001good morning Marvel Falls I staff I hope you're doing well I hope you're staying healthy I know there's a lot of things going around that have been going around the last month or so and uh affecting our students and staff I hope you're able to go into spring break feeling 100% but if you're not I hope you're able to go into spring break and get the rest and relaxation you need to get your batteries fully charged as we go into the final couple of months for those that are doing well and going somewhere for fun I hope you have a great time and so I am a little late getting the February 24th board meeting minutes out and so I wanted to take care of that today and just wish you well for spring break
002so I'm I'm sort of doing two things at once the uh the February 24th meeting went extremely well it was a quick meeting we started out with Mr Gonzalez and his staff recognizing Emerson Ramos and Travis Lutz two of our outstanding students at the Middle School uh from there Mr Gonzalez Miss Henson and Miss wheeler recognize Shelley Cochran as our going the extra mile teacher from the Middle School staff I recognized Thomas Jacobs for spotlight on Excellence he was nominated by Cara gasway and Jeff Roland and if you don't know Mr Jacobs is not only a member of our maintenance staff he also is a volunteer firefighter and went to California to help fight those fires in California Miss leflet uh recognized Emily Mendoza uh one of our high school teachers in our CTE area
003for uh her work and just her Spotlight on engagement we moved into the board meeting and uh the first part is just information items then we had a great CTE update by Miss Bernard got to hear from her a video see some of our students each board member got a couple of gifts from our students and it was student work that was done and so it was a great great night to really highlight CTE and the good things going on in that department Mr or our CFO uh proposed for the board to De fees which is paying off debt early and the board passed a resolution to Dees an amount uh paying off that debt early one of the things that you'll hear me talk about if you haven't already is with the $172 million
004bond that we uh the board has proposed how are we able to do that and not increase the ins tax rate from 2153 one of the things that really is a contributing factor of that is we've been able to save an interest about $9 million over the last few years because we've been paying off debt early and so this was another uh chance this year to pay that debt off early and take the steps necessary to move forward with that the very last thing that we did uh was uh a policy update 124 this is when tasby uh the Texas Association of school boards says that we need to update some policies and so we just uh took the first step and then the board will approve that at the March board meeting y'all I
005hope you have a wonderful spring break I hope it is a great great time and I just I want you to know it is a joy being your superintendent I love you guys and I hope you have a good one all the best thank you