaxed. Vacation. Where are you, Derek? Secret. Okay. It's only a recorded meeting. It's only the whole town that will know. So, don't worry about
014it. They on vacation. on vacation. Maybe a station. [Music] I guess it is. We're approving the previous meetings for the special meeting and the regular meeting. And I guess you're trying Okay, we are we're right on track. Uh we're 67% of our budget has been expended. About 66% of the year has been expended. About 69% of our revenue has been uh received. So we're we're in really really good shape financially. Uh and our tax collections are coming in well. We usually collect very near 100% of our taxes, but since our last meeting, we've collected 35,600 94. Looking for a motion to approve. If everybody likes what they see on previous meetings, I'll make a motion. Okay. Motion by Terrell and second by car. All four there. I guess seven to zero. Uh I guess we're
015to campus reports. I really don't have a whole lot to report, but it has been a great month. Um, we have finished up all of our testing. We've done all that testing. We had a great finish to the end of the school year. We had a great field day. Um, great participation. So, um, really don't have a whole lot else that's going on other than teachers are very, very busy. Um, we have a couple things we're trying to hire. Um, replacing some paras that we didn't replace throughout the school year that were just longterm stuff. So anyway, just all the teachers are busy getting their camping gear up because that's our thing next year. So it was all hands on deck today. That's it for me. Lori, we finished up our year strong. We had
016some we finished all of our testing. We had 100% attendance for testing. Our maps are done. Maps testing is done. We got to meet today our TIA to see what we're looking like with our our scores and our maps results. So, we feel pretty excited about that. We had a great field day and we had a lot of water activities. Miss Garcia with that $10,000. So, she spent some of it on water activities and every student got to participate. So, they ended the year happy and authorized. We did our first um eighth grade promotion ceremony and they had not had that before. So, students. We're very excited about that. Well done. Thank you very much. We were we were very happy about it. We need more chairs. We found out that we had more we
017had more people standing than we did studying, but we know that the gym is not the right place. The sound isn't good for those type of events. But it was exciting for us. And um like our staff is wrapping up the year. We've had some meetings today to go to our campus recruitment plan. I wrap up those business meetings that we need to do to get our school supplies ordered and those wonderful PES report that Ally wants us done. So, it's been a good year. I I think I think I made it through the year. Okay. I think I made it through it, right? And I'm coming back for year two. So, I'm very excited about that. So, it's been a good year. Um I don't have a clue. I'm just kidding. Graduation was phenomenal.
018I hope you were there. It was a blessing evening. It was great. Uh and then we actually started today with summer school credit recovery kids. So we just roll right into the next evolution and we're headed down that road. Also on her campus and myself, Tory Faulner and myself, we are at guardian training this week. We actually started Saturday after graduation and we will go all the way through Sunday next week. So So it's every day this week. Every day. Well, we don't go Thursday or Friday, but then we go back Saturday and Sunday. So, it's Yes. Yes. It's kind of fun, but I'm not as young as I used to be, and it kind of hurts. Oh, wait. We got this. But thank you for this opportunity. Really appreciate. I was really excited for
019the ovation that you received. Quite humbled and said what you said and was quite tearing. Very nice. No. Okay. Our uh we're still in the planning period of that. Uh we've got some things I'm supposed to meet in a couple of days at Gorman uh with for that. Uh we're going to talk about it. I should have some more information. The P Tech, we're still in the planning. We've got a a meeting coming up on the 21st. Um been spending a little of that 100,000 that we got for our planning on that. We're in the uh effective advising grant and we have another $100,000 there that we're spending on effective advising and different programs we need for that. And we're in the application process again of turning it in. Uh and we'll probably get that
020much more on this next portion of it, too. So, um always on the little the little grants. It's a lot of work for all those programs, but they all kind of intertwine and it's going to be great for our kiddos. So, our eighth graders are the first kids and I think I think they've got 08 or so in this first cohort uh to start on and we're really excited about that and I think it'll take off. Some of them are a little scared about the dual credit right off the bat, but they're going to be supervised. So, they're going to be fine. Uh we're just going to have to get them through it and not so scared about it and get the word out that we're trying to do a better job of getting the
