001I would say [Music] Mike Congrats. How you doing? [Music] I knew I learned item now. school district has been has been recalled and notice has been hosted in accordance with the Texas meeting section 5513 Texas governed flag This is my father to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Music] One state under God for one indivisible. Thank you. We have Juliet Jones from [Applause] Charlotte. And we also [Music] [Applause] have room. The Bull Item number four, 14, 20, So at this time we have a motion by second by Mr. M. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? We're going to go on to item [Music] number. So tonight is a special night. We have a lot of student
002recognitions. It is toward the end of the year and so we're going to have to thank all administrators, all teachers, and definitely for a great year and we're looking forward to the upcoming school year already. Although this year has not closed, we have a lot of recognitions and tonight we start with Dr. Mais recognizing our Alice High School top 10 star. [Applause] Good evening. Members, this evening we are honoring and celebrating the top students from our houseful class of 2025. These outstanding students have demonstrated unwavering dedication, academic excellence, and commitment to personal growth throughout their high school journey. Their accomplishments are not to the world's work, but also the environment fostered by our educators, families, and the broader community. These have not only excelled academically, but but also contributed positively to our school's culture and
003spirit. Let us celebrate remarkable achievements and look forward to the positive impact in our future endeavors. Fear exploring. [Music] You got chocolate. here. Welcome to New York. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going And here are again. Yeah. Don't look recognition up and would like to make your request and state invite you up for gas. Go. Here they come. Are they excited? That's That's only half. That's half. That's half. That ain't no Good evening membersh. We are so excited to recognize our state qualifiers for unified track and field. This was our first year ever competing in student track and fields and we made it all the way to the skate meet. There were a lot of teams at the original meet teams, coaches, everybody in charge that were very surprised and also very proud of our pick. They
004brought a lot of energy. They all encouraged each other throughout the whole meet. Um they called us the cheerleading squad because every single kid was just cheering on one another. It was a very exciting thing to witness during their time with these student athletes. We would like to recognize tonight. First up, we have Katie Al. [Applause] [Music] Don't [Applause] go away. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] John and Alexander [Music] and this is probably one of the most unique things I've ever had the privilege of coaching and bringing these two community together. It was very great fun. Their conversation, their practice and tracking it definitely kept us laughing and always inspired to keep working hard and working for another day. amongst our group of course that we said they were all
005state runners but our all goals were 100 meter relay [Music] [Applause] second our [Music] team congratulations [Applause] [Music] Thank you. As you mentioned, this is the first time that we competed and that we got as far as we did. It was a team effort and we appreciated seeing the kids opportunity working to achieve their goals. Good job. We'd like to follow up with our special. Go back that way. Adam, did you do Special Olympics still? You guys getting caught up again? You have to get down there in the front. [Music] We uh athletes compete in bows or track and field. So instead of reading all the names, I'm going to go ahead and read the names of the athletes that are here. But I just want to say we're to recognize a truly ex exceptional
006group of students, our athletes, our special education athletes. These individuals have shown incredible dedication, heart and perseverance through every practice, every event, every challenge. Whether they competed in bowling or track and field, they gave it their all and they represented our schools with pride. Their achievements go beyond medals, they demonstrate the true spirit of sportsmanship, teamwork, and courage. Each each of them reminds us what it's meant to be resilient, determined, and always full of joy. to our athletes. We're so proud of you, to our families and the coaches that helped us along the way. Thank you so much. Uh so we start with Aiden. [Applause] Adrian Garcia, Jordan Alexander. [Applause] Kayla Martinez. [Applause] Max [Applause] AO Williams Vi [Applause] my man Lucas Garcia. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] And my number one high as always, Gabriel. [Applause]
007Next up is Kane Sanchez. [Applause] Yeah. Everybody, [Applause] John Cena Cruz [Applause] Aiden, [Applause] Adam, Sophia, [Applause] Garcia, Felis. [Applause] and our speaker. [Music] [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] shirt. Thank you, Mr. and all our students and staff to call to Mr. Andre outside recognize some students from our country. Uh thank you Mr. Ben as well as the school board for recognizing our students. Uh this year was uh our competition. We went to z competition on March 15th. We took a play called do not go gentle. It was very nice play. Our kids worked very hard and we had a couple of students who got awarded at competition. Unfortunately, we did not advance but you know next year but we did have some students who did get awarded at competition. Uh the first one we would
008like to recognize is uh Alexis P [Applause] The next uh the next person we'd like to recognize unfortunately could not make it because she's focusing on her studies. She has some final for dual credit college courses that she needs to have done by tomorrow, but she also did very well. Andrea [Applause] Aiano. The third person we would like to recognize is somebody who's one of my students in my classes. He has done a great job all year long. He's very enthusiastic. He learns his lines on time and does a fantastic job acting and following direction. [Applause] Chef and the last person I would like to recognize was a person who has stepped up for the technical side. He's been my go-to sound engineer person the whole year. He uh did a great job with our
009show. He also did a great job with the one act including creating some of the music that we used during the performances. Uh Michael Miles [Applause] Thank you very much everybody. The next year I'm sure the kids are going to do a fantastic job. [Applause] [Music] You can see our high school strateg. [Music] team for guest. I'd like to now call to the podium. Mrs. Michelle Martin, our goal [Applause] teacher. Good evening everyone. I'm incredibly proud to share some highlights from the starter amazing contest season this year. Our officers and team earned honor top honors at every event they attended. From show makers to showtime, MA dance and HG nationals. They brought multiple first place wins in jazz, lyrical, novelty, palm, hiphop, and kick. Both the team officers consistently receive sweep stakes awards along with
010the recognition for outstanding showmanship, technique, choreography, and entertainment. At 18 nationals, the officers were awarded the novelty champions for the national theater Corpus Christie and the team earned the title of lyrical champions as well, finishing strong across all categories. This season was filled with hard work, heart, and unforgettable moments. Starters, you've made us proud and left a legacy that will inspire the future teams. The first one is Aubrey Garcia, Jennifer Kim, Chloe Fox, [Music] Don't be muted. [Applause] Adrien [Applause] Deon, Rana [Applause] Garcia, Chloe [Applause] Mia Anandez, [Applause] Ella, Amanda Louise, [Applause] Jazelle, Kay, Gabrielle, right? [Applause] Eric, [Applause] Vgas. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] very [Applause] Rodriguez, Balen Hill, [Applause] Martinez, Kylie [Applause] Lopez, Eileene [Applause] Garza, [Music] [Applause] Elena, Alex. [Applause] Tiffany [Applause] Pipio, Daily Rodriguez, [Applause] and Rafael Jar. [Applause] [Music] to recognize her
011nationalist participants. Good evening board president members of board Dr. these students competed on Saturday 4:15 at UT Austin for the National History Fair State competition. Our L group with Radiant [Applause] Girls, our performance group, Worchester versus Georgia. [Music] [Applause] Emma College with freedom of religion in the US. [Applause] our high school students with the Negro Leagues, Ethan Kug and Luke. And lastly, Aiden Diaz. [Applause] These kids worked so hard all year to get here to compete in the in the in the National History Fair Day game day. And I also would like to thank our three sponsors, which is Miss Becky Lky, Orlando, and High School. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Thank [Music] you. We're going to continue our recognition tonight by having coach step back on the podium to recognize the qualifier followed by qualifier.
