001Time is now 6:31 p.m. I'd like to welcome everyone who is here today uh to be part of our meeting will be called on Monday, July 21st, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. for the Alice Independent School District Board of Trustees. I'm going to call this regular meeting to order. Present today is Dr. Fin myself Jennifer Vera the vice president Mr. Herman Aiano, Trustee Adriana, Trustee Sudo Samura, Trustee Deba, and Trustee Le. Everyone is here. We've established a quorum. At this time, we're going to do the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag and the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honoriance to the Texas one and indivisible. Item number
002four on the agenda is to administer the oath of office to the new member for place three. >> So where is he? He's already skipped. Nice to meet you. You can At this time, we'd like to welcome the honorable judge Michael Garcia. >> Thank you for having me here. It's such an honor. It's trustee place >> Three. All right. Right. You can raise your right hand and do you have a middle James >> Cody James Reed? Yes, sir. >> I Cody James Rees do so swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Alice Independent School District School Board Trustee Place three of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this
003state. So help me God. Please say I do. >> I do. >> All right. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] >> Congratulations. You may now take your seats. Congratulations. >> You ready? >> All right. >> Ready or not? >> On to item number four. recommend approving of the board meeting minutes for the meetings on June 9th of 2025, June 19th, 2025. >> Is there a motion at this time? >> I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for June 9th, 2025 and the special board meeting on June 19th, 2025. >> Do we have a motion by Mr. Benny? Is there a second? And we have a second by Mr. Samura. All in favor? I >> motion passes. On to item number six, the public comment. The audience participation at a board meeting is limited to the portion
004of the meeting designated to receive public comment in accordance with board policy development. At all other times during a board meeting, the audience shall not enter into discussion or debate on matters being considered by the board unless requested by the presiding officer. If the speaker is seeking board resolution of a specific complaint, that concern should be addressed through the district's grievance policy. At regular board meetings, the board shall permit public comment regardless of whether the topic is an item on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting. Public comment shall occur at the beginning of the meeting. Individuals who wish to participate during the portion of the meeting designated for public comment shall sign up with the presiding officer or designate before the meeting begins as specified in the board's procedures on public comment and
005shall indicate the agenda item or topic on which they wish to address the board except as permitted by board policy me local the board's procedures on public comment and individuals comments to The board shall not exceed three minutes per meeting. When necessary for effective meeting management or to accommodate large number numbers of individuals wishing to address the board, the presiding officer may adjust public comment procedures in accordance with beed local, including establishing an overall time limit for public comment and adjusting the time allotted to each speaker. However, no individual shall be given less than one meeting minute to make comment. At this time, Miss Hunter has handed us a public comment sheet and there is no one signed up for public comment. On to item number seven on the agenda, the superintendence report. Dr. Fivia.
006>> Yes. Thank you. So, this is officially our first day back as we start the 2526 school year. So, this summer went by really, really fast. I want to thank the staff for working hard and preparing for the upcoming school year. You'll be knowing that there's a lot of events happening starting with our leadership academy in a couple of days as well as state assessment results coming in in the near future. Uh we also have new teacher orientation that's being prepared for. Teachers have gone through a lot of staff development this summer and will continue in the upcoming weeks. So, we're excited for the new year. We have seen growth and we expect to continue to see progress with our students. You'll hear about the stadium updates and anything beginning with that and ensuring that
007we also get our facilities ready for the start of the year. So, please know that they're working really, really hard and ensuring that uh we provide the best services for our kids in our community because they so rightly deserve that. So, we'd like to start with our uh fine arts uh headband director and administrator in charge of fine arts, Mr. Pettis. Dr. Dominos, superintendent of schools, Mrs. board president, board of trustees, distinguished guests. My name is Cop. I'm the finance administrator for Adam Independent School District. I'm here to present a very prestigious award on behalf of UIO for one of our brightest students. Um Mr. Go see the fourth uh was a part of our UIL state soil ensemble students that went to to Round Rock this past May and they competed at the state
008level and when you compete they're trying to to earn that that gold medal and after it's done and all the kids are gone thousands of kids participate. If the judge um happens to award any student with an outstanding performer award, which means they just stood out in the room, they they will announce that after after the competition. So, um we received word that Mr. And Garcia received this award and UIL sent him a letter and we have put it under under glass and we're going to read just the first paragraph. Okay. and Garcia the fourth. On behalf of the UIL, please allow me to congratulate you for being selected as an outstanding performer at the te 2025 Texas State Solen Ensemble Contest. of the approximately 100,000 students participating in the regional UIO music contest and
009the thousands of musicians who performed at the Texas State Solo Ensemble Contest. Only 2 to 3% of the solo performances earn this distinguished honor of being recognized as an outstanding performer. This achievement is truly a mark of musical excellence. I'm going to present him any UIO performer sports. This right here is when they win UIO. This is a gold medallion that was given to be given to Ricky and it is given to every state champion in Texas whether it's sports, physical. So I want to present this to Mr. And you got to see how the fourth [Applause] >> job. Congratulations. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Eva's parents and grandma can come up. >> Are you okay, Ricky, to have a >> biggest fans? >> Principal. >> Yes. Come on. >> Let me take
010one real quick. Yes, too. >> Let's steal the Good job. >> Yes, me too. >> Congratulations. I'd like to add Ricky that all the younger children at the elementary schools already know about you. >> Serve as your role model. Those kids at Nunan want to hit the drones just like you do. And for me to already know that that you serve as a role model to the younger students is something that you should be really proud of because you not only represent your family, which I know they're very proud of you, you represent the community and you represent Alice High School extremely well. So, thank you so much for your work. We know that you're going to go places and never forget where you came from because you still are going to be a senior
011just >> you've been recently named as one of the drug majors. >> So congratulations. We look forward to your leadership. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> And now I invite to the podium Mr. uh Bea and Frank Gomez who will be doing a presentation on KOPY FM radio broadcast rights. Later on in the program board, you will have an opportunity to approve a recommendation. This year is very unique for Alice ISD in the sense that we will be playing all our football games away and this would allow an opportunity for our community that are not able to attend the games to be able to hear the games on the radio. So I'll give them an opportunity to share. >> Once again, thank you guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. Board of Trustees, thank
012you. And citizens, thank you as well. Uh we come as a team at Y92. Uh you're at the radio local radio station. to come at humbly ask for your approval to call the games uh the football games and playoff games uh on the radio station. We have a enormous response from the community asking us due to the uh reason of the stadium um that um for us to start calling the games again going back into the tradition of sitting by the fire outside you know um and even inside on and just driving around listen to the games uh play by play and we do have uh our team ready to take that position and again we wholeheartly ask u for your approval. John have any questions? >> You just going to be doing the football
013games >> right now? We're doing because of the sponsorship. Yes. Doing the football games as football games and the uh playoff football games. >> I appreciate his expectation that he knows that we'll be at the playoffs. >> Yes. I like that a lot. Thank you very much. Next, uh we have Miss Delena to do an update on Good evening, board president, members of the board, Dr. Trevvinho, members of the community. I'm really excited to be back here and doing the first academic update of the new school year. Uh we are going to actually start out with a little shout out for our early college high school. Early college high school programs are evaluated on outcomesbased measures in three different areas and each of the three different areas has certain standards that they have to meet
014in order to have met designation and then even higher levels of standard in order to earn distinction. So the three areas are access that's the first one that you see there. access has to do with equitable access to early college opportunities for students that are identified um as at risk, economically disadvantaged, emergent, bilingual, or with disabilities. And you can see there that the Alice's early college high school program did meet the designation standard as well as meeting the distinction earned standard. The second area is attainment. The attainment indicators have to do with performance on end of course exams, graduation rate and college college readiness. And again they met designation standards and the higher distinction standards. And the third area is achievement. And that is based on whether those early college high school students are, you
015know, how many meet credits they're actually earning in the program, whether they're actually uh completing core requirements, and whether they're completing an associates degree or not uh prior to finishing high school. And again, uh they met both levels. And so what that means is that the program status is now going to be uh designated with distinction. So previously uh they were designated and now we've been able to add that distinction status. So um but congratulations to Early College High School and the the staff and all the students doing all of that excellent work. Moving into some star results. Uh during the June academic update, uh we were able to share the preliminary star results for end of course. And so now this month, we're able to share those preliminary results for our star 3 to
0168. So the chart that you have there, there's actually two kind of different sets of data addressed. So I'm going to walk you through uh you know a couple steps of each of them. So, if you look at where I just highlighted the box in the orange, all we're going to look at first is the orange straight across. Okay? Only the orange to begin with. And if you're looking at third grade, this is RLA that we're starting with. And third grade for Alice ISD, so that includes all four elementaryaries. And in spring of 2024, which would have been last year's results as comparison, they were 71% of the students at approaches grade level, 47% at meets, 18% as masters. If you follow it straight across in 2025, the approaches is now 74. You notice that
