AISD Board Meeting 4/14/25

001[Music] You know what you like? [Music] There it is. There it is. administrative [Music] Hi there. How are you? almost definitely if we find just It was so funny. [Music] I was like I was Hello. Even though there's so much I didn't realize I didn't really like I went in and I was like I hear opportunity. [Music] Item number two on the agenda is going to be roll call establishing a form. I think the only person missing today is going to be Mr. Herman. Everyone else is present in the auditorium. Next item is going to be 28. Announcement of the meeting of the Dallas Independent School District has been called. The notice of the meeting has been posted on Texas Act section 551. 042 Texas code. I pledge the United States flag, Texas flag and

002honors. I flag to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, one of liberty and justice for all. I honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God in and This evening we have Jaden, daughter of Sabrina and Joshua leading us in the pledge of allegiance and Mr. Benio son of Lana and Robert Gastio leading us with the Texas pledge. [Applause] They are both fourth grade students at Science Elementary. They are superstars. Thank you very much. We're going to move on to item number four. Recommending recommended approval of the minutes. Board minutes 4A minutes from regular board meeting March 17, 2025. We have a motion by Miss. Is there a second? We have a second by Mr. Molina. Any discussion? All

003in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. We're going to move on to item number five, which is the public comments. And there is no one signed up to the public comments. So, we're going to move on to item number six, which is the superintendent report. Dr. Thank you. We will start this evening by recognizing our boys and girls regional and state powerlifting qualifiers. I invite coach Joe as an animal to the podium. We're very proud of our students for representing how ISD and they did amazing. [Applause] We are sure to come out uh today to recognize our state. Along with that, our 2025 state champion [Applause] [Music] Let's go. uh the season to the coaching this school athletes right here amazing job uh it's a lot of hard work a lot of early but the hard

004work and dedication Sean um and the state of Texas [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] around and she said she [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Chinese and all Chinese. I wish [Music] I came in the last 3 months and we third place and I hope there is a piece of money and hope and she my mother is [Applause] [Music] It's called [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] And [Applause] [Music] now I finally notice here and it's extremely hard to make and finally [Applause] Anybody that uh [Music] [Applause] for just [Applause] This should not be the original chances. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Make sure [Applause] and the world. [Applause] Thank you as well for your leadership and ensuring that you motivate the kids. So I don't want to say it, but we

005need to repeat that girls state champions. They'll be by the way. So we're really excited about that. So thank you much. Now we like to recognize our destination and [Music] state to the podium. Good evening president of prison admin instruction. I am also the district board member for destination imagination and science. So tonight I have the honor of recognizing the hard work of quite a few of our students in those areas. At the elementary level for Destination Imagination, we have a team from Dubose Elementary. The team manager is Stella Grimes. She was not able to be present today. So, our high school team manager, Miss Loren Garcia Nigos, is stepping up to help out with presenting certificates to all of the students. [Applause] was a regional qualifier team. The regionals were held at Veterans Memorial

006High School in Corpus Christie in February. This team is named Clever Coyotes and they placed second at regionals. They also followed for state level competition which was the Lonear Finals at UT Arlington which was held in March. So this team was made up of Leslie [Applause] Bright, [Applause] Ariel, Dolina [Applause] Kira [Applause] Rodriguez and Jed on the stage for us teams up before we get a picture. At the middle level, we did have a blue madness team. That team manager was Miss Olivia Esco. She also was not able to make it. This team fifth place at regionals and was made up of Roland Aras and [Applause] Ryan. At the high school level, we had two teams. Our first team, which is Harmonic Heroes, earned second place at regionals in their division. And this team is

007made up of Eli [Applause] Walford, [Music] Noah, Isaac, Thomas, Matthew Canon and [Applause] Michael. And our last high school team, which the team name is TBD, they placed first at regionals and qualified for state in Arlington. At state in Arlington, they earned the high instant challenge award. So in that portion of the competition, uh they won the highest score out of the 16 state qualifying teams um in their category. So this team is made up of Tiffany [Music] [Applause] Kimia and Marcusia. Congratulations team. [Applause] Congratulations again boys and girls. Now, Mission will be recognizing our participants in science fair, both regional and state. Our science fair recognitions are going to start with our youngest scientists. So, we're going to do our elementary regional qualifiers first. We're going to do it by grade level and we'll

008ask that they stay up on stage for an elementary level picture. The coastal educational science fair called the at Texas&M campus Christy in February. Our kindergarten participants will be coming up first. And we can have and earn a third place women at regionals. We have Hay Harris from Newton who won a second [Applause] place and Jenna from [Applause] Our first grade group we have Kane Garcia from [Music] [Applause] SHA [Music] [Applause] Charles Na Thomas from Sher first place [Applause] winner. Second grade we have Jace Margus from [Applause] M. We have Lorenzo from the second place and John Ed from Newman with the third place. For our third grade group, we have the team of Gonzalez and Bella Garcia from [Applause] New We have Jason Harris from Spines with the second place. [Applause] As Sanchez from

009Sher for the third [Applause] place at fourth grade we have Caroline at Union second place Jay Cha from second [Applause] place Jako from the third [Applause] Our fifth grade group, we have the team of a and from Charles from the third [Applause] place. And we have the team of Lucas Ice and Lorenzo Jin from New I would also like to thank our elementary sponsors, Miss Gracie from [Applause] [Music] signs of [Applause] find heat. Moving to our secondary regional qualifiers. We also competed our regionals at Texas Aen Christie in February. Um I would like to start by welcoming Marine Scient [Music] Coordinator for our sixth grade regional qualifiers. We have the team of Wisconsin and Mary. [Applause] We have Kylie Aara and we have [Applause] Conire first place environmental sciences and thermal picture scientific junior innovators

010challenge award for top 10% performance and all to compete at the state science and engineering at practicing in a conversation which took place in March. Our seven ballers. We have the team of and we [Applause] [Music] have the Fisher Junior and Raiders Challenge Award for top 10%. She was also a state on buyer and Chloe also earned best in show for 6 through 12 grade three at the coastal regional science fair. [Applause] qualifiers. We [Applause] have and qualified for state competition as well. and I can stay up here and we'll go ahead and bring up high school. Our high school coordinator is Mr. Roberto Garcia and our high school regional qualifiers we have Eli [Applause] Walker and we have Torres [Music] first place qualifier and third place water. We have Matthew Canon, third place environmental

011engineering of the environmental protection agency. We have JC Gonzalez. Third place material [Applause] science. Third place chemistry. Third place animal [Applause] science. First place microbiology and a state qualifier. [Applause] second place in the social sciences [Applause] and congratulations everybody and responses. [Applause] Thank you very much and sponsors. We know it's not easy to be competing in the science fair and moving up to the projects for the regional and state level, but we're really proud of our students. They're putting out the size on the map. So, we are excited to check out the number of state and regional qualifiers for next year. Thank you so much. [Applause] As far as our assignment, which is six feet presentation, information miscellaneous, just a reminder to all our students and to anyone out there that is watching and our

012individuals out in the audience, tomorrow we continue our star assessment. Tomorrow we are testing at all levels at the elementary, middle school, and high school. Tomorrow we test biology at Alice High School for our sophomores and students that need to take biology. Lamb will be taking biology as well for the first time in middle school as well as 8th grade science. Elementary is testing science in fifth grade. And Wednesday the high school continues through US history. last week. We want to thank all our teachers for the work that they've been doing not only with the students that tested last week, but what they've been doing throughout the year and preparing students not just for your state assessment, but preparing them to succeed in life. And so last week, we took the RA, English one, English

