001books. >> Good evening. The time is now 6:38. I'd like to welcome everyone to our regularly scheduled board meeting for the ALSD school district. Today is Monday, February 16th, 2026. This agenda for today's meeting has been posted as required on the administr. I'm going to call this meeting to order. And item number two, the roll call to establish a forum. So an announcement that this meeting of the Alice has been duly called and the notice of this meeting has been hosted in accordance with Texas Open Meetings Act section of the Texas government. Present today is our superintendent, Miss uh Dr. Dino, myself, Jennifer, the board uh president, Mr. Herman Adaniano, the vice president. Not present today is Mr. Cidro Samura for board secretary present is board trustee Adrian Pena Miss Getta board trustee board trustee
002Mr. Cody Reeds and board trustee Mr. So at this time we have eight onto item number three the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag. This evening we have Emily Champa, the daughter of and Priscilla Champa, eighth grade student at Williams, and Mary Alen Fontine, seventh grade student, the daughter of Kevin Fontine that will be leading us in our pledges. 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 alliance to the one state one and indivisible. Thank you, Emily and Mary Alvin. >> To item number four, recommend and approve the board meeting minutes for A, the minutes for the regularly meeting on January 12th of 2026. and for the the special fall meeting
003on February 22nd of 2022. Is there a motion at this time? >> I'll make a motion to to approve the minutes as written. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Pñena and a second by Mr. Is there any discussion? >> All in favor? Mr. >> I. >> Uh Mr. Pña. >> Mrs. G. I. >> Mr. Reeves. >> Hi. >> Mr. Damon. >> Hi. >> And myself. I motion passes. Thank you. On to item five for public comment. At this time, no one has signed up to speak during our public product portion. On to item number six, is super report. >> Thank you all. Thank you for being out here audience and people out in their homes watching virtually. Lots of recognitions tonight. So we'd like to invite Mr. Fett is to the podium
004and we will start with our Alice High School tier program. We have another board president Dr. OS superintendent of schools board of trustees invited guest thank you very much pleasure of Alice ISD start off with recognizing our Alice high school cheer program and their wonderful accomplishment for their UI state performance that happened last month in Fort Worth Texas. I'd like to call to the podium their cheer coaches Jessica Ku and Audrey. Good evening members of the board and community. I stand before you tonight with so much pride in our Alice High School cheerleaders and the way they represented Alice, Texas at the UIL Spirit State Championships this past January. For the fifth consecutive year, our program is state ranked. That consistency is not luck. It is commitment, discipline, and heart. This year, our squad placed
005ninth overall out of 78 teams in the 5A2 division. To be in the top 10 among 78 of the best teams in Texas is an incredible accomplishment and a true testament to the standard these young ladies uphold every single day. Even more exciting, our band earned third place out of the 78 teams in its category. That moment represented their energy, their creativity, and their pride in our school. They didn't just compete, they shined. What makes this achievement even more remarkable is who these young women are beyond the competition floor. The majority of our cheerleaders are multiport athletes. They split their time between cheer, volleyball, basketball, track, softball, and so many other athletic commitments. They practice before school, after school, and on weekends, constantly balancing multiple responsibilities with excellence. In addition to their athletic dedication, many
006of them are at the very top of their class. They thrive academically. They are honor students, leaders in the classroom, and role models on campus. They prove every day that you can pursue excellence in athletics while maintaining excellence in academics. And beyond sports and academics, they are deeply rooted in our community. They serve at events, volunteer their time, perform at countless functions, and represent our district with pride and integrity. They pour into Alice as Alice pours into them. To remain state ranked for five consecutive years speaks not only to their talent but to the culture of our program. One built on accountability, resilience, discipline, and most importantly, love. They genuinely love each other. They support one another. And when they step onto that floor, they carry the heart in our of our community with them.
007We are incredibly proud of every single member of this team. Proud of their work ethic, proud of their character, and proud of the way they represent our district. Thank you for your continued support of these remarkable young men and women. They truly make Alice shine. Now we will get I believe it's going to go in order of last name. If that helps there's there's over 40 of the Christ. So bear Davidos Elijah Selenas Michaela Alama co- captain >> Maria Kuan Castillo >> Cortez Sophia Cortez Haley Cruz >> Angela Garcia. >> Congratulations. Janelle Garcia, >> Christa Garza, >> Dennis Gonzalez, Cameron Gonzalez, >> Sophie Gonzalez, >> Serenity, >> co-aptain Khalisa Lombodia, Alexia Martinez, >> Jackie Martinez, >> Chloe Molina, >> Coco, Avery, >> Daddy Po, Thank you Ramirez. Leandra Rodriguez Mia Ellis Alenas Savannah Salano. Congratulations
008Thomas. Congratulations Payton Timmons. Congratulations. Trinity Torres, >> Jordan Trampton, Isabella Baptist, and Payton Aunia. And that is your 2005 2016. students. I do want to add to this recognition, a certificate of recognition and thanks to our cheer coaches for all dedication and hard work and appreciation they put into all their students. So, I'd like to present the certificate to Miss Kandu and Miss Rodriguez. that you can bring with you. >> We want to Fabulous job. The girls, you all did amazing. Thank you girls and boys. Miss Rodriguez and Miss Yall are amazing too. Thank you. >> I love the tradition that you have set, >> Miss and Miss Rodriguez. The tradition has to continue for another five years. >> Top three. >> All right. I love that. It starts with a goal. So, thank you.
009Mr. Bettis will continue with the WAS band program. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Vinu. Um, I'd like to continue with some recognition. I'd like to call to the podium our head middle school band director, Mr. Joe Morio, recognize our W band students for their team region audition placements. Mr. Jo, >> good evening. Um, I'm here to recognize the 23 uh W seventh and eighth graders who qualified for the region event. Uh we had they were competing against over 400 kids. We had 23 make it which is an awesome number. And we will start with them. >> First we have is Aiden notice. Next we have temple. Next we have Aiden Kavas. Next we have Emily Ja. >> Next we have Carlos Los Santos. Next we have Aarine Dat. Next we have Addison Esad. Next
010we have Victoria Garcia. Unavailable. She has the flute right now. Next is Wing Gonzalez. Next one is Jlin. >> Congratulations. >> Next we have Victoria Lopez. Next we have Angel Lopez. Next we have Amberlin Martinez. >> Next we have Arabella Melton. Next we have Matthew Moren. Next we have is Jose Antonio Okanas. Next is Jaylen Ratz. Next we have Ariana Ramirez. Next one is Elijah Ramos. >> Next is Valerie Robas. Thank you so much. Next is Isella Rodriguez. Next we have Brook Romeo. Next is Dante Rosales. Next one is Mila Sanchez. >> Next one is Rusty Sil. >> We we did have a one one student that was alternate that got put in the Friday before we left and she is not here right now but Mahia was also one of the members of the
011region. These are your 23 middle school region band qualifiers. >> Before we go to the picture, I would like to recognize our teachers the certificate of recognition and most sincere appreciation for them working with all our students on a daily basis to help us succeed. I to recognize Mr. Joe Modio, Mr. Hyman and she's not here tonight. Thank you all very much. >> We can put one right here. He's >> great job. Good job. >> Thank you, boys and girls. starts at the middle school, the level of the music and our band program continues to excel at the high school. So parents, please continue to encourage your kids to participate in all our programs. >> Mr. Bennett will continue with the choir program. >> Thank you very much. Presidential schools trustees invited guests. We'd like
012to now recognize our Alice High School choir program that I call custodian their teacher Mr. Joel Hammond. Yeah. Invited guest principles. It's a privilege to uh bring to you our uh one of our area candidates. We actually had two um but uh Nuna was unable to attend the audition because of her prior commitment to cheer. We have busy busy students as you'll see when Matthew comes in. He's in the he's in the musical. He's in band and he's in DI and he's in FFA. So uh uh but I would like to recognize uh for his hard work. um started off uh went through the district round, went through the area round or went through the region round and qualified for area and he placed uh 11th chair um in the area. Unfort we weren't able
013to break through the state, but we're very proud of his improvement. We're very proud of his efforts. So, Matthew Thank you. >> Before we get to the picture, I would like to give a recognition and sincere to Mr. Joel Abin for all the work he does with only Mr. Canon but all our students in our program. Thank you very much Mr. Very proud of you. Good job. >> Great job, Matthew. Now, we will have our high school band program, TMBA. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Uh we'd like to recognize two individuals that TDA audition for band process started off in mid uh November where they went to district auditions at at veterans memorial in Corpus Christi and they had to earn a chair uh their first and then earn a qualifying spot to region
014enter region which we had here in Dallas, Texas in early December and there at the region level they had to earn a spot in a reach bad. They qualified for it after that. Not not only earning a spot in the region bank, but trying to earn a spot to the area round, which is very hard in TNA. And we had two students advanced to the area G. Okay. Uh competition at Texas&M University in Corpus Christie. We'd like to recognize first on OBO, Mr. Noah Rosenbomb, area. Congratulations. >> And next we would like to recognize for Alto saxophone, Mr. Caleb Flores. certificate. A certificate for yourself. How do you word this? >> Appreciation to all the music band directors in related to Mr. Cob the third. >> Well done. Thank you very much. >> Thank you
015for all your support, >> Noah and Caleb. Great job. Continue to explain everything that you want to. Let me get out of the way. >> Thank you so much. >> Later on on the agenda, you will have the approval of any donations. But before we do this particular donation, I wanted to invite Miss Lori Trappton up to the podium because they received a nice donation from the Wyatt Ranch. And so I'd like to for her to express her gratitude and the process that was taken because $70,000 is a lot of money. >> Yes, it is. Um Okay. >> Good evening, Dr. board president, members of the board. Um we did receive a very generous donation from the Wyatt ranches. So my first year I had written to them um thinking it's a long shot, right?
