June 9th 2025 BoardMeeting

001I thought it was good. Good evening. My name is Jennifer Bad. I'm the president of the Alice ISD School Board. I'd like to welcome every member who's here today um for this meeting. I'm going to call this meeting to order and the time is now 6:31. This is a meeting of the Alice Independent School District Board of Trustees that for June for Monday, June 9th, 2025. The regular board meeting has been set today in helication building, the boardroom number two of Coyote Trail here in Alice, Texas. Do we have a quorum? Present at today's meeting is myself, Jennifer Ba, Mr. Herman Ariano, Mr. Adrien Pena, Mr. Samura, Miss Debbie Gra, and Mr. Vwood. An announcement for this meeting. School has been duly called. The notice of this move has been posted in accordance with the

002Texas Open Meetings Act, section 551.043 043 of the Texas Government Code. At this time, we'll do the pledge to the United States flag and the Texas flag and have a moment of sight. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to the Texas one state one and indivisible. Item number four on the agenda is to recommend the approving of the board minutes for the regular board meeting on May 12th of 2025. I'll make a motion. There's a motion by Mr. Adano. Is there a second? A second by Mr. All in favor? I I all oppose. Motion passes. Item number five, the public comment. Audience participation at a

003board meeting is limited to the department of the meeting designated to receive public comment in accordance with the board policy beed local. 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 speaking 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

004specified in the board's procedures on public comment and shall indicate the agenda item or topic on which they wish to address the board except as permitted by board policy beed local and the board's procedures on public comment and individuals comments to the board shall not exceed 5 minutes per meeting. When necessary for effective meeting management or to accommodate large numbers of individuals wishing to address the 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 minute to make comments at this time. There are there is is it one? Yeah, a public comment sheet which has a list of one person and the second name is scratched

005out. So, the one person that is going to speak is Mr. Willie Reese and the subject to be addressed is the election of 2025. And Mr. Ree, if you could approach us here at the podium and I will start the five minute timer and please tell me when you wish for me to begin. Go ahead. I'm going to make it quick because I don't want anybody wants to large checks that are sitting there. But I want to address a couple of things that uh I've been approached by and I've been hearing in the community. Uh the first is that I ran a very dirty campaign. Uh first of all uh when I came to central office to apply for a position to run for the phase three school board seat, they gave us a packet

006of of dos and don'ts and I followed that packet to the letter. Uh the financial uh reports I followed to the letter and I would expect everybody else to do the same. Also, if myself and my son and my wife are accused of being dirty by holding signs at the courthouse during election, then um I guess if you want to call that dirty, it's it's dirty. But I didn't h I didn't hire politicas. I didn't do any of that. I was I promised my family and I promised my friends that I was going to be positive and I was. Now, I know there has been a resignation of a board member that was my opponent, and I would hope that the board has the integrity and the honesty to be transparent about who they're going

007to replace that member with uh going forward. And and I would hope that everybody that that wants to apply gets the chance to and that it is fair and honest and uh give us all a fair chance. And that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Reese. Item six on the agenda is a superintendence report. Dr. Yes. Good evening, Madame President and members of the board and all the members in the audience. We'd like to start this evening by recognizing some amazing teachers that are in the audience and have been designated as teacher incentive aotment teachers. So, I now call to the podium Miss Good evening, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Nvinho, and audience. Uh, my name is Lynette Leonita. I'm your executive director of human resources at this time

008and it's a big honor and it's a big privilege to me to present these outstanding checks to such a beautiful group of teachers that go above and beyond every single day for each and every one of our students and for their campus. Thank you to each and every one of you for all that you do and above all for the family members. Family members for being there for them and supporting them because not only did it take from the teacher but it takes the family members to be there for them as well. So thank you to each and every one of you. Alice ISD recognized 45 teachers that are being designated as TIA teachers. The teacher incent 29 teachers received designation in 232 24. This year we added an additional 16 teachers for TIA. There

009are three categories that we have recognized. We have 10 teachers from AliceD that are recognized. We have 29 teachers that are exemplary and we have six teachers in AliceDs that are masters. Congratulations. What a beautiful. [Applause] This year, Alice is D will be distributing over $580,000 to all of our 45 teachers. Good job. [Applause] I will be starting out with Nunan Elementary. And if I could have their principal come on up and their loved ones come on up, family members to come on up. The first Yes. Our first recipient is Miss Christina Shireen from Nunan Elementary for the amount of $24,258. [Applause] [Laughter] If we did it this too early to ask for a long congratulations [Applause] vacation time. [Music] Hey, this is Congratulations. Thank you. Our next recipient, our next teacher from Nun Elementary,

010Adriana Morin. I'm 13,5. $55 [Applause] is Adriana Roas Guerrero. $13,255. [Applause] Hey, our next teacher is Chen Moreno. [Applause] And our next teacher is Deabel Tamora for the amount of [Laughter] direct deposit from Science Elementary. Annabelle Ro for [Applause] 152. Hey Deb, you want to have a really good summer? You want two girls? [Music] Cheese. for your mother. [Applause] Congratulations. Good job. Congratulations. Thank you. for the amount of 13,291. closer. One, two, three. the battery for the amount of 13,291. Check it Charles for 13,355. Oh, she's the wrong convenient. I don't for the amount of 12,842. [Applause] You want to know they can take the tricks? Yes. Right. That's there. One, two, three. [Applause] for the amount of $7,38. [Music] Because all of you give All right, there we go. It's a Congratulations. Congratulations. Good

011job. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yeah. Move over a little bit. Right here at the middle. A little bit. for the amount of congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Good job. All right. Are you going to hold 1 2 3rishna 21,226 [Applause] Okay, next. Next, Miss Aurora. 21,000. You be in the middle. You be in the middle. For the amount of 7,536 [Applause] Miss Delisa Veretta for the amount of 11,536. Hey, that's Moving a little bit right here for the amount of 11,536. Thanks. for the amount of 5,768. First, next, Miss Roxanna Chapa for the amount of 5,768. Bring it down so Timmons for the amount of 11,536. Yeah, she switched. 7,56 my [Music] There you go. Thank you. Randy Sllayton for the amount of Deandra Valenuela for the amount of 14,76 Right. [Music] Hang on. Miss Terra Spinosa for the