021word out, talking to parents and uh because I don't think they understand they can get their associates degree free. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's on the technical part of it, the career and technical. So, this is not We don't do the dual credit for just normal dur This is for our CTE kiddos. And to get them um I explain a little bit to those that that may not know. Um it when kiddos leave here sometimes and they go off to Texas, um the TSTC and all that, they just can't live on their own. They just too much and it transportation or the housing or whatever, all of it. And they don't even really know how. This gives them the opportunity to live at home, have a job,
022finish their degree with our help, and uh it's it's going to be beneficial. We just got to get them rolling in it and understanding and excited about doing it. I think we get this first cohort going through here. It's going to pick up. It is. It is. It's great. Well, I I just wrote down things that we're planning to do because right now we don't have anything that that's unfinished um per se, but I wanted you to know that we are already starting on the restrooms at the elementary school and the gym. That'll be such a a gift for uh our PE teacher especially not having to worry about where they are when they don't come back. Uh plumbing in the old gym. This will make it more usable. Um well, it'll make it usable
023actually because uh you can't flush those to toilets very many times before they won't flush anymore at this point. So this will be a whole new plumbing dig it up and redo and what I will say our environmental sensors which we call vape detectors are working well cuz all day long I kept getting 101 110 noise levels and they're running the saws breaking that concrete through there. So I what is going on at school? When I got back I pulled up the cameras to see what it was and it was them and they're working on. So they're they're working on that and it's going to be really really good. It'll be great for our community, too, because the PI uses that gym a lot. So, uh I think we'll we'll have it really the top
024part. We we still the bottom part is not restored, but it'll have the top part will be really a class act, I think, when this is done. And then maybe we might go down to those old dressing rooms one of these days. I don't know. But, but right now, we're going to get the top part done. Uh we're converting a middle school class. It's actually what we call the annex. Some people call it a portable building, but let me just tell you, it's brick. It's a brick building. So, the brick buildings are not portable buildings. It probably once upon a time may have been one, but it is a brick building. Um, and we'll convert that to child care. Uh, and the reason for that is, uh, we've outgrown our child care at the at
025the elementary school. We're licing for eight kids over there, eight babies, and we'll have more than eight, but we can have another uh back here at the middle school of six and um we'll be fine over there. Um so, um we've already got it traced out on the floor where where the sinks will be and the restroom will be in that room because there was water in that building at one time, but sometime it got cut off. So, this will be And there's a gate right there that they can go in from the right from the parking lot. It's going to be a really really uh nice thing for especially for our teachers who have babies and high school level. It'll be it'll be easier for we have someone over it for to run it.
026We're working on that part which may prove to be the most difficult part because I'm telling you uh you want somebody really quality to come in there and work but but we'll be needing somebody else at elementary We've had a long-term sub in there because our worker quit them here. So, um we're looking for two people right now for daycare. Um, and of course the cleaning and u everything that we normally do and and oh and the parking on street. That should be a real plus for our elementary teachers because I I think I told you when we were talking about doing it. I pulled my license plate off there out parking over there a couple years ago and this will be a real advantage of having more parking at the elementary school. So, and
027then we'll clean and clean and clean and do a little painting and fixing up. It's not on here, but just this afternoon, our athletic director came in and said, "Is there any way we can air condition just the equipment room as a fieldhouse?" He said he thought it would preserve a lot of our material and supplies because they're finding that it was so hot in there that some of it had deteriorated. So, I have not spoken with David about the possibility of putting a a mini split a mini split in there to air condition that room because the the dressing rooms and everything are air conditioned. Of course, he would love to have the ex the weight room exercised. And I told the air condition and I told him when it was built, we put