016But you know um what the heck? So I got a letter later saying sorry not at this time. Okay, fine. So then I wrote another one. Second semester, same thing. Uh fast forward second year, write another one, same thing. Um then last year I was able to meet the uh the foreman Mr. Walter Mensas of the I hope I'm saying this correctly the robist division and he came out for um our like a presentation that we had and he was very generous. Him and the other betttos came out and they did a presentation for our kiddos and I can't say enough about them. They warmed our hearts. they really did a bunch of um activities with our kiddos. And so then I wrote another letter at the beginning of the year and again I got
017an email saying you know at this time you know um not right now and so then um I just couldn't help but get a feeling one day I got a call it was already like in the evening I was by myself and it was from um Billy Wells and so he said you know what would you do with um you know $60,000 and I was like oh my god right I had so many ideas and so he said, "Well, I need you to present in a couple of days. Get your stuff together and come out." So I went with Mandy Bettis. Is she here with me? Um and so we went we went on a little adventure to their um the Wyatt ranches in Valdipos and I presented and within a few minutes they said
018that they were going to award sign 70,000 and he said you'll have your check in 72 hours. And when um Mr. MCAS came back, I couldn't help but feel that he was instrumental in making it happen. And so, sure enough, um I was told that he spoke very well of our campus and um he did help, you know, with making sure that our voice was heard and I was able to present in front of the Wyatt Ranch um sons and the foundation. And so, we are very excited. We got our our check what um over a week ago. And so, I'm going to show you what I presented to them. if you guys would like to just take a copy um and pass it down. And so something that I want to really make sure
019people know about the Wyatt Ranches is that they are very big on ensuring that they're serving um you know a very special student population. And something that I know they that really spoke to them was our emergent bilingual population. And so they asked me, you know, what were some of our plans that we had? And so I had this presentation. And so I want to say that at science we have a lot of things that are already um in motion and you know we're very lucky. So what we're going to do with the money is to further enhance what we're already doing. So we have a few um you know enhancements as far as furniture. I don't know if you guys are very familiar but we also have an outdoor classroom that we recently um
020got put in maybe in about what October. And so we're going to be making that a little bit stronger. We're going to enhance our overall early foundational skills. Um so I presented all of this and um they just want to make sure that next year we give them our report card in December and they're hoping to continue to see an overall increase and um we just can't be you know more thankful and their hospitality was like no other. So um it it was a really great experience. So Thank you for always being an advocate for your students. I do appreciate that. Most importantly, they appreciate. >> Thank you. >> Next, we have uh the recognition of our LSISD school counselors. So, I know that we have been celebrating our counselors. they are many times the
021voice that the kids don't have and so I know many times the kids go to them for just advice and support and so we're very grateful for our counselor so Miss Vasquez >> uh good evening board presidents board members Dr. and members of the committee. I am very honored and privileged tonight to recognize these school counselors. Uh I will say that they do wear many hats in each of their campuses. They are a venture. They're an advocate leader. They're supporters and they do make a meaning meaningful difference in the lives of our students today, tomorrow, and in the future. Uh by ensuring our students social and emotional needs are met, they help lay the foundation for academic success and move us toward achieving an A rating. Thank you for the powerful impact you make in
022our schools and communities. So, as I call you up, counselors, please come up and be recognized. The first one I have is Marisella Dea Cruz, and she's at Alice High School. Next one is Marie Bronstein and she's from William Adams Middle. Next I have Mida Va from William Adams Middle School. >> Next I have Carmela Ramos from Science Elementary. Next is Jalissa Sanchez from William Adams. Then I have Julia Garza from Alice High School. And the last one I have is Mara Duron from Newman Elementary. Thank you. >> And those are our school counselors. Thank you, Miss Bosquez, and thank you counselors again for your work. >> Next, we have a great announcement from the human resources department. So I invite just the hand up to share that with your viewers. >> Good evening madame
023president, Dr. Drevino, superintendent of schools and board of trustees and audience. I do. I have exciting news and I'm so excited that to announce and to inform you that the Texas Education Agency TEA informed Alice Independent School District that the 2025 2026 teacher incentive aotment TIA designations and submitted using the 2024 2025 teacher effectiveness data have been officially approved. >> Yes. I'll give it a TA congratulates Alice ISD on reaching these important milestones as our district continues to take meaningful steps to recognize, reward, and retain our most effective teachers. Over the past several years, Alice ISD has demonstrated consistent growth in TIA participation and impact. We started in 2022 to 2023 with 19 designated teachers. We uh retention rate of 80% and it brought in 252,287. 2023 to 2024 we improve we went up to
02429 designated teachers with a total pay of 378 378,602 with a retention rate of 82%. For 2024 2025, we ended up with 45 designated teachers with a total pay of 580,247 with a retention rate of 84%. And this year for 2526 were estimated for 57 designated teachers with a retention rate of 86%. Now the final amount for the funds is projected and should be coming in around March maybe early April around that time. So this achievement and the only reason for that is because at this time right now we're estimating between maybe 49 because some of our teachers moved up maybe from they were recognized and they moved up to be exemplary or they went from exemplary to being master teachers. So good job to each and every one of you. This achievement reflects the
025dedication, instructional excellence, and commitment of our educators, our leaders across the district. Congratulations to each and every one of our teachers, our principles, and everyone who contributed to the success of the teacher incentive program in Alice ISD. Good job to each and everyone. >> So again, congratulations to our teachers and it's great because this year we did add special ed and the reading specialist. So, you know, hopefully more teachers will end up as the years progress and the students continue to have success. Next, we have uh the fine arts department and uh you see a lot of the handbooks there. So, I believe there's eight handbooks under the direction of the fine arts department. So, Mr. Pettis, please share any changes for the coming school year. >> Thank you very much. Super schools, Miss President,
026board of trustees and guest se on behalf of the school district fine arts department. We are presenting eight fine arts handbooks for 2026 and May 27th school year. These handbooks have been carefully reviewed and updated in preparation for the coming school year to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with district expectations. In particular, I would like to highlight three additions to the reim cheer handbook. First, on page three, the squad composition has been revised. The team will now consist of a maximum of 24 students from seventh and eighth grade. During competition, 20 students will perform on the mat and four alternates will remain on standby. This adjustment reflects an increase of four from this current school year and was made in response to student injuries and the need to ensure adequate backup during competitions andor minutes.
027Second, on page 8, competition and showcases have been formally added as recognized performance events. This component was not included in the 2526 handbook and now provides clear guidance regarding expectations and participation in these events. Please note that all associated fees will remain the same for the upcoming school year. Finally, on page 14, an additional infraction has been added under level one of in the code of conduct and discipline section to further clarify behavioral expectations and accountability. In addition to these updates, we are excited to introduce a newly developed handbook. The Alice Theater heads under the direction of Miss Tammy Rakowitz, who holds high expectations for excellence, accountability, and student growth. Our theater division continues to raise the standard for performance, and academic achievement within our district. A chatbook presented this evening is fully aligned with
028district policies including grading guidelines, discipline procedures, consequences, and the student code of conduct. Our goal is to ensure that all fine arts programs operate with consistency and integrity while supporting the overall mission and vision of our district. With more than 1300 students in grades 6 through 12 actively participating in a fine arts program, these handbooks serve as essential guides for students and families. They outline expectations, promote responsibility, and help maintain the high standards that contribute to the success of our programs. for accountability and partnership with families. Every student is required to have a parent or guardian review, sign, and return the handbook acknowledgement form to their fine arts teacher. This ensures that expectations are clearly communicated and understood by all stakeholders. We are grateful for your continued support of the ALSD fine arts department. The
029impact of these handbooks extends to over 1,300 students and your support allows us to continue providing structured meaningful and highquality fine arts experiences for every student we serve. Thank you for your time and I wait for your commitment to all our students. Uh any questions are very clear and specific. So I love that. >> Thank you very much. The next item, Madam President, if we may, we have gotten a request to move item 6E1, which is the annual financial report to be moved out a little bit because I do have different commitments after this meeting. So, if it's okay with you, I'd like to invite Mr. Edis up to present the audit report findings for the year. Welcome to Alice, Mr. >> Thank you so much. So many fast bullying events tonight. Going to talk
030finances. So slowing down to the speed. So everyone should have a copy of the audit report. I'd like to begin on page 18 if you will. And as you turn to page 18 or 19 actually uh for the record the article's opinion is unmodified and that translates into simulate and page 18 or 19 this is your statement of revenues expenditures and changes in fund balances for your governmental funds. Uh and this is for the year ended August 31st 2025. Uh the first column is your general fund. This is your primary operating fund. Uh I will guide you down with the account numbers to the left side. The first one being account 5020. These were total revenues of 46,381,51. Account 6030 with your expenditures 45,93,311. So your revenues exceeded expenditures by $478,490. Now hereafter on account
031uh 8911 you transferred out $1,95,000. So account 1,200 your general fund is decreasing by 1,426,510. Now you started with a fund balance of 20,332,945. So you're ending with a fund balance of $18,96,435. Any questions? Yes. Very good. In spite of the decrease, you're still very healthy, very healthy fund balance of uh almost $19 million. So yes, a fist pump for that. Any questions? If not, real quickly, let's jump to page uh 61. >> And if I may need that decrease, repurchase the transportation mask here. >> Okay. Uh page 61 is exhibit G1. Uh what you're looking at here is your general fund actual compared to your budget. uh in specifically the column to the far right hand side beginning with account uh 001. This begins all your expenditures by function. Uh you'll note that all
032the variances are positive because they're not in brackets. So of course with the exception of function 72, but that had to do with something we did as an audit adjustment. Otherwise uh every function came in on def tax in compliance with the state law and your positive uh fund balance was $713,437. Any questions on this? Uh, lastly, pages 13 and 14, if you will. >> 13 and 15. >> 13 and 14. >> At the bottom of page 13 and 14. So, typically when we make a presentation, we'll present uh financial statements on what is called modified approval. Basically, that's what you're used to seeing when you see your budget presentations on a monthly basis. So, modified acral is closest to cash accounting, but not quite. Now, when you're looking at page 13 and 14, they
033convert to what's called full approval accounting. And this is comparable to financial statements that any for-profit uh organization or entity presents its financial statements. But that being said, at the bottom of both pages, your total net position is 42 million767,879. So what is net position? You can say it's your net worth or your net equity of the entire school district almost $43 million. Again, very strong position. Some questions. Uh the remainder of the report as in the past is uh comparable. Nothing's changed. There's no uh impact as far as any findings or control deficiencies. So overall a very good report and understand that you planned this and you did better than this plan. >> Thank you, Mr. Later on this evening, we will ask for y'all to approve audit report. Thank you so much. >>
034Thank you. >> Next, we have a presentation and an academic update from both Miss Delena and principal Massie on their announcement. Good evening, board president, members of the board, Dr. Trevino, members of the audience. This evening, I will be sharing a brief update on assessments and CCMR progress for our class of 2026. And then I will be turning it over to Nunan principal, Mrs. Massie, for a non academic update. So, starting off with assessments in the first week of Nove or of December, students who were needing to retake one or more of their end of course exams had the opportunity to meet their graduation requirements during the December 25 administration. As you'll see in the data that we have here a few years ago, we did have significant numbers of students in that position of
035needing to retest at each of the administrations. So, it has been a goal to reduce that number of students who are in that position. And of course, there's two parts of it. One part is what we've been working toward you know just as a whole um is you know improving the number of students who are passing the first time. So every time you see those numbers going up we have more and more students who are uh passing on their first attempt. But the second piece of that is finding better ways to support those students who are needing to retest um in order to do a better job preparing them and meeting their specific needs so that they can be successful on the next attempt that they make. So you can see um how some of
036these efforts that we've been making in those areas are reflected in this data. There's still work to do um but we are heading the right direction. So an example starting with algebra 1 if you look at the very bottom row that was the December administration in 2023 we had 126 students who were needing uh to retest algebra 1 in December during that year. Out of those 126, that 62 you see in the number remaining column, those were students that rolled into spring again having to uh continue retesting and taking another attempt in spring. If you look at December 25, what we just had, those numbers were down to 43 students testing um for algebra 1 retest and we have 20 students that will be rolling into spring uh needing a retest. English one numbers in
037December 23, we had 142 students who were needing to retest in December and over a hundred of those were still remaining going into spring. Um, so this year it was 90 English one students with 58 rolling into spring. And then English two, uh, December 23 was 90 one with 68 still testing in spring. and then this year it was 76 and 44. So we are working hard to continue reducing those numbers and helping our students, our firsttime testers be uh successful the first time around and our students who are working on retesting um to increase uh the opportunities for them to pass. So for bio and US history, you can see in both of those we are down to single digits that we'll be retesting in spring. And uh that is definitely the direction we
038want to be going with all of them and uh really making sure we're supporting all those students. As a side note on US history, December 25 of those 26 kids who tested, there were 10 that were actually firsttime testers for the US history. if they took dual credit and they completed their dual credit history in summer or the fall semester, they go ahead and take their US history test for the first time then. So, some of those students were actually firsttime testers. Next, we move into our spring testing season. Um, and we actually just closed our district benchmark 2 window this past Friday. Uh so everybody has been very busy working on digging into that data trying to uh you know work out and and finesse out of it all of the areas of strength
039areas of challenge. uh we will be meeting at the principal meeting this coming Thursday on the 19th to do uh the big uh deep dive of the data and really look at the planning and the next instructional moves to support the kids in those really targeted areas where we see that that maybe they might need that. Uh so we're really looking forward to that, you know, being able to take the data and and make some decisions and and move forward in the best way possible for our kids between now and STAR. You may have heard of some of the students who took an RLE field test from our elementaryaries. So, this was a state a required state assessment. Uh the state request well they didn't request they told us that Dubose um third and fifth
040grade students and Nunan science and shall fourth grade students were required to complete this field test. for the field test is shorter than the regular STAR but it's a series of questions that basically the state is testing out u for future assessments. So uh we are required to give it unfortunately we get no results from that. So it just feeds into the testing system. Yeah. On this one in the center you will see the national assessment of educational progress. This is another assessment that we were chosen for Alice ISD this year. You may have heard about the nation's report card. Uh when you hear on the news or read about it where they talk about how US students are doing in reading and math comparatively and you might wonder where are they getting this data?