012[Applause] Okay, back up here. Good evening again, everybody. Thank you again for having me up here. Very thankful and privileged to be recognizing another group, another fantastic group of our high school student athletes. We are recognizing the regional track and field athletes tonight. Um, this year brought its fair share of adversities. Starting with the move up to the 5A division, which introduced a new level of competition and intensity, our athletes knew they weren't stepping into deeper waters. They knew that they were stepping into deeper waters, but they didn't shy away. They leaned in, worked harder, and proved that they belonged. Another major challenge came with the demolition and reconstruction of our home stadium. While we are very excited about the improvements coming to our facilities, this season required us to relocate to our junior high
013campus for practices. This change brought new logistical challenges, average travel, tighter schedules, and sharing space with the junior high tracksman. But thanks to the flexibility of our athletes, coaches, and school community, we made it work. And of course, the weather didn't always cooperate. Two of our scheduled meets were either rained out or too full to compete, costing our athletes valuable competition time. But despite all of the setbacks, this team gave us a season to remember. We had seven athletes qualify for the region 4 5A track and field meet located in San Antonio, Texas, competing at the highest level. We'd like to recognize these seven. First up on the boy side, we have Hayden [Music] [Applause] Djo, Aiden [Applause] Sanuchez, Senior Lyanna Garcia, [Applause] Senior Brooke [Music] Gastil, freshman Dakota Coats, senior Kayn Zantes, and junior
014Aubrey [Music] Garcia both tonight. Let us start off by talking a little bit about each one of them briefly just to highlight each one of their successes. We have Dakota Coats up here, which is our freshman. She's newly added to our varsity squad. She did a fantastic job. She competed in the 100 meter hurdles, the 200 meter dash, and the part of our key 4x200 meter relay. did a fantastic job. She qualified to the regional meet in the 100 meter hurdles in the 4x200 meter relay and made it into the finals into the 400 4x 200 meter relay just edging off that school the school record in the 4x200 alongside and for her future to Alice girls track and fields. Next up, we have our senior Brook Ailio. She has been a pivotal part of
015our track team for the past four years. Four-year varsity Letterman. Um, this year, she broke the 100 meter dash record, which we are so excited about. Her freshman year, she broke the 4x100 meter relay record. So, her name is on the record board two times. So, we're extremely proud of Brooke and the legacy that she leaves behind. Congratulations. Next up, we have senior Garcia, who was a pivotal part of every single one of our relays. This year, she was a relay queen. She was the only one who did all three relays. And I'm very very proud of her um her generosity and her her fearlessness that she always displayed on the track. She was a part of that again that 4x200 meter relay uh team that was just.13 seconds away from the record. So big
016time congratulations Lanna. Great [Applause] job. Left a legacy behind. Thank you Lanna. Next up we have Junior Hayden. Hayden just is completely fearless. He's our hurler and he just leaves everything out on the track every single time. Hayden, we're so proud of you. He's our 110 meter hurler, 300 meter hurler, and he made it to the regional finals in the 300 meter hurdles, which is big time. Really competitive kids up there. So, Hayden, congratulations being amongst the very top of the 300 meter in the whole region. Next up, we have junior Aidenz, our distance guy, who transitioned over into the 400 meter dash this season. did a fantastic job. He has great top speed and he finished 10th overall in the region. We're so proud of his fight. He really fought to make it to
017the regional meet and couldn't be more proud of Aiden. Congratulations, Aiden and all your hard work. We have two athletes out here tonight, but I do want to recognize their success because they definitely showed a lot of success this season. Um, our junior Aubrey Garcia is our distance runner. You may know that she broke the the 5K record in the fall. We're very proud of her. Um, not only did she do that, this spring, she broke the 1600 meter record and the 3200 meter run record. Just an incredible, incredible season by Aubrey. We're very, very proud of her. She made it to the regional meet in the 1600 meter run, which she was not expected to place, but it was a really gritty race. She gave it everything she had. So, we're very, very proud
018of Aubrey's success this season as well. Looking forward to next year. And then so her name is on the record board three times. And then last but not least, we have Kayn Svantes. She's been our um track and field stand out for many years now. We're very proud of her. She made it to the regional meet in the long jump, triple jump, and 4x200 meter relays alongside these three young ladies. Did a fantastic job. She finished amongst the top of the long jump um placing fifth overall big time. and again was a part of the record breaking team. The record the team that was almost close to breaking the record. Um, and she's on the record board for getting the long jump. She broke her record that she set last year. So, two time record
019breaker for her. So, her name also stands on the record board. Congratulations, Kayla. And of course, thank you to Coach Cox to be here tonight. Um, but he worked very hard with these boys. Thank you, Coach Ola, Coach Typton. We had an awesome staff. It was a fun season. Thank you guys. Look forward to the future. Seniors will be Thank you very [Applause] Thank you, Coach and Coach Thompson, the entire coaching staff, and thank you students for representing We'd like to continue by inviting Dr. W School State Champions. [Applause] Good evening, Dr. Born audience. Um, I'd like to recognize a group of young men who traveled to a state tournament in Arlington and brought back a state championship for the second time this [Applause] year. for in competition to come out on top and put
020Alice ISD on the map. I'd like to call our coaches [Applause] and first we'd like to recognize Christian Dear W esports grand finals competition award. [Applause] Dominic Davis [Applause] 25 champion and winter final state competition state [Applause] champion. Romero Rodriguez, state competition team ballet state [Applause] champion, state competition team champion. Raymond Hernandez, state competition team marvel rival state runner up. Cavern you state competition team marble rival state runner [Applause] up Joe B team rivals state runner [Applause] up line state competition team marble rival state runner [Applause] State competition team marble rivals and state runner [Applause] up Jason Santos. State competition team Apex team two state [Applause] semifinalist. Some of these have two certificates because they competed in several games and they won in several games. Deos Santos state competition team simple batch state quarters. young
021man a round of applause. They have done so well doing two backto back state championships. In case you didn't know, esports is a UIL competition. And these boys and we have girls sometimes, but they can get a scholarship, a college scholarship. So, we're very proud of them. We're one of the only districts in the region that has esports. [Applause] very proud of our a program and definitely our sports. Thank you so much Dr. [Applause] Next, we are program board of trustees. Yes, we are here to recognize our middle school band at the new audio competition. I'd like to call up directors, Mr. Joe and Mrs. Christina leading us to the podium. [Applause] Good evening everyone. My name is head director at William Adams uh superintendent of schools. Dr. school board uh Here we we're going