012amount of 11,536 the seven price for the amount of 14,076 for the amount of 14,076. [Applause] Miss Crystal Parker for the amount of 14,076. for the amount of parking. Very good. shirt. Hang on. Hang on for the amount of 14,76. It's okay. Mrs. 7,38 over half a million. Next, Miss Annabelle Pera for the amount of That's a lot of money. Genie Deon for the amount of 12,842. [Laughter] You might have to come out. That's all right. Right there. [Applause] Yes sir. Thank you. All right. 12,842 Congratulations for wine more. for 12,822. [Music] Congratulations. Congratulations. [Music] two [Music] one two three2 Congratulations. That's good. [Music] My bad. David on the other side, sir. two for 12,60. [Applause] Mr. Abel Lopez for 12,60. [Applause] Go. Thank you. How are you? Social studies on fire. Good job. for

01312,000. Congratulations. Have a great summer. Awesome. Congratulations [Applause] for 12,6. [Applause] Congratulations, sir. We got free. for 6,303. [Applause] Once again, a big thank you. We are very fortunate, very blessed to have some amazing, hardworking teachers here in Alice ISD. Thank you to each and every one of them and their families. Congratulations again and thank you principles for promoting excellence in the classroom. These teachers will be getting the same amount for the next four years after this year. So a total of five years, they'll be getting a check for that same amount. So we will be really proud of them and hoping to get get more and more teachers to qualify for this TI. So awesome. [Applause] Next I invite Mr. Amedico Pettis to the podium to do some recognitions for both the band state

014solo and ensembles uh for UIL and choir. So Mr. friends, board of trustees, distinguished Uh, thank you for allowing me to recognize our house high school band students that participated at the UIO state solo and ensemble competition which happened on Saturday, May the 24th. They had to get there to to a series of um performances and they played in front of college professors. They had to play a solo or be part of an ensemble and students here before you today meddled at this competition which is very very hard to do. So we want to recognize these students for their wonderful accomplishment. We have Mr. Micah Thoris, silver medal, our public, Mr. Rosenbomb, gold medal, [Applause] Miss Emily, gold medal. Six for more breath. [Applause] Congratulations, Mr. Andres, gold medal, saxophone quartet. [Applause] And I'm going

015to say a little bit more on this last one, Mr. And he received two gold medals for being a part of a brass ensemble. and he also received another gold medal for a multiple percussion solo. Now, at this competition, the judges, there was about 20,000 students that competed in vocal and band orchestra. The judge, if a student goes in a room and just does exceptional, the judge has the opportunity to award any student in that room what is called the outstanding performer award. and we don't find that out till after the contest is completely over across the state of Texas. Uh we received word, I believe it was the last week of school, that along with his two gold medals, he was an outstanding performer for this competition which he will receive a gold medallion

016which every UIL state champion receives in any event. So here's our gold medal champion [Applause] Good job. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Squeeze. Finish. Good job. Congratulations. Congratulations again and Ricky. Awesome job. You shine in everything that you do as well as everybody else. But that's like winning a state championship in baseball or football. He just did that in band. So great. Now we have our choir UIL solo and ensemble superintendent board administrators guest. Uh it is such an honor to stand here to recognize our choir students for their uh tremendous work this year in in solo. Um it starts at the of course the district level and uh we took seven students all uh scored goal gold but the only the ones with the uh class one uh gold go to state and so

017we took four students to state and three of them returned with gold medals so we're very proud of that and I would like to uh uh honor Matthew Cannon [Applause] Good job. We have three golds and uh one silver. Um and then I would like to also honor Millie Pñena for a gold. [Applause] I'm very proud of these students and uh we have a young program and looking forward to thank you several more years of working with these students because I'm not young. [Applause] You went over here. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you so much for representing Alex ISB. Next we have Delena Buches to give an update on our academics. Good evening board president, members of the board community. I feel like it's a little hard to follow those recognitions we just had. They were

018all pretty great. I'm going to be sharing tonight uh some updates just related to state assessment reporting. So as I've mentioned previously uh our results for state assessments are reported in phases. So the first batch that comes out is early student level results and those are highlighted. You can see that those happened like right before school let out. Those are really limited in scope. uh they're intended just for making decisions uh related to meeting of minimum graduation requirements and uh summer school needs. The next batch that rolls out are preliminary results. Um those are a little more detailed. You can see that we have received so far just last week uh preliminary for our star end of course and our to pass. Those results are still not final. Uh to give you an idea of,

019you know, some of the changes that may happen. Um over the next week or two, we're going to be submitting some rescore requests for extended constructed responses. So there's, you know, different little changes uh that could happen. final results from the state roll out in July according to those dates and then once the final results are available then accountability rules get applied to the results and scheduled release of preliminary accountability tables for is set for August 15th with then the final ratings release for 2025 uh in December. So that's kind of the path that everything rolls out. Since we do have at least preliminaries um for a couple of the assessments, we did want to go ahead and you know share just a little bit of what we actually have so far. So we're going

020to start off with the TPASS results. So Telpass is the required state assessment for our emergent bilingual students. It assesses progress toward achieving English language proficiency. Students are assessed in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They have to either achieve advanced high or progress at least one level in at least two of those domains in order to be identified as achieving progress. The state assesses districts in the uh closing the gaps domain of accountability, which is domain three, and it's based on whether or not we hit certain targets. At the top, the very top table shows what some of those targets are. So the green that goes across horizontally is the current interim target. So that's the target that the state has districts shooting for in the time period from 2022 23 school year until the

02126 27 school year. So surpassing those targets for the different levels for high school, middle school, and elementary. That earns three out of four possible points in domain three for the English language proficiency. Then over time they have additional interim targets but they have a long-term target set for 203738. So that's over 10 years out in order for a district to achieve the full four points um for this area. They would have to hit or exceed that long-term target for 2037. So the table at the bottom has the preliminary TEP pass results that were uh given out and it's broken down by campus and then the percent of the students who uh were identified as meeting those requirements for achieving progress. The uh vertical green that says met interterm target. We're very pleased to be