041Well, this year uh our students are going to actually be participating in that data. We have 50 eighth grade students uh that will be testing math and reading NA this Thursday and we have 50 12th grade students that will be testing. Uh we were not able to choose students. We upload our whole roster and then they the program chooses the 50 students and lets us know who those students are going to be that are going to be testing. Uh so the next time those results come out uh our students will actually have been a part of that data. Then we also as we move into state testing season um we have two of our alternate assessments here. We have our TP pass assessment on the left which opened on February 16th and closes the window
042on March 27th. And that's the state assessment that's focused on English language proficiency for our emergent bilingual students from grades K through 12. So these are student numbers of those that are going to be testing. Some of those numbers might look a little different than the ones Mr. Salasog put up because this is specific to the ones who are testing. So for example, preK doesn't test. Our monitored students uh do not test. So we have almost a hundred students that are going to be uh taking that assessment and kinder and first grade it's a holistic test. So we have uh teachers that are assigned as raiders. They go through a raider training. They have to pass a calibration for that and then uh they rate the students based on a rubric from second grade on
043through 12th grade. uh they actually take an online assessment and those assessments are based on the areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking in the English language. Then on the far right we have our star alt 2 and you see we have a little over a 100 students who will be taking that assessment during that window. STAR alt is a alternate state assessment for eligible special ed students. So while most of our the majority of our special ed students take STAR, we do have this 116 students who have met the uh eligibility criteria to take star ball too. So in light of these special assessments that some of our students take, uh we do monitor the progress of those students, uh we have our uh meetings where we actually go to the campuses several times
044uh throughout the year and meet with the staff at the campuses and just make sure that uh we review what are the instructional plans, what are the support plans, um look at student progress, look at student goal setting, and just make sure that uh we're doing everything we possibly can to help these, you know, 200 students who take these assessments um just as much as any of the other assessments that we have. STAR season is starting in April. Uh so we do now have the actual dates set for all the campuses and subjects. So this table here is just giving uh when the initial administration for each of these groups is going to be. So you have column for elementary um William Adams and then high school. Um elementary it's all the elementarymentaries do their
045reading April 18th, science the 15th, math the 23rd, but then the high schools uh high school and WAMS are kind of broken up by subject and even grade level at WHAMS. Uh WHAMS does give the most state assessments of any of the campuses. They have 14 assessments that they're giving between the EOCC's and the regular star. they have a pretty heavy lip. And then finally moving into our college career and military readiness. Um and Mr. Salazar was showing you know some of the growth on this. This has been an exciting area. So this is the progress as of February for the class of 2026. So our current 12th graders they are working toward an overall goal of 95%. So that is where they would like to end the year. At the very bottom, you can
046see that they are currently at 67% already as of February. And then there's a breakdown there by some of the different departments or student populations. And as you can see, there are several that are over 50% into 70, 80, 98%. Um, so everybody at the high school is working very hard with all of their students and supporting their students in uh making sure that they meet their goals in those areas. And the 2026 class of 2026 CCMR uh results will end up going into 2027 accountability because it always lags either. >> Any questions on any of those portions? Okay, then I am very pleased to introduce our Nunan principal, Miss Samira Massie, and she is going to be sharing some of the exciting things going on at Newman Elementary this year. Thank you. Good evening,
047board members, Madame President, Dr. Trevino, community members, and especially our union staff who are here in support today. Um, I'm Samira Massie and I am the principal of Newton Elementary. I'm proud to share our Newton update with you today. So, our philosophy shapes everything that we do. The main philosophy for Nunan is that when we take care of people first, numbers follow. So, in order for us to take care of people first, we need to know who our people are. So I have some uh general information here. On our campus we have a grand total of 584 people. That's adults and students. And we take care of all of them because together we become successful. For the student enrollment, we are currently at 511 students with 93.2% 2% which is 476 economically disadvantaged students. About
04820% of our students are um part of special education programs and 33% of our students are homeless. For our GT504 emerging bilingual Sorry, >> 33 students. >> Yes. I'm sorry. Did I say percent? Thank you. 33 students. Appreciate that. uh for our GT504 emergent bilingual and military students. These all run uh under 5% of our total population. Currently, we have 29 staff members who are certified, three of which are under the uh district of innovation working on their certifications. We have six certified special education teachers and 10 support staff as pair professionals for our special education program. We are also taking care of the well-being of seven cafeteria staff and five custodial staff. So when we look at these numbers, we might think, oh, some people might look negatively at this. I don't. I'm very
049excited about our population. This is a wonderful opportunity for us. Sometimes people frame things as you know that's a high eco discs and to me I'm very excited about it because our philosophy is that we have the ability and capacity to change lives and so here we have a lot of opportunity and I'm excited to share some of the ways in which we are impacting these uh students and adults. So, in order for us to change lives, we have to maintain high expectations. For Alice to have an A, Newton Elementary needs to have an 88 for our rating this year, which would be up from 76 last year. And we keep these high expectations because people will rise to the expectations that we set. So when we look at our data, I want to kind
050of walk you through how we are already progressing toward these goals and these high expectations. And this is really a testament to our students hard work and our staff's hard work and our heart. I think it's appropriate that this is right after Valentine's Day because we really do things with heart at noon. So if we want to look at the right hand column, this is the latest benchmark that we took for RLA and you can see that that was in January of 2026. The dark green boxes represent uh the percentage of students who have already surpassed the performance level that we were at at the end of the year last year in our star assessment. So for third grade, I'm proud to announce that we have currently as of January 83% of our third grade
051RLA students are at approaches whereas last year it was 58. We have 5% at masters whereas last year it was at 4%. For our fourth grade, we have 69% at approaches and 40% at meets again. Whereas last year at the end of the year, we were at 64% and 39% respectively. For fifth grade at all performance levels, we have already exceeded where we were last year at the end of the year with 73% at approaches, 49% at meets and 20% which is double of where we were at the end of last year at masters. The light green indicates that we have made growth from the first benchmark. And importantly, I'd like to show that um our third grade meets is 30% which was only two shy of where we were at the end of last
052year. We still have work to do and we are two months away from our end of the year assessment. I'm excited about the progress that we're making. For science, our district benchmark 2 shows growth from benchmark one with 36% at approaches as opposed to 23% at benchmark one and 9% at means. We do currently still have some math data pending because as um mine I was going to say as Miss Tunez pointed out the assessment window just closed on Friday. We want to uh dig into that and have it accurate before anything is reported. I am really excited about this part right here because we are a campus of collectiveness and we rise as a district and as a campus together. So I want to take kind of a macrolevel view of our campus's performance.