022to uh recognize the sole ensemble students from W. First we have Cornel [Applause] Cornelius. [Applause] Next we have Brook from [Applause] Next we have Maline Garcia. [Applause] Next we have Janessa Lopez. Next we have Lindsay [Applause] Gonzalez. Then we have Jasmine Gonzalez. Next we have [Applause] Mia. Next we have Aia Garcia. Next we have Jay [Applause] Benz. Next we have Nicole. Next we have Valeras. Next we have Emily Cha. [Applause] Next we have [Applause] Mariah. Next we have [Applause] Olivia. Next we have Camila. [Applause] Next we have Isabella. Next is Mia [Applause] Mata. And the last woodin is Addison [Applause] Espan. We move on to our profession and uh brass. medalist. We have Kira [Applause] Lopez. We have Rebel [Applause] Sanchez. We have Kira [Applause] Thomas. And we have Julie O'Neal. [Applause] Then we also
023have Patrick Struts. We have Jamie [Applause] Mo. We have [Music] Elijah. Next we have [Applause] Next we have [Applause] Mina. Next we [Applause] have Next we have Harley. [Applause] Next we have Jake Selz. Next we have Matthew Garcia. We have discards our profession. We have Castillo. We have Victor Gaza. [Applause] We [Applause] are. Next we [Applause] have Next we have Francis. [Applause] Next up is Byron Salad. And our last period is Jay Sanchez. At this point, I This is the UIL women's gold medalist. Thank [Applause] Okay, before uh we need to [Music] like Okay, we uh we did have three bands go to uh UIL concert and rating and evaluation. Uh we had a our concert band went and they got a they got a an excellent rating and they also got a superior rating
024in sight rating. We had our second band go to contest under the direction. They got superior rating on stage and they got superior rating inside reading. And we also had the honor band also travel to uh an evaluation. We both all of us got we got ratings on stage and security ratings in second. We appreciate [Applause] [Music] everyone. We can now come up and recognize other students. Thank you Dr. President for trustees. I'd like to now recognize our lambs choir department and if I can call to the podium is Valerie Pettis. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Valerie Dennis and I'm the Lil Billy Madam Middle School choir teacher. Um the contest I'm about to talk about is the solo and ensemble contest. I would like to just kind of mention a little bit about
025what it is just so you kind of get an idea. Um so the solo part is what our students competed in. And so it's one student by themselves and one judge in the room or on stage and they perform their song. And to think about that is kind of, you know, they're very vulnerable, very young, seventh grade, eighth grade students doing this for the very first time. And so it's just amazing to see, you know, the start of it to to now. So, um, and I would like to mention that all six students that went to the contest received gold medals. Not here today, Alexander. [Applause] Next we have Jiva, eighth [Applause] grade. Next we have Sienna, also seventh grade. [Applause] And lastly, we have Chloe [Applause] Valdez. I would also like to mention Morgan
026also. She received a gold medal as well. And also Matthew Damas, 8th grade. Thank you. We I also competed at the choir under the direction of Miss Valer Pettis competed at UI competition for choir and received excellent on stage. I'm very proud of the accomplishment and her students. [Applause] This evening, members of the board, we'd also like to recognize our school nurses. They definitely take care of our students on a daily basis, you know, with medications, with, you know, ailments that they may face. So, they do a lot to take care of our 4300 kids to the podium to recognize them. Good evening, members of the board, Dr. Domin, members of the audience. Tonight, I would like to recognize our school nurses. So, last week, uh, we celebrated National School Nurse Day on May 7th,
027and to have the whole week for appreciation week. Uh this was a special time to recognize the dedicated and compassionate individuals who care for the health and well-being of our students every single day. Um at this time I would like to invite Lisa Lozano, our director of nurses to the podium to join me. So Miss Lisa has been instrumental in leading and supporting our nurses across all campuses. Her guidance and care have made a tremendous impact on the success of our health services. Together, we would now like to present certificates to each of our outstanding school nurses in appreciation of their hard work and unwavering commitment. Thank you for your compassion, expertise, and commitment to ensure that our students are healthy, supported, and ready to learn every day. As I call your name, please make
028your way to the stage. I have Miss Emily Cox. She's our RN. [Applause] have Ramirez, our [Applause] Eldian, Laura Garcia, our [Applause] Eldian, Carlo Hamriquez, our Eldian, [Applause] Marisa Kavaso is our LBN. Tanya, our [Applause] LBN. No Gonzalez, our LDN. [Applause] and Marcy Gha our [Applause] LVAN. We do have two that were not able to show tonight. We have Leticia Reese, our LBN, and Kasus, our LBN. Let's give these nurses a nice round of applause. [Applause] Thank you so much nurses for all you do and my doctor to the podium to recognize our speech language pathologist. Good evening, Dr. Board President, members of the board and audience. May is National Speech Language Hearing Month. This month we proudly recognize the outstanding work of our speech department. Their dedication to helping students find their voice and
029build essential communication skills is truly inspiring. This year they changed it up a bit where we had an area of need. They're starting to provide some in-class services for the special education students. This inclusive approach allows for more meaningful hands-on opportunities in the classroom environment. Our speech team has gone above and beyond by organizing events that promote inclusiveness and celebrate the abilities of our students. Not only have they made a difference for our students, but they also build lasting relationships with teachers and parents, becoming a vital part of our campus communities. Thank you to our amazing speech team for your compassion, creativity, and unwavering commitment to student success. We see you and we truly appreciate all you do. You want to start off with Ana [Applause] Ramos. Next up, Amanda Sanchez. [Applause] And the [Applause]
030video and the holy [Applause] Not with us this evening is Bowers and Bianca Garcia, but we are truly appreciative for all they do. [Applause] Thank you, Dr. We. We know that these ladies can work anywhere that they choose to work in. So, we're very, very grateful. Thank you. I'd like to move to the next item, Mr. President and his recognition of board of trustees board of trustees years of service. So this evening we'd like to recognize my that is for his years of service on the Alice ISD school board. He has served eight years on the school board and I know when he made the decision not to run so he could devote a little more time for his family. I know it was a very sweet decision and I hope that his family will