022able to share that every single one of the six campuses met or exceeded the current interim target. [Applause] We also have four campuses that have met or exceeded the long-term 2037 target and will be getting the full four points toward accountability. Thank you. We're really uh pleased to see the continuing success of the emergent bilingual students. The other area that we've gotten some preliminary results in so far is our end of course. As we look at this table, uh we are doing a comparison to spring 2024 star. Uh but I do want to clarify uh there's a little bit of differences in um results in terms of the spring 2024 star results that you see. Those were final results with accountability rules applied. So those were the ones that would you know come up on

023the tape report after everything's all done. Whereas the spring 2025 all we have so far are the preliminary. So you're seeing that preliminary version. So there is a little difference in uh you know what's included in the scores. There's three numbers um in each uh segment there and those numbers represent the percent of students who met approaches at grade level on their performance. The percent who met meets grade level on their performance and then the percent who met mast's grade level on their performance. And then compare to what we have so far for spring 2025. Uh there's italics where you can see that there were increases in particular areas. One of the things that we were uh really kind of shooting for across the board was improvement at meets and masters levels. Um and you

024can see that uh there was definitely some of that across the board. Also, you'll notice the light orange. The light orange are end of course exams that were taken at William Adams Middle School. So, we had students, eighth grade students who were taking algebra 1, English one, and biology uh for high school credit this year in 8th grade. And so, you can see their performance as well. That was expanded this year. Algebra 1 for WAMS is the only one that has a 2024 comparison because we did not offer English one and biology to WAMS last year in 8th grade. So this was an expansion of those opportunities and the kids as you can see you know that took that opportunity really rose to the challenge on that and and did really well. Of course, as

025we continue to get more detailed results as they roll out, you know, we're going to really dig in um to each of these and just keep identifying, you know, where are areas of strength, where our are areas for us to work and hit the ground um you know, running for next year. Before I go on, any questions on on that one? I also wanted to reshare um I did show this last month, but I did want to reshare it as we're getting closer to the dates. The information about public and family access so that family and all the community members know how and when you have public access to the data. The table that's on the top gives the dates when the state releases results into the family and research portal. So the tops are

026those preliminary results that we talked about and then the final results. And so the preliminaries, we've got some that are going to be hitting the portals very soon for access for families and the community. So Telp pass is June 12th um star end of course June 10 and star 3 to 8 is June 17th. For family access the easiest quickest way to get at it is through Skyward. Skyward is where uh families already are accessing attendance and grades. Where the little red square is around that tab that says Texas assessments. You click on that. It takes you directly to your students information. It's great information all the way down to the specific questions that they were asked on the assessments, the responses they gave and their full star history. So it it's great and it

027will be available. Those are the states dates that they have provided for that. On the public side, the state also releases public access on the same dates. Now, of course, public access isn't going to be a student level because, you know, privacy information, but it's it is on the group level. So at that Texas research portal which that website there txresearchportal.com um after these dates you should be able to access any grade level any subject any district not just Dallas ISD any district. Um you just go in there you say what district you're looking for you say what uh you know subjects what test and you can pull up the information. There are some little notes from TEA uh that I copied right there underneath the table. Um one thing that is important to note

028is the last sentence there that says that state assessment results that are in the research portal. They may vary slightly from the data used for accountability calculations as specified in accountability rules. So earlier I mentioned once there's final results then they apply accountability rules to that. So it's things like um students who were present on the snapshot date in October and also at the end of the year. There's various rules that there's then slight changes to the data. So I think that's important for everyone to know so that if you do access data in the um Texas research portal, you may see that then later in fall when we have accountability numbers, some of the numbers might be slightly different from what you see in the portal. So, I just want to make sure everybody

029is aware, you know, those aren't errors. It's just looking at slightly different perspectives on the data, but that is available to anyone, any grade level, any subject, any district. Then, finally, I'd also like to talk a little bit about the summer programs we have going on. We have our Coyote Jumpstart Learning Academy happening. It kicked off on June 3rd. So the kids started on June 3rd. Elementary uh is being hosted at Shallert and Nunan, all of our elementary students. And then we also have William Adams and the high school. All the campuses are offering star support where needed. And the high school is also offering a uh fasttrack academy where students can actually earn initial credit in um certain classes like for example Spanish one, Spanish 2. The first week was completed uh last week

030on Friday. Friday was the last day. So uh attendance just to give you an idea of attendance numbers. attendance on Friday, June 6th for Alice High School was 282 students. William Adams, we had 151. And then at the elementaryaries, we had 128 at Nunan and 117 at Shard. As the high school students who are doing star support uh work through and then wrap up their star support time, they will have the opportunity if needed to take uh their end of course retest uh during the state assessment window which is next week already. Uh so you can see the dates that they will be offered those assessments there if they are in need of a reassessment. Any questions? Thank you. Now we invite Kim Goodman, principal of Sher Elementary to give us three. Good evening. My

031hands are a little itchy and musty from all those checks. So congratulations to all those teachers. Well, well deserved for all of them. Good evening, Madame President, esteemed members of the board of trustees, superintendent of school, Sergeant Pavinho, and distinguished guests. My name is Kimber Galvan, and I am honored to stand before you today to on behalf of Shallor Elementary to share our progress and plans outlined in today's presentation. This year, our campus has continued to grow in both numbers and strength with an enrollment of 621 students, including 172 students in our special ed program, 12 students in our gifted and talented program, and 13 students in our emergent bilingual program with an overall student population that is 83% economically disadvantaged. Even though our numbers are growing, we continue to remain committed to providing equitable

032and impactful learning experiences to all our students. As highlighted in our presentation tonight, we began with our strong start. What were the results of our systems that drove Shallard to continue to move forward? We provided strategic systems included targeted intervention which is known as our win time which stands for what we need now or what I need. We reinforced instructional coaching with personnel that we had on staff whether it was myself, Mr. Garza, assistant principal, reading interventionists, counselors, team leaders and teachers that showed extreme strength in areas where others may needed support. We also provided data-driven PLC's which is our professional learning community. These structures ensured consistent routines and academic support across all our classrooms, all our grade levels and all our content areas. In addition to that, we prioritize social emotional supports implementing behavioral