053On the right hand column you have all grades and all subjects from benchmark 2. And on the very left we have all grades and all subjects from the end of the year star assessment last year. Again with the dark green those are u percentage of students at those performance levels that have already exceeded last year. So, I'd like to start off with our special education population, which we know is an area that is a district we are working on, and it's an area that's really important for us at Newton because we change lives. So, this is very important for us. We already are sitting at 41% of all of our assessed students, every grade, every subject at approaches. Last year, at the end of the year, we were at 34%. So, we're seeing some great
054growth with our special education population. For special education students who are at meets, we're already sitting at 20% whereas last year at the end of the year, we were at 15%. And if you look at masters, we're already where we were at the end of last year with two more months to go. When we look at all of our population, you'll see that it's light green and it's an improvement from district benchmark one, but it's also so close to where we were at the end of last year. Taste it. So, if you look at the percentage of students at performance level of approaches with all students, we are looking at 64%. Uh, at the end of last year, we were at 65. So, we're 1% shy with two more months to go. 32% last year
055was 39 and then 11% at masters last year at the end of the year was 13. So we are right there on the cusp. Uh and the way we are at noon is we're we're never done and we're never satisfied. So we're very happy and have our 20 seconds of celebration for the progress that we've made and it just makes the drive that much harder more like we want it even more. Um, and really, like I said, we're a team, so we want it for us and for Alice. So, I want to kind of talk about how this came to be and how we support Nunan and Alice ISD. So, it starts with me as we all know and we're doing this by creating a foundation for the pillars of success, character, leadership, academics, and
056service. So when I say it starts with me, I mean it starts with the administrative team because me at Nunan means us. So we model as an administrative team and we monitor what we value. So we practice what we preach and we monitor it. from the beginning of the year based on the data from last year we had um an action plan that consisted of PLC's which are um sessions where we can deliver and analyze data or perform like provide detailed support and thank you planning yes detailed support for instructional practices and strategies we have facilitated planning we adhere to the HQIM which is our high quality instructional materials and then staff developments as needed based on the data that we collect which is from walkthroughs, observations, providing specific feedback, our data digs and our
057goal setting. So at the beginning of this year this was more of a campuswide kind of a macro level um plan that we had. It was looking at uh campus grade subject level. As we've refined the the action plan based on the benchmark data that we've had, we have continued to do the same things that were successful from our original action plan, but we've refined the action plan. And it's really refined just by narrowing our focus from that macro level to a micro level. And what I mean by that is that we've now moved our focus. We we still look at the campus and the subjects, but we've narrowed it down even more to individual teachers, individual students, individual TESS, and individual questions that students might be struggling with. And then we adapt and we
058respond to what we're seeing in the data on that micro level. So again, that's continuing our data digs, but on a more refined level. Our students and our teachers have set specific goals for themselves and collectively as well as again the campus and grade level. We've implemented shared trackers. So we track that data. But importantly because this is a collaborative effort, the data trackers are shared because we are all responsible for all of our students success at Newman. So there are no secrets which is great because our special education staff then sees the students goals and how those students are progressing which I think is uh part of what has led us to be so successful thus far. We are um implementing co-eing as an administrative team and our administrative team gets together weekly after
059school to report out uh curriculum instructional findings and then our next steps. So we're keeping a tight monitoring and feedback on that. As part of this, we have defined roles on our campus for the administrative team and yet collective responsibility. So the defined roles for myself u I focus on reading language arts in the upper grade. So that's where I do the co-eing and um I focus a lot more time on the planning. Having said that, it's collective responsibility. So we all as an administrative team still do walkthroughs, still participate in the PLC's and still do planning. It's just that that's my area that I that's my pet project. Uh for Dr. Delar Rosa, who is our dean, her focus is the upper grade math. She brings a wealth of experience in math and it's
060the same thing co-eing and then really diving into the data with them. Again, it's shared so we all are on the same page and it's shared with the non-math teachers in the grade level and the other administrators. Dr. Reyes focuses on reading at the lower grades and then special education. And then our counselor, our amazing counselor, Mara Duron, um does reading intervention with our upper grade students who are missing some of those basic reading skills to help with comprehension. And she's been enormous in that. We've seen a lot of growth with those students. So when we say we do this together, it's got to be through a culture of connection and that's one of the things that we have been very intentional about. So uh we've increased our family events already by seven. We've maintained
061everything we've done last year, but we've added seven such as trunk retreat in October. We had a Polar Express movie night in December, which was the first time Nun has had a movie night. We are having a fifth grade graduation on May 28th, which is also a no-n. And we've already had three principal, family, parent meetings, uh, one in the fall semester and two in the spring semester. We will have a spring field day as well. In May, we've done some collaborative projects with community, family, and staff, such as installing a pebble walkway. You can see the picture of the little crew at the top who helps with that. um painting things around campus and gardening. And I just want to say this is not anything that it was about being invested and providing an
062opportunity for people to come in and do something handson for the campus because our maintenance staff is wonderful. So this is not a case of things were not done. This was a case of we wanted to give people the opportunity to have ownership. Uh we did have our first staff New Year's dinner and uh we're doing American Sign Language microlessons with the students because that's part of connectedness and inclusivity when you have students who are hard of hearing or deaf. So these things help build a culture of character and leadership. Uh we have a student council with 34 students. TESSA uh student leadership conference we sent eight of those students to that. And we have student dosins for assemblies and events. Six students have been selected from fourth through fifth grade who are not your
063um student council. It's opportunities for others and then we have a campus round table as well with our students. We focus on academics by focusing on the heart and people first. So that connection the the other pillars. So we have one rule and that's focus on learning. Um to do that we focus on social emotional academic. We cheer each other on. It's not just our own learning but each other's learning and each other's success. So I've already spoken a bit about data digs, goal setting and monitoring. But students are responsible for setting their own goals and monitoring their own goals as well. I'm going to skip to kind of the bottom bullet there. Um as holding them accountable for that, monitoring it. I actually sit down with them one-on-one and do progress checks where we
064discuss their grades, discuss their attendance, discuss their goals, what challenges they're having, and then really importantly give uh encouragement and feedback and candy uh to to reinforce and they love it. As an example, today I had a first grader stop me to say all of his grades on his report card and I was so proud of him because this is actually a student in special education. His grades have gone up and uh has several higher grades. So very proud of him, but they know their grades. They know what they're working towards. And I had a bunch of fifth graders stop me and talk to me about their benchmark score and how who had the most growth. And so it's wonderful that this is part of our culture. Uh I do want to say that new
065this year, we're going to have studentled parent teacher conferences where students go over their own data with their parents. That's holding them accountable and having them do those data talks and thinking for themselves. Um, we had six students compete in the Coastville Ben Science Fair this weekend on Valentine's. We're very proud of them as well. Was a great non represented very well. I'm proud of them. And then really importantly, I say it starts with me. And by that I mean us and administration, but central office is central to that. And I'm always really grateful for central offices support when they come in in their six week instructional support visits. and I can tell them, hey, this is, you know, what we're working toward. Can you give me some feedback on this? Tell me what you
066noticed. And it's they're part of the team. And that's one thing that we're making sure um we continue on our campus is that teamwork between central office and the campus level and they're always on call for data or instructional support. Literally pick up the phone, Delena, and there she is. So, we appreciate that. All right. So, uh, we have a culture of service. You've probably heard that Nunan is a very giving campus. And here's some of the ways that we've given back this year. This is not an exhaustive list, but of course, we donated food to the Coastal Bend Food Bank. We did a money drive for Coastal Bend and Share Your Christmas. We earned first place from Channel 3 for that for rural schools. We continued to donate supplies for Purple Door and those
067are families who are going through some domestic crisis. and we're currently in the midst of fundraising through coins um with Ronald McDonald House. Part of what makes us grow and successful is building the culture of recognition because that success breeds more success. So, some ways that we've done this on our campus are this year each month we've been recognizing a teacher and a staff member of the month. Uh we also and so they get a certificate and some public recognition and some flowers and our appreciation. Uh and then we recognize and celebrate behavior attendance and academic improvement. So some ways in which we've done that just as an example I'm a person who's very much about growth and uh I'm just going to say I was not a perfect student. So I identify very well
068with some of our population and I do believe in celebrating growth. So we had students last year who were uh truent and this year have had perfect attendance. So we definitely recognized them and got them a special lunch. So we we do things like that as well. It's not always about perfect attendance. And it's really just again encapsulating our philosophy that success for Alice ISD means that it starts with me and it starts with Nan because if we're all moving together then Alice will be successful and the numbers will take care of themselves. There are any questions you have? I'm happy to answer them. >> Keep up the great work. >> We're excited. Thank you for being here. >> It does mean a lot. Thank you all so much. >> And next we have a
069short presentation from Lyanna really. >> Good evening again uh board president board members are the audience and I bring to you the student services update for February. Um I'm going to start off with the January district attendance. As you will see in 2425 we were at 91.92% for the 2526 school year we ended at 89.57% with a negative 2.35% decrease. Now while this does reflect a slight decrease uh much of this was due to the cases of the flu stomach virus that's been going on. We do have a waiver that we're bringing tonight to you 26 for the weather with that if you all do approve it. you know, uh that will help increase some of this percentage for this school year. Our monthly attendance revenue loss analysis for January for 2425 was $195,562.89. This
070year was $250,44 which uh put us at a negative $54,8411. Now, while this does represent an increase in our revenue loss compared to last year, we still remain focused on our proactive attendance supports, student wellness, and family connections to help recover and strengthen attendance in the months ahead. Personal device pickups. I think the last time I reported to y'all was up until November. I am showing you the first semester for high school. From August to December, we had 290 cell phone pickups for that first semester. 48 were earbuds, nine were smartwatches, one game system for a total of 348 personal devices that were picked up. I will say that out of all the devices that were picked up, 276 of those, which was at 79% was a first offense. 15% was second offense. Then in
071January, the high school had 30 36 cell phone pickups, four earbuds, two smart watches, at 42 personal device pickups. February as of last Friday was 27 cell phones, four earbuds, two smartwatches, and one gain system for a total 34. At the middle school, they had for the first semester 45 cell phone pickups, two earbuds, one gain system for 48 personal device pickups. They had at 95 95% first offense. For January, they had 15 cell phone pickups, no earbuds or game systems, and in February, five cell phone pickups as of last Friday. So the schools are still continuing to uh push this and make sure that our students are learning and not on their cell phones. And that is all I have questions. >> Any questions for Mr. regarding safety? If not, you can come up
072to real quick just to get an update. Good evening members of the audience, members of the board, Dr. Dino. Um, I did provide you guys with the monthly report on revenues and expenditures for three major funds. Do you guys have any questions on that? If not, I'm going to move on to my second item. Um, so which is the bond project budget update. Uh, I did provide reports for you guys in your packets for your review, but what I really did want to mention up here is that we already started selling our papers for the new uh stadium. And so, our communications department put a video together with some of our high school students uh to help promote the sales of these papers. So, I'm going to play play the video for you real quick.