0132, and course still 21 students that need to take their English one and English two at Alice High School. We have four students at WS that still need to take their ROA. One is closed, two of science is at 100% with their ELA. So, thank you Mr. and Sher needs one more student. So, we're excited uh to have our students demonstrate excellence because that is what our teachers have been doing to prepare them. So, again, thank you to the teachers for all the work. Thank you to the students for doing their very very best and as well as the parents for ensuring that their students are in school every day and for supporting their students and everything that they're doing. So I'd like to follow by our academic update this evening. We have Miss Traton

014who will be sharing information on Science Elementary and what they've been doing to ensure that our students are leaders are academically successful building character and service. Good evening [Music] president and I am very pleased to be up here. So I'm going to start by just letting you know that along our mantra is building champion. And so a champion um extends to an individual who is really striving not just for excellence but overcoming any type of uh overcoming any type of adversity and challenges. So that's something that we're really trying to live by every day. Um but I'd like to introduce our small administrative team. So it's a team of myself and Miss Samira Massie who is our assistant principal who is in the audience being supportive tonight. um and she works very hard and we're

015very happy to have this masky with us today. So, thank you for all of her work. So, the mission of Science Elementary is to educate, inspire, and empower our students to succeed in life and become the next generation of leaders. However, our vision is to provide positive and collaborative learning environment with an emphasis on the social emotional development of our students so that they may thrive in the 21st century. So here is the current enrollment for Science Elementary by grade level. We've broken it down for you. So our total number as of today is 474. These are our science demographics. So as you can see our special education population, we're at 22%. Which is a little bit higher um you know than a lot of other campuses. So like one in every five students, right,

016has been identified as having some type of disability. Um so we service a very special and unique population. We have uh 5% of our students are 504 um emerging bilingual. So I say it all the time science is extremely special because we have the uh largest population of emerging bilingual students and it's a great group of students. Um and I know that number may not seem that big but for our campus it is a pretty large number. So we have 5% of our students are emerging bilingual. 194% um GT we're up a little bit from last year. Something that we try and do is make sure that we're always correctly identifying and keeping the lookout for students who can be in that um population because they're out there and we know we have them. And

017then our economic disadvantaged last year we were 87%. And so currently we are at 94. So we see a significant gain there in that percentage um of our economically disinfected students and then so I have here a little breakdown of our staff. So this is just basic um you know information in range of experience right and so you can see that almost half of our staff is in the year to five year range of experience but I also want to say that's a great thing for us right because um teachers that are coming new and fresh out of college they're very um enthusiastic they're coming with innovative ideas a lot of high energy and so that's really great for us because we're able to mold and you know cultivate and really help foster that level

018of learning. So we actually really like having we have great learners at our school and currently we've had that early childhood special education vacancy um and so that's been pretty much all year long and um I just want to touch on how we supported that population of teachers. So here in AIC, like every other campus, we have a very strong mentorship program. Um, but something that I feel is very specific to science and is part of our action plan. Um, the vision was that we wanted to give teachers a very routine and structured way of learning. And one of those is by watching your peers and seeing it in, you know, in action in live time. So, what we did since the beginning of the year is we've made sure to carve out release time

019bi-weekly for all of our teachers to go in and observe their colleagues and their peers. And it's worked out really beautiful. And so, we have some pictures here of of them being able to do that. Um, and sometimes if we don't have all of um the strengths needed, we have no problem going to another campus and taking teachers to go serve and, you know, get our teachers what they need. We have our weekly professional learning communities where our teachers are um engaged in different types of learning and that learning might be specific to the campus or maybe even for the grade level. So that's a great um opportunity for them. Every week they meet for reading and for math with their colleagues where they plan um for the following week and they're able to share

020and kind of together and you know get um different ideas from one another. And finally, one of the ones that has probably the most impact is making sure that we as um a team at science can build capacity through coaching and modeling with our teachers. And that's not always done just by the administrators. That's done by our teachers. I mean, um we have Mina Rodriguez who comes to the school, Elena, different I mean any resource that we can get available, we offer it to them. But we see a large um a large gain in that So attendance is something that you know here in Alice is really big and I'm very pleased to share this data with you because we do have significant gains um with attendance because we need our kids in the classroom

021learning. So our goal uh well we finished off the year at 92.8 last year and so I put some little um side information there. So in 22 23 the school year ended at 90% attendance and last year we that um you can see we had a 2.47 increase by ending the last school year at 92.8 and our goal is 94 for the end of the 2425 school year and I'm pleased to announce that as of today we are 94.73. So that's really exciting that a lot of work to be done but heading in the right direction. Um, and so some of the things that we do in the summer, we get together with our team. We identify any students who may be at risk uh of having any type of truency issues. So, we come

022together with our team. We tier them. We reach out letting parents know we're here to support you. Again, going back to our demographics, that support, you know, is definitely needed with some of our families. Um, every day at 8:15, we have our preliminary check-in where the parents go, the social worker, we're calling homes, trying to get the kids in there. But I think that what is the most important and probably what again has the highest impact is creating its culture shift is really getting um students, teachers and parents, the entire community to buy in not just to perfect attendance but great attendance, right? Because we're realistic. We get ill. We're not robots. That type of thing. Um so we try and celebrate just what great attendance might look like. So, I've included some pictures of

023some fun activities that our kiddos do. We have grade level contests, rewards. We sprinkle in fun days, spirit week, I mean, spirit week, you name it, we try and do it. Partnering with local community members. We're very thankful to like Woodburger. They've been a great um sponsor program has been very useful. And finally, utilization of ACE and any enrichment program. Sometimes our kids love to come to school when they know that they're going to go to the esports or running club or music whatever and you hold on. So whatever you can do [Music] again from And so January we [Music] see [Music] January and so our responsibility first make sure that everyone That's always what we're trying to get. However, we ended the year last year and we set our goal for the end of

024this school year accountability for and so we're we're confident that we're going to, you know, that we're definitely headed that way. And I also want to take the I want to thank each of you because everything that you approve whether it's HQM summit tango whatever it is that we do with AISD having all of the tools necessary and at our teachers fingertips that's definitely helping move all of us in the right direction. So for the academic focus all year long we really wanted to go deep with with less right and not just move on to the next game if we weren't um seeing the games that we wanted to. So, first and for foremost, we always started um with making sure that 100% of our teachers were using the high quality instructional material that's been

025already. And so, we're we're right there. And then now it's how we use those materials, right? So, all I talk to you about different things that we do to support our new teachers and so they have the tools in front of them. Now it's just about making sure that their delivery is up to par with all of those things. So we are focusing on just best practices of good teaching. One of them making sure that our kids are talking. We want our students to be rich in oral language and so academic discourse, making sure that they're using that vocabulary. We want our kids engaged. We don't want them with their heads down. We want them participating, being very active in the classroom. And of course when I speak about those best practices, I'm talking about

026speaking, reading, and writing. And one of the ones that I'm most proud of, and I really wish, you know, these pictures could talk because I was able to see a lot of these in real time. And so, we know that research shows that teachers and students or anybody that sets a goal, we're more likely to attain them if we are able to track our progress towards that goal. And so, I'm going to just really briefly just share with you the little girl in um the room sitting there with her father. And so she's one of our emerging bilingual students. And so that was one of our star um B study nights and she was able to articulate and share with her dad where she was and everything she needed to be able to move forward.