033plans when needed, deepen family engagement through events and proactive communication. We strengthened our foundational literacy and numeracy in grades prek through 2 and identified different areas to prioritize. We ensured all students showed measurable growth, especially in our subgroups. We maintained strong adult culture to improve collaboration and retention, building trust within ourselves and our support systems on campus to build teacher capacity and to help teachers build those teacher toolboxes. Another priority that we set on on campus was to increase student attendance and I can proudly tell you that our our increase this year was 95.4% compared to 94% last year. And our last priority was to build leadership and capacity in our teachers. As mentioned before, now with studying areas to prioritize, we also celebrated progress and simple achievements from our students and staff. Our school

034culture has flourished even more with student center student centered incentives such as our star celebrations, for example, urban air, hurricane alley, or even simple trips to the park. We incentivized and and hoped our students would continue to meet their goals as far as reading and provided students with incentives every six weeks. While family involved activities like our mother son dance and one of my favorites was picnic in progress where we invited families to join join us on campus where they were able to have lunch with their child but also discuss where they were academically their benchmark scores setting goals and also setting a plan on how they were going to work together to ensure that their child met those goals at the end of the year. And lastly, how I how can I forget the

035traditional lemonade wars that it has now become a tradition that we started with Miss Grace Pettis. So, thank you for that and now it's just a wonderful learning experience. I give credit when he's due and she's an amazing leader. So, thank you, Miss Fennis. Um, so many great activities we have on campus, promoting um students with motivational posters. I share this one with you because this one was one that went viral. It was a mom telling her child, "You want your phone back? you better pass the star, but also sending her love. And so I had to share that with you. And then of course dreaming across America and pictured is our lovely president from our school board. So now that the school year 2425 is kind of coming to a close, what is our

036plan to continue to move shelter forward to hit the ground running? Well, we have some ideas and some things that we're already starting to plan out. This includes summer PD where we are going to ensure that our teachers are planning instructional lessons that are rigorous classroom management engagement and curriculum. We have a first 30-day plan for our teachers where we will include pause expectations, routines and relationship building. Our win time which is that intervention time what I need now starting with our groups and interventions already set for day one. staff training for our social emotional learning and behavior systems aligned and consistent as well as continuing to out to reach out to our families with welcome letters, supply list, calendars, and expectations sent early. And then of course continuing with our support for our teachers

037and our staff by providing walkthroughs and support beginning week one so we can ensure that teachers feel supported and they have all the tools they need to provide instructional support. I would like to thank you the board Dr. Devinho for your support and your guidance and for the ability and the opportunity to lead Shallard. It was an amazing year. We're going to continue to move forward together. we are not only nurturing achievement but building a culture where every child is seen, supported and celebrated. So I will leave you with this and this was a little motto that just came about with um our students and it was that shallot bulldogs work hard every day all day. And so as we walked around and checked in on everyone whether it was our students or our staff

038that was something that we would tell each other have a great day and we were going to work out hard because that's what bulldogs do. Do you have any questions? Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Mr. So, I know that there may be a lot of presentations, but toward the end of the year, it doesn't mean that we stop because we need to continue to prepare for the upcoming school year. So, Miss Vasquez is now coming to the podium uh to share uh the student dress code as well as her update on student services. Hi, good evening board president, members of the board, Dr. Devino, members of the audience. Uh, the first thing we're going to start off with real quick is the 2526 elementary and secondary student dress code. Uh, we did have no changes

039to our dress code. Uh, we are going to follow our current expectations, requirements, and guidelines. They still will apply for next year. Uh, all the dress code details will be in the handbook which will we'll be bringing to the board in July. I do want to bring up something real quick that uh has passed. Uh we had the House Bill 1481 which is our cell phone policy update that will go effective for the 2526 school year. What is our HB1481? So that is a new law that was passed to restrict our personal device using during instructional hours in all public and charter K12 schools. Those are for our students. Uh some key provisions the devices covered are cell phones, smartwatches, tablets. TASBY will provide us with guidance on updating our local and state policies regarding

040this and then AliceD will form a committee to evaluate how we will communicate policies and expectations. Um some exceptions to this are students with documented medical needs or safety accommodations. Those are such as an IEP or a section 504 plan and why this law. So the purpose of this was to reduce distractions in class, improve that student focus and learning, address mental health concerns, and then reduce cyber bullying. I'm going to move on to the student services monthly update. This is my most excited moment because I love to provide to you all the attendance. So for the month of May, uh as you can see, everybody did increase. Uh we continue to show that steady improvement. We did have uh Dose Elementary that finished with that strong 1.74% increase. Everybody else had that um increase

041as well. Our district attendance for the month of May in 2324 was 90.15%. This year we are at 90.83% which was at 0.68% increase. Uh and I always tell you guys this every growth growth is growth no matter how small it is. Right? Moving on for our yearly campus attendance. So this is where our numbers will show. Compared to last year and this year we had all schools who significantly increased. Our attendance this year reached the new heights thanks to the collective effort of our student staff and families. Um as you will see Dau Elementary was at that higher increase the 2.25%. Everybody else followed right under that the 1.97% for high school. Wanda at 2.03, Newton 1.02, Science 1.69, and Shallard at 0.75%. [Applause] For our yearly district attendance, last year we ended at

04291.18% and this year was 92.92% ending us at that 1.74% increase. This reflects the hard work of our students, staff, and families in prioritizing that daily learning. Every day counts, and together we're making each one matter. So, we move on to our yearly attendance revenue loss analysis. Last year, we ended at uh 2,277,968. This year we've only um student attendance a,155621,50 which means that the district did save on attendance 1,122,346. [Applause] So this is what supports our classrooms programs and student success. And congratulations to all the campuses for a great school year. Moving on, optional flexible school day program. This I kind of want to show you you know based on six weeks each campus utilized the program. This is how many students were in that program and this too was an asset to that