031definitely benefit from having him home more and not receiving calls from us throughout the day. Uh, and he's been very very kind to always answer the calls and that forever I will be grateful for because at the end of the day when he answers the call he's answering it for 4,300 kids and he does it, you know, yes, how can I help? I'm very very appreciative because he does it with such love and without even questioning why he's doing it. He's doing it because he's committed to this community and committed to the future which is the children. I've been, you know, blessed and honored to have worked with him the last couple of years and it's very evident that when he came on board eight years ago, he came on board to serve and he
032has never stopped and he's very um faithful to the work as far as ensuring that we all follow the rules and ensuring that government is followed. Uh and he'll call us all, but that's what makes us a great team. So, we're very uh fortunate to have had him with the district and the students have benefited by his uh commitment to the community without asking for anything in return. And we know that this is not done just by him. It's a family commitment and the family has committed for eight years to always and I'm sure even when you're at HB or McDonald's or water, somebody's going to stop and ask you a question. somebody's going to question the decisions made and I know that he was always answering them in a way of we're doing what's
033best and in the best interest of our students and their community. So he took his job very seriously, very fudiciary responsibility with our funding and making sure that we provided the kids the very very best at the end of the day. So on my behalf, I'm grateful for the opportunity and I don't know if anyone else uh has anything to say. I'm sure they all do and I know it's been a long day, but he has given eight years of his life for the community. So for that, we're grateful Mr. [Applause] B. Mr. Bettis and we will start with a video. So we can start with that. [Music] So I think the experience is something that anybody in the community should experience. I think it's a it's a thing that that's really you can't reward
034students. It's rewarding and the point where again you you can't really put any words into it but but it's an amazing experience. um 8 years almost 8 years that's well it's going to be 8 years um and you learn so much things that you you don't realize until you're on board you know I think one of the most rewarding things is seeing the smile on his face when you go to a football game when you you see them at you know the top 10 or the initial especially when you're graduating that's the the the most rewarding part of the whole thing is seeing graduation. Happy dealing with seeing my grow up in the district, you know, um, you know, seeing them uh go through through the outside like I did, you know, giving my son
035a diploma, you know, I think that was one of the best things they could have for me. Um, but also the same thing, the rewarding things is like seeing the people in our community that I grew up with and and their their children and giving them their wellness. I think that was the one of the greatest things I could I could have done. You know, you have people calling you asking you, hey, can you get my ticket or you know, we still school together? You know, we're friends for a long time. So, it's was pretty interesting. It was great. Thank you, Mr. B. Thank you. Thank you for everything you do, Mr. Bettis. Thank you for contributing to the district. Thank you. Thank you for all you do. Thank you, Mr. Bennett. Thank you for
036supporting our W State East team. Thank you for all you do. Thank you for your service. Thank you, Mr. Bennett, for supporting our We appreciate everything you do. On behalf of the Sky, we want to thank Mr. [Music] [Applause] That was amazing. I don't know. I thought I knew what I was going to say and now it just kind of threw me off. But but you know, I do I do want to thank my family of course cuz they're they're always there for me no matter what. And through all Dr. said, you know, even it's sometimes even when you work at work, you know, hey, is it Dr. I was like, you know, but you know, the same people were on the weekends during the, you know, the afternoons and stuff, you know, but I
037definitely want to thank my family for always being there and allowing me to serve the district, you know. I definitely want to thank the kids. They did a wonderful job of, you know, doing everything that they do with the staff. You know, you all always very supportive. You know, I want to thank our couple of board members. You know, I know we didn't always agree, but we always respected each other, you know, and I I think we did a good job working together and uh you know, I want to congratulate the board members that won and, you know, continue on. And of course, Debbie, you know, congratulations. she's going to do a wonderful job taking my stock here and she's going to do just as good as I did, you know. And I I had
038all these things in my head that I was going to say I forgot my address on video, but I you know, thank everybody and I appreciate all the support. Thank you guys. [Music] [Applause] [Music] us. [Music] Blessed are [Music] all your [Music] We are with you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] You're [Music] [Applause] [Music] getting Oh yes. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Y'all are amazing. [Applause] I can invite Vanessa up for some flowers on behalf of the district for sharing your husband with us uh and being without him many times because he was serving others. [Applause] So we're going to move on to action items just six and the first and last to do is 6A receive and canvas election returns from the Alice School District trustees elections held on May 3rd 2025 trusting places 2
03936 and seven. So we're going to be handing elections returns for May 12, 2025 outside trustee elections board wish board seats forever for elections for purpose of this form of board members consist of at least two board members for the record the following trustees are present which is myself Mr. Mr. Molina, Miss Bay, Mr. Mr. Sam, and Mr. Texas Education Code Section 67 004 requires the board to review the election returns for each precinct and to prepare a tabulation stating the following. For each candidate, the total number of votes received in each voting precinct is the or place the sum of the precinct totals tabulated and a total of number of votes casted in each place. This information is provided to Westside Jun's count which administered our trustees election. So place two was 2,183 votes
040were casted 1 108 votes casted for Adrian Ben and 1,75 votes casted for Ben for place three. 2,198 total votes casted, 1,1 votes casted for Albertina and 1, 97 votes casted for Willie Reese for place six. 2,169 total votes casted 1,274 votes casted for Hermit Kiano the third 895 votes casted for Commander Friedri for place 7 1,81 votes casted and 1,81 votes casted for Debbie G. So we need a motion to canvas the votes and Mr. making a motion to canvas the votes. Is there a second? Have a second by Mr. S. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Miss G. [Applause] So we need to administer the oath of office to elected officials and unopposed officials. So I invite Mr. Michael Garcia, our judge, to be swearing in our candidacy. We'll begin