017that is bold and italics. That just indicates year-to-year growth. So where you see that bold and italics in the orange, you know that you're seeing that year-to-year growth. The meats went from 47 to 53 and then the masters from 18 to 30. So if you just follow across and look for fourth and fifth grade, the same thing. You can take a look at uh the yeartoyear uh growth and where you see that bold and italics. It kind of stands out for you. I'm going to add now in the six through eight. It's set up the same way. >> Right. Okay. Let me do that first then. Okay. Then the second piece of this before I add six through eight, we'll look at the second piece. The second piece is the comparison to state. So why
018do we want to look at that? Well, we keep talking about our goals and our goals are to be a campuses and a districts. Well, you can't reach a level if you're running below state averages. A's are above average. So, it's important to kind of be looking at what's going on state. If we're running below state average, are we improving at a rate that's closing those gaps? You know, what direction are we heading? So, in looking at this, you see that there's an oval there around the approaches on third grade. So, now we're kind of looking straight down. So, third grade approaches was at 71%. Last year, 24 and the state average was 74. So, right below that, you can see that's a negative. We were below by three points. So we were close to
019the state average but we were a little bit below. So then to make the comparison we go over there to spring 2025. We improved from 71% to 74%. But then you see the state also improved. The state improved from 74 to 78. So we then are at four below state. So we didn't really close the gap on state. We made an improvement but they improved slightly more. So then to look at the next one, there's our meats. Well, last year we were at 47%, the state was at 48, almost there. One below. This year we moved up to 53% at meets. The state only moved to 52% at meets. So in the green there, the one, we've now gone from being one below the state average to now we've moved above the state average by
020one. So they actually improved at a faster rate than the state did, which is what we need to do if we want to get where we're going to go. So, wherever you see the green, the green is indicating in that different to state line that either we have met or exceeded the state and we're working on just getting higher or if we're below, we're either maintaining or closing the gap, which is what we need to do. So, as you look at those on the right hand side on that line, that bottom line for each of them, we're looking for the green. That's what we're wanting to see. Um, moving on to the masters. I'll just do one more there on the third grade to kind of show. Third grade masters last year was 18. It
021improved all the way to 30% for us this year. State was 21. They pretty much stayed almost the same. They only moved to 23. So, we really closed the gaps on that one. We went from being three below state to now we're seven above. So, it's just another way of kind of looking at where are we seeing the growth we need to see and maybe where do we need to pay some additional attention. So, then at this point I'm going to pull up the six to eight. And so, first you can just kind of go across just eyes track across your orange and look for those bold and italics to see where the growth is. Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade just orange straight across. And then you can look at the same like we just
022did going down and looking for those green to show where the growth is and then other areas where we can kind of identify we have gaps to close to get where we want to go. I do want to point out with the RLA these results that you're looking at here are just slightly different from what would have been in the public portal. The reason for that is that we have made the adjustment for rescores. So once they started doing uh AI scoring, the state uh allows districts if you see writing samples that you feel like you know based on the rubric I think really this could have been scored higher then districts have the right to request rescores. So, we did request rescores um for se quite a few students actually. Um and we did
023actually end up with 38 students whose uh writing scores increased when they were rescored by the state. >> And out of those 38 students, 31 of them, that increase bumped them to another performance level. >> So, they remain the approaches when it meets. We had one student at the high school that got a change. That one point change took them from not passing their EOCC to passing it. >> So these scores right here do, you know, we've adjusted for those even though they don't really come out till the final, but we went ahead and put those adjustments in there. So, moving on to math. Three to five math. I'll kind of just go through that first one again. Um so third grade same thing orange straight across first to look at that it was 69%
024approaches moved to 71 was 41% approaches move to 47 was 12% masters moved to 18. So again, you follow those orange across, look for that bolden italics to see where the growth year to year was. And then going down, first example would be third grade approaches. Last year we were at 69, the state was at 70, almost there, not quite. So we're still one short. This year we went to 71. State actually dropped by one and is at 69. So again, we're closing the gap a little bit there and on the positive side of state, uh, which is the direction we want to go. You'll notice for the 3 to five math, there's a lot of green and the vast majority of those are above state. So we're we're really moving in in the direction
025there. Um, adding in six through eight math, same thing. straight across first with the orange to see year-over-year and then taking a look at those greens. Where do we see the greens and where do we see you know areas that we maybe need to give some attention to or continue giving attention. And then the last one also set up the same way is going to be science and social studies. fifth grade science and then eighth grade science and social studies. So, as you look at all of those um you can see I mean there there clearly some areas of growth uh both yeartoyear and in closing those gaps and and working toward getting ahead of state but you can also see that there's definitely some areas of challenge and that you know we have have
026work to do and uh places to go uh with it. principles and uh campus administrators have already I mean they've been for some time now already diving into this and starting to make their plans and uh you know decide what their focus is moving into next year. Um before I move on, do you all have any questions on any of these slides? >> I just have a question or I guess like a just so I can recall correctly my memory serves. So the seventh grade math, those were the students during COVID missed in person third grade math. Is that correct? >> Uh counting back, it probably would have been right around there. And depending on how far how long they stayed out of school as well, >> right? Okay. And so I mean a year
027maybe a year and a half ago we've identified that seventh grade is going to need some extra TLC >> because they were missing out of the in person and that was a crucial year for math. >> I just want to be clear when the right grade levels. >> Yes. And um you know as you could see they still really struggled at the end of the year. Um, when you break that down, you know, there are some areas where you can see movement and some maybe where you can't. And I know Miss Pettis, Miss P, Miss Pettis has already started putting things in place um, even for continuing to support those kids as they move on into eighth grade. Um, so I know I don't know if you want to mention anything about it, but I
028know she >> for those kids who are second graders when COVID hit and the majority of them were third graders uh, doing online instruction. So they did miss a lot of hands-on experiences uh with math. So we've kind of talked about this and so that's the cohort of kids that we've been working really hard with especially this year bringing in Anna home to provide intervention but you know they still need a lot of a lot of support. So we now are making some changes to the master schedule to include some in-house intervention time that's going to be provided by Mrs. Ben. So hoping that'll that'll help you shouldn't ask for. Any other questions? >> Okay. So, then we're going to move into accountability. And first, I'm going to do just kind of a little recap
029of some of the things that have been going on uh statewide with the delays for 2022 23 and 23 24 school years. Um there's sometimes some uh you know confusion about the different numbers that have or haven't come out. So, I just wanted to go back through it. Um, of course there were lawsuits that were filed by various school districts across the state. Um, because of those TEA was not allowed for a long time to release official ratings. However, last year in August 2024, TEA told districts, they provided raw scores for the different domains and they told districts, if you calculate these according to the accountability manual, you can send it to us and we'll verify. So, they couldn't release the results, but they could verify if we calculated it right or not. So at
030that time we did those calculations. We sent them off for verification and we did get them verified. So those are the ones that you see here for those two past years and those are the ones that were shared out publicly um August 22nd of this past year. I believe uh both Facebook the website um OB with it. I'm not sure if there was another location. >> You also did it at the state of the district. >> Right. So um these were released at that time. They are stateverified. So not state released but stateverified. Then to kind of confuse things, the first lawsuit got cleared up in April. And in April, TEA suddenly released the 22 23 ratings. So that's when all of a sudden you started seeing on the news this, you know, this district
031is was this and this district was that. So that rating was the D that you see there, which we had verified um and released in August. uh for 2223. So that's from a couple years ago, right? But the state was just getting around to officially releasing it because of the lawsuits. Um additionally, because graduation rates and CCMR run a year behind, it was from the school year two years ago, but the graduating class three years ago, right? So that's what you saw then. then they have not yet released. They've been given approval to release but have not yet officially released 2324. Um it's estimated to come out in August. Um and these are our verified numbers on that. So you can kind of start to see the shift um from more of the orange to
032the orange kind of starting to go away. You see that shift happening. And do be aware that the 2324 that was CCMR from the prior year class 2023 that was included in that. So with all that being said in the advance of the 2425 ratings because the state is going to be allowed to release those like they're supposed to. So they'll be releasing the ratings for the what just happened by August 15th. So we'll be seeing those official. But of course we've been working on projections cuz you know we want to know. So we have um three different uh sources that we've been kind of working with for projections. Uh we have our data analysis uh program Tango that has a projection. Uh the education service center region 2 has created a projection and then
033we've done calculations using uh lead forward accountability tools. They're all coming together right almost exactly the same. there's maybe a difference of a point or two here and there. So because of that we feel fairly confident sharing the projections. Um and so on this slide >> and you're a conservative. >> Yes. And this slide I have added in. Now I did go a little conservative. So if like there was a point or two difference between you know the three options I I opted for the lower one in in almost all the cases u just because I mean we don't know 100%. It's a projection. Um, but I'm I'm I'm excited to show it because you can see those colors shifting. Um, and I think that that's important evidence of a lot of the work that's