043uh positive attendance as well. Um you will see in the fourth and fifth six weeks at each campus there was little increases but we did provide that support for our students who needed that extra uh help. And the lastly but the discipline DAP placements last year we were at 229. This year it was a decrease by uh to 125 giving us 104 student difference. So we did have a progress in that school behavior. And do we have any questions? [Applause] Thank you very much. And yes, principles, I know that every day you get a text. So thank you for being very very supportive. But to the parents out there that are listening and are here in the audience, your support also makes a difference because attendance is not just about the money that helps, but

044it's about teaching kids that they need to show up. And in order for us to close instructional gaps, we need the kids at school. So I hear Miss Madriquez there saying, "Hey, man." Yeah. Thank you very much. She's one of our teachers at Dubo. So thank you. Thank you very much, Miss Vasquez. Any questions for Mr. Kubala on safety or on uh our budget with our revenues and expenditures with this ch we had that mock uh how did it go and so I can share from my perspective is Kim here we did have a a good turnout I mean go ahead Kim if you want to come up I know Michael also helped with the active shooter mock that we had on a Saturday at Alice High School and all principles uh were there as

045well as Dr. Kbala and some of her staff uh based on you know what we learned from it as well is how we can as an administrative team better execute the reunification process right how are we going to reunify the kids once you know um we have them in an isolated place I thought that the city u you know police department was very helpful in organizing this with this, right? We know that when a situation like this arises, we're not going to know the date and time, right? And so that was a learning experience for us because even myself trying to okay, I'm going to text the board, right? And then I'm like, oh my god, I'm testing, but I need to make sure, you know, we didn't call DAP, so I'm like telling the

046staff, somebody call Vanessa Snider, let her know, right, what's happening. So it was an experience of from ourselves as well as how we would execute and what we're going to learn from it. Um I don't know if you want to share anything else. Uh just so we had like 77 participants. Um 8:00 was everybody met 9:00 we started the scenario and at 9:00 we just did like a real one active shooter. We closed off the roads. Nobody in. Had police officers there. We ran through the scenario. They did a great job. Um, a lot of head down, hands up, escorted them out, and we met in the multiplex. And then from there, we did a debrief and and see we there's things that we need to work on. So, that's what we're planning on doing.

047I thought it was really good to get feedback from the students. The students were very honest saying, you know what, if this was really real, I may not go to the multiplex. I may run somewhere else. Right? And so then we started trying to strategize then how can we build that support system for them so they can trust that they need to get to point B in order for us to get them to point C. So we did evaluate that we will at Alice High School we would always relocate to the multiplex and then from there bust them to sher to whams and or sorry to whams. Uh and so that's how you know we would kind of be learning from it. Is it perfect? No. Right. Cuz definitely not. But it definitely was a

048good experience for the administrators that were present. You know, uh immediately it we were able to see all the cameras in here. You know, they came quickly set up and so we they were able to see what was happening, you know, throughout uh Alice High School in the camera. So, I thought that was really good. I don't know if anybody else that was there want to add anything. I'd like to add if I may. So, the district has invested in safer watch, which is an app on our phones or our computer desktops. And I believe um if for some reason communication doesn't get to a person on our campus, it will get there through the phone. And I believe that was invaluable that Saturday because all of us got alerts. Even people at home who

049are part of the Alice High School campus receive alerts at home. So everybody's in contact that way. So thank you um school board members for putting that. We appreciate it. Yeah, we had people there like Miss Or she was, you know, normally is there a lot. So she was pretending I mean like you know she was there. She sent out a number and we got it from her and we got it from Dr. Kala. So we were getting it from multi multiple people and it was a wonderful opportunity because um Dr. Cabala is seen as the principal of the campus and many times it is her leading the charge of a fire drill of an active shooter but in this case like Dr. Devinho said we were locked in and so she was not there

050and it was very neat to see that the APS took the role of going in with Dr. Devino and implementing what we've practiced all year. So that was different and it was great to see that you know they were prepared to lead the charge when Dr. Kapala wasn't there. And again thank you because I know Mr. Mr. Kala worked hard in making sure that we were able to have that scenario and the city too to allow their manpower to come in on a Saturday morning and so on. I appreciate the board also supporting it because we knew that we had to let the community know way in advance so they wouldn't panic and think that it was, you know, a real situation, but we wanted to be prepared. So, I think we need to probably

051have a few more in the near future so we can continue to to plan effectively. Next, we have uh Michaela doing a presentation. Do you have anything, Mike, on maintenance and operations? What senator do you need to go? I mean I know that we have Jim uh Gler is he is Jim here. Okay. He's going to do a presentation on the stadium. So if you can come up to the podium. Jim, are you on there? So Jim is with Mr. Tim. Tim. Oh Tim. Sorry. I've got Jim. Sorry, Jim. That's all right. Chris is not available. He had to babysit his children. So, if you can give us an update on this stadium project, they have something prepared. Okay. So, regarding construction, I don't know if you all have noticed they uh mobilized. There's a

052job trailer out on site and they began excavating for some of the building capacity. So, That's what's transpired the last week or so. Um, we're still working on the uh on you know savings uh exploring uh available savings so we can utilize that and take advantage of that towards the project. Um we reviewed a payment application for the month of May. So that's been certified uh for Weaver Jacobs and so we continue to progress and um and we'll keep on monitoring progress and we'll be here to to update the the progress monthly and provide observations and respond to submitts and RFIs. Um we do have some paint chip samples for the chairs that we wanted to leave with Mike so we can get an approval on. So u we have those available. So we continue

053to progress and is here if you have any further questions regarding the truck is pulling in next week. We're striving towards that. So we have a sample of the actual plastic chair and then there's also a sample of the metal. Um, since it's two different materials, it's two different oranges. Um, so something to consider. The metal doesn't necessarily have to be orange. It could be a different color like a gray or something if we wanted to do that. But the orange is uh from the available uh standard colors that they have to try to closely match the orange color. So, you just have two samples of each. Is it the same or am I just like I can't tell that. It's two samples of each. Okay. Okay. One's for the plastic, the actual back. The