028all of those rollout doors in there because we were going to say it's air conditioned by air, but equipment room. I agree probably would be cost effective. Uh I guess safety audit report. We're just there's nothing new. Okay. Uh I guess 9.4 purchase. I put it in your packet. Is [Music] it maybe I didn't know. Is it in the one you have on the line? Agenda. Okay. Go down and see if it's on on your agenda. I may not have received it yet. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. There's some Yeah, it's in your hard copy package. I'm sorry. Do you want me to go run some off? Let me just talk about it. It's the old dentist office. Lisa's got one for y'all to share. It's It's the old dentist office. They called me and said
029that it is listed for sale. It is on the corner of the property that we presently have our high school on. It's [Music] $299,000 and 500 $299,500. That's the listing price on it. Um I've never been in that building. Uh I don't know if any of you all have um but it from the outside it looks very nice. It has a water well that is really nice an active water well. It is on here just for discussion tonight. It's not on here for action. Um but I wanted you all to discuss it a little bit and see if you want me to pursue it to see if this is a firm price or or or if we're even interested. I will tell you, I don't know that we need it, but I don't think we'll
030ever have an opportunity to buy it again. And uh if we can get it at a at a good price, um it is a pretty piece of property and it is right next to us. Yeah, I would definitely say the proximity is great. I know. He has done a meticulous job inside and now it's in good condition. Um, and I think previously said anything under three would be at a really solid price and so I think I think you'll find I I heard the price. What is the piece of property? Dr. Smith's office. Okay. The the building and what's the lot size? It has lots of plumbing in it. So, I I don't know. It would be a wonderful daycare, but but we don't need it for a daycare. I There's not a glaring need
031for it right this minute, but if we had it, I'm sure we'd put it to use. Um it would be maybe a possibility for our health science program to if it grows to move over there and and have spaces like a real doctor's office. Um like I said, it could be a daycare. It could be classrooms. Um we presently have one of our classrooms that's a high school setup. Is it one classroom or two classrooms? Just one. One classroom the high school set up for, as you know, for for hospital beds. And this could leave that that room, get that room back for us if we needed to. I don't know. Um I I can't just sit here and say, "Oh my goodness, we're we just desperately need it." But I just don't think we'll
032have the opportunity to go buy it again. I agree with I would agree with that. And we don't know what kind of neighbor we get. There's already one living across the street. Yes, I was thinking that. So, I I I would like to pursue. Okay. For more information, I will if if y'all want me to. If we're not voting on, I'll leave it at that. If y'all just would like me to pursue, get more information, get a a really negotiated price on it, I will call them tomorrow and work on that. I be fair to find out. Okay, I will talk to you more about it in June or at a call meeting if it's a really good I like the idea of the using it for the health science or a lot of medical
033majors this class. I can just see that program growing. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Obviously, there's more uses it can be used for, but we need to have a purpose for it if we do pursue it. So, that that's the place I'd like to see it start. I'm interested as well. Okay, good deal. Yeah, I think in the future you're definitely going to have since we hosted some schools already on the nursing program. Okay, good deal. Thank you. Y'all are waiting on me. Uh, I guess we're going to donation of consideration, approval of donations and gifts. Yes, I have some gifts that I'd like for you all to approve. Uh, the Don Study Club. These are all academic award gifts. So, Dion Study Club gave $200. Comanche club gave $1,000. Class
034of 1969,500. The deal on Lions Club, $2,945. That is um the goes to the saludiatorum. I believe the Beach and Melon Festival $3,000. James and Dorothy Dolls Foundation $2,000. The Association Professional Educators uh $250. Ding D and Marble gave $6,000. Vivian Athletic Boosters Club gave $6,000. And these were all awarded the other night. some of you are present. Uh it's a really giving comm community and and this is a program that continues to grow and and while it's not listed here and because it was given directly to students, I would like to announce that uh PROS the night graduation donated uh $50 to each graduate who graduated. So next year we'll do a better job of that. They didn't call us until Friday, but next year we'll make it in the form of a donation.