034been being done. Um, a lot of the hard work students have been doing, even uh, you know, attendance improvements and you know, families working so hard to get their kids into school and you know, if you're at school, you learn better. Just all the different pieces. uh we're not where we want to be yet. We want to be the A, right? Um and so that's you know working forward. Um but uh it it it's nice to be able to see see the the movement. Um we don't do it for the ratings or the scores but the scores are a reflection of what we are providing to the students. So, you know, it's like you want to provide the best you can and that's why we want to keep keep working at it. Um, any questions
035on this? >> The overall B81 is that for districtwide? >> This is districtwide. Yes, sir. >> Just wanted to make sure. >> Yes, thank you. Yes, this is a districtwide uh made up from the different weighted values from the projections for each campus. So from 22 23 we have gone from a D >> Mhm. >> to a B 81. >> Yes. >> That is excellent. >> Not bad. >> And uh we'll have you know the official will come August uh 15th >> by campus as well. >> Yeah. and and by campus and all the breakdowns and and everything. So >> just by seeing that we need to thank and all the the teachers, all the administrators, high school through elementary. Thank you all very much for your hard work and and great job. >> But
036we do want to remind everyone what Bill Cullen says in his book, From Good to Great. Good is the enemy of great. So we can't just be good, right? It's >> a stepping stone. >> It's a stepping stone. >> Our goal is to still be an a good >> and as you could see, I mean, we have lots of areas where we can potentially grow. The other thing I did want to point out is this 2425, this is that graduating class of 24. And if you remember from that year, not this past one, but the one before, you were hearing lots of updates on all the work on CCMR, right? Well, since it lags, that group, all that work from CCMR, that now is in this accountability. And so that's a portion of the increase
037is is the work that went in there as well. >> And the seniors that just graduated will be next year. And they also did even better. >> Okay. Anything else on that before I So then that's a perfect segue into the next piece which is talking about how we're preparing for uh the coming year. And so uh we did start out we already had our summer spark uh which is our summer PD that's offered to uh teachers on July 1st and July 2nd. The first day we focused on math and reading. Um the second day we focused on science and social studies. And on this page you can see uh the turnouts we had on those days for the morning and afternoon sessions. Now some of those were uh you know a teacher that went
038to the morning and went to a different session in the afternoon. Um but we had 102 unique participants. So that's 102 of our teachers who were willing to voluntarily take time out of their time in summer so that they could come in and attend professional development, learn and grow and and gain what they could to be ready for their students. So um I I'm I'm very grateful to them for doing that that many of them. We have one more day coming up on July 28th. a representative from Lead Forward's going to come in. Um, one of the sessions is going to be about class management and addressing apathy and anxiety. So, wanting to really give the teacher some strategies to help better support our students in some their areas of need. Some other things we
039have coming up to kick it off, uh, Dr. Trevino mentioned the leadership academy. That's this week, Wednesday and Thursday. We're bringing all the campus and district leadership together um and getting everybody on the same page to focus on our goals for the year. Um the theme is stronger together, building a championship team. Then uh the next week we have new teacher orientation where we welcome all of our new teachers to Alice ISD and being part of the team. August 4th we welcome everybody back. August 6th we have our districtwide professional development. We've got some uh great presenters coming in and different sessions for all the different teachers and that theme is Alice ISD the future starts here and academics leadership service and character in action and then of course the very most important date is
040August 11th which is the first day of school when we get to welcome our kids back. If there are any family members um who need either supply lists or uh need to do the online registration, there are links on the website or of course uh you can call the campuses. They'll be happy to help out. Okay. Um so we're excited for the first day and that's it. Any questions? >> Thank you. [Applause] Now, we also know there's a lot of changes with legislation and so I invite Miss Vasquez to the podium to share a little bit about the homeschool participating in UIL activities as that pertains to one of the new laws. >> Good evening, board president, members of the board, the video members of the audience. I'm Lanna Vosquez, director of student services. Um,
041I do bring with me tonight Abel Lopez. He's going to be in place of coach Bastiano, and I have Medicare here with me. Uh, so tonight we are bringing with you the Senate Bill 401. That's on our homeschool student participation and UIL activities. So, what this bill states is it was passed by the ADA Texas legislature. It modifies our prior legislation regarding homeschool student participation in UIL activities. Now, starting with this 2526 school year, all Texas public school districts will be automatically required to allow homeschooled students residing in their attendance zones to participate in UIL activities unless the board of trustees formally adopts a resolution opting out by September 1st of 2025. Now, um I do have, like I mentioned, a medical pettis and Mr. Lopez here with me. uh we did meet together and
042we discussed whether or not we were going to opt out and we've come to the conclusion that we do want to opt out of this uh bill. And so the reason why we want to opt out is we currently receive approximately $6,160 per student from the state through ADA. Now with these homeschool students, we don't receive ADA funding. So, if we look at this past year, we had a total of 55 secondary students in grades 6 through 12 and nine elementary students in grades K through five who were homeschooled. So, if you look at that calculation on the bottom, that's $6,160 per student times the 64 homeschool students. We lost $394,240 just this school year, just with homeschool students. The risks on why we want to remain opted out would be our public school students.
043Uh they do have to maintain academic eligibility under the no pass no play. They have to follow attendance and and conduct policies. They have to complete star testing and other accountability measures. Now homeschool students under this uh Senate Bill 401. They can participate in UL UIL activities. They're not subject to the same academic attendance or accountability standards. They benefit from our district-f funed facilities, coaching and instruction without contribut contributing to our enrollment based funding. There are reduced opportunities for our road students uh such as the shared resources, their equipment, facilities and travel. Uh we have budget for uniforms and equipment, facility access, bus travel for competitions. That will be a strain on our budgets for these students. Uh by adding the homeschool students, it increases our strain without increasing funding, potentially leading to less practice
044time or facility access for enrolled students, possible cutbacks or rotation of resources that reduce quality of preparation. Now, for equity, perception, and morale, our enrolled students follow daily schedules, grading policies, discipline, and attendance standards. Our homeschoolers are perceived as bypassing these systems yet still gaining equal access to UIL honors. It may erode our student motivation or trust. It increases resentment or disengagement, discourage full-time enrollment if our students feel that they get benefits without public school responsibilities. So, there is an FAQ on the uh UIO website to answer any questions that the public may have or you may have. Um so, under the action items, we do have this as an approval for the board to um for the resolution to opt out of UI access for homeschool students. So, um, that's all I have. I
045don't know if y'all have any questions or >> Thank you. >> Any questions for Kim Kala regarding safety? >> If not, I or any questions for Melissa Sanchez? I want to welcome her back as our CFO. So, Thank you, Melissa. And I'd also like to recognize Mr. Gil Sasad, our executive director of federal program. So, he's in the house. Welcome to Als. And now, I invite Mikeosa uh to present on maintenance and operations as we prepare for the start of the 2526 square followed by uh Is Jerry here? Okay, maybe Jerry should go first on the stadium. >> Evening members of the board president of the Tino community. So, we did have a presentation. So, the stadium is moving along. Um, we finally got out of some of the holes that we had digging for
046the homeside concession and press box. Um, so the contract is currently at Blue Top on the home side for the concession buildings at the press box. They'll start drilling peers for the foundation starting this week. And the rebar is on site, so we'll start seeing some foundation go in in the next couple of weeks, month. There's also all the utilities materials are on site. So they'll start putting uh storm lines, water lines, fire lines, and the domestic water lines for the buildings. So, all that scheduled for the next couple of months. So, we're excited. We finally, you know, got out of the holes that we had and Mother Nature kept filling up with water um by June. We're finally out of there. Um so, we should be moving along a lot better. Um everybody is
047working hard. We're trying our best to to get this project done as soon as possible, early if we can. We're working very well with Weaver and Jacobs to make that possible. Any questions? >> I guess the one question is, are we still on the same timeline? >> I mean, we're we've got a target date. Obviously, we're trying to reach and and so we're doing everything possible to get there. Um, we're returning some metals, questions, R5s to the contractor within days, uh, which is something that helps the process move forward. We've got great uh cooperation from the district as well that's helping us move forward. And so I mean we've got those target dates that we're trying to meet and we're going to do everything we can to meet it. >> That's what the public wants
048to know. >> What is your target date? >> Well, our target date obviously you have homecoming. I mean I'm sorry. You have your graduation. >> Absolutely. But as far as your deadline, so I know you have presented slideshows and you're saying by this day we need to have this by this date. You've given us the timeline. >> So when is your next date? >> So contractual timeline deadline that the contractor has for the project is at the end of July of 2026. We're doing everything we can to get at least a significant portion of the project ready to host graduation in May. So, we're we're working hard towards that. The contractor is working on a timeline to show us that we'll present to the district to see what we can do, what can be ready
049around that time. We haven't seen that yet, but we're working to get that. And as soon as we get that, we'll share that with the district. >> So, we're looking at the first week of May, >> graduation 2026. >> Well, we got to get everything ready. >> We're going to try. >> We're doing everything we can. It's a It's a short time. very aggressive, but we've got the right team to make it happen. >> Sound kind of your feet. The guys from from your location sounded great. >> We're I mean, we're we're doing what we can. We're going to we're going to try to do our best and we've been working hard at it and um like I said, the team's just that's all we're doing. That's all we're focused on. It's a critical project.