054darker is for the plastic, the seating, and the lighter color is for the iron, the metal part, for the Yeah. So, you can see there's a different variation in the orange color. So, um I don't think it'll make a huge difference, but um if you believe it it'll make a difference, then maybe the metal can be a different color if you choose to do. So, and we can provide other samples, but if you're good with the orange, then we can just do the orange bracket and then the orange plastic. So, further thank you. Is Mr. Medical here? Sir, are you going to provide a fine uh fine arts update for the summer? fine arts. We had this past week our starter team, our officers, they attended the HTE officer camp in San Antonio. Uh they

055were able to learn some new strategies, some new dances, and uh this week they're going into our we're going to be hosting a dance camp this week. We're going to be hosting two schools along with our Alice High School. It'll be Tosso Midway in Rob Town. So that's coming up on June 11th through the 13th. So it'll be at Alice High School. our Alice High School band. We are we are right now preparing for our new season. Our marching show this year is entitled Transcendent Harmony written by Evan Van Doran. Uh our high school band is is growing. We went up to 220 students. We are expecting this this coming year and we're everything's set in place. We have everything ready to go. We start on July the 14th with our with our service team,

056which is all of our leadership students. And then on the 16th of July, we have our ninth graders coming in to learn what it's about to be part of the high school band. Then on the following Monday, the 21st is when the entire band reports. And then we get to work. And then on August the 1st, is when every every band in Texas can u can begin learning their new marching show for this upcoming school year. So, a lot of great things happening in fine arts. You have any questions? Anybody I can help answer? Awesome. I want to thank you all for everything you do for fine arts and for our students. Thank you all so much. Thank you. I'm glad to hear that the numbers continue to grow in the flight art sir and

057coach if you could give a update on athletics. [Music] Good evening Dr. board uh community of Alice. Let me give an update on our summer uh street conditioning which kicked off this morning. Had over 250 kids here this morning. Uh they're probably going to sleep real well tonight. Incoming seventh graders all the way up to our 12th graders, boys and girls. Um the UIO has given us six weeks of strength and conditioning uh over the summer, two hours per day. uh we take full advantage of that. Uh our boys go from 8 to 10 with strength and conditioning. Our girls go from about 8:30 to 10:30. Uh and there's also an hour of sports specific that we can work in with that as well. So it's really three hours that we get with our kiddos

058each day. Uh and with the sports specific, it's it's more provided on based off of what coaches are available that particular day. Uh today we did football, volleyball and tomorrow be football, basketball, things of that nature. Uh so we try to sprinkle around the sports specific dependent on what coaches are available. Um kids must have a physical uh on file. So uh it's normally um not a big deal uh only with our incoming seventh graders who were sixth graders last year. Uh but they must have a physical on file in order to part uh to participate. Uh those are kids that are in summer school. We do give them an opportunity to to lift in the afternoon. We have open weight room, open gym from 5 to 7. Uh there is no instruction, but there

059is supervision there with our coaches. Uh but we do give our kids uh the opportunity to work out if they're working during the day or if they were uh in summer school. We want them to make sure that they get their workouts in. Another thing I wanted to cover was our home games, football games. next year uh without the stadium. I know we've talked about this before. Uh we will be playing three home football games uh down the road uh in San Diego. Uh the first one being August the 29th. We open up there against Corpus Christie Carroll. Uh and then we played two district ball games. Uh we wanted to make sure that we um we we took we we allowed our seniors to be able to have a homecoming uh and a senior

060night. So October the 9th uh in San Diego, that's going to be on a Thursday night. Uh that will be our homecoming football game. And then uh senior night will be October the 24th uh versus Mission Vets uh in uh San Diego. So that's going to be our three home football games that we have next year. Everything else uh will be uh on the road. So the other seven will be on the road. Uh a big question that we're getting is about tickets. uh tickets uh for next year. Uh if you are a season ticket holder, you must redeem those tickets in order to stay a season ticket holder for the new stadium. Now, I can tell you this, they will not be at a reserve price. They will be at a general admission price,

061which is uh $6 compared to uh $8. We will be putting that information out before um before August. Uh but again, those season ticket holders must redeem their tickets this year in order to stay on the list for next year when we open up the new stadium. Any questions? Thank you for the superintendent report. Item number seven on the agenda is a recess. We now take a short recess. Do I have a motion? Make a motion for 10 minutes. Oh, what did you want? Five, 10, 20. Mr. Lucky number seven. Seven minutes. And I saw a second for all in favor. It's 7:15. We're out for How are you? Good. girls. We're back in session and the time is now for 803. Our recess is concluded. We'll now move on to the consent agenda. over

062the minutes. All the trustees are back at the seat. We have proceed. Item number eight on the agenda. 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. Do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted? Make a motion. Motion will be consistent. Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Damo. Is there a second? A second by Mr. Samura. All in favor? I. All opposed. The motion passes. Dr. So the first action item is consideration and possible action of offer to purchase tax sale property s suit number 21-07-17527-B. This is property on 804 North Abram Street. The amount bid was 12,200 and the district will receive $6,4621 if

063approved. Is there any questions? Do we have a motion? I have a motion by Mr. Don. Is there a second? A second by Miss Gara. All in favor? All those opposed? Motion passes. 9B of consideration of possible action on the agreement between the education service center region 2 and ALSD for the leadership and instructional support opportunities through the lasso grant three cycle. We'd like to partner with region 2 to provide support for Alice High School to improve classroom practices and build teacher capacity to close instructional gaps. This is a grant that we do need a partner or to partner with somebody and uh through the discussions with Dr. Kala and Dr. Katu this would be our best partner. Thank you Dr. Rino. Does any member have any questions? Do we have a motion? I'll make

064a motion to approve as a motion by Mr. Pena and a second by Miss Jenna. Yes. All those in favor I All those opposed? Motion passes. 9 C is consideration of possible action of workers compensation insurance for the 2526 school year. We're on cycle uh year four out of five. We'd like to continue to finish this contract and then at that point negotiate with the best possible insurance carrier. This is with claims administrative services year 405. I'd like to make some comments if I may. Um, it is imperative that whoever is signing off on this contract that they must uh X out option number three that we continue on year four of five. Um, even though there was a $2,000 decrease from the previous year, our loss loss fund maximum is set at 196,857. Unfortunately,

