001Hi, Marble Falls ISD staff. I hope you are having a great day. Hope you're having a great week and I hope you had a really wonderful spring break. We are here, it is March, talking about school board uh brief and our board meeting for Monday night. So, I'm just going to jump in and give you some of the highlights from Monday night's board meeting. First, as always, we always start with recognizing some students and staff, and we did that this week. We recognize two of our Falls Career High School students, Briana Pulk and Isaiah Bedell, two of our great students there at Falls Career High School. And uh one's actually already graduated. Then we went on to going the extra mile award. And that was Maria Mada, our uh behavior coordinator there at Falls Career
002High School, who's doing just a great job. Spotlight on excellence was Heather Hamilton. She is our ACE uh coordinator uh at the Marble Falls Middle School and just has grown that program a lot. Cameron Hadock was our spotlight on excellence. Cameron is um our teacher at Marble Falls Elementary School and just doing a great job in her classroom. And then we were able to recognize PCAT driver of the year and that's uh Doug uh Loi. And man, what a great job he did. he uh it was just really touching to get to see him accept that. So, no citizen comments. We jumped into just our our general stuff, information items, and then we we had several reports that were through our CNI department. We started with Caitlyn Pucket and that was on fentanel abuse prevention
003and drug poisoning awareness. uh in compliance with Tucker's law. Caitlyn presented information and that was that was information that she talked about uh that they've already gone over with Shaq. They've looked at it with district leadership and this is going to be setting us up in uh our advisories at the secondary level with uh the information. It was first read only. No action was taken. Then uh Miss Laughlet did a middle of the year reporting looking at uh some of the state uh the some of the testing we use uh on how we're doing and some of the action steps that we're taking uh to make sure that look we're looking at student growth the right way. And so that that was uh something looking at all the way uh at all of our different
004campuses. She and Mr. did a HB3 early childhood literacy, early childhood math and CCMR goals. looked at our high school level with uh that college career ready uh goals and then the early college uh or the early childhood literacy and early childhood math. And just got uh got the board familiar with a lot of the data points that that we're seeing, areas of concern, areas to work on and and some of the highlights. Yarda went on to talk about staff development waiver and this is for five days that the board uh will request uh or that we apply to TEA for staff development waiver and it gives us uh some of the minutes that uh if we ever have bad weather days that this this factors in we're going to get that approved at the
005April board meeting as well. Dr. Fields came in and talked about uh first read on certification of instructional materials for the 2526 school year and just the process and and what we're going to do there. And then uh Mr. Fin came in and the board actually took action on upgrading our uh camera system, moving to uh that camera system uh to Gentech our our Gent cameras uh moving them to a different system and uh integrating those where our our card readers and camera systems would would be talking to one another. And so the board approved that uh expense of4 $40,30. I did a real quick thing that's related to the uh elections where it really it's it's just a some paperwork that's required that we we do all of our elections. We contract with uh
006Bernett County and we don't have to work with Bernard and Travis County even though we have some of our our constituents in Travis. They work with Travis on our behalf. And so Bernard County takes care of that and so our paperwork matches with that. The very last thing is that Bill our presented on the budget last month he uh presented the budget and or or had some budget amendments. This month he really looked at uh some of the things related to the budget and the high points. Uh also um sharing that we're going to be looking at about a $2.2 million deficit. And so one of the things that you if you were uh watching if you uh have heard me talk is that that really was a point for us where we started talking
007about that we're we are going to have to cut $2.4 4 million in positions. And that as we're talking about a bond and $172 million bond that those bond dollars can't help us with uh salaries or benefits or one-time initiatives or so, you know, fuel those kind of things, things that are purchased on the M side. The bond can only help on the INS side. And so if you've heard me speak, you already uh know that, but it just that was part of what I talked about. And so we're going to we're in the process of having some challenging conversations this week related to that that uh information. From there, the board went into executive session and came out and approved our administrative contracts uh and uh took care of that. And so that's our
008board highlights from uh the March board meeting. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week and uh thanks for watching. Have a great day.