050We know what it means to the community and the and the district. Hussein first week of May into that but we try. I mean we lost we lost a week 10 days of rain in June. We have no control over that and that really just pushes everything back. It's a domino effect. It's construction is very tricky. We've got we've got challenges. We've got labor challenges right now. I mean as you all know we've got some you know we're shortage on labors because some some folks are being picked up. So that's affecting uh not currently on this project, but we're seeing it on other projects in certain stages of construction. So we've got those challenges. Um the good thing is materials aren't delayed as it used to be because of CO that's kind of already settled
051down. So we're ordering materials early on time, get them here on time, so we're able to, you know, get them in the ground, get them in the building, start building this thing. >> Thank you. You won't be hearing that. >> The floor is here. >> Uh, >> thank you. Uh, Mr. President, Dr. Reno, board, and audience, thank you for being here. I'd like to bring to your attention several items being addressed prior to start of the upcoming school year. Foremost among these situation involving some mold mildew in the 100 wing at Sher Elementary. Uh this issue arose due to a malfunction the A on rooftop unit which was blowing unconditioned air into the building which resulted in high humidity and moisture which uh resulted in the mold mild. Uh as a result, indoor humidity levels
052exceeded 75% leading to the development of mold mildew affect in the affected area. Given the urgency of the situation, the time constraints involved. Uh we consulted with our legal team uh regarding the appropriate concerns of action. Legal council confirmed that we are authorized to proceed with the necessary mitigation uh efforts without delay uh following proper protocols. Please note that this item will be formally placed on a upcoming agenda for your review. So that's where we're at right now in regards to the If you have question about the AON unit, the AON unit basically a rooftop unit that doesn't necessarily service or air condition or heat a unit or room. Uh it basically balances the outside air and the inside air in order to uh purge that air and keep that humidity level where it's supposed
053to be. So with that outside air exceeding 100 plus degrees uh with heat index and high humidities that unconditioned air was through our system and basically affected the areas that it did there at the 100 shower >> but it will be uh cleaned up >> starting tomorrow. We got uh company coming in uh to mitigate that >> and will the classrooms be ready or >> so we're pushing that. So, they pretty much didn't confirm, but they kind of gave her stamp that, you know, we're going to do and exhaust all efforts in order to get that that >> working on the weekend. Whatever we need to do again. >> So, so they work on the weekends, you'll be there. >> Yes, of course. >> What about the restrooms at Alice High School or you're going
054to share that? >> So, the restrooms at Alice High School as far as the >> paint painting >> the painting. So yeah, we got the uh restrooms painting there at Alice High School. Our maintenance and collaboration with security uh completed painting the boys and girls restrooms and the 200 wing at Alice High School during the summer break. Uh baseball field repairs as a result of the windstorm a couple of months ago. Uh it affected a portion of our visitor site, the bleachers and the to include the fence. So that's being taken care of at at this time. Uh we rented uh with my partner out there, Kim, you know, so we pretty much brainstorm and we rented out a sweeper in order to prevent splits falls. Uh especially with band uh we swept that entire
055u marching platform, you know, to eliminate those risk and hazards. And probably with the uh cooperation with the city, which they have the last couple of years, uh right before school, we'll get another sweep of that marching pad in order to prevent any risk that may occur. Uh pothole repairs, I'm pretty sure you probably seen them. We just received a pallet of asphalt uh from McCoy, so our team will be going throughout the schools, including myself, uh to repair those potholes and mitigate those problems. And um as far as a 5-year strategic plan, so we're currently replacing some units and these units are being repaired uh based on the allocated uh budget funding through maintenance, not having to reach out and move money from another count to this one. So uh we pretty much will
056allocate those funds from our uh maintenance budget uh which looks at a probably after today four units. If you notice the unit just called for service today for the lobby area. So to include it's 102 at noon, 205 at noon and 105 at uh Charlotte will all be replaced and those units are already 15 plus years old. Some of our RT22 units which parts don't even exist anymore and freon uh there's no such channel anymore. So those are going to need to be replaced >> and as far >> of the strategic plan, right? And that's part of the the 5-year strategic plan moving forward and uh replacing those units that are 15 plus years or older. And the last uh are the league. So I know there's questions about that and all I can tell
057you is that we reached out to legal and they're saying that the umpire will soon make a recommendation and an award on on that. So we're still and the reason being I know a lot of you want to know why we can't do it or what's the problem with that. I know a lot that has to result in mold too with the moisture, right? It doesn't help. Uh but they're saying that we compromise a job or we compromise a school andor district if we put any hands on it because they're basically saying, "Well, how do I know the school didn't do that?" And as a result as opposed to the product that were that was being used that's basically faulty, right? And so it's not doing what it's supposed to do. And so that's position
058we're in right now. And this is regarding the mold at the high school, right? >> That's regarding the mold at the high school and along with the I mean the chiller system also. So that chiller system, we're putting it on hand. And I got to get somebody to come in at 6:00 every morning, sometimes a little earlier, and basically reset the medicines at the school at our office and then get somebody to manually put it on hand and reset at the school in order to get enough time to cool that school for teachers and students and our staff. And in the executive, we will be providing an update by legal under uh close session uh pertaining to you know 00 or 071. So we can talk about the roofs. We do have Jonathan here uh
059with where's John? >> Oh, he's outside. That's okay. It won't take him in executive, but we'll give you all an update on the roofs and that navigation under 071. And this question, I guess, is for you, Dr. Tavino. The the mold issue at the high school is, you know, all over social media. It's a big issue. So, I just want the public to know what the district has done to address that. Uh there's any health concerns related to that, why there's some type of delay because we need to be ready for school and we need to be improving and it looks like we have with replacing ACs, replacing fences. So, >> so with that being said, I can assure you ma'am that we mitigate all risk and hazards to an acceptable level and our hands
060are tied when it comes to certain things, right? And for that, I mean that goes back to preventive maintenance and a lot of that prevented maintenance was supposed to be a part of a contract which not basically a company's not >> coming through with their doing their job basics when it comes to that. So, I have my guys come in and basically doing their job, right? But at the end of the day, uh >> I mean, we do what we can. We replace tiles, we fumigate, we're we mitigate it the best we can. And a lot of it, uh it's some of it's been tested, especially with this last incident here with with Shard. Uh the guy even came out to do a not courtesy, he did charge, but he did come out to do
061a a testing, an air sample testing there. And fortunately, it's not a a bad mold, but it is a mold mildew. So, uh, I can assure you we mitigate it the best we can. >> Okay. >> But the test has showed it is safe for students. >> We're still trying to clean it. >> It was fortunately it the the mold is not a bad he called it a bad mold on the the uh his uh email and then on the testing and I have a packet with >> all his results there. >> And to confirm that's at Shallard and the high school, right? >> Correct. Charlotte was just recent that we remember really had a problem there. It's just this AON unit that should have been basically shut down. >> And then my last question,
062>> you're good, ma'am. >> Just to clear it up because it's confusing for me and I've sat through meetings for two, three years about the chillers and the roof at the high school. So, I just want to clear it up for the community. So, you're telling me that we're under contract and a warranty is related to the roof, which is the current litigation, and we can't really do anything about that. Right. >> The roof. Correct. >> Okay. Then we're under another contract for the chillers, and that has a lot more to do with the mold, and we can't really get out of that contract either, right? >> At this time, >> pretty much. Okay. And we have been working >> and so our chiller system unfortunately works off a water system right >> so that
063water system is eventually what triggers this mold especially when you have standing still water right so uh and I'm going to call it the way it is like at the school >> say it the way it is so everyone can understand >> at the schools you know our drainage we have a problem there so costs were cut back they were cut so on the roofs we have 4 inch drainage when it's recommended 8 inch drainage So basically that standing water and those flat roofs basically just sit there and as you know water water's going to seep and find a way through they call membrane cracks. So we have membrane damage. So basically you have those crevices that eventually going to result in that water seeping through that water is going to then seep through through
064our roofs and into our classrooms. And result of that we can't do nothing to the roofs. Then we're not mold experts and we do what we can. then we got to mitigate the best we can and that's exactly what we do on our side. >> And then to be clear, these are contracts that were entered into years ago. >> Correct. In 15 and my understanding was an energy savings contract that was built to save energy for the district and at the end of the day we're just >> Okay, we have a question. So in the contract did they promise the 8 in and they gave us 4? That was something that was done on the last bond when they did when they removed all the when the roofs >> this that had nothing to do
065with the the contract with Johnson Control. That was basically from my understanding that was part of the bond project when they redid the when they redid the roofs cuz they were already damaged. So when they redid those roofs in order to cut cost, they went with 4in drains as opposed to 8 in drains. So you can imagine twice the size. What year was that? >> That that that bond >> that I this it was during this last bond. So >> and the last one was the >> not not ours but for the the 20 or 20 whatever for the multi-purpose and for the uh >> for the additional classrooms and the gymnasium >> additional wings. >> Okay. >> Wasn't the Johnson Controls a 10year uh contract? >> I'm sorry sir. >> Wasn't it a 10-year