065CAS does not tell us how much was spent during calendar year, excuse me, coverage period 9124 through at least the present. Um, so that would be nice to know if obviously they're charging us $267,220. I'd like to know how much was actually spent on claims cost. Um, so it is very important that we select option three both on that little black line and then at the bottom on the certification of authority to execute that we do the same because if you don't, they will wrangle you in for another contract period of either begin a new three-year plan or begin another new five-year plan and that would be horrible. Those are only my comments but I I would approve as proposed noted sir your comments are not thank you and that's how you all are approving

066it for year four five and so that is correct executed yeah because if you check off the red one guess what you're in for another five years there any other questions or comments Second motion. I didn't make I I made the motion. You did make the motion. So there was a motion by Mr. Fa and a second by Mr. Dan. All in favor? Any opposed? The motion passes. Thank you. 19B is consideration and possible action of the 2025 2026 professional development plan. In order for the district to comply with Senate Bill 1287 regarding specific trainings for public schools, we must provide uh educators and other school personnel with a plethora of professional development. Our policy DMA clearly indicates that the board has to approve the trainings annually. So trainings on this list is for example

067trauma enforced care for coaches and fine arts teachers maybe on concussions or illegal steroids for the FNS department special ed the social emotional specific training on content. So there's just a plethora listed in your packet but you all do need to approve those annually. I'll make a motion to approve the pro professional development plan for 2526 as read. Second. So there's a motion by Mr. Penny and a second by Mr. Sam. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. 9 D is consideration of possible action to approve the 2025 2026 cost sharing agreement between Alice ISD education and employment partners the E2E for the continuation of postsecary success program for Alice high school seniors. So in this particular partnership, the E2E would pay 51% of three individual salaries where the district would pay 49%. So we

068were we're really partnering with them to get three advisors. These adviserss help seniors in particular with applications, scholarships, their BASA, and just te test preps for their college entrance, TSI, ACP, SAT, a lot of they pay for all the college visits that the students would be going to, career days, and just a lot of advising. So, the district's responsibility for three individuals would be at a cost of 85,000. for to hire these three people, it would be at a cost of 173,360. So, they're asking for us to commit to paying 49%. I know that the high school really is very appreciative of the work that's being done by E uh E23. Now, we would be gaining another individual. Instead of two, we would be having three. So, we ask for approval. There any questions? Yes.

069So, ready? We had two last year and we had one more. Correct. That's a that's a recommendation uh in order for us to continue to provide students with the advising because they're very focused in on the college prep itself and getting the kids to all of those u like I said uh mentioned the college tours and filling out applications, the FASA. When you look at the percent of districts that didn't have this extra help, they didn't meet the required state requirement to complete the FASA application. Ours was at what level of our senior class had FASA? That was about 96%. I think we were almost at 97 by the time we completed. And that doesn't include the students who are special needs who can do the opt out because they're not getting to complete and

070go through the college requirements. So, we're closer to pay probably in 98%. Um, I think the state average is closer to maybe 60%. The national average is in the 40s. So, Alice does a phenomenal job with the advisors. The reason for the additional advisor is the enrollment and effective advising is necessary. So, we advise in all segmentation areas from college, workforce and military. So supporting students in all three segmentations appropriately. Last year we paid75,000 for two. This year we would pay 85,000 for three. So for an additional 10 we would get a third. When did this program start this year? Do we know how long has it been in place? This would be going I believe on the this is yeah we're going into our fourth year with with in the agreement with Alice High

071School and we've seen uh all of the percentages across the board increase incrementally over the years 98 or potentially that that is awesome and you said the third one for because due to enrollment at this high school or uh and really we are seeing advising wise you know the focus has always been college and that's where we're still focused, but the workforce need is there and helping students metriculate from high school into that next level of post-secary planning and making sure that they have that level of focus and being able to follow through with that. So, our adviserss actually work through the summer to make sure that students actually follow through with their plan into August, September. So, the third one is actually going to be able to help with the um with the testing

072requirements, the TSI standardized testing, the SAT, the ACT, all of those pieces. So, really helping that holistic component of getting the student ready for that post-secary piece. And really, the goal is even after they graduate in August, still following them to make sure that they enroll at the university. So, it's not just ending right now in May with the kids that walked across the stage. It's making sure that they show up in August at the university because that is how we actually get judged through CCMR. They have to show up at the university. They have to be in their seats and they have not only enrolled but in their seats in the fall on the 10th day. So, they're not we're not just after they graduate. That's it. No, we got to continue. So, we

073have to follow. We make sure they've attended orientation. We make sure they have their fall schedule. If they are um getting housing, we make sure they have their housing set up. Our advisors follow them through that entire process to make sure that's happened. Um we're supporting them with scholarships. We're supporting them with financial aid. How do we pay for all of that? How do we do our deposits? getting all of that set up so that they don't have any barriers in their way in order to metriculate to that point to get into their seats. Um, if they're military, did they go to MEPS? Did they get all of that? Have they signed their paper of enlistment? Do they know where they're going? If there's an issue medically, have they gotten plan B in place? So,

074can we help them assist them to make that happen? That's impressive. I have a question. So, is it helping? Like, this is a one-on-one with the student to help build their confidence. So, when they leave home and they start, they don't have those worries and stressors. They're able to start off confident. Correct. Okay. And how many students did we service this year? 275, I believe. 278. Wow. Well, congratulations and thank you. Yeah, it's very important to us that we help them get to that next appointment. Thank you. So, how often do they come? The advisors, they're here every day. They're here every day. Yes. Every day. Every day. This is awesome. Figure it out. Figure it out. So, thank you. Absolutely. Is there any other questions or comments regarding this agenda item? Do we have