027So it was such a great moment. So our students are able to um let me know where they're going and how they're going to get there. So the other part of our academic focus is making sure that we were able to identify students for um and project where we think they're headed in on STAR. And so we were able to identify every student by name. Teachers were able to do that. And so we have a vision of where all our kids are going to be. Academic enrichment as far as everybody supporting. So we have our coach in the upper right hand corner. And so she knew there was a need for free science. she stepped in and so she's been um doing enrichment every Wednesday and Monday, Wednesday, Saturday school. Um the administrators, the health

028tutor, our instructional support team, our interventionist, everybody. And I just want to stress that writing has been huge all year long. So, a couple years ago when Star 2.0 looking down. Um almost half of some grade levels like 49 and one in particular were scoring a zero on their writing. And so that was screaming that we needed to do something. And so that has been um something that we had really worked hard at training our teachers and our students. And last year we were able to cut that number in half um for some of our our grade level. So we felt really really positive about our students and sending them writers. So here's some of our star data. So on the on the left side you see how we ended last year the 23 24

029that's how we perform. On the right those are the goals that we have set um you know set in place for for this star assessment. What I do want to point out is that you might see like a discrepancy, you know, in percentages, but what we're doing is we're tracking from cohort to cohort, right? So those fifth graders right there that finished off at the 78, the 60, and the 28, those are students now at um and so then you see the 74, 42, 11, the fourth grade, those are the current fifth graders right now. So our goal for them is to end the year at 825525. And I do want to say that you know last year our fifth graders did very well because in order to get that A we want all of

030our students to get that 90% approaches um 60% meets and 30% masters and we were really really close and in one pod we even had a teacher who earned pain. So we feel you know very proud of those little pockets of of success that we're seeing. Here's our math data again on the left. That's how we performed in our goals for this year. So, as you can see, like our fourth grade, we raised some of our high fifth grade math. That was a veteran teacher who they performed pretty well. And so, now we moved her fifth grade. So, she's also, you know, her kids. So, the bar is that even higher for her. Our science data And so our plan for SAR, I'm not going to go through all of these. All I want to

031let you know is that immediately after benchmark 2, we began strategizing and creating um a very detailed action plan. And so we got together all you know appropriate stakeholders, everybody who had some type of input, some type of hand in what we were doing. And we really planned accordingly. uh being very very intentional in the weeks leading up to SAR. Um and so not just resources, but we restructured some of that maybe just like groupings, um the utilization of teacher strengths, the materials that we were using. We wanted to make sure that we were giving our kids every chance of doing well. Here are some pictures of our kids right in the in the big dark view. We try and make a lot of activities gameike and engagement high. And so these right here are

032just some pictures of our students. So we took the TES assessment back in March. Um and there's two people I really wanted to thank today. I have Maggie Dennis and Elvis Al who are two of our inter reading interventionists and they played a crucial role in TLA. They really have been dedicated to learning a K12 program that's been instrumental in helping our kids feel prepared. They put in some long hours, making sure that our kids were really um wellrounded and well versed in what they were going to have to do, making sure that our kiddos were getting um stronger in language and you know for the language assessment. So there they are working hard in their little sessions right there. And um so what we tell our kids all the time is we work hard

033but we play hard too, right? Because kids need to be able to see the fruits of their labor and so do teachers. And so that's something that we're very very happy about with signs. Um we are trying to celebrate growth and whatever that looks like and that ranges from classroom to classroom, grade to grade. And so here you see where we took our kiddos to urban And that's just one little example. But what makes me feel good is a teacher in the middle who is a new teacher. And so they take it upon themselves to celebrate their kiddos. They spend their own money. They purchase pizza and have all these parties and do things on their own. Um and so they'll send me pictures writing about their kids. So that feels really good to see

034all the time. And so as much as we care about academics and believing we do, I also want to just share that at science and everything out of it, we really like to focus on the whole child, right? And so we want our kids to leave science elementary feeling that they are the best of the best and they can conquer anything that this world gives them. And so these this is just one example of what that could look like. And so here are our student ambassadors and we talk all the time about your character. And so you know the pillars of leadership service and so we always hold these kids to a high standard of making sure that they know that their peers are watching them, the liberals are watching them. And so it's a

035big responsibility. But I just love the smile of a little boy Justin in the middle when we caught him off guard. But they're willing to greet. They're willing to go in and help. to class, whatever it is. And so, um, again, that's just one example of different things that we try to focus on. Thank you. Okay. All right. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you, Miss Captain. You can tell that you're very passionate about your school and more importantly, your students. Summer school's coming up and it's just around the corner. So, we want to an update on summer school because we know that out in the community a lot of people may ask when it's going to be happening or what are we going to be offering. So I invite Gracie Garcia

036into the podium to share that with you all the board president members of the board Dr. Daniel and audience as you heard um science elementary he trapped present all the wonderful things happening in ISD with all the learning that's taking place we want to make sure we expand that through summer as well so we are offering a plethora of we have a plethora of summer offerings as well we're going to start with our our ESL students these are emerging bilingual So, we are going to have for our students, for our ESL students, we're going to offer them um a summer program. We are required to offer for our prek and K students. Uh they they uh should attend a total of 170 hours. We also included this year our first graders as well. The location

037for our ESL program will be at Newman Elementary. The Dates will be June 2nd through the 27th. It is a Monday through Friday program. It will start at 8 to 2:00 p.m. so they can meet 120 hours. All summer school kids will be provided breakfast and lunch. Continuing with our elementary, our second grade through fifth grade locations will be Newman and showers. So students zone to Newman and will attend Union Elementary. Students known to Dubose and Shower will attend Shower Elementary. The time is 8:20 to 12:30. Dates June 3rd through the 27th. Again, it's a Monday through Friday program. The schedule for grades 2 and 3, they will have math, RLA, and specials. What we mean what we mean by specialist is that they will be having a rotation of PE art something to so

038that they're not just working on reading and math something to get them up and moving around. For our fourth and fifth graders, we are going to add science as well. Our fifth graders do test in science which you heard that they'll be will be testing tomorrow. And so based on the results, those kids that do not approaches will also be attending summer school. And summer school for these levels is based on star results. It's based on attendance and they don't meet the 90% rule which means they need to be they cannot miss more than seven days in the seme. If they do then they have to attend several schools. Moving on to our middle school to we also have our jump start learning academy there. Location of course is W time 8:15 to 12:45 June

0393rd and June 27th. And the schedule for sixth graders will be RA math P. For seventh grade same RA M and However, in their RLA class, they will be embedding a little bit of social studies as well. For the eighth grade students, we will have RLA, math, science, and [Music] PE for our Kyo Advanced Math Academy. And these are first students that were in fifth grade and performed in their top 40. They were really great last year performed in the top 40% in their math star and are now part of the sixth grade class. So we're going to be offering summer 27 to 12:45. And so the goal for these students is because they were in the sixth grade accelerated math class they were sixth grade teach. The goal during the summer program was to

040reinforce those seventh grade teach because as seventh graders they will be uh taught seventh grade and eighth grade TESS as well. So we want to make sure before sending them off to the seventh grade to learn seventh and eighth grade that we reinforce what they already learned. Also for these students, they will be taking math, PE, and we're going to offer a STEM program for them. STEM are courses that have science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But these courses are designed to invoke critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity in the student. If Alice High School don't start For our high school, it's a little different. We have the credit recovery and star prep classes for those students that still need to pass their EOCC's time 8:30 to 1 days June 3rd through June 16th, Monday through