073>> Nation, this is our moment. Alice ISD invites you to be a part of something bigger at the brand new Memorial Stadium. A place where memories are made and legacies live on. >> Now you can leave your mark with the commemorative brick paper at the stadium entrance. At the Kyle Fieldhouse, papers will honor football, soccer, and track and field athletes and coaches who have helped build tradition. >> Each specialized break tells a story. Your family, your class, your favorite Alice Kyle, and every single one helps shape the future. For $500, your legacy lives on forever with 100% of proceeds and 40 scholarships for Addis ISD students. This is more than a brick. It's pride. It's tradition. It's Addis. >> Leave your legacy at Memorial Stadium. Goals. >> Leave your legacy. Buy and pay for your
074Memorial Stadium paper today at ww.bridge.com/donite/isd. Each 4x8 brick paper is $500 and includes three lines of text with 18 characters per line. All proceeds go toward Alice D scholarships. >> And so we really encourage the community to buy these papers since 100% of the proceeds does go to uh scholarships for the students. And so finally, the last item on my list is the report on the bond interest that's been earned. So, so far we have earned a little over $2 million of interest revenue on our 2024 bond funds. So, do y'all have questions on any of these items? >> How many bricks have we sold? >> That I'm not too sure of. >> We just sold our first brick day this afternoon. >> Thank you, Melissa. The first the first paper was sold to STR
075Towing. >> STR Towing. >> And so, uh, next we have Michael and Tim to give us an update on the state amenity facility update. So, Mike, before Tim starts, you want to do with one on the facilities? Tim, you ready after him? Yep. >> All right. Good evening madam presidential board audience I want to first all I want to first of all say that the district is going to be issuing a request uh for qualifications RFQ to solicit proposals for qualified consultants to conduct comprehensive roof assessment across Alice I campuses. Uh the initial campus selected for the assessment will be Alice High School and additional campuses will be assessed in phases following the completion of the initial valuation there at Alice High School. Moving forward my operations progress report. Uh we've been riding around with
076Dr. myself, uh, Miss Mel, Melissa, sorry, and, uh, Coach Kim Kubala. Uh, to better beautify our our campuses. And, uh, with that being said, uh, to better maintain our school campuses facilities, we are address we're addressing key areas of need to help beautify our district. The following projects are currently underway. Uh, so in the back here are some pictures. Uh, Dr. You notice that right away. That's a loading dock to food service cafeteria. I guess a box truck backed up and obviously hit that. Uh and within a week that was the end result. We got somebody to come out and fix that as soon as possible. Uh there's another picture there with the a there in front of the the complex of Alice High School uh gymnasium. Uh to better enhance and beautify that area
077was just growth, weeds growing there. So put some turpp there with around the a and put some landscape rocks there to beautify that area. >> The kids are taking pictures on there. >> Thank you, Kim Kala. Uh he took over this area. He he rolled with it right away. Dr. Vin was like, "We need to replace some of those signs. I think they've been here since exemption date for the school." Uh so this is he so he threw in a little idea and put the mascot for each campus there. So uh little things these are kind of I call them punch lists. Not really a big thing but uh food service around the cafeteria. They have those little areas where they put their uh for custodial uh crates uh and things as such. And some
078of them p were missing. So Dr. Daniel noticed that right away. So, we addressed that right away and got some of that area cleaned up, too. The potholes throughout our campuses, we already going around and replacing those, filling those potholes. So, that's okay. And, uh, moving forward, uh, some of the other areas we're going to address are painting faded outdoors and other worn areas around the campuses. uh removing rusted pothole or I'm rusted pole and cables at the back of the student parking lot entrance and replacing it with a brand new chain link fence. Uh power washing high school whams and other selected area of our elementary campuses. Uh replacing safety signage as you can see right here. Uh along with lighting throughout campus facilities. I don't know if that picture came up. That was
079it. Okay. Uh yeah. So the high school, we put some new lighting underneath there and I really am happy. >> Dr. Tanu sent me pictures, >> right? >> So safety first, right? Uh repainting fire lanes to entrance safety and being in complant with that. Replacing screens at the Wham's tennis courts. Uh replacing screens at Wham's uh I'm sorry, installing new window wraps at Wham's cafeteria. applying weed control treatments around parking lots and expansion joints at all the campuses, facilities, and buildings. Uh removing outdated unnecessary signage posts throughout the districts. And of course, these efforts uh reflect on the ongoing commitment to maintaining clean, safe, and welcoming learning environments for our students, staff, and community. Uh and of course, uh we continue to address AC and heating throughout the district. and uh I continue my daily
080visit to the stadium for district support. So I appreciate your time and got any questions. >> Well, I noticed the signs at Whams the principal's parking the no trespassing. It's it nice. I like it. >> Thank you. >> That was a great idea. >> It's a team effort. I'm blessed, you know, with the team that I have and all, you know, when it comes down to it, you know, those guys are always there for us and uh my hats off to them. you know, they day in and day out without grat. They do it together in order to have some kind of input and you know, making it happen and driving toward that page, you know. So, thank you for your support. Appreciate it. >> Good evening people in the audience. Dr. Derinho, board members.
081Uh, I'm Tim Blinder. I'm the project manager for Weaver and Jacobs. We are the general contractor for the stadium. Just a little progress report for y'all this evening. Uh, we'll move on. I kind of show this every single time. This kind of the overview of uh the stadium. Got left side, home side, got fieldhouse up north, and then the visitors concession stand down south. This overall picture. Uh in the middle is obviously the football field. Got press box to the left. That's the home side and fieldhouse north of that. Uh here's another view kind of more of the fieldhouse and kind of get an overview of, you know, what's going on on the actual playing surface right now. and just a overall site view. Uh we'll start with building A. Uh nothing real has changed
082there. We received uh the actual uh veneer CMU last week, Monday, and the grout showed up Friday of last week. So, we should actually see some production going on with those concession stands now, uh starting this week. There's another view of it. And then this is press box which structural studs or structural steel uh is about 98% done. Uh we have two stair landings that go on the side of the press box we still have to put in. Uh we got to finish exterior metal studs and sheathing before that happens. We're about 98 98% done on the metal studs. The exterior sheeting is about 90% done. Uh there's about 80% of the exterior waterproofing that is completed. uh electrical and plumbing rough in uh it's about 90% done. Overhead sprinkler pipe is rough in is
083ongoing. Uh second floor interior partitions are complete uh as of just the framing not the actual sheathing itself. Uh the roof it has been completed as of being dried in so we can actually work or hang sheetrock in there now. Uh roof blocking is going in right now. uh curtain walls started today. That's the big giant windows that you know go on the front side of the press box, which is pretty exciting. And then the elevator CMU, which you can see on that picture to your left, is about 50% done. Uh and then set framing and sheathing is ongoing. Spray foam, there's a little bit of spray foam down on the first floor, uh on the bottom of the deck of the second floor that was completed last week. And then interior sheetrock is ongoing.
084I don't know if you can see that in the middle photo. They they've started on that with the roof being dried in. Now they're able to perceive if that work. Uh this is just kind of an overview of the outside of the press box. As you can see, you know, the big opening, that's where the curtain wall goes. They started on that framing today. We should have glass middle of this week and hopefully be wrapped up with that big curtain wall uh and be almost 100% dried in for the press box uh second floor uh end of the week, maybe next week. So, that's kind of an overview of that. Another view of it uh from the Southerntherland side looking at it. You know, waterproofing has gone in. You can tell the there's some red
085up there. That's plywood for the lettering that's going to go on the face of the press box. That's completed. Move on. That is the roof, which they're dried in 100% right now. Just have a little touch-up detail work that they're working on right now. Another view of press box and kind of an overview of, you know, the field and press box. Uh, building C kind of runs with building A. We were waiting on block that showed up last week. We should start seeing some production on that here pretty soon. Another overview of building C. And then building D, which is a fieldhouse. Structural steel is about 98% done. Uh MP rough in is ongoing. As you know, CMU walls go up, so does the rough in. Uh the overhead, same thing. That's ongoing with CMU
086walls. Uh the exterior CMU, that's not the veneer, it's just the actual structure. Uh the gray block is complete. Uh, and then interior CMU is ongoing. Uh, exterior roof parapit, which I'll show another photo of parapit walls that go on the roof. That's ongoing. And then framing and sheathing is ongoing as well for that parapit. Uh, the exterior sheeting, waterproofing is to begin middle of this week. And then also roofing. Once they get everything kind of detailed out at the press box, they'll move over to the fieldhouse and start getting that dried in. Here's another overview. You can kind of see the yellow sheathing off to the left, kind of in the middle, off to the left and right. Uh that's that parapit wall. We need that to in order to get the building dried
087in. That's ongoing. And then same thing with building E. Waiting on block for that. that came in last week. So, should see some production on that. Uh, real big changes have happened since our turf subcontractor has been on site. Uh, as far as, you know, sites going on, you know, bleacher foundations are ongoing. The helical peers for the bleachers are about 80% done I would say. And then they're coming in this week to start doing the actual footings and columns for the bleachers itself uh track and the actual turf. I'll show another picture, but that's going fairly quick right now. They're on their finish stone or drain stone for the turf right now, which that's like the final piece before you actually come in with the turf. Uh, and then the track, you can see
088to the left, that's a concrete curve that goes all the way around the track field and the actual turf field. Uh, they're moving fairly quick on that. Parking lot lights, I don't know if y'all seen them. They're starting to go up. We finished the concrete columns for that and all the underground rough is going in for the light poles. Uh move on to another. This is just kind of an overview. You can kind of see the middle of the field. That's where the turf goes. Uh that's the finish stone andor drain stone. The underground utilities for that is all done. That's like I said, final finished product for the actual turf. Once that's all uh graded out and compacted, then we're just And then the track, they got the base going down. Uh that'll be
089the last thing after they get the middle part done and then they'll be ready for surfacing. Here's another overview of that. They've been moving pretty good. The concrete curves is probably the most time consuming thing because that's a lot of square footage, you know, 12 inch concrete curb that they got put all the way around it and try to manage a bunch of loads of dirt and such and such. getting that in and out without, you know, obviously ruining the the concrete curve. >> Is that limestone or >> khichi? >> Uh there's khichi on the track and then that is it's >> feel >> it's like crushed granite more or less or it I I guess you can call it limestone. Yeah. >> Yeah. That's that. And then there's just kind of an overview of
090uh parking lot lights going up. Uh our plan is to get uh dirt contractor back out to move basically everybody over there and start the actual base for the the parking lot on that side because we don't want to put the turf in with all that dirt over there. Get the turf all dirty. We we don't want to do that. So, we're going to start trying to put some paving down over here on this. >> What side is that? >> Parking lot. >> I'm sorry. What side is that? >> South parking lot. >> So that I got overview. >> You can see my light. >> It's back there. Yeah. >> Yeah. So it's I guess this picture it's north up there. >> North that would be west or east. >> I think it's south. >>
091North of the picture, but it' be south. Right. >> Southwest of the stadium, I guess. Yeah. >> So, that's that. And then Earthwork, nothing. You know, they've came in there, did rough grading pretty much everywhere. Uh, like I said, we're going to try to get get them back out uh beginning of next month to start getting everything graded and the actual base started for the parking lots. Another overview of the stadium and then utilities. Uh we're about 97% done with the storm system. We have I think one manhole over where our job trailer is. So we're going to have to get rid of our job trailer here in a couple months. Uh and got a manhole over there and then a tie in to the actual uh city storm over by the visitors uh concession
092stand. uh underground data rough that's about 90% done. They just got little bits here and there and then the sanitary system. You can see that was last week they did their final run on the home side had grease traps and such um right in front of the press box. So they got in and got out of there which is exciting. And then this is CPR1 which is the maintenance building. Uh currently once they get on site to start doing the grading for the parking lot, they'll also start digging for that underground detention that goes over there which is the big part of that CPR1. And that's all I got. Comments, questions, concerns. Is it the visitor site press? I mean the >> go visiting site. I'm sorry. >> The the visiting site, >> the bleachers.