075a motion? Yes. I'll make ahead. I'll make a motion to approve 9E uh between Alice ISD and education to employment partnersh for the continuation of the postsecondary success program for AHS seniors and adding the third individual. Thank you, Mr. Pette. And we have a second by Ncara. All in favor? Any opposed? The motion passes. Thank you. On 9F, it's to re review and possible action of task B legal and local policy update 125. So, we'll probably be bringing a lot of these to the table simply because there's a lot of new legislation and changes. And so, uh the changes that have been recently uh established is causing seven local policies that need to be updated. Does anyone have any questions regarding this agenda item? Is there a motion? I'll make a motion. I have a

076motion by Mr. Adiano. Is there a second? A second by Mr. Ramo. All in favor? The motion passes. Oh, any opposed? The motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. And the last item for action is 9G consideration and possible action of optional flexible school day program application. I think Miss Vos talked a little bit about that. This program is designed to support students who are at risk of not graduating or need to make sure that they get their credits and recover those or are facing extenduating personal circumstances. Right now, the application calls for 300 students at Ellis High School, 200 at WHAMS, and 25 at each respective elementary school. We believe this has really helped our students uh continue their learning, but if they have needs that we address those. Thank you, Dr. Are there any

077questions related to this agenda item? No. Is there a motion at this time? I motion and a second by Mrs. Ga is all in favor. Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. On to item 10. Uh close or executive meeting or session called in accordance with the following provisions set forth in the Texas government code. Jeez, I'm going to take a sip of water because I want to read all day. Item 10 A, Texas Government Code section 551.074, personnel matters. 1081, presentation and discussion of new hires. 10 A2, presentation and discussion of retirement. 1083 presentation and ask question. 1084 personnel update regarding investigations. 10B Texas Government Code section 551.072 real estate 10B1 deliberation regarding the purchase exchange lease or value of ro property pursuant to section 551.072 of the Texas government code 10

078C Texas government code 551.071 071 consultation with attorney. 10 C1 consultation with attorney regarding legal issues related to revisions to board policy be local. 10D Texas government code section 551.071 legal matters board attorney advice and 551.074 personnel 10D1 pursuant to the Texas government code section 551.07 071 and 551.074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding recommended renewal of non-chapter 21 contracts and administrator contracts for the 2025 2026 school year and Dan 2 pursuant to Texas government code sections 551.071 and 551.074 074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding the superintendent's annual evaluation and contract 103 pursuant to the Texas government code sections 551.071 and 551.074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding board operating procedures 10D4 pursuant to Texas government code sections 551.071 and 551.07 074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding board member resignation and process for

079filling trustee vacancy 10D5 pursuant to Texas government code sections 551.071 and 551.074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding complaint filed against board member 106 pursuant to Texas government code sections 551.071 071 and 551.074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding roles and responsibilities of board members. Tend pursuant to the Texas government code section 551.071 and 551.074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding possible settlement of employee legal matter. 10D8 pursuant to Texas Government Code sections 551.071 and 551.074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding possible reorganization of the board of trustees and officer positions. The time is now 8:22 and I now need a sip of water. I was like, "Wow, I think that was by far the most to consider and take action as necessary on the action items on items discussed and close in executive session.

080Item 12 on the agenda announce the action items. 12A consideration and possible action regarding new hires. I move that we approve the following new hires. Eugene Ever as assistant principal subject to assignment and reassignment as discussed in close session. Is there a motion? That was my Oh, is there a second? A second by Mr. Demo. All in favor? All opposed? It passes. 12B. Consideration and possible action regarding retirement. No action. 12 C consideration and possible action regarding resignations. 12 D consideration and possible action regarding ongoing investigations. 12E consideration and take possible action adopting a revised written resolution authorizing the purchase of real property located at 1300 East Main Street, Alice, Texas, Jim Walls County, Texas, and authorizing the superintendent to negotiate the final purchase, execute the real estate contract in a form approved by legal

081counsel, and close the sale. Uh, I move that we adopt the revised written resolution authorizing the purchase of road property located at 1300 East Main Street, Alice, Texas, Jims County, and authorizing the superintendent to negotiate the final purchase, execute the real estate contract in a form approved by legal counsel, and close the sale as discussed in in uh close session. There is a motion by Mr. Adiano. Is there a second? A second by Mr. Samura. All in favor? Any opposed? It passes. 12F. Consideration of possible action regarding revisions of the board policy beed local. I move that we approve the revisions to revisions to board policy BED local. There's a motion by Mr. Addio. Is there a second? I'll second. A second by Mr. Pñena. All in favor? Any opposed? It passes. 12G. Consideration of

082possible action to approve the renewal of non-chapter 21 contracts and administrative contracts for the 2526 uh school year. I move that we approve the renewal of nonchapter 21 contracts and administrator contracts for the 2526 school year as discussed in close session. Thank you. There's a a motion by Mr. Addio. Is there a second? Second. A second by Mr. Samura. All in favor? Any opposed? It passes. 12H. Consideration and possible action regarding the superintendent's annual evaluation and contract. Uh I move that we accept the superintendent uh evaluation and award the superintendent a one-year contract extension and a 3% raise as discussed in close session. Thank you. There's a motion by Mr. Adiano. Is there a second? A second by Mr. Ram. All in favor? Any opposed? Passes. 12. I consideration and possible action regarding board operating

083procedures. I move that we amend board operating procedures as discussed in close session. I have a motion by Mr. Addio. Is there a second? I'll second. A second by Mr. Pena. All in favor? Any opposed? It passes. 12J, consideration of possible action regarding resignation of board member and process for filling trustee vacancy. I move that we accept the resignation of Albert Molina and open the the trustee position for letter of interest as discussed in close session. There's a motion by Mr. Adiano. Is there a second? Have a second. A second by Miss Ga. All in favor? Any opposed? It passes. 12K. Discussion of possible action regarding complaint filed against board member. Information. Information only. 12 A L. Consideration of possible action regarding roles, responsibilities, and board member. That's discussion only. 12 M. Consideration of possible

084action regarding possible settlement of employee legal matters. Information. Information only. and 12 and consideration of possible action regarding possible reorganization of board of trustee officer positions information only no action on to item number 13 our chair thank you good Morning.