066contract? >> It's in 2015 and it's still 20. 20 year contract. How can it be? You can't >> you can't do a multi-year contract. You can't promise public. >> And that's what that's what we're currently trying to get out of with legal. >> Well, we're looking at it as much as we possibly >> So, I provided a timeline. I provided my concerns and my findings and >> we met with them face to face and try them >> and they couldn't answer questions. As a matter of fact, the gentleman, one of the main guys no longer there. >> I'm going to tell it the way it I'm going to ask questions. >> And so at that time when we entered into that contract maybe about 2015 >> that's when it went to the board for approval
067and my understanding is till >> till 2031. And you were not in charge of the maintenance department. >> Okay. That was not your recommendation. And >> I didn't know nothing of Johnson Control till I came here. >> You've been here what, six years? Five years? >> Five years. >> It was a long time. Johnson Control was like >> they said it was 2015 when they >> I just have a question on that AON deal. Who is there supposed to be regular maintenance or somebody checking on that unit? How does that work? I'm just curious. I don't know >> which unit. >> The one at Shallor. >> So, I'll address it with my That's our AC guy to recognize that. >> So, how often is your AC guy supposed to go up there and check those
068things? >> Depending I mean, so my preventive maintenance checklist consists of because I did ask for I did provide one grease bearings in order for us to to pro. So basically provide a more a long the longevity of the unit, right? So it's like a car oil change and stuff like that. So basically I put that in place to where >> these guys and I didn't give a set time but when they're when time permitted because there are there's hundreds of units out there on top of things are supposed to be assessing, right? But uh it was a third party that recognized it and basically uh shut it down in order it really doesn't make it right now it's shut down so it doesn't really serve a purpose as far as whether it is or
069not but it does serve a purpose in the sense that it's blowing it was blowing unconditioned air. So a compressor was out basically tripped that other compressor. So that pressure was basically ramping up and basically working harder and providing basically stressing and was blowing hot air and along with the hot air and the the unconditioned surface air >> perfect for mold. So what can our AC guy tell us maybe when the last time it was he checked on that? >> Well, I have a paper trail. So I do require a paper trail form and so on that paper trail from Sher Shaller Elementary it indicates a unit with or problem with A on unit number two that need a coil. I don't have nothing with A on unit number one. >> Just curious because I
070know that the shalloward staff and volunteers painted. I heard that if we're doing a bunch of painting and doing a bunch of nice stuff and I hate that their stuff is getting mold on it. That's what I heard. So We'll be cleaning and starting. >> No, I I I know. >> No, I understand. >> And on the sher wrap that that was complete, can you share what we're going to do with the other schools with the wraps? >> So, consulted with Dr. Ino and so we reached out uh on a title 4 the league grant that there's allocated money there for safety in order to uh basically you get those use those same wraps or order those same wraps for other elementary schools >> awesome >> yeah for the fence line right >> for the
071fence >> including probably replacing some of the fence like whams I think on the third street side there's that one where has a pinch and we're probably going to have to get that replaced before we put a wrap back there and then uh I'm checking all the other fences and make sure that uh they're sturdy enough to you know uh not end up having to fix that later on. So if it does need then we do have allocated money on our on our side in order to take care of that. >> So we had already thank you question. >> Thank you Mike. Thanks for all your hard work. And uh next we have coach uh Abel Lopez here uh representing Espanos to give us an update because we know that they already started a lot
072of strength and conditioning. >> Yeah. Good evening President uh Jennifer Barera board of trustees and Dr. Trevinho. I'm going to give you all a little update on what we've been doing in athletics. We do talk about summer. Uh unfortunately for the athletes summer is really don't occur because if you're going to be successful, you got to really work. And I was telling Dr. Sting, we started on June the 9th our strength and conditioning program. Uh we've had real great turnouts. This week will be the last of the weeks of the strength and conditioning. With the boys, we've averaged about 110 per day and that's including the the strength and conditioning along with the actual uh football skills. Uh with the females, we do average about 85 daily. also working on their skills uh before we
073go out to the weight room. So, it's been real productive for them. We also include it's really inclusive to the junior high program, which is rather good because that's your foundation. That's where you start things. So, they've done a great job of doing that. Uh another thing that we've talked about is making sure that our kids have some sort of opportunities to do summer school and other things. Uh, so we do open up from 5:00 to 7:00 in the afternoons. We have a couple of coaches that man those. They get to go lift weights for those that are either working or we're doing summer school. Okay, so that was one good thing. Those are just some of the things that are going on at the Alice High School. Uh, we've also kind of refurbished all
074the gym floors, so they're all ready to work. I mean, the girls were in there today doing volleyball, some basketball skills. Uh, I even saw some of the cheerleaders that were in there uh working on their skills and so forth. uh some upcoming events as we get closer to the school year. We will have a football camp on July 29th and 30th. The football camp is for fourth graders through 9th grade uh $30 a uh an athlete and we do work with certain families and so forth. And that is from uh 9 to 11:00 a.m. Okay. And that'll be held inside the indoor facility. Okay. Once we get done with that, we we hit our our volleyball and our football season. Uh Friday, August the 1st, we will have uh the volleyball midnight madness, okay?
075Which will have them in the gymnasium and they'll start their volleyball season basically on August the 1st. Okay. I do have a little bit more information on the uh boys football midnight mandas. Uh through popular demand, parents were were asking, hey, you know, are we going to have it? And and then it's out. we just hadn't put it out to the public. Uh it will be shared through other uh avenues of Facebook and different the school districts are already put all that stuff out. So that'll be on Monday, August the 4th. Uh and we will have when the kids will have >> Sunday they'll report at 10:30. >> Yeah, they'll report at 10:30, but we can't actually touch the field till 12:01. So, so it's uh and I had it on here just to make
076sure that uh we get it to our kids and we'll call we'll make calls to all these individual families to make them aware and that'll be freshman through uh incoming uh seniors that will be participate and it'll be out here at the auxiliary fields athletics. So, uh any questions about anything? I'll try to do my best if you'all have any questions about it. It's surprised to 80 what females? >> 85 >> females. And that's including of course you got your high school girls as well as your junior high girls that go uh with the boys. We've got a little bit more because there's a few more kids in the program. But uh like I said, they they've really utilized it and they're really working hard. They're trying to attain and do things that have been
077asked long. I mean, they're trying to go for a three peak. So that that's what that's really trying to motivate those those individuals. >> Awesome. >> Yes sir. >> Commend all the coaches for for time up there. >> Yes, sir. No, definitely. Uh we're out there and we spend a lot of time like today I was back and forth and I met with Dr. And it is just a thing where uh summer seem to be getting shorter and shorter, but I mean for our our athletes and our students, uh I think it's beneficial in the long run and it helps out our community also. >> Sounds interest. >> And now we have Mr. Bettis to give an update on the fine arts. Superintendent school board president, board trustee, distinguished guests. Thank you for allowing me
078to give our fine arts update for July 2025. I will start off with our band division. Uh today we welcome the entire high school band for their first full day of summer camp. We welcomed over 200 students missing about 30 kids. So, it was fantastic to see all those kids, to see their faces, ready to go, ready to start, ready to work hard. We got them on the marching pad about 9:30 this this morning. Kept them out there for about an hour and brought them inside and had them with their different with their teachers, getting ready learning their music. So, it was an exciting exciting day. Um, as we move along through summer camp, they'll be learning all their marching fundamentals through music. We cannot officially start our marching show until August the 1st, which
079is next Friday. And that is for every high school marching band in Texas. That is the UIL rule. So, next Friday, uh, when we bring them in at 8 a.m., we're going to be starting our marching show for this new coming year. Um, as we're working through that show, getting ready, we'll be starting up our our teacher in service that next week. We're going to be having on on August the 7th, Thursday, our our I think it's our 9inth annual 8th annual Glowrun show, which is this is going to be what we currently have learned from August 1st until that point, August 7th. And we're going to present it to all of our parents, all of our administrators, superintendent, we we're going to be inviting you, and we're going to have we're going to show
080what what the kids have learned. We're going to turn off the lights at about 8:30 at night. They're going to have all their glow sticks all over their body on their instrument and they're going to perform their show for the very first time for their parents and our school community. So, we're looking forward for that for that high school band global run show on August 7th. Uh moving on to our cheer division. They've been working very hard these these last couple of weeks. They are getting ready to go to camp next week. They'll be going to their NCA cheer camp in Galveistston. Both our high school cheer and our WAMS cheer. They'll be they'll be uh attending on July 28th through July 31st. They're working really hard to get this season started. Fantastic for all