035so that they can be recognized for that. I like a motion to approve 10.1 second. Uh I guess all four uh consideration or approval for the canvas of votes on uh on the May the 3rd election. Uh the votes brutally they the results were sent to us and we we met and um the uh on what day did we meet? May the 9th and it was uh Derek, he Cody Hodgers and Carrie Morris all met and Cody uh made the motion to accept the reported votes and Derek seconded it and we're reporting that to you all. So I guess we need a motion to accept it. Make a motion to accept it. I'll second. I did. public hearing. The next thing is a public is it's just notification that there will be a public hearing
036here on June the 16th. This is to inform the public about the title one part A services that the district offers to see if any private organization wishes to take part. So this is something we have to post on our board agenda and also on our board outside. Looking for a motion to post this on the board. I'll second all four, I guess. grant you authorization to professional contracts from May 20th which is tomorrow till August 31. This is a convenience mainly because and this summer it won't be very many I don't think because we don't have very many openings but but so that when we find a teacher we can hire them right away. In fact, uh Lori missed one last week uh because we didn't act quite quickly enough. But uh in the
037summertime there's there's competition for really really good teachers and so if we can get them and even though we tell them we'll take it to the board, they want that contract in their hand and you can't blame them. So this gives me permission to sign contract until August the 31st. I'll make a motion for summer. Uh any discussion on this? Okay. All four car. Uh consideration for teacher evaluation calendar. Well, believe it or not, we're already planning for next year. So, this is the evaluation calendar for 2526. Uh we have to post this so that our teachers know when they're going to be evaluated and when they can't be evaluated. So, I ask you to approve this calendar. It's very similar to calendars in the past. I don't think it's changed a lot. I changed
038the date. I'll second all four uh consideration for retention stop. Okay. At this meeting last year, you all approved a retention stop of $750 to be given to our staff in November. Um, I put it on the agenda for you to consider tonight. Um, understanding that we don't know what the legislature is going to do. I truly believe that there will be um some money in the budget for u in not our personal budget but the state sends us money for teachers uh pay raises but I did notice that the most recent one that they're proposing does nothing for for one two and three years the first first three years it does it does not increase the pay raise and that's really where we heard a lot um because you can drive just up the
039road for an hour and get about a $10,000 raise. So, um the stop is a nice thing that I think our staff enjoys. They enjoy getting it the month before Christmas. Um it's a it's an edible boy. Um but I don't know how much to tell you we can afford. I think we can afford a I think when when Mr. Thompson was here and we discussed budget, we told him that we felt like the board was going to want to do a sting again this year. So, he already knows the $750. Uh, and he's put that in our what he's beginning to work on for the budget. So, we can leave it at 750 and come back to it later and change it or will that Oh, yes. I believe you can change it anytime.
040Yeah, I don't think you would. It would be very popular to lower it. I don't know. I'm not about lowering anything. Maybe my taxes on my house. That's about it. But but we can kind like we can approve this tonight and if we decide later that we want it to be more than that, we can go back in there. Okay. Well, I'll make a motion to um 10.6. How much? 750. Yeah. Any more discussion? All four. The next one is to talk about a date for a budget workshop. We usually do one in June. My recommendation would be after June the 2nd for sure. Um and maybe before the next June board meeting is the third. I don't know what day that is. Bring a calendar. 16. That's early, isn't it? I won't be here
041the 16th. It makes no difference. Yeah. But but have we stacked those in the past or we just have the budget at the meeting at? We have before. Well, the two of you are here. So, We could we could wait till June the 16th and and have and decide on a date. We might have preliminary um numbers to give to you so that people could think about it. And it may be pretty dictated by what the legislature does, you know, because the House version is is loose. the the Senate version is pretty tight. It pretty much says where the money is going and exactly in what percentages. So, they're working on on a amendment to it right now to see if they can come to some kind of agreement. Hope they don't agree just to
042not do it at all. I guess is that something? We can just table Is that okay with you, Derek? Okay. Uh, I guess we're down to personnel here. Okay. I have I would like you to consider you offering professional contracts to Amber Bates as a counselor, Paul as art facilitator, Jay Montagambo as diagn diagnostician. Jordan Matthysse will be a teacher special teacher slashcoach at the high school. Lupus Bontrager and Marissa Bontrager both they're married and they both they've been teaching at the high school and coaching. This one is not on your u computer agenda. Slighten Ooaha Slayton is coming to us uh as a teacher coach and Max Owens. Those are and that will just about finish us up except for a couple of positions at the elementary school together. Which one of those is
043coming to my campus? We're not coming yet. Okay. Mr. Miller didn't know either. Yeah, we don't know yet. No, he doesn't get them. No, he does not get them. One one of the one of the men one of those men will become a special ed teacher. I'd like to go into executive session to talk about. Okay. 655. Great news. Kaden Duke is at UI final. She made the finals. One more day. Top 10. She hit the phone that she read here. That is wonderful. And the good news just keeps on coming.