093>> So, we're we're shooting for we were shooting for the beginning of this coming up month and it's looking like it's going to push out a little bit to the end of next month. So, and apparently once they get on site, that structure goes up fairly quick. So, you know, the completion dates that they've given us or we've given them, you know, they're they're going to hold to it. So as soon as that hits site, you know, that structure should go up fairly quick. >> So that that will go first and then the home side. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. Cuz we on the home side, we have a lot more with the press box, the visitor side, it's just a the bleachers, and then the home side is is, you know, you got the
094press box, got to get all the metal panels on. Uh we don't want to landlock people and put the bleachers up and then they can't get up there. So >> good. Thank you. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Any questions for Mr. Pettis? I know he had a lot of recognitions and then he did a handbook. So, we're good with Mr. Pettis. And I know we have a lot of coaches out here. So, I invite to give us an update on athletics. >> Thank you, Dr. Fino. members of the board and audience, appreciate you letting me speak on on athletics. Get excited when we talk about athletics and and our student athletes uh here here in Alice. Um I'm going to talk a little bit tonight about uh bridging our program uh and and
095vertical alignment amongst our program. A lot of times you hear that with academics uh but we're going to talk about athletics tonight and we're also going to talk just a little bit about realignment. realignment happening on February 1st and some things that are going on uh with with that. Uh so bridging our our athletic program and how that looks and where it starts. Uh we're talking about not only from from our middle school to our high school, but we're talking about our elementary schools as well and being able to bridge what we're doing with our elementary kids to ours middle school all the way up to our high school. Uh so the purpose creating a cohesive athletic vision between elementary schools whams and Alice High School building discipline accountability and character that prepares student athletes
096for not only varsity competition uh but for life. So you're going to hear a lot about that and I'll get into the action plan uh towards the end and then we'll get into some some questions. Okay. Uh vertical athletic alignment. What does that mean? same expectations all the way across the board, whether we're uh kindergarten, whether we're third grade, whether we're seventh graders, or whether we're at the high school. Being able to have those same expectations all the way through our program. Shared language uh for discipline and for effort. We'll get into exactly what that looks like here in a little bit. uh consistent coaching standards. Not only consistency at the high school, but consistency from our PE coaches at our elementary schools, consistency for all of our coaches at WHAMS and and throughout our
097our high school. Clear pathway to becoming a Kyio athlete. What does that look like? Right? And again, I I'll get into that as we get to the slideshow. I only have a hundred slides, so just bear with me. That's >> all right. just and obviously being a champion in and out of the classroom. Ultimately, that's what we want to see our kiddos uh doing. We'll start with our elementary school PE programs and kind of what that should look like. Uh we we work with our catch curriculum uh and we continue to work with catch curriculum. Uh but we're going to get more into what sports specific and what motor skills are being taught. So, the way we're looking at this, kindergarten through second graders, what should they be learning as far as athletics? Running, which
098they probably love to do that, skipping, hopping, balancing, being able to change directions, right? Being able to balance off of one foot, being able to hop, skip, things like that is what we're talking about with our elementary PE kids, right? And I'm talking specifically kindergarten, 5y olds through 2 grade where we're looking about seven year old kids. As they get into our third grade level, now we're teaching them more sports specific type motor skills, right? Putting a ball in their hands, so to speak, right? The fundamentals of sports, the vocabulary of sports, right? What an offensive line is, what a defensive line is, what a rebound is, right? what a what a fast ball is, what a fly ball is, things of that nature, fundamentals of of the game, right? Teaching them about sportsmanship, obviously.
099So, when you look at that, it's not where we're not doing that right now. It's just honing in on those particular fundamental schools at all of our grade levels and making sure that all of our coaches are aligned down there. Uh none of them are here tonight, but uh at Duvos, we got Laura Delgado who does an excellent job, coach Luna at Sher, Coach Sigto at Nunan, and Coach Maldonado at Science Elementary. Moving on to Whams Middle School starts with pre-athletics. Okay, so let's go back, right? So now we got K through 2 graders learning those fine motor skills. third through fifth graders. Now we're we're talking more specifics about sports. Now they're getting to our WHAMS middle school, right? And and trying to be aligned when they hit our sixth grade pre-athletics classes. Right
100now we can separate the athletic part of things from the PE things. Right now they're we're talking about fundamentals in skill development. We're talking about coachability, teaching, you know, being being able to be coached and effort. We're talking about team behavior, discipline, uh, introduction to the Coyote standards, right? Uh, I put some numbers up there for you. Um, the numbers that people try to get to in school districts and talking to different athletic directors, we try to get to that 30 to 35% of your student population participating in athletics. You can look at our pre-athletics kids right now. Out of 329 kids, 204 of them are signed up for pre-athletics. Over 62% of our kids in sixth grade right now are participating in pre-athletics. That's a very high number. And usually those numbers are going
101to be high because the kid hadn't figured out yet, right? Do they want to be in athletics? Do they not want to be in athletics? So, normally pre-athletics is going to be at a high number, right? You can see some of the pictures there of learning the fundamentals of of of the volleyball set, right? Of of lifting in the weight room and things of that nature that we uh that we're able to preach, right? Um moving on to Wham's athletics, looking at more of our sports that we're offering, uh cross country, volleyball, football, basketball, track and field, tennis, and swim. Uh we highlighted baseball, softball, which which we're going to offer next year. If you look at all those sports, they they're all feeder sports into what we're doing already at the high school. The
102only one that we don't have right now is baseball softball. So I think it's very important that we implement that into our program. We've talked to baseball head coach, softball head coach. We can make it work. we can make it work where we're busing those kids after school up to to our high school facility. Uh you're talking about four to five week period of time where they actually play baseball softball at WAMS and it would be after junior high track. So it wouldn't interfere with anything that's going on right now. We would just give them another opportunity to learn the sport and to develop those kids, especially with our with our high school coaches. If you look at the numbers uh at WHAMS, look at our seventh grade kids. 156 kids out of 305 are
103participating in athletics. That's over 51% of our kids, which is good. The higher the number, the more the more opportunity they have, it there's a direct correlation between classroom performance and being in extracurricular sports, right? Look at our eighth graders. 145 of them 307. So right around that 47%. Remember we want to be average is about 30%. These are numbers are way above average, right? So our kids are are doing real well here in Alice. Let's look at the high school uh expectations and focus areas once they come to the high school. We're advancing those skills. Competition. We're pushing our strength and conditioning program now amongst these kids. accountability, leadership, discipline, program pride and tradition of of a coyote, CCMR. You can see the slideshow from earlier and I think I seen athletics at the
104very top. We preaching and we're very proud of that fine arts. We're always in competition. We're always jabbing at each other. But we we really preach the CCMR to our kids and we're super proud of them. One thing we do at our high school, uh, we make sure that all of our coaches before the sport begins that they're having parent meetings, uh, and they're outlining everything that's going to go on with their sport, the athletic handbook, schedules, UIL paperwork, uh, anything to do with their sport. We're making sure that they they outline that prior to their to their season. Here's a list of our coaches. Uh, and I think some of them are in attendance tonight. We appreciate you guys. If y'all can just be just stand up and just acknowledge yourself. Coaches, you're here
105tonight. Some of you, please. Thank you guys. We got a lot of events going on. We got soccer going. We're hosting games tonight. A lot of them were invited. Just couldn't just couldn't make it. I need to press upon you that all these coaches here just don't coach. uh 98 99% of them are in the classroom as well. Those are some of your math teachers, your science teachers, specialed teachers. Uh they're, you know, teaching five to six classes a day and and and coaching after school and before school. So, it looks like a lot and it is a lot. Uh but those are some a lot of those are classroom teachers as well. All right, here's the bridge. Right. This is how we're bridging. We're bridging everything. And this is the communication that we want
106to make sure that we're having not only at our elementary schools, but at our junior high all the way to the to the high school, right? Attendance, okay? Being here every single day, punctuality, just being here on time, right? Respect for your coaches, respect for your teammates, respect for your officials, academic responsibilities, academics comes first. You're going to see another slide uh on that as well. And then commitment to the team standards and obviously just being self-disciplined as well I think is very is very crucial. Coaching alignment shared expectations across campuses making sure that we're all on the same page amongst all of our campuses not just at the high school not at WHAMS but all the way across the board. Uh communication between all campuses similar language that we're using. I think that's key.