081those kids. And moving on to our dance division, our our high school strutters left today to their state team camp in San Antonio and they will be attending there from tomorrow up until Thursday getting ready to learning all their routines for the new year coming up for all their competitions and they'll be there up until Thursday. So, we're looking forward to seeing our strutters uh perform this this year, too. Our mariachi division, we had our our teachers take some high school students and some middle school students to the Bambold Mariachi uh uh camp they had this summer back on June the 30th and July the 3rd. We had a lot of kids attend, you know, learning techniques, different songs. It it was a great turnout. And we also had three of our high school mariachi
082students uh attend this past week at UTSA. the all state uh mariachi camp which they were they got to go learn more techniques and they were preparing the all-state mariachi music for this coming year and they got wonderful wonderful experience at this camp and Ricky was one of them he was there he today was his first day of camp he didn't report last week with all the service team so a lot happening in our in our fine arts division I do I do for transparency purposes want to say that in fine arts uh we are fully staffed teacher-wise from elementary all the way to high school. Uh but for transparency purposes, we are still looking for an individual to fill our auditorium manager position. This position pretty much they take care of the auditorium. Uh
083when they have events, they take care of the lighting, the sound. So when we when we find the individual and bring them on board, we will be providing training for them, professional development for them to get them caught up for our new school year. Are any questions? Thank you. >> Thank you all so very much. >> And uh Madam President, that's it for the superintendent's report. We have recess coming up and of course I got Kate to celebrate Mr. >> Well, on to item number 7J on the agenda, the recess and the reception to welcome our new board member. The time is now 7:44. We'll take a show. >> We have a little gift for you tonight. to join us in our team of eight. >> Thank you. >> And there's cake for everybody if
084you all would like >> awesome. Either you baby The reception is now over and we will continue with the rest of the items on our agenda. Going on to item number eight, the consent agenda. Better walk off that cake. All items under the consent agenda are acted upon one motion. Upon a board member's request, any item on the consent agenda shall be moved to the action portion of the regular agenda. Item 8A, the recommendation and approval of the following donations made to Alice B. A donation of $1,500 to central office by PBK Sports. 8B. Recommendation and approval of the following bond items. A payment of $70,5772 payable to PBK architects and a payment of 226,959 and 74 cents payment to we Jacobs constructors in accordance with the stadium bond. Is there a motion on the
085floor at this time? >> Make a motion. >> We have a motion by Mr. Mo to approve the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? Is there a second? >> Second. >> A second by Mr. Aiano. All in favor? >> I. Motion passes. Item nine, the action items. 9A, consideration of possible action to fill the vacant secretary officer position for Alice D board of trustees. Thank you. Recommendation for the uh secretary office position. >> Thank you. We have a recommendation to fill the vacancy with trustee Sio. That's been made by Mr. Ramo. Is there a second? I'll second. And a second by Miss Gro. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes. Welcome Mr. Zamura to the secretar's position. Congratulations. >> No pain for you. >> Item number 9B on the agenda, consideration and possible action
086of RFP 251, the radio broadcast right for the 2025 2026 school year. This was the item that was presented earlier broadcasting for this coming school year. >> Make a motion to the RFP for school year for what's radio station. >> Hey, I'll take it. Thank you. We have a move by Mr. Danch. >> I'll second >> and a second by Mr. Pña. >> There any discussion? No. All in favor? >> Motion passes. >> Thank you. I'm very excited. >> Jennifer, I know Mr. P might want to say a few words. I know he had mentioned some things. I just wanted to proposal, >> if it's okay. Yes, sir. Yes. >> Explain a little bit about the proposal. I know that there might be some questions as to why we're not doing the broadcasting all the
087games as we've done in the past. We are still going to spotlight those students, but in a different way. And we plan to uh utilize the facilities to spotlight not only sports but all areas all academics, fine arts. >> Um we have an an awesome band department, uh music department. Uh back in the day I was in I'm from Pont so uh band was my thing and I know that you know we never really uh I feel like they're not recognized as much as we should we should recognize that department saw a uh a gentleman here tonight that we featured and we would love to bring him in and students like him uh to highlight during the year. So, just because we're going to do the football games doesn't mean that it stops there. Uh,
088we will feature uh other students, all other sports as well. And I have an idea of how we're going to do that. I'll get with Ailia and with Pete and we're going to work something out so that I think it'll be a product that that you and the community will be proud of. Awesome. >> So, thank you very much for giving us a right. >> Thank you. On to item number 9 Z, consideration and possible action to approve resolution to opt out of the UIL access for the home school students. This is the one that uh Miss Vosquez presented on in which uh the district is asking that the board opt out of allowing homeschool students to participate in UIL programs in our district. >> Thank you, Dr. Firmino. Is there a motion at this
089time? I'll make a motion to uh approve the resolution to opt out and do access for home questions. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> A second by Mr. Reeves. Dr. >> So before uh you all officially vote, I'd just like to read the resolution. Resolution regarding participation for homeschool students and UNIL activities. Whereas the state legislature passed Senate Bill 401 effective for the 2825 2026 school year requiring school districts to allow homeschool students residing in the district to participate in the university in Scholastic League UIL activities unless the school board adopts a resolution to opt out. And whereas UIL activities are an extension of the academic and co-curricular programs offered to enroll students of LSIP and are designed to foster school spirit, school development and community involvement and whereas ensuring compliance
090and eligibility requirements, attendance, conduct, academic standards, and fair competition for students not enrolled in district schools would create administrative and oversight challenges. And whereas the district is committed to preserving its limited resources, including staffing, facilities, equipment, travel funds, and UIL activity slots for students enrolled full-time in Alice ISD schools. And whereas the board of trustees of Alice ISD believes that participation in UIL activities should remain a privilege reserved for students fully engaged in the instructional, behavioral and co-curricular environment provided by the district. Now therefore be in resolve that the board of trustees of Alice Independent School District in accordance with the provisions of Senate Bill 401, the 88th legislature, hereby opt out of allowing homeschool students to participate in UIL activities sponsored by Alice ISD effective for the 2526 school year. Be it further resolved
091that the superintendent or designate shall provide notice of this resolution to the Texas Education Agency and update applicable district handbooks, policies, and UIL representatives no later than September 1st, 2025. So if you all vote on this then we will take action in informing TA of your decision. >> Thank you Dr. At this time we had a motion made by Mrs. Ghetto and a second by Mr. Reeves. >> All in favor sorry >> we have a motion made by Mr. Samura and a second by Mr. Ree. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 9 D possible action to approve the memorandum of understanding between the LSISD and the community action corporation of South Texas for the 2025 2026 school year. So, this is a partnership between LSISD and uh CAS or Kos
092and we're we're really just wanting to communicate effectively between both entities to ensure that there's a transition services um to continue to provide students with special needs the services. So, it's like a continuous seamless from one entity to the other. Thank you. >> I'll make a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding between Alice ISD and KOS for 2526 school year. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Ben. >> Is there a second and a second by Mr. Ramo? Is there any discussion? All in favor? I motion passes. On to item 9E, consideration of possible action of the 2025 2026 student handbook and the student code of conduct. And so at this time, the superintendent along with administration is not uh going to ask for action. We will ask for action before the
093start of the school year because there have been multiple policies that the committee still have not completely reviewed dealing for example with uh library books and stuff. So we're not ready to take action on that. But I know that Miss Bosquez has met with the committee regarding cell phones and that's important because the earlier that we communicate that with parents the better. And so I'd like to call her to the podium to share the committee's recommendations. So good evening again. Uh we did uh have a committee of administrators, teachers, parents, and myself. We met four times to uh over the summer to review this data and district needs. So this evening, as Dr. Pino uh announced, we will be just presenting the draft of what we're looking at. um you should have a copy of
094that in front of you. And so what House Bill 1481 says is that we have uh the authority to prohibit the possession of or the use of personal communication devices including cell phones. Um in accordance with the House Bill 1481, uh Alice's dedication to providing a safe, respectful, and academically focused environment, the district will implement a strict no cell phone policy beginning with the 2526 school year. Under this policy, students will be prohibited from bringing cell phones onto any AliceD campus. This requirement applies to all students districtwide. Additionally, the use or possession of other personal electronic devices, including smartwatches, earbuds, laptops, tablets, similar technology, uh is strictly prohibited during the school day. These items must be left at home and will not be allowed on campus. Uh no student personal electronic devices will be accepted
095for storage by campus staff. Students who bring prohibited devices to school will be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with the student code of conduct. As you'll see on the bottom of that page, I do have the disciplinary actions that the committee decided on. The first offense, the device will be confiscated one day of inschool suspension. Second offense, uh devices confiscated three days of inschool suspension. Third offense is devices confiscated one day of out of school suspension and anything beyond that. Sports offense would be devices confiscated 10 days of DAP placement. The confiscated devices can only be picked up by a parent guardian even though the student is 18 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m. Unauthorized possession of a personal communication device during the school day will result in disciplinary action in