041with place two. [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] So before we go on like to also recognize our new trustee Mr. [Applause] We have a couple of gifts for the return. This goes towards [Applause] Yes. Thank you all so much. I know that we'll continue to work together for the benefit of the district. So, our next item on the agenda is the reorganization of LSID board of trustees officers. Paul, let me read this and Okay, our next agenda item is board reorganization and to save on board policy BB B AO the board member shall elect officers at the first regular board meeting after the board election. The board shall elect the president, vice president and secretary by majority vote. Members will now nominee and vote on officer nominees in open session. Dr. President and
042the new president will preside over the election of the vice president. We will each position separately starting with the president. I will call for nominations from the board members for the position. Once nominations are closed, the board will vote on the nominee in the order they were presented. Once the nominee received a majority vote, the election for that position will end and any remaining nominees will not be considered. If any nominee receives a majority vote, the board will vote on all nominees again in the same order until the nominee is selected by majority vote. So now we will hear nominations for the office of president. [Music] That's fine. I can I can is there any discussion? So, Jennifer was nominated for the office of president. Those in favor, please raise your hand. So we have
043Yes. So the motion passed by four to zero. Thank you. your nominations for the office of vice president. [Music] So those in favor of having Mr. Herman's vice president please raise your hand 70. The motion is passed with a vote of 70. Now we have nominations for the office of secretary. Are there any nominations for office of secretary? I'll make a motion to keep secretary. All those in favor 70 motion passes by 70. Great. That concludes our board organization. [Applause] So now we may we'd like to have a new board member welcome and so we would like to recess for 15 20 minutes and have a reception so everyone can greet our new you as board member and congratulate our return board members. Don't be Everyone is invited to the reception. My test testing testing
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045Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Testing, testing, testing. Testing testing test. Test test test. Testing testing testing. Test test testing testing testing testing. One, two, three, four. Testing, testing, testing. Mic testing mic. One, two. Testing, testing, testing, test. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, this Test test test 1 2 3 test 1 2 3 Test test test 1 2 test. 1 2 3 [Music] Good night. We're going to do a mic test real quick. So testing, two, two works. That's this one. [Music] Thank you. And we will start with 6 consideration and possible action to approve the annual union between LSISD and Texas A&M University for the 2025 2026 school year. We just like to continue providing our students with a plethora of opportunities so they can get their dual enrollment courses. And so that's why we ask
046for approval. I'll make a [Music] motion motion to approve the between and Texas and University 526 school year. Thank you. The next is review on possible action of task legal and local policy update 124. TASBY does reviews of policies twice a year and we're at update 124. It's affecting eight local policies. CAA which is dealing with the financial ethics. CDA investments. CY dealing with intellectual properties. DH on employee standards of conduct. EHB dealing with special programs under curriculum design. EHB dealing with special programs under GT. FFG dealing with student welfare, child abuse and neglect. and GKA the conduct of students on premises pretty much matches the legal with the local and if our local has little difference then they need to update those. So pretty much we just need to update the policies based on
047legal changes based on legislation. Thank you. 6G is consideration and possible action to approve the 2025 2026 als elementary grading guidelines based on the feedback from principles and the curriculum department. We are only making minor changes from my understanding on formatting and simplifying the language and the verbage for the kindergarten graduation or the kindergarters Make a motion to approve the 256 elementary. 6H is consideration of possible action on the 2024 2025 budget amendment number three and budget amendment number four. A month ago, we came up to the board to ask for an amendment for CTE. Well, after that board meeting, we did have students qualify for going nationals for the HOSA team. And so therefore, we needed to make this additional amendment to cover those expenses. item is consideration and possible action of application for
048no waiver due to weather on May 9th, 2025. We have to submit all papers by June and therefore we didn't want to wait and so we put this item up I guess Friday even to get it on the board agenda. On Friday because of the weather we had attendance at 74.99%. The year prior we had attendance at 918. So when there's a discrepancy of 10 percentage points, then the state can call us to ask for a waiver and we won't be penalized that day for the no student attendance. So we're asking for consideration so we can request the state for that day for attendance. Those are all action. item which local procedures and individuals to address the board. The presiding officer may adjust public including establishing overall time for public less than one minute to
049make this address. Hi everyone. Good evening graduate members of the board and audience. My name is and I'm here at Thompson graduate of class of 2023 at AHS who personally benefited from the support of school social workers. After raising concern about the elimination of social worker positions on social media, it's been announced that money has been found to keep them for now. I'm thankful, but it's hard not to notice how conveniently this happened after the public started asking questions. What happens when the grant officially ends? Will AISD still commit to continuing the school social work program or will the future once again be put at risk in a district where all schools are title one social workers are often the only stable support system some students have? I'm not here to criticize for the sake
050of it. I'm here because I can't I care about the district and students still walking the same halls I do. Social workers help me make it through. It's our duty to make sure they're there to help the next generation as well. Please make a long-term plan to keep our social workers and make students wellbeing the priority it deserves to be. Thank you. Yes. Next individual who signed up for public comment is Maria and just for the record the public comment shall not receive more than 5 minutes. Hello, my name is I'm here on behalf of Miss Le and one of your alumni. I'm your class. I'm sure we've all heard about Mr. Taylor's castle recently and Mr. was notified that we would be able to like get a painting in the school and we finished
051the painting. I'm trying to get back in contact with the people who said they put it up. We can't really reach anyone anymore. So, we just go about that process. [Music] to item number eight, the consent [Music] agenda. All items under the consent agenda are active board members request. Any consent agenda shall be moved to the action portion of the regular agenda motion by Mr. B. All those opposed item number abbreviated summer administration work schedule for the weeks of June 2nd through June 27th 2025 and closing of administrative offices for July 4th through July [Music] 18 and to move items around tonight. How many presentations are at the front, but because of the fact that we wanted to put all the items at the front, we're now looking back. Good evening, school board president Dr.