041Friday. And they will be in credit recovery labs and in star courses. Um there they will be some of these kids will be testing in June. So I have provided you with schedule there. Also for kids in Alice High School, we are also offering a fast track summer academy. Eligible participants will be incoming freshman and current high school students. It will be at Ellis High School a 30 to1 June 3rd through the 27th. And we will be offering Spanish one for one year credit. for a one year credit. Government and economics both are half credit, so it's one semester each. We also are going to include some CTE courses. We're going to include principles of health science and that's a one year credit and this is for our public service endorsement for working staff and

042principles of agriculture and that's a one-year credit for the business and industry endorsement. That is our summer program summer 202. Thank you. jump start a Our programs focus on success and that's leadership service and character to students to support students and to guide them through different types of future. First I'll be talking about the community career and technology updates. The next two slides are provided for you. Um give you a representation of our career clusters and our endorsements as well as our programs of study. the teachers that teach those level courses and the certifications for each of the courses of the program set that was talking about earlier and then of course we have currently programs of study and next year for the 2025 2026 school year offer 16 programs of study with additional courses

043that we offered. So we have the animal science and systems as well as graphic designing and financial business and marketing and sales to renewable energy which engineering to teaching and learning. We also have the program of science which uh the enforcement is public service and the program is diagnostic and therapeutic and teachers and this is one of our biggest offer and the programs actually cifications that lead to certification which is certified nursing assistance certification and certification. So for example during the spring breaks were actually working on their cificance with c And so while we were actually enjoying our so tells you the character of our students and how hard they work and how diligent they work in order to get those certifications automotive and welding is a little through our CBC College for parents and

044students in order to choose their program of study in grade all the way to 12th grade. And so in order to facilitate that a little bit, make it easier for parents, I provided a course making it simple for parents to make to choose the program to study. And here we have the cluster which is the health science and then the diagnostic therapeutic service and then courses and courses meaning courses that they can take as freshman, sophomore, junior and so on. And so for example as freshman they will take principles of health science and as sophomor take medical and I also have current pictures of our students that are working in those programs with teachers there so that they can see their friends and those programs in order to sell the program study. Um I also

045included the postsecary opportunities for so that students and parents What type of degree can I get for an associate for a bachelor's and masters and then doctor as well and um as well as giving them information about internships that they can um they can sign up for and then industry based certifications as well as aligning occupations for for example salaries or the types of careers that they have in that particular program study. All 15 program studies are in the course for parents to see and to choose and have that opportunity. Our second uh is of the early high school college and in this year and previous years we've had one uh university as our partner and that is coal college. However, this coming year because of the generous in giving us the opportunity or giving

046students the opportunity to have additional institutions uh to choose and um and courses that they can take either through our early college program or to through our dual courses. to be eligible to be in early college. There are some uh qualifications for uh to be eligible for that is to be a current eighth grader in order to [Music] um the ECHS focuses on students that are to select students being at risk, economically disadvantaged students, emerging learners or learners, first generation college students and migrant students. And this selection criteria is very important as we move on to the next slide. Um and knowing that in the application process, it is important to note that the application for parents and students is due by May the 2nd by 4:00 and there will be no applications to turn

047in after that. So, in order for um if there are 50 or more students that are interested in being in the program 50 or more applications then there will uh there will be a lottery process and how that process works is if I am a student and I turn in an application I have wanted in if I am a student that is my disadvantage then my goes in the hat three times. And so those target criteria is very important as we have and we identify those students uh before we put in and all students are actually notified whether in the program and congratulate them. The students that are engaged uh waiting list and students that did not make the program. However, that did not make the program still have an opportunity to take college courses

048through our dual program. Uh so each uh institution that we talked about CDC in Kville like for example CBC has it can take up to six hours with and then you have to pass the TSI math reading and writing. So what are the benefits of being in early college? Well, the benefits are is that you have a free tuition, a free education to gain at least an associates degree, access to a the most current laptops or free laptop for the four years that you are enrolled in the ECHS program. And then we have an opportunity to 60 college hours or associates through the early college program all college credit for students in jump start. Um our CT programs uh of study encourage emerging environment for our students to succeed. Um currently we have u at

049Dallas High School 1,271 students enrolled out of those uh 1271,200 students are taking or are enrolled in our programs of study taking courses in CTE generating funds and and also generating our accountability through our certification. So that's 94% of our students which is a lot. The next couple of slides are provided for you. So to give you an idea of what our students are doing and CT and and the outstanding work that they've done for the hours that they put in. For example, we have um our uh skills USA competition which is almost like a UI. first place competition in medical terminology and she and uh the competition is fierce and it's a large group of individuals and so not only did they uh they won first place but they're continuing to go to nationals

050and that the first one that's of our out there. So then we also have first place in Skills USA [Music] competition to Kim Antonio and Caleb Floyd. We also have a first place in the state of Texas which is Texas Association of Future Educators and that's Chara and Cassandra Gara and then we also have an accounting who won first place in our county and is continuing to uh district in leadership. We also have our students do um volunteer to um go to our elementary schools to and ties and sell programs and get students in elementary schools interested in different and different careers. So here we are an example of students at um and also and then we also have students that um volunteered their to show their skills uh and demonstrate their programs uh at

051the high school for 9th graders to 12th grade. And then one of the biggest things that we do is we take them to the Richard Convention Center for the You Choose Expo. And last but not least, his service and character. We have the top right we have our students in culinary volunteering their service as they help serve at the Alice district. And we also have five students in accounting who receive their which is volunteer income tax assistant uh certification. And what that entails is having passing a test of 100 questions. all five of them and alone in addition to 20 hours of service that they did with the United Way working with uh individuals uh actually doing forome individuals. Next year we're hoping to do it here in Dallas. Any questions? [Applause] people are very

052proud of their program. So, thank you very much. We just want to give a quick update on student services. I know loves to share attendance, but I know she's also sharing exchange students and other topics. Yes. Good evening, members of the board, Dr. Members of the audience. Uh, tonight the student month update. My favorite thing to share with you is that campus attendance for the month of March. If you look at last year's and this year's for the high school, we were at 8753. This year, 8906, giving us that 1.52% increase. At the middle school, we are 9118. This year, 9261 giving us that 1.43% increase at 9412 this year. 946 giving us that 84% increase. Sign is 9249% this year 9486% giving us that high 2.37% increase for SH the 94.62 last year this

053year the 95.72% giving us that 1.10% increase. And then at Zubos, they were at 91176 last year and district 9391 giving us that 2.15% increase. Moving on to the district, last year we at 91.07% this year at 92.63% giving us that 1.56% increase. So this buffer momentum, just to let you know, it's a positive indicator that we are looking And we are hoping you know I want to say hoping organizing our attendance goal. So down the bottom I just wanted to let you know we are still the students of excellence and so these students uh they outstanding character leadership academic effort and positive behavior. And so the campuses will send a student name to students and what we do is uh we give the parent a phone call to let them know how great their

054students have been at the campus. They receive a certificate and a shout out on social media and believe this is actually good for those students. It gives them that confidence and so it has been worth doing this for them and so we will continue to do that. Moving on to the Monday. So March last year we were at [Music] 1,426,356.50. We reduced that loss to this school year at [Music] $980,1476 representing a saving of $446,21944. This is nearly half a million that we save just in the month of March. So quick For our high school, we currently have a foreign exchange student program. And what that is is that we allow different exchange programs to kind of uh collaborate with our high school. We have some district partners. A couple of them are green card