096accordance with this code of conduct. Uh we did talk about why we are choosing to take this step. It does interfere with the attention and academic performance of the student. Um a 6.4% 4% average test score improvement was seen in schools that ban phones. Uh the phones have been enabling cyber bullying, cheating, social media drama, video recordings of fights, and they create discipline challenges for the school district. The often away policies are inconsistent and difficult to monitor. A full band provides clarity for staff, students, and families. So this policy, just to let you know, is not about punishment. It's about creating that safe, focused, and healthy learning environment. and Alice D is choosing to lead with intention putting students academic success and well-being first. >> Is this since there's no action, it's being and I'm
097going to ask legal counsel. It's being presented as anformational item. So, am I allowed to ask questions? >> Oh, for sure. >> Okay. So, I'm looking at this and it's a little shocking. I'm looking like I'm buying a car and I'm shocked at the disciplinary actions. So just to be general, is this kind of like a like you get a speeding ticket? No offense, Herman, but there is like you have to pay this fine. No, regardless, there's no even if the kid the student has no disciplinary history, nothing of that nature. They're automatically going to go to ISS. That's what the committee has decided on. Yes. Because we can't charge a fee. >> Yeah, they took that away. We can't charge a fee, but as far as disciplinary uh consequences, they did say we can
098go as severe as we need to go, >> right? And then I mean the students are going to willingly just give up their phones and there's going to be a huge adjustment period. And I just don't think it's realistic. This is just my opinion as a parent. Um after four offenses that a child could have 10 days in DAP, how is that going to be helpful to them academically? How is that going to affect the principles or whoever's in charge of sending these students here? I mean, there might be a point where we have to bust them. You know, it it's not going to be just one or two students where it could possibly be disruptive. That's just my general opinion seeing it right now with the sticker shock. So, we're going to have them
099going in through the front doors are going to go through the metal detectors and there was extra wands purchased uh by Kim Kobalis. So we can check those students that do bring a cell phone. Okay. >> And has the committee met with each principal to >> the principles were involved in the committee decision. >> We have an elementary principal as well. >> Okay. And then my question is is what are we going to do as a district to inform the community why we're doing this, how we're doing this because as a parent looking at this for the first time, I'm a little shocked to see u third court off the fence and it's just going to be an ongoing deal and how are we going to enforce it across the board everybody that's going to
100be a big issue a big uh uproar if it's not enforced equally with every student so I just want to put out my little opinion and ask that question because >> how realistic is it that we could actually enforce these disciplinary actions fairly Right. So >> also another thing is it all going to be straight through >> all the every campus will follow. >> No no but I'm talking about >> Oh >> scores and you know >> everything across. Yes. They did make exceptions, which I've provided in that document that you do have that are allowed for students who have an IEP, students that are in 504 or have something past um a doctor's physician excuses them for some kind of medical reason. >> What about u travel for UIL activities such as traveling away
101for a game or traveling? >> We did talk about that. I don't know if we have >> How is that if you'all want to talk about We did talk about that. So again, this is for instruction, right? To make sure it's distraction free. So from bell to bell, there's no use of cell phones. Okay. >> So what does that mean? So from the start of the school day to the end of school day. Okay. >> So when we have students go to play and drama for football, you have the band, the stretchers, the cheer, and all those individuals. It's after the school day, they can have their phone. >> Okay. So the hours between 7:30 and 4:30. In other words, >> more or less. Yes. >> So, if they're going to leave at 2:00 in
102the afternoon, how are you going to handle that? >> So, when mom and dad come and bring Sonic to the child to go on the trip, which most parents do bring food and the phone comes too. >> Okay. >> I know that they've had four meetings. >> Yes. I know that they >> we were back and forth on prohibiting it or storage method, but with the storage method, it wasn't going to work at the high school. the teachers having to be responsible for collecting the devices and then coming at the end of the school day and releasing those back to those kids, especially the students that don't have a first period or a second period or so forth. >> I'm sorry. >> I think they and I wasn't on the meetings, but it can become
103a nightmare and who's having and who and who's collecting who where where's the phone? The phone gets lost and oh, it's a teacher and so it just it's >> and we have students bringing right now burner phones. They're not turning in their own phone. They're bringing a burner phone to turn in to avoid turning in their own money. So, they've gotten they've gotten that. >> I have a question and I know I don't like to compare myself to other districts because we're unique and we're the best, but what are other districts doing as far as their disciplinary actions if you know that you could share with us? >> Uh, that I know. I did uh meet with legislative over the twoe period and I know there are implementing that in school suspension mainly the out
104of school suspension is a third offense. Now DAP was something that we just decided that it would be good for them. So by that time they shouldn't even be bringing that cell phone. We're hoping that's the way it's going to work. Now the committee did decide on the dispose of the device as well. So the way that works is if your device gets confiscated you contact the parent. the parent uh within the two to three days has to pick it up. If they don't, uh we as a district write a notice to the parent. We have a 90-day written notice. After that, if they still haven't picked it up, it gets disposed. >> We do have parents that will not pick up the phone. The the school is stuck with holding on to that phone.
105And so, like I said, if you could just inform the community, me being a community member and a parent, as to why we're doing that. Are we following the law? Are these things that we can legally do? Yes, that type of stuff. >> Well, I think you have to context of House Bill 1481. >> Yeah, we're following what the law says, which is either we prohibit or we store them. Store the device. >> So, uh the reason that we removed it from you all taking action this evening is because the committee had met prior to vacation time and had made some recommendations on fees, for example. And then we met with legal during those two weeks and legal now said, "Hey, they changed it. You can't charge." So that's why now it's like, "Oh, backtrack."
106and they met this morning again because we agree with you uh Miss Ba that the earlier we communicate this to parents the easier not that it's going to be 100% accepted right but they know where the district is you know uh going towards and they can kind of start adjusting to what the district would be uh making a final decision on with the code of conduct come August because we need to adopt this before the first day of school, including the other stuff with the library books and things like that. So, we have a plan meeting, the second work session. We have a work session on Thursday, right? A workshop for the budget, possibly having another one on August the 7th, and at that time have a special call meeting to approve the things that
107need to be done before the first day of school. and but announcing it on August 7th would be 3 days before would be like why are you just telling us now right >> so that's why we thought we would at least take advantage of the agenda item being there to discuss with you what the committee had recommended so we can advertise on all social media platforms and parents can know three weeks before instead of just a few >> it'll go in draft form tomorrow to the parents just letting them know this is what we're implementing or we're wanting to do to kind of give them a heads up on what they're, you know, what to expect. >> What if the the child brings a phone to school and turns it in as he goes in
108so he can call his parents or if he needs >> Yeah, they can use they can use a school. >> Okay, that's fine. You answered it and take it with them. I mean this is this is regarding the elementarymentaries too. So what if they the student just forgets? >> I think the elementary students it hasn't been a problem. It's more they're carrying smart watches. >> That's where we're seeing a lot of it's a smartwatch and I witnessed a couple kids. >> Not a lot. We don't have too many problems the elementary it's more the secondary level. >> And so that's I mean that's a good point. Say you know what I brought it in accidentally. I'm going to self-report you know to Dr. Kabala before I get there. Look, I have it. I'm self-reporting. Can
109I pick up? >> You know, cuz sometimes I mean, >> you get to the airport and you're like, "What? I have that in my purse?" Oh, you know, >> we brought that up because one of our um administrator, well, they're parents. And so they said, "What if my kid brings it by accident and what do I do? They're a good kid. They've never been in trouble." So, we thought principal's discretion. We'll just leave it up. We're not going to mention it because then everybody's going to come in saying, "Oh, I bring up only going to be fair across the board." Discretion is the issue. You're never going to have parity on that. >> And I know there's no perfect solution and I'm I'm glad that we're all discussing it and I'm a devil's advocate here,
110but I'm I'm really glad that you have done the right thing and put it off. That way people can be informed. They're going to be talking about it. maybe they can come do public comment because this is a community issue. It's a safety issue. It's an academic issue. We have to be in compliance issue. It's the law. >> Mental health. I mean, there's a lot there's a lot. >> I appreciate you answering these questions. I really do. And and all the work that committee's done because there's no perfect committee members please stand if you welcome. >> All right. >> Thank you. These are tough decisions. So, thank you. >> Yeah. >> So, can I make a recommendation? It's a problem at the high school and at the junior high. Probably >> most of it. Yes.