052school board trustees and audience. I'd like to announce your executive director of human resources. I'd like to announce our the summer work schedule that we're going to be having. And we will be having an abbreviated work schedule beginning starting on June the 2nd to June the 27th, Monday to Thursday, 7:30 to 6, closed on Fridays. There will resume regular hours on June the 30th and the offices will be closed July the 4th through July 18th. Now, on the new ation process. This is something we have brought in to our district and thank you from each and every one of you. We are now fully going online and we are already in the process where all applicants that are applying for can apply with us through our homepage. We have a link directly where they're easy
053to go in and apply. No longer are we linked with region two. We are fully in control of each and everyone who applies for Alice ISD positions that are specific to Alice D instead of all districts that are out there. We will now be able to help all applicants oneonone basis and all of our applications we have made them very user friendly but anytime they have any questions or anything we're there to help. But it's a really good thing that now it's here with us. Now this Oh, we love this our job fair. It was fantastic. We enjoyed it. We had a big turnout. It was beautiful. With the help of our administrators and departments, we had on April the 24th, we held our in-house job fair. You can look at all the pictures. We
054had over 150 applicants that walked in into central office. That says we have a lot of people out there in the community and from the surrounding areas that are wanting to come over to Alice. That's how many applicants came in the central office that afternoon, that evening. So, thank you to all administrators and all the departments out there. How how are we preparing for the new teachers? We're going to be having for the new teachers a teachers academy which will be on July 30th and July 31st. We're going to offer them mentorship, okay, to each and every one of them. We're going to be offering staff development. And above all, because of you all, thank you. Thank you. Because now, Alice B will be issuing a sign on bonus. Signal bonus to the first 50
055newly certified teachers. $500 to each and every one of you. And it's because of you all. So, thank you very much. on our substitute training. That's something else that we now have in place. We've always had it, but now we're going to have it set every single month on the first Wednesday of every month. We're going to have a substitute training cuz right now we're currently we have 77 substitutes, but our goal is to reach 100 substitutes before we start the new year. That's our goal and that's one so we can help each and every one of our counties. You have any questions? Yes. As far as there's something I've also done kind of for them like a refresher, but sometimes if you're at long campus, long campus might do things a certain way and
056then other campus. We do uh our training is like two hours. Uh the first hour is where I do all the presentations on the dos and don'ts and then I mentioned on how Some of the things are being run at the campuses, but I always always guide them also to the administrators. And then during the summer, we also do refreshers with all those like the 77. We invite them back to come on in during the summer to meet with us and that's when I do the training with them. We also and big thank you to Mr. Noa, Michaela, because he also he offers what he call the grace training and what it is is safety procedures that he offers to each and every one of our uh substitutes just so this way they know exactly
057what to do in case something happens on a campus and it's called the civil response active attack. So thank you Mr. Rossa. So it's a team effort. We do it all together, but uh it's growing and we do it all for each and every one of our Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Item 10 presentation academic update academic update for elementary and also the spring 2025 state assessment. So now we have Jasmine Dominguez principal of elementary. Good evening board members Dr. My name is Jasmine Dominguez and I am the principal of elementary and tonight I want to show the success that we Our demographics just so you have an idea of what our schools consist of. We have 131 special education students, 184 students, 16 bilingual, 19 GT students, 25% students.
058Our eco is 95% and our student involvement is 493. Um so who are our staff? So um for 0 to 5 years we have 11 teachers. Six to 10 years have five teachers um experience and 11 plus years of experience we have 12 teachers. So we're kind of like split. We've got some brand new ones and then we have some veterans. Um and then our middle teachers, they're the ones that they're kind of new, not quite there as a veteran yet. So we really try to pair our veteran teachers with our new teachers as mentors to teach on the ropes and to guide them throughout the year. Our accountability rating is a comparison from 2223 to 2324. You can see that our overall growth was from 67 to 87 with a 20 point increase. And
059then our closing the gaps was a D62 an A90 with a [Applause] 32.8. So um in order to make this happen, it was a team effort. It was my teachers, it was the kids, it was the support from central office. Um it was it was everybody working together. Um we capitalized on our teacher strengths. Um, for example, my librarian is science. She worked with the EU students. You know, she's a librarian, but her specialty is E. So, she was the one that work with them day in and day out and help them, um, you know, achieve their success. Um, and just so you can see our star math, uh, we show increases in each grade level. Um, the academic growth per subject for fourth grade math is an A90 and then our growth for fifth
060grade math is a B87. And then uh for reading our fourth grade reading growth was a B83 and our fifth grade was a B of 80. And as you can see we have and we as well and third grade does not have growth because they're not compared to your report. Let's just how did we get there? We did a lot of hard work. Um so for example we did facilitated planning. So we I met with the teachers every Thursday and it really worked well because I was able to meet with the teachers and Miss Watson my assistant principal she ran the buildings so I wasn't interrupted um and that's how we split our interviews on Thursdays and you know we worked with Sharon and we worked with amplify and they are scripted curriculums but what
061we did is we internalized the lessons figured out how are we going to differentiate for our kids to close the gaps how are we going to add more here or move things around so That's what we did in our lesson journalization. I mean our lesson demonstration. So for example um like as I have random teachers I have random teachers. So we would do basically role play what is the lesson going to look like? How are you going to move from the carpet to the table? How are we going to transition from? And that would differentiate with my teachers and with my grade level. So some grade levels weren't doing that and others were. And then um small group planning. I have to credit miss and for this. We um received amplifier last year and went
062back in class and so we created a progress monitoring schedule last year. And so what we did is we progress monitoring them every 3 weeks. They would get together for smaller plan and we would see what's working and what's not working and then we fix it. It was constantly moving and they're the ones that helped. They taught me, you know, we were always each other and we would sit in on small group planning and we would figure out how can we do better and how can we improve that um like we follow um and then build relationships with our teachers. Um it was my second year in high school and my first year was her but second year got better and so what we did is you know we learned to to capitalize on each
063other to trust me to It's okay to make a mistake and it's okay to learn from it and I'm not the everything and my teachers are the ones that help. So we all you know can team and we help each other and that's that's the success that we got. Um I'm in a culture buy in to the mind shape of students. We saw that you know 95% of our kids are econ but that doesn't mean that they can't learn you know and I think to prove that um these kids sometimes you know they don't know if they when they come to school, I mean, we're the ones that are going to, you know, teach them. So, once we started believing in our kids and believing in ourselves, the momentum just kept going. Uh, teacher to
064teacher PD back like Miss Monica or Miss Lucas or Miss Neil, they would do a PD that was working for them in their classroom and they would teach and and that was fine because they're learning from each other. I mean, data conferences and goal setting that was constant. We were constantly looking on the data and and in class and see how can we need to continue that and get better um for the next assessment or for the next progress new this year. So we did something new this year. It's called the Yobi Welcome and it's a group of kids and they're the face of Dau. So if you have visitors, they're the ones out there holding signs. Yeah, you're here or welcoming you into the building. Donate pride awards. That's something we did this year.