055exchange council for educational travel USA and our international student exchange. What happens is these students come over for a year, usually during their junior year. We did have two 12th grade students in 2023 that graduated at Alice High School. Uh so they come here every year just to get that experience to American education and culture. They do come with English language understanding. So that's not very important. A quick kind of where the students are coming from. We have students from Japan, Brazil, Czech Republic, Spain. This year we have somebody from Cambodia coming in. we have a student and so this is a great opportunity for our students as well. What does it do for our high school students? It prepares them for that localized world. You know, right now with these skills that are needed

056for today's workforce, a lot of this is helping them equip that and they're able to work with those kind of students. So when they go out there in the world, they're able to build up collaborating international. Last but not least is our 2526 inerson student registration. So we do go live this April 1st. This is just to let you know you know that we will be having that face to face on May 1st and May 7th at central office in the boardroom. We are doing a lot of fun activities for the families. We're doing a coloring station for our kids. Snacks for a little mascot will be there. We are giving out those free t-shirts for all the new prek and kinder students. On May 7th, we are we've invited the Department of State Health

057Services. They'll be there on site to give invitations for any student who may need their four-year-old shot or any seventh grader coming in for the uh required vaccination for their MMR. And of course, she's great donation. We have giving out free vouchers. We that we provided that lunch. We had LJ in donated snacks for their little ones and so a lot of great things for them and these are mainly for those families that got assistance with the online registration. So we'll be there to help them and that is all I have for you guys tonight. Any questions have any questions for Mr. on safety. We can move on to Mr. B. Again, I just wanted to give you an update on the interest that the bond has provided us a board. I'm here to present

058a date regarding bond. As of April 9, 2025, our 2024 bond has approved [Music] $810,819.75, roughly 150,000 per month within the last 7 months starting September 1st, 2024. That's all the updates I have for today. Thank you all so much. Thank you, Mr. Michael. Do you want to come up to Mr. Can at the same time. That way you can just follow. So for Mino board time evening uh just real quick on maintenance operations uh maintenance operations related to star testing tomorrow ensuring smooth function of the testing line and infrastructure with that being said I'm very blessed the team that's out there addressing those issues dayto dayting [Music] is back addressing implementing that 5ear strategic plan and that's important and uh addressing what comes on the day operation. So AC's u dayto day uh the

059u interior cleaning of the school that's a strategic plan that was also brought up and so we raised some in quotes folks to get that taken care of probably the summer start the school forward our guys doing a great job clean that area clean out some of the trails that used to be back in the days and open some outdoor of team building issues too. We're addressing those day replacing tiles trying to minimize and those and pretty much any questions regarding operations. Thank you. Just on another just want to let you know too because brought to my attention several calls are asking for the watering where we're at with our watering and we're pretty much still the same restricted and so we're trying to find a way to make that happen and see what we're

060trying to do. Good evening board president regarding the demolition phase one we projected to achieve on March 3rd. This included the additional discovered the demolition that we had requested. The total contract phase one was $622,6 there is a credit amount coming back to the district for the unused contingency amount of 62,500. Since demolition since the demolition phase was completed rather quickly, we anticipated there would be a gap between demolition and new construction. So, we're working to to try to begin phase two as quickly as possible. We% on March 3rd and we received a draft champion which is the guarantee maximum price on Tuesday afternoon. We met with Jacobs on Wednesday, April 9th at their offices in Texas. We review all the bids that were received. Um we evaluated all the different subcontractors. Several divisions we

061received multiple bids on others we received just one. We were able to verify some items rather quickly. And so we're still continue to evaluate those bids with the design team engineers and contractors and trying to negotiate to be able to come within the next week to present the final GP to begin phase two. We did list a couple items after our meeting with Jacob on Wednesday. We did come here. We also coached by some as well. So we're [Music] continu Um and so we're trying to get these where we need to be. So we going to come and uh get the GMP approved. Um also we have issued a set of construction to the city of for so that and we also issued a set of drawings to a registered accessibility specialist which is part

062of the requirement from accessibility. Those items are questions. If not, based on the information that you provided, we probably need to be calling a special call meeting next week. The GMP. Yes, sir. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. [Music] Thank you to the consent agenda. All items under the consent agenda are act one motion. On a board member requesting the consent agenda shall be moved to the action portion of the regular agenda. This time we have a motion to approve the consent agenda. We have a motion. Is there a second? We have a second by Mr. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. So we're going to move on to item number eight which is action items is consideration and possible action of allowance expenditure authorization number 01 for removal proposal.

063So as a just a refresher when PD came in to do their you know demolition of the stadium they did find 15 pillars. So 37,500 but just as just mentioned we do have just approved to have a change order and allowance credit. So we actually got some of it will be going through the number 17 is that credit of 62,000 and offset this for the needed to be motion. Excellent. Yes. Motion by M. Second Molina. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Anything is consideration and possible action of substantial completion of package number one, which is the demolition. We're justing that they do complete that job. [Music] Second opinion discussion. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. C is consideration of possible action to approve the 2025 2026 instructional material and teach certification

064form. I invite our hosts to the podium. I don't know you've heard that there's been a lot of talk about the recent curriculum and the changes that are being proposed. So, we want to be very transparent with you and the community as to the district's position on the highly uh high quality instructional materials that we will be using for the next school year. Good evening board president, members of the board, Dr. audience. Um, as said, my name is Rodriguez and I'm the curriculum specialist and the text community textbook coordinator. Tonight I will be presenting the certification and provision of instructional materials. Each year, school districts are required to certify to the state board of education that students have access to instructional materials for each content area and the required curriculum that are aligned to the

065Texas essential knowledge and skills or arts. Additionally, districts must notify that they are in compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act, which ensures protection against access to obscene or harmful content. And so this evening, I I will share with you the 2425 instructional M currently used in Alice along with the recommended curriculum for 256 and this is specifically for the content areas of reading and math. So as you can see for 2425 this year we use amplify Texas K through 12 and we also use amplify Texas el 6 through eight. If you take a look at our 2026 we are going to continue with our amplify. Although we did consider good bondage reading langu charge which is being promoted by TVAL has decided to continue amplify this school year and the decision was not made

066by you with support from our service center. We surveyed the local school districts within okay and we we wanted to see how many of them were transitioning to blue meeting as well and several districts are choosing to hold up and wait on blue bonnet meeting due to it controversial. Okay. But what I do want to say is amplify is 100% aligned and meets all the state requirements. The 2025 26 school year will mark our with and we have seen measurable success and student growth and specifically in the areas of additionally teachers are familiar and uncomfortable with the curriculum and and that was the main reason we felt that we wanted to stay with we wanted okay so moving forward to our mathematics as you can see this year in 2425 we have a plethora of

067math curriculum. So grades in Eureka. In grades K1, we have Eureka math. In grades 2 through five, we have Sher. In grades six all the way through algebra 1, we have carne math. And we also have carne math celebrated for our six and seven. Okay. In 2025, we will be moving towards blue and you can see blue. math. We want it during secondary math 6 through all over one and Carnegie accelerated math six and seven. And I do want to note we are staying with Carnegie accelerated math because the state has not created the accelerated math yet for grades six and seven. It is coming. They say projected years 26 27 but they don't have it as of yet. So we are going to stay with Carnegie accelerated math. Although we are transitioning the structure