111>> So, I mean, I'm just you're going to put it out on social media. I know it's probably going to do that like >> he actually did the house bill out the house but not any consequences. >> Right. But now we are going to do like a this is our rough draft. >> Yes, this is our draft. Welcome. >> Do you think maybe we should have some kind of signage at drop off points at the school where it says do not bring your cell phone. >> Kim was already working on that. He was already ready to bring signs. I said hold on. But I think also we may want to consider as far as the consequences if you're going to leave it to the principal's discretion. >> We're going to remove that. We decided not
112to >> because I was going to say that's going to be a problem. >> We're just going to stick to what we have for >> That's what I'm saying. Is it everybody's straight through? >> Because you Yes. You No. I think maybe the one that and this is cosmetic right or later you know as far as if the kid comes in oh I brought it my mom already left I need to you know >> what can we do I mean if it becomes a banner but they're doing it before the school even starts oh shoot I mean because it's happened that I have like lotion in my purse and it's more than so many I'm like my lord are you going to throw it I don't want you to throw it at the airport I
113I mean, it happens. So, I'm just saying, you know, maybe you could add that one clause of self-reporting. If you accidentally bring it by, you know, >> you'll have a hundred >> time. Being a parent myself, I know that if it was like my daughter, it right away they would say, "Oh, well, she forgot." They're going to say, "Oh, well, they let her off because she we talked about that." even the staff on campus that says oh my daughter has her cell phone let me hold on to it we put on there you can't there's no storage by any campus member because they'll do that and then you have the well how come this person's student I mean her mom's a teacher and I can't cross every scenario that could possibly happen because we know
114what we're going to face >> I'm I kind of I'm thinking Jennifer a little bit maybe like the first time offender is taken away. They forgot without consequences other than taking away their phone the first time, right? But then they've got noticed now. You know, they're all noticed, right? >> Can do a mandatory Paris conference. That's originally what we had for a week. >> Why not? Were you on the committee? >> Say so. How do we get on the committee? >> I appreciate the work that you all did and I'm sure it wasn't easy and this is good feedback. Maybe you know >> I that's a warning is fair. You know you the >> done hard work on this but that first time right be just a warning. I don't know. I'm not the committee
115and I know it's a it's hard because if you're going to come to to to super parents are going to come to us and [Laughter] finally I just you know going back to informing the parents because what if the parents don't know? What if the parents are in the ones insisting that the student take the phone and we're punishing the student? So, I know that you all gone over so many fact patterns. >> That's why I feel like we have to communicate to the parents as much as we can, >> you know, effectively, you know, in regards to how this is, you know, we have to get them on our side just to support us in this. >> Um because you're right, there is no perfect solution. I mean, >> yeah, >> we came up
116with it and we were going back and forth with no, I don't like that and oh, okay, well, maybe we can do that. I mean, because I do put myself in the role of a parent as well. And so, I think about student safety and I think about, you know, all of these kids who may have to walk home and, you know, there's a lot of things that go into it, but there's no perfect solution, but all we know is that we really do need to work together to improve instruction. And if this is what's hindering it, then we do need the support of the parents first and foremost. >> Yeah, that's a good idea. But then you're saying, well, the kids can use their phone. Our phone there's a long line say >> Oh,
117yeah. We we talked about that, too. We did. We talked about how that's going to increase the office after school with all of the students, you know, lining up to call home because the students and parents are really dependent on the phone >> for pickup purposes after school. I see it all the time. And so now, you know, unfortunately, that's not going to be available to them with with this. And so, we have to think about ways to how to support our students and our parents so that they do maintain that line of communication. So, there's a lot >> and to plan ahead as well, you know, to plan ahead. >> Yes. >> And make arrangements as well. I mean, I grew up with no phones. >> Yes. And so just plan ahead and make
118sure you know before >> but that can even go with like what we do at the elementary to communicate. We we do the group me or the remind me you can talk directly to the teacher. >> We did mention that you can let them know like I'm here for my kid and then they they of course have access to your child >> especially like their own release. We still put that on our mind. Teachers have their own for their >> Yeah. So there's ways for the parents to And also too, I think like communicating like the organization. So like when band has a parent meeting, they do a mandatory and they talk about you know they also have their code of conduct and which mimics the student code of conduct. So they can also mention
119this is a change the cell phone but they'll be able to take it on trips. >> And as a matter of fact, Mr. Bennett, I wanted him to talk on that. He was telling me what he did today. >> Yes. Today when the students reported we were in the auditorium just you know initial talks and before they went outside I mentioned it to them that there was something coming down the pipe. I wasn't privileged to yet I I heard right now when come down and when they went outside we had them put all their phones in their lockers and to lock it up and they could not go outside with their phone. They even have it in their back pocket. So I'm preparing them for these things because I didn't know what was going to
120happen. >> Yeah he did. He's not >> but he's already preparing that. >> I wanted to be proactive know our directors and our kids that you know you got can't have it with you. So they left them in the longer they didn't go outside. They have to be without it because comes first especially athletics they're going to have to also leave it somewhere you know practice and then stuff like that. I can see that. >> It's going to be difficult for for the junior in high school. >> It's going to be an adjustment. >> Exactly. >> We're going to get a lot of >> Yeah. >> We made it through closed campus. So, >> yeah. Yeah. the communication piece is the most critical and we want to make sure and that's why the principles were
121definitely active participants and I appreciate their work. >> I see I the why I'm saying high school. I think if y'all spin it in the line that y'all are spinning it that >> it'll only improve academics and all that. >> If it goes >> level on every kid, hey, she didn't need it. She brought her phone and she was just taking it away. But doesn't school suspension happened and for something else I mean but Overall, it tastes good. Okay, we're going to try it. >> The border, you got to be firm with it because it's going to come to us if it's a small town. Don't forget small town >> and I deal with the parent complaints. >> Yeah, I got this. >> But don't say don't say Dr. Susan. Is there anyone else who
122would like to make a comment related or has a question for me? >> How how would y'all monitor for the kids that have the medical like what if a bunch of kids are going to start coming in too with >> bring that up to you all when we do the August 7th? >> No, we're not going to display that out to the community right now. We're not going to let them know on the exemptions. We're going to kind of say, "Hey, this is what we're implementing." And go from there. Then once we get the exemption part because then we're going to have everybody going to a doctor for an excuse to have their cell4. >> I think that was mainly for students that are maybe diabetics glucose levels. >> There's even policies for that when
123testing. >> So we haven't crossed that bridge yet. We're going to look at our own district policies and then make a recommendation. >> Well, those exemptions are already in place by legal. Like that's Yeah. law saying we have to follow those exemptions, but we're not going to release that to the parents. >> But again, it goes back to literally a medical condition, which we already have. We should already have record of who of our students have these types of conditions and you can work backwards with their parents specifically. >> Thank you. >> You had a lot of answers. On to item number 10. Closed our executive meeting or session called this ordinance with the following further use that code in the Texas government code. 10 A the Texas government code section 551.074 personnel matters. 10
124A1 presentation and resection of the hired. 10 A1 B discussion of the superintendent's recommendation regarding the hiring of an individual for the position of assistant athletic director world's coordinator. 10 A2 presentation and discussion of retirements. 10 A3 presentation and discussion of resignations. 10 A4 personnel update regarding investigations. Item 10B Texas Government Code section 551.071 legal matters board attorney advice and 551.074 personnel 10 C pursuant to the Texas government code 551.074 074 hear and consider the level three employee agreements filed by Meadows 10D pursuant to the Texas government code 551.071 071 attorney consultation regarding legal issues related to employee agreements filed by Lisa Ciz Meadows. The time is now 8:36. We will now go into executive session. Time is now 11:41. We are back to executive session. Item 11, the board is going to reconvene in
125open meeting from executive session to consider and take action as necessary on items discussed in executive session. Item number 12, announcements and action items. 12 A, consideration and possible action regarding new hires. New hires is a professional. That's an information only item. So no action. 12A1 consideration and possible action regarding the hire of assistant athletic director and girls coordinator. >> I'd like to announce that as superintendent I have the authority to uh withdraw this recommendation and so I'm using that privilege um following this item. >> So just for the purposes of the minutes 12 A1 is no longer on the agenda. >> It has been pulled. and has been pulled by Dr. Terminino. Thank you, Dr. Dino. Item 12B, consideration of possible action regarding retirements. Information only. That's an information only item. No action is
126taken. 12 C, consideration of possible action regarding resignations. That's an information item only. And no action is taken. 12 D, discussion of possible action regarding the ongoing investigations. That's anformational item only. So no action needs to be taken. 12E discussion and take possible action on the level three grievance appeal filed by Lisa Cos. >> I move that we deny the level three grievance of Lisa as discussed in exeession. >> Thank you. There's a motion by Mr. Samura. Is there a second? >> Second. and a second by Mr. Aaniano. All in favor? >> I any oppos to item 13 to adjourn. The time is now 11:43 and another change. I think you're going to have to do votes from now on because she's got to put in the minutes how every single one of you voted
127on every single item. That's >> beginning September 1st. >> Yeah, beginning September 1st. Well, we will practice that at the next meeting in August. Thank you everybody for staying with us. >> I'm like, "Oh my gosh, change." >> Have a good night. Thank you guys.