065That's new. Um once a month we award our kids for doing something good in the classroom and the name's on the wall and the parents come and we have breakfast with a big celebration. They love it. Um our goal this year was to creating like culture summit for our kids to be proud of those and to be proud to be there. Oh, we also um had a tendance community outreach event. We went to one of our um housing committees and we spread the word on attendance and we did home visits and we met parents and we had activities out there and we all worked attendance matter shirts just to get them to know that we, you know, we're a team and we need you to come to school. We need you That's the most important
066thing. So when you're at school, you learn. Um, let's see. Oh, and we had our hall decorating contest. That that was great. We had that report and the teachers ran with it. And then we had awards at the end of it and it was great. Attendance initiatives. Uh, we did not do too good that last year on attendance. We ended the year at 91, but currently we're at 94.1. And uh again I attribute it to the attendance outreach um the yogi pride the welcome wagon uh kids show up in hat day we have incentives we have drawings just to get the families involved um and to welcome them to the campus and then my 18 my servant leaders um these people I can't do about so my assistant principal Miss Watson my counselor Miss Y
067she came to us from blessing. Um, our social worker, Miss Kquit. My right hand secretary, Miss Janette. My team is M. And our receptionist is Miss Williams. That's my team. Any questions? [Applause] Thank you, Miss W. I think they're hard together. So, Thank you. And now we have Melina Duches that's going to just present you all an update on the star assessment statewide facing board president and members of the board Dr. Tino. I'm Delena Ventes, director of curriculum and instruction. I also serve as district testing coordinator. So I am pleased to be here this evening to share some information about closing up a successful testing season and then also upcoming dates where we'll be getting results from the state uh to the district to families and then also publicly. The very first major assessment that
068we had in spring was our TELPASS and our TLPASS alternate. This is our Texas English language proficiency assessment that our emergent bilingual students take. And they're assessed on their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. And you can see uh across the bottom we have our district total. We had 122 students um who did take the T pass for us and this is from grades kindergarten all the way through 12th grade. The next major assessment that the window opened on was the STAR alternate 2. This is the alternate assessment um that is available to certain special ed students who meet specific criteria from the state and it is 3 through eight and the end of course. Uh we did have 64 students that took various star alt assessments in different subjects for a total of 145
069star alt assessments that were [Music] taken. Then the big one we had our star and star and course assessments and each of the subject areas is in a twoe window. So within that two week window um we can you know decide what days we're going to initially take the test and then we have the other window days to do makeups and try to get anyone who might have been absent. This is our grades three to eight and our end of course. Um you can see that total assessments for star and star end of course given for outdis ISSD we administered 6,300 assessments. Uh we had a participation rate districtwide um of you know close to 100% 99uh 21% of the students we were able to get in during the window to be able to take
070their assessments. So you can see from the numbers involved uh that our state required testing is definitely an all hands on deck kind of activity. Um it really takes everybody working together to be able to create create the best possible environment for our students that are needing to sit for these tests. Um, and also, you know, to help them feel comfortable to show what they know and get good data out of it. If we're going to give, you know, over 6,000 assessments, we want to make sure that we get back good data about what our students know, what we're doing well, and what we still need to work on and continue to improve. So, with that being said, I do want to sure and say thank you to everyone involved with the assessments. Um from
071our campus testing coordinators at each site, the administrators, all the teachers um and staff that help with the testing, the students who are sitting for these assessments and doing their very best. um and the families that are encouraging their their kids and and getting them to school and helping them uh feel ready to to tackle these things. The next couple uh slides just basically break down the assessments um by campus and then also they're colorcoded by subject. So, for example, the purple you're seeing is either an English or an art and language grade level. And you can see the comparisons. Different campuses have different loads as far as testing goes. And looking at the one on the right is William Middle School. They actually have the most assessments of any campus. And uh you can
072see we actually uh administered 2,44 assessments just at that campus alone. Moving into the elementaryaries, uh, one of the things that you'll notice kind of in the side by side is, uh, a couple of the campuses do have a few more assessments down. And you'll notice the little SP beside a couple of them. Those are Spanish assessments. Uh, we did have a couple campuses where we had some students who did qualify uh, to take the Spanish version of the assessment. So, we also have that as well. We had a couple of the elementary practices that during those little short windows, they did manage to have every single student that was eligible for testing take their test. So, we have a couple. So, all that gets to the exciting part is wanting to know when do
073we find out how everyone did? And we're going to start with when the state drops things to the district. So the first type of results that we get are the early student level results. So these are the first ones that come out. You can see according to those dates, they're going to start rolling in pretty soon here at the end of May. Um these don't include a lot of details. They don't include statewide comparisons. They don't include any item level information, but it does kind of provide enough information that, you know, we can know if somebody met their graduation requirements before graduation comes so that we know about invites for summer school for accelerated instruction needs. Then a little time later as we roll into June, we get our preliminary results dropped by the state
074to the district. Those are much more complete. Um, and we get those in, you know, a couple weeks later. Final results, which are the ones that actually then roll in to be used for accountability, those don't drop until July. So, these are the dates that they first get to us, but you notice quite a few of those are from somewhere. And so, the next couple slides are very important. This first one is family access dates. So, the state drops results directly to families for their students and then also group level publicly. So if people are aware of when this happens and know how to access it, they can access everything they need. So these dates listed here, the top row is when the preliminary results are scheduled to be in family portals directly from the