107Same drills that we're we're using up at the high school, we should be implementing that at Whams as well. One vision, Kyle Pride, all of that is part of our as of our coaching alignment. And ultimately, this is what we want to be. Uh when you look at alignments and you look at your your elementary schools and you look at your your junior high and your high school, we want to be one town. We want to be one team with one standard and we're all pulling in the same direction uh for our athletic program. Every athlete in Alice ISD represents the Coyotes. We build disciplined student athletes who compete the right way while on the field, in the classroom, and in the community. And I put four great kids. We got tons of great kids
108here. Put four of those on there. They're very excellent. Alice High School athletic programs. We offer 14 different programs here uh at at the at the high school all the way from cross country to unified basketball which we're we're going to host we're actually not hosting but we're going to our regional tournament on Wednesday which we're super proud uh of those programs as well. Here's our athletic participation. So, think about the numbers, right? We went from sixth grade at 62%. Uh se uh eighth grade I mean seventh grade was about a little bit over 51%. And then you go to seventh seventh grade which was about 47%. Now look at our freshman or ninth graders. Look how many kids we have. 436 kids. 143 of them are involved with athletics from 32.8%. Remember, we want
109to be around that 30 to 35% range is what a good number is in in high school. 10th grade 33%, 11th grade 40%. In 12th grade, uh 35.6%. So, we're really above the average with a lot of our kids in a participation and we just want to make sure that we keep them keep them out. Coyote standards. Here we go. This is what we want all of our elementary kids to learn. This is what we want all of our seventh and grade eighth graders to learn and all of our high school kids that academics is first. Eligibility, grades, classroom behavior come before any competition. So it can't just be me preaching that. It's got to be coming from the elementary coach. It's got to be coming from the junior high coach all the way up
110to the high school. So this is what I talk about when I'm talking about alignment. This is these are the five standards that we're really talking about. Attendance. I can't preach attendance only here at the high school and and we're allowing our junior high kids to just come in whenever they want. We got to be all be on the same same page there. Respect. Our kids have to learn how to respect their coaches, teammates, officials, teachers, and the community. Obviously have a winning attitude in everything we do. I think that's important, right? a winners's mentality in everything we do and a team first mentality. So, these are the standards that we're going to preach from K all the way up through 12. How are we going to do it? Here's our action plan. One thing
111that we have right now is we have a bunch of we have not a bunch, we have several crossover coaches, which we call crossovers. And what that means is it's a coach that teaches at one school district or one campus, but they're coaching at another campus. So those are crossovers, right? That's not the best scenario to be in. Sometimes you have to just just because you just don't have other people to fill those those positions. But what it does is it pulls those coaches from their athletic periods a lot of times and it puts them on another campus. they don't get to build those relationships with those particular kids that they're with every single day. Uh they're not as and I'm not I shouldn't say they're not as invested in those kids as they should
112be on a daily basis. So we're going to do a better job of not having crossover coaches. If you teach at WHAMS, you coach at WHAMS. If you teach at the high school, you coach at the high school as best we can. There's some there'll be some circumstance where we have to have one or two crossovers, but we're going to try to eliminate that to be able to have those coaches at those campuses where they can really impact those kids on a daily basis. Professional development uh clinics, that's local clinics, uh coastal big coaches clinics, the Texas high school coaches association, which we send our coaches to in the summertime, and then UIO portal is crucial to where UIO provides a lot of professional development as well. bigger, faster, stronger offseason programs. Okay, we're pushing
113that uh at every level and it's important that obviously at the high school level we get we're in there more uh not only during the school year but in the summertime but start pushing in that at the at whams as well. Hassan Academy, spring summer leagues, uh, basketball, volleyball leagues, seven on seven, lineman challenges, breakfast club. Breakfast club is uh they don't show up and eat breakfast. We tell them they do, but it's it's more heights, right? It's like breakfast club happens in our weight room. It's open to all of our boys and girls at the high school. Coach Tinker does an excellent job in there. He's in there every morning 7 a.m. and those kids can get an extra lift in right before school and he has a great turnout uh with that. That's
114what we call our breakfast club. Uh high school coach is working with our middle school student athletes during the athletic periods as best as best we can fit that. Right now we have uh Coach Tinker, we have Coach Cox uh that are starting to go down with our seventh grade uh first period uh athletes uh down there twice twice a week each. Uh but again, as best we can make that work, we want to be down there uh every day if we can make it work, but we have to have that little flexibility with their schedules. They're doing a good job of that. elementary sport units. I think it's important at the elementary schools that we continue with our catch curriculum, but our kids need to it needs to mirror what we're doing at the
115other school districts. So, if we're playing volleyball at the high school in WAMS, they need to be having a volleyball in their hand, third through fifth grade, right? If we're doing football up here, there should be some football uh going on down there as well. So, trying to mirror everything that we're doing at the high school and junior high down at with our with our elementary schools as well. talk a little bit about our softball baseball program at WHAMS. Our goal, we're going to have four teams. Uh it will not consist of a uh two eighth grade teams and and and two seventh grade teams. It would be more of like we do at the high school where there's a varsity team and then there's a JB team. So you take you look at all
116your seventh and eighth graders and you take your best 15 baseball kids and you you combine them as a team. That's one team. And then and you'll have a second team like that, right? and do the same thing with our softball kids. So, our ultimate goal is to have 15 kids per team and a total of of of four teams. We're we're able to get in a co-op locally uh with with some of the schools that are surrounding us. So, travel won't be uh big on that. It won't be much traveling at all. Month monthly meetings with our WAMS coordinators. I think that's going to be crucial. If we're going to be on the same page and we're going to align together, you have to have those meetings with those coordinators to make sure they're
117doing the same thing uh that that that you're doing up at the high school. Monthly meeting with our elementary PE coaches. So, Coach Bill does a good job with that and we'll continue uh to work on that. Working with our youth coaches to align with WHAMS, right? uh all of our youth programs uh to making sure that we're working with those youth coaches to make sure that we know what's coming into our WHAMS programs and we're doing what's best for them. Goal boards, I think you have to set goals. I'm going to use uh football as an example since I'm the head football coach as well. We have goal boards in our in our locker room. U the ultimate goal is to win. That's number one, right? Uh but we have goals. We set goals
118for our offense. how many yards do we want this this this week? Uh we have goals for our defense, how many how many, you know, points we want to allow and things of that nature. But I think that's key for your kids to be able to see that. They need to see goals. They need to know what your goals are. And I'm talking specifically in every sport that we set those goals where our kids can see those and being able to say, "Yes, we met these goals or no, we did not uh meet those goals." And the last one, obviously if our our student athletes are very very uh valuable uh to us, that's why we're here. So it's very important that we monitor what we value and we will do a good job of
119of that. Took some pictures of some sixth grade uh pre-athletic uh kids. Uh and you can see the difference, right? What what is the difference? Like third through fifth grade, these kids are now actually dressing, right? They're getting an athletic close, right? So, they're no, you know what? This may not be for me next year, right? I don't want to be part of this. But we're actually introducing them into athletics, being coachable, what it's like to be part of a team, uh what it's like to dress, right? What it's like to hold high standards in the classroom as well. Here's some some pictures of our offseason kids uh utilizing the weight room uh down there as best we can. Uh we've got a good offseason program going down right now. We're in our strengthening phase
120down there with those kids and and really trying to utilize uh the weight room as much as we can down there. Uh quarterback academy. Uh we learned one thing last year that very important to have a quarterback. Um so part of our focus was working on our quarterbacks, right? And trying to make as many quarterbacks as we possibly can. We have we have invited some of our whams quarterbacks up here. Coach Cox uh uh is monitors that on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings. Uh, and not only support quarterbacks, but you can see we have to have receivers out there. We have to have snappers out there. So, we're developing multiple positions through our quarterback academy. Here's some more pictures of our offseason kids working during the offseason program. All right, a little bit on realignment. Uh,
121so realignment came out on February the 1st. Uh, I gave you the 48 number. So any school district that turned in 550 kids to 1304, they were considered 4A uh 4A division. Right? Now, more specifically, if you were from 550 to 895, you were 48 division 2. And then 896 to 1304, you were 4A division 1. Alice High School turned in 1204, which would put us at 4A division 1. Okay. So, our football district uh consists of five teams. Alex, Elsa, Far Valley, Duke and Sapata, they sent us out south again, right? Um, so that way that works board is you take away that's five schools. So you take away one, which is yourself. So that's four district games that you would play. So you would be looking for six non-district uh games, right? So
122and I'll mention that here in a little bit because it's kind of a problem, right? Right. Now, our non-foot district. So when I say non-foot, I'm talking volleyball, baseball, softball, track and field, uh cross country, things like that. They put us Alice Beville, Cal Allen, TM, Kingsville, Robstown. Okay, so uh very competitive district. I think we'll do well uh in that district. Swim and soccer alignments have not been released yet. Okay, those usually take a little bit longer uh because a lot of schools may not have swim or soccer uh in in their program. All right, here's a tenative uh 2026 football schedule. Uh so you can see August the 28th. We're here at home. So PPK, we're here at home 28. >> Tim, are you here? >> So we're here at home. >> There'll
123be a lot of Texas orange here on the 28th because Bele's coming to town. Uh but you can see our schedule there. Um and and you can see week six on October the 2nd is is is uh is is open or or or not filled yet. And the reason being is they put us in a five team district. And you can look at all the alignments. The closest five team district was out in El Paso and Odessa. >> Oh. >> So and what that means is if you're in a five team district, you're looking for six games. So, the only other district that was looking was out there in El Paso, uh, in and Odessa. Uh, and I'm talking from 4A, 5A, >> 3A as well. So, and we didn't want to go down. I
124think LVIA was a 2A school that had 5A. We were not going to play a 2A school, right? >> So, at this time, uh, we we don't have a game. We got a couple of options. Uh, option one, uh, is La Puya RGB has opted or trying to opt out. They have appealed with the UIO. They are trying to opt up. They're 4A division 2 schools and they're trying to opt up for travel reasons. They're in there with Rockport, Engleside, London. So, it's a lot of travel for them. So, the hearing on that is going to be on the 23rd, a week from today. We will know if if that appeal is is denied or is it approved. If it's approved, that would that would put them into our district, which now we would not
125be looking for week six. we would probably have to reshuffle the order of our district since there's another team coming into it. But if it is not approved and it's denied, we have a a team from Mexico, Mexico City that we would be inserting into there. From what I've understood >> that Alice played a Mexico team maybe maybe several years back or something something like that. >> Yes. >> That would be our only option. What that would mean is we would add another home game in there for two consecutive years. So instead of playing five and five, we would end up playing six home games for two consecutive years, which is obviously pretty beneficial for Booster Club and everybody else as far as trout. Uh as soon as that comes out on Monday, uh we
126will get together with Dr. Cabala and we'll put a homecoming game, senior night, and all that stuff together. Who is our new rival? >> I mean, I'm just I guess >> Ed Couch >> I guess Ed Couch came up from they were 5A division 2. They've been traditionally 5A and and and they've dropped down as well. >> We need to rec I mean recognize them because I'm looking at it thinking, "Oh, wow." >> Yeah. We've always battled against Cal Allen and >> yes down >> well we got highway 24 so maybe that's anyway there as well. Uh so as soon as those come out we would definitely share I mean I shared a letter then possibly I can send to you support. So, as far as the vertical alignment and realignment, are there any questions
127over there? >> Thank you guys. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> It's been a long presentation. I'm done with this. >> Thank you, Dr. Daniel. On to item six. I the recess. It's 8:45. We're literally going to have a five minute break. You still have a lot to go. So, we are now in recess. I think speak at all. The time is now 8:51 and the recent is over. On item number seven, your consent agenda. All items in the consent agenda are acted upon by one motion. Upon a board member's request any item, shelter move to the action portion of the regular agenda. 7A recommend and approve the following donations to Alice. The board would like to thank the donation made by excuse me, White Ranch for the monetary donation of $70,000 to Science Elementary.