068the approach for blue bonnet Eureka and car are very very similar. The alignment will help create a smooth transition for our staff. And so as you can see that really the major shift that we're going to have is really going to be for grades two through five. Okay. This past year we've had like I said a we have four different or three different math curriculums across the grade levels and we want to ensure continuity and consistency across grades K all the way through our eligible ones. So we believe offers a rigorous uh curriculum and program that will support our students progression and prepare them for the accelerated math pathway that the state is now emphasizing. specifically when they're grades four and five. We want greater exposure to rigorous content so that we have more students

069on track for that accelerated path. And that means that those students will be taking in eighth grade algebra one. So we want to create that path for them. As far as the other curriculum for science and our social studies, they will stay the same. Anyone have any questions? Yes. As far as the way you switch to Absolutely. That's right. Okay. The state is saying that you know in general mass across the state across the country are low and so they really want to push for that pathway for our students and we feel that is the best way to do it. So instead of like I mean, I'm sorry. You're introducing that. It is a very rigorous program and it has a lot of hands on and student discourse. So, it math is different. Um, and

070I I really I wish was right by my side because she's my math person. But yes, it is you can say that they're actually learning at a at a faster pace, especially with our accelerated six and seven. And if your students were to get on that pathway or child, what they do is in sixth grade, they take a six and the beginning semester of seventh. In seventh, they take seventh all the way through 8th grade math and eth and that they take eighth grade star. And then when they are eighth graders, they are they take And so this math teacher absolutely we did not absolutely we did not make this decision us we we brought the teachers together then we actually brought even the principles we went to they had like a blue bonnet day

071I would say the service center and we went and we actually saw the presentations we were very spec we did not take this um decision We pulled the teachers and actually what the teachers have asked is a smooth transition to this to the new year. So we will start having them with P already in May so that they will have a smoother transition. That's good. I'm glad to hear that. Absolutely. decision without the teachers input on what's best for our students and that ultimately is why we are moving in this direction. You want student success and we want the most uh we want huge numbers for our accelerated. Yes sir. 67% though. It's still Carnegie. Yes. Carnegie actually this year. So the year prior this is Carnegie we implemented it this year in the 25

07226 school year. So we are already on this accelerating half based on a house. So this year I believe was 40%. Am I correct in saying that? So the accelerated map is separate from your other grade level. It was a household from last year that came into place where any students in fifth grade were the top on their math scores they were to be placed into this accelerated math course. So when we talk about accelerated math it's that top% that state to move into that accelerated and then the following year. So when she's talking about increased rigor, it's coming along so that those students, they're stronger in that, but it's also for all the students. Additionally, currently it's very basically the state took the structure of map and tweaked it to be Texas specific, right?

073The national specific and also is very similar to the state to it. We found that there were some places where it had kind of extended in some places to other things that were part of that. And so blue takes that same structure that the teachers are used to right now and just makes it more specific. So for teachers and teachers, it's going to be a very similar structure. what they've been doing. Some of the units will be the same. There's just some slight differences. And then by bringing it all the way through, we don't have kids that are, you know, working on one level here, switch and do something else, then come back and switch and do something else. It's taking that same level of rigor all the way through for them up through that

074honors out. So right now, we have six sections of celebrated So we'll see. So we actually [Music] question to approve the 26 instructional materials and certification forms. Is there a second? Second by Mr. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Consideration possible action on 2024 2025 budget amendment Alice High School CTE department. They're requesting to move $10,000 for student travel. They do have students in mass international. So it's just a matter of covering their expenses. They have it. They just need to switch the motion. I'll make a motion to consider possibly the [Music] $10,000 by any discussion. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Next is consideration and possible action 2024 2025 budget amendment number two district liability coverage of $74,88 or $81. This is just to

075move the function 51 property insurance. The money is there but we just need to move to a different category to align them to the correct function such as cyber security and physical damage. So motion by there second discussion public favor. Any opposed? Motion carries. The next item is consideration of possible action for teacher sign on bonus of $500 for fully certified teachers for the 25 26 school year. So in committed excuse me to attracting high quality fully certified teachers for the 25 26 school year. We want to support this goal and use title two funds part A which is a federal fund to really help us to attract teachers, increase teacher effectiveness, strengthen our recruitment and retention and ensure that our teachers are certified. And you know a challenge for new hires is that financial

076gap. So I don't know if you're aware but we hire our teachers in August and we start working in August at the beginning of their first paycheck is not until September, end of September. So, this will help them, you know, at least get the the year started so they can come their first weeks of housing, you know, school supplies, classroom supplies, and just the dayto-day needs. You know, this initiative is only available to fully certified teachers who commit to teaching in LISD for the upcoming school year. It's designed to give those new teachers that confident, that supported start without compromising our financial stability. Early support, you know, reduces teacher attrition and we know that for first year hires, this can be very attractive. We want to invest in our future and we want to keep

077these teachers. So we don't understand because we want you know time and so this is savings by any discussion in favor Any opposed? Motion carries. Can we discuss possible approval to join in partnership with international alliance group for recruitment and retention? And so we want to partner with region 2 and obviously the international alliance group. Our district continues to face persistent staffing challenges and areas such as special ed in particular. So we want to be group of qualified teachers for the upcoming school year and we want to be very competitive, right? Because everyone's fighting for the same teachers. So the international alliance group offers a comprehensive end to end service to recruit, retain and you know relocate certified instructional teachers. So we're looking at uh because the international group would be the ones that recruit

078and our principles will interview. But if we were to hire international teachers, they would be uh certified within the first year. The international advis group would help them with relocation for LSID. They would help them with any type of documentation, housing, visas. That would be the international alliance group. They would also provide them coaching and mentorship and a seamless integration into our school community. All uh recruited teachers will be required to meet like I said earlier full fully certified requirements by the end of the year. So what's the cost to the district? Right. So the cost per teacher is 20% of their salary. So 81 which is about $10,960. amount to it. 81% would be coming from the teacher salary themselves. The district's contribution is 19% which is about $2,100 per teacher. We would be

079using title two funds. We're only looking at hiring three to five just in the most needed areas such as special ed. The benefits for the district is serving to expand the talent pipeline with certified highly qualified educators. It would reduce the pressure of the current staff because they're kind of being pulled in different directions and we would be able to stabilize those classrooms in high areas and certainly foster diversity educational environment for students. If we are approved uh tonight then we would be moving forward with this partnership especially like I said in the areas most in need which is special and possibly uh math and other areas has had vacancy all year. Um this is also being supported through region 2 and like I said they would take care of all the paperwork the housing

080everything we would just get the individuals that would be eager to come to the district [Music] We have a motion. Is there a second? Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. The next item is consideration and take possible action adopting a written resolution authorizing the purchase of real estate property located at 1300 East Main Street, Dallas, Texas 78332 and superintendent and negotiate the final purchase, execute the real estate contract in a form approved by legal council and close with sale. And so I just I want to share a few talking points on this item. Certainly the purchase of this property uh would be cost effective. We believe that, you know, we were talking about building the stadium and looking at different ways that we could, you know, provide the community with the needed

081facilities to include parking and things like that. the board as well as the uh state committee truly was saying we're saying if you can look at moving transportation and so that's exactly you know you know we kept doing the last six seven months and relocating transportation was identified as a priority by both like I said the board and stating committee this move will enable us to fulfill the commit and demonstrate our responsibility or our responsiveness to strategic planning and stakeholder input. Certainly, it will increase parking capacity. Moving the transportation department opens up significant space for additional parking, which is a critical need, especially during large events and daily school operations. And certainly, ensure that we maintain a that is very stable. Our current fund balance is 23 million or is expected to be [Music] 23,35,2660