075state for each of the assessments. And then the bottom row is the final It is easier than ever this year for families to access their results because it's now linked through Skyward, which families already use for attendance and grades. So, you can see the little icon in the corner there for Texas assessments. They don't have to go to a separate site or do a separate sign on. They clink click the Texas assessment link and once those scores have dropped in there, even over the summer, whatever, have access to their students results. They'll have access to even, you know, the items, what questions looked like, uh, which ones they missed, their testing history, all of it. You know, where their areas of strength are in a part particular subject, where they need a little help. So,
076all of that is accessible on those same dates. The state also drops group level data to the Texas research portal which is available to absolutely anybody at that website. And you see they have find out how every Texas school is doing on state assessments. It's very transparent. You can go in there once those drop in the state. You can look up any campus in the state. You can look up any district in the state. And once you uh pull the campus or the district, you're able to uh say which of these assessments we talked about you want to see, what grade level, what subject bands. Um and you can, you know, play with the data however you want. Do comparisons and that's accessible to everyone. Um, so we do plan over the next couple weeks
077as we're getting a little closer to some of these drops to work pretty hard to try to communicate out this availability so that people know that they have this access and that all of this information is available either for their own students or just at the group level as well. Any questions? Thank you. Item number you have any questions for [Music] Mr. If not I just want to inform the board that on Saturday we are having a walk a simulation of an active shooter at Alice High School. We are asking for volunteers for students and staff. We'd like to see how prepared we are and where our gaps are so we can ensure safety for our students. So, we've been planning that and we've been working with consultants from even the valley to see, you
078know, how it's going to work out. Administrators will be present. We'll all be present to see how we're going to handle it. We are asking parents to sign a consent form because uh when talking to other districts that have done this live, you know, you kind of hear the bullets and you know, it's a little scary and can be scary for the students. So, we're asking them to pass up the theater students. We're asking them to ask the law enforcement students, those that are a little more familiar with what may be happening. But we also, you know, are opening it up to any student who may be interested to see how we're going to react. Are we ready as a community? Are we ready as a staff to take care of the kids? You know,
079we do all the the proper, you know, lockdowns, but like when we talk to the principles, typically when we do a fire drill, guess what? Everyone's in the classroom. We're not doing fire drills during lunch. We're not doing fire drills, you know, when we're doing pickups or drop offs. So, those are that we recognize through the research that that's really when senses happen during during pickup or during lunch. So we're trying to figure out how else we can do. So that will be Saturday and we'll see we're asking for volunteers. to item number 12, the presentation and business updates. 12 a business report and budget revenues and extensions through April 30th. That information is found in your packet. Any questions on revenue? Item number 13, the presentation and updates regarding all facilities [Music] maintenance and
080operations department. audience. Uh first of all, I want to thank you for the participation today's operation report. I'm going to talk about Dallas High School. I started reaching out to a couple other vendors in order to start assessing and assisting with some of the children. One of the companies that were using Texas a lot of their admin companies so they're kind of not available right now. So other other than Johnson and Johnson control, they were the ones that were helping us out. So I reached out to we start our water system. We get a now our water service report shows our readings are satisfactory and range levels. Clean out the strain to verify chemical pump functioning down low operating stream did have some mud in there. have some concerns about that uh and that's a
081builder from cooling tower uh that will require cleaning before the next year begins with that being said I already reached out to some of the vendors in order to get that clean tower services basically uh targeting the 100 area high and work will be scheduled for the summer consulted with CFO and started Frank put together an RFP for the second renovation there high school which will be right in front of the fencing around the east side multi-purpose facility is still in progress uh that fencing is part of the for the TA 256 that multi-purpose and on the bay door and the multi multi facility we have like fencing that's not required so great job that safety operations fining tomorrow's meeting to the area that Dr. talking. Any questions on that? also super working on logistics
082for graduation held make that happen some of the fences missing. So u I talked to my crew that came from the assistant in this project Mr. David Gilbert, George and Robert and [Music] Custoio being shortanded in the process of interviewing before we interviewed [Music] Mr. presentations with students. Do we have any questions for Mr. in the presentation updates and we also recognize that a lot of students under the department we have questions if not that concludes our presentation tonight meeting our session in the Texas code section. A1 presentation of the superintendent's recommendation regarding the hiring and/or individuals for the position of diagnostician. Item 16 A1 B discussion of the superintendent's recommendation regarding the hiring of andor individuals for the position of human resources coordinator 1682 pursuant to Texas government code section 551.074 551.071 consultation with
083attorney discussion regarding recommended removal term probationary and nonapter 21 campus professional contract office administrator contract administrator. Discussion special at the end of the 14 years. update regarding discussion. Believe Sound. [Music] The time is now 11:08. We are back from executive session. Recon meeting agenda item number 17. The board to reconvene an open meeting or session to consider and take action as necessary on items discussed in close and executive sessions. Item 18 announcements on action item 18A consideration and possible action of 181 consideration and possible action of diagnostic. I have a motion. [Music] You have a motion by [Music] Mr. Passes. Item 182 consideration and possible action of hiring of the human resources [Music] coordinator. opposed. Item 18, consideration of possible action to approve the renewal of [Music] termary. Chapter 21, campus professional contract office administrative
084contract administr 2026 I just have a motion by Mr. Is there a second by Mr. All in favor item 18 consideration and possible action to terminate employee leer stationary contract to Texas education code 21.206 There's a motion by Mr. B. All in [Music] favoration possible action. Is [Music] there a 18 consideration possible action? of resations. [Music] Second, special ongoing investigations. There's no such [Music] action. Item number 19. Now 11:13