128We'd like to also acknowledge donations of $400 made by Wolf Sports and Fitness Club to the Alice powerlifting team. Donations to Devose for their bike bicycle campaign. Bicycles, scooters, helmets were donated by the following businesses. Ambbridge Credlos Garcia, Jason Loveless, Isaac Wright, Willie and Patricia Gray at a law firm and Lice Alice lice angels of Alice who donated to their um Christmas bike. would also like to acknowledge and thank the Hina Financial Consulting for a $250 monetary donation to central office for the Christmas lunchon and Dynamic Strength Nutritions monetary donation of $100 to Also conference. Thank you for all the committee members who support our district and our students. And 7B recommend and approve the following miscellaneous items as posted. Is there a motion at this time to approve the consent agenda? Thank you. We
129have a motion by Mr. Damon. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> A second by Mr. Reeves. Is there any discussion? No. All in favor? Mr. Anyago? >> I. >> U Mr. Ba. >> I. >> Mrs. Gha. >> I. >> Mr. Reeves. >> Hi. >> Mr. Damo. >> I. >> And myself. I. The consent agenda items pass. On to item number eight, the action items. 8A consideration and possible action of the 2024 2025 annual financial audit as presented in agenda item 6E1. Dr. >> Yes, this is exactly what Mr. Ednard just presented. So, we just need approval of the audit findings. We did have a good report and I'm grateful to the business office for the work in preparing for that. Thank you, Dr. Is there a motion at this time? >> I have
130a motion by Mr. for the approval of the annual financial audit as presented. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> And a second by Mrs. Ghetto. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Mr. Addio. >> I. >> Mr. Bea. >> I. >> Mrs. Gha. >> I. >> Mr. Reeds. >> Hi. >> Mr. Raman. >> Hi. >> And myself. Motion passes. Thank you. 8B, consideration of possible action to submit TEA application for low attendance waiver due to weather on January 26 of 2026. As mentioned by Miss Lyanna Vasquez, anytime that a school district has a day in which we are 10 percentage points below the previous year's attendance, we are able to apply for a waiver in which that day does not affect our ADA for that month, for that year. And so we
131are asking for January 26 to be approved as a low attendance waiver date. We had 55% of our students in attendance on that day. >> Thank you, Dr. Is there a motion at this time? >> I move that we um approve so that way the application for low attendance waiver is submitted. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ghetto. We have a motion by Mrs. Gh. Is there a second? >> Second. >> And a second by Mr. Pena. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Mr. I >> Mr. Pñena >> I >> Mrs. Ghetto >> I >> Mr. Re >> I >> Mr. I'm on and myself I motion passes. 8C consideration and possible action to purchase insight managed power and UPS infrastructure solution to improve uptime for instruction and administrative systems for a total cost of $148,94189
132with a district contribution of $22,34129 and a rate contribution of 126. 6,661. >> And so this is for us to have a backup system. Anytime we have a power outage, it can affect our servers. And so this provides us like a battery like about eight hours in order for us to be able to sustain the data and our servers with our data information. So most of the cost, 85% of it does come from the state. our contribution is just 15%. And so, uh, we're asking for approval because unfortunately, we have found ourselves where we do have a power outage and we need to make sure that our system is protected. >> It's uh, it's going to be centralized here at the central. Yes. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Dr. Fabino. Is there a motion at
133this time? We have a motion by Mr. Don. Is there a second? >> I'll second. Second by Mrs. Gh. Is there any questions or discussion? No. All in favor? Mr. Mr. Pñena. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Ghetto. >> Hi. >> Mr. Reed. >> Hi. >> Mr. Dawan. >> Hi. >> Myself. I motion passes. >> On to item 8 D. Consideration and possible action of track repairs for Shower Elementary and Stein Elementary at a cost of 69,000 as proposed by Silver Creek Contractors, Inc. referencing the goodbye number 27 7 0000 Dr. >> Yes. Uh the maintenance department has done an evaluation of our tracks at all our elementaryaries and they really do feel that the track at Shower and Science Elementary need to be replaced. students have gotten injured and we are trying to you know see
134what we can do to make sure that students are not injured and that they do enjoy the track and get the necessary physical exercise that they need. We did go through the bike boards and uh they have already been vetted. We did have three uh individuals submit a bid and it was the the most cost effective and we feel very confident that they could start the job within the the week or two. >> What? >> That they could start the project by next week. >> And we looked at all the tracks and we at our elementarymentaries everything. >> Yes, we looked at all of them. I think the one at Dubos Michael told me was recently done not too long ago. Correct, Michael? >> At noon. Oh, no. >> So, the ones that definitely need
135it right now are those two. >> So, there's there's two tracks to shower and nun uh shower and signs both needing uh immediate attention. >> Are they all made of the same material or like the same? >> Sorry, ma'am. >> Are they all the same? Like as far as >> they're going to go back to asphalt. >> Yeah. So the only thing that's going to be different is for is they're going to do some changes for the uh shallow track at the request of the the principal. >> Uh they want they want a round track. >> They want a what? >> They want a round track. >> It's like a snake. >> They do have a lot of children at the moment that are getting injured. Um and so it's in desperate need of repair.
136So, they're going to we're going to rip up the whole snake and go back around that existing track uh of the winding portion closest to the pavilion and then there's a portion that runs uh east and west that they'll tie into that. Of course, they'll mill that out uh widen it and put granny track all around the facility or around that going all toward Jim Street. There's a palm tree around Texas Boulevard. It's approximately 1,236 ft. >> Yes. So almost a/4 mile pretty much. >> I have a question. So right now we have on the agenda for science and shallard. Is this a phase where we're going to look and have DOS and Newton also submit repairs? And are we doing this in phases or >> So what will happen? We'll assess those as the
137years go by uh school year and make sure that uh non is pretty much where we can uh repair as far as fill it. That's what they call it on a lot of the crack in pretty good condition. Uh but if not then we'll make those assessments needed and move forward as we have with travel and design right now. >> Thank you. >> The the signs one that's just going to be a patch job then because going to be a new job. So, >> they're going to tear up that one, too. >> Yes, sir. So, basically what happened with that during the the uh the previous bond for the elementary add-ons for the gym and the prek areas, that track was basically a lot of it was torn out uh for egress access and egress
138for the contractors to go to with the they were supposed to repair that once the job was completed, but that never happened. So that's right now. So they got a portion of that track that's just grass. They never repaired the the uh asphalt that they've glued during that construction phase. >> Does anyone else have any other questions? >> Thank you. We have a motion at this time by Mr. Aiano. Is there a second and a second by Mr. Dam? >> All in favor? Mr. Aiano? >> I. >> Mr. Pñena. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Ghetto. >> Hi, >> Mr. Reeves. >> Hi, >> Mr. Dam. >> Hi, >> myself. I motion passes. >> On to item 8E, consideration of possible action ofou between Alice and Coastal Bin College dual credit program for the 2026 2027 academic
139school year. >> We bring this contract before you every year. We want to continue to give our students an opportunity to take dual enrollment classes through the coastal event college program and so we ask in advance before the school year even starts before students start pre-registering to approve that so we can be ready to go for them this coming school year. >> Thank you Dr. Is there a motion at this time? I move that we approve theou between Alice and Coastal College dual credit program for the 2627 academic school. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mrs. Gara. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> A second by Mr. Pena. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Mr. Ariano. >> I. >> Mr. Pa. >> I. >> Mrs. Gro. >> I. >> Mr.
140Reeds. >> Hi. >> Mr. Ramon. >> Hi. >> Sal. Motion passes. 8F. consideration of possible action to approve a resolution to nominate Dr. Ania Thervinho for the TASBY Superintendent of the Year Award. >> What? >> This is something that as a board we have discussed and we would like to nominate her, but that has to be done on our agenda. So >> make a motion. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Adana. >> Second. >> Thank you. And a second by Mr. Ramoa to nominate Dr. Netino for the TAZ Superintendent of the Year award. Is there any questions or discussion? >> Who nominated her? >> Well, humbled for the opportunity. Yes, we are. But I am humbled that you all would consider me and so I'm grateful. >> Thank you. Thank you for
141your leadership. It's come from you down to the principles who are still here standing strong. We have shown tremendous growth academically, athletically. >> Actually to the cabinet, right? Or your cabinet. >> Yes, for sure. >> What? >> The cabinet min. >> Yeah. from HR to curriculum to the CFO safety. I mean, we have really outdone ourselves and we just want to show our appreciation to you, Dr. Thank you. >> It shows and it awesome. >> Mr. Ariano, >> Mr. Hi, >> Mr. Re. >> Hi, >> Mr. Dam. >> Hi, >> and myself. I motion passes. Our executive meeting our session called in accordance with the following provisions that for the Texas government code 98 Texas government code section 551.074 person matters 981 presentation and discussion of new 982 presentation discussion of 93 presentation and discussion
142of resation 984 personnel update regarding investigations 9 Texas government code section 551.0 74 legal matters of board attorney advice 551.074 9 pursuant to the Texas governor's code section 551.071 071 consultation with attorney regarding legal issues involved in the adoption of resolution regarding prayer in school. The AL independent school district shall adopt their policy requiring every campus of state to provide a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts as provided by section 45.0823 of the education code. 9D pursuant to the Texas Government Code section 551 071 consultation with attorney discussion regarding legal issues involved in the Alice Independent School District versus property custo number 21-4-61041-B. The time is now 9:06 and we are going to go to executive session. Thank you. Thank you. The time is now 10:36 p.m. and it's
143still February of the record. Um, on to item number 11. We're back for executive session 11A, consideration of possible action regarding the hires. That was in 27 consideration and possible action regarding retirement. That's information only. 11 C consideration and possible action regarding resignations. That's information only. 11 discussion possible action regarding ongoing investigations. That's information only. 11 E discussion of possible action regarding in school. The Alice School District child adopt a policy requiring every campus of Alysd to provide a period of prayer and read of the Bible for other religious texts as provided by section 25.082 Freedom Education Code. At this time, do we have a motion regarding this issue? >> Yes. I move that we vote against adopting a policy requiring every campus of Alice ISD to provide a period of prayer and and reading
144of the Bible or religious text as provided by the education 25.0823. >> Thank you. We have a motion at this time by Mr. Adiano. Is there a second? >> Second. >> And a second by Mr. Arm. Is there any discussion or comments? I yeah, I would like to say that even though we're voting against that, that we're still uh students still have the freedom to read their Bibles either by themselves or in a group or gather um you know during this, you know, like during lunch. Um they can still gather at the poll. All of that is still allowed. That is allowed now. >> Want to make that clear and state that that is not voting against that. Thank you, Mrs. Gha. Is and is that correct, Dr. Tino, that we do have studentled prayer
145already at our campuses? >> Yes, the students have the right to pray at any time voluntarily uh or with a group of students so long as it is not led by a staff or >> Thank you, Dr. Dino. Is there anyone else who would like to make a comment or discuss this issue? >> I think we said she the money. >> Thank you Mr. So all in favor >> I >> Mr. Ba >> I >> Mrs. I >> Mr. Reeds >> I >> Mr. I >> myself I motion passes on to item 11F discussion of possible acts regarding legal issues involving the alisonhood versus property casualty alliance of Texas number 21-04-61041CB that was anformational item only >> action no she needs action >> sorry no sorry let it be A motion at this time that
146would give the superintendent the authority to act on behalf of the board. Yes. >> I move that we authorize the superintendent the legal legal counsel to authorize the author authority to proceed as discussed in close session. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Adiano. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Reed. Is there any discussion or questions? >> No. All in favor? Mr. Aiano. >> I >> Mr. Pña. >> Hi. >> Mrs. G. >> Hi. >> Mr. Reed. >> Hi. >> Mr. Damo. >> And myself. I motion passes. The time is now 10:40. And this meeting is >> Thank you everyone for staying up late with us. So >> yeah. And so since I'm better conditions,