082well above the required minimum of having 11,654,12. So we know that the purchase of this property we still have well well over 21 million in our funds. Again the purchase is not just to relocate. We believe it's an investment and efficiency infrastructure improvement and future growth. The more suitable location for transportation can lead to improve logistics, reduce congestion and future access for district vehicles and staff. So we recommend this purchase. Okay. I'll make a motion that we move that the board adopt a written resolution and form provided to the trustees authorizing the purchase of real property located at 1300 East Main Street and authorized superintendent to negotiate the final purchase execute the real real estate contract in a form approved by legal council and close the sale and directing the board that the board secretary

083place a copy of the resolution in the official minutes of this meeting. have a second discussion. I just want to say to be [Music] clear when we were first in PBK and trying to move into all remember that that cost was 397,740. And right now we're not leaving it where it's at. We're already crunched in there and we expect to grow our transportation department and then also it's not we just want to relocate it. Correct. It's just correct for the infrastructure, efficiency, logistics, reducing congestion, just overall better access. We had also put our heads together to look at creating addition. Absolutely. And then as far as it was pretty much correct. Okay. So the improvements that we need to make to the property [Music] are any more discussion. All in favor? Any oppose? No one

084motion carries. So we're going to move on to number nession accordance to the following provision code 98 government section 551.0474 personnel matters 981 presentation discussing hires 92 presentation discuss discussion of retirements 93 presentation discussion of resations 94 personnel update regarding investigations 9B code section 51.071 matter board attorney advice and 51.074 personal. So it is 8:31 p.m. And we will be in executive session this one early in the game. Dallas QB Joe Escobar with the pitch to Mike Salavar. A 51 yd into the end zone. Suddenly Alice leads seven nothing. Later on in the first quarter the Coyotes will strike again. It's Salvore again charging downfield. Another big hole. He rumbles all the way down deep into Falcons territory. Moments later, Escobar with a beautiful shovel pass to John Lint. Seven yds in the per leads

08514 nothing. Alice is leading it now 2632 nothing in the fourth. The scoreboard great ball as a matter of fact as the Alice Kyot get ready to rock and roll at home against Fresno. Here we go. The Coyotes just pick up one Alice a year ago. Is that right? That's right. Big shocker in the valley last week, last year. The first couple of weeks were really upset. The first weekly kings out for them last year, but I don't think it's going to happen. Tom Wat looking on. He's got that focus on he's ready to go and so is Alice on the wet night as they operate again. The impressive win last week. Look at that. You got to have a little luck in the playoffs. They get a little bit of luck. You're good. You're

086good. Right. And the coyotes continue to rumble. I think we got an update for you here. 32 nothing. That is a final by the way. Let's check in live now with Marcus who has all the on the destined. They're up 32 and I don't think there's [Music] any jose guys came in and beat you. Uh, you guys got him here at home this year. It blew him out of the gym. Next week, you got a tough test. How do you feel for the playoffs? I feel real good. I think we go pretty far. We're playing pretty good and we're getting better every week. Congratulations, Joe. Big win. Dan, Allan, you see all these guys out here? They're having fun. I can't even get in here. Hey, watch out. I want a little air time. Hey,

087you guys back in the studio. Stay dry. And here come the Coyotes. Mikear takes it. And the Coyotes up by a seven to nothing. Still in the first quarter. Joe Escobar on the pitch. Goes to the tight end this time. John Lynn as he'll take it in for 10 yardds out. Alice is off and rolling. They win this one 32 zip. San Antonio Lenir round two in Alice. Coyotes get things off on the right foot. Mike Saliva scrappy senior plowing in three yards out. Alice out of the shoot 14 nothing. Next drive Joe Escobar. Watch big Joe. A little flip to Mark Garza. Garza going Gonzo 22 yds. Focus man. Focus down to the Lir 22. And from there more ground control for Major Tom Vanto Watley. That is Salavar again. Come on let's get

088going. Salvar again another 22 yd scamper for a score. He should have been edited closer. I think that's my fault. 21 nothing Alice. The defense stepped it up as always. Nick Carter the promising linebacker getting involved. Alice rolls here. 52 nothing. Another great playoff win at home. You bet those Coyote fans love that. Alice will face Belton next weekend. Here we go. Opening shot. Quarterback Joe Escobar calls his own number 25. He will pick up a hard 35 yd to set up this next play by running back Mike Salivar who takes the hand off up the gut from 10 yards out. No, 24 yds out. Sally makes it a 21 nothing. Yes. In the first half. Now still second quarter. Mike Garza number 33. He will take it up to 10 yards out to make

089it a 28 nothing coyotes. They are just simply blowing them out of the water. And you can't win the championship if you don't have good defense. And look at this. Quarterback will get smashed. Yes. And Alice win this one by the score of 52 to nothing. They will hold on and advance to the next round. Here we go. And what a way to start a ball game. The guy coming in, drops the ball, and there it is. That is the uh ball they would be used tonight. All right, get used to Keith Vega, number 40. He ran wild tonight. Here we go. This is an 80 yd run. Down the sidelines he goes. They're not going to get him. Alice on top early. Seven nothing. And just like that, the Coyotes were rocking and they

090were rolling. I'll tell you what, big crowd in Alice as always. Great fans. Now, Lenir with the football back to pass. They're going to go deep. But look at this. Mike Salavar comes up big for the Coyotes. That is a great play. And he is finally down. And yes, bring the signs and we'll take pictures. Hey, I like that. From the Alice band. All right, here we go. More Keith Vega. He slams in. This gave Alice a 14 nothing lead. In fact, they would score four touchdowns in the first half alone. They would build a 28 to nothing lead. And there he goes one more time. Again, your final score. Coyotes win and they win big by a score of 52 to nothing. They advance on to round three. Boy, look at that great Coyote

091defense. They performed tremendously. Now, let's check in with more on the ball game. We've got Frank Aliaga live and Alice. I tell you, Frank, the Coyotes seem to be peing at just the right time. Well, I'll tell you what, Allan, they looked impressive tonight. It's hard to believe that this was a playoff game, 52 nothing. But I talked to coach Vantom Wattley before the game and he told me they were going to try and come out and play strong early and try and pummel him early on and they did just that. 28 first half points. They led 28 nothing at the half and Mike Salavar just ran three touchdowns. He scored the first three touchdowns of the game. He joins me now live. Uh Mike, big game tonight. Yeah, I mean we we were expected

092to go far last year and you know we just kind of wanted to come out this year and redeem ourselves, you know, try to get as far as we could and you know, see what happened. Just play our hearts out in the playoffs. It's great to play in front of your home crowd, too. Yeah, it feels good. You know, we would have played again uh next week, but um now we're going to play um the underdog team that won and you know, we'll see what happens over there in the dome. Great. Thank you very much, Mike Salivar. Three touchdowns on the night. Allen. They do know that they're going to play 2:00 on Saturday in the Alamo Dome and they take on Belton. So, that should be quite a game, too. And Alice has a

093good chance of making it all the way to States. Back to you. Okay, Frank. I appreciate that. Again, it is Alice who wins it 52 nothing again. Big night for the Alice Coyotes who rock and roll. What's new? They always seem to peek at just the right there. We got highlights for you. And here they come. The Coyote smoke machine at all. And coach Van Tom Wley had to like what he saw in this one. Here we go. Alice would strike first. Watch Mark Garza. He would not be denied. And the Coyotes jump out early. They're on top. They would set the pace early. Seven nothing as you might expect. Lots of Coyote fans making the trip to San Antonio. Later, watch here. Alice went to the razledazzle. That is John Lyn who fires a

094perfect strike to number three Trey Cruz. Yes, nice play here. And folks, bringing the signs and will take pictures. We'll take pictures of all of them. All right. jump out to a 166 lead before Belton also going for the razledazzle. Nice play here, but it wasn't enough as this day belonged to the Coyotes. They live to play some more. 1614 is your final and afterwards we heard from some very happy Coyotes. Very emotional and hard ball game and you know what can you say? Anything can happen in the playoffs and it happen good for us and we're real proud. We're proud of our kids, proud of our community. Well, we'll play uh I guess we'll play Bay City next Friday night in the afternoon. Yeah, we came out and we fought. We fought to the

095end and they paid off. I mean, the defense played real hard. They helped us and they came up big on that fourth down at the end and the offense we scored when we needed to. They were a good team and they read their team real well and they ran the ball and they hit hard and you know it's our first time playing on turf and it was a hard foul win. I mean, but we'll take the win and we'll see what we can do in the semiinal. And as coach Van Tom Wley told you earlier, they get Bay City, the Black Cats at 11 and one Friday night, 8 o'clock at the dome and their community. Now they have a real shot at a at a state championship to go with it. Van Tom Watley's

096team with a little Saturday morning affair in the Alamo Dome against 8 and4 Belton. A win would give the Coyotes a birth in the state semifinals. They came, they saw, they did it. Coyotes grabbed a quick lead in this one. Big Mark Garza certainly one of the stars of this team. yd run around the left side puts Alice on top of this ball game. Seven nothing. The Coyotes would never trail in the Alamo Dome. Thanks to trickery like this. Watley with his Houdini impression pulling the rabbit out of the hat. A halfback touchdown pass to Trey Cruz. Coyotes landing a 166 lead. The Tigers though the Tigers are cats. They are copy cats. Watch this. Cody Freedenberg on the old flea flicker looking like the Vikings the other day against the Cowboys. Chris Parker will

097grab it. 1612. But when Joe Escobar runs out of the end zone, Alice celebrates a 1614 win and a trip to the state semis. They will always remember the Alamo. He prepared for this. He fought hard. 48 minutes. All I got to say is we went to semiinal. Uh it was great. We have great support and we just love it when they all come out and watch us and it just helps us and keeps us going. These little kids are outweighed, but they're not outplayed. And uh you know, we were fortunate enough to come through there in the end. Coyotes will face Bay City time and date to the announce early in the game. Alice QB Joe Escobar with the pitch to Mike Salvar. A 51 yd rump into the end zone. Suddenly Alice leads

0987 nothing. Later on in the first quarter, the Coyotes will strike again. It's Salvoir again charging downfield. Another big hole. He rumbles all the way down deep into Falcons territory. Moments later, Escobar with a beautiful shovel pass to John Lint. Seven yd into Alice leads 14 nothing. Alice is leading it now 2632 nothing in the fourth. The scoreboard great ball game as a matter of fact as the Alice Coyotes get ready to rock and roll at home against Fresno. Here we go. The Coyotes just pick up what a year ago. Is that right? That's right. in the valley the last week last year the first couple of weeks were really upset the first week for them last year but I don't think it's going to happen he's got that focus on he's ready to go

099and so on [Music] [Applause] [Music] it feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment you know like we're finally here like four years is my last photo it's kind of it's kind of hitting right shows that you're a part of it, that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new [Music] milestone. So, I think senior year coming out, the white shirt, seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school, seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with, just seeing us all grown up and all different. And I mean, I think it was very very I think it was

100very a real like, oh, this is actually h like this is actually happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions, it's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know

101like a I made it moment you know like we're finally here like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very a a real like, oh, this is actually hap like, this is actually

102happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions. It's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment, you know, like we're finally here. Like four

103years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. shows that you're a part of it, that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new [Music] milestone. So, I think senior year coming out, the white shirt, seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school, seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with, just seeing us all grown up and all different. And I mean, I think it was very very I think it was very a real like, oh, this is actually h like this is actually happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little.

104And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions, it's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment you know like we're finally here like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now.

105Shows that you're a part of it that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very a a real like, oh, this is actually h like this is actually happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish

106wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions. It's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment, you know, like we're finally here. Like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it, that you worked hard enough to

107earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very a real like oh this is actually h like this is actually happening we're actually here We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking

108at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions, it's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment you know like we're finally here like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're

109almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very a real like, oh, this is actually hap like this is actually happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these

110years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions. It's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment you know like we're finally here like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior

111year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very a real like oh this is actually h like this is actually happening we're actually here We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like

112every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions, it's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal, like um I don't know, like a I made it moment, you know, like we're finally here. Like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it, that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So, I think senior year coming out, the white shirt, seeing all the people who you grew up with

113in elementary school, seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with, just seeing us all grown up and all different. And I mean, I think it was very very I think it was very a a real like, oh, this is actually h like this is actually happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions. It's just

114a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment, you know, like we're finally here. Like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. shows that you're a part of it, that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So, I think senior year coming out, the white shirt, seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school, seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years

115and other years life with, just seeing us all grown up and all different. And I mean, I think it was very very I think it was very a real like, oh, this is actually h like this is actually happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions, it's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and

116it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment you know like we're finally here like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different

117and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very a real like, oh, this is actually hap like this is actually happening. We're actually here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions. It's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably

118other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a I made it moment, you know, like we're finally here. Like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it, that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very

119a real like oh this is actually h like this is actually happening we're actually here We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo, just every year just going through the motions, it's just a picture. But this year was definitely different cuz it's our last one and it's going to be our last time seeing all of us here together probably other than graduation. [Music] It feels really surreal like um I don't know like a

120I made it moment you know like we're finally here like four years is my last photo. It's kind of it's kind of hitting right now. Shows that you're a part of it that you worked hard enough to earn your spot and you're finally graduating and just means like here you are. You're almost done. Kind of feels like a new milestone. [Music] So I think senior year coming out the white shirt seeing all the people who you grew up with in elementary school seeing just everybody that you've had your whole entire four years and other years life with just seeing us all grown up and all different and I mean I think it was very very I think it was very a real like oh this is actually h like this is actually happening. We're actually

121here now. We've been dreaming of this moment since we were little. And now that we're finally here, it's kind of like, man, I wish wish we could go back. And I was just looking up at the bleachers, looking at all of my classmates, and it's just we've gone through like all these years together, and here we are about to graduate. So, at first it seemed like every other class photo just every year just going through the motions. It's just a picture. Okay. So, it is 9:05 p.m. and we're back session. So, we're going to move on to items 11 announcements and actions. Item 11, considerable possible actions regarding since there is no action. 11 consider possible action regarding retirements. I move that we approve the retirements of Richard Richard. Sorry. I move we approve the

122retirement of Mariah as discussed in close session. Motion by Mr. M. Is there a second? That was taken by Mr. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Cider possible action regarding resations. I move that we approve the resinations of Richard King and Justin as discussion session. So motion by Mr. I second that was taken by Mr. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 11D. Discussing possible action regarding ongoations. Since there's no motion, there's no action. And we're going to move on